6 Computed from shipping lists in John C. Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants and Religious Exiles … Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, (rpt. Baltimore, 1962); slightly different estimates appear in Herbert Moller, “Sex Composition and Correlated Culture Patterns of Colonial America,” WMQ3 2 (1945), 113-53; Breen and Foster, “Moving to the New World”; Tyack, “Migration from East Anglia”; and Anderson, “Migrants and Motives.”

7 They included the Hon. Charles Fiennes; Sir Richard Saltonstall and his son; Isaac Johnson, Esq.; John Winthrop, Esq.; and Messrs. Benjamin Brand, Robert Feake, Josiah Plaistow, William Pynchon, George Alcock, Simon Bradstreet, Richard Browne, William Coddington, Robert Cole, John Dillingham, Thomas Dudley, Samuel Freeman, Ralph Glover, Edward Jones, John Masters, Thomas Mayhew, William Pelham, Israel Stoughton and Thomas Stoughton, Nathaniel Turner, Arthur Tyndale and William Vassall. Altogether these gentlemen were 27 out of 247 heads of families in the Winthrop fleet. Others also arrived in the great migration. See Charles E. Banks, The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 (Boston, 1930), 52-54.

8 Tyack, Anderson, and Breen and Foster all generally agree on this question, with minor differences of emphasis.