Mary Chilton

Mary Chilton (May 31, 1607 – May 16, 1679) was a Pilgrim and purportedly the first European woman to step ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Mary Chilton's mother's name has been listed as "Susannah, possibly Furner" in many places.

[3] She was one of eleven minor girls on the Mayflower, nine of whom survived the first year at Plymouth Rock and would have been present at the time of the famous First Thanksgiving in 1621.

They had ten children: John, Susannah, Mary, Edward, Sarah, Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, an unnamed child who probably died in infancy, and Benjamin.

She made out a will on July 31, 1676 (one of two female passengers from the Mayflower who did so, Elizabeth Tilley being the other) and died before May 1, 1679 in Boston.

Mary Chilton leaping onto Plymouth Rock before the other Pilgrims
Site of Mary Chilton Winslow's home on Spring Lane in Boston
Mary Chilton Winslow's burial site in the Winslow tomb at King's Chapel Burying Ground
The Landing of the Pilgrims (1877) by Henry A. Bacon . This painting is in the Pilgrim Hall Museum , Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The Pilgrim Maiden, Brewster Gardens , Plymouth, Massachusetts. This statue is not of a particular Pilgrim, but it most closely fits Elizabeth Tilley and Mary Chilton in age.