John Carver

John Carver was a leader of the English Separatists who sailed on the Mayflower and became the first governor of Plymouth Colony. He helped negotiate the Mayflower Compact and relations during the colony’s first winter, but died in the spring of 1621.

Jeanne Blanchet’s Rite of Passage places John Carver within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, exploration, travel and cultural encounter, and court politics and dynastic power.