In a message dated 11/22/1 4:56:35 AM, Kathleen Burnett <kathleenburnett@earthlink.net> wrote: <<"Who Attended the 1621 "First Thanksgiving?">> It may interest subscribers to learn that a descendant of four "Mayflower" passengers came to reside in McMinn County, Tennessee in the early 1850s. Hannah (Brown) Carpenter was born in Attleboro, MA and married the Reverend Timothy Carpenter, 1795, in Attleboro. She was a descendant of "Mayflower" passengers: John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, John Tilley, and Joan (Hurst) Tilley. John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley died the first winter. Their daughter, Elizabeth Tielly, married John Howland years later. Both John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley were in attendance at the first Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims. Their daughter, Lydia Howland, married James Browne were ancestors of Hannah (Brown) Carpenter. The Reverend Timothy Carpenter was an itinerant Methodist minister ("circuit rider") who came to live in McMinn Co., TN with his youngest son, Cyril Carpenter, having been preceeded in the move by another son, the Reverend Dan Cappenter. The Reverend Timothy Carpenter and his wife, Hannah (Brown) Carpenter are buried at Tranquility Methodist Church Cemetery in McMinn Co., TN. Interestingly, Hannah (Brown) Carpenter was born before the American Revolution and lived to see the Civil War and Reconstructuion. I am a great-great-great-great grandson of the Reverend Timothy Carpenter and his wife, Hannah (Brown) Carpenter. For anyone wishing to learn more about this couple, I would suggest they consult my article, "Carpenter Descendants of John Howland in Tennessee," published in the February, 1995 issue of "The Mayflower Quarterly." Charles Ward, Historian Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Tennessee