Genealogy

Here's the only (in)famous ancestor in my tree (biological mother's side): John Billington, non-Pilgrim Mayflower settler and the first Englishman executed for murder in the Americas.

In reading a few things here and there, I'm sympathetic to the theory that he was railroaded by jealous and annoyed religious extremists in Plymouth Colony. Admittedly, I'm in a demographic that would find that version of events appealing. :-)