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Fortune Passenger List The ship Fortune with Master Thomas Barton, arrived at Plymouth on November 9, 1621, just a few weeks after the First Thanksgiving. This passenger list is based on the: 1623 Division of Land passenger list was compiled by Charles Edward Banks, in Planters, of the Commonwealth information found in Eugene Aubrey Stratton's, "Plymouth Colony: Its History and its Peo...
==Tobacco brides >In 1619, 90 young single women from England went to Jamestown to become wives of the men there, with the women being auctioned off for 150 pounds of tobacco each (to be paid to the shipping company), as that was the cost of each woman's travel to America.[1] All 90 of them did indeed become wives.[2] The youngest, Jane Dier, had been fifteen or sixteen years old when she left,...