Photo: Harvey H. Pratt, from his book "The Early Planters of Scituate; A History of the Town of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its Establishment to the End of the Revolutionary War." Publication from the Scituate Historical Society and archive.org: https://archive.org/details/earlyplantersofs00prat/page/n19/mode/1up

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 30 (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on January 3, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, with more on historian and author Harvey Hunter Pratt... (Read More)

Photo: Harvey Hunter Pratt (1860-1924), son of Henry Jones Pratt and his 2nd wife Maria Jones Hunter. From "Massachusetts State Representatives Officials and Employees -- Pictorial Works." Courtesy of the Massachusetts State Library.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 30 (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on December 6, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on the lineage of historian and author Harvey Hunter Pratt... (Read More)

Illustration: portraits of Leonard Walter Jerome and Clarissa Hall, parents of Jennie Jerome and grandparents to Sir Winston Churchill. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 29

By Melissa Berry on November 29, 2022

Melissa Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, debunking old theories and exploring new ones of Winston Churchill’s Mayflower connections... (Read More)

Photo: General Leonard Wood in 1916. Credit: "Leonard Wood, Administrator, Soldier, and Citizen" by William Herbert Hobbs and Henry A. Wise Wood (Henry Alexander Wise), 1920; Internet Archive.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 28

By Melissa Berry on October 18, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on General Leonard Wood... (Read More)

Illustration: portrait of Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage by John Colin Forbes. Credit: Risley Hall, Cornell University; Wikimedia Commons.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 27

By Melissa Berry on October 10, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, again focusing on philanthropist Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage... (Read More)

Photo: Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (Mrs. Russell Sage) (1828-1918), American philanthropist, 2 April 1910. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 26

By Melissa Berry on September 22, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on philanthropist Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage... (Read More)

Photo: Ada Waterman Small Moore. Courtesy of Alex Dearborn of Maine, grandson of Ada Small Moore.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 25

By Melissa Berry on September 16, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, again focusing on philanthropist Ada Waterman Small Moore... (Read More)

Photo: Adelia "Ada" Waterman Small Moore. Courtesy of Alex Dearborn of Kittery Point, Maine.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 24

By Melissa Berry on September 7, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on philanthropist Ada Waterman Small Moore... (Read More)

Photo: Franklin R. Cushman, taken at a studio in 1900 located in the Shepard & Company department store, originally at the corner of Clemence and Westminster Streets in Providence, Rhode Island. Courtesy of the University of Rhode Island.

Mayflower Descendants: Who’s Who, Part 23

By Melissa Berry on August 23, 2022

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series on Mayflower descendants, focusing on Rhode Island former educator and preservationist Franklin R. Cushman... (Read More)