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Abigail
The Abigail of London sailed from foreign ports, the last being Plymouth, England on June 4, 1635. She sailed with about 220 passengers aboard along with livestock. She arrived in Boston about October 8, 1635 with smallpox aboard.
Richard Hackwell, master of Abigail
Columns represent: given name, surname, age, occupation, country to which they belong, country which they intend to inhabit,
1* Robert Meares 43 husbandman Boston
2 Mrs. Elizabeth Meares 30
3 Samuel Meares 6
4 John Meares 3 mo
5 Thomas Buttolph 32 glover Boston
6 Mrs. Anne Buttolph 24
7 Ralph Mason 35 carpenter Saint Olave's Southwark Boston
8 Mrs. Anne Mason 35
9 Richard Mason 5
10 Samuel Mason 3
11 Susan Mason 1
12 John Winthrop 27
13 Mrs. Elizabeth Winthrop 19
14 Deane Winthrop II
15 Matthew Abdy II fisherman Boston
16 Edward Belcher 8 Boston
17 Elizabeth Epps 13
18 Mary Lyne 6
19 George Burden 24 tanner Boston
20 Edward Rainsforde 26 merchant Boston
21 Nathaniel Tilley 32 Little Minories, London Boston
22 William Tilley 28 Little Minories, London Boston
23* Ralph Root 50 Boston
24 Mary Root 15
25* Robert Sharpe 20 Braintree
26 Ralph Shepherd 29 tailor Dedham
27 Mrs. Thanks Shepherd 23
28 Sarah Shepherd 3
29 John Houghton Eaton Bray, Co. Dedham Bedford
30 Edward White 42 Cranbrook,Co. Dorch.,Kent
31 Mrs. Martha White 39
32 Martha White 10
33 Mary White 8
34 Joseph Fludd 45 baker Dorchester
35 Mrs. Jane Fludd 35
36 Elizabeth Fludd 9
37 Obadiah Fludd 4
38 Joseph Fludd 6 mo
39* Edmond Munnings 40 Denge,Co. Essex Dorchester
40 Mrs. Mary Munnings 30
41 Mary Munnings 9
42 Anna Munnings 6
43 Mahalaleel Munnings 3
44 Thomas Jones 40 Dorchester
45* Mrs. Ellen Jones 36
46* Isaac Jones 8
47* Hester Jones 6
48 Thomas Jones 3
49 Sarah Jones 3 mo
50 Henry Bullock 40 Saint Lawrence, Charlestown
51 Mrs. Susan Bullock 42
52 Henry Bullock 8
53 Mary Bullock 6
54 Thomas Bullock 2
55* Thomas Knower 33 clothier London Charlestown
56 Sarah Knower 7
57* Noel Knower 29 London Charlestown
58 Philip Drinker 39 potter Charlestown
59 Mrs. Elizabeth Drinker 32
60 Edward Drinker 12
61 John Drinker 8
62 George Hepborne 43 glover Southwark Charlestown
63 Mrs. Anne Hepborne 46
64 Rebecca Hepborne 10
65 Anna Hepborne 4
66 Joseph Borebank 24 servant
67 Joan Jordan 16 servant
68 William Fuller 25 Ipswich
69 Joseph Fuller 15
70 Robert Whitman 20 Little Minories, London Ipswich
71 John West 11 Ipswich
72 John Emerson 20 Scituate
73 Richard Carr 29 Salibury
74 Hugh Burt 35 Dorking,Co. Surrey Lynn
75 Mrs. Anne Burt 32
76* Hugh Burt 15
77 Edward Burt 8
78 William Bassett 9 son of Mrs. Burt by a previous marriage
79 Edward Iresone 32 ??Buckenham,Lynn Co. Norfolk
80* Mrs. Elizabeth Ireson 27
81 Henry Collins 29 starchmaker Stepney Lynn
82 Mrs. Anne Collins 30
83 Henry Collins 5
84 John Collins 3
85 Margery Collins 1
86 Dennis Geere 30 Lynn Islesworth, Co.Mid-dlesex
87 Mrs. Elizabeth Geere 22
88 Elizabeth Geere 3
89 Sarah Geere 2
90 Elizabeth Tusolie 55
91 Anne Pankhurst 16 relative of Geere (cousin?)
92 Constance Woods 12
93 Thomas Brane 40 servant
94 Thomas Launder 22 servant
95* Edmund Freeman 34* gentleman Pulborough, Lynn Co.Sussex
96 Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman
97 Alice Freeman
98* Edward Freeman 15
99 Elizabeth Freeman 12
100 John Freeman 8
101* William Almy 34 South Kilworth,Co.Lynn Leicester
102* Mrs. Audrey Almy 32
103* Agnes Almy 8
104* Christopher Almy 3
105 Christopher Foster 32 husbandman Ewell,Co. Lynn Surrey
106 Mrs. Frances Foster 25
107 Rebecca Foster 5
108 Nathaniel Foster 2
109 Joseph Foster 1
110 Alice Stevens 22 sister of Mrs. Foster?
111 Thomas Stevens 12
112 John Deacon 28 blacksmith Lynn
113 Mrs. Alice Deacon 30
114 Hugh Alley 27 Stepney Lynn
115 Joshua Griffith 25 Stepney Lynn
116 Richard Woodman 9 Lynn
117 Ralph Wallis 40 husbandman Malden
118 George Wallis 15
119 John Allen 30 Haverhill, Suffolk Plymouth
120 Mrs. Anne Allen 30
121* Ezra Covell 15
122 Richard Adams 29 shoemaker Northampton, Salem Co. Northants
123 Mrs. Susan Adams 26
124 Henry Sumner Northampton Woburn
125 Elizabeth Sumner 18
126 John Harbert 23 shoemaker Northampton Salem county Northants
127 Richard Graves 23 Salem
128 John Cooke 17 Salem
129 Robert Driver 43* tailor Salem
130 John Freeman 35 Sudbury
131 Mrs. Mary Freeman 30*
132 John Freeman 9
133 Cicely Freeman 4
134 Jasper Arnold 40 Shoreditch, London
135 Mrs. Anne Arnold 39
136 William Potter 27 husbandman Watertown
137 Mrs. Frances Potter 26
138 Joseph Potter 6 mo
139* John Rookman 45
140 Mrs. Elizabeth Rookman 31
141* John Rookman 9
142 John Coke 27
143 Edward Fountaine 28
144 John Fox 35
145 Richard Fox 15
146 Thomas Freeman 24
147 Walter Gutsall 23*
148* John Holliock 28
149 Charles Jones 21 Little Minories, London
150 John Jones
151 William King 28
152 William Marshall 40
153 George Rum 25
154 Joseph Stanley 34
155 Joseph Terry 32
156* George Drewry 19 East Grinstead, Sussex
157 James Dodd 16
158 Thomas Goad 15
159 Peter Kettell 10
160 Edward Martin 19
161* William Paine 15
162* John Paine 14
163* John Stroud 15
164 Thomas Thompson 18
165 William Yates 14
166 Agnes Alcock 18
167 Lydia Browne Little Minories, London
168 Ruth Bushell 23
169 Margaret Devotion 9
170 Elizabeth Ellis 16
171 Elizabeth Harding 12 Little Minories, London
172 Susan Hathaway 34
173 Elinor Hillman 33
174 Mary Jones 30
175 Rebecca Price 14
176 Margaret Tucker 23
177 Joan Wall 19
178 Anne Williams 10
Passengers:
1 Hotten's lists as Mere
20 Hotten's lists as Rainsford
23 Hotten's lists as Roote
25 Hotten's lists as Sharp
39 Hotten's lists as Maning and family as Monings
45 Hotten's lists as Ellin
46 Hotten's lists as Isack
47 Hotten's does not list
55 Hotten's lists as Knore
57 Hotten's lists as Noll Knore
76 Hotten's does not list
79&80 Hotten's lists as Ireson
95 Hotten's lists as age 45
101 Hotten's lists as Wm. Almond
102 Hotten's lists as Awdry Almond
103 Hotten's lists as Annis Almy
104 Hotten's lists as Christopher Almie
121 Hotten's lists as Cesara Covell
129 Hotten's lists as age 8
131 Hotten's lists as age 50
133 could be Sycillie
139 Hotten's lists as Rookeman
141 Hotten's does not list
147 Hotten's lists as age 34
148 Hotten's lists as Halijack age 38
156 Hotten's lists as Drewrie
161 Hotten's lists as Payne
162 Hotten's lists as Payne
163 Hotten's lists as Strowde
Transcriber's Ancestors
*8th and 9th gr. grandfathers of transcriber.
Freeman Edmond II - baptized 25 Jul 1596, died at age 86, body was
interred at Old Town Cemetery, in Sandwich Plymouth colony. Will on
21 Jun 1682 in Sandwich, Inventory of estate in Sandwich taken on
4 Oct 1682, amount unknown, probated 2 Nov 1682. He married first
Bennett Hodsoll in 1617, who died in England in 1630 and then he
married Elizabeth Perry in 1632. She is on this voyage. Edmond III
and Alice on this voyage are both children of Edmond II and Bennett.
Freeman, Edmond III(aka Edmund/Edward)- died between 4 Mar 1696 and
5 Jan 1704 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., MA Christened 26 Nov 1620 in
Billingshurst, Sussex, Eng. Resided in Shawme (now Sandwich) after
3 Apr 1637.
Plymouth records, 3 Apr 1637, is thus granted permission to settle
Sandwich, the fourth town in the Plymouth Colony: "It is also agreed
by the Court that these ten men of Saugus, Edmund Freeman, Henry Feake,
Thomas Dexter, Edward Dillingham, William Wood, John Carman, Richard
Chadwell, William Almy, Thomas Tupper and George Knott shall have
liberty to view a place and sit down and have sufficient lands for
three score families upon the conditions propounded to them by the
Governor and Mr. Winslow." Edmund was the deputy to the General Court
from Sandwich. Edmond married 1648 1st to Rebecca Prence,
daughter of Gov. Thomas Prence of Plymouth Colony and granddaughter of
William Brewster, patriarch of Mayflower 1620 voyage and 2nd in 1651 to
Margaret Perry.
Administration of estate in Sandwich 5 Jan 1703/4 at court unknown.
Correspondence: February, 2000 Passengers #105-109 Foster
Thank you for your work in transcribing ships' list from the Abigail.
Christopher Foster, his wife Frances and son John (he is on your list as
"Joseph" who would have been one year old at the time were passengers on the
Abigail. John died in Southampton, New York.
You may contact James J. Foster about the Foster family.
Others looking for parents of Christopher Foster
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Correspondence June 13, 2001 Passengers #139-141 RUCKMAN
My ancestor John Ruckman his wife Elizabeth and their 9 month old son
also named John came to Boston, MA aboard the Abigail 8 October 1635.
He was a follower of Lady Deborah Moody the anabaptist and was given a
town lot and a plantation lot in her settlement at Gravesend, Long
Island, New Netherlands (New York). He soon sold the plantation lot.
John later settled in Sandwich, Barnstable Co.,MA. Lady Moody was a
witness to John's will dated 13 March 1650. Brenda DeMarce
Correspondence July 4, 2001 Passengers #26-28 SHEPHERD
My 8-GGrandfather (Ralph Shepherd age: 29), and his wife (Thanks or I've
been given "Thanks Lord", Puritans?) age: 23, and their daughter: Sarah
age: 3 were aboard the "Abigail". Ralph lived until 1693, outliving
one of his sons who was killed in King Phillips war in the late 1600's.
I would like to hear from anyone else who is decended from Ralph!
Tom Vincent
Correspondence February 21, 2002 Passengers #156 & 130 Drewry & John Freeman
I am a descendant of George Drewrie, who was in fact Hugh Drury of Sudbury,
MA and later Boston.
I am interested in John Freeman (not related to Edmond) as he traveled with
George and is found in Sudbury records with Hugh. Court records show that
Hugh's birth date and George's overlap. It was the genealogist C.E. Banks
(a Hugh Drury descendant) that stated George Drewrie is from East Grinstead,
but now that birth records are available for the parish, it is clear he is
not.
My own research on the lives of the immigrants of the Abigail suggest that
John Freeman, age 30, was from Bocking, ENG. Marie, aged 50 in Hotten, is
found in the Bocking birth records as Maria Freman, daughter of Roberti.
Also Edmond Manning (Hotten's spelling) is found in the Bocking register as
Edmundi Maninge. Again it was Banks who placed him in Denge, which is where
he returned to ENG and died.
My ancestor Hugh Drurys first appearance in Sudbury Records is when he took
possession of a home after William Swift, originally of Bocking, defaulted
on a mortgage of 3 pounds. John Freeman was the witness to the taking of
possession. Swift had gone to Sandwich (interesting Freeman overlap),
where he died within the year. Michael Drury
Correspondence November 13, 2002 Passengers #136-138 Potter
I am a descendant of William Potter and his wife Frances who came to America
on the ship Abigail October 8,1635. William Potter died June 1662 New Haven.
I've yet to discover when Frances died. They had 5 children, all born in
America ... Joseph who married Phoebe Ives, Mary who married Joseph Mansfield,
Sarah who married Robert Foote, Hope who married Danile Robinson and Rebecca
who married Thomas Adams.
I descend from their daughter Sarah and Robert Foote, whose daughter
Sarah married Isaac Curtis. I would enjoy communicating with anyone
researching this family and am always glad to help whenever I can.
Thank you. Pati Blowers May
Correspondence December 10, 2002 Passengers Freeman
I am descendend through Edmund FREEMAN through son John FREEMAN and Mercy PRENCE.
This is my line:
1. Edmund FREEMAN m. Bennett HODSOLL
2. John FREEMAN m. Mercy PRENCE
3. William FREEMAN m. Lydia SPARROW
4. William FREEMAN m. Mercy PEPPER
5. William FREEMAN m. Hannah ATWOOD
6. William FREEMAN m. Mary Elizabeth COBB (this William went to Liverpool,
Queens County, Nova Scotia and married 21 Dec. 1763 in Liverpool)
7. Robert FREEMAN m. Catharine FRASER (d/o Hugh and Mary of Scotland)
8. Mary FREEMAN m. James McCLEARN (s/o James McCLEARN and Mary PLACEWAY)
9. Robert Freeman McCLEARN m. Adeline WHITE (d/o Charles WHITE and Bethiah
ELLIS of Androscoggin Co., ME....Robert + Adeline went to Iowa Falls, IA in 1857)
10. Carrie Adalaide McCLEARN m. James A. CASPER (s/o Charles Henry COSPER and
Margaret LaFRAMBOISE
11. Grandmother (living)
Much information regarding the McClearn and Freeman families can be found in the
Simon Perkins Diary (Liverpool, Queens, NS) between 1771-1812... it can be viewed
at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~downhome/perkins.html
The McClearn's (Ulster-Scots) came from Ulster, Ireland in 1761 beginning with
James and Isabell....information sent via the Thomas Randall Research Centre in
Queens County, Nova Scotia refers to McClearn descendants that the name was
originally McLAREN....in NS records it has been spelled McLARN, McLARREN,
McLANNAN and finally McCLEARN. Vera, ND USA
Correspondence September 26, 2008 Passengers 12-13 Winthrop
Elizabeth Read Winthrop and John Winthrop, Jr. – Governor of Ct. and son of
John Winthrop of MA came to the US on Abigail, 8 October 1635
Founders of New London, CT
I do not follow this family tree; I follow her sister and that child
Her niece, Christobel Gallup m. Peter Crary and settled in New London as well.
Sister of Elizatbeth:* my line
Margaret Read m John Lake in England (John did not come to US) (Lots of info on Margaret Read m John Lake)
Family history book shows Margaret accompanied her sister Elizabeth and John on this voyage; your manifest
does not show that Margaret and her daughter Hannah also came at that time.
Hannah Lake would marry John Gallup and be one of the first settlers in New London CT and be grandmother
to hundreds of thousands in America. John Gallup was fighter in Pequot War.
Their daughter Christobel Gallup m. Peter Crary in Groton, New London CT
I am a descendant of this line.
Peter Crary’s descendants Ezra and Nathan both served in the Revolutionary War, and I am applying for
membership in DAR thorugh this family line.
Another Sister of Elizabeth:
Martha Read Epps
M: Deputy Gov Samuel Symonds, Ipswich, MA
Brother of Elizabeth:
Thomas Read, settled in Salem, MA
Became Ensign in military
Returned to England and served w/Cromwell
Sheri Lee R. Norris
Compiled from information including The Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700 by John C. Hotten
Contributed and Transcribed by Sheila Tate
for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild14 August 1999
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