Tell Us Yourself Myles!

Hunter Cousins,

Here we go again.  Another claim to fame, almost.

My 8^th great grandmother through the Tyson line is Desire Doty (1645-1731).  She lived in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  If you are a first cousin, once removed, she is your 9^th great grandmother. 

OK.  So far.

 Her husband, our progenitor is William Sherman (1639-1680). (Not the William Sherman, the Yankee general)

After William died she married  Israel Holmes (1642-1684) in 1681.  He died 3 years later.

Then she married Alexander Standish (1626-1702) in 1686.

In the back of my mind I remembered a Miles Standish, in colonel literature.  I googled Alexander Miles and sure ‘nuff his father is Myles Standish.

Here is partly what Wikipedia said about Myles aka Miles Standish (our 9th great step grandpaw):

Several towns and military installations have been named for Standish, and monuments have been built in his memory. One of the best known depictions of him in popular culture was the 1858 poem The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The highly fictionalized story presents him as a timid romantic.^[10] It was extremely popular in the 19th century and played a significant role in cementing the Pilgrim story in US culture.^[11]