The Colonial Period--1620-1790
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"Any man has had countless myriads of ancestors and among them any number of rich men and beggars, kings and slaves, Greeks and barbarians" --Plato, Theaetetus
The "pilgrims" in Holland --be advised this is 'New Right' (libertarian) propaganda but it contains some interesting information and the fellow scores a few points.
Members of the Church at Leyden
Ship's passenger lists:
1621 FORTUNE; 1623 ANNE; 1630 Winthrop Fleet (11 ships)A virgin land of great beauty1632 Lyon; 1634 Francis; 1635 Planter; 1635 Angel Gabriel 1637 Hector
Caleb Johnson's Mayflower Web Pages.
The Black Sheep:
John Billington, Mayflower Passenger, dissenter, and the first white man executed for 'first degree' murder in the English Colonies. Bradford called the Billingtons, "...one of ye profanest families amongst them." The Billington family crosses that of the Allen at the marriage of James Mayhew Allen and Harriet Newhall Drew on 30 Nov 1841--here is the ahnentafel descent from that couples' son Bartlett. Some biographical informaton on John Billington is provided.
Deacon Samuel Fuller, "M.D." the doctor aboard the Mayflower; the doctor to Capt. Myles Standish (Will), Governor Bradford,(his will), Roger Williams and all of Plymouth Colony.
Edward Winslow's 1621 letter to England on life in New Plymouth.
George Allen-- c.1582-1648 "of Sandwich 1637," the progenitor of this Allen line in America. He is documented as arriving during The Great Migration (1630-1640); husbandman/farmer, land speculator, constable and Representative to the General Court of Plymouth Colony.
The Great Migration, the myth of religious liberty, and the crossing. The Winthrop Fleet, passengers who led The Great Migration.
Governor Thomas Mayhew--(1593-1657) the Tisbury History Page. THE ENGLISH FAMILY OF MAYHEW.The following pages are from Chapter VII (pp. 104 - 116) of The History of Martha's Vineyard Volume I by Dr. Charles E. Banks (originally published 1911.)
The first shipwreck recorded at Cape Cod was survived by Antony Thatcher and his wife.
Henry Vane became Governor of Massachusetts Bay at only 26, he wasn't governor long. Winthrop and his friends deposed him. When elected Winthrop had no idea what Vane's positions of liberty were. Certainly from Winthrop's point of view he was a very dangerious man. Vane's main positions on liberty are clear. He advocated a complete separation of church and state, and insisted that neither of them had any rightful authority over individual spiritual freedom. Accordingly, he opposed religious tyranny whether exercised by Episcopacy or Presbyterianism, arguing that no government, whether ecclesiastical or political, could deny individual freedom of conscience and remain consistent with God's providence. For he saw the guidance of God in the events of the Puritan Revolution. These events pointed to a government based on Christian principles, one which would tolerate all religions and work for the glory of God rather than the worldly selfinterests of men. Toleration was essenal because men were at different stages of spiritual development: what one suppressed might be a higher stage than what one has yet achieved. Moreover, men need a climate of freedom in order to realize what is right for them and to discover God's plan for human government, a plan that is innate in the natural order of things. This they will do best by means of free debate, whereby they will arrive at laws by common consent, agreeing and associating with others who likewise renounce private interests for public welfare and who surrender to the group thus constituted government over the outward man.
Zachariah Allen, at his retirement dinner as President of the Rhode Island Historical Society in 1895 delivered a scathing indictment of the Puritan Theoracy--there is a lesson here on the real threat of the Christian Colition.
The beautiful Colonial furniture created by Kenelm Winslow (1599-1672) photos. The best documented piece was built for Gov. Thomas Winslow's 4th wife.
The University of Virginia's The Plymouth Colony Archive Project. This includes a useful GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND WORDS WITH SPECIALIZED MEANINGS AT PLYMOUTH COLONY
The "Old Comers " those who arrived on the first three ships.
Travail -- pregnancy and childbirth in the Colonial Period
Anne Bradstreet, "A Dialogue Between Old England and New" (1630)
Increase Mather's "Remarkable Providences An Essay For the Recording of Illustrious Providences" (Boston, 1684)
Witchcraft in New York: The Cases of Hall and Harrison. George Lincoln Burr, ed., Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648-1706, (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914) 41-52 [Concerning Ralph Hall, Mary his wife, and Katherine Harrison and Captn. Richard Panton
Records of the [1692] Salem Witch Trials. Edited by George L. Burr 2 vols. (Roxbury, Mass.: W. Elliot Woodward, 1864).Hanover (College) Historical Texts Project
Includes the cases of--Sarah Good, Sarah Osborn, Tituba Indian, Martha Corey, John Procter, Dorcas Good, Rebecca Nurse Elizabeth Proctor, Mary Warren, Bridget Bishop, Abigail Hobbs, Sarah Wilds, Philip English, Susanna Martin, Elizabeth Hart, Dorcas Hoar, George Jacobs, John Willard, Ann Pudeater, Rebecca Jacobs, Roger Toothaker, Mary Eastley, Sarah Procter, Susanna Roots, Benjamin Procter, Martha Carrier, Elizabeth How, William Procter, Wilmott Reed, Elizabeth Fosdick & Elizabeth Paine, Mary Ireson, George Burroughs, Abigail Faulkner, Ann Foster, Mary Lacey, Rebecca Eames, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Mary Bradbury, Giles Corey, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott, John Bradstreet, Christopher Brown, Abel Powell, Margaret Reed
John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charity(1630) Written aboard the Arabella while crossing the Atlantic."The Massachusetts Body of Liberties" (1641) "...the General Court came together May 6 [1635]...business remaining undone, the Governor [John Haynes], Deputy Governor [Bellingham], John Winthrop, and Thomas Dudley, Esq., were deputed by the Court to make a draft of such laws as they should judge needful for the well-ordering of this plantation, and to present the same to the Court." It took six years to complete the project mostly because the above named committee was dragging its feet.
The Salem Witchcraft Papers--ragarding the 1692 Salem Witch Trials: Documents and Participants. Sponsored by the University of Virginia
