Abigail, sailed 1620-1622

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Abigail, from England to Virginia

The Abigail, Capt. Samuel Each, Master, left London on 21 February 1621 and landed at Jamestown in June 1621.^[1]

"Virginia Company. A Note of the Shipping, Men, and Provisions Sent and Provided for Virginia.... The Abigail, of 350 tons, sent in February 1620/1 with 230 persons... Men skillful for setting up staple comodities... Eight French Vignerons [vineyard growers], procured from Languedoc, who are very skillful also in breeding silkworms and making silk--of this seed there is good store gone, both French, Italian and Spanish--together with instructions for providing comodious housing and orderly planting of mulberry trees.There are also some Englishmen sent that have been trained therein." ~ Kingsbury, pp 239-240^[2][3]

The 1624/5 Jamestown muster has multiple dates associated with her arrival, from 1620 to 1622, most likely due to her February 1620/21 sailing date. Prior to 1752, the new year officially started in March, leading to "old/new style" dating that continues to give genealogists headaches.^[4][5]

The list of people on this page derives primarily from the 1624/5 Jamestown Muster,^[6][7] providing a "compiled" list, rather than from an original passenger list, which may have shown family groups and maiden names that are lost when compiling the information from the muster.

The compiled passenger list that follows was consolidated from multiple lists collected from several different (now deleted) categories. Wikis being wikis, things change, and unique content is no longer recommended for category pages. The Abigail had another problem, in that the 230 passengers who boarded her in England in February 1620 (1620/21) were splintered into multiple lists, sailing 1620, 1621, and 1622, no doubt based on the arrival year given in the 1624/5 Jamestown muster. These are the date notations by the passengers' names. Duplicate categories had existed for those without a date, annotated as 1620-22 below but shown as passengers on an "Unknown Voyage" or a "before 1624" sailing. WikiTree now has one category (Category: Abigail, sailed 1620-1622) and one passenger list, as follows, for the 1621 voyage to Virginia of the Abigail. The title of both this page and the corresponding category page uses 1620-1622 because of the confusion caused by its February sailing date.^[4]

Compiled Abigail Passenger List

A

Arrundell, Elizabeth^[8] 1620

• age not given at muster at James City
• servant to Sir George Yearly.

Arndell, John 1621

• aged 22 at muster at "beyond Hampton River Beinge the Companyes land", Elizabeth City
• under muster of William Hampton (just John, William, and William's wife Joane Hampton).^[9][10][11]

Arrundell, Margaret 1621

• aged 9 at muster at Peirseys Hundred, Charles Cittie
• household of Humfrey Kent and wife Joane.^[12][13]

Arrundell, Richard 1620

• age not given at muster at James City
• servant to Sir George Yearly.

Attkins, Abigall 1620-22

• age not given at muster at Mulberie Island
• servant to Capt William Pierce, wife of Richard (24 at muster), on London Merchant.

B

Baker, William 1620-22

• aged 20 at muster at Mulberie Island
• servant to Capt William Pierce.

Bankus, Christopher 1622

• aged 19 at muster
• servant to Capt. John Roger Smith.

Baram, Anthony 1620-22

• age not given at muster at Mulbery Island
• wife Elizabeth on the William & Thomas.

Beare, Walter 1620

• aged 28 at muster at the Maine, James City
• under "The Muster of Docto' Pott's Men in the Maine".

Benett, Katherine 1622

• widow, aged 24 at muster at Sherley,Hundred, Charles Cittie
• head, son William was 3 weeks old.

Blackwood, Susan 1622^[14]

• age not given at muster at James City
• maid servant to Doctor John Potts.

Bonall, Anthonie 1621

• aged 42 at muster at "beyond Hampton River Beinge the Companyes land", Elizabeth City
• head

Bradford, Henry 1620-22

• age 35 at muster at James City
• servant to Capt. William Pierce.

Browninge, John 1621

• aged 22 at muster at Wariscoyack
• under muster of Henrie Woodward.

Bull, Joseph 1622

• age not given at muster at Jordans Jorney, Charles Cittie
• head

C

Canon, John 1622

• aged 20 at muster at West and Sherley Hundre, Charles Cittie
• servant to Christopher Woodward on the Tryall, 1620.

Crocker, Henery 1620

• aged 34 at muster at the Maine, James City
• under "The Muster of Docto' Pott's Men in the Maine".

Crosse, Thomas 1620

• aged 22 at muster at the Maine, James City
• under "The Muster of Docto' Pott's Men in the Maine".

D

Davis, Jane 1622

• aged 24 at muster at James City
• servant to Sir Francis Wyatt.

Doughtie, Thomas 1620-22

• aged 26 at muster at Martin's Hundred
• servant to William Harwood.

Downes, Eustice 1622

• aged 25 at muster
• servant for John Davies on George, 1617

F

Fitt, Ann 1620-22

• age not given at muster at James Iland, James Citty
• wife to Robert on the George.

Fowler, William 1621

• aged 30 at muster at "beyond Hampton River Beinge the Companyes land", Elizabeth City
• head

Fowler, Margaret 1621

• aged 30 at muster at "beyond Hampton River Beinge the Companyes land", Elizabeth City
• listed with William Fowler under his muster (just the two of them).

G

Gibbes, John 1621

• aged 24 at muster, Elizabeth City
• servant to Sgt William Barry.

Godwin, Reinould 1620

• aged 30 at muster at "beyond Hampton River Beinge the Companyes land", Elizabeth City
• servant to Capt Francis West.

H

Hampton, Joane 1621

• aged 25 at muster at Elizabeth City
• listed following William Hampton (40) in the Bona Nova 1620; both under the muster of Edward Waters. Note: "William Hampton his MUSTER", at "beyond Hampton River Beinge the Companyes land", Elizabeth City is separate entry.^[15]

Hanie, Elizabeth 1622

• age not given at muster at "beyond Hampton River Beinge the Companyes land", Elizabeth City
• in household of John Haney (27, in "Margett & John" 1621) under "Robart Thrasher his MUSTER".^[16]

Hasley, John 1620-22

• aged 22 at muster at Martin's Hundred
• servant to William Harwood.

Hatton, Olive 1620

• aged 32 at muster at Elizabeth City
• listed with John Hatton aged 26 "in the Tresorer 1613" under "John Hatton his MUSTER".^[17]

Hero, Oble 1622

• Frenchman, Anthonie Bonall's muster in Elizabeth City.

Hodges, Elizabeth 1620-22

• age not given at muster at Pasbehays & the Maine, James City
• maid servant to Thomas Bunn.

Hoode, Ralph 1621

• aged 19 at muster at Elizabeth City
• servant to John Haney.

Hughes, Ann 1620-22

• no age given at muster at Martins Hundred, James Citty
• servant to Mr William Harwood, wife of Hugh Hughes (also a servant), came in the "Guifte"

J

Jackson, John 1620-22

• age not given at muster at Neck-of-Land, James City.
• servant to Richard Kingsmell.

Johnson, Edward 1621

• aged 26 at muster Elizabeth City
• unk wife on the Bona Nova, 1621, and a child born in Virginia.

Johnson, Margarett 1620-22

• age not given at muster at Archer's Hope, James City
• wife of Joseph on the William & Thomas.

Joyce, William 1621

• aged 26 at muster at Elizabeth City
• servant to Sgt William Barry.

K

Kenell, Sammuell 1621

• aged 30 at muster at "beyond Hampton River Beinge the Companyes land", Elizabeth City
• listed under muster of John Lauckfild (24) in the Bona Nova, 1621.

L

Lapworth, Robert 1620-22

• age not given at muster at Colledge Land, Henrico
• head

Lauckfild, Alice 1621

• aged 24 at muster at "beyond Hampton River Beinge the Companyes land", Elizabeth City
• listed under muster of John Lauckfild (24) in the Bona Nova, 1621.

Legardo, Elias 1621

• aged 38 at muster at "beyond Hampton River Beinge the Companyes land", Elizabeth City
• Anthonie Bonall's muster.

Leister, Thomas 1620

• aged 33 at muster at the Maine, James City
• under Doctor Potts' muster.

M

Marshall, Edward 1621

• aged 26 at muster at Elizabeth City
• servant to Sgt William Barry.

More, Elizabeth 1620-22

• age not given at muster at Elizabeth City
• listed with John More (36) in the Bona Nova, 1620, under his muster (just the two of them).

Moreland, Thomas 1621

• aged 19 at muster at Elizabeth City
• servant to John Haney.

Morris, Samuell 1620-22

• aged 20 at muster at Mulberie Island
• servant to Capt William Pierce.

P

Penn, Robert 1620

• aged 22 at muster at Capt Mathews Plant, James City
• servant to Capt Samuel Mathews.

Pope, Elizabeth 1621

• aged 8 at muster at Elizabeth City
• servant to William Gany.

Pritchard, Thomas 1620

• aged 28 at muster at the Maine, James City
• under "The Muster of Docto' Pott's Men in the Maine".

S

Smalepage, Lawrence 1620-22

• aged 20 at muster at Pasbehays & the Maine, James City
• servant to Thomas Swinhow.

Smith, John 1620-22

• aged 30 at muster at Pasbehays & the Maine, James City^[18]
• servant to Thomas Bunn.

Smith, Capt Roger 1620 - was Capt John Smith^[6][19]

• age not given at muster at James Cittie
• head, wife Joane on the Blessing^[20]
• muster includes 3 children (none Smith) and 3 servants (including Waller and Bankus)
• "The rest of his men theire provisions Armes &ct. Over the Watter"

Smith, Thomas 1620-22

• aged 16 at muster at Pasbehays & the Maine, James City
• servant to Thomas Bunn.

Smith, Thomas 1620-22

• aged 17 at muster at James City
• servant to Capt. William Pierce.

Stanley, Roger 1620

• aged 27 at the Maine, James City
• under "The Muster of Docto' Pott's Men in the Maine".

T

Townshend, Richard 1620

• aged 19 at muster at James City
• servant to Doctor John Potts.

Trye, John 1620

• aged 20 at the Maine, James City
• under "The Muster of Docto' Pott's Men in the Maine".

V

Virbritt, no first name 1622

• Frenchman, Anthonie Bonall's muster in Elizabeth City.

W

Waller, Charles 1620

• aged 22 at muster
• servant to Capt John Smith. Roger Smith in online Muster^[6][19]

Weasall, Niccolas 1621

• aged 28 at muster at Elizabeth City
• servant to Sgt William Barry.

Wigge, Edward 1621

• aged 22 at muster, Basses Choyse
• under muster of Capt Nathaniel Basse.

Wilson, Thomas 1620

• aged 27 at muster at James City
• servant to Doctor John Potts.

Sources and Footnotes

Sources

• Hotten, John Camden. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles.... Online courtesy of archive.org.
• Jamestown Muster: Abigail search results
• Kingsbury, Susan Myra. The records of the Virginia company of London (Virginia Company of London; 1870-; Library of Congress). Online courtesy of archive.org.
• Potter, Shawn. Post in genealogy.com forum, 1 August 2000: "Peter Arundell, d. 1625, VA--who was he?"
• Stevens, Anne. Research and compilations posted at packrat-pro.com: Abigaile, Abigaile 1620, Abigaile 1621, Abigaile 1622.

Footnotes

1. ↑ "A History of the Hampton Family of the Southern States,1586-1916", from this site.
2. ↑ Quote from Shawn Potter's genealogy.com post, "Peter Arundell, d. 1625, VA--who was he?" (posted 1 August 2000, accessed 12 April 2021), citing Susan Myra Kingsbury, The records of the Virginia company of London (pages 239-240, accessed 14 April 2021).
3. ↑ Part of what inspired both this page and the Wine and Silk and the Virginia Company page was trying to piece together Peter's family. As mentioned, compiled passenger lists lose family groupings and maiden names that original passenger lists offer, and the passengers for the sailing(s) of the Abigail are apparently compiled solely from the 1624/5 Jamestown Muster, which has four Arundells (of various spellings): John, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Richard. Peter is listed as dead, 1624. In a FamilySearch tree, the entries for Peter have records for several baptisms attached (see MMPZ-WMM and M3BP-6PG). Two have been confirmed against an image of the register (John, baptized 17 April 1603 & Joane born 5 February 1611/12 - see this G2G discussion); Margaret's matches the 1624/5 Jamestown Muster, which says she's 9. Others:
   • Elizabeth, born 29 Nov 1600/christened 7 Dec 1600
   • Elizabeth, born 14 Dec 1609/christened 21 Dec 1609
   • Richard, born 7 Sep 1613/christened 12 Sep 1613
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} For details about old/new style dates, see this section of the WikiTree help page on Dates. See also Sue Roe's "The Problem of Dates" and Wikipedia's article "Old Style and New Style dates".
5. ↑ A timeline posted by the Library of Congress has a curious timeline (1620 to 1629), with an epidemic as passenger aboard the Abigail, killing people in December 1622:
   

   The "Massacre of 1622" is followed in December by an epidemic brought by the ship Abigail. It kills twice as many people as died in the Massacre and the colony's population is reduced to about five hundred."

   Either it was a different ship, it was based on "1622" given in the Jamestown Muster, or the Abigail returned to England and made another voyage to Virginia in 1622 that has not been recorded anywhere.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Jamestown Muster: Abigail search results (as of 12 April 2021).
7. ↑ Anne Stevens' packrat-pro.com pages of passenger lists include the statement: The entries were obtained from the Hotten book 8a from the Musters of the Inhabitants in Virginia 1624/1625 chapters, pages 201 thru 265, which lists the muster captain, and what ship the individual arrived on.
   • 8a: Hotten, John Camden. London, 1874. Reprint by Empire State Book Co., New York. Publish date guessed to be in the 1940s (in the library of Anne Stevens)
8. ↑ Either wife or daughter of Peter Arundel. As of 17 April 2021, the profile attached as his wife has the LNAB of Arundell: Arundell-49.
9. ↑ WikiTree profiles for William and Joan:
   • Hampton-299: William Hampton Sr (abt.1592-abt.1652). Profiles attached as wives:
     • Joan (Hottens) Hampton (1596-): "William paid the passage to Virginia for his wife, Joan, and their three children (William Jr, Grace, and Elizabeth) arriving on 1621 on the ship Abigail." Comments on her profile include this one from Joy Harrison: "Ancestry.com shows that E. Joanne Hotten married Robert Samuel Wade after Rev. Hampton. I don't have access to the English records that are cited."
     • Elizabeth Joeanne (Wade) Hampton (1596-1628): "William had as many as 4 Wifes." (both profiles show marriage in England in 1614).
   • Hampton-2062: William Hampton Jr (abt.1616-) (attached as son of Hampton-299 and Hottens-1).
   • Joan Arundell (abt.1602-1678) (attached as wife of Humfrey Kent).
10. ↑ There is just one William & Joan each listed as Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestors:
    • Hampton, William - A3404; baptized 28 May 1592 Middlesex Co., England, died ca. 1652, Gloucester Co.: (Muster of 1624/5).
    • Hampton, Joane ( ) - A9530; born ca. 1600; Gloucester: (Muster of 1624/5), wife of William Hampton.
    Baptized 1592 is way too late for the 40-year-old William who married the Joan listed as 25 in the 1624/5 muster. It is closer to the 34-year-old William who is living with his wife Joan & John Arndell at the time of the muster (with no details about his wife Joan). The muster for both households, according to the online Jamestown Muster, was 7 February 1624/5, so it's not a question of William & Joan leaving Edward Waters' service to live with John Arndell, and William giving a wrong age when at Edward's.
11. ↑ In the 1624/5 muster, William Hampton (40) m Joan (25) arrived aboard the Bona Nova (1620) and the Abigail (1621), respectively. Additionally, William Hampton (34) arrived aboard the Bona Nova (1621); his wife Joan is listed with him in the muster, along with John Arundell, but no more information about Joan is included in the 1624/5 muster. Perhaps the two William Hamptons were cousins & they were aboard the same sailing of the Bona Nova. We'll call the 40-year-old William "Sr" & the 34-year-old William "Jr" and speculate: Being in the same community as the Arundells, they became friends. John Arundell's sister Joan (who might still have been wife of the dead-before-December-1621 Capt Mansell) married one of the cousins - the older one. After Peter's death & by the time of the 1624/5 Muster, that William and Joan were under the muster of Edward Waters, but the younger cousin had a homestead with his wife Joan & John was living with them. (A young-ish couple with no servants could probably use an extra set of hands!) That speculation matches John Arundell with the Joan Hampton who arrived in the same ship, but we really don't know if he had a sister named Joan. It also does not explain why Margaret wound up in the Kent household, when Humfrey apparently has no connection to the wine/silk industries attempted at Buckroe Settlement & his wife Joan is shown in the muster as having come to Jamestown aboard one of the bride ships - the Tyger.
    
    And maybe not. This site says that the Abigail departed London on 21 Feb 1621 and landed at Jamestown in June 1621, with Joan [Hampton] & her 3 children aboard. (Source: "A History of the Hampton Family of the Southern States,1586-1916"...)
12. ↑ That Humfrey's wife Joan was Peter Arundell's daughter is based on Margaret Arundell living with them after Peter's death. Collaborating sources are needed. Another candidate for Peter's daughter Joan (if he had a daughter named Joan) would be the wife of William Hampton. This had been ruled out when we only knew of the one William Hampton & wife Joan, but the muster has two sets of William Hampton & wife Joan. As noted in another footnote, the 40-year-old William's wife Joan (25) arrived in the Abigail.
13. ↑ Both Humfrey and Joane are Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestors:
    • Kent, Humfrey - A9681; born ca. 1602, died by 1653; (Muster of 1624/5).
    • Kent, Joane ( ) - was listed in the Muster of 1624/5 - wife of Humfrey Kent.
14. ↑ Had been 1620; Hotten has 1622 (page 223).
15. ↑ Two William Hampton/Joane Hampton entries:
    1. William (40, in Bona Nova, 1620) and Joane (25, in Abigail, 1621) are listed under the muster of Edward Waters.
    2. William (34, in the Bona Nova, 1621) and Joane (no additional info), with John Arndell under "William Hampton his MUSTER" (just before entry for "Anthonie Bonall his MUSTER")
16. ↑ Probably his wife, and the "vx Hanie" listed at Bucke Row in the 1623/4 muster.
17. ↑ Hotten, page 248
18. ↑ The online muster shows him as being at the Maine. Kingsbury's The Records of the Virginia Company, volume III, page 464, has a letter from John Rowe, who apparently arrived in July 1621, saying that he was staying at "Paspehayes with my sonn in law John Smyth". Probably a different John Smith, but thought I'd note it.
19. ↑ ^{19.0 19.1} Hotten has "The Muster of Cap^t Roger Smith", page 223.
20. ↑ Jamestown Muster: Mrs Joane Smith