Willyam Aspinall - Robert Oarker |
James Everill - Richard Magson, Hanna Penn Mr Fowles - Mary Coffyn Willyam Francklyn - Robert Mader Thomas Grubbe - Jellyan Vyall Robert Harding - Judeth Lyvars [English Mayor] Atherton Haulgh Ellen Bazill, Nathaniel Chappell, Susana Cooke, Mary Coy, Ellen Pell, Esther Ward Valentine Hill - Johannah Blott Martin Holman - Joan Anter Edward Hutchinson - Martha Hammond, Judye Smyth, Gamaliell Wayte Willyam Hutchinson - Edward Dennys Robert Keayne - Penelope Darloe Thos Leveritt - Edward Bates, Frances Hammond, Anthony Harker, Marye Mathews Olyver Mellowe - Marie Gibson Sister Messengers - Ruth Willyams John Mylam - Nicholis Charlett Anne Newgate - Marie Lukas John Newgate - Theodorus Atkinson Thomas Oliver - Priscilla Dause |
Edmund Quinsey - |
In a class system between Nobility & the Yeomanry, English Gentry were, for the most part, people of education & good background. They were owners of land, or members of professional status; people of courtesy & civility.
They were accustomed to having servants to help with house upkeep, meals, landscaping & the like.
When the stockholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company sailed for the New World, many of their servants came with them, their fare paid & living quarters provided with the family housing.
There were those who brought with them only one servant, but the more affluent among the Gentry could have as many as six.
The significant point to consider is: how many the number of those servants who were willing to break with their ‘Old World’ ties, risk a 3,000 mile ocean voyage, & face the difficulties of creating a totally new ‘English Village,’ in a strange & forbidding ‘Wilderness’.
There is a story which emerges from this success: an ‘American Way’ of seizing opportunites to build on a foundation of freedom & law, with the security of a church membership in which they had “promissed to bind themselves in mutual love & respect, each to other.” [FCB Covenant.]
In this setting, one can improve one’s station in life with hard work & ‘right living.’ These characteristics caused the emigrants to more easily bring a Commonwealth into being. They had come to stay, and to prosper.
NB ‘Mr.’ is the typical greeting of a gentleman, as Sister is for women in the colonial world. Professional status is carried by brackets.