My Ancestors Came To America July 1, 2017

 

I’ve been working on finding out more about the “who, when, how, etc” my ancestors came to America.  I have identified over 300 individuals who emigrated, mostly from England, to reach our shores.  Now I have ordered this information by year.

Here’s a sample from my working copy:

Immigrants to America

 

Ordered by Year

 

Standish, Myles     arrived in Plymouth in 1620 on the Mayflower    8^th Great Grandfather    I am descended from Myles through Gilman Bryant on my father’s side

 

Allerton, Remember    arrived in Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620 with her parents Isaac Allerton and Mary Norris   Remember was 5 years old    Remember was  my 9^th Great Grandmother

 

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Standish, Barbara    wife of Myles   arrived in 1623 and married Myles shortly afterward  She was his 2^nd wife and the mother of Josiah, my 7^th Great Grandfather     his first wife Rose died in 1621 in the first sickness at Plymouth

 

Annable, Anthony   came in July 1623 with his wife Jane Mumford    they sailed on the ship “Anne & Little James”

 

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Lyford, Ruth – arrived in Plymouth in 1624

 

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Cummings, Isaac    8^th GGF   came to Salem in 1627   born in Scotland

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Archer, Samuel   arrived in Salem in 1630    he was part of the Winthrop Fleet      he was a carpenter    he married in 1634

 

 

Vore, Mary  came to America with her parents Richard Vore and Ann Harris in 1630 wen she was 13     They were from Somerset    she eventually married Alexander Alford

 

Bissell/Buswell, Capt John and his wife Mary Drake  arrived in Nantasket in 1630

 

Brackett, Capt Richard – came in 1630 with his older brother Peter     Richard went back to England briefly in 1633 to marry Alice Blower

 

Bradstreet, Simon – arrived in Boston in 1630   He was part of the Winthrop Fleet    His wife Ann Dudley accompanied him

 

Dutch, Osman –  arrived in Rhode Island in 1630    settled in Gloucester   sent for his wife Grace Pratt in 1639

 

Fletcher, Deacon John – arrived in 1630 in Concord

with his wife Sarah Hartwell    Sarah was from Chelmsford England     was her husband John or Robert??

 

Keyes, Robert – with his wife Sarah arrived in 1630

 

Philbrick, Thomas – arrived in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet

 

Wigeon, Capt Thomas – arrived in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet

 

 

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Bryant, Stephen – arrived in 1632 from Kent in Essex

 

Merrill, Isaac and his wife Clemmet came to Massachusetts Bay in 1632 on the “Lyon”    they settled in Roxbury

 

Palphry, Jane – arrived in Boston in 1632

 

Sargent, William –  8^th GGF  Bristol to Ipswich   he arrived in 1632

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Blower, Alice came in 1633 with her husband Capt Richard Brackett

 

Clapp, Thomas – arrived in 1633

 

Duncan, Nathaniel –  my 9^th GGF  he came from Exeter Devonshire to Dorchester Massachusetts in 1633    his wife Elizabeth Jourdaine accompanied him

 

A Work In Progress June 20, 2017

   Immigrant Ship

 

From the piles of papers I’ve accumulated in my genealogy research I am now compiling a list of my immigrant ancestors who came to America – who, when, what year, etc.

Following is my draft so far:   Sorry, I’m having trouble copying the Word document

 

1619 Marriage In Cambridge England March 5, 2017

  This is All Saints Church in England where my 9X Great Grandparents were married in 1619.  They emigrated  to North America in 1623 on the ship “Anne & Little James”.  They were early settlers in Plymouth Colony.

My Ancestor Myles Standish March 1, 2017

  Yes this is Myles Standish of Mayflower fame.  He is my  8th  Great Grandfather.

Captain Myles Standish was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth Colony.  He was one of the passengers on the Mayflower.

Myles Standish was not a Pilgrim but it was in his capacity as a military man that he was in the Low Countries to help the Dutch in their war against Spain.  And it was in Leyden in Holland that he got to know the Pilgrims there.  It was through his acquaintance with the Pilgrim Pastor John Robinson that he came to be hired as their military captain to command and train their militia.  Thus Myles and his first wife Rose were among the passengers, the original settlers,  on the Mayflower.

After the Mayflower made landfall on the tip of Cape Cod in late October 1620, he led most of the exploratory missions looking for a place to settle.  Many of the settlers who arrived in the Mayflower were weakened and ill after their voyage across the Atlantic.  Sadly, Myles wife Rose was among those who did not survive those early months.  She died in late January 1621.

Myles remarried in 1623.  His 2nd wife, Barbara, arrived on the ship “Anne” in July 1623.  Myles and Barbara had 6 children, 4of whom survived infancy.  The most important of whom from my standpoint was their surviving son Josiah, who became my 7th Great Grandfather.

 

Following The Pilgrims January 31, 2016

                    What a marvelous program we saw last night.  One of the best.  It was a PBS DVD from the American Experience series.  Most of the broad outline was familiar but this film portrayed it so well that it is now more firmly fixed in my mind (I hope!)  And I learned a lot as well.  Furthermore it tied in well with my genealogy research.

?Did you know that one of the men on the Mayflower was swept overboard but miraculously was rescued and went on to survive the first harsh winter etc and father 10 children.  He had 88 grandchildren, more than 500 great grandchildren and his subsequent descendants number in the tens of thousands – including Humphrey Bogart, Bob Hope, and both Bush Presidents.  I wonder if I can find myself among the millions of descendants living today.  The search goes on.