Great Migration: Passengers of the Diligent, 1638

Passenger List of the Diligent 1638 Ipswich, Suffolk England to Boston Harbor

Source: The Planters of the Commonwealth, Charles E. Banks, published by Houghton Mifflin Co. (1930), pages 191-194.

DILIGENT, of Ipswich, John Martin, Master. She sailed from Ipswich, Suffolk, in June and arrived August 10 at Boston, with about one hundred passengers, principally from Hingham, Norfolk, destined for Hingham, Massachusetts (other sources have that the Diligent sailed from Gravesend on 26 Apr 1638).

From http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ski/scott/diligent.html

1. Rev Robert Peck of Hingham, county Norfolk
2. Mrs. Peck
3.  Anne Peck
4. Joseph Peck of Hingham, county Norfolk 
5. Edward Gilman of Hingham, county Norfolk    
6.  Mrs Mary Gilman
7. Edward Gilman
8. Moses Gilman
9. Lydia Gilman
10. Sarah Gilman
11. John Gilman
12. John Folsom I of Hingham, county Norfolk 
13.  Mrs. Mary Folsom
14. John Folsom II
15. Mrs. Christian Chamberlain of Hingham, county Norfolk
16. Henry Chamberlain of Hingham, county Norfolk - Link from WikiTree
17.  Mrs Grace Chamberlain - Link from WikiTree
18. Daniel Chamberlain - Link from WikiTree
19. ? Chamberlain - Possibly one of two sons, both died young.
20. Stephen Gates of Norwich, Norfolk 
21.  Mrs. Anne Gates
22. Elizabeth Gates
23. Mary Gates
24. George Knights of Barrow, Norfolk. No other records found for him or his wife below.
25. Mrs. Knights, ? Knights
26. Thomas Cooper of Hingham, county Norfolk
27. Mrs. Cooper
28. Deacon Thomas Cooper, Jr
29. Elizabeth Cooper
30. Francis James of Hingham, county Norfolk - Born 1632???
31. Mrs. Elizabeth James - Born 1632???
32. Matthew Hawke of Cambridge, England
33. Mrs. Margaret Hawke
34. Matthew Cushing of Hingham, county Norfolk 
35. Mrs. Nazareth Cushing
36. Daniel Cushing
37. Jeremiah Cushing <maybe this Jeremiah?>
38. Matthew Cushing
39. John Cushing
40. Deborah Cushing
41. John Tuffs of Hingham, county Norfolk. No other record found.
42. Robert Skoulding of Norwich, county Norfolk. No other record found, except this curious one, same name, same city, a will dated 1699.
43. Elizabeth Sayer, Mary Sayer. No other records found.
44. John Fearing of Cambridge, England 
45. Philip James of Hingham, county Norfolk 
46. Mrs. Jane James
47. Ann James
48. Francis James
49. Jane James
50. Sarah James
51. Stephen Paine of Great Ellingham, Norfolk
52. Mrs. Rose Paine, ? Paine, ? Paine, ? Paine, ? Paine
53. John Sutton of Attleborough, Norfolk
54. Judeth Sutton Formerly: Mrs. Elizabeth Sutton
55. Hannah Sutton
56. John Sutton, Jr.
57. Nathaniel Sutton
58. Elizabeth Sutton
59. Stephen Lincoln of Wymondham, Norfolk 
60. Mrs. Joan Lincoln
61. Stephen Lincoln, Jr
62. Mrs. Lincoln
63. Samuel Packard of Wymondham, Norfolk
64. Mrs. Elizabeth Packard
65. Mary Packard
66. Henry Smith of Hempnall, Norfolk  
67. Mrs. Judith Smith
68. John Smith
69. Henry Smith
70. Daniel Smith
71. Judith Smith
72. Elizabeth Smith
73. Bozoun Allen of King's Lynn, Norfolk
74. Mrs. Anne Allen
75. William Ripley of Wymondham, Norfolk
76. Mrs. Ripley
77. Mary Ripley
78. John Ripley
79. Abraham Ripley
80.  Sarah Ripley
81. Thomas Sucklin of Hingham, Norfolk
82. Richard Bazter of Hingham, Norfolk
83. William Pitts of Hingham, Norfolk
84. Edward Mitchell of Hingham, Norfolk
85. James Buck of Hingham, Norfolk
86. John Morfield of Hingham, Norfolk
87. Thomas Lincoln of Hingham, Norfolk 
88. Jeremiah Moore of Wymondham, Norfolk. No further record found.
89. And about 20 servants

notes

Charles Banks' source for the 'Diligent' passenger list is Daniel Cushing, 3rd and/or 4th Town Clerk of Hingham MA. Daniel Cushing was nineteen years old when the ship sailed, but close to sixty or more when he wrote out the list. Most of the wives are named only as "Mrs.", the children of some families are not listed and there are also some probable errors in the list. However, the list below is as it appears in Banks' book. Following the listing are some notes on many of the families from various sources (mainly George Lincoln's History of the Town of Hingham MA: The Genealogies unless noted otherwise) which name the wives and children and possibly make a correction or two to the list. The blue asterisks following some families names link to notes about them.