Biographical Summary
Solomon Prower was the son of Mayflower
passenger Mary (Prower) Martin, and step-son of Christopher Martin.
He did not sign the Mayflower Compact, indicating he was then under 21;
but he was born sometime before his mother married Christopher Martin,
so we can thus place his birth somewhere between 1600 and 1606.
In 1619, Solomon found himself in the
Archdeaconry Court of Chelmsford, where he refused to answer questions
posed to him "unless it be out of some catechism", and for snidely
answering the ritual question "who gave him his name".
Solomon came on the Mayflower as
a teenager, but died the first winter just a few days after the Pilgrims
had begun exploring the region around Plymouth in their quest to find a
place to situate their township.
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