Thursday, April 27, 2023
The Winthrop Fleet of Ships in 1630 Headed For New England With Nary a Robinson
Nadene Goldfoot
John Robinson, Pastor in Holland who sent the Pilgrims onto the Mayflower, should have had his son, Isaac on one of the following ships. This is not one of our Robinsons, however. DNA tells me that our Y haplogroup is R-L21, later changed in Big Y test to R-FT111213. What Isaac was in unknown. If he has any descendants, it will show up.
1610 Isaac Robinson born in Leiden, Netherlands, to Rev. John and Bridget Robinson, pastor of the Pilgrims, who had experienced persecution and prison in England before fleeing to Netherlands for religious liberty. Two children, John and Bridget, were born in England, and Isaac was the first child born in the Netherlands. He had five siblings. During Isaac’s childhood, his father was pastor of the English “Pilgrims,” an author of numerous religious tracts, and a professor at the University of Leiden. The Pilgrim families built about 21 small houses in the Green Close near the St. Pieterskirke church.
Isaac was four years younger than the miller’s son who would become a great artist, Rembrandt van Rijn, also a Leiden native. Rembrandt attended Leiden University when Rev. John Robinson was teaching there, and Isaac’s brother John Robinson III was a student there.
1610 about Isaac Robinson was born, son of Rev John and Bridget (White) Robinson. (He was age 92 on 4 April 1702.) 1631 immigrated from Leiden to Plymouth on the Lyon.The Ship Lyon.
They had five days of east wind and fog, but no disaster. There were one hundred and twenty-three (123) passengers of which fifty were children, all in good health . . .. According to the records there were sixty men (60) on the Lyon, and as fifty were children, the rest must have been wives and daughters.The Fleet. Winthrop Fleet Large list of names of passengers to New England 1630 on board the ships: The Ambrose; The Arabella; The Charles; The Hopewell; The Jewel;
- Arrived on ship "Lion"Lyon.
- Moved with Rev. John Lathrop
- Martha's Vineyard
- Lived with daughter Fear.
- Through all his moves Isaac retained his membership in the Barnstable church.
Isaac Robinson moved with the Lothrop to Barnstable in 1639, and he died there age ninety-four in 1704 (TAG 18:45). According to Anderson's Migration his death date and location is supported by only secondary sources.
Isaac and Mary Robinson had a son named Peter Robinson who was born in 1655 in Massachusetts, married Mary Mantor and died in 1710 in Connecticut. They were the parents of Lieut Peter Robinson who was born in 1697 in Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, and died in 1785 in Windham, Connecticut.
The Winthrop Fleet was a group of 11 ships led by John Winthrop out of a total of 16 funded by the Massachusetts Bay Company which together carried between 700 and 1,000 Puritans plus livestock and provisions from England to New England over the summer of 1630, during the first period of the Great Migration.
- Arbella: The flagship, designated "Admiral" in the consortship; named for Lady Arbella, wife of Isaac Johnson (see below)
- Talbot: Designated "Vice Admiral"; Henry Winthrop sailed on this ship, John Winthrop's son and first husband of Elizabeth Fones
- Ambrose: Designated "Rear Admiral"
- Jewel: Designated a "Captain"
- Mayflower (not the Mayflower of the Pilgrims)
- Whale
- Success
- Charles
- William and Francis
- Hopewell
- Trial
Six other ships arrived at Massachusetts Bay in 1630 for a total of seventeen that year.
I found no Robinson at all, not even Isaac's name.
The Mary & John ship had a Dyer.DYER, George (4)
Somerset. Settled at Dorchester; constable 1630. Freeman 18 May 1631 (M.C.R., I, 366). Died 1672 (Blake). He also has our Y haplogroup; the only one so far.Resource:
https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Immigrant_ships_to_America/First_Families/Winthrop_Fleet#:~:text=The%20Fleet,Whale%3B%20The%20William%20%26%20Francis.
http://rootingforancestors.blogspot.com/2018/12/2018-christy-k.html
https://www.andalusiastarnews.com/2010/11/27/robinson-family-came-from-england-to-massachusetts-in-1600s/
Read more at: https://www.andalusiastarnews.com/2010/11/27/robinson-family-came-from-england-to-massachusetts-in-1600s/
