Number of Passengers:
The Mayflower left England with 102 passengers, including three pregnant women, and a crew of unknown number (approximately 25 to
30).  While the Mayflower was at sea, Elizabeth Hopkins gave birth to a son which she named Oceanus.  After the Mayflower had arrived and was anchored in Provincetown Harbor off the tip of Cape Cod, Susanna White gave birth to a son, which she named Peregrine (which means "one who has made a journey").  The Mayflower then sailed across the bay and anchored in Plymouth Harbor.  There, Mary Allerton gave birth to a stillborn son.  One passenger died while the Mayflower was at sea--a youth named William Butten, a servant-apprentice to Dr. Samuel Fuller.  The death occurred just three days before land was sighted.  One Mayflower crew member also died at sea, but his name is not known. 

Crew Members of the Mayflower

Besides passengers, the Mayflower carried a crew--possibly numbering thirty or more individuals. Very little is known about the specific crew members.

Captain Christopher Jones

Master's Mate and Pilot John Clarke

Master's Mate Robert Coppin

Ship's Surgeon Gile Heale

Cooper John Alden

Other Seamen
Andrew Williamson
John Parker
Mr. Ely
Master Leaver

The following is a summary of what is known about the Mayflower seamen.  The Mayflower probably carried as many as twenty or more average seamen, but history only records a couple of their names.  The Mayflower is known to have carried four quartermasters, gunners, a cook, a carpenter, and boatswain.  Their names are all unknown. 
 

Mr. Ely

 The existence of this individual as a seaman is known to historians by only by one statement made in William Bradford's History, Of Plymouth Plantation:  "There were also other two seamen hired to stay a year here in the country, William Trevor, and one Ely.  But when their time was out they both returned."  It has been suggested that this "Ely" could have been either John or Christopher Ellis, who in some records are called Ely.  John and Christopher were brothers of English origin that lived in Leyden, Holland at the same time the Pilgrims were living there. However, Ely is not an uncommon English name, and it is more probable that the seaman is some unidentified English mariner. 
 

William Trevore

William Trevore was hired by the Pilgrims to stay for one year as a laborer. William Trevore had come to New England on the
Mayflower, and may have been there in 1619.  After fulfilling his work, he returned to England on the ship Fortune in December 1621.  Trevore apparently had a big mouth and enjoyed telling his story about America to anyone who would listen.  Robert
Cushman wrote in a 1623 letter: 

William Trevore hath lavishly told [Thomas Weston] but what he knew or imagined of Capawack, Mohegan and the Narragansetts. 
In the 1630s, he became the captain of his own ship, the William, and took several groups of passengers to America.  In 1650, William Trevore testified that in 1619 he had taken possession of Thompson's Island, and at the time it was named "Island of Trevour".  Captain Myles Standish testified: 

. . . in the year 1620 I came into this country, and I take it in the same year I was in the Massachusetts Bay with William Trevoyre, and then being upon the island lying near
Dorchester, called the said island Island Trevoyre. 
 

Master Leaver

Master Leaver is known to historians by only one statement, made in Mourt's Relation (1622).  John Goodman and Peter Brown had managed to get lost in the forest, and after failing to return the Pilgrims mounted a search party.  "Whereupon Master Leaver and three or four more went to seek them, but could hear nothing of them, so they returning, sent more, but that night they could hear nothing at all of them." 

It has been suggested that Leaver may have been a typographical error for Carver.  However, an examination of the subsequent text shows that John Carver was at the time very sick and certainly not capable of leading an exploring party.  Since no Leaver appears in Bradford's passenger list, he must have been a member of the Mayflower's crew. 

It is very possible that Master Leaver is the Thomas Lever who is named in the Second Virginia Charter on 23 May 1609, just a few names before that of Robert Coppin, another Mayflower crewmember. 
 

Master Williamson

In Mourt's Relation (1622), a "Master Williamson" is mentioned on one occasion, as having gone out to greet chief Massasoit.  And in William Mullins' will of 21 February 1620/1, a "Master Williamson" is also mentioned.  However, it has been fairly
conclusively argued that this mysterious "Master Williamson" was in fact a pseudonym for William Brewster (whose Dutch surname would have been Williamson), as he was at the time a fugitive from the King of England for publishing illegal religious pamphlets. If Brewster's presence had been known to the King or other government officials, it could have jeopardized the Pilgrim's ability to get a patent for their Colony. 

Charles Banks identified this Master Williamson with Andrew Williamson, a mariner whose will is found in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1629.  This identification is based solely on the surname, and is hardly a conclusive identification.  There was also a William Williamson who was an investor in the Virginia Company of London. 
 

John or Thomas Parker

Early 20th century Mayflower scholar Charles Banks identifies this man as having been a Mayflower crew member.  This is based on a 1750 Superior Court deposition of John Phillips.  Phillips stated that when he was twelve, his father told him "that
Sagadahock had the name of Parkers Island given to it from one Thomas Parker who as said John Phillips was Informed was Mate of the first ship that came from England with the Plymouth People and was uncle to my father John Phillips and father to
Thomas Parker who then lived on Parkers Island."  Thomas Parker's father was John Parker, and so according to Banks, must have been a mate on the Mayflower. 
 

The Mayflower Passenger List

What follows is a full and complete list
of all Mayflower passengers.

Alden, John
Allerton, Isaac
Mary (Norris) Allerton, Wife
Bartholomew Allerton, son
Remember Allerton, daughter
Mary Allerton, Daughter
Allerton, John
Billington, John
Eleanor Billington, wife
John Billington, son
Francis Billington, son
Bradford, William
Dorothy (May) Bradford, wife
Brewster, William
Mary Brewster, wife
Love Brewster, son
Wrestling Brewster, son
Britteridge, Richard
Browne, Peter
Button, William
Carter, Robert
Carver, John
Katherine (Leggett)(White) Carver, wife
Chilton, James
Mrs. Chilton, wife
Mary Chilton, daughter
Clarke, Richard
Cooke, Francis
John Cooke, son
Cooper, Humility
Crankstone, John
John Crankstone, son
Doty, Edwards
Eaton, Francis
Sarah Eaton, wife
Samuel Eaton, son
English, Thomas
Fletcher, Moses
Fuller, Edward
Mrs. Edwards Fuller, wife
Samuel Fuller, son
Fuller, Samuel
Gardinar, Richard
Goodman, John
Holbeck, William
Hooke, John
Hopkins, Stephen
Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins, wife
Giles Hopkins, son by first marriage
Constance Hopkins, daughter by first marriage
Damaris Hopkins, daughter
Oceanus Hopkins born en route
Howland, John
Langmore, John
Latham, William
Leister, Edward
Margesson, Edmond
Martin, Christopher
Mary (Prower) Martin, wife
Minter, Desire
More, Ellen
Jasper More, brother
Richard More, brother
Mary More, sister
Mullins, William
Alice Mullins, wife
Priscilla Mullins, daughter
Joseph Mullins, son
Priest, Degory
Prower, Solomon
Rigsdale, John
Alice Rigsdale,wife
Rogers, Thomas
Joseph Rogers, son
Samson, Henry
Soule, George
Standish, Myles
Rose Standish, wife
Story, Elias
Thompson, Edward
Tilley, Edward
Ann (Cooper) Tilley, wife
Tilley, John
Joan (Hurst)(Rogers) Tilley, wife
Elizabeth Tilley, daughter
Tinker, Thomas
Mrs. Thomas Tinker, wife
boy Tinker, son
Trevore, William
Turner, John
boy Tuner, son
boy Tuner, son
Warren, Richard
White, William
Susanna White, wife
Resolved White, son
Wilder, Roger
Williams, Thomas
Winslow, Edward
Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow, wife
Winslow, Glibert
Mr. Ely
Dorothy, maidservent of John Carver

For more information on these passengers and their genealogy lines please see this page

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