|Marriage Pilgrim Style & The Pilgrim Church| |Written by Stacy
B. C. Wood, Jr.| The 1627 Plimoth Plantation presented a
recreation of a Pilgrim wedding ceremony on August 14, 2010.
They chose to go back to the year 1623 when Governor William
Bradford, whose wife Dorothy May had drowned shortly after the
arrival of the Mayflower in 1620, married Elizabeth Carpenter,
the widow Southworth. She had arrived on the ship Anne earlier
that year. There were earlier marriages than theirs. The first
marriage in the new Colony took place on 12 May 1621 when
widower Edward Winslow and Susanna, the widow of Pilgrim William
White, were united. The original partners of both had died
during the first few months after arrival. John Howland and
Elizabeth Tilley, both youths on the Mayflower, were married
before April 1623. John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, also both
Mayflower passengers, were married probably in 1623. Captain
Myles Standish, whose wife had died the first winter, remarried
in the Colony by 1624. Dr. Jeremy D. B