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Governor’s Pilgrims Susanna Compact Day Message Meet the Jackson! Dinner Arts Highlights PAGE 2 PAGE 8 PAGE 4 PAGE 14 THE MARYLAND Mayflower Log VOL. XXXVIII SPRING 2019 Triumph over Tragedy! CALENDAR Susanna White’s Courageous Journey April 10, 2019 7:30 a.m., Wednesday ourney with Susanna White, as she Susanna and GSMD Heritage Breakfast risked her life for religious freedom her husband, Army Navy Club, Washington, D.C. J by traveling to the New World on the William White, April 28, 2019 Mayflower. This year’s Spring Dinner will were Separatists. feature Mary Ann Jung, an award-winning They were 12:00 p.m., Sunday Spring Dinner actress and Smithsonian scholar. Ms. Jung members of the Eagle’s Nest Country Club, Phoenix will portray “Susanna White,” in period Henry Ainsworth costume and first person character. congregation June, 2019 in Amsterdam, Mayflower Ship Regatta Ms. Jung has combined her acting ability many of which Chesapeake Beach Waterpark along with her degree in British History had contemplated September 5-8, 2019 to recreate history’s most fascinating joining with the Thursday to Sunday women. She has appeared on CNN, The Leiden group, but Today Show, Good Morning America, and most pulled back Experience “Susanna’s” joys General Board of Assistants’ and sorrows as she embarks on in newspapers around the world, portraying after financial Denver, Colorado a hazardous journey and carves famous women from history. She has been disputes. out a new life in a New World. September 21, 2019 a lead actress and Director of Renaissance 10:00 a.m, Saturday History and Shakespearean Language Susanna boarded Society Board of Assistants’ at the Maryland Renaissance Festival for the ship, while pregnant, with her husband Easton, Maryland over 30 years. She has also performed and son, Resolved. She gave birth to son, at the Smithsonian, National Theatre, and November 3, 2019 Peregrine (from the Latin word, “Pilgrim”), in various other venues. Ms. Jung portrays late November 1620, while the ship was still 2:00 p.m., Sunday anchored off Provincetown. Her husband Thanksgiving Parade famous historical women in authentic period costumes, accents, and attitudes. You will Pasadena, Maryland died the first Winter. Fellow passenger, not want to miss her premiere performance Edward Winslow’s wife perished in March, November 24, 2019 of “Susanna White,” a character our Society 1621. A few months later, on May 12, 1621, 12:00 p.m., Sunday commissioned. Susanna married Edward—the first marriage Compact Day Dinner at Plymouth Colony. They had five children, DoubleTree Hilton Hotel, Annapolis Susanna’s origins were just discovered in although only two lived to adulthood. 2017, after many failed attempts to identify her. She bore the first English Pilgrim THE SOCIETY OF Ms. Jung’s unique and lively shows are child in America and was the first to wed in vividly brought to life in this journey into the Plymouth Colony. She was one of only four past. We look forward to her entertaining adult women to have survived to see the first MAYFLOWER and educational portrayal of “Susanna.” DESCENDANTS Thanksgiving. See page 16 for details. IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND SPRING 2019 MAYFLOWER LOG 1 THE SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS OFFICERS GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE Dear Maryland Mayflower Society Members: Maryland Society: Spring has finally arrived. The crocuses are Governor: TIMOTHY D. MALLORY in bloom, the birds are singing, and the warm [email protected] nights bring the aroma of barbecue chicken again! Deputy Governor: ROBERT B. BURGIO [email protected] Our annual Spring Dinner will be held on Recording OPEN Sunday, April 28, at the Eagle’s Nest Country Secretary: Club in Phoenix, Maryland. The Dinner will feature renowned actress, Mary Ann Corresponding NANCY A. YOUNG Jung. Our Society contracted with Ms. Jung Secretary: [email protected] to develop a character portrayal of Pilgrim Treasurer: MARILYN K. VANWAGNER Susanna White in a 45-minute educational and informative drama. You [email protected] will hear Susanna White’s story of how she crossed the stormy Atlantic Ocean and bear witness to her strong willpower and vitality, essential to Assistant Treasurer: LOUESA B. CANNING forming the first Colony in America under its own laws. Please use our asst-treasurer@ online store or the RSVP form in this Log to make your reservations. MarylandMayflower.org Historian: DWIGHT N. MASON Although several months away, please also mark your calendars for [email protected] our Compact Day Dinner, which will be held on Sunday, November 24. Our Guest Speaker will be one of our talented members, Eleanor Co-Historian: CHRISTOPHER B. LOCKE Herman Dyment. Her topic is: “Fleeing Pandemonium: Mercury, asst-historian@ Medicine and Muck in the 17th Century,” which examines the motivations MarylandMayflower.org of our ancestors’ passage out of Holland and England from a unique Elder: BENJAMIN G. PROCTOR, JR. perspective. [email protected] Your Board has been busy with various 2020 projects, especially our Captain: VICTOR C. METTA new website. Here you can view information on how to join, membership [email protected] directory, upcoming activities, and merchandise for sale. I encourage you to enroll in the “Members Only” section. Our Treasurer, Marilyn Surgeon: CATHERINE K. WILSON [email protected] VanWagner, deserves a big “thank you” for her time and effort. Thank you, Marilyn! Counselor: HRANT JAMGOCHIAN [email protected] Are you available to volunteer to join the Board, attend meetings, and get involved in various committees, especially now that the 400th Members-at-Large: SUSAN P. MORRISON Anniversary is coming into view? Several exciting events are scheduled, [email protected] including the Mayflower Sailboat Regatta at the Chesapeake Beach MARY ANN BIENKO Waterpark in June and the Thanksgiving Day Parade in Pasadena, [email protected] Maryland in November. I welcome your involvement, so just email me to come aboard! DIAN MAY CORNELIUSSEN [email protected] In closing, let us be mindful of our Society’s goal to promote and uphold our ancestor’s vision in coming to a New World: “To perpetuate to a Immediate Past Governor: JAMES B. BATTLES remote posterity the memory of our Pilgrim Fathers.” [email protected] Wishing you well in preparation for 2020! General Society: Timothy D. Mallory Deputy Gov. General: JAMES B. BATTLES Contact Information [email protected] If you have moved, changed your name, or we have an incorrect address, Asst. General: TIMOTHY D. MALLORY telephone number, or email address on file, please let us know. Our Directory, [email protected] entitled, The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Maryland 2017- 2020, is now available to members by logging into our website at www.MarylandMayflower.org. The Directory provides detailed address and contact information and contains our Society’s Bylaws. Please send revisions to our Corresponding Secretary, Nancy Young, at [email protected] or call 410-321-6840. 2 MAYFLOWER LOG SPRING 2019 WELCOME ABOARD: New Members We are happy to extend a warm welcome to the newest members of our Maryland Society: WILL THIS BE • MS. MARY ANNE LUCE ADKINS of Salisbury, 13th in descent from Richard Warren. YOUR LICENSE • MS. BRENDA ANN ELY ALBUS, of Middletown, 12th in descent from Thomas Rogers. PLATE? • MS. LAURIE BETH BURKE of Royal Oak, 12th in descent from William Bradford. 90 • MR. JAMES EDMOND CARBINE of Baltimore, 11th in descent from John Alden. • MS. NAOMI JOYCE ZEIGLER DAVIS of Union Bridge, 11th in descent from John Alden. • MR. JAMES BABSON DENNY of Catonsville, 12th in descent from John Tilley. 90 MS. CANDACE MASON FAY ERICKSON of • Wilbraham, Massachusetts, 11th in descent from Giles Hopkins. • MR. DONALD LEE FACEY of Wilbraham, MA, 11th in descent from John Alden. The Mayflower license plate • MR. JOEL ROBERT GALLAGHER is not only visibly appealing, it of Silver Spring, serves to identify a Mayflower 13th in descent from Stephen Hopkins. descendant. I purchased a • MS. AISHA LEE JENKINS of Germantown, 13th in license plate several years ago descent from Edward Fuller. and am amazed by the number MS. FIONA LOCKE of Los Angeles, California, 12th • of people who stop and ask in descent from William Bradford. about it. Some are even • MR. GABRIEL JOHN JOSEPH O’HARRAN of Accokeek, 14th in descent from William White. interested in joining our Society, • MS. MARJORIE ANNE ALSING TRIMBLE of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, 10th in descent which opens up an opportunity from Mary Chilton. to explain the process. • MS. SUSAN ELIZABETH BURGESS WHITTIER of Newport, Pennsylvania, 11th in descent For a limited time only, the from William Bradford. following unissued tag numbers are available to our Members: Supplemental Lines Friends • SMD0041 • SMD0073 MS. LINDA DOTY of Columbia. • MS. LUCINDA ANNE FREEMAN • • SMD0059 • SMD0080 O’HARRAN, of Accokeek, 14th in • SMD0060 • SMD0090-93 descent from Thomas Rogers. In Memoriam • SMD0063 • SMD0095-100 We sadly report the loss of these members This is a great way to memorialize an event, such Junior Members • MS. EMILY ANN HARDING BEALL as an anniversary or birth LACIVITA of Ellicott City, 10th in descent • MASTER CARLETON WILLEM year. Interested? Call or IMBENS, of Stanford, California, 14th from William Brewster, passed away on e-mail me at: 410-353-3733 or January 16, 2019. in descent from Edward Doty, son of [email protected]. Professor Susan Athey. • MR. JOHN CURRIN LYNCH of Edgewater, Let me know which tag number 10th in descent from Edward Doty, passed away on October 22, 2017. you are interested in and we’ll get the ball rolling. You won’t • MR. HARVEY MORTON SOLDAN, SR. regret it! A Special Happy Birthday! of Hilton Head, SC, 9th in descent from CJ (Dian) Corneliussen John Alden and others, passed away on Our member, Louise Elliott November 9, 2018.