America, and that
it was to them that Desire went, when, as Bradford records, "she
returned to her friends in England, and proved not very well and
died there."
"Mrs. Carver's maid" we know but little about, but the presumption is
naturally strong that she came from; Leyden with her mistress. Her
early marriage and; death are duly recorded.
Roger Wilder, Carver's "servant;" was apparently in his service at Leyden
and accompanied the family from thence. Bradford calls him "his
[Carver's] man Roger," as if an old, familiar household servant,
which (as Wilder died soon after the arrival at Plymouth) Bradford
would not have been as likely to do - writing in 1650, thirty years
after - if he had been only a short-time English addition to Carver's
household, known to Bradford only during the voyage. The fact that
he speaks of him as a "man" also indicates something as to his age,
and renders it certain that he was not an "indentured" lad. It is
fair to presume he was a passenger on the SPEEDWELL to Southampton.
(It is probable that Carver's "servant-boy," William Latham, and
Jasper More, his "bound-boy," were obtained in England, as more
fully appears.)
Master William Bradford and his wife were certainly of the party in the
SPEEDWELL, as shown by his own recorded account of the embarkation.
(Bradford's "Historie," etc.)
Master Edward Winslow's very full (published) account of the embarkation
("Hypocrisie Unmasked," pp.
