DORCHESTER ADVENTURERS
New England Grandees
The Newburgh (Newberry) Family from Dorset
Around 1628, roughly a decade after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, a fresh wave of migration began from England to Massachusetts. This sketch is a collective study focusing on Richard Newberry, who for decades, genealogists have attempted to link with the Newberry (aka Newburgh) family of Dorset and Somerset. The most well known of the surname, was Thomas Newberry. Richard (cousin of Thomas) was the only other male bearing the Newberry name to appear in early Massachusetts records. However, many more Newberry people arrived before and after the Massachusetts families. See immigrants list.
Dorchester Adventurers
Ambitious planning by several luminaries, culminated in immigrant voyages from the West Country of Great Britain to New England. In 1634, Thomas Newberry and Rev. Walter Newberry were deeply involved in development of an early colonial archetype for Dorchester, Massachusetts. Thomas was in New England by 1634. While attending to his own duties as Rector of Symondsbury, Walter remained in Dorset and helped manage expedition financing with his friend Rev. John White (Rector of Holy Trinity in Dorchester, Dorset). Their primary motives were based on religion, driven by economics and what appears to be a thirst for adventure. Less than a decade later, Thomas' cousin, Richard Newberry, was evident as a freeman and “planter” in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The exact date of his arrival is not known, however, in extrapolating from extant information, 1638 may be accurate.
Dorchester Adventurer participants/investors were a tightly knit group, who mixed not only as business partners, but via marriage and blood relationships. There were one hundred and twenty known members.[1] Families who were related on some level with the Newberry’s were the Wolcott, Browne, Strode and Stoughton families. There may have been others. Henry Wolcott was a man of affluent means ,who had made an exploratory voyage to New England in 1628. It was at that time that he was determined to leave Somerset for the New World. The Wolcott's intermarried with Thomas Newberry's line in Connecticut. The combined wealth and power of these people sets them apart from the other immigrants who made their home in New England.
Thistlewaite has this to say about the elder Wolcott:
“Henry Wolcott, a man of affluent means, though in middle age had made a reconnoitering voyage to New England in 1628 and had then determined to forsake Somerset for the New World. Having disposed of the greater part of his family inheritance, he embarked with his family on the Mary and John. With his talents and energy Wolcott, along with Roger Ludlow, Edward Rossiter and Israel Stoughton, provided the leadership for the Dorchester enterprise, He was to be a principal magistrate of Connecticut colony, the most prominent member of the Windsor settlement throughout his long life, and its richest citizen. . . .”
This being said, it is no surprise Thomas Newberry’s family enjoyed lofty accolades in their settlement. The Newberry and Wolcott families were considered “grandees” of the new world.
Rev. Walter Newberry participated financially with the group but never immigrated. Walter’s involvement may have brought his kinsmen into the planning of the colony. Thomas Newberry and Henry Wolcott were prime investors behind the move to the Connecticut River and the new town to be called Windsor. Thomas died leaving his second wife and seven children to brave the wilderness alone. Benjamin, Thomas’ only male progeny to continue residence in New England, propelled Thomas' historic legacy and blood line in America. In 1647, under strained circumstances, Benjamin's brothers, Joseph and John returned to England.**
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AUTHOR'S NOTE:
** Bartlett, Joseph Gardner. The Newberry Genealogy, 1914.
Bartlett's work has been proven (by this historian) to be erroneous with regard to the identity of John Newberry. Henry Wolcott Jr. succeeded to his father's estates in England which were managed for him by John Newberry of Chardstock, co. Dorset. This John is described by Bartlett as being the son of Henry Newberry of Yarcombe, co. Devon, and grandson of Robert Newberry of Yarcombe. Robert was the brother of Thomas Newberry. Bartlett's conclusions as to John Newberry’s identity are inaccurate and convoluted. As it turns out John Newberry of Chardstock was actually the son of Thomas Newberry. He had been banished from the colony and returned to England with his brother Joseph.
I've spent considerable time unwinding this family line by reading wills and letters archived at the Connecticut Historical Society written to Henry Wolcott(s) Senior and Junior, by John Newberry of Chardstock. John terms Wolcott as his "loving cozen”, which is actually true, as follows:
John Newberry was Wolcott's brother-in-law who was banished from New England in 1647 after he committed an unsavory crime. He arrived back in England in 1648 and promptly married, and sired a son whom he named John. It is this younger John who is the cousin of Henry Wolcott Jr. and who writes the letters. Henry Wolcott Sr. was married to Sarah Newberry sister of John Newberry and his brothers. The grandfather who is mentioned in the letters is none other than the banished John.
In one letter dated at Chardstock, 2 Mar. 1686/7, John Newberry states, "Allso the last yeare I did desiere you for to geet it sartyfied under the seckararys hand And the ministers hand that Cozin bengimen Newbery was still lifefing if hee ware so, For granfather Newbry holds a liveung by his life, and the lord forsoth hime to prove the life Alive". In another letter dated 29 Sept. 1687, John Newberry stated: "I desired you severall tymes to geet it Atested under the ministers hand or under the secketaryes of the Court, that Coezen [sic] bengimen Newbery Is still liveing, but you do not do it Acording to law for us now it plesed god to tack Away my grandather the 22th [sic] of August last past in ano 1687".
For a number of reasons I was suspicious of Bartlett’s findings and traced a solid connection with wills and other documents back to the real John Newberry, his son and his grandson, all of whom were named John. The Windsor Historical Society has one simple sentence in their records written by town surveyor Matthew Grant stating that John was hanged. No other evidence exists for John's demise, no grave, no will, explanation. He simply disappeared and historians believed Grant's brief journal entry.
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For more information read, The Resurrection of John Newberry- Hanged Man of Windsor, by Sue Simonich.
A good source of those who returned to Old England after living for some time in New England is Susan Hardman Moore’ s book, Pilgrims - New World Settlers & the Call of Home.
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Notes and Queries of Somerset and Dorset Vol. 17, p. 120
93. – The Adventure to New England from Dorchester [s 107]. The late Mr. F. J. Pope’s account of the Rev. John White’s earlier and unsuccessful endeavour to colonize New England should be supplemented by the following answer in the Chancery Suit Beale v. White: --
On Jun 2nd 12 Charles (1636) Edmund Dashwood, Robert Coker, Benjamin Devenish and John White, Clerk, all of Dorchester made answer at Dorchester to the suit of Henry Beale and Peter Lenartes concerning transactions in connection with adventures to New England . –
"About twelve years since divers knights, gentlemen, and others agreed as joint adventurers for the settling of a plantation in New England. These defendants had little to do with the adventure beyond paying L20 each, and having lost all their money they about eight years since gave over the plantation. They refer to the answer of John White Clerk, for a full answer to plaintiffs. John Tilly and John Watts had been employed by the adventurers as factors to manage the business of the plantation. The plaintiffs and Peter Lenartes senior, now deceased, had sent a ship “The Sowches Phoenix” to New England.”
The answer of the Rev. John White above mentioned and printed in part by Mr. Pope was dated 12 October 1634. It contains the following list of adventurers who subscribed their L20 and lost their money. Mr. Pope omitted the names, but as they were mostly Dorset and Somerset men their interest in New England ought to be here recorded, especially as many of them afterwards emigrated to that country.
Beal v. White &c. The answer of the Rev. John White, Rector of St. Peter’s Dorchester, in the suit brought by Henry Beale, and Peter Lenartes against him and John Watts. Dated at Dorchester, 12 Oc. 10 Car. 1 (1634).
“Eleven years sithence and upwards divers knights gentlemen and others did agree to ioyne together in purse as ioynt adventurers for the settling of a Plantacon in New England in America for the better and more convenient taking and saving of the fish in the seas of those parts, and also for bartering and exchange of comodoties transported from the Kingdom of England with the natives of New England aforesaid as of such others as afterwards became adventurers with them; this defendant to his best knowledge and remembrance hath here – under particularly menconed and expressed viz: --
List of Investors
Sir Francis Ashely, Knight, William Derby, William Whiteway, the elder; Thomas Devnish; Joseph Underwood; Robert Coker; John Cooke; Benjamin Devnish; William Loder; Bernard Toup; Patroclus Cooke; Richard Savage; Josiah Terry; John Blachford; Edmund Dashwood; Richard Bury; John Hill; Humfry Joliffe; Henry Maber; William Spering; Gilbert Loder; Richard Watts; Dennis Bond; Mathew Bonger; George Way’ and this defendant, James Gould.
“All of Dorchester, and”
Michaell Humfry Gen.; Giles Miller; William Whiteway the younger; John Pitt; William Tilly; Mathew Pitt; John Terry; John Long; Richard Bushrod; Edward Clerk; Robert Miller; John Guy; Robert Cheeke, Clerk; John Savage; Miles Bownes; Mathias Nicholls; Christopher Erle Esq.; Steven White; Edward Frencham; William Roydon; Walter Newburgh; and John Jope; Johan Gould Widow;
All Sithence deceased, and : --
Sir Richard Strode of Chalmington knight
Sir Walter Erle of Charborough knight
John Browne of Frampton, Esquire;
Margaret Allen of Bloxworth widow;
William Smith of Winterborne St. Martin;
Thomas Purchase then of Dorchester;
John Sacheverell of Stoake Clerk;
William Bradishe, Clerke Dr. of Divinity of Puddletowne;
George Hardy of Compton Abbas;
John Ball of Lagton;
Edward Pele of Compton Valence
Henry Welsteed of Bloxworthy;
Robert Veare sometimes of Fordington;
Christopher Byney of Walterston;
Giles Stoodley the younger of Broadewinsor;
William Willis of Puddletown;
James Mewe of Caudle
Thomas Kete of Chesselbrne;
Thomas Pelham of Compton Valence Esquire;
Robert Raw of Bettiscombe Gen.
Walter Burges of Buckland;
Josias Cooth of Sherborne;
John Galton of Lulworth;
William Tucker of Beeminster;
Johan Derby of Beamister widow
Nichlas Polden of Caundle
Robert Whetcombe of Sherborne
Nathaniell Heighmore of Caundle
John Snooke of Temple Comb
Giles Green of Afflington
William Harvy of Langton and
William Golsney of Holnest
All in the said County of Dorset, and
Lawrence Adyn and Charles Adyn living about Shrowsbury in Shropshire
Josuah Martyn living about Yeavell in the County of Somerset
Amias Martyn of Ireland
William Gould near Exon in the County of Devon
Henry Gould and Edward Gould brothers of the said William Gould
Francis Crossing of Exon and
Richard Allen of Ditchet
John Connant of Lymington
Richard Cooth of Ensom
John Snooke of Temple Combe
All in the County of Somerset and
Walter Young, Esq. of Coliton
John Poole Baronett, of Colcomb
William Fry Esq. of Yarty
Periam Poole Gen.
Mere Morton
Richard Mallack Gent. of Axmouth
John Davy of Crediton and
Elizabeth Poole of Seaton
All in the County of Devon and
Morgan Hayne living about New Castle and
Thomas Southcott Esq. of Ottery
Henry Walrond Esq.
Joseph Long Gen. of Sidbury in the County of Devon
Sir Arthur Smythes knight
Henry May of Kendall
Anthony Wilkins
Pawle Derby and Anthony Derby both living in France
Henry Smyth living in New England
Christopher Viney
George Dier living in New England
Mary Hussey Widow
John Humfrey Gent. living in New England
John Raymond
John Vincent and
John White Esq.
John Garmy and
Mr. Alden.
All of London
Notwithstanding this failure John White made another adventure in 1627for he says. ---
“The defendant John Watts being employed in a voyage to New England for the joint adventure of himself and this defendant (i.e. John White) and of Richard Bushrod, Gilbert Loder, William Derby, Bernard Toup, Richard Bury, and George Way, all of Dorchester and of John Connant of Lymington Somerset, Henry Maniford of Long Burton Dorset and Morgan Haine living now as this defendant hath heard farre in the north towards New Castle upon Tyne is said to have taken 26 hogsheads of the salt. The salt was used for curing fish which became putrid and rotten and was of no value. Also watts did not take any boats or nets belonging to the plaintiffs.”
The answer of the defendant Watts follows. He states that he went to New England as a factor and that he found in an island in Cape Anne Harbour a quantity of salt uncovered and open to the air and that he took 26 hogsheads of the salt to cure fish. The salt however being bad the fish became putrid and worthless. Mr. Morton then dwelling in New England had claimed the salt.
Notes and Queries of Somerset and Dorset
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EARLIER ADVENTURERS
Previous Adventurers were important to the development of the Atlantic seaboard. See this article on Wikipedia about earlier companies that developed for the purposes of settling the New World.
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk was involved with the earliest exploration and settlement of plantations of Virginia circa 1602. Howard was instrumental in the history of East Lulworth, Dorset after his father Thomas Howard, the 1st earl died.
Voyages of the Mary and John
Before the well known voyage of the Mary and John that brought Thomas Newberry and his family to New England, there was an earlier voyage worth mentioning in 1633. See "Passengers of the Mary and John" The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume 9.
Earlier "immigrants to New England on the Mary and John of London Robert Sayres master. This is a true copy of His Majesties Letters Patent aforesaid - Custom House London 30 January 1633 Anno. R. Caroli Nono - John Wolstenholme Collector
The names of such passengers as took the Oathes of Supremacy & Allegiance to pass for New England in the Mary & John of London.
24th March 1633
William Trace, William Savery, Abraham Mussey, John Anthony, left behind, William Ballard, John Marshe, Matthew Gillett, John Luff, Stephen Jurden, William Franklin, Henry Traske, John Godfrey, John Mussey, William Moudey, George Browne, Thomas Cole, Robert Sever, Nicholas Noyce, Thomas Parker, Thomas Avery, Richard Browne, James Noyce, Henry Travers, Richard Reynolds, John Spencer, Thomas Sweete, Richard Littlhall, William Spencer, John Woodbridge, William White, Henry Shorte, Thomas West, Matthew Hewlett [Hercules], William Hibbens, Thomas Savery, JohnWhelyer, Richard Kent, Christopher Osgood, William Clarke, Joseph Myles, Phillip Fowler, Robert Neuman, John Newman, Richard Jacob, Adrian Vincent, William Newbey, Daniel Ladd, Henry Lunt, Robert Kingsman.
The 26th of March, Joseph Pope, John Barlett, Nicholas Easton, Thomas Newman, Robert, Coker, Richard Kent, John Newman
For which we gave certificate, together with five other which are said to be left behind to oversee the Chattle and pass in the Hercules viz
The names of the Passengers in the Hercules of London, John Kiddy Master for New England-
These six Passengers took their Oathes of Supremacy & Allegiance the 24th of March and were left behind the Mary and John as intended to pass in ye Hercules - Viz
John Anthony, Robert Early, William Latcome, Thomas Foster, William Foster, Matthew Hewlett. Cert. the six first to Master Sayers as intended Second to Mr. Kiddey to pass in the Hercules."
The Newburgh (Newberry) Family from Dorset
Around 1628, roughly a decade after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, a fresh wave of migration began from England to Massachusetts. This sketch is a collective study focusing on Richard Newberry, who for decades, genealogists have attempted to link with the Newberry (aka Newburgh) family of Dorset and Somerset. The most well known of the surname, was Thomas Newberry. Richard (cousin of Thomas) was the only other male bearing the Newberry name to appear in early Massachusetts records. However, many more Newberry people arrived before and after the Massachusetts families. See immigrants list.
Dorchester Adventurers
Ambitious planning by several luminaries, culminated in immigrant voyages from the West Country of Great Britain to New England. In 1634, Thomas Newberry and Rev. Walter Newberry were deeply involved in development of an early colonial archetype for Dorchester, Massachusetts. Thomas was in New England by 1634. While attending to his own duties as Rector of Symondsbury, Walter remained in Dorset and helped manage expedition financing with his friend Rev. John White (Rector of Holy Trinity in Dorchester, Dorset). Their primary motives were based on religion, driven by economics and what appears to be a thirst for adventure. Less than a decade later, Thomas' cousin, Richard Newberry, was evident as a freeman and “planter” in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The exact date of his arrival is not known, however, in extrapolating from extant information, 1638 may be accurate.
Dorchester Adventurer participants/investors were a tightly knit group, who mixed not only as business partners, but via marriage and blood relationships. There were one hundred and twenty known members.[1] Families who were related on some level with the Newberry’s were the Wolcott, Browne, Strode and Stoughton families. There may have been others. Henry Wolcott was a man of affluent means ,who had made an exploratory voyage to New England in 1628. It was at that time that he was determined to leave Somerset for the New World. The Wolcott's intermarried with Thomas Newberry's line in Connecticut. The combined wealth and power of these people sets them apart from the other immigrants who made their home in New England.
Thistlewaite has this to say about the elder Wolcott:
“Henry Wolcott, a man of affluent means, though in middle age had made a reconnoitering voyage to New England in 1628 and had then determined to forsake Somerset for the New World. Having disposed of the greater part of his family inheritance, he embarked with his family on the Mary and John. With his talents and energy Wolcott, along with Roger Ludlow, Edward Rossiter and Israel Stoughton, provided the leadership for the Dorchester enterprise, He was to be a principal magistrate of Connecticut colony, the most prominent member of the Windsor settlement throughout his long life, and its richest citizen. . . .”
This being said, it is no surprise Thomas Newberry’s family enjoyed lofty accolades in their settlement. The Newberry and Wolcott families were considered “grandees” of the new world.
Rev. Walter Newberry participated financially with the group but never immigrated. Walter’s involvement may have brought his kinsmen into the planning of the colony. Thomas Newberry and Henry Wolcott were prime investors behind the move to the Connecticut River and the new town to be called Windsor. Thomas died leaving his second wife and seven children to brave the wilderness alone. Benjamin, Thomas’ only male progeny to continue residence in New England, propelled Thomas' historic legacy and blood line in America. In 1647, under strained circumstances, Benjamin's brothers, Joseph and John returned to England.**
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AUTHOR'S NOTE:
** Bartlett, Joseph Gardner. The Newberry Genealogy, 1914.
Bartlett's work has been proven (by this historian) to be erroneous with regard to the identity of John Newberry. Henry Wolcott Jr. succeeded to his father's estates in England which were managed for him by John Newberry of Chardstock, co. Dorset. This John is described by Bartlett as being the son of Henry Newberry of Yarcombe, co. Devon, and grandson of Robert Newberry of Yarcombe. Robert was the brother of Thomas Newberry. Bartlett's conclusions as to John Newberry’s identity are inaccurate and convoluted. As it turns out John Newberry of Chardstock was actually the son of Thomas Newberry. He had been banished from the colony and returned to England with his brother Joseph.
I've spent considerable time unwinding this family line by reading wills and letters archived at the Connecticut Historical Society written to Henry Wolcott(s) Senior and Junior, by John Newberry of Chardstock. John terms Wolcott as his "loving cozen”, which is actually true, as follows:
John Newberry was Wolcott's brother-in-law who was banished from New England in 1647 after he committed an unsavory crime. He arrived back in England in 1648 and promptly married, and sired a son whom he named John. It is this younger John who is the cousin of Henry Wolcott Jr. and who writes the letters. Henry Wolcott Sr. was married to Sarah Newberry sister of John Newberry and his brothers. The grandfather who is mentioned in the letters is none other than the banished John.
In one letter dated at Chardstock, 2 Mar. 1686/7, John Newberry states, "Allso the last yeare I did desiere you for to geet it sartyfied under the seckararys hand And the ministers hand that Cozin bengimen Newbery was still lifefing if hee ware so, For granfather Newbry holds a liveung by his life, and the lord forsoth hime to prove the life Alive". In another letter dated 29 Sept. 1687, John Newberry stated: "I desired you severall tymes to geet it Atested under the ministers hand or under the secketaryes of the Court, that Coezen [sic] bengimen Newbery Is still liveing, but you do not do it Acording to law for us now it plesed god to tack Away my grandather the 22th [sic] of August last past in ano 1687".
For a number of reasons I was suspicious of Bartlett’s findings and traced a solid connection with wills and other documents back to the real John Newberry, his son and his grandson, all of whom were named John. The Windsor Historical Society has one simple sentence in their records written by town surveyor Matthew Grant stating that John was hanged. No other evidence exists for John's demise, no grave, no will, explanation. He simply disappeared and historians believed Grant's brief journal entry.
_________________________________
For more information read, The Resurrection of John Newberry- Hanged Man of Windsor, by Sue Simonich.
A good source of those who returned to Old England after living for some time in New England is Susan Hardman Moore’ s book, Pilgrims - New World Settlers & the Call of Home.
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Notes and Queries of Somerset and Dorset Vol. 17, p. 120
93. – The Adventure to New England from Dorchester [s 107]. The late Mr. F. J. Pope’s account of the Rev. John White’s earlier and unsuccessful endeavour to colonize New England should be supplemented by the following answer in the Chancery Suit Beale v. White: --
On Jun 2nd 12 Charles (1636) Edmund Dashwood, Robert Coker, Benjamin Devenish and John White, Clerk, all of Dorchester made answer at Dorchester to the suit of Henry Beale and Peter Lenartes concerning transactions in connection with adventures to New England . –
"About twelve years since divers knights, gentlemen, and others agreed as joint adventurers for the settling of a plantation in New England. These defendants had little to do with the adventure beyond paying L20 each, and having lost all their money they about eight years since gave over the plantation. They refer to the answer of John White Clerk, for a full answer to plaintiffs. John Tilly and John Watts had been employed by the adventurers as factors to manage the business of the plantation. The plaintiffs and Peter Lenartes senior, now deceased, had sent a ship “The Sowches Phoenix” to New England.”
The answer of the Rev. John White above mentioned and printed in part by Mr. Pope was dated 12 October 1634. It contains the following list of adventurers who subscribed their L20 and lost their money. Mr. Pope omitted the names, but as they were mostly Dorset and Somerset men their interest in New England ought to be here recorded, especially as many of them afterwards emigrated to that country.
Beal v. White &c. The answer of the Rev. John White, Rector of St. Peter’s Dorchester, in the suit brought by Henry Beale, and Peter Lenartes against him and John Watts. Dated at Dorchester, 12 Oc. 10 Car. 1 (1634).
“Eleven years sithence and upwards divers knights gentlemen and others did agree to ioyne together in purse as ioynt adventurers for the settling of a Plantacon in New England in America for the better and more convenient taking and saving of the fish in the seas of those parts, and also for bartering and exchange of comodoties transported from the Kingdom of England with the natives of New England aforesaid as of such others as afterwards became adventurers with them; this defendant to his best knowledge and remembrance hath here – under particularly menconed and expressed viz: --
List of Investors
Sir Francis Ashely, Knight, William Derby, William Whiteway, the elder; Thomas Devnish; Joseph Underwood; Robert Coker; John Cooke; Benjamin Devnish; William Loder; Bernard Toup; Patroclus Cooke; Richard Savage; Josiah Terry; John Blachford; Edmund Dashwood; Richard Bury; John Hill; Humfry Joliffe; Henry Maber; William Spering; Gilbert Loder; Richard Watts; Dennis Bond; Mathew Bonger; George Way’ and this defendant, James Gould.
“All of Dorchester, and”
Michaell Humfry Gen.; Giles Miller; William Whiteway the younger; John Pitt; William Tilly; Mathew Pitt; John Terry; John Long; Richard Bushrod; Edward Clerk; Robert Miller; John Guy; Robert Cheeke, Clerk; John Savage; Miles Bownes; Mathias Nicholls; Christopher Erle Esq.; Steven White; Edward Frencham; William Roydon; Walter Newburgh; and John Jope; Johan Gould Widow;
All Sithence deceased, and : --
Sir Richard Strode of Chalmington knight
Sir Walter Erle of Charborough knight
John Browne of Frampton, Esquire;
Margaret Allen of Bloxworth widow;
William Smith of Winterborne St. Martin;
Thomas Purchase then of Dorchester;
John Sacheverell of Stoake Clerk;
William Bradishe, Clerke Dr. of Divinity of Puddletowne;
George Hardy of Compton Abbas;
John Ball of Lagton;
Edward Pele of Compton Valence
Henry Welsteed of Bloxworthy;
Robert Veare sometimes of Fordington;
Christopher Byney of Walterston;
Giles Stoodley the younger of Broadewinsor;
William Willis of Puddletown;
James Mewe of Caudle
Thomas Kete of Chesselbrne;
Thomas Pelham of Compton Valence Esquire;
Robert Raw of Bettiscombe Gen.
Walter Burges of Buckland;
Josias Cooth of Sherborne;
John Galton of Lulworth;
William Tucker of Beeminster;
Johan Derby of Beamister widow
Nichlas Polden of Caundle
Robert Whetcombe of Sherborne
Nathaniell Heighmore of Caundle
John Snooke of Temple Comb
Giles Green of Afflington
William Harvy of Langton and
William Golsney of Holnest
All in the said County of Dorset, and
Lawrence Adyn and Charles Adyn living about Shrowsbury in Shropshire
Josuah Martyn living about Yeavell in the County of Somerset
Amias Martyn of Ireland
William Gould near Exon in the County of Devon
Henry Gould and Edward Gould brothers of the said William Gould
Francis Crossing of Exon and
Richard Allen of Ditchet
John Connant of Lymington
Richard Cooth of Ensom
John Snooke of Temple Combe
All in the County of Somerset and
Walter Young, Esq. of Coliton
John Poole Baronett, of Colcomb
William Fry Esq. of Yarty
Periam Poole Gen.
Mere Morton
Richard Mallack Gent. of Axmouth
John Davy of Crediton and
Elizabeth Poole of Seaton
All in the County of Devon and
Morgan Hayne living about New Castle and
Thomas Southcott Esq. of Ottery
Henry Walrond Esq.
Joseph Long Gen. of Sidbury in the County of Devon
Sir Arthur Smythes knight
Henry May of Kendall
Anthony Wilkins
Pawle Derby and Anthony Derby both living in France
Henry Smyth living in New England
Christopher Viney
George Dier living in New England
Mary Hussey Widow
John Humfrey Gent. living in New England
John Raymond
John Vincent and
John White Esq.
John Garmy and
Mr. Alden.
All of London
Notwithstanding this failure John White made another adventure in 1627for he says. ---
“The defendant John Watts being employed in a voyage to New England for the joint adventure of himself and this defendant (i.e. John White) and of Richard Bushrod, Gilbert Loder, William Derby, Bernard Toup, Richard Bury, and George Way, all of Dorchester and of John Connant of Lymington Somerset, Henry Maniford of Long Burton Dorset and Morgan Haine living now as this defendant hath heard farre in the north towards New Castle upon Tyne is said to have taken 26 hogsheads of the salt. The salt was used for curing fish which became putrid and rotten and was of no value. Also watts did not take any boats or nets belonging to the plaintiffs.”
The answer of the defendant Watts follows. He states that he went to New England as a factor and that he found in an island in Cape Anne Harbour a quantity of salt uncovered and open to the air and that he took 26 hogsheads of the salt to cure fish. The salt however being bad the fish became putrid and worthless. Mr. Morton then dwelling in New England had claimed the salt.
Notes and Queries of Somerset and Dorset
-End-
EARLIER ADVENTURERS
Previous Adventurers were important to the development of the Atlantic seaboard. See this article on Wikipedia about earlier companies that developed for the purposes of settling the New World.
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk was involved with the earliest exploration and settlement of plantations of Virginia circa 1602. Howard was instrumental in the history of East Lulworth, Dorset after his father Thomas Howard, the 1st earl died.
Voyages of the Mary and John
Before the well known voyage of the Mary and John that brought Thomas Newberry and his family to New England, there was an earlier voyage worth mentioning in 1633. See "Passengers of the Mary and John" The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume 9.
Earlier "immigrants to New England on the Mary and John of London Robert Sayres master. This is a true copy of His Majesties Letters Patent aforesaid - Custom House London 30 January 1633 Anno. R. Caroli Nono - John Wolstenholme Collector
The names of such passengers as took the Oathes of Supremacy & Allegiance to pass for New England in the Mary & John of London.
24th March 1633
William Trace, William Savery, Abraham Mussey, John Anthony, left behind, William Ballard, John Marshe, Matthew Gillett, John Luff, Stephen Jurden, William Franklin, Henry Traske, John Godfrey, John Mussey, William Moudey, George Browne, Thomas Cole, Robert Sever, Nicholas Noyce, Thomas Parker, Thomas Avery, Richard Browne, James Noyce, Henry Travers, Richard Reynolds, John Spencer, Thomas Sweete, Richard Littlhall, William Spencer, John Woodbridge, William White, Henry Shorte, Thomas West, Matthew Hewlett [Hercules], William Hibbens, Thomas Savery, JohnWhelyer, Richard Kent, Christopher Osgood, William Clarke, Joseph Myles, Phillip Fowler, Robert Neuman, John Newman, Richard Jacob, Adrian Vincent, William Newbey, Daniel Ladd, Henry Lunt, Robert Kingsman.
The 26th of March, Joseph Pope, John Barlett, Nicholas Easton, Thomas Newman, Robert, Coker, Richard Kent, John Newman
For which we gave certificate, together with five other which are said to be left behind to oversee the Chattle and pass in the Hercules viz
The names of the Passengers in the Hercules of London, John Kiddy Master for New England-
These six Passengers took their Oathes of Supremacy & Allegiance the 24th of March and were left behind the Mary and John as intended to pass in ye Hercules - Viz
John Anthony, Robert Early, William Latcome, Thomas Foster, William Foster, Matthew Hewlett. Cert. the six first to Master Sayers as intended Second to Mr. Kiddey to pass in the Hercules."
