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The surname of wife Mary and the dates are from Pamela J. Slinker of Eureka, CA via LDS. William Ring was a sayweaver at Leyden, Holland before the Separatists (Pilgrims) sailed for America. He was guaranteed by William Bradford and Alex Price on June 7, 1619. (Guaranteed mean't vouched for and sworn in.) The Mary Ring who witnessed a wedding at Leyden in 1614 was probably his wife. When the "Speedwell" sailed from Delfthaven on July 22, 1620, William was aboard. At Dartmouth, on August 17th, after leaks forced the ship into port, agent Robert Cushman wrote that "Poor William Ring and myself do strive who shall be meat first for the fishes". When the "Mayflower" set out alone on September 6th, neither William nor Mary were aboard. Mary was a resident of Plymouth colony, however, on October 28, 1633 when she made out her will with bequests to children Elizabeth and Andrew.

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Notes for William Ring*:
Plymouth Colony: History and People by Eugene Straton

The William Ring who turned back to England in 1620 on the Speedwell with Robert Cushman (Bradford [Ford] 1:145) probably died later in Leiden. It was most likely his wife, Mary Ring, who witnessed the betrothal of Samuel Terry in Leiden in 1614 (Dexter, p. 630), and she is probably the Mary Ring who arrived at Plymouth ca. 1629 with children Elizabeth, Susanna, and
Andrew (John Insley Coddington, "The Widow Mary Ring, of Plymouth, Mass., and Her Children,"
TAG 42:193). Mr. Coddington builds a tentative pedigree to show that William Ring quite likely was
the man of that name of Pettistree, County Suffolk, who married at Ufford, County Suffolk, 21 May 1601 Mary Durrant of Ufford; a daughter Elizabeth was baptized at Ufford 23 February 1602/03. Mary Ring died at Plymouth 15 or 19 July 1631, and in her will she named her daughters Elizabeth Deane and Susan Clark, her son-in-law Stephen Deane, a child of Stephen and Elizabeth Deane, and her son Andrew Ring , who was a minor. She named her friends Samuel Fuller and Thomas Blossom as overseers of the will (MD 1:29); both Fuller and Blossom had been members of the Leiden congregation. Son Andrew married (1) Deborah Hopkins daughter of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins and (2) Lettice (_____) Morton, widow of John Morton. The children of Mary Ring's children are given in Mr. Coddington's article.

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The name Ring appears in the register of the Parish of Hoghton,
Lancaster Co., England, for more than 700 years. There are also rings in
the Registers of Pettistree Co. and Archdeaconry Court of Suffulk Co.
However, in the parish registers of Ufford, Suffolk Co., 1558-1630 are
the following entries that are believed to be the same individuals: 1601:
Wylliam Ringe of Ptetistrey singlman and Marie Durrante of Ufford single
woman weare married together the kkj of May" 1602: Elizabeth Ringe the
daughter of William Ringe and Marie his wife was baptized the xxiij day
of Februarie" (1602/3) The family of William, Mary and children are
believed to have been on the speedwell during the original voyage of the
Mayflower, but were forced to turn back when the Speedwell was unable to
make the voyage. William, Mary, and several children appear in Leyden
by 1614. William was a member of the Separatist or Pilgrim community at
Leyden for many years. Above info from Tom Lincoln (lincoln@@@@rand.org)
via a posting on soc.roots appearing on 15 Nov 1993. He turned back on
the Speedwell in 1620.
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William RING (d.J1720~1729 in Leyden) was a leading member of the
Separatist community, and a devoted follower of the Pilgrim's pastor, Mr.
John Robinson. The family is known to be present in Leyden by 1614 with a
number of children, the eldest being Elizabeth. These Separatists had
found the English church, once Catholic, now Anglican, to be irredeemable
and sought to remove themselves from the
world, rather than fight and die as martyres. Crossing to permissive
Holland after 1605, the group spent their first year in the roaring port
of sinful Amsterdam (where abject poverty juxtaposed with wealth
"confronted them like an armed man"). Fearing for their communal
continuity, they then retreated into the academic quiet of nearby Leyden.
The distance was not enough, and so the colony arranged to
transplant itself to the new world in 1620. In planing the trip, the
tension between fear and piety was such that one of the members is quoted
as saying: "Poor William RING and myself do strive for who
shall be first meat for the fishes; but we look for a glorious
resurection." The whole family was believed to have all been passengers
aboard the Speedwell in 1720, an inadequate ship purchased by the
Pilgrims to accompany to Mayflower, but forced to turn back. The name
RING occurs with some frequency in the County of Suffolk, and not often
elsewhere. There are both Rings and Durrants in the
parish Registers of Pettistree Co. and others in the Archdeaconry Court
of Suffolk Co. However, in the Parish Registers of Ufford, Suffolk Co.
1558-1630 are the following entries that are believed to
be the same individuals: 1601 - "Wylliam RINGE of Petistrey singlman and
Marie DURRANTE of Ufford single woman weare married together the kkj of
May." 1602 - "Elizabeth Ringe the daughter of William Ringe & Marie his
wife was baptized the xxiij day of Februarie" (1602/3).

Birth	1565	Pettistree, Suffolk, England
Birth	1586	England
Residence	Bef 1601	Pettistree, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Marriage	1601	England - Mary DURRANT
Marriage	21 May 1601	Ufford, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom - Mary DURRANT
Removed	1603 - 1614	Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Marriage	Bef 1609	Mary DURRANT
Election	1619	burgher (guaranteed by William Bradford and Alexander Price) - Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Miscellaneous	1620	may have been a passenger on the Speedwell
Death	1620	Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Death	1625	Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Death	1620 - 1629	Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Alt name		William Andrew RING II
Burial		Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Spouse	Mary DURRANT (1589 - 1631)
Child	Elizabeth RING (1609 - 1687)
Child	Susanna RING (1611 - 1646)
Child	Andrew RING (1618 - 1692)