Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix 2 - Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Many settlers had reasons to visit England: mariners and merchants, plying their trade; settlers who wanted to drum up investment for a project in New England – to develop ironworks, or a cloth industry; colonial agents, appointed to press a case with parliamentary committees in London and to manage the bad press colonial disputes might receive in England; individuals who needed to claim a bequest, or check on property, or find a wife. This traffic to and fro across the Atlantic is an important backdrop to settlers' decisions to return to England for good, since travellers brought news in person, and carried letters with encouragements and invitations to come home. The following brief biographies are examples to fill out the picture.
BRACKENBURY, John
John Brackenbury was a mariner, of Charlestown and Boston. He made a deposition to the Massachusetts General Court, 14 April 1659, about his part in stirring up rumours about Nathaniel Mather* at Barnstaple in Devon. Mather had been appointed vicar of Barnstaple in March 1656/7, and when Brackenbury was back in Barnstaple, it was reported Mather had been ‘culpable in New England of misdemeanour with a women afore he went from hence’.
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- Abandoning AmericaLife-Stories from Early New England, pp. 354 - 378Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013