The Ships Page

Data brought over from original Martha Strong site with her permission:

MARY AND JOHN - 1630

Master Thomas Squeb

Sailed from Plymouth, 20 March 1630.

The day of the sailing was the Saturday before Palm Sunday.



Landed Nantasket, Massachusetts, 30 May, 1630.

400 tons.

140 passengers

40 - 50 crewmen

Ship owned by Roger Ludlow

The ship was suppose to land at the Charles river but Capt. Squeb refused to navigate the Boston Harbor, probably because of its islands, sandbars and shoals. He had the passengers disembark at Nantasket Point.

June 1630 - John Winthrop sent for Capt. Squeb at Nantasket, where the “Mary and John” lay. He did not record what was said. “[John] Winthrop seemed to think he had ‘ended [the] difference between him [Capt. Squeb] and the passengers’, in token of which Captain Squeb gave the order for a salute of five guns in the govenor’s honour and it was said that Squeb later paid compensation to [Roger] Ludlow.” [Dorset Pilgrims, Frank Thistlethwaite, p.76]

There is no official passenger list of the Mary & John.

Synthetic Passenger List of Possible Passengers

HOPEWELL - 1635

Master John Driver

Sailed from Weymouth, 8 May 1635.

Official Passenger List. (Ref: Port Book E.190/876/1 Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London)

Click here to visit the Mary and John Website of Burton W. Spear

2 comments to The Ships Page

  • Jonathan Davidson

    Ship is the Mary and John 1630
    William Phelps, II born 28 February 1598 Died 14 July 1672 Immigration is Correct However The Spouse Maybe in Question He is said to have Married Elizabeth Nix in Tewesbury, Gloucester, England in 1617, she died in 1636 at Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. He Married Mary Ann Dover in 1637 at Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

  • Jonathan Davidson

    Experience Strong Married Zerulbabel Filer “Fyler” Their Son Samuel Married Abigail Phelps Daughter of Lt. Timothy Phelps and Mary Griswold, Lt. Timothy Phelps is the Son Of Mary Ann Dover and William Phelps He came on the Mary and John in 1630.

    Samuel Filer and Abgial Phelps Daughter Ann Married Jonathan Sackett Their Son was Captain Justus Sackett Who Married Lydia Newcomb Daughter of Benjamin Newcomb and Hannah Clark She is the Daughter of William IV Clark Son of Capt. William Clark and Hannah Strong sister of Experience Strong Daughters of Abigail Ford and Elder John Strong of the Mary and John

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