TRANSPORTING A VILLAGE
1630 The ‘Great Emigration’ to an
untouched wilderness begins.
The ‘Winthrop Fleet’ of 11 Ships had 8
for 1000 passengers, 3 for the supplies.
200 did not survive. 200 returned home.
Colony Militia Protection
Ancient & Honorable Artillery Society
Town Crier
Maritime Trade
Sea Captains, Sailors, Shipcarpenters
Food cultivation
Farms, Husbandry, Fishers, Millers
Clothing
Craftspeople, Artisans, Merchants
Families
Kitchen Gardens & Home production
Laborers
Manual jobs
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GOVERNING THE COLONY
Civil Governance
Magistrates: Governor & Deputy, with a
Court of Assistants, & Town meeting representatives serving an Annual term.
Church Governance
Ministers are called, ordained & installed by
the members.
Church Officers: Teaching, Preaching &
Ruling Elders, Deacons & the Tithingman.
A new church concept, members practiced Congregational Polity. Members also
voted on admissions, & disciplined the
errant members with Admonition, Cast
out of the Church or Excommunication.
People admitted to membership are known
as the ‘Church.’ Town People are expected
to attend services, but are known as the
‘Congregation.’
Voluntary contributions sustain the Church.
The Tithingman carries a long bar with a
metal ball at one end, a feather on the other
Men & women sat on alternate sides.
The Covenant was drawn up & signed on
July 30, 1630. The Magistrates named the
Town ‘Boston’ on September 17, 1630.
First a Church, then the Town!
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POPULATION & PEOPLE
Members, First Church in Boston
Founders
John & Margaret Winthrop, John &
Elizabeth Wilson, Thomas & Dorothy
Dudley, Isaak & Lady Arbella Johnson,
Simon & Anne Bradstreet, Richard &
Katherine Mather, (Sir) Henry Vane,
John & Anne Eliot, John and Sarah
Cotton, Willyam & Anne Hutchinson.
Servants
Trades People
People of Color
Theological Designations & Survival
Plymouth - Plymouth Colony
Separatists [Pilgrims]
1620 102
1621 57
Boston - Massachusetts Bay Colony
Nonconformists
1630 1,000
1631 600
1640 20,000
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