1629 Lyon~ Higginson Fleet

The Lyon 1629/1630 - See Winthrop Fleet (duplicate postings)
 

The Lyon left the Bristol, Thames, Gravesend, England April 5, 1629 along with five other ships, George Bonaventure, Four Sisters, Lyon's Whelp, the Mayflower and the Talbot, arriving in Salem late May or June 1629.

William Peirce, Master (previously brought the last settlers to Plymouth in 1623, as master of the Anne, and made a voyage to Salem in 1623, as master of one of the Mayflowers)


1. Allerton, Issac, returning to Plymouth, originally on the Mayflower
2. Ashley, Edward, bound for Kennebec
3. Barney, Jacob, of Braddenham, county Bucks, bound for Salem (36 pg 7)
4. Dent, Francis, (possibly of London) bound for Salem
5. Fogg, Ralph, bound for Plymouth
6. Hardy, John, bound for Salem
7. Holgrave, John, fisherman, bound for Salem
8. Holgrave, Mrs. Elizabeth
9. Holgrave, Joshua, son
10. Holgrave, Lydia, daughter
11. Levett, Christopher, "transient"
12. Moore, John, bound for Roxbury
13. Purchase, Thomas, of Dorchester, Dorset, returning to Pejepscot (?)
14. Sibley, John, of Bradpole, Dorset, bound for Salem
15. Ward, Thomas, "probably of Bedingham, Norfolk, bound for Dedham
16. Warren, John, of Nayland, Suffolk, bound for Watertown
17. Warren, Mrs. Margaret
18. Waterbury, William, of Sudbury, Suffolk, bound for Boston
19. Waterbury, Mrs. Alice
20. Waters, John, of Nayland, Suffolk, bound for Charlestown
21. Waters, Mrs. Frances
22. Waters, Mary and two others
23. Weaver, unk
24. Webb, Richard, of Nayland, Suffolk, bound for Cambridge
25. Webb, Mrs. Elizabeth
26. Weed, Jonas, bound for Watertown
27. Weillust, Joist, of Holland, bound for Boston
28. Weldon, Robert, bound for Charlestown
29. Weldon, Mrs. Elizabeth
30. Weston, Francis , bound for Salem
31. Weston, Mrs. Margaret
32. Weston, Lucy
33. Wilbore, Samuel, bound for Boston
34. Wilbore, Mrs. Anne
35. Wilkinson, Mrs. Prudence , bound for Charlestown
36. Wilkinson, Sarah
37. Wilkinson, John
38. Wilkinson, Elizabeth
39. Williams, Thomas, bound for Charlestown
40. Williams, Thomas (alias Harris)
41. Williams, Robert
42. Wilsby, unk
43. Wilson, Rev. John, of Sudbury, Suffolk, bound for Boston
44. Wilton, David, bound for Dorchester
45. Wing, Elizabeth
46. Winthrop, John, of Groton, Suffolk, bound for Boston
47. Winthrop, Henry
48. Winthrop, Stephen
49. Winthrop, Samuel
50. Woods, William, bound for Boston
51. Woolrich, John , "probably of London", bound for Charlestown
52. Woolrich, Mrs. Sarah
53. Wormwood, unk
54. Wright, Thomas, bound for Kennebec
55. Wright, Richard , of Stepney, Middlesex, bound for Boston
56. Wright, Mrs. Margaret
57. Wright, Elinor
58. Wright, Robert, of London, bound for Boston

“Now in this year 1629, a great company of people (The Higginson Fleet) of good rank, zeal, meansand quality have made a great stock, and with six good ships in the months of April and May, theyset sail from Thames for the Bay of the Massachusetts, otherwise called Charles River. The fleet consisted of, the George Bonaventure of twenty pieces of ordnance; the Talbot nineteen; the Lion’s Whelp eight; the Mayflower fourteen; the Four sisters fourteen and the Pilgrim four, with 350 men women and children, also 115 head of cattle, as horses, mares, cows and oxen, 41 goats, some conies (rabbits), with all provision for household and apparel, 6 pieces of great ordnance for a fort, with muskets, pikes, corselets, drums, colors, and with all provisions necessary for a plantation for the good of man.” (The True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captain John Smith – London 1630)