THOMAS TINKER

"Thomas Tinker and his wife and a son" came to Plymouth in 1620 on the Mayflower and "all died in the first sickness" [Bradford 442, 446]. Thomas Tinker signed the Mayflower Compact.

COMMENTS: Banks suggested two quite different origins for Thomas Tinker, without any basis other than identity of name [English Homes 89]. Dexter thought he was the Thomas Tinker admitted an inhabitant of Leiden in 1617 [Dexter 636].

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