My family thinks we are related to John Billington from the Mayflower, my mom is working to confirm this. He was the first settler to be executed in Plymouth in 1630.
His son accidently discharged a musket near a open barrel of gunpowder on the Mayflower during the boat ride over here. Things sure would have turned out different if the Mayflower would have blown up.
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