Great Migration: Passengers of the Defence (Defiance), 1635

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The Ship Defence of London, 1635

• Edward Bostock, Master. She sailed from London about the last of July (1635) and arrived at Boston October 8, 1635, with about one hundred passengers.

Passengers:

1. Dorothy Adams, aged 24
2. Martha Banes, aged 20
3. Mary Bentley, aged 20
4. Thomas Boylston, aged 20
5. John Burtes, aged 29
6. Edward Colborne, aged 17
7. Robert Colborne, aged 28
8. George Cooke, aged 25
9. Joseph Cooke, aged 27
10. Penelope Darno, aged 29
11. Henry Dewhurst, aged 35
12. Thomas Donn, aged 25
13. Susannah Farebrother, aged 25
14. Elizabeth Fenwick, aged 25
15. James Fitch, aged 30
16. John Fitch, aged 14
17. Mrs. Abigail Fitch, aged 24
18. Elizabeth French, aged 6
19. Francis French, aged 10
20. John French, aged 1/2
21. Mary French, aged 2 1/2
22. Mrs. Elizabeth French, aged 32
23. Mrs. Elizabeth French, aged 30
24. William French, aged 30
25. John Gould, aged 25
26. Mrs. Grace Gould, aged 25
27. Jasper Gunn, aged 29
28. Mrs. Anne Gunn, aged 25
29. Mabel Harlakenden, aged 22
30. Mrs. Elizabeth Harlakenden, aged 18
31. Roger Harlakenden, aged 23
32. Robert Hill, aged 20
33. John Hubbard, aged 15
34. Martha Hubbard, aged 22
35. Mary Hubbard, aged 20
36. Mrs. Judith Hubbard, aged 25
37. Nathaniel Hubbard, aged 6
38. Richard Hubbard, aged 4
39. William Hubbard, aged 40
40. William Hubbard, aged 13
41. John Jackson, aged 30
42. John Jenkins, aged 26
43. Benjamin Keayne, aged 16
44. Mrs. Anne Keayne, aged 38
45. Robert Keayne, aged 40
46. Dorothy Knight, aged 24
47. Mrs. Sarah Knight, aged 50
48. Anne Long, aged 10
49. Elizabeth Long, aged 12
50. John Long, aged 5
51. Joshua Long, aged 3/4
52. Mary Long, aged 9
53. Michael Long, aged 20
54. Mrs. Elizabeth Long, aged 30
55. Rebecca Long, aged 8
56. Robert Long, aged 45
57. Robert Long, aged 16
58. Sarah Long, aged 18
59. Zachary Long, aged 4
60. Phebe Maulder, aged 7
61. Adam Mott, aged 39
62. Adam Mott, aged 12
63. Elizabeth Mott, aged 6
64. John Mott, aged 14
65. Jonathan Mott, aged 9
66. Mary Mott, aged 4
67. Mrs. Sarah Mott, aged 31
68. Robert......
69. Francis Nutbrowne, aged 16
70. Mrs. Margery Park, aged 30
71. Richard Park, aged 33
72. George Reade, aged 6
73. Justus Reade, aged 1 1/2
74. Mrs. Mabel Reade, aged 30
75. Ralph Reade, aged 5
76. William Reade, aged 48
77. Simon Rogers, aged 20
78. William Sawkyn, aged 25
79. John Shepard, aged 36
80. Mrs. Margaret Shepard, aged 31
81. Samuel Shepard, aged 22
82. Thomas Shepard, aged 1/2
83. Sarah Simes, aged 30
84. Elizabeth Steere, aged 18
85. Mrs. Mary Williamson, aged 23
86. William Williamson, aged 25
87. Anne Wood, aged 23

The following distinguished persons came in this ship, although their names are not on the official passenger list. It is certain that they came under assumed names, owing to the rigorous inspection of emigrant ships to New England.

1. Rev. Thomas Shepard of Towcester, county Northants, Cambridge
2. Mrs. Margaret Shepard
3. Thomas Shepard
4. Rev. John Wilson, returning from England, Boston -
5. Rev. Hugh Peter, of Fowey, county Cornwall, Salem
6. Rev. John Norton, of Bishops Stortford, county Herts, Ipswich
7. Mrs. Mary Norton
8. Rev. John Jones, Concord, Fairfield, CT
9. Mrs. Sarah Jones, 34
10. Sarah Jones, 15
11. John Jones, 11
12. Ruth Jones, 7
13. Theophilus Jones, 3
14. Rebecca Jones, 2
15. Elizabeth Jones, 1/2

For More Information

• About Boston and her immigrants:
• Port Arrivals & Immigrants to the City of Boston, 1715-1716 & 1762-1769
• The Seventeen Eighty-Nine Boston Directory
• THE PLANTERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH: A study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times to which are added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the ships which brought them; their English Homes, and the Places of their Settlement in Massachusetts. 1620-1640 By Charles Edward Banks Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., 1961. Pages 167-170.

Sources

• The Ship Defence of London, 1635
• http://www.kengunn.com/genealogy/defence.htm