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Wood joins Society of Mayflower Descendants

GLADSTONE — The Society of Mayflower Descendants in Michigan is proud to announce that William (Bill) Wood of Gladstone has successfully completed the necessary documentation of his ancestry to qualify for membership in the Society of Mayflower Descendants. He was able to trace his heritage to passenger Mr. Samuel Fuller, who arrived in the harbor near Plymouth, Mass. on the ship Mayflower in November of 1620.

Fuller was one of 41 adult male passengers on the Mayflower who signed the Mayflower Compact on Nov. 11, 1620. The passengers on the Mayflower had come to settle in a new land and to find a new home and government. Within the first year, one half of the passengers were killed off by hardships.

The General Society of Mayflower Descendants was formed by descendants of those pilgrims to preserve their memory, their records, their history, and all facts relating to them, their ancestors, and their posterity; cherish and maintain the ideals and institutions of American freedom; transmit the spirit, the purity of purpose, and steadfastness of the pilgrim fathers and mothers; secure united effort to discover and publish original matter; and authenticate, preserve and mark historical spots made memorable by Pilgrim association.

If you have information and/or documentation that leads you to believe you may be directly descended from a passenger on the Mayflower voyage of 1620 that terminated on the shores of New England at Plymouth, you may be eligible to join the society. For further information on the Society of Mayflower Descendants, visit ­www.­TheMayflowerSociety.com or www.michmayflower.org.

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