Mayflower Passenger. He was one of the passengers on the Pilgrim ship Mayflower and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. Richard Warren was a member of the Drapers' Company of London, where he was given the freedom of the city in 1609 and thus qualified to be called a "merchant of London." As apprentices usually served until the age of 25, so he had to have been born in the fall of 1583. He married Elizabeth Walker at Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, on April 14, 1610 [significantly, the Saturday after Easter Sunday—a narrow window in the scheduling of marriage ceremonies set by the Church of England]. Elizabeth's older sister had married another Draper, so it appears Richard had met his bride through the Drapers' Company. Elizabeth Walker was the daughter of Augustine Walker of Great Amwell. At the time of the Mayflower's voyage in 1620, Richard and his wife had five daughters: Mary, Ann, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Abigail. But Richard came on the Mayflower alone, as his daughters were all under 12 years of age and were deemed an impediment in the work to build a colony in the New World. On November 9/19, 1620, after about 3 months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called Provincetown Harbor. After several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod Hook, where they anchored on November 11/21. The Mayflower Compact was signed that day. Richard Warren's name appears 12th in the list. He participated in some of the early explorations of Cape Cod during the search for a suitable settlement location. One such extensive exploration began on Wednesday, December 6, 1620, in freezing weather using the ship's shallop, a light, shallow-water boat with oars and sails, navigated by two pilots, with a master gunner and three sailors. In 1623, Warren's family joined him after a failed attempt on the unfortunate Paragon, followed by a successful trip on the Anne. He was a major landholder in the early colony. Richard Warren died of unknown causes, possibly sometime in 1628, and the exact date is unknown. Because all seven of Richard Warren and Elizabeth Walker Warren's known children survived and had families, they have very many descendants today.