June 17, 2025
Introduction: In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on Michael Sabot, who descends from Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins and William Brewster. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, americana-archives.com, and a Facebook group, New England Family Genealogy and History.
Today I resume the next part of my series “Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who,” featuring Michael “Mike” Joseph Sabot, a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins and William Brewster.
Below is a photo taken in 1980 of Michael with his “Nana” Ruth Manson (Cole) Gill (1899-1981), a direct descendant of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins. I covered her Hopkins lineage and wedding in part 3.
Lineage:
- William Brewster and Mary (maiden name unknown)
- Jonathan Brewster and Lucretia Oldham
- Mary Brewster and John “the Elder” Turner
- Ezekial Turner and Susanna Keeney
- Sarah Turner and Jonathan Calkins/Caulkins
- Thomas Caulkins and Mary Rogers
- Jonathan Caulkins and Lydia Smith
- David Caulkins and Delia French
- Julius Francis “Frank” Caulkins and Eugenia Mary “Jennie” Keeler
- Eugenie Eyland Caulkins and Robert Gill. [Note: after Mr. Gill died in 1899 Eugenie married her brother-in-law Lyman Francis Gray (1864-1938).]
- Robert Eugene Gill and Ruth Manson Cole (a descendant of Stephen Hopkins)
- Gertrude Eugenie “Trudy” Gill and Henry Joseph “Hank” Sabot Jr.
- Michael “Mike” Joseph Sabot
Descendants Of Elder Brewster
An article published in the Boston Recorder newspaper reports on a meeting held by the organized society called the Descendants of Elder William Brewster in 1853. In that meeting, the committee recognized the need to create an accurate and thorough history of Elder William Brester, the spiritual leader of the Pilgrims.
In addition, a memorial to honor Jonathan Brewster (eldest son of Elder William Brewster), who moved from Duxbury, Massachusetts, to Connecticut, along with Alexander Standish (eldest son of Mayflower passenger Myles Standish), was agreed upon at the meeting. It was to be placed at the “Brewster’s Neck Cemetery” – the area is now present-day Preston, Connecticut.
These next two photos are courtesy of Barbara Rodgers and her In the Woods blog. The first shows the entrance to Brewster’s Neck Cemetery.
Here is a photo of the memorial erected to Jonathan Brewster.
The inscription reads:
In Memory of
Mr. Jonathan Brewster;
eldest son of
Elder Wm. Brewster;
Born in England.
Came to Plymouth
in 1621 & to New London
in 1648-9.
removed to this,
Brewsters Neck,
in 1650.
History speaks of his acts.
Deceased AD.
1661.
Lucretia Brewster Visits School
In 2004 the Blessed Sacrament Elementary School in the Valley section of Providence, Rhode Island, got a visit from a Plimoth Plantation reenactor portraying Lucretia Brewster, or “Goodwife Brewster”; her visit made the papers. The article includes a photo of her dressed in 17th century Pilgrim style, which included a white cap, or coif. The second photo shows her with two students dressed in Pilgrim fashion.
The reenactor who portrayed Goodwife Brewster was Moira Turnan Hannon from Plimoth Plantation, aka Plimoth Patuxet, a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Goodwife Brewster shared some Pilgrim customs with the students. For example, all males between the ages of 16 and 60 were required to be part of the town’s militia. By the time children reached the ages of 8 or 9, they were working most days.
Military Duty
And speaking of the military, Michael Sabot and his family all served in active duty. Below are some photos. The first is of Michael Sabot, who served in the Vietnam War.
Here is a photo of Aza Joseph Sabot, son of Michael and Graciela (Pacheco Solis) Sabot. Aza served in the U. S. Army on two Afghanistan Freedom tours. He is married and has children.
This next photo is Matthew Michael Malnichuck, grandnephew of Michael Sabot, born to Mark W. and Marie Estelle (Sabot) Malnichuck, with his wife Christina (Griffin) Malnichuck. Matthew served in the Marine Corp in Iraq.
In this last photo we see brothers Yossi and Dovid Leverton, grandnephews of Michael Sabot, born to Mendel and Cheryl “Bassie” (Ungar) Leverton, and grandchildren of Samuel Carroll and Wendy Ann (Sabot) Ungar. Yossi and Dovid serve in the IDF, or Israel Defense Forces, alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym Tzahal. The IDF is the national military of the state of Israel.
To be continued!
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Note on the header image: “Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor,” by William Halsall, 1882. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Related Articles:
- Stephen Hopkins & the Wreck of the ‘Sea Venture’
- Stephen Hopkins & the Wreck of the ‘Sea Venture’ (part 2)
- Mayflower Mutiny & Other Musings on Stephen Hopkins
- Mayflower Mutiny & Other Musings on Stephen Hopkins (part 2)
- Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 38 (part 1)
- Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 43 (part 1)
- Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 43 (part 2)
- Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 43 (part 3)
