Qui était ce «Robert Cartier», passager du May Flower, en 1620?

Robert Carter

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Birth: Unknown.

Marriage: Not married.

Death: Sometime late the first winter at Plymouth.

Children: None.

Biographical Summary

Robert Carter came on the Mayflower as a servant (apprentice) to William Mullins, a shoemaker. Nothing else is known of Robert, except that in William Mullins' will of 21 February 1620/1, he requests that John Carver and "Master Williamson" (perhaps a pseudonym for William Brewster) look after him because he "hath not so approved himself as I would he should have done." There are a few Robert Carters of approximately the right age (I'm guessing 13-18 years old) to be found in the parish registers in the county of Surrey, where William Mullins was from, so perhaps one of these may be the Mayflower passenger. Unfortunately the name is quite common.

Mayflower Passengers who

Died the First Winter (1620-1621)

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MEN

John Allerton

Richard Britteridge

Robert Carter

James Chilton

Richard Clarke

John Crackstone, Sr.

Thomas English

Moses Fletcher

Edward Fuller

William Holbeck

John Langmore

Edmund Margesson

Christopher Martin

William Mullins

Degory Priest

John Rigsdale

Thomas Rogers

Elias Story

Edward Thompson

Edward Tilley

John Tilley

Thomas Tinker

John Turner

William White

Roger Wilder

Thomas Williams

WOMEN

Mary (Norris) Allerton

Dorothy (May) Bradford

Mrs. Chilton, wife of James

Sarah Eaton

Mrs. Fuller, wife of Edward

Mary (Prower) Martin

Alice Mullins

Alice Rigsdale

Rose Standish

Ann (Cooper) Tilley

Joan (Hurst) Tilley

Mrs. Tinker, wife of Thomas

Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow

CHILDREN

William Butten

John Hooke (age 14)

Ellen More (age 8)

Jasper More (age 7)

Mary More (age 6)

Joseph Mullins

Solomon Prower

son of Thomas Tinker

son of John Turner

another son of John Turner

Thomas Prince compiled a set of statistics on the first winter for his 1737 book, Chronological History of New England; he used a register of deaths written by William Bradford, which was apparently lost during the Revolutionary War. Prince recorded the following statistics:

November: 1 death (William Button)

December: 6 deaths (Edward Thompson, Jasper More, Dorothy Bradford, James Chilton, Richard Britteridge, Solomon Prower)

January: 8 deaths (Degory Priest, Christopher Martin, Rose Standish, and 5 others not named)

February: 17 deaths (William White, William Mullins, Mary Allerton, and 14 not named)

March: 13 deaths (Elizabeth Winslow, and 12 others not named)

That makes a total of 45. The above list contains 49 individuals. Some apparently died in early April, for which a count is not given. Three of the April deaths were likely Joseph and Alice Mullins and Robert Carter, who are mentioned in the will of William Mullins with no notation indicating they had died--the Mayflower departed Plymouth on April 5. John Carver and his wife Katherine died shortly after the Mayflower's departure as well, but are not included here. He died of an apparent sunstroke in later April, and she died of a "broken heart" within a couple of weeks, probably sometime in May. William Bradford in his Of Plymouth Plantation says that John Goodman also died the first winter: but John Goodman is named in the 1623 Division of Land, so it seems he survived at least that long. He is not found in the 1627 Division of Cattle, however.

Rober Cartier était le serviteur d'un certain William Mullins, c'est ainsi qu'il a pu embarqué.

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