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  • Deacon Peter Noyes (c.1591 - 1657)
    WorldConnect: Peter Noyes came in the "Confidence," 1638, from Southampton, latter part of April aged 47, with son Thomas, 15; daughter Elizabeth and three servants. He is called yeoman, but after ...
  • Nathaniel Ward (c.1578 - 1652)
    Nathaniel Ward (1578–October 1652) was a Puritan clergyman and pamphleteer in England and Massachusetts. He wrote the first constitution in North America in 1641. A son of John Ward, a noted Puri...
  • Rev. Joseph Hull (1596 - 1665)
    from Rev. Joseph Hull ~1595 - 1665 Somerset, England - York Co, Maine Like his father and grandfather, the Rev. Joseph was born in interesting times; unlike them, he seemed to have felt the effects...
  • Governor Thomas Wiggin (c.1592 - 1666)
    THOMAS WIGGIN (Governor and called Captain) was born about 1592, and died in Squamscott about 1667 being buried south of the railroad tracks, about 5 hundred yards west of the old depot, near the end o...
  • Rev. Stephen Batchelder, of Hampton (1561 - 1656)
    "The Great Migration Begins (1620-1633)" names the 6 children of Stephen as Nathaniel, Deborah, Stephen, Samuel, Ann and Theodate. "All the children of whom we have record were by his 1st wife" ( Batch...

Particularly in the years after 1630, Puritans left for New England, supporting the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other settlements. The large-scale Puritan emigration to New England then ceased, by 1641, with around 21,000 having moved across the Atlantic. This English-speaking population in America did not all consist of colonists, since many returned, but produced more than 16 million descendants. This so-called "Great Migration" is not so named because of sheer numbers, which were much less than the number of English citizens who emigrated to Virginia and the Caribbean during this time. The rapid growth of the New England colonies (~700,000 by 1790) was almost entirely due to the high birth rate and lower death rate per year.

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