Person:Experience Mitchell (1)

Immigrated in 1623 on the Anne from Leiden, Holland. He resided first a Plymouth, before moving to Duxbury by 1639, when he was listed there as a freeman. He was Able to Bear Arms in Duxburrow, August 1643. He was then given liberty to look for land between Bridgewater and the Bay line in 1664. He was eventually granted land on the west side of the Namasskett River, between the Mattapoisett River and Acushena, and at Namassakett, and moved to Bridgewater in the 1680s.

In the 1623 Plymouth land division, George Morton and Experience Mitchell together received eight acres. In 1627 Plymouth cattle division "Experience Michaell" was the tenth person in the first company with Francis Cooke (Plymouth Colony Records 12:6; 12:9) 
 

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. (New England - United States: General Society of Mayflower Descendants., Various).

   (vol. 12 Francis Cooke)

2.   Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
3.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).

   Savage's: EXPERIENCE, Plymouth, a youth, came in the Ann, 1623, had been one of the goodly comp. at Leyden, where he left a br. Thomas, who d. there. Perhaps he was under the care of Francis Cook, at least, he is of his comp. in partak. sh. of cattle 1627, and soon aft. m. his d. Jane, was of Duxbury aft. 1631, and long aft. rem. to Bridgewater, there d. 1689, aged above 80 yrs. His ch. were Elizabeth wh. m. 1645, [[vol. 3, p. 220] John Washburn; Thomas; Mary, m. 24 Dec. 1652, James Shaw, and d. 1679; Edward; Sarah; Jacob; John; and Hannah, but the order of b. is uncert. and so may be the mo. for he had sec. w. Mary. Sarah m. John Hayward; and Hannah m. Joseph Hayward, as his third w.

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 "Experience Mitchell's Will and Inventory", in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant, pp. 4:151, 32:97.

   Will of "Experience Mitchell now living in the Town of Bridgwater", dated 5 Dec 1684, inventory 14 May 1689, proved 4 Sep 1689, mentions son Edward [sole executor]; wife Mary; son John; grandson Experience Mitchell the son of my son John; daughters Mary Shaw Sarah Hayward and Hannah Hayward; grandson Thomas Mitchell; grandaughter mary michell [to be cared for by son Edward and Joseph Bartlett].