In the Plymouth records there is a John Cannon/Kirman/Karman who received
a grant of land in 1623 which was transferred transferred to Mrs.
Billington. I have seen the word "bequeathed" and the word "sold"
used.
She later sold the proerty after her remarriage, and that deed decribes
and uses the name Carman. There is nothing to connect John Carman of the
Eliot records in Roxbury and the Massachusetts Bay Colony General Court
Records to the John Carman of Plymouth in 1621. At at later date John
Carman of Lynn was named as one of ten men of Saugus (Lynn) who were
associated with land in Sandwich.
The following is some history from a post from Tom Lincoln about the
"Fortune" and her arrival in the
Pilgrim colony at Plymouth and her passengers.
"The second vessel, the Fortune, arrived on 11 Nov 1621, having leftLondon
in July. This was a group of "35 persons to remaine and live inye
plantation." Most on board had embarked the previous year on theSpeedwell,
which had turned back, unable to complete the voyage. Onlytwelve were
among the "saints," Separatist followers of Robert"Trouble-Church",
the
famous and feisty dissenter from the Church ofEngland. Stephen [Deane], a
miller, was one of the artisans and craftsmen sent over to make the colony
viable. They were not much welcomed initiallyby the Mayflower colony,
because The Adventurers, the Colony'specunious and greedy underwriter in
London, had sent them off with solittle that they had brought "not so much
as a bisket-cake... nor potnor pan to dresse any meate in." Ashore, the
first year's crop had notbeen good, and these represented additional
mouths to feed. The moodwas not improved by a letter from Thomas Weston,
speaking for TheAdventurers, who accused them of keeping the Mayflower too
long theyear before and sending her back empty. (In fact, the first
colonists had been sent off so ill prepared that they would not have
survived had the Mayflower not remained as a supply ship.) The letter also
accused the colony of squandering their time in "discoursing, arguing, and
consulting." [To appease the financeers of the venture, the Pilgrims were
forced to fill the Fortune with goods to return to England,mostly timber
to sell in the markets in London. On the return trip to England, the ship
was abducted by the French when she neared theEnglish Chanel, and was
forced to land in North France where she was stripped clean of anything of
value, including the cargo of timber.Eventually she returned to London
empty with her crew. "No picnic." .