4 Lucy Winthrop Downing to John Winthrop, 4 March 1636/37; Simmons, Emmanuel Downing, 44.

5 Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, I, 409; Allen, In English Ways, 166.

6 A detailed study has been made of one shipload of West Country Puritans who sailed in the Mary and John. They were recruited by the Rev. John White from Dorset, Devon and Somerset, and founded the town of Dorchester in Massachusetts. But many left the Bay Colony within a few years, and settled in Connecticut. The descendants of this one shipload included many leading Connecticut families: Wolcott, Griswold, Ellsworth, Gibbs, Dewey, Burr and Gallup. John Winthrop called these settlers “the west country people.” Dudley referred to them as “the western men.” See Winthrop, Journal, I, 50; Dudley to Countess of Lincoln, 12 March 1631, Young, Chronicles of the First Planters, 314; and for a genealogy, Maude P. Kuhns, The “Mary and John” (Rutland, Vt., 1943).

7 Origins of New England’s immigrants, the Banks sample (corrected for errors of computation), were as follows:

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Compiled by Jonathan Schwartz from data in Banks, Topographical Dictionary, whose totals differ in several details.