Articles related to "Stephen Hopkins"

One of Sarah Palin's more controversial ancestors is Mayflower Pilgrim Stephen Hopkins. Four centuries have not separated the fact and fiction of his past.

Sarah Palin is upper echelon when it comes to descent from the nation's colonial era founding families in New England.

Tens of millions of people can legitimately claim ancestors who came on the Mayflower and they are by no means all elite blue-bloods.

There, in the crowded cabin of the tiny ship Mayflower, while women and children watched, 41 men signed the historic Mayflower Compact, a model of self-government.

Here, the Mayflower Passenger list continues. This portion of the list includes the Brewsters, the unruly Billingtons and Dotys, as well as the Tilly brothers.

The Mayflower Compact is written, then signed on November 11, 1620.

Millions of people are descended from the Pilgrims who arrived in the new world on the Mayflower.

The patriots developed a naval force to go against the best navy in the world to gain an advantage during the American Revolution.