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Subject: [GenConnecticut-L] Passenger List of the Ship Hector 1637
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:36:52 EDT



THe following is the passenger list for the vessel Hector, which brought
the passengers accompanying John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton to
Connecticut in 1637.

The Hector that brought the Davenport party to Massachusetts was a new
vessel of 250 tons, which had already made a previous passage to
Massachusetts Bay. The records indicate that the ship actually arrived in
Massachusetts, but other references mention that the Hector also took the
party to Connecticut in late 1637 or 1638. A passenger ship list for the
trip from Massachusetts Bay to New Haven, Connecticut has not been
located.

Passengers on the Hector sold their belongings in preparation for the
sailing, but then the English government impressed the ship for the
service of the crown. The owners petitioned for its release in January
1637, but the ship was not freed until May. According to the records of
John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay, the ship arrived in Boston (from
London England) on June 26, 1637.

Passengers:
John & Elizabeth Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, Old Mrs. Eaton, his mother,
Anne Eaton, second wife of Theophilus Eaton and daughter of George Loyd
Bishop of Chester and widow of Thomas Yale, The children of Anne Eaton by
her former marriage, Edward Hopkins, Richard Malbon, Nathaniel Rowe,
William Andrews, Henry Browning, James Clark, Jasper Crane, Jeremy Dixon,
Nicholas Elsey, Francis Hall, Robert Hill, William Ives, George Smith,
George Ward, Lawrence Ward, Ezekiel Cheever, Edward Bannister, Old Jewry,
Richard Beach, Richard Beckley, John Brockett, John Budd, John Cooper,
Arthur Halbidge, Mathew Hitchcock, Andrew Hull, Andrew Low, Andrew
Messenger, Mathew Moulthrop, Francis Newman, Robert Newman, Richard
Osborn, Edward Patteson, John Reader, William Thorp, Samuel Whitehead.

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