Boston 1630
That was the year the Winthrop fleet...11 ships with 1,000 English settlers from Suffolk, Gloustershire and a couple of other counties ..arrived with the first Gov of MASS, Winthrop and his family..
The ships were the flagship Arabella, and Ambrose, Charles, Hopewell, Jewel, Mayflower, Success, Talbot, Trial, Whale, William & Francis
My ancestor, John Sales/Jan Celes and his 4 year old daughter Phoebe were amongst them...
Sales was member #21 in the new Boston Church, August, 1630..
When he moved to Manhattan, his plantation was known as “Old Jan’s Land” and Trinity Church now stands on part of that..
wow, interesting.
It’s good that you have so much information on your ancestors. I wish I had. So far I have been able to track one on my grandfathers side back to 1753 but no info on them except for names and dates of birth and location.
One of the most prevalent misconceptions is that the pilgrims were puritans. The pilgrims were seperationists who ran from the Church of England, while the puritans tried to ‘purify’ the church of catholic practices from within.