Miss [--?--], wife of James Chilton of the Mayflower

Abt 1564 - 1621  (~ 57 years)

• Name	Miss [--?--]
  Suffix	wife of James Chilton of the Mayflower
  Born	Abt 1564	Kent, England
  Gender	Female
  Name	Susanna Furner
  FamilySearch ID	G7L3-2D6
  	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G7L3-2D6
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	28972097
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28972097
  Group	Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
  	Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower
  Group	Immigrant Ancestors
  	Immigrant Ancestors of New England Halls
  Group	Mayflower - James Chilton
  	Descendant of James Chilton and Susanna Furner of the Mayflower
  Group	Mayflower Passenger
  	Passenger on the 1620 sailing of the Mayflower - Founder of the Plymouth Colony
  Died	21 Jan 1620/21	Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
  Buried	Aft 21 Jan 1620/21	Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I14754	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2023

  
  

  Family	James Chilton, of the Mayflower,   b. Bef 1556, Canterbury, Kent, England ,   d. 18 Dec 1620, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Married	Bef 1587	England
  Children	1. Mary Chilton, of the Mayflower,   b. Bef 31 May 1607, England ,   d. 16 May 1679, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 72 years)
  Last Modified	21 May 2019
  Family ID	F6961	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Married - Bef 1587 - England Died - 21 Jan 1620/21 - Plymouth, Plymouth Colony Buried - Aft 21 Jan 1620/21 - Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  		Mayflower Descendant
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• Notes

  From FindaGrave: Like so many women of that time, Mrs. James Chilton's name is sadly unknown. John Hunt suggested she was James Chilton's step-sister, Susanna Furner, but more recent research has proved this to be false. The idea that her name was Susanna apparently dates back to Nahum Mitchell's 1840 book "History of Bridgewater" but he does not document any source for this information. She was most likely married around 1586 based on the baptism of her first child. She had ten children; Isabella (1587), Jane (1589), Joel, Mary, Elizabeth, James, Ingle, Christina (1601), James (1603), and Mary (31 May 1607). On 12 June 1609, Mrs. Chilton was excommunicated from the Church of England for "privately burying a child of Andrew Sharp of St. Mary's parish...which they secretly conveyed to the earth without any notice given to me or my clerk...which act some of them seem now since to dissent calling into question the lawfulness of the king's constitutions in this and other behalfs, affirming these things to be popish ceremonies and of no other force". This incident seems to have prompted the family to immigrate to Leiden and join the Pilgrim Separatists. Mrs. Chilton, her husband James, and daughter Mary all came on the Mayflower. At this time James was about Sixty four years old and Mary was about thirteen. We can assume that Mrs. Chilton must have been much younger than her husband to have had a thirteen year old daughter. She and husband died shortly after arriving to Plymouth, most likely while the Mayflower was still anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor. There is a tradition that states that their daughter Mary was the first female to step ashore at Plymouth, upon Plymouth Rock.