Birth: ABT 1597 England
Details: George Soule’s origins in England have not been discovered. The most promising record found to date is the baptism of a George Soule on 9 February 1595 at Tingrith, Bedford, son of William. Other Soule families using the name George can also be found in Sudbury, Suffolk, and Flitwick, Bedford.
Note: George was orphaned when fire destroyed his home. He was brought up by his brother, Robert Soule of Selter Co.
Note: George arrived at Plymouth on “The Mayflower” as an employee of pilgrim Edward Winslow – was a teacher for his children. The Winslow family from which Edward was descended lived in the nearby parish of Kempsey, Co. Worcester, and it is probable that this early neighborhood association explains the apprenticeship of George Soule to the Governor. It is supposed that George Soule was in London when he joined Winslow on the voyage. Droitwich, the family home of the Winslows at that time, was a salt mining place connected in a business way with the Salters’ Company of London in trade, and thus the Winslow-Soule association was extablished. The name of Mary Bucket, his wife, who came in the Anne, should be looked for in the parish of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, London. It is probably a variation of Beckett. The marriage is established through the sale by George Soule of that acre of land granted to her as a passenger, which he could do as her husband.
Note: Was a signer of the Mayflower Compact
Marriage: BEF 1626 Plymouth, Massachusetts
Military: 1637
Details: Volunteered for the Pequot War but Plymouth’s troops were not needed.
Note: George Soule, Miles Standish and John Alden laid out the first town, Duxbury, and are buried there.
Birth of Son: 22 MAY 1627 (baptism)
Name: Zachariah Soule
Birth of Son: 1630
Name: Benjamin Soule
Birth of Son: ABT 1632
Name: John Soule
Birth of Daughter: 25 APR 1634
Name: Susannah Soule
Place: Duxbury, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts
Birth of Son: 1637
Name: Nathaniel Soule
Details: Numerous citations for such as abuse, “lyes”, unlawful entry, trespass. Fathered a child with an unnamed Indian Woman
Birth of Son: ABT 1639
Name: George Soule Jr.
Birth of Daughter: 1640
Name: Patience Soule
Birth of Daughter: 25 APR 1642
Name: Elizabeth Soule
Details: On 2 July 1667 she was “whipt att the post” for commiting fornication for the second time
Deputy: 1642
Place: Plymouth Court
Birth of Daughter: 1644
Name: Mary Soule
Note: He was on various committees, juries, and survey teams, during his life in Duxbury. In 1646, for example, he was appointed to the committee to deal with Duxbury’s problem of the disorderly smoking of tobacco.
Note: The house of George Soule at Plymouth, Massachusetts has been reconstructed, as seen on right.
Will: 11 AUG 1677
Note: He added a codicil to it on 20 September 1677. The codicil is quite interesting as it gives a little insight into a family squabble between son John and daughter Patience:
“If my son John Soule above-named or his heirs or assigns or any of them shall at any time disturb my daughter Patience or her heirs or assigns or any of them in peaceable possession or enjoyment of the lands I have given her at Nemasket alias Middleboro and recover the same from her or her heirs or assigns or any of them; that then my gift to my son John Soule shall be void; and that then my will is my daughter Patience shall have all my lands at Duxbury and she shall be my sole executrix of this my last will and testament and enter into my housing lands and meadows at Duxbury.”
Death: 22 JAN 1679/80 Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Burial: Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Details: George is buried next to John Alden & Priscilla at Duxbury; and near to Miles Standish. He, John Alden and others bought land for Gov. Prence.
Parents are unknown. George Soule’s origins in England have not been discovered. The most promising record found to date is the baptism of a George Soule on 9 February 1595 at Tingrith, Bedford, son of William. Other Soule families using the name George can also be found in many other places including co. Gloucester, co. Worcester, co. Hertford, co. Suffolk, co. Kent, and co. Bedford. Many of these families were systematically examined in research I recently published in the Mayflower Quarterly and in the newsletter of the Soule Kindred in America. It has also been proposed that he may have originally come from Leiden, rather than England. – MayflowerHistory.com
Mary Beckett/Bucket
Birth: 1602 Bromsgrove, England
Immigration: 1623 on the Anne, the third ship to bring groups of Pilgrim families to Plymouth.
Note: She is not considered to have been an indentured servant upon arrival as she is not shown in Plymouth’s initial 1623 division of land as attached to a specific person or family. In the latter division she was allotted one acre of land “next to John Rogers” who is otherwise shown as having been allotted two acres at a different location than Mary.
Death: DEC 1676 Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Burial: Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
parents are unknown
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