Where's Liz? Plimoth Plantation…my roots

[Liz]

Tracing my roots from the Mayflower.
http://wheres-liz-2015.blogspot.com/2015/06/plimoth-plantationmy-roots.html

[Bethers]

Thank you for sharing your roots. I went to Plymouth, etc, and your memories and roots bring back my time there and make it much more alive.

[gypsyrose1126]

Liz, Thanks so much for posting that. Plymouth is on my to do list, as I also had ancestors on the Mayflower, but you and I are not related. Your photos and the information were so very interesting!
Rosemary

[monik7]

Great pics and information Liz. How wonderful to have such an important relative and be able to be where your relative was at such an important time in our history. I envy your travel in that area. Wish I could shadow you on all your travels. You go to the BEST places. Not sure I'll ever get that far in my RV.

You have my family beat by 10 years. My 10th great grandfather, Nathaniel Foote I, arrived in 1630. On Sept. 3, 1634 he was declared a "freeman" of Massachusetts. This allowed a person to vote or hold public office and was declared by the general or quarterly court. To be a "freeman" you had to be a respectable member of the community and were required to take an oath. When my daughter was starting her second year at Yale Law School, she decided she needed a car so my parents drove her car clear across the country from California to deliver it to her. I had flown in to help her settle. My parents and I decided to do some genealogy research and it turned out by accident that we were in Plymouth, MA on September 3, 1992 - exactly 358 years to the very day from when Nathaniel Foote became a "freeman" in the new colonies. We didn't discover this until we were in a bookstore in Plymouth and I found a book listing "freemen" of Massachusetts and found his name on the same date. That same year he became one of the founders of Wethersfield, CT. His family was from Colcester, Essex, England.

Hope to hear more about your travels in New England.
Sandi

[Redetotry]

Oh Liz I loved this!!! How exciting to know that much information about your ancestors.

Sandi, what a coincidence!!! Great story.

[snowball]

so interesting...the only time I've been around "character" history type people was in the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody Wy was a painter/ sculptor not sure what all he did but it was so funny did not break character and one lady was getting so indignant she just didn't get it....
would like to go out to those living history places some day...my ancestors didn't come to America that early my husband had some early ancestors but still not that early don't believe...so enjoy your trip
sheila