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Mary and John 1630, Passenger Lists, English Ancestry, Great Migration, West Country, Winthrop Fleet, geneology
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On 20 March 1630, the ship Mary & John sailed from Plymouth, England with 140 passengers aboard. The Rev. John White of Dorchester, Dorset, recruited all the families. Nearly all of them came from the West Country of England, which included the counties of Somerset, Dorset and Devon. The ship landed in New England on 30 May 1630, two weeks before the Winthrop Fleet arrived. These people founded one of the first towns in Massachusetts, Dorchester, in 1630, and one of the earliest in Connecticut, Windsor, five years later.
After a descendant of these passengers, Burton W. Spear from Toledo, Ohio, found that he had 18 ancestors aboard this ship, he began an in-depth study of these families and eventually founded the Mary & John Clearing House in 1985.
No official passenger list has ever been found for this voyage, only synthetic lists by Charles E. Banks in 1930 and by Maude Pinney Kuhns in 1943, but even these two differed on half of the names. Further study revealed that both of these lists contained numerous errors. Some of those on these lists were still in England in 1630 and some of the others were not yet born.
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