page_title: Richard More
section_title: Mayflower voyage
hierarchical_section_title: Richard More / Mayflower voyage
caption_attribution_description: English: Mayflower plaque in St. James Church in Shipton, Shropshire commemorating the More children baptism.
context_page_description: Richard More was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. He became a sailor and later a ship captain. He saved at least one colony from starvation and helped to keep the colonies prosperous by trading goods to and from England and the West Indies. He fought sea battles against the French in 1664.
  Richard and his siblings were taken from their mother and given to the care of Mayflower passengers as indentured servants. Only Richard survived and lived a long and prosperous life. Richard has descendants that can be traced to present day.
context_section_description: The More children travelled as indentured servants to 3 of the Mayflower Pilgrims.  Ellen, age 8, was assigned to Edward Winslow.  She died soon after the ship landed. Jasper, age 7, was a servant of John Carver.  Jasper died in December of 1620 while the Mayflower was in Harbor. He was buried ashore in what is now the Provincetown area. There is a memorial with his name and that of four others who also died at sea or while the ship was anchored at Cape Cod Harbor in November and December of 1620. Mary, age 4, died soon after the ship landed. Richard resided with the William Brewster family until about mid-1627. The 3 children died of something that was called the ‘common infection’ because so many people died of the same illness. Only Richard survived.
  More and his sisters and brother left Plymouth, England on 16 September 1620. There were 102 passengers and 30–40 crew. On 19 November 1620, the Mayflower reached land at Cape Cod hook. They landed on 21 November. They wrote the Mayflower Compact, which made rules on how they would live and treat each other. The Mayflower was supposed to land in Virginia Colony, but the ship was too damaged and they were forced to land at Cape Cod now called Provincetown Harbor.
caption: Mayflower plaque in St. James Church in Shipton, Shropshire commemorating the More children baptism. Photo courtesy of Phil Revell
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