I have continued to research Jett’s rich ancestry, with a focus on her immigrant ancestors. I have identified 314 such ancestors. Not all are rock-solid, but I am pretty comfortable with the vast majority of them. I will summarize a couple of relevant demographics here.
By country of birth: England 288 Ireland 8 Wales 6 Netherlands 6 Scotland 5 unknown 1 By place of death: MA 267 ME 13 NH 10 NY 3 CT 3 NJ 2 VA 2 Canada 2 SC 1 England 1 Barbados 1 unknown 9
Obviously, most of her immigrant ancestors were born in England and died in New England. However, the immigrants from Ireland (on her mother’s side) are much more recent, giving her at least 50% Irish ancestry.
She has quite a few famous ancestors, most notably some Mayflower ancestors. She is directly descended from no fewer than 11 of the 102 Mayflower passengers:
- Stephen Hopkins
- Constance Hopkins Snow
- John Alden Sr
- William Mullins
- Alice Atwood Mullins
- Priscilla Mullins Alden
- Richard Warren
- Thomas Rogers Jr
- William White Sr
- Susanna Fuller White
- Resolved White
Six of these 11 (all the males except Resolved White, who was a juvenile) were among the 41 men who signed the Mayflower Compact, the first constitutional document written in America.
I doubt if many Americans have a stronger link to the Mayflower than Jett.