John Billington

Bef 1579 - 1630  (> 51 years)

• Name	John Billington  [1]
  Birth	Bef 1579  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Bef 1580  [3]
  Death	Sep 1630	Plymouth, Plymouth Colony   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I42774	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family	Ellinor   d. Aft 2 Mar 1643
  Marriage	Bef 1604  [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Francis Billington,   b. Abt 1606   d. 3 Dec 1684, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 78 years)
  Family ID	F25010	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived on the Mayflower. He was hanged for the murder of John Newcomen, the first murder of a European settler by another European settler in the Plymouth colony.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5287] The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower by Gary Boyd Roberts. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.