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Email Received from a Historian - Mayflower Society CT
Kelly - Robert Fields, brother to Earl Dean, was indeed a member of the Society - and I've obtained a set of his papers. There's good news and bad news with those: They were done in 1969 long before the current standard of documentation was adopted - and while he supplied wonderfully precise dates for events (birth, death, marriage), there is little by way of proof with his papers. There is another set of papers in Plymouth that doesn't share as many generations, but is more recent and helps with some of the earlier generations. Here is a summary: You are generation 13, Francis Cooke is generation 1. Generations 1-5 and the birth of Levi Cooke in 6 are covered by Mayflower Families - a source accepted by Plymouth. The rest of generation 6 and all of 7 and 8 are covered by MA vital records - and I have full citations or copies for those so nothing needs to be done there. Gen. 9 is not as strong, but will work. Lewis Augustine/Augustian's birth is in the vital rec