Historical Context for the Immigration of John and William Rayment

Table of Immigrants with
Possible Rayment Connections

by Robert Scott Raymond
Revised 18 February 2001

Is there a possibility that John and William (and Elizabeth) Rayment came to New England as a result of a connection with some other immigrants? The following table shows immigrants from Dorset and Somerset county as well as immigrants that settled in Beverly and Salem. (See a map of North Beverly to see their immediate neighbors.)

Sources are referenced by (source number : page number). A list of source numbers is given after the table.

Table of Immigrants

Immigrant Name	English Parish	County	Ship	New England Town	References
ABBOTT, James	Wincanton	Somerset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:146
BALCH, John	Sherborne	Dorset		Salem, Mass.	2:34
BALCH, John	Bridgewater	Somerset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:138
BALCH, John	Horton	Somerset	Zouch Phenix 1624	Salem, Mass.	2:143; 3:58
BARTLETT, Robert	Frampton	Dorset		Marblehead, Massachusetts	2:33
BERRY, Edmond	Frampton	Dorset		Salem, Mass.	2:33
BRACKENBURY, Richard and William	Folke or Holnest	Dorset	Abigail	Salem, Massachusetts	2:32
CANTERBURY, William	Frampton	Dorset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:33
CHUBB, Thomas	Crewkerne	Somerset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:141
CONANT, Roger	East Budleigh	Devon	Ann	Cape Ann, Salem, Mass.	1:3; 2:20
CONANT, Roger	St. Lawrence Jewry	London		Cape Ann, Salem, Mass.	2:100
CROAD, Richard	Frampton	Dorset		Salem, Mass.	2:33
DAVENPORT, Richard	Dorchester	Dorset		Salem, Mass.	2:31
DODGE, Richard	East Coker	Dorset		Beverly	2:31
DODGE, William	Middle Chinnock	Somerset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:140
DOLBEAR, Tristram	Stoke Abbot	Dorset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:35
EEDES, William	?	Dorset	Lion's Whelp	Salem, Massachusetts	2:37
GARDINER, Thomas	Martock (Hurst)	Somerset	Zouch Phenix 1624	Salem, Mass.	2:143; 3:58
GETCHELL, John and Samuel	West Monkton	Somerset		Salem, Mass.	2:143
GREENE, John	Gillingham	Dorset		Salem, Mass., Warwick, R.I.	2:33
GUTCH, Robert	Glastonbury	Somerset		Salem, Mass.	2:142
GYLES, Edmund	Meere	Somerset		Salem, Mass.	2:143
HAIGHT, John		Dorset	Abigail	Salem, Massachusetts 1629	2:37
HASKELL, Mark and Roger and William	Charlton Musgrove	Somerset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:140
HOYT, Simon (Haight, Hait, or Hoit)	Upway	Dorset	Lions Whelp or Abigail 1629	Charlestown & Salem, Mass. Dorchester Windsor, Conn.	2:36
JONES, Hugh	Wincanton	Somerset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:146
KING, William	Weymouth	Dorset		Salem, Mass.	2:37
KITCHEN, John	Weymouth	Dorset		Salem, Mass.	2:36
KNIGHT, Walter	Staplegrove	Somerset	Zouch Phenix 1624	Salem, Mass.	2:145; 3:58
LASKIN, Hugh	Broadwindsor	Dorset		Salem, Mass.	2:31
LEACH, Lawrence	Martock (Ash)	Somerset		Salem, Mass.	2:143
MORGAN, Robert	Wrington	Somerset		Salem, Mass.	2:146
NODDY, Doctor (First doctor in Salem; was butcher in England)	Wrington	Somerset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:146
PALFREY, Peter	Horton	Somerset	Zouch Phenix 1624	Salem, Mass.	2:143; 3:58
PATCH, Edmund and Nicholas	South Petherton	Somerset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:144
PEACH, John	Symondsbury	Dorset		Salem, Mass.	2:35
SHATTUCK, Samuel	?	Somerset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:147
SIBLEY, John	Bradpole	Dorset		Salem, Mass.	2:30
SPRAGUE, Ralph and Richard and William	Fordington	Dorset		Charlestown & Salem, Mass.	2:33
SPRAGUE, Ralph and Richard and William	Upway	Dorset	Lions Whelp	Salem, 1629 Massachusetts	2:35
SWINNERTON, Job	Taunton	Somerset		Salem, Mass.	2:145
TILLEY, Hugh	?	Somerset	Lion's Whelp	Salem, Mass., Yarmouth	2:147
TRASK, Osmand	East Coker	Somerset		Salem, Mass., Beverly, Mass.	2:140
TRASK, William	East Coker	Somerset	Zouch Phenix 1624	Salem, Massachusetts	2:140; 3:58
VINING, John	Wincanton	Somerset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:146
WOODBURY, John	Dorchester	Dorset	Zouch Phenix 1624	Salem, Mass.	2:31; 3:58
WOODBURY, William	South Petherton	Somerset		Salem, Massachusetts	2:144

Sources

The Old Planters of Beverly in Massachusetts and the thousand acre grant of 1635, by Alice Gertrude Lapham, 1930.
Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620-1650, by Charles Edward Banks, 1937.
Lists of Passengers and the Ships Which Brought Them - 1625.

Monday, 27-Jan-2003 21:46:13 MST

Table of Immigrants withPossible Rayment Connections

Table of Immigrants

Sources

Table of Immigrants with
Possible Rayment Connections