Great Migration: Passengers of the Hector, 1637 & 1638

Hector, England to Massachussets 1637

From Ship Passenger Lists by Carl Boyer referencing a previous work by Isabel MacBeath Calder entitled Passengers on the Hector, 1637-38, The New Haven Colony pp. 29-31.

The following is the passenger list for the vessel Hector, which brought the passengers accompanying John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton to Connecticut in 1637. There is another ship called the Hector that brought the first Scottish Highlanders to Nova Scotia in the mid-1700's, but the Hector Heritage Foundation in Nova Scotia states that the ship that brought the Davenport/Eaton party is a different vessel.

The Hector that brought the Davenport party to Massachusetts was a new vessel of 250 tons, which had already made a previous passage to Massachusetts Bay. The records indicate that the ship actually arrived in Massachusetts, but other references mention that the Hectoralso took the party to Connecticut in late 1637 or 1638. A passenger ship list for the trip from Massachusetts Bay to New Haven, Connecticut has not been located.

Passengers on the Hector sold their belongings in preparation for the sailing, but then the English government impressed the ship for the service of the crown. The owners petitioned for its release in January 1637, but the ship was not freed until May. According to the records of John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay, the ship arrived in Boston (from London England) on June 26, 1637.

1. Andrews William (From Ipswtich, Suffolk or Hampswaithe, York to Salem or Charlestown. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 156 & 187)
2. Bannister Edward (From Chiddingly, Sussex, bound for New Haven, Ct. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 171)
3. Beach/Beckley Richard (From S Bourne Mary, Hampshire, bound for Wethersfield, CT. Ref: Stiles. 36 pg 60)
4. Brockett John
5. Browning Henry
6. Budd John
7. Cheever Ezekiel
8. Clark James
9. Cooper John
10. Crane Jasper
11. Davenport John & Elizabeth
12. Dixon Jeremy
13. Eaton Theophilus
14. Eaton, Old Mrs., his mother
15. Eaton Anne, second wife of Theophilus Eaton and daughter of George Loyd Bishop of Chester and widow of Thomas Yale
16. Eaton children of Anne Eaton by her former marriage
17. Elsey Nicholas
18. Halbidge Arthur
19. Hall Francis (from Bulkington, Warwickshire, bound for New Haven. Ref: Aspinwall. 36 pg 174)
20. Hill Robert
21. Hitchcock Mathew
22. Hopkins Edward
23. Hull Andrew
24. Ives William
25. Low Andrew
26. Malbon Richard
27. Messenger Andrew
28. Moulthrop Mathew
29. Newman Francis
30. Newman Robert
31. Osborn Richard
32. Patteson Edward
33. Reader John
34. Rowe Nathaniel
35. Smith George
36. Thorp William
37. Ward George
38. Ward Lawrence
39. Whitehead Samuel
40. Old Jewry (?)

See the Unsolved page for names not listed here

Links

• http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/hector.htm

Hector sources

• http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/hector1637.shtml