Excerpt: ...to have married Francis Eaton, but she did not live after 1622. Desire Minter, who was also of the Carver household, has been the victim of much speculation. Mrs. Jane G. Austin, in her novel, "Standish of Standish," makes her the female scapegrace of the colony, jealous, discontented and quarrelsome. On the other hand, and still speculatively, she is portrayed as the elder sister and house keeper for John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, after the death of Mistress Carver; this is assumed because the first girl ...
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Excerpt: ...to have married Francis Eaton, but she did not live after 1622. Desire Minter, who was also of the Carver household, has been the victim of much speculation. Mrs. Jane G. Austin, in her novel, "Standish of Standish," makes her the female scapegrace of the colony, jealous, discontented and quarrelsome. On the other hand, and still speculatively, she is portrayed as the elder sister and house keeper for John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, after the death of Mistress Carver; this is assumed because the first girl born to the Howlands was named Desire. Footnote: Life of Pilgrim Alden; Augustus E. Alden; Boston, 1902. The only known facts about Desire Minter are those given by Bradford, "she returned to friends and proved not well, and dyed in England." Footnote: Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation; Appendix. By research among the Leyden records, collated by H. M. Dexter, Footnote: The England and Holland of the Pilgrims. the name, Minter, occurs a few times. William Minter, the husband of Sarah, was associated with the Carvers and Chiltons in marriage betrothals. William Minter was purchaser of a house from William Jeppson, in Leyden, in 1614. Another record is of a student at the University of Leyden who lived at the house of John Minter. Another reference to Thomas Minter of Sandwich, Kent, may furnish a clue. Footnote: N. E. Gen. Hist. Reg., 45, 56. Evidently, to some of these relatives, with property, near or distant of kin, Desire Minter returned before 1626. Another unmarried woman, who survived the hardships of the first winter, but returned to England and died there, was Humility Cooper. We know almost nothing about her except that she and Henry Sampson were cousins of Edward Tilley and his wife. She is also mentioned as a relative of Richard Clopton, one of the early religious leaders in England. Footnote: N. E. Gen. Hist.; iv, 108. The "mother" of this group of matrons and maidens, who survived the winters of 1621-2, was undoubtedly...
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