Ward, Arnold, Goulding, Cutler and Saltonstall during the Great Migration

7:3 The Family of Peter Goulding of Sudbury: The Family Line

There are a number of family connections that link the family of Captain Peter Goulding, specifically his brother Roger to some of the key families of the Winthrop Fleet.

A book called The Winthrop Fleet 1630 by Charles Edward Banks, beginning on page 15-17:

"In no section of England was the spirit of hostility to the Established Church more widely spread and more deeply ingrained than in the section known as East Anglia, comprising the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. Of course there were not exact comital lines which embraced these Puritan sectaries, as the adjoining counties of Cambridge, Herts, Middlesex and London itself were inoculated with the same 'heresies'. Cambridge University was the Alma Mater of most of the dissenting clergy and certainly of the vast majority of those ministers who emigrated to New England.. East Anglia became the early nursery of the dissenters and the consistent supporter of the clandestine congregations which grew up in that region. The were called by several names - Brownists, Independents, Separatists, but by whatever title known, although differing in methods and dogmas, they were unanimous in opposition to the Established church and generally at loggerheads with each other.

The historic index points unerringly to the Reverend John White of Dorsetshire, England as the earliest and most important original factor among the influences which led up to this new colonizing company. Generally known as the "Patriarch of Dorchester", he had been continuously at the head of various organized companies as well as unorganized movements to effect settlements on the Massachusetts coast. This work he began in 1623 with the Dorchester Company which took possession of Cape Ann as a site for a colony and thereafter he was interested in every company that finally became merged successively into this last great venture in 1629 - the Massachusetts Bay Company. White was a conforming Puritan of liberal views. He recognized the need of dealing with the large hostile sentiment then existing against the Established Church and believed the emigration of these Dissenters to a new country not only would afford a remedy for their grievances but answer he growing pressure of adverse economic conditions.." (The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, p 15-17)

Ward Family and Nathaniel Saltonstall

Thomas Ward 1520

Rev. John Ward 1550

Rev. Samuel Ward 1577 and Deborah Bolton

Rev. Nathaniel Ward 1578

Rev. John Ward 1584

The Ward, Saltonstall and Arnold families were intertwined before and during the Great Migration to New England

Ward, Arnold, Goulding and Cutler

Governor Benedict Arnold and Damaris Westcott - Their daughter Penelope married Captain Roger Goulding.

Josiah Arnold and Mary Ward - He was evidently not the son of Governor Benedict Arnold. Captain Josiah Arnold married Mary Sanford, not Ward (or Smith or Wells). The Josiah Arnold in this instance, according to the New England Marriages Prior to 1700 married Mary (Smith?/Wells?Ward) He died in 1724. What further adds to the confusion is that Captain Josiah Arnold also died in 1724. Source: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/3824/images/gpc_newenglandmarriages-0037?pId=38371 There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding her identity, but there is a will dated 1715 that may pertain to her. It is for Mary, widow of Josiah Arnold of CT.

Cutler - Penelope Arnold married George Cutler after the death of Roger Goulding, but not much is known about him.

Major Roger Goulding of Rhode Island was supposedly the brother of Captain Peter Goulding and the son of Rev. Thomas Goulding of the Great Migration. The rest of the connections are purely conjectural on my part. I have no evidence of who Rev. Thomas “of Dorchester” Goulding was much less who his parents were.

Alexander Golding - There are multiple people named Alexander Golding in Hadleigh, Suffolk.

Prudence Cobbold - The earliest will on record for the Cobbold family of Ipswich, Suffolk, England is George Cobbold, will probated in 1619. The Cobbold family were Clothworkers at that time and in the 18th century they moved and became brewers. There isn’t much about them in the early records, but in the 18th and 19th centuries they are well-documented.

There is no evidence to support the connections here. Rev. Thomas Goulding is not found in the records of the Great Migration and his connection to Alexander Golding and Prudence Cobbold of Suffolk is purely conjectural.

Source: The Winthrop Fleet, p 20-22

"In July 1629, a few weeks after he had lost his office, Winthrop and his brother-in-law, Emanuel Downing, attended a meeting at Sempringham by invitation of Isaac Johnson, the husband of Lady Arbella to discuss the subject of emigration to America, either New England or the West India Islands. The decision favored the former place and on August 26, at a second conference in the University town of Cambridge, SIR RICHARD SALTONSTALL, Thomas Dudley, William Vassall, Nicholas West, Increase Nowell, Isaac Johnson, John Humphrey, Thomas Sharpe, John Winthrop, William Colborne, Kellam Browne and William Pnychon concluded an agreement to go to New England by the first of the following March (1629-1630) with their families and personal property.

Naturally, the 'underground telegraph' of what was in prospect reached all sorts of persons ready for the adventure, for one reason or another, but it found responses more readily among those sympathetically inclined to Puritan and Separatist ideas. The Dissenting and Separatist clergy were already in touch with each other and were early informed of the nature and purposes of the project... Archbishop Laud, their Nemesis later, had not come into power when this movement was being organized... Only two regular clergymen came with Winthrop - the Reverend John Wilson, a native of Windsor, Berkshire who had been preaching at Sudbury, Suffolk and Reverend George Phillips, similarly employed at Boxford in the same county, within six miles of each other with Groton between the two... The Michaelmas and Hilary Assizes of 1629 at BURY ST. EDMUNDS, always largely attended by the yeomanry of the county, gave Winthrop an opportunity to meet many persons who would be informed of the proposed plantation in New England and thus the gospel of a new country where land could be had freely and held in fee simple was placed before the county of Suffolk under favorable circumstances and with good results."

Source: The Winthrop Fleet, p 20-22

Saltonstall and Ward

Sir Richard Saltonstall 1586 - Sir Richard Saltonstall and his family voyaged in the Arabella in 1630. Those listed were Saltonstall, Sir Richard of London Watertown, Saltonstall, Richard Jr., Saltonstall, Samuel, Saltonstall, Robert, Saltonstall, Rosamond, Saltonstall, Grace

Richard “of Ipswich” Saltonstall 1610 - He went with his father and siblings on the Arabella in 1630 and is listed with them in the Passenger List.

Colonel Nathaniel Saltonstall 1639. He married Elizabeth Ward and she was the daughter of Rev. John Ward.

Sir Richard Saltonstall went with his family to Massachusetts on the Arabella

SALTONSTALL, Sir Richard of London to Watertown (along with Richard, Jr, Samuel, Robert, Rosamond and Grace);

1. SALTONSTALL, Sir Richard - Watertown Of the family of Saltonstall of Yorkshire, but came from London. Freeman 18 May, 1631 (M.C.R., I, 73). He returned to England.

2. SALTONSTALL, Richard, Jr. - Son of Sir Richard. (Winthrop).

3. SALTONSTALL, Samuel - Son of Sir Richard. (Winthrop).

4. SALTONSTALL, Robert - Son of Sir Richard. (Winthrop).

5. SALTONSTALL, Rosamond - Daughter of Sir Richard. (Winthrop).

6. SALTONSTALL, Grace - Daughter of Sir Richard (Winthrop).

Sir Richard Saltonstall was one of the investors in the Massachusetts Bay Company.

Biographical Information: Sir Richard Saltonstall was born April 4, 1586 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England and he died in 1661. He married Grace Kaye and their son, who traveled with them, was Richard 'of Ipswich" Saltonstall. He was born in 1610 in Woodsome, York, England and he died in 1694 at Hulme, near Warrington in Lancashire, England. He married Muriel Gurdon. Their son was Nathaniel Saltonstall born 1639 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts and died May 21, 1707. He married Elizabeth Ward, the daughter of Rev. John Ward (1584-1656).

WARD, Thomas - Dedham Probably from Bedingham, County Norfolk. Juror 28 Sept 1630 (M.C.R., I, 78).

The Ward line needs to be expanded because the Wards were not only Winthrop Fleet emigrants but they married into the Saltonstall family.

Winthrop, John of Croton, Suffolk to Boston (along with Henry who died by accidental drowning, Stephen and Samuel)

1. WINTHROP, John - Boston The Governor. From Groton, co. Suffolk.

2. WINTHROP, Henry - Son of Gov. Winthrop. Drowned at Salem 2 July 1630.

3. WINTHROP, Stephen - Son of Gov. Winthrop. (G.R., LXXV, 236).

4. WINTHROP, Samuel - Son of Gov, Winthrop. (G.R., LXXV, 236).

5. Eight servants of Gov. Winthrop, names unknown) Winthrop Journal, 1853, I. 455).

By far the majority of people who went to Massachusetts with the Winthrop Fleet were from the West Country, specifically Suffolk, Essex and the area around London. Source: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48245/images/WinthropFleet-006850-ii?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=256752

The Winthrop Fleet p 33-34

The Fleet

"As soon as the agreement at Cambridge on August 26, 1629 was consummated, the Company began to arrange for shipping to carry the emigrants across the Atlantic. In the next month the ship Eagle was bought for the Company's use by ten of the members as underwriters. This plan was in accordance with the suggestion of the Reverend Francis Higginson as a business proposition that it would be more economical for a party of emigrants to join together and purchase a ship for the voyage and dispose of it after arrival. This ship was later christened the Arbella in honor of Lady Arbella. The following additional ships were chartered during the year for service in the spring. Ambrose, Jewel, Talbot, Charles, Mayflower, William and Francis, Hopewell, Whale, Success, Trial

A plan of consortship was arranged by which the Arbella was designated "Admiral', the Talbot "Vice Admiral", the Ambrose " Rear Admiral" and the Jewel a "Captain" in nautical ranking for the fleet and a code of signals was agreed upon for use at sea to maintain contact and regulate their movements... It can be inferred from available records that only the four leaders of the Fleet carried passengers as well as the Mayflower, Whale and Success. The others were used to transport freight and livestock.."

The Winthrop Fleet 1630 (Source: Genealogy Trails, “Winthrop Passengers”, https://genealogytrails.com/mass/winthrop_passengers.html

This source does not give the name of the ship the Passengers were on but rather gives a list of the Passengers and the names of the ships individually.

THE SHIPS OF THE WINTHROP FLEET

Charles - Freight and Livestock

William and Francis - Freight and Livestock

Hopewell - Freight and Livestock

Trial - Freight and Livestock

Arbella – Passenger; Flagship – “Admiral”

Ambrose – Passenger, “Rear Admiral”

Jewel – Passenger, “Captain”

Talbot – Passenger, “Vice Admiral”

Mayflower - Passenger

Whale - Passenger

Success - Passenger

Of all of the passengers who went with Winthrop to Massachusetts in 1630, the following people are of particular interest:

John Bigges and his wife of Groton, Suffolk to Dorchester. Boston From Groton, co. Suffolk, or vicinity. Member church No. 97, 1630/1. Freeman 4 March 1633/4 (M.C.R., I, 368). Ipswich 1633. Mentioned in letter of Bluette of Groton, Suffolk (Winthrop MSS.)

BIGGS, Mary Wife of John. Died 10 (11) 1649/50.

Biographical Information: John Biggs was born about 1600 in Groton, Suffolk, England. His wife's name was Mary. They had a daughter named Elizabeth who married John Stowe, one of the early pioneers of Massachusetts. (Source: Gaulding Origins)

William Cheesebrough of Boston, Lincolnshire to Boston, Rehoboth. (Wife, Mrs. Anne, Sarah, Peter, Samuel, Nathaniel);

1. CHEESEBROUGH, William - Boston From Boston, co. Lincoln. Blacksmith. Born 1594 Juryman 9 Nov. 1630 (M.C.R., I, 78). Freeman 18 May 1631 (ibid., I, 366). Removed to Braintree and Rehoboth.

2. CHEESEBROUGH, Ann (Stevenson) - Wife of William. Born 1596. Admitted church 1630. No. 45.

3. CHEESEBROUGH, Sarah - Daughter of William. Admitted church 1630, No. 78.

4. CHEESEBROUGH, Peter - Son of William.

5. CHEESEBROUGH, Samuel - Son of William.

6. CHEESEBROUGH, Nathaniel - Son of William.

Dixon, William - Boston Probably from Suffolk. Servant to Governor Winthrop. Cooper. Died 1666. (M.C.R., I, 105). Removed to York, ME. 1636.

Doggett, John and Thomas

1. DOGGETT, John - Watertown From Suffolk, vicinity of Groton. Applied freeman 19 Oct 1630. Freeman. Removed to Martha's Vineyard. Died 1673 (M.C.R., I, 80).

2. DOGGETT, ____ Wife of John.

3. DOGGETT, John, Jr. - Son of John.

4. DOGGETT, Thomas Son of John.

Biographical Information: The Doggett, Bacon and Gosnold families were related by marriage. Ann Doggett, the daughter of Richard "of Boxford, Suffolk" Doggett married Thomas "of Hesset" Bacon. She died around 1578 at Otley Hall in Suffolk because her second husband was Sir Robert "the elder" Gosnold who was born about 1490 at Otley Hall and died October 20, 1572. His first wife, with whom he had children was Agnes Hill and it was their daughters Joane and Katherine who married the brothers John and Thomas "of Poslingford" Golding.

HALL, Joan (Dove) - Wife of John. From Bethnal Green, Stepney. Married 1618. Hammond, Philippa Widow. She married Robert Harding. Was an adherent of Mrs. Hutchinson. Member church 1630

Biographical Information: The Dove family of Wiltshire was related to another family of the Winthrop Fleet. John Dove, born about 1585 in Wiltshire, England married Elizabeth Biggs. Their son was John Dove, born July 18 1605 in Christian Malford, Wiltshire, England and he died in 1664 in Alderbury, Wiltshire. He married MARGARET GOLDINGE and they had at least two sons named Henry and David. I have a note that says David died in Virginia but that is not confirmed. Margaret Goldinge was born April 4, 1607 in Wiltshire. Margaret was I believe of the Meysey Hampton line of the Goldinge/Goulding family and her father was William "of Wiltshire" Goldinge and Susanna Robinette. I have this line separate from the Suffolk family but they may well be connected.

Gosnall, Henry and his wife probably of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk to Boston

1. GOSNALL, Henry - Boston Probably from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Member church 1630, No. 29. No further record.

2. Gosnall, Mary - Wife of Henry. Member church 1630.

Biographical Information: Related to the Gosnold Family of Otley Hall but I need to find out how.

3. Palmer, Abraham of Canterbury, Kent to Charlestown along with Mrs. Grace Palmer; PALMER, Abraham Charlestown From Canterbury, Kent (Banks MSS). Merchant. Died at Barbados about 1653.

4. PALMER, Grace - Wife of Abraham. Died Dec 1660. (Pope).

Biographical Information: I have yet to find the names of Sarah Palmer's parents. It's interesting to note that Abraham Palmer was a Merchant and he died in Barbados. Captain Roger Goulding, the brother of Peter Goulding was the Captain of a ship and he died in Barbados as well, in 1695.

The Winthrop Fleet arrives in Massachusetts

On March 29, 1630 John Winthrop began his famous Journal of the voyage under these headlines "Easter Monday. Ryding at the Cowes, near the Isle of Wight"

From page 35-36 of The Winthrop Fleet of 1630"

"It is necessary here to mention an historic event which for some reason is given no mention by Winthrop in his Journal or in his letters to his wife before sailing. Reference is made to the famous farewell address of the Reverend John Cotton, Vicar of Boston, Lincolnshire who came down to give his blessing and approval of the undetaking, but where this address was delivered is uncertain, as two contemporary authorities place it at Gravesend and at Southampton..."

Resources

The Winthrop Fleet (The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, Charles Edward Banks, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Boston, 1930, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48245/images/WinthropFleet-006852-iv?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=256754)