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flagship of the small fleet that arrived at Salem, Mass. (June12,1630), carrying some 600–700 persons from England to found a Puritan colony. Unlike the Pilgrims, who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620, these founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony desired to reform the Established Church, not to separate from it. John Winthrop left a record of the Arbella's voyage in his Journal.
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Arbella
For the English noblewoman, see Arbella Stuart.
The Arbella or Arabella[1] was the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet on which, between April 8 and June 12, 1630, Governor John Winthrop, other members of the Company and Puritan emigrants transported themselves and the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company from England to Salem, thereby giving legal birth to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. John Winthrop is reputed to have given the famous "City upon a Hill" sermon aboard the ship. Also on board was the first female poet to be published from the New World, Anne Bradstreet and her family.
The ship was at first known as the Eagle. Its name was changed in honor of Lady Arabella Johnson, who was a member of Winthrop's company, along with her husband, Isaac Johnson.[2] Lady Arabella was the daughter of Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln.[3]
Notes
- ^ Davida Rubin, Kenneth Garth Huston. Sir Kenelm Digby, F.R.S., 1603-1665: a bibliography ... (1969), p. 2.
- ^ Channing, Edward (1907). A History of the United States, Vol. I, p. 330. New York: The Macmillan Company.
- ^ Society, New England Historic Genealogical (1921). "Leaders in the Winthrop Fleet, 1630". The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 25: 236. http://books.google.com/?id=88sUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA236. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
References
- Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940
External links
- The Winthrop Society is a hereditary organization made up of the descendants those who arrived on the Winthrop Fleet or other Great Migration ships before 1634.
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