1Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. I-III, pp. 1270-1272 (1995).
"EXPERIENCE MITCHELL
ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland
MIGRATION: 1623 on Anne
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Duxbury by 1639, Bridgewater between 1684 and 1689
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BIRTH: By about 1603 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: By 14 May 1689 when his inventory was taken.
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1628 Jane Cooke, daughter of FRANCIS COOKE. She died before 1641, and perhaps some years earlier.
(2) By about 1641 Mary ____. She died after about 1662 (birth of last child).
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i ELIZABETH, b. Plymouth say 1628; m. Plymouth 6 December 1645 John Washburn [PCR 2:94], son of JOHN WASHBURN.
ii THOMAS, b. Plymouth say 1630. In 1936 Merton Taylor Goodrich argued at length that this Thomas Mitchell was the same as a man of that name who appeared on Block Island by 1678 and had a family there [TAG 12:93-99; see also NEHGR 82:457-58, which does not make this claim]. Others who have agreed with this position are G. Andrews Moriarity [TAG 19:226] and Robert S. Wakefield [MD 38:187-89].
iii MARY, b. Plymouth say 1632; m. (1) Plymouth 24 December 1652 James Shaw [PCR 8:14], son of JOHN SHAW; m. (2) John Jenny {BrLR 3:61].
With second wife
iv SARAH, b Plymouth about 1641 (aged "about ninety years" December 1731 [Plymouth County Court Records 2:125]); m. by April 1661 John Hayward.
v JACOB, b. say 1643; m. Plymouth 7 November 1666 Susanna Pope [PCR 8:31], daughter of THOMAS POPE. (On 5 March 1677/8 Experience Mitchell, Edward Mitchell and Joseph Bartlett were appointed guardians of the children of Jacob Mitchell [PCR 5:188, 252].)
vi EDWARD, b. say 1645; m. (1) about 1668 Mary Hayward ("and lived with her forty yrears without children" [TAG 59:31]); m. (2) Plymouth 26 August 1708 Alice Bradford [PVR 89].
vii JOHN, b. say 1650; m. (1) Duxbury 14 December 1675 Mary Bonney; m. (2) Duxbury 14 January 1679[/80] Mary Lathrup; m. (3) Duxbury 24 May 1682 Mary Prior.
viii HANNAH, b. say 1662; m. by 1682 as his third wife Joseph Hayward (eldest child b. Bridgewater 20 March 1682/3).
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