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Stephen CHILTON (b.ca 1720; d. 1766) was married to Judith HOBSON (b.1725),
daughter of William and Judith (FLEET) Hobson, of Northumberland Co., VA. I
wish to correspond with anyone researching this family.
Your response is appreciated.
C. Ward
CMW12635(a)aol.com
Yesterday, 13 January 2001, at the annual meeting of the Society of
Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (SMDPA), Dr.
Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, in absentia, became the third recipient of that
society's Distinguished Mayflower Scholarship Award. Caroline L. Kardell
(General Society of Mayflower Descendants Historian General) and Robert
Charles Anderson (The Great Migration Project) are the previous recipients.
Dr. Bangs is the eminent scholar of the Pilgrims' stay in Holland from
1609-1620. He also specializes in Dutch and northern European art history,
and New England colonial history. He obtained his doctorate at the
Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, in 1976, his thesis being "Documentary Studies in
Leiden Art and Crafts, 1475-1575." He is a former Chief Curator of the
Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA, and in addition to being the current
Director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum, is a guest lecturer,
consultant in both America and abroad, and regular contributor to the New
England Historic Genealogical Society's publications "The Register" and "New
England Ancestors," and a frequent writer for the GSMD's "Mayflower
Quarterly" as well as Dutch and other American periodicals. This past
November, he presented the SMDPA an article, "The Pilgrims and Election,"
for posting on its website (see
http://www.sail1620.org/m2k/history/election.htm).
For his acceptance speech, Dr. Bangs made a 40 minute video presentation. In
it he discussed his current research projects, conducted a tour of Leiden,
showed the threatened Vrouwekerk ruins (the church where some Pilgrims and
Walloons including Philip Delano, ancestor of president Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, worshipped) and the Aalmarkt area (where Capt. Myles Standish was
treated in the 1571 St. Catherine's Hospital for his wounds), and explained
his vision of how they might appear if saved. He also showed the remaining
wall of the demolished William Brewster house (in 1985 Gov. William
Bradford's house, the last surviving home of the dozen Pilgrims who lived in
Leiden, was demolished). He then gave a tour of the Leiden American Pilgrim
Museum. The audience, including many descendants of those dozen Leiden
Pilgrims and Philip Delano, was astounded to learn that Dr. Bangs knows of
no Pilgrim or Plymouth Colony ancestors in his family tree.
A virtual walking tour produced by Dr. Bangs may be taken online at the
Pilgrim Society/Pilgrim Hall website
http://www.pilgrimhall.org/LeidenMuseum.htm. Further information about Dr.
Bangs may be viewed at the SMDPA's webpage
http://www.sail1620.org/m2k/news/bangshonored.htm.
Simultaneously on that same day, two new websites unrelated to the SMDPA and
dedicated to the preservation of the Pilgrim-associated Leiden sites, "Onze
Lieve Vrouwekerk" www.vrouwerk.org, and www.aalmarkt.org, were launched.