Biographical Summary
The Billington family may have
originated from around Cowbit and Spaulding, in Lincolnshire, England.
Children John and Francis came with parents John and Eleanor on the
Mayflower. No baptism record has been found for either John or
Francis. Son John got lost in the woods
in May 1621, and was taken by Indians to Nauset, out on Cape Cod.
The Pilgrims organized an expedition to bring him home (recounted in
detail in Mourt's Relation), and arrived to find him well, and
behung with beads. John was named in the
1627 Division of Land, but was not alive when his father was executed
for murder in September 1630. |
