Actor Richard Gere was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were both Mayflower descendants; Gere's ancestors include Pilgrims Francis Eaton whose signature appears on the Mayflower Compact. John Billington, another signer of the Mayflower Compact who went bankrupt He was hanged in Plymouth Colony in 1630 for murder. George Soule,ntured servant who helped to build the Mayflower colony. He helped to write the first non-smoking bill in the western hemisphere. Richard Warren was one of the first European explorers of Cape Cod, Degory Priest, a hat maker who died two weeks after arriving to the new world, Francis Cooke, and William Brewster.
