Winthrop Fleet - Passengers

Passengers

These leading men both applied for the charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony and came to New England in Winthrop's Fleet.

• Mr. John Winthrop, Governor, and three of his sons, including two minors and one adult son, Henry Winthrop
• Sir Richard Saltonstall, three sons and two daughters.
• Mr. Isaac Johnson Esq. and the Lady Arabella his wife and daughter of Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln
• Mr. Charles Fiennes the said Earl's son
• Mr. Thomas Dudley, his wife, two sons, and four daughters
• Mr. William Coddington, the first Governor of Rhode Island, and his wife
• Mr. William Pynchon, and his wife and three daughters
• Mr. William Vassall, for whom Vassalboro, Maine was named, and his wife
• Mr. John Revell, merchant, who loaned the Plymouth Colony money, and who was chosen assistant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• Captain Edward Johnson (1598-1672) was a leading figure in colonial Massachusetts, and is one of the founders of Woburn, Massachusetts.

Other passengers of historical significance include:

• Allan Perley
• Robert Seeley
• Edward Convers
• Simon Bradstreet and his wife Anne Bradstreet
• Thomas Mayhew
• Captain John Underhill
• William Phelps, wife Ann Dover and four sons
• Robert Abell
• Jehu Burr Great Great Grandfather of Aaron Burr
• William Phelps, a founder of both Dorchester, Massachusetts and Windsor, Connecticut and foreman of the first grand jury in New England.
• John Wilson, first minister of the Boston church

A complete list of passengers is maintained by The Winthrop Society, a hereditary organization of descendants of the Winthrop Fleet and later Great Migration ships that arrived before 1634.