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  2. Winthrop Fleet - Wikipedia

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    Arrival of the Winthrop Colony, by William F. Halsall. The Winthrop Fleet was a group of 11 ships led by John Winthrop out of a total of 16 [1] funded by the Massachusetts Bay Company which together carried between 700 and 1,000 Puritans plus livestock and provisions from England to New England over the summer of 1630, during the first period of the Great Migration.

  3. Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Migration saw 80,000 people leave England, roughly 20,000 migrating to each of four destinations: Ireland, New England, the West Indies, and the Netherlands. [5] The immigrants to New England came from every English county except Westmorland; nearly half were from East Anglia. [6]

  4. Bevis (ship) - Wikipedia

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    Many of the three masted merchant ships traveling across the Atlantic Ocean about this same time period were in the 450 to 650 ton range. [5] The cargo or “goods” were certified (not loaded) on 12 May 1638. Yet the ship had been “some Dayes gone to sea” by 2 May 1638. [4] The shippers of the goods were Richard Dumer & Co. Henry Byles ...

  5. History of the Puritans in North America - Wikipedia

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    The religious and political factors behind the Great Migration influenced the demographics of the emigrants. Groups of young men seeking economic success predominated the Virginia colonies, whereas Puritan ships were laden with "ordinary" people, old and young, families as well as individuals. Just a quarter of the emigrants were in their ...

  6. Mary and John - Wikipedia

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    Mary and John was a 400-ton ship that is known to have sailed between England and the American colonies four times from 1607 to 1634. Named in tribute to John and Mary Winthrop [2] she was captained by Robert Davies and owned by Roger Ludlow (1590–1664), one of the assistants of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [3]

  7. Great Migration Study Project - Wikipedia

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    The great migration directory: immigrants to New England, 1620-1640: a concise compendium (NEHGS, 2015). This is a list of all known immigrants during the entire project period, with their year of migration, first residence, origin in England (if known), and references to sources of further information. ISBN 9780880823272.

  8. William Vassall - Wikipedia

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    In total, fifteen ships transported about 1,500 people to Massachusetts in 1630. [8] Their emigration initiated an event known as the Puritan Great Migration when as many as 21,000 people emigrated to New England between 1630 and 1640.

  9. List of Mayflower passengers - Wikipedia

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    In early 1611, he was pilot of a 300-ton ship on his first New World voyage, with a three-ship convoy sailing from London to the new settlement of Jamestown in Virginia. Two other ships were in that convoy, and the three ships brought 300 new settlers to Jamestown, going first to the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Nevis. While in Jamestown ...