www.indianamayflower.com Spring 2017 Spring Luncheon Woodstock Club, 1301 W 38th St. Indianapolis Saturday, April 22, 2017, 11:30 am April Program Part 1 of the National Geographic film Saints and Strangers Menu for the Spring luncheon Starter Course: House Salad with Olive, Cucumber & Tomato and white Balsamic Vinaigrette dressing, rolls & butter INSIDE THIS ISSUE Governor s Message 2 Board Roster 3 Luncheon Pictures & New Members 4 Scholarship News 5-6 In Memoriam & Books 7 Response Forms 8 Odds & Ends 9 Calendar 10 Hollywood versus historical accuracy: How can we as Mayflower Society members become better stewards of our history? Main course: Sautéed Chicken Milan topped with Artichoke Capers, Applewood Bacon, Spinach, finished with Lemon Cream over Capellini Pasta Dessert: Scooped Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, Hot Fudge, Butterscotch and Traditional Ice Cream toppings Children s menu will include fruit cup, chicken fingers with fries and the Worlds smallest sundae for dessert. Cost of the luncheon will be $35 for adults or $20 for children (10 and under). Pre-paid reservations are due by Monday, April 15 and can be mailed to Pat Scahill, 16432 Clarks Hill Way, Westfield, IN 46074. Cancellations are required by April 15 and can be made by contacting Pat Scahill, 317-867-4844 or pls_indy@hotmail.com. The Director and members of Plimoth Plantation approached National Geographic and volunteered their expertise in order to authenticate the Pilgrim experience. However, this offer was rejected. Thus, this film is not endorsed by Plimoth Plantation and according to Governor General Lea Filson, "Plimoth Plantation was very unhappy with the result saying there are inaccuracies throughout." The National Geographic version tells the story behind the founding of America, chronicling the trials and tribulations of the 101 men, women and children who boarded the Mayflower for a one-way trip to the New World. Half of these pilgrims were religious separatists who had abandoned their prior lives for religious freedom and an opportunity to create a new social order built on their values. The other half, adventurers, were mostly single males seeking financial opportunity and a rapid acquisition of wealth in a new land, or trying to escape their old identities or criminal pasts. Join us to challenge and test your knowledge of the Mayflower s passengers and their voyage. Will you be able to identify outright errors and inaccurate interpretations? Help our society s members become more knowledgeable!
Page 2 Governor s Message By Linda McGlothlin Indiana Society Governor Spring 2017 "Spring has sprung!" How wonderful for us each year to experience the new blooms of spring and the warmer temperatures. Just think about how grateful the pilgrims must have felt many years ago - to welcome another spring and to put the severe winter behind them. A special thanks to your Board who are all volunteers and who work tirelessly to keep the Indiana Society running smoothly. We still have an open board position and several open committee positions. If you are interested, we would love to hear for you. I encourage each of you to look for a supplemental ancestor in your lineage. Because the pilgrims were a close-knit community, the families tended to intermarry amongst each other. And by looking at these different families and tracing them back to the Mayflower, you just may be surprised to find another ancestor who came over on the Mayflower. This will not only "grow your tree," but it will make the pilgrim experience even more meaningful. We have a wonderful Historian, Laura Smith, who will gladly help you with this process. You may email her at indianamayflower@gmail.com. On April 22, we will gather for a luncheon at the Woodstock Club in Indianapolis. A special program will include a movie clip from the National Geographic movie "Saints and Strangers" about the pilgrims. I hope to see many of you there. Linda Linda McGlothlin Governor, Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendants Lmmcglothlin@gmail.com Mayflower Officers (left to right) Roberta Caito, Laura Smith, Bryant Pedigo, Linda McGlothlin, Deb Givan, Pat Scahill, Mary Freeman, Val Wenzler, and Richard Gould (not present: Pam Smith and Chuck Provost)
Mayflower Officers and Board Governor Linda McGlothlin Deputy Governor Deb Givan Board Secretary Pat Scahill Corresponding Secretary Mary Freeman Surgeon Dr. Val Wenzler Captain Bryant Pedigo Elder Roberta Caito Historian Laura Smith Assistant Historian Pam Smith Treasurer Chuck Provost Assistant Treasurer Richard Gould Deputy Governor General Laura Stocker Term Sept 2015-Sept 2017 Assistant General Linda McGlothlin Term Sept 2015-Sept 2017 Class of 2014 Term Expires 2017 Eryca Gould Marsha Reynolds Janice Swartz Class of 2014 Term Expires 2018 Ellen Eckert Melissa Garrard VACANT Class of 2015 Term Expires 2019 Rob Caito Diane Dorocke Karen Mitchell Edwin Niles A Special Opportunity for our Membership From our Indiana Governor, Linda McGlothlin: Page 3 Meet the Governor - Linda McGlothlin It is an honor for me to serve as your Governor. Genealogy and research are two avocations of mine-i can still recall the day when I found that our family can trace their roots back to William Brewster, a Pilgrim on the Mayflower. It was through the diligence of Marilyn Phillips, who was Historian at the time, that I officially was able to join the Mayflower Society in 2003. And, not only myself, but also my mother Marguerite Deckert, my sister Karen Mitchell, and my two daughters Amanda Cash and Rachel Hill. A highlight for me has been serving as a delegate at the Triennial Congress which meets in Plymouth every three years. It is an awesome experience to walk in our ancestors' footprints. If you have a chance, I would hope that each of you could spend a few days in Plymouth. The experience will certainly make history come alive for you and will make you appreciate the hardships that the Pilgrims overcame. Because Indiana can have a delegate for every 50 members, there is room for more delegates. Please consider coming to Plymouth September 8-13 and serving as a delegate for Indiana. You may send me an email with your interest, lmmcglothlin@gmail.com. S P R I N G 2 0 1 7
Page 4 New Members in 2016 From Historian Dr. Laura Smith & Assistant Historian Pamela Smith Attendees at Thanksgiving Luncheon 2016 Historian Laura Smith with new members Mike Talbot & Cynthia Bach Tom & Tanya Whitaker at Woodstock Club Approved Applications in Plymouth since Fall 2016 meeting Josette Dupree Wood (John Howland) GS090972 IN 1533 James K Knippenburg (John Alden supplemental) GS088348 Applications close to sending to Plymouth: 9 Preliminary Applications since Fall 2016: 19 Board of Assistants Left to right: Janice Swartz, Marsha Reynolds, Erica Gould, Ellen Eckert, Melissa Garrard, Diane Dorocke, Karen Mitchell, and Edwin Niles (not shown: Rob Caito)
Page 5 The Scholarship Committee Richard Gould, Melissa Garrard and Marsha Reynolds announce the Recipients of the 2017 Mayflower Society Scholarship Mary Burns is the daughter of Walter F Burns III and Pamela Ann Aitken Burns. She is descendant of William Bradford. She will graduate in the 2017 class of Bishop Chatard High School Indianapolis, where she has a 4.0 GPA as she continues to take honors and AP classes in her senior year. Mary played on the basketball, track, and varsity soccer all four years where she garnered the All City Athlete and Most Valuable Player awards. Her academic awards include the honor roll each semester of high school and membership in the National Honor Society. Mary s community involvement involves participating in numerous fund raising drives and working for the Mei Fitness gym and Habitat for Humanity. Mary plans on attending Ball State University where she will pursue the threeyear social work program, and then finish a masters degree in social work. Thomas James Cagnassola is the son of Gregory Cagnassola and Carolyn Jane Felton Cagnassola. He is a descendant of William Bradford and a member of our society. Thomas is a 2016 graduate of North Central High School where he was ranked 34 out of a class of 696 with a weighted GPA of 4.7000. He received a North Central Honors Diploma and graduated as an International Baccalaureate Program Awardee. Other accomplishments include four years of journalism, culminating in editor-in chief of the school newspaper, as well as excelling in two varsity sports: baseball and tennis. Thomas accomplished this while working at Jimmy Johns demonstrating that he has awesome time management skills as well. Thomas is currently enrolled in his freshman year of Pre-Pharmacy in the College of Pharmacy at Purdue University. Reunion of All Past Mayflower Scholarship Recipients We are planning a reunion of all past Mayflower Scholarship recipients for the Mayflower Spring 2018 Luncheon and meeting. We are asking for members to help us locate any past recipients and ask each one to email Marsha Reynolds at marshafoleyreynolds@gmail.com to share a short update since receiving the scholarship, a current photo and an email address where information on the luncheon will be shared. Our hope is that we can host many past winners and hear of their success. We are so pleased that the Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendants continues the long legacy of supporting eligible students in their college tuition.
Page 6 More exciting news from the Scholarship Committee Our Society has awarded over $50,000 in scholarships to deserving students since our program began in 1995. In addition to contributing via the annual dues request in December, consider other means: The Scholarship Committee would like to ask you to consider these opportunities to leverage your charitable gift to the Scholarship Fund. Supporting deserving students descended from our Mayflower Ancestors as they continue their education is one of the most important missions of The Mayflower Society. When planning your gifts, please consider asking your employer if they have a charitable gift matching program. Many companies offer matching gift programs to encourage employees to contribute to charitable organizations. In return, the companies receive tax write-offs and in the process enhance their public image through good corporate citizenship. Most corporate matching programs will match employee contributions dollar for dollar, and some will even double or triple the amount of your gift. When inquiring whether your employer has a charitable gift matching program, please remember that the Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendants has a 501(c)(3) designation. Please also consider shopping on smile.amazon.com. Amazon has a charitable foundation that will donate 0.5% of your eligible Amazon purchases to the charitable organization of your choice. To get started, go to smile.amazon.com and select a charity. The Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendants is not one of Amazon s spotlight charities, but you can pick your own by typing Indiana Mayflower in the search box underneath the spotlight charities. The result will show the Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendants and you will want to select this. It s that simple. However, when you shop, you will want to remember to go to smile.amazon.com instead of the regular amazon.com, but it is the same website and all the same products and all of your old preferences and passwords will still be in place. Feel good while you shop knowing that a small portion of your purchases will be helping to support The Indiana Society s Scholarship Fund. Melissa Garrard
Page 7 November General Meeting 2016 Linda McGlothlin presents outgoing Indiana Society Governor, Laura Stocker, with her plaque. & Society medal In Memoriam A book will be donated to the Indiana State Library in memory of Clarence Bud McGowan who passed away Tuesday January 3, 2017 Ancestors: Edward Fuller and John Howland Memorial Books Helen Elizabeth Crane Western Mass Families 1640-1700 Vol 1 Betty Ann Conjalka Western Mass Families Vol 2 Juanita J Crowl Indian Deeds Land Transactions in Plymouth Colony 1620-1691 Lucie French Felton First Puritan Settler of Connecticut Kathryn W. Goff Bonds Genealogies and History of Watertown Donald Hattin Cemetery Inscriptions of Royaltown and South Royaltown Fredrick Lesh Organize Your Genealogies Strategies and Solutions for Every Researcher Geneva Laura Spencer Histories and Antiquities of Every Town in Mass Fred Zellers Cry of Stone James Beaman Jr. New England Historic and Genealogical Register Willard Christman Early New England Families 1641-1700 Imogene Rachel Henry Cemetery Inscriptions of Westminster Wells E. Hudson Cemetery Inscriptions of Ashley Jane Moore Cemetery Inscriptions of Petersham Allen Pickard Cemetery Inscriptions of Baldwinville and Templeton Millie Lee Standish Cemetery Inscriptions of Phillipston
Page 8 Future Program Wishes Programs at our April and November meetings are integral to the mission of our Society and to encouraging fellowship. The board would like to take a straw poll of preferences and it also welcomes additional suggestions of topics and / or potential speakers! Please take a moment to respond and include with you Luncheon Reservation if you wish. Thank you! I prefer programs (and I am more likely to attend ) if they (check all that apply) focus specifically on the history of Mayflower, its passengers, and Plymouth, MA include history of Mayflower, its passengers, and Plymouth, as well as topics about New England colonies and related history include a compilation of history/ the arts/ music /and literature from the 1620s and after I prefer speakers or reenactors / yes no no opinion Some of my favorite programs have been: [Kevin Stonerock, Butler music groups, lecturers, etc.] My least favorite type of program has been: Suggestions for future programs: Contact me for additional suggestions: Email: phone: I am interested in assisting the program committee: Reservation Form Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendants Meeting & Luncheon Where: Woodstock Club, 1301 W. 38th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208 When: Saturday, April 22, 2017; meeting at 11:30 am, luncheon about 12:15 pm I/We Reserve place(s) at The Woodstock Club for luncheon at $35 per adult and $20 for age 10 and younger. Name(s) Telephone Email Address Amount Enclosed (Check payable to IN Society of Mayflower Descendants) Please reply by Apr. 15, 2017 to Pat Scahill, 16432 Clarks Hill Way, Westfield IN 46074 Telephone: 317-867-4844
Page 9 Mayflower Trivia From One Hundred and Eleven Questions and Answers Concerning the Pilgrims by William P. Muttart & Linda R. Ashley "Which of the Pilgrims might have drafted the Mayflower Compact? There is a belief that William Brewster may have played a leading role in preparing this document. In addition to having attended college, he taught English in Holland and was a printer and publisher, where he would have gained experience with documents. The wording of the Compact was also very likely influenced by the letter given to them by Rev John Robinson and other Separatist leaders prior to their departure from Holland." p. 18 "What is the meaning of the word 'Plantation' as used in 'Plimoth Plantation'? The word plantation is not used in the same way that it is used in the American south, where it usually means a large, self supporting farm. Plantation refers to a community group 'planted' in a new place. Plimoth Plantation was then a colony 'planted' in the New World." p. 49. This book is also available in a Kindle edition on Amazon. Odds & Ends PILGRIM PETER BROWN SOCIETY Any there members out there who are descendants of Peter Brown? If so, the recording secretary of the Pilgrim Peter Brown Society announces the following: A new national society was organized in September 2014 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. We are striving to grow our membership and to search out descendants of Peter Brown. Please spread the word and visit our website www.pilgrimpeterbrownsociety.org Our first Newsletter has been attached to the website. We are also on Facebook. Sandra Sauers FAMOUS MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS JULIA CHILD The woman who taught Americans the art of French cooking likely would ve been underwhelmed by the dining options aboard the Mayflower (ship goers of that era typically subsisted on such items as salted meats and dried grains) but she did have a number of relatives, including William and Mary Brewster, who as passengers aboard the vessel would ve had no choice but to eat up. William Brewster who studied at Cambridge University and served as an assistant to William Davison Secretary of State to Elizabeth I, was jailed for his involvement with the Separatists before they fled to Holland. In Leiden, he worked as a printer and was an elder in the Separatist congregation. The Brewsters journeyed to Plymouth with their sons Love and Wrestling, while also caring for two young children named Mary and Richard More. The Mores, along with two of their other siblings, had been put on the Mayflower without the permission of their mother, Katherine, by her husband, Samuel, who claimed the children were the product of an affair Katherine More had with another man. Three of the More children perished shortly after the Mayflower reached Plymouth; only Richard survived. In Plymouth, William Brewster served as the colony s religious leader for many years (the Separatists Leiden pastor had remained in Europe) and also was a close advisor to Governor William Bradford. Source: The Canadian Pilgrim, Canadian Society of Mayflower Descendants Newsletter, March 2016. P. 7
Please update us with any changes in your family s status change of address, change of name or any deaths. Did you know that if you mail in a copy of a death certificate or obit that it will be forwarded to Plymouth and placed in your family history record? PLEASE SEND INFORMATION TO: Linda McGlothlin, Lmmcglothin@gmail.com, or 6367 N Parker Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46220. 2017 Calendar April 22 Spring Member Luncheon 11:30 am Sept 8-13 National Congress at Plymouth Sept 23 Fall Board Meeting 10:30 am Nov 17 Fall Member Luncheon 11:30 Kevin Stonerock at YMCA Before and After School Program at New Britton Elementary Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendants Kathryn Lerch, Editor 711 East 58th Street Indianapolis, IN 46220 editor@indianamayflower.com Address Correction Requested