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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
- Rev Robert Peck of Hingham, county Norfolk
- Mrs. Peck
- Anne Peck
- Joseph Peck of Hingham, county Norfolk
- Edward Gilman of Hingham, county Norfolk
- Mrs Mary Gilman
- Edward Gilman
- Moses Gilman
- Lydia Gilman
- Sarah Gilman
- John Gilman
- John Folsom I of Hingham, county Norfolk
- Mrs. Mary Folsom
- John Folsom II
- Mrs. Christian Chamberlain of Hingham, county Norfolk
- Henry Chamberlain of Hingham, county Norfolk - Link from WikiTree
- Mrs Grace Chamberlain - Link from WikiTree
- Daniel Chamberlain - Link from WikiTree
- ? Chamberlain - Possibly one of two sons, both died young.
- Stephen Gates of Norwich, Norfolk
- Mrs. Anne Gates
- Elizabeth Gates
- Mary Gates
- George Knights of Barrow, Norfolk. No other records found for him or his wife below.
- Mrs. Knights, ? Knights
- Thomas Cooper of Hingham, county Norfolk
- Mrs. Cooper
- Deacon Thomas Cooper, Jr
- Elizabeth Cooper
- Francis James of Hingham, county Norfolk - Born 1632???
- Mrs. Elizabeth James - Born 1632???
- Matthew Hawke of Cambridge, England
- Mrs. Margaret Hawke
- Matthew Cushing of Hingham, county Norfolk
- Mrs. Nazareth Cushing
- Daniel Cushing
- Jeremiah Cushing <maybe this Jeremiah?>
- Matthew Cushing
- John Cushing
- Deborah Cushing
- John Tuffs of Hingham, county Norfolk. No other record found.
- Robert Skoulding of Norwich, county Norfolk. No other record found, except this curious one, same name, same city, a will dated 1699.
- Elizabeth Sayer, Mary Sayer. No other records found.
- John Fearing of Cambridge, England
- Philip James of Hingham, county Norfolk
- Mrs. Jane James
- Ann James
- Francis James
- Jane James
- Sarah James
- Stephen Paine of Great Ellingham, Norfolk
- Mrs. Rose Paine, ? Paine, ? Paine, ? Paine, ? Paine
- John Sutton of Attleborough, Norfolk
- Judeth Sutton Formerly: Mrs. Elizabeth Sutton
- Hannah Sutton
- John Sutton, Jr.
- Nathaniel Sutton
- Elizabeth Sutton
- Stephen Lincoln of Wymondham, Norfolk
- Mrs. Joan Lincoln
- Stephen Lincoln, Jr
- Mrs. Lincoln
- Samuel Packard of Wymondham, Norfolk
- Mrs. Elizabeth Packard
- Mary Packard
- Henry Smith of Hempnall, Norfolk
- Mrs. Judith Smith
- John Smith
- Henry Smith
- Daniel Smith
- Judith Smith
- Elizabeth Smith
- Bozoun Allen of King's Lynn, Norfolk
- Mrs. Anne Allen
- William Ripley of Wymondham, Norfolk
- Mrs. Ripley
- Mary Ripley
- John Ripley
- Abraham Ripley
- Sarah Ripley
- Thomas Sucklin of Hingham, Norfolk
- Richard Bazter of Hingham, Norfolk
- William Pitts of Hingham, Norfolk
- Edward Mitchell of Hingham, Norfolk
- James Buck of Hingham, Norfolk
- John Morfield of Hingham, Norfolk
- Thomas Lincoln of Hingham, Norfolk
- Jeremiah Moore of Wymondham, Norfolk. No further record found.
- 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.