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New England Puritans

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    “Elder” Richard Masterson (bef.1594 - 1633)
    RICHARD MASTERSON MATERSON, RICHARD- A Separatist, Richard Masterson was recorded at Leidenas a woolcarder from Sandwich, England. He had been a surety for RobertCushman in buying a house in Leiden. He...
  • Rev. Ralph Smith (c.1590 - 1661)
    Ralph Smith migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 3, p. 1694) Biography Ralph Smith was born about 1590, proba...
  • Hungars parish church on the Eastern Shore of Accomack County, Virginia
    Rev. Francis Doughty, of Maspeth (bef.1605 - bef.1684)
    Francis Doughty migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 97) Francis Doughty is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society...
  • Rev. Samuel Stone (1602 - 1663)
    NOTE: No primary source shows marriage of this William Stone to "Hope Fletcher". There was a Hope Stow who married another Samuel Stone. Samuel Stone Sr. migrated to New England during the Puritan Gr...
  • Michael Wigglesworth (1631 - 1705)
    Michael Wigglesworth BIRTH 18 Oct 1631 Yorkshire, England Baptism 21 Oct 1631 Wrawby, Lincolnshire, England DEATH 10 Jun 1705 (aged 73) Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA BURIAL Bell ...
By an unknown 19th Century artist. Library of Congress ID 96502459.

Particularly in the years after 1630, Puritans left for New England, supporting the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other settlements. The large-scale Puritan emigration to New England then ceased, by 1641, with around 21,000 having moved across the Atlantic. This English-speaking population in America did not all consist of colonists, since many returned, but produced more than 16 million descendants. This so-called "Great Migration" is not so named because of sheer numbers, which were much less than the number of English citizens who emigrated to Virginia and the Caribbean during this time. The rapid growth of the New England colonies (~700,000 by 1790) was almost entirely due to the high birth rate and lower death rate per year.

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