Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gere is a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims Francis Eaton, John Billington, George Soule, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, William Brewster, and Francis Cooke.

Stephen presented London stars such as Edmund Kean, Alexander and Elizabeth Pope ( née Elizabeth Younge ), Mrs. Dorothea Jordan, his brother John Philip Kemble, Wright Bowden, his sister Sarah Siddons, Elizabeth Billington, Michael Kelly ( tenor ), Anna Maria Crouch, and Charles Lee Lewes.

* John Billington ( 1580s – 1630 ), an immigrant on the Mayflower and first Englishman to be hanged in New England

Actually, despite fears by the executioner John Billington Fowler did not make a scene.

– September 8, 1642 ) was the first person hanged in the Massachusetts Bay Colony ( the first hanged in any of the colonies of New England being John Billington ) and the first known juvenile to be sentenced to death and executed in the territory of today's United States.

John Billington ( also spelled as Billinton ) ( c. 1580 – September 30, 1630 ) was an Englishman who came over on the Mayflower and was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.

Nothing is known about John Billington ’ s life in England.

Around Cowbit and Spaulding, in Lincolnshire, Francis Longland named young Francis Billington, son of John Billington, an heir ..

John Billington, his wife Elinor and two sons, John and Francis departed Plymouth, England on the Mayflower on September 6 / 16, 1620 with 102 passengers and about 30 crew members in a small 100 foot ship.

In May 1621 John Billington ( younger ) became lost in some woods for several days, eventually being returned home by some natives from Nauset on Cape Cod.

In 1624 John Billington was implicated in the Oldham-Lyford scandal ( a revolt against the rule of the Plymouth church ), but insisted he was innocent and was never officially punished.

John Billington married Elinor _____ in England.

Children of John and Elinor Billington:

In September 1630 John Billington was tried by a jury and hanged for the murder of John Newcomen, whom he saw as an enemy.

In February 2012 Armand appeared as John in Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, receiving a positive review from Michael Billington.