Fortune, sailed 1621

Date: 1621 to 1621
Location: [unknown]

Fortune, Sailed 1621, Passenger List

The ship Fortune with Master Thomas Barton, arrived at Plymouth on November 9, 1621. This passenger list is based on the 1623 Division of Land, the passenger list compiled by Charles Edward Banks in The Planters of The Commonwealth, and by the information found in Eugene Aubrey Stratton's Plymouth Colony, Its History & People, 1620-1691.

The Fortune carried Philippe Lannoy and Robert Cushman from the unfortunate 1620 Speedwell, presumably along with the remaining Separatists from the Speedwell who did not return to London, Leiden or board the Mayflower.

Arrived Plymouth, Massachusetts, November 9, 1621

Burthen 55 tons.

Thomas Barton, Master

While no passenger list survived for this ship, Charles Edward Banks compiled a list of likely passengers in his The Planters of The Commonwealth based on a 1623 division of land in the colonies; the compiled list was later supplemented by entries in Eugene Aubrey Stratton's Plymouth Colony: Its History and its People, 1620-1691. (Source: Anne Shurtleff Stevens, "Fortune Passenger List," Packrat Productions)

1. John Adams (From Wapping, Stephney, Middlesex, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 113)
2. William Basset (From Bethnal Green, Stephney, Middlesex, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 113)(Hotten's lists as Bassite)
3. Elizabeth Basset, wife
4. William Beale
5. Edward Bompasse
6. Jonathan Brewster, oldest son of Elder Brewster
7. Clement Briggs (From Southwark, Surrey, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Pope 36. pg 169) (Brigges)
8. Edward Bumpas (From St Bartholomew, London, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 99) (Bompasse)
9. John Cannon
10. William Conner (Coner)
11. Robert Cushman (From Canterbury, Kent, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 76)
12. Thomas Cushman, son abt 12 (From Canterbury, Kent, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 76)
13. Steven Deane (From Southwark, Surrey, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 169) (Dean)
14. Thomas Flavell & son (wife was on the Anne) (From Stephney, Middlesex, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 113)
15. ___ Ford (presumably son William)(William. from Southwark, S Olave, Surrey, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 169)(also listed as Martha, widow with sons William and John and daughter Martha)
16. widow Martha Ford, wife
17. Martha Ford, daughter
18. ___ Ford, son, born the day of arrival
19. Robert Hicks (From Southwark, Surrey, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 169)
20. William Hilton (from Northwich bound for Plymouth 1623. Dover N.H. 1624. Ref: Banks, Mass. 36 pg 14)
21. Bennet Morgan (Benedict, from Clerkenwell, St James, Middlesex, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 110)
22. Thomas Morton - his son, Thomas Morton, Jr., arrived on the Anne
23. Austen Nicolas (Austin Nicholas)
24. Philipe de la Noye (also listed as De La Nove)(an ancestor of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
25. William Palmer (From Stephney, Middlesex, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 113)
26. William Palmer, son
27. William Pitt (From St Peter, Vincula Tower, London, bound for Plymouth. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 103)
28. Thomas Prence - Married Patience Brewster, the Elder's daughter (Prince, from All Hallows Barking, London or Stephney, Middlesex, bound for Plymouth and Eastham. Ref: Savage. 36 pg 98 & 113) (also listed as Prince) (future governor of Plymouth)
29. Moses Simonson
30. Hugh Statie
31. James Steward
32. William Tench
33. John Winslow, brother of Govenor Winslow (From Droitwich, Worchest. bound for Plymouth. Ref: Pope. 36 pg 184)
34. William Wright (From Austerfield, Worchest. bound for Plymouth. Ref: Par Reg. 36 pg 184)

Sources

• Banks, Charles Edward. The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers (Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1962) Page 103.
• Banks, Charles Edward. The Planters of The Commonwealth (The Riverside Press, Boston, 1930) Page 50.
  • "FORTUNE of London, Thomas Barton, Master. She left London about August and arrived at Cape Cod November 9, ‘with thirty-five passengers,’ but only thirty-two are known by name. They all came from London or its suburbs. The entire company settled at Plymouth."
• Winslow, Edward. Good Newes From New-England (London, 1624) Page 1.
  • "The good ship called the Fortune, which, in the month of November, 1621, (blessed be God,) brought us a new supply of thirty-five persons..."
• Stevens, Anne Shurtleff. "Fortune Passenger List" (Packrat Productions)
• https://english-america.com/spls/621ma001.html#Fortune
• https://members.aol.com/calebj/fortune.html
• https://www.alden.org/documents/otherships.htm
• https://www.calaisalumni.org/Maine/ships.htm#Fortune
• https://www.pilgrimhall.org/FortuneAnneLittleJames.htm