Biographical Summary
William Trevore was hired by the
Pilgrims to be a laborer for a year, and likely was to have also been a
seaman on their ship, the Speedwell, which was eventually left
behind and not taken. Trevore had been with Myles Standish on a
voyage to the Massachusetts Bay not too long after they had arrived on
the Mayflower, and there Standish named one of the isles near the
current town of Dorchester the "Isle Trevore"; the island later became
known as Thompson's Island. Trevore spend out his time at Plymouth
and returned to England, on the Fortune in 1621. The
Fortune was captured by French pirates and the ship, crew and
passengers held at the Ile d'Yeu for some time before being allowed to
continue home, totally plundered. In 1623, Robert Cushman in a
letter to Plymouth, sent on the next ship, stating that "William Trevore
hath lavishly told [Thomas Weston] but what he knew or imagined of
Capawack, Mohegan and the Narragansetts." Trevore became the
master of the ship William, and made several trips delivering
passengers to America during the 1630s. In 1650, he filed a couple
depositions regarding Thompson's Island. Nothing further about his
life, or family, has been discovered. |
