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Subject: Ship Mary & John arrived May*/June 1630 - Source: Chas. Edward Banks
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 13:22:57 EDT


Mary and John

The ship that brought the first European settlers to Dorchester in June of
1630 was named the Mary and John. The same vessel or another of the same name
was one of two that had carried a group of settlers from the West Country of
England to the Maine coast in 1607 under the leadership of Captain George Popham.
The colony constructed a fort for permanent protection, but the settlers were
unprepared for the harsh winter and abandoned the site a year later.

"Contemporaneously with the sailing of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, a party of
emigrants embarked at Plymouth, Devon, in the ship Mary and John, on March
20th, bound for the same destination in Massachusetts Bay within the bounds of
the territory of the Company headed by Winthrop.

While not having any defined connection with the Winthrop Fleet, yet their
destination presupposes a cooperative agreement and a common purpose. In his
last letter to his wife, before leaving Southampton, Winthrop notes the departure
of this vessel and her passengers, indicating his knowledge of their
destination in the limits of the Massachusetts Bay Patent and by inference an approval
of them as fellow emigrants under his jurisdiction.

The Mary and John was owned by Roger Ludlow, one of the assistants of the
Massachusetts Bay Company, who sailed in her, as did Edward Rossiter, another
Assistant, as leaders of this Company, and thus further confirmation is given to
it as an integral, though separated, part of the Great Emigration. ...

The Reverend John White, Vicar of Dorchester, England, who has been generally
and rightfully acclaimed as the sponsor of the earliest Massachusetts
settlement (Plymouth excepted), was the inspiration of a movement which culminated in
the gathering of nearly one hundred and fifty persons in the counties of
Dorset, Somerset, and Devon and their agreement to emigrate in a body to
Massachusetts whither he had sent other groups in the previous six years.

In describing this Company he said that scarce a half-dozen of them were
personally known to each other prior to their assembling at the place of
embarkation in Plymouth. It may be assumed that these people, from many parishes
scattered over three counties, were moved by the same urge to emigrate which
animated those of the Winthrop Fleet, but it is safe to say that the tales of
'religious persecution' of these people was not a factor in their pilgrimage. The
West Country was free from it.

The Mary and John made a good passage and arrived at Nantasket May 30th
without casualty. These one hundred and forty passengers are generally known as the
Dorchester Company, from the place chosen for their settlement, and as they
remained a distinct body of colonists, and there are contemporary records to
identify most of them, it has been possible to compile a tentative list of those
who came on this pioneer ship. ."

Source:
Banks, Charles Edward. The Winthrop Fleet of 1630. Boston, 1930. Photo
reproduced by The Higginson Book Company. Appendix B: Passengers of the Mary and
John in 1630.
http://www.dorchesteratheneum.org/page.php?id=53
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Passenger List. None official but..........

"Highly probabley Passenger List of the Mary & John"
"A" List
Our "A" List of those who were CERTAIN or HIGHLY PROBABLE passengers aboard
the ship the Mary and John 1630. However, we have attempted to compile a new
list of possible passengers and then rate them as follows:

Our "A" List - Certain or highly probable

Our "B" List - Probable

Our "C" List - Possible

Name Approx. Age From (in England)
CLAPP, ROGER   21 Salcombe Regis, Devon
COGAN, ELIZABETH wife of John Endicott   23 Chard, Somerset
COOK, ARRON   14 Dorchester, Dorset
DENSLOW, NICHOLAS   57 Bridport, Dorset
  Elizabeth Doling, wife a. 56 Bridport, Dorset
  Temperance Denslow, daughter   21 Bridport, Dorset
  Joan Denslow, daughter   15 Bridport, Dorset
DYER, GEORGE a. 51 Dorchester, Dorset
  Elizabeth _____, wife a. 50 Dorchester, Dorset
  Elizabeth Dyer, daughter a. 15 Dorchester, Dorset
  Mary Dyer, daughter a. 10 Dorchester, Dorset
FORD, THOMAS a. 42 Dorchester, Dorset
  Elizabeth Chard, second wife a. 41 Dorchester, Dorset
  Mary Ford, daughter   17 Dorchester, Dorset
  Joan Ford, daughter   12 Dorchester, Dorset
  Abigail Ford, daughter   10 Dorchester, Dorset
  Hepzibah Ford   4 Dorchester, Dorset
FILER, ANNE probably widow a. 40 Probably Dorset
  Katherine Filer a. 12 Probably Dorset
  Walter Filer a. 11 Probably Dorset
GALLOP, JOHN a. 35 Bridport, Dorset
GAYLORD, JOHN a. 30 Probably Somerset
GAYLORD, WILLIAM a. 39 Crewkerne, Somerset
  ____, wife a. 37 Crewkerne, Somerset
  Elizabeth Gaylord, daughter a. 14 Crewkerne, Somerset
  William Gaylord, Jr., son   12 Crewkerne, Somerset
  Samuel Gaylord, son   10 Crewkerne, Somerset
GILLETTE, JONATHAN a. 24 Chaffcombe, Somerset
HOLMAN, JOHN   28 Dorchester, Dorset
HOSKINS, JOHN a. 45 Probably Dorset
  Thomas Hoskins, son a. 10 Probably Dorset
LOMBARD, THOMAS   49 Thorncombe, Dorset
  ____, wife a. 47 Thorncombe, Dorset
  Barnard Lombard, son a. 22 Thorncombe, Dorset
  Thomas Lombard Jr., son   12 Thorncombe, Dorset
  Joshua Lombard, son   9 Thorncombe, Dorset
  Margaret Lombard, daughter   6 Thorncombe, Dorset
LUDLOW, GEORGE   33 Dinton, Wilts
LUDLOW, ROGER   40 Dinton, Wilts
MARSHFIELD, THOMAS a. 30 Exeter, Devon
  ____, wife a. 28 Exeter, Devon
  Sara Marshfield, daughter a. 3 Exeter, Devon
  Samuel Marshfield, son a. 2 Exeter, Devon
  Mercy Marshfield, daughter a. 1 Exeter, Devon
MAVERICK, REV. JOHN   51 Awliscombe, Devon
  Mary Gye, wife   51 Awliscombe, Devon
  Elias Maverick, son a. 26 Awliscombe, Devon
  Mary Maverick, daughter   24 Awliscombe, Devon
  Moses Maverick, son   21 Awliscombe, Devon  
  Abigail Maverick, daughter   17 Awliscombe, Devon
  Antipas Maverick, daughter a. 12 Awliscombe, Devon
  John Maverick Jr., son a. 11 Awliscombe, Devon
PHELPS, WILLIAM a. 35 Crewkerne, Somerset
  Ann Dover, wife a. 33 Crewkerne, Somerset
  William Phelps Jr., son   11 Crewkerne, Somerset
  Samuel Phelps, son   10 Crewkerne, Somerset
  Nathaniel Phelps, son   5 Crewkerne, Somerset
  Joseph Phelps, son   1 Crewkerne, Somerset
ROCKWELL, WILLIAM   39 Dorchester, Dorset
  Susan Capen, wife   28 Dorchester, Dorset
  Joan Rockwell, daughter   5 Dorchester, Dorset
  John Rockwell   2 Dorchester, Dorset
ROSSITER, EDWARD a. 55 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
  ____, wife a. 53 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
  Nicholas Rossiter, son a. 31 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
  Ann ___, wife of Nicholas R. a. 29 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
  ___, child of Nicholas a. 4 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
  ___, child of Nicholas a. 2 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
  Bray Rossiter, son a. 20 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
  Jane Rossiter, son a. 16 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
 Hugh Rossiter, son, a. 15 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
  Joan Rossiter, daughter a. 14 Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
  ___, possible relative or servent - - Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
  ___, possible relative or servent - - Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
   ___, possible relative or servent - - Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset

  ___, possible relative or servent - - Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset
SANFORD, FRANCES, widow a. 42 Dorchester, Dorset
  Henry Smith, son a. 20 Dorchester, Dorset
SOUTHCOTE, RICHARD a. 40 Devon
TERRY, STEPHEN   21 Dorchester, Dorset
UPSALL, NICHOLAS a. 30 Dorchester, Dorset
  Dorothy Capen, wife a. 25 Dorchester, Dorset
WARHAM, REV. JOHN a. 34 Exeter, Devon
  Susanna Gallop, wife a. 32 Exeter, Devon
WAY, HENRY a. 47 Bridport, Dorset
  Elizabeth Batchelar, second wife a. 43 Bridport, Dorset
  Henry Way Jr., son   19 Bridport, Dorset
  Aaron Way, son   16 Bridport, Dorset
  George Way, son a. 15 Bridport, Dorset
  Hanna Way, daughter   15 Bridport, Dorset
  Susanna Way, daughter   9 Bridport, Dorset
  Richard Way, son   5 Bridport, Dorset
WILTON, DAVID   21 Beanminster, Dorset
WOLCOTT, HENRY   51 Lydiard St. Lawrence, Somerset
  Elizabeth Saunders, wife   44 Lydiard St. Lawrence, Somerset
  Henry Wolcott Jr., a. 20 Lydiard St. Lawrence, Somerset
  George Wolcott, son a. 15 Lydiard St. Lawrence, Somerset
  Christopher Wolcott a. 12 Lydiard St. Lawrence, Somerset
BRANKER, JOHN a. 22 Honiton, Devon
  Abigail Searle, wife   18 Honiton, Devon

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