The Great Migration to New England: Conventicles to Companies to Congregations

Live Broadcast: July 22, 2021
Presented by: Robert Charles Anderson, FASG
During the 1630s the migration process to New England was evolving from a pre-planned, top-down system, to a more spontaneous, bottom-up organization. This webinar will explore the evolution of the manner in which committed puritans moved from old England to New England, beginning with clandestine and illegal meetings known as conventicles, which gave rise to small groups or companies of families crossing the Atlantic together, resulting in the formation of new congregations and communities in the New World. We will study five different examples of this process, three led by ministers and two by laymen: Rev. John Wilson’s Sudbury company; Mr. Thomas Oliver’s Thorpe Achurch company; Rev. Thomas Hooker’s Braintree company; Mr. Edmund Hobart’s Hingham company; and Rev. Richard Blinman’s Welsh Marcher company.
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[@steveschulte8696]

Great presentation. My own family is tied to many of the topics discussed. Families that left the Boston area to settle Connecticut. Families that followed Williams to Rhode Island. And families that formed a new church in Essex county Massachusetts.

[@MrAtsyhere]

Thankyou . You have supplied another clue in the Jigsaw puzzle that is my family tree. I had never heard of Ignatius Jourdaine. My family name was present in Exeter and also attended St. Marys Arches church. My family were also Mayors in Exeter but back during the War of the Roses era. My direct ancestor married a niece of John Fitz Winthrop (Elizabeth Mintern Baker) but its clear we were in constant turmoil with establishment. We appear to be associated with Rogerene (Neighbours) so rather Quakerish and 7 Day Adventist eventually settling on Baptists. I wonder if Hingam were the Ingam family that we intermarried with. My Ancestor built a Brewsters Coffin and back in England Lawrence Atwell headed up the Skinners Guild (Fur Traders).

[@shirleyales1537]

My Grandmothers maiden name is Southworth related to the first pilgrims here.