About the Author

The author, researcher and webmaster of MayflowerHistory.com is Caleb Johnson. Caleb graduated from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, with two Bachelor's degrees: History (with Archaeology minor) and English (with Computer Science minor). He is greatly assisted by his wife, Anna, in the administrating and maintaining of the MayflowerHistory.com web site.

Caleb has been studying and researching the history of the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, and early Plymouth Colony for fifteen years. He has written several books, including a biography of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins, Here Shall I Die Ashore (Xlibris, 2007), and The Mayflower and Her Passengers (Xlibris, 2005). He has also edited several primary source compilations, including the massive 1173-page reference book, The Complete Works of the Mayflower Pilgrims (Vancouver, 2003, currently out of print), and the most recent edition of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation (Xlibris, 2006).

Caleb has also been on the forefront of Mayflower genealogical research, and has made several significant discoveries, including his most significant to date: the discovery of the English origins of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins (The American Genealogist 73:161-171), and the discovery of the English origins of Peter Browne (The American Genealogist 79:161-178). He is also the first to document and publish the English origins of Mayflower passengers John Crackstone and John Hooke (The American Genealogist 80:100-101).

Caleb is himself a Mayflower descendant, and is a member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Caleb is directly descended from thirteen Mayflower passengers: John Alden; William, Alice and Priscilla Mullins; Myles Standish; Henry Samson; Edward Doty; George Soule; Richard Warren; John Howland; and John, Joan, and Elizabeth Tilley. He is also a descendant of Kenelm Winslow, brother of Mayflower passenger and occasional Plymouth Colony governor Edward Winslow.