About

Hello and welcome to my website, my name is James Cassidy and I am truly blessed.

I am the 8th and 9th Great Grandson of Mayflower survivor Richard More, twice through both maternal grandparents, who married on my birthday and specifically by way of five women born over the course of one hundred and nineteen years, each named Susanna.

The Blessing of the five Susanna’s began with the birth of his first daughter, whom he had with wife Christian Hunter who he had met aboard a ship named “The Blessing” and ended with his Great Great Great Granddaughter, who was also my mothers Great Great Great Grandmother. Her marriage on March 5th 1783 in Wilmot, Nova Scotia was the precise point in history where my grandparents trees were linked, one hundred and forty seven years before they married and generations of their families existed.

In 1942 a metal spoon with the initials RM carved into it was found during an excavation near where the Plymouth colony barricades stood. This was the physical object which fed and kept Richard More alive after his three other siblings all died during the first winter of 1620 when the Mayflower arrived in America. There was no other person in Plymouth with those initials.

With this blog I hope to detail my family’s remarkably unique genealogical connection to Richard More, along with a group of other shared ancestors and more. It is the reason I exist and my blessing.