9 Anderson, “Migrants and Motives,” 366.
10 Emerson, Letters from New England, 92; Anthony C. Salerno, “The Character of Emigration from Wiltshire to the American Colonies” (thesis, Univ. of Va., 1977), table IV.
11 Cressy, Coming Over, 52-63, is a valuable discussion of this neglected subject but Cressy counts as servants everyone in a household of a different name—an upper-bound estimate.
12 Thomas Dudley to the Countess of Lincoln, 12 March 1630/31, NHHSC 4 (1834), 224-49; John Winthrop to John Winthrop, Jr., 23 July 1630, Winthrop Papers, II, 306.
13 The Puritans themselves reckoned the cost at £54 for a family of six; a modern computation yields the same result; see Cressy, Coming Over, 108.