Category: Arbella, Winthrop Fleet

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Arbella, Winthrop Fleet

Arbella or Arabella 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. Lady Arabella was the daughter of Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln.


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abt 1597 Twywell, Northamptonshire, England - abt 1630
abt 18 Mar 1603 Horbling, Lincolnshire, England - 27 Mar 1697 photo
24 Apr 1596 Lancashire, England - 10 Apr 1682 photo
25 Jan 1630 Boston, Lincolnshire, England - 22 Nov 1678
bef 01 Apr 1627 Boston, Lincolnshire, England - 31 Jul 1673
bef 03 Aug 1597 Ashby cum Fenby, Lincolnshire, England - abt Aug 1630
20 Mar 1612 Far Cotton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England - 16 Sep 1672 photo
bef 12 Oct 1576 Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England - 31 Jul 1653
bef 01 Jul 1601 Stamford, Lincolnshire, England - 30 Sep 1630
bef 04 Apr 1586 Huntwick, Yorkshire, England - Oct 1661 photo
28 Oct 1603 Bath, Somerset, England - abt 1631
abt 1587 England - aft 1641
bef 23 Aug 1597 Boston, Lincolnshire, England - 24 Aug 1673
abt 1600 England - 17 Aug 1638
12 Jan 1587 Groton, Suffolk, England - 26 Mar 1649 photo




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