Read this before you email Anne: Frequently Asked Questions. Sources:Gardner, Frank. Terry, Stephen, from Dorchester, bound for Dorchester. Arrival of the Winthrop Fleet, painting by William F. Halsall. The Puritans renamed after one of its passengers, Lady Arabella Johnson. In 1619, after living in Holland for 12 years, these separatists sought out investors in England who would be willing to finance their journey to the New World. The Puritans left England primarily due to religious persecution but also for economic reasons as well. The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970. 36 page 141. Ref: Pope. Nov. 13, 1628, Crewkerne, Somerset, England; Similar Puritan congregations existed in the Home Counties and the West Country. Warham, Rev John, from Exeter, Devonshire traveling on the Mary and John bound for Dorchester, Windsor, Reference of Pope. 36 page 144. Many of the migrants from the area were Puritans, who feared religious oppression in England, and wished to join Puritan leader John Winthrop in building a ‘holy city upon the hill’ in the New World. Also on board were her husband Isaac Johnson. https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Winthrop_Fleet_Passenger_List Way, Henry, from Allington, Dorsetshire, bound for Dorchester. Not all of us were living under the tyranny of fire and brimstone. The Salem Witch Trials Victims: Who Were They? He was a part of the Great Migration when the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established. In 1625, the religious climate in England worsened when King Charles I ascended the throne. The Macmillan Company, 1920.Hornsby, Stephen and Michael Hermann. Death: 1641 Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts Birth: about 1602, Mowsley Leicestershire, England The Great Migration may refer to the Winthrop Fleet of 1630; wherein 1,000 passengers migrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in eleven ships. Maverick, Rev John from Beaworthy, Devonshire, traveling on the Mary and John bound for Dorchester. Nearly all of the Mary and John 1630 passengers came from the West Country counties of Somerset, Dorset , Devon, and West Country towns of Dorchester, Bridport, Crewkerne and Exeter. 36 page 142. The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards. 36 pg 29. 36 page 32. Patents were secured and companies organized for that purpose. Note from the Chase Chronicles - July - October, 1930 "John Winthrop begi Yet the leaders deep sense of difference can be seen in their successful attempt to transport the charter of the colony with them to Massachusetts, effectively cutting off any administrative interference from the homeland. 36 page 146. Less than 25% were servants Between 1630 and 1640, over 13,000 men, women, and children sailed to Massachusetts. Includes 5 activities aimed at students 11-14 years old (KS3) & 5 activities aimed at students 14-16 year old (GCSE). Those who paid for their own passage; 36 page 142 & 146. Clapp, Roger, from Salcombe (Regis) Devonshire, aboard the Mary and John, bound for Dorchester. Laud launched a widespread crackdown on dissidents like the Puritans which led to a surge in Puritan migration to the colonies, according to the book Library of World History: Containing a Record of the Human Race: “Charles I also attempted to establish the Episcopal Church on a firmer basis, and to suppress Puritanism in England and Presbyterianism in Scotland, with the view of checking the rapid growth of republican principles among the English people. Magistrates scrutinized each arriving immigrant. 6, World Publishing Company, 1914.Bremer, Francis J. In return, the colony would repay the company by harvesting supplies, such as fur, timber and fish, to send back to England. Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. Some sources state that the reasons for the Massachusetts Bay colonist’s migration were far more complicated than just the quest for religious freedom. (Not on upper lists). After 1640, New England’s great migration ended as abruptly as it had begun. Massachusetts Bay Colonists tended to be middle-class and usually migrated in family units, according to an article on the New England Historical Society website: “Most of the Puritans who came to New England were prosperous middle-class families. It proceeded to attack Charles’ chief advisers and finally beheaded the Earl of Strafford and Laud. In March 1630, the Arbella set sail from Southampton, England, for America, thus beginning an unprecedented exodus of English men, women, and children to North America that lasted for ten years. The Massachusetts Bay Colony took over the Dorchester Company’s failed planter settlements, such as Gloucester, as well as some of the Plymouth Company’s failed settlements, such as Hull and Weymouth, in the 1630s and 40s. University Press of New England, 1995.Betlock, Lynn. During 1630-1640 more than 13,000 Puritans arrived to Massachusetts. It abolished the Courts of the Star Chamber and High Commission.”, According to the introduction of a 1908 edition of John Winthrop’s Journal, History of New England, 1630-1649, this had a big impact on Puritan migration to New England, and “immigration suddenly ceased; with the opening of the Long Parliament the grievances which had driven into exile so many of the non-conformists no longer pressed heavily.”. The colony became the largest colony in New England and was hugely successful. King James I of England made some efforts to reconcile the Puritan clergy who had been alienated by the lack of change in the Church of England. Rossiter, Edward, from Comber, S Nicholas, Somersetshire, bound for Dorchester. English migration to Massachusetts consisted of a few hundred pilgrims who went to Plymouth Colony in the 1620s and between 13,000 and 21,000 emigrants who went to the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1630 and 1642. Ref: Banks Mss. Particular towns and villages in England became linked to specific townships in New England. Of the eighty thousand who left England between 1630 and 1640, approximately twenty thousand sailed to New England. The English Immigration to America led to the establishment of the first 13 Colonies. Rossiter, Jane son 16 NOTE: verify gender as Jane is a female name making her a daughter not a son. In 1607, a sect of separatists from Yorkshire left England and moved to Leiden, Holland in search of religious freedom. Burial site is probably in or near Springfield, Hampden County, Massach... Nathaniel Phelps arrived in America on the Mary & John May 30 1630 with father William and stepmother Ann (Dover) , brothers William Jr., Samuel, & Joseph. Fortress Press, 2015.Ashley, Roscoe Lewis. Rossitier, 4 other possible servants or relatives from Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, Sanford, Frances, widow 42 Dorchester, Dorset, Smith, Henry son of Frances Sanford. Winthrop brought 800 people with him to New England; 20,000 followed him over the next 10 years. Great Migration: Passengers of the Abigail, 1635, Great Migration: Passengers of the Angel Gabriel, 1635, Great Migration: Passengers of the Anne & Little James, 1623, Great Migration: Passengers of the Arbella, 1630, Great Migration: Passengers of the Defence (Defiance), 1635, Great Migration: Passengers of the Elizabeth, 1634 & 1635, Great Migration: Passengers of the Fortune, 1621, Great Migration: Passengers of the Griffin, 1634, Great Migration: Passengers of the Higginson Fleet, 1629, http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/maryjohn1.htm, http://english-america.com/spls/630ne001.html#Mary_&_John, http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~michaelcaldwell/genealogy/Filing%20Cabinet/Hayden/Mary%20&%20John%201630.pdf, Branker, Abigail Searle, wife of John, 18, from Honiton, Devon. Tilley, John, from from Chilthorne, Domer, Somersetshire, bound for Dorchester. Rebecca Beatrice Brooks is the author and publisher of the History of Massachusetts Blog. Sanford, Mrs Frances, widow, from Dorchester, bound for Dorchester. During the early seventeenth century, East Anglia was a center of religious nonconformism. This prompted the separatists to leave England for the New World in order to escape potential punishment for their beliefs and to be able to worship more freely. The other Puritan leaders, such as Sir Richard Saltonstall, were scattered among t… Yet another source, the book Exile and Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature, states that the Massachusetts Bay colonist’s reasons for migrating were even more varied than that and were also based on economic reasons: “It should be noted that the reasons for leaving England were various, and involve economics as well as religious factors; often the decision to migrate to New England came not out of a specifically Puritan alienation from Laudian reforms, but rather from local influences, such as the decision of a neighbor, a minister, or, more immediately, a patron or employer to depart across the Atlantic. ", MaryandJohn1630.com offer the following lists: many ages are approximate. British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America. Migrants who went to the Chesapeake and the West Indies tended to be indentured servants from London. For the purpose of accomplishing this end, the king appointed the zealous William Laud, Bishop of London, to the dignity of Archbishop of Canterbury…Archbishop Laud, who thus became the chief agent in a religious tyranny which almost drove both England and Scotland to revolt, improved every opportunity to preach submission to the ‘Lord’s Anointed’ in the payment of taxes; and he demanded from English Puritans and Scotch Presbyterians a strict conformity to his own rules for public worship…Archbishop Laud’s ecclesiastical tyranny led to a large Puritan emigration to New England. They opposed c… Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. The colony became the largest colony in New England and was hugely successful. Although his mother in law WAS incarcerated by those lunatics after being accused of witchcraft. Even though English migration to the area was nonexistent for nearly two hundred years, the population of the New England colonies grew rapidly during that time. It occurred in two waves, basically before and after the Great Depression. 3, Sept. 1985, pp. What Type of Uniforms Did Revolutionary War Soldiers Wear? Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. In the 1630s, droves of Puritans soon began to flock to New England, particularly after 1633, when King Charles appointed William Laud as the new Archbishop of Canterbury and he began rooting out nonconformity in the church. John Winthrop, aboard the Arbella, gave a spare account of the weather and the ship’s progress. “The Old Planters at Salem.” Putnam’s Monthly Historical Magazine and Magazine of New England History. Don’t have the numbers to back it up, but pretty sure there was another bump in Puritan immigration to New England following the restoration of Charles II in 1660, which certainly created an unfriendly environment for Puritans in the old country. Rebecca is a freelance journalist and history lover who got her start in journalism working for small-town newspapers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire after she graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a B.A. (THREE VOLUME SET) [Anderson, Robert Charles] on Amazon.com. In 1628, the New England Company, the original name of the Massachusetts Bay Company, obtained a patent to settle Salem and took over the illegal settlement established there by the colonists from the failed Gloucester settlement in 1626. Ref: Banks Mss. Upsall, Nicholas, from Dorchester, bound for Dorchester. Each sketch contains information on the immigrant's migration dates and patterns, various biographical matters (such as occupation, church membership, education, offices, and land holdings), and … 1, A-B [Anderson, Robert Charles, Sanborn, George Freeman, Sanborn, Melinde Lutz, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Great Migration Study Project] on Amazon.com. Other family migrations most likely linked eastern Kent to the South Shore of Boston (Scituate, Plymouth, Sandwich), the Wiltshire/Berkshire area to the Merrimack Valley (Salisbury, Newbury, Amesbury), and southwest Dorset to the South Shore (Dorchester) and the Connecticut Valley (Windsor.) Where indentured moved immediately to Isle of Wight County Virginia now Smithfield. 36 page 32. 36 pg 30 & 37. This was the first of many “Old Planter” colonies in New England that were not a part of either the Plymouth Colony or the Massachusetts Bay Colony and were established by Puritans purely for financial reasons, mainly to catch fish to send to England and Spain for profit. Atlas of the European Reformations. “New England’ Great Migration.” The Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society, www.greatmigration.org/new_englands_great_migration.html“Great Migration of Picky Puritans, 1620-40.” New England Historical Society, www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-great-migration-of-picky-puritans-1620-40/Anderson, Virginia Dejohn. Abigail Williams: The Mysterious Afflicted Girl. Ref: Banks Mss. Between about 1630 and 1640, as many as 20,000 men, women and children left England for New England. Visit this site's About page to find out more about Rebecca. Welcome to Geni, home of the world's largest family tree. During this period, there were, generally speaking, four types of emigrants: 1. Have you done any writing on what the Puritans who left England for Religious reasons and economic reasons did to those who they thought were practicing a nonconformist religion,such as Quakers/Seekers. Lyon, departed from London, England, 22 June 1632 and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, 16 September 1632. This was problematic for the separatists because, at that time, the church and state were one in England and the act of separating from the Church of England was considered treasonous. A small fraction of indentured servants were also sent to New England too though, probably contracted to merchants and tradesman who themselves had emigrated from London and Boston, England. The religious and political factors behind the Great Migration influenced the demographics of the emigrants. 36 page 35. Joseph - bap. The separatist Puritans felt the church was too corrupt to reform and instead wanted to separate from it. The Massachusetts Bay Colonists, a rather different set of migrants from those who left Leiden for Plymouth a decade earlier, often included prominent gentlemen and ministers or their servants leaving the mainstream of English society.”. Although they found freedom there, they eventually tired of their grueling jobs in Holland’s cloth industry. Although Puritan migrants came from almost every county in England, the greatest groups of these migrants came from Eastern and Southern England, particularly the East Anglian counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex; London, Hertfordshire and Kent; and the southwestern counties of Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, and Devon. What follows is the entire record of the Court of the session of October 19, 1630. Southampton, 24 Aprill 1638. According to the book British Atlantic, American Frontier, English emigration stopped for the rest of the colonial period: “The outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 brought the migration to a close; for the rest of the colonial period, only a few hundred settlers trickled in, mostly Scots-Irish who settled at Londonderry, New Hampshire.”. 36 page 147. Early European Civilization: A Textbook for Secondary Schools. Simon Bradstreet and his wife, Ann, the first female poet to be published in North America, belonged to the group. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Led by Puritan lawyer, John Winthrop, the company left England in April of 1630 and arrived in New England in June where they settled in what is now modern day Boston and established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The men that applied for freemen status were mostly arrived in 1630 with the Winthrop fleet and the Mary & John. Robert Charles Anderson’s The Great Migration Begins includes more than 1,100 sketches of immigrants or immigrant families that arrived in New England between 1620 and 1633. Denslow, Nicholas, from Allinton, Dorsetshire, bound for Dorchester. The Research Publication Company, 1902, pp: 3-18.Dowley, Tim. "140 passengers, but the list has never been found. Smith, Henry, from Dorchester, bound for Dorchester. They were different from the poor, single male immigrants who predominated immigration to other regions of America. 36 page 32. The non-separatist Puritans wanted to remain in the church and reform it from within. Hingham, Massachusetts, drew 40 percent of its families from East Anglia, most of them from the Hingham area in Norfolk. In 1623, the Dorchester Company founded a fishing settlement at Gloucester, Massachusetts in Cape Ann. My catholic Cornish ancestor emigrated during the great migration WITH puritans but he was no Puritan. 36 page 146. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 page 142. According to the book, British Atlantic, American Frontier, two specific groups of migrants came from these areas: “From this considerable area, two major migrant streams can be identified: first, a migration of families, drawn mainly from East Anglia, the Home Counties, and the West Country, who had Puritan sympathies; second, a migration of single, young men, drawn from London and Devon, who were attracted by prospects of employment in agriculture, trades, and the fishery. Cooke, Aaron, from Thorncombe, aboard the Mary and John, bound for Dorcester. Join Geni to explore your genealogy and family history in the World's Largest Family Tree. The Puritans proceeded reluctantly to the place of embarkation, with their eyes looking longingly toward the distant refuge of the Pilgrim Fathers across the billowy deep, yet moist with tears as they turned their backs upon their native land and upon scenes that were dear to them: their hearts swelling with grief as the shores of ‘Dear Old Mother England’ faded from their sight, yet rising to lofty purposes and sublime resignation as they abandoned home and country to enjoy the blessings of religious freedom in a strange land. Summary "Covering individuals not included in previous Great Migration compendia, this complete survey lists the names of all known to have come to New England during the Great Migration period, 1620-1640. These families and passengers were recruited by the Reverend John White of Dorchester, Dorset. 36 page 19. Same militia that was used for Bacons Rebellion in 1676. 36 page 32. The migrations from London and Devon were much different. Rebecca: I totally loved your website. Capt. Ref: Hist of Jericho, VT. pg 382. The Great Migration began to take off in 1630 when John Winthrop led a fleet of 11 ships to Massachusetts. Geni requires JavaScript! The Puritan in England and New England. It may also refer more generally to the Puritan migration of approximately 70,000 refugees from England to what is now the Northeastern United States, the Chesapeake Bay area, and the Caribbean during the 1630s. Puritans embraced Calvinism (Reformed theology) with its opposition to ritual and an emphasis on preaching, a growing sabbatarianism, and preference for a presbyterian system of church polity, as opposed to the episcopal polityof the Church of England which had also preserved medieval canon law almost intact. Cambridge University Press, 2007.Axelrod, Alan. The Great Migration to America Between 1620 and 1640 many people left England for The New World of America. The decision by Winthrop and others to lead a migration westward certainly came from a sense that the Puritan cause in England had faltered, but its faltering, in many ways, may have been effected by the Puritans own conservatism and ‘assimilation into the fabric of English society.’ Winthrop and Thomas Dudley, the Earl of Lincoln’s steward, for example, represented important propertied interests in New England, and went with the Crown’s permission to the New World, not only to found a godly community, but also, according to their own representations, to further the cause of England in the burgeoning Atlantic commercial world. Dyer, George, from Fitzhead or Wincanton, Somersetshire, bound for Dorchester. Native Americans in the Revolutionary War. great migration Migration to New England was very marked in its effects in the two decades from 1620 to 1640, after which it declined sharply for a while. Griffin, departed from an unknown port and arrived in Boston Massachusetts, (18) September 1634. The eyes of all people are upon us.’ In coming to the New World, according to Winthrop, the colonists were accepting the terms of a covenant with God. They sent some back to England as “persons unmeete to inhabit here.” The governor could put anyone on a month’s probation who wasn’t fit ‘to sit down among us without some trial of them.’ In 1633 and 1634, the Puritans declared thanksgivingfor the harvest and for the ships that brought ‘persons of spetial use and quality.’ Ann's mother is said to have died in 1600, so perhaps then Ann must have lost her mother because of her birth. He served under Captain Miles Standish .... 1630, THE WINTHROP FLEET: ARBELLA the flagship, AMBROSE, WILLIAM AND FRANCIS, TALBOT, HOPEWELL, JEWEL, WHALE, CHARLES, SUCCESS, MAYFLOWER, TRIAL. Marcus Lee Hansen in The Atlantic Migration 1607-1860 wrote: In fact, many of the migrants sent to the fishing settlements in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine were indentured servants contracted by merchants in Barnstable, Plymouth, and Dartmouth. Adams Media Corporation, 1992.Byington, Ezra Hoyt. Omg I love your website it totally the best. These factors were the establishment of the Long Parliament in 1640 and the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642. My 12th level Grandfather Ambrose Meador with his wife and son Thomas (11th level) arrived in Jamestown in 1629-1633. YES! Exodus of families defined the nature of the the Great Migration of Puritans to New England. The sailing of the Mayflower from Plymouth on September 6 th 1620 carrying… GREAT MIGRATION. The puritans were a sect of religious dissidents who felt the Church of England was too closely associated with the Catholic religion and needed to be reformed. 58, No. 36 page 34. The Massachusetts Bay Company found willing recruits. The migration from East Anglia – approximately 38 percent of total migrants in one study – comprised mainly of families, focused on the Boston area. In 1650, the total population of New England was about 22,800 and by the middle of the next century it had grown to 360,000 and by 1770 it was about 581,000. in journalism. 36 page 22. Lovell, William, from Somersetshire, bound for Dorchester. Since King Charles had a catholic wife and favored the catholic religion, hostility towards the puritans and protestants alike greatly increased. The Great Puritan Migration was a period in the 17th century during which English puritans migrated to New England, the Chesapeake and the West Indies. “Migrants and Motives: Religion and the Settlement of New England, 1630-1640.” The New England Quarterly, Vol. The Great Puritan Migration in the 1630s: Led by Puritan lawyer, John Winthrop, the company left England in April of 1630 and arrived in New England in June where they settled in what is now modern day Boston and established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 10 probably Dorset, Williams, Roger 24 probably Dorset or Somerset, Unknown Elizabeth 20, married Thomas Holcombe, probably West Country, Allen, Matthew 38 possibly West Country, brother of Samuel, Alvord, Benedict 14 Whitestaunton, Somerset, Buckland, Thomas 16 possibly Dorset or Somerset, Warham, Mary, 2 daughter of Rev John Warham, Benham, John, son John and grandson Joseph, from Plymouth, aboard the Mary and John, bound for Dorchester. Other Puritans who recorded their reasons for settling Massachusetts emphasized the redemptive function they hoped to perform. Up to the time of the Long Parliament in 1640, the average number of emigrants to New England had been about 2,000 a year. There were two different types of Puritans at the time: separatists and non-separatists. 36 pg 30. This new power struggle within the English government then led to the English Civil War in 1642. September 21, 2015—Boston, Massachusetts—New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) has announced the publication and release of the latest work by Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory, Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640: A Concise Compendium.A nationally celebrated scholar of early American immigration, history, and … Due to economics family moved to Meador Va Bedford County in 1720’s, View all posts by Rebecca Beatrice Brooks. The List of the names of the Passengers intended for New-England, in the good shipp, the Confidence of London, of 200 tonnes, John Jobson Mr. ____ and thus by vertue of Lord Treasurers warrant of the 11th of Aprill, 1638. The Beginning and Then the End of Puritan Persecution in England Who were these emigrants and why did they come? The group made a deal with the Plymouth Company who promised to finance their trip to North America to establish a colony. Wolcott, Henry, from Tolland, Somersetshire, bound for Dorchester. UPNE, 2005.D’Addario, Christopher. A couple of factors brought the Great Puritan Migration to an end around 1640-1642. Edward Johnson, who was not one of the colony’s leaders, wrote in his Wonder-Working Providence of Sion’s Savior in New England that the purpose of the colony was to ‘be set as lights upon a hill more obvious of New England as ‘holding forth a pregnant demonstration of the consistency of Civil-Government with a Congregational-way.'”. The Gloucester settlement later failed in 1626 and the colonists migrated to the Salem area where they started a new settlement without obtaining permission from the king to do so. Hannam, William, from Dorchester, bound for Dorchester. John Underhill was the 1st Underhill to come to America in 1630. 36 pg 26. When the old planter colonies in New England began to fail, the Massachusetts Bay Colonists believed it to be a punishment from God for establishing a colony for financial reasons rather than religious ones, according to Cotton Mather in his book Magnalia: “There were more than a few attempts of the English to people and improve the parts of New England which were to the northward of New Plimouth. Phelps, William, from Porlock, Somersetshire, bound for Dorchester. In September of 1620, the separatists traveled to the New World on a rented cargo ship called the Mayflower and landed off the coast of Massachusetts in November, where they established Plymouth Colony, the first colony in New England. As the migration got underway, migrants frequently recruited other family members as well as friends to join them, creating a chain of migration across the Atlantic. Embarkation of the Pilgrims, oil painting by Robert W. Weir, circa 1844. They believed, in the words of John Winthrop, that ‘we shall be as a City upon a Hill. Parliament protected itself against the king. Pilgrim Ship Lists Early 1600's Over 7100 families and 290 ships. While technically not a part of the Winthrop fleet, the Mary & Johnsailed at the same time and … (THREE VOLUME SET) Great for home study or to use within the classroom environment. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes. The Winthrop Society: Descendants of the Great Migration This is the best known and most complete account of the voyage of the fleet of 1630, including nine weeks and 2 days in the open Atlantic Ocean, April 8 to June 12, 1630. I just dislike the fact that everyone refers to it solely as a group of puritans, not everyone in the original colonies were puritans. In 1649 Cromwell gave land grants to the Puritans in Va. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Thomas Horton This occasion was nothing less than the birth of democracy on the American continent. What Every American Should Know About American History. Ludlow, Roger, from Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, bound for Dorchester. Vol. Deacon Nathaniel Phelps of Dorchester, Conn... Joseph Phelps emigrated to America on the Mary & John in 1630 with his Father,Mother & siblings. 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