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The purpose of this page is to track profiles which have been removed from the PGM Project so they can be evaluated and considered for possibly having arrived during the Great Migration...this wouldn't necessarily affect inclusion in the PGM Project, but may spin-off into another project.





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Gregg Purinton
The demographics of immigrants born after 1620 and who first appear in New England records between 1640 and 1650 are discussed in "New England Mosaic: A Demographic Analysis for the Seventeenth Century", Richard Archer, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Oct., 1990), pp. 477-502 (26 pages). Viewable on Jstor. I have a number of descents from this cohort, and I have come to suspect that most of the women arrived as servants to families, some probably prior to 1640. I suspect that the men are split between a few servants, with the majority being single immigrants, and were likely to have arrived after 1640. My "flag" for such people is a lack of any known family, relations, or associations prior to their first Colonial record. In any event, in the absence of records, I think a demographic perspective is helpful.
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