Peregrine White was the first English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 child born to the Pilgrims in the New World.

His parents, William and Susanna, named him "Peregrine", which means: "one who journeys to foreign lands" or "pilgrim." Soon after the landing, William died, and Susanna married Edward Winslow

Edward Winslow

Edward Winslow was an English Pilgrim leader on the Mayflower. He served as the governor of Plymouth Colony in 1633, 1636, and finally in 1644...

. Winslow adopted Peregrine and his older brother, Resolved, and made them his heirs.

Records state that White held some minor civil and military posts. The records also mention that he and his now-wife Sarah were fined "for fornication before marriage or contract." The couple married on 14 December 1646, and had 7 children.

White traveled to England with Winslow, but returned to Massachusetts before his death at the age of eighty-three.

External links

• "The General society of Mayflower descendants: meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants General Society of Mayflower Descendants (The De Vinne press, 1901), p. 441