Twelfth Generation

2502. Deacon Thomas BLOSSOM was born in 1580 in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire. He died in 1632 at the age of 52 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. He was with the Pilgrims in Leyden. He was an original passenger on the Speedwell, the ship that had to turn back. He remained in Leyden, where he wrote several letters to William Bradford that are available today. Several of his children died in Leyden. He came to America on the Mayflower in 1629 with wife and remaining children.

See TAG 63;65-77, 238-246, 64;23-31 for more about Thomas Blossom, his sojurn in Leyden, and his descendants.

2503. Ann HELSDON was born (date unknown).

Children were:

1251	i.	Elizabeth BLOSSOM.
	ii.	Thomas BLOSSOM was born about 1623 in Leyden, Holland. He died on 22 April 1650 at the age of 27 in Nauset Beach, Eastham, MA.