President-elect Obama is a 13th-generation descendant of one
of the Plymouth colony’s earliest settlers, Thomas Blossom. So is Obama’s very distant cousin, George W. Bush. Thomas Blossom did not arrive in America in 1620, because he was aboard the Speedwell, which sprang a leak (in fact – lots of them), and went back to Europe.
Blossom and his wife, Anne, came to America nine years later from the Dutch city of Leiden on the Mayflower. Hmm – no, not that Mayflower.
You’ll find a good article about Thomas and Anne Blossom at the NEHGS website.
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