Welcome to the official web site for the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Utah. This society is a nonprofit hereditary organization dedicated to preserving the legacy of our Mayflower ancestors through genealogical and historical research, commemorative activities, and educational outreach. In the spirit of the brave souls who sailed the Mayflower to the shores of Plymouth in 1620, the society celebrates the ideals of democracy and religious freedom that brought the Pilgrims to this land. The Utah Mayflower Society was founded in 1948. The Utah Mayflower Society is an official state society of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants headquartered in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Save the date November 8th, 2024
Join with your Mayflower cousins on Nov 8 th banquet at 6:00 pm
Attention cousins, the Utah Society are meeting for its Fall 2024 Banquet. The Fall Dinner is on Friday, November 8th at the Wheelhouse Restaurant at Gardner Village in West Jordan. Our program will include stories of our passenger ancestors. The cost for each reservation is $45.00; please show names of any guests in the description line on the order form. The payment button is on the utahmayflower.org website. Seating is limited and will fill up soon, so don’t procrastinate!
We will have maximum seating at 62, so be sure to make your reservations as soon as possible. We are sorry that we cannot accommodate outside food. Due to the restaurant policy there is NO OUTSIDE FOOD. We will be having a panel of our Utah Mayflower Board give us a history of one of their Mayflower passengers. Don’t miss this special banquet. The last day to purchase your dinner is the 25th of October.
Dinner begins at 6:30 pm and the Program begins at 7:30 p.m.
Located in: Gardner Village 1100 W 7800 S, West Jordan, UT 84088
We are nearing the maximum reservations available for the dinner. Please contact our Treasurer, Eileen Johnson, (209)329-0581 (call or text) or email her at upcountrycouple@gmail.com to make your reservation. We look forward to seeing you!
Utah Society of Mayflower Descendants Spring 2024 Banquet
The Utah Society met for its Spring 2024 Banquet at the Sons of Utah Pioneers Headquarters on May 3rd. After conducting Society business and presenting new members with their certificates, there was an interesting “Pilgrims to Pioneers” presentation given by Dr. Brian Cannon of Brigham Young University. His presentation focused on the life stories of selected 19th century descendants of our Pilgrim ancestors after they migrated to the Western frontier.
To celebrate this initiative, the Utah Society offered lapel pins, medallions, challenge coins, and mugs for sale with a newly created design.
There is much told about the migration west, the journeys across the plains and mountains to the Great Basin, and the causes of that massive movement out of the United States. Our story for the evening is not to repeat those stories, but to reveal the account of the historical settlement of the Great Basin and the even larger Latter-Day-Saint (LDS) area of colonization – from Mexico to southern Canada. While our pilgrim ancestors never came west, their descendants did! Many of these, our ancestors, didn’t end their travels upon arrival in what was to become the Utah Territory! What happened to them? A great many continued for many miles as part of the planned and organized settlement of the Great Basin. No where in American history was there such an ordered methodology employed in the settlement of land. What was that methodology, how was it decided where to send a group of folks, what were the requirements – skills, numbers, demographics, how long did they have to stay in place? Where did our Pilgrim descendants settle? What other Pilgrim descendants came west and became part of the story? Miners, soldiers guarding the Mormon trail at Fort Laramie…. The stories are fascinating and its time their tales are told.