Schani: Here's some info on Experience Mitchell from notes I took from "Plymouth Colony, Its History and People 1620-1691," by Eugene Stratton: In 1627 he signed agreement to allow privileges to the 8 Undertakers in return for their assumption of the Colony's debt. p. 327-8 has a biographical sketch. He arrived in Plymouth in 1623 on the Anne. He was from Duke's Place, London. Seems he was at Leiden. On the 1633 Plymouth Freeman list. He later moved to Duxbury and was a highway surveyor and served on various juries, although once was fined for refusing to serve on the grand jury. He married, prob. not long after the 1627 cattle division, Jane Cooke, dau of Francis 1 of the Mayflower. No record of their marriage but their son Thomas refers to his grandfather Francis Cooke in a 1 Aug 1672 deed (MD 3:104). By his first wife Jane he had Thomas and Elizabeth, but indirect evidence indicates the rest of his children were probably by his second wife Mary _____. (See NEHGR 127:94 and TAG 59:28 and MQ 49:130). His will dated 5 Dec 1684, inventory 14 May 1689, named wife Mary, sons Edward and John, grandsons Experience and Thomas, granddaughter Mary Mitchell and daughters Mary Shaw, Sarah Hayward, and Hannah Hayward (MD 32:97). His dau Elizabeth, who m. John Washburn, and his son Jacob, who m. Susanna Pope, predeceased him. I descend from Jane Cooke's sister Hester who m. Richard Wright, so I don't have much info on Jane's descendants. Good luck with your search, Chris Chirokas Westford, MA -----Original Message----- From: Schani Biermann [mailto:ussenterprise@sasktel.net] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 6:47 PM To: MAYFLOWER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MFLR] cooke surname i am particularly interested in Francis Cooke's daughter Jane who married Experience Mitchell. Apparently she died quite young and Experience remarried a Mary ? ( last name not known). They had a daughter Sarah. i have been on a few Mayflower sites and there seems to be a lot of "controversy" on this particular marriage and the children. My preliminary research reveals that i am descended from this 2nd marriage of Experience Mitchell. there appears also to be a "debate" within the mayflower Society on this situation and its affect on whether you are a "true" Mayflower descendant. can anyone shed some new light on the above mentioned marriage and provide me with some sort of "concrete/reliable" information and also maybe their descendants. Apparently this Sarah marries a John hayward and the line contines down from there. There is a marriage eventually into the Winslow family .need more info here as well. any help would certainly be appreciated Schani Biermann, researching Winchester, Winslow and Morgan in the New England States, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ==== MAYFLOWER Mailing List ==== Check out the Mayflower FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)page at http://www.macatawa.org/~crich/mayfaq.htm .