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Colonial American tree cleanup Last updated 23 December 2023 Make Geni members aware of this specialty area, where members share their knowledge and trees. Invite collaborators, please! Project objectives: Find and merge Colonial American duplicate profiles. Ensure profiles have biographies and sources. Improve and enhance trees. Project scope: The first generation to settle i...
The Geni profiles included are of the passengers of the ship Mayflower, arrived at Provincetown Harbor, Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts, United States, on 11 November 1620. If you would like to contribute to this page, please contact the Project Manager or one of the Project Collaborators. Click here for instructions about using Wiki markup language. Geni Public Discussions, ...
THE GREAT MIGRATION: SHIPS TO NEW ENGLAND 1633-35It an amazing story of Providence and the skill of English seamen that dozens of Atlantic ocean passages were made in little wooden ships bringing our Puritan ancestors to America almost without mishap in the 1630's; the unhappy exception being the harrowing story of the Angel Gabriel , 1635, which met a terrible storm and cast up on the coast of...
The Mary & John left Plymouth, England March 20, 1630 with her unknown Master, arriving in Nantasket Point, now Dorchester, Mass., at the entrance of Boston Harbor on May 30, 1630, two weeks before the Winthrop Fleet arrived. These families and passengers were recruited by the Reverend John White of Dorchester, Dorset. Nearly all of the Mary and John 1630 passengers came from the West Country ...
From The Abigail and John Endicott : On 20th June 1628 the ship Abigail set sail from Weymouth with many Dorset emigrants bound for New England. Under Henry Gauden, the master, they arrived in Salem, Massachusetts on 6th September. This particular passage was important as it carried the new government for the London Plantation. The governor was John Endicott . Passengers known to be on board...
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 ...
Note from the Chase Chronicles - July - October, 1930 =="John Winthrop begins his journal of the voyage of the Arbella onMarch 29, 1630:>"Riding at the Cowes, near the Isle of Wight, in the Arbella , the ship three hundred and fifty tons whereof Capt. Peter Milbourne was master, being manned with fifty-two seamen and twenty-eight pieces of ordnance..... upon conference it was agreed that (in re...
Elizabeth and Ann London England to Boston MassachusettsThe following list of passengers on the Elizabeth and Ann was taken from the book "Result of some Researches among the British Archive for Information Relative to The Founders of New England" made in the years 1858, 1859 and 1860. Originally collected for and published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, and now correc...
Please add Geni profiles to the ship projects found in the "related" projects on the right and also listed below. The Great Puritan Migration From The Great Migration of Picky Puritans, 1620-40 New England Historical Society When the Pilgrims landed in Plimoth Plantation in 1620, they began what was called the Great Migration – great not because of the numbers of people who arrived, but beca...
The purpose of this project is to compile and expand the profiles of passengers on the Hopewell in May-June 1635. The majority of Hopewell passengers went on to settle in Dorchester, Hingham, and Salem, Massachusetts. PLEASE NOTE: If someone is not listed below as one of the passengers, they should not be added to the project. You may want to check your records to see if they came on a differen...
Walter Harris, Mary Fry and 6 children and 3 servants came on the Speedwell in 1637.Genealogy Data Page 1657 (Family Pages)Note: Walter Harris's English origins are unknown. But he sailed from Weymouth on Apr 22 1637 with "his wife, six children and three servants" on the ship Speedwell This would indicate that he came from a relatively prosperous background.He was made a freeman of the colony ...
In The Planters of the Commonwealth, Banks introduces his passenger list:LYON, William Peirce, Master, sailed from London June 22 [1632] and arrived September 16 [1632] at Boston. 'He brought one hundred and twenty three passengers, whereof fifty children, all in health. They had been twelve weeks aboard and eight weeks from Land's End.'* Excerpt from Essex and the Lyon–The people who sailed in...
from Angel Gabriel was a 240 ton English passenger galleon. She was commissioned for Sir Walter Raleigh's last expedition to America in 1617. She sank in a storm off Pemaquid Point, near the newly established town of Bristol, Maine, on August 15, 1635. The sinking occurred during the middle of the Great Migration.From England to Massachusetts in a fleet of five ships, the Angel Gabriel joined t...
Great Migration: Passengers of the John of London, 1638 From John of London sailed from Hull, England to Boston, MA in the summer of 1638 with Master George Lamberton. The passage was known for its passenger, Ezekiel Rogers who settled in Rowley, as well as carrying the first printing press to the colonies. Note: "John of London of one of 8 to 12 ships organized by Ezekiel Rogers to bring fa...
Hector , England to Massachussets 1637From Ship Passenger Lists by Carl Boyer referencing a previous work by Isabel MacBeath Calder entitled Passengers on the Hector, 1637-38, The New Haven Colony pp. 29-31.The following is the passenger list for the vessel Hector, which brought the passengers accompanying John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton to Connecticut in 1637. There is another ship called ...
The Abigail of London (Master: Richard Hackwell) sailed from foreign ports, the last being Plymouth, England on June 4, 1635. She sailed with about 220 passengers aboard along with livestock. She arrived in Boston about October 8, 1635 with smallpox aboard. Passengers Alphabetical by family with age and roll number Abdy Matthew 15, #134 (From Wantage, Berkshire, bound for Boston. Ref: PC...
Ship Mary and John Passenger List for 1634 The Passenger Ship Roster is Only Partly Accurate The second trip of the Mary and John to colonial America began shortly after March 24, 1633/4, in London. The master was Robert Sayres (or Sayers). It is not possible to construct a fully accurate passenger ship roster for the Mary and John, as no contemporaneous records have been found. Subsequ...
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...
Griffin left England Aug 1, 1634 with her master, ?, arriving in September 18, 1634, at Boston with about one hundred passengers and cattle for the plantations. Alphabetical roll: William Bartholomew (From London, bound for Ipswich and Boston. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 109) Mrs. Mary Bartholomew William Haynes, of Salem of Dunstable, Bedford, bound for Salem. Ref: Aspinwall 36 pg 1 Richa...
Anne & Little James Arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts July 10, 1623 "The ship Anne arrived in Plymouth in July, 1623 accompanied by the Little James, bringing new settlers along with many of the wives and children that had been left behind in Leyden when the Mayflower departed in 1620." Emigrant Ancestors, John Camden Hotten, 1874 "Built by the Plymouth Adventurers to remain at the Col...
Come bring your ancestors on over to this project. 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: Dorothy Adams, aged 24 Martha Banes, aged 20 Mary Bentley, aged 20 Thomas Boylston, aged 20 John Burtes, aged 29 Edward Colbo...
WORK IN PROGRESS=======Hyperlinks refer to Wikipedia pages where more information can be found=====.==Motives==* Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History) From Library Journal This cultural history explains the European settlement of the United States as voluntary migrations from four English cultural centers. Families of zealous, literate Puritan yeomen and ...
The Higginson Fleet==The Lyon's Whelp left the Thames, Gravesend, England April 5, 1629 along with five other ships, George Bonaventure, Four Sisters, Lyon, the Mayflower and the Talbot, arriving in Salem June 1629.>“Now in this year 1629, a great company of people (The Higginson Fleet) of good rank, zeal, means and quality have made a great stock, and with six good ships in the months of April...
Project ObjectiveTo trace the family and other affiliations of colonists to New England with County Wiltshire origins. Please add those profiles to the project and use discussions. Add research sites to the reference list. Ultimately we may be able to build a “super tree” showing the connections.===People of Interest* Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset “ ... came from a family long involved i...
Bring your ancestors on over. Profiles must be set to public. from Southampton, England to New England 24 April 1638 Another transcription of this voyage can be seen: Passenger List for the Confidence 1638 List of passengers from Southampton for New England 24 April 1638 by the 'Confidence' of London, two hundred tons - Master Mr. John Gibson. - "by vertue of the Lord Treasurers warrant of...