“Inflectors” at a Glance
A rundown of temporal attributes and historical peers shared by many Geo-Scrappers
As part of my ongoing “Jigsaw Gens” series, I profile the various American generations (and “microgenerations”) identified by historians.
In This Installment
Featured Generation: “Inflectors” (aka Geo-Scrappers, Disengagers, The Ultra-Violent, Passports, Delft Cauldrons)
Who they are: The generation who came-of-age during and after the founding of Jamestown, with their adult lives encompassing the Puritan-driven Great Migration and becoming society’s elders around the time of Bacon’s Rebellion and King Philip’s War
When they were born: Approximately between 1594–1605
Key Members
Enforcers: John Endecott, Quaiapen, Simon Bradstreet, Thomas Hastings, Edmund Quincy, Simon Willard, Edward Winslow, John Alden, William Berkeley, Edmund Rice, William Coddington, John Sanford, Walter Neal, Chickatawbut, Thomas Prence, Governor William Stone of Maryland, Christopher Wormeley, Edward Hill, Cornelis Melyn, John Winthrop the Younger, Robert Gorges, William Cole, Eleazer Lusher, Simon Willard, Major John Mason of Norwich, William Stone, John Haynes, Christopher Hussey, Thomas Wiggin, John Porter of Portsmouth, Rice Hooe I
Debaters: Margaret Brent, John Punch, Miantonomoh, Joan Wright, Elizabeth Hooton, Wequash Cooke, Ann Hibbins, Richard Scott, Wonohaquaham, Quentin Stockwell, Cutshamekin, Hugh Davis
Scholars: Roger Williams, John Eliot, Ralph Wheelock, John Allin, Isaac Johnson, Thomas Welde, John Davenport, Richard Mather, Thomas Olney, Fray García de San Francisco, Cecil Calvert, Thomas Parker of Newbury, Robert Abell, Samuel Newman, Dr. John Greene of Warwick, Samuel Stone, Peter Prudden, Robert Brooke Sr., John Youngs
Creators: Pocahontas, Edward Doty, Cecily Jordan Farrar, William Claiborne, Stephen Daye, John Oldham, Lion Gardiner, Matthew Craddock, Henry Samson, Richard Callicott, Samuel Cole, Francis Eaton, Samuel Maverick, George Soule, Priscilla Alden, John Coggeshall, Robert Trelawney, Arbella Johnson, Isaac Stearns, Robert Feake, John Winslow, Peter Browne, Richard Sears, Thomas Cornell, Robert Seeley, William Chesebrough, John Goodman of Plymouth
Cusp Cohorts
Preceding Microgeneration: “Starving Timers” (1589–1593)
Prominent “Starving Timers”: Anne Hutchinson, Samoset, Temperance Flowerdew, William Bradford, Eunice Cole, Thomas Mayhew, Samuel Gorton, John Howland, Theophilus Eaton, Richard Bellingham, Charles Chauncey, John Doane, William Bassett, Samuel Skelton, Roger Conant, John Wheelwright, Increase Nowell, Susanna White, Nicholas Easton, William Pynchon, John Turner of Plymouth, Anthony Fisher, Walter Chiles, George Phillips of Watertown, Samuel Phillips of Andover, Edward Convers, John Utie, Thomas Gardiner, Pecksuot, William Vassall, Captain Samuel Jordan of James City County, Governor John West of Virginia
Subsequent Microgeneration: “Long Climbers” (1606–1610)
Prominent “Long Climbers”: Humphrey Atherton, Gregory Dexter, John Underhill, Katherine Marbury Scott, Elizabeth Fones, Harman Garrett, Thomas Willett, Henry Bull, Elizabeth Tilley, William Brenton, Obadiah Holmes, Henry Winthrop, Ninigret, Dr. John Clarke of Newport, Governor William Harris of Plymouth Colony, Henry Dunster, Tristram Coffyn of Nantucket, Richard Bennett of Virginia Colony, John Norton, Bray Wilkins, Mary Chilton, Thomas Savage, Montowampate, Wilmot Redd, George Jacobs Sr., Nathaniel Sylvester, Thomas Pell, Joseph Croshaw, Richard Leader, George Reade of Virginia Colony, William Dyer, Constance Hopkins Snow, Thomas Lunsford, Peter Stuyvesant, George Gardiner of Newport, Leonard Calvert, Thomas Macy, John Winthrop the Younger, Governor Richard Bennett of Virginia Colony, Walter Aston, Thomas Dew, Abraham Wood, George Carteret, Edward Whalley
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