Plymouth Colony Biographical Sketches
BLOSSOM, THOMAS - A Separatist at Leiden, Thomas Blossom gave his wife Ann a power of attorney to sell houses in Cambridge, England, which she had inherited from her mother's father (Dexter, pg 603). He joined in signing a letter of 30 November 1625 from Leiden Separatists to Bradford, and he was sole signer of a letter of 15 December 1625 to Bradford (Bradford Letter Book, pg 18, 21). In December leter he deplores the difficulty the Leiden people had in reuniting with the Separatists in Plymouth, and he states that the only way the Leiden group could join the others would be with the means coming from Plymouth. He had set out on the Speedwell in 1620 and had to return to Leiden; he writes that the son who was with him in the ship has since died, and he only had two children living, both born since he last saw Bradford. Blossom and his family reached Plymouth probably on the 1629 Mayflower. Sometime prior to August 1631 he witnessed the undated will of Mary Ring (MD 1:31). He died in the sickness of 1633, as Bradford (Ford) 2:171 noted, cAlling him one of "theire anciente friends which had lived in Holand." His widow, Anna, married 17 October 1633 Henry Rowley (PCR 1:16), and lived in Scituate. His son Thomas's marriage at Barnstable 18 June 1645 to sarah Ewer, with Edmond Freeman performing the ceremony, was noted by Rev. John Lothrop (NEHGR 9:286).

Mayflower Passengers 1629, pg 137
The Master of this Mayflower was the famous Captain William Peirce. The boat left Gravesend, London, March, 1629, and arrived at Plymouth, May 15, 1629. There were something over thirty-five passengers, many of them from Leyden.
LIST IN PART
Thomas Blossom
Mrs. Anne Blossom
Thomas Blossom
Elizabeth Blossom

• Married: 10 NOV 1605 in St. Clement's Church, Cambridge, England ³

1. unnamed BLOSSOM
2. unnamed BLOSSOM b: BEF 1620
3. Elizabeth BLOSSOM b: DEC 1620 in Leyden, Holland
4. Thomas BLOSSOM
5. Peter BLOSSOM b: AFT 1627 in Plymouth, Mass

1. Abbrev: Genealogy of Longstreet
   Title: Dr. Edward Mayes, Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet (a reprint of the circa 1900 original)he circa 1900 original.
   Text: John Longstreet Rhymes has typed many pages of this book on his web site. See http://john.rootsweb.com.FitzRandolph/fitz-m1.htm and fitz-m2.htm
2. Abbrev: WorldConnect
   Title: http://WorldConnect.Rootsweb.com
   
   
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3. Abbrev: Jack Mount website
   Title: Jack Mount, http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/users/mount/
   may have moved to http://intranet.library.arizona.edu/users/mount/
   or http://members.cox.net/mountgen/stout.html (2000)
   may have moved to http://intranet.library.arizona.edu/users/mount/
   or http://members.cox.net/mountgen/stout.html
   may have moved to http://intranet.library.arizona.edu/users/mount/
   or http://members.cox.net/mountgen/stout.html. 2000.
   Text: Stout sources include
   Baer, Mabel V. D. "Richard Stout and Some Descendants". National Genealogical Society Quarterly, vol. 52, 1964, pages 86-94.
   
   Friend, Maurie L. "The Perils of Penelope Kent". Drumbeat, vol. 45, no. 2, Fall 1966, pages 4-5.
   
   Hornor, William S.. "Penelope VanPrinces". This Old Monmouth of Ours, Moreau Brothers, Freehold, NJ, 1932, pages 146-148.
   
   Hornor, William S.. "Richard Stout". This Old Monmouth of Ours, Moreau Brothers, Freehold, NJ, 1932, page 181.
   
   "[Penelope Prince]". In: Gravesend [New York] Town Book, volume 1, 12 September 1648.
   
   Salter, Edwin. "Stout". A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, E. Gardner & Son, Bayonne, NJ, 1890, pages lvi-lvii.
   
   Stillwell, John E. "Stout of Monmouth County". Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, New York, NY, vol. 4, 1916, pages 295-374.
   
   Stockton, Frank R. "The Story of Penelope Stout". Stories of New Jersey, Rutgers Univ. Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1961, pages 57-68.
   
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   Stout, Kemble. James Pindall Stout 1819-1903 and Burthena Shackelford Kemble 1824-1908, 1975, 353 pages.
   
   Stout, Richard. "[Abstract of his will, written 9 June 1703, proved 23 October 1705]". New Jersey Colonial Documents, Calendar of Wills - 1670-1730, page 446.
   
   Stout, Wayne D. Genealogy of the Sagers, Fisk, and Stout Families, Salt Lake City, UT, 1960, 583 pages.
   
   Welles, Theodore W. "Lucy Stout". Ancestral Tablets From Colonial Days to the Present Era: A Record of the Descendents of Gov. Thomas Welles ..., Press Print. and Pub. Co., Patterson, NJ, 1893, page 380.
   
   
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