Biographical Summary
Desire Minter appears to have been the
daughter of Plymouth church-members William and Sarah (Willet) Minter,
who had come to Leiden from Norwich, Norfolk, England.
William Minter had died, and the
widowed Sarah (Willet) Minter married in Leiden to Roger Simmonson on 18
August 1618. Widowed again, she married Roger Eastman in 1622 in
Leiden. Desire Minter came on the Mayflower with John
Carver, who was apparently taking care of her. William Bradford
wrote somewhat cryptically that she "returned to her friend and proved
not very well and died in England." Some have speculated that John
Howland, who also came as a part of the Carver household, named his
first daughter after her. |
