Immigrant Ships
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Confidence

List of passengers from Southampton for New England 24 April 1638 by the 'Confidence' of London, two hundred tons - Master Mr. John Gibson.

- "by vertue of the Lord Treasurers warrant of the 11th April"

Columns represent*: First Name, Last Name, Name of the place each lived prior to the voyage, Occupation, Age, Name of the place where they settled Accompanied by (relationship, name, age, place each lived prior to the voyage, occupation).

Walter Hayne, 55, of Sutton Mandeville, Wilts, linen weaver, Settled Sudbury
Accompanied by:
    his wife:        Elizabeth 
    their sons:      Thomas, John and Josias under 16
    and daughters:   Suffrance and Mary     5
    and servants:    John Blanford         27
                     John Riddet           26
                     Richard Bidlcombe     16

Peter Noyce, 47, of Penton, Hants, yeoman, Settled Watertown
Accompanied by: 
    son:             Thomas                15
    daughter:        Elizabeth
    and servants:    Robert Davis 30
                     John Rutter 22
                     Margaret Davis 26
 
Nicholas Guy, 50, of Upton Grey, Hants, carpenter, Settled Watertown
Accompanied by:
    his wife:        Jane                  30
    daughter:        Mary
    and servants:    Joseph Taynter        25
                     Robert Bayley         23

John Bent, 35, of Penton, Hants, husbandman, Settled Sudbury
Accompanied by:
    his wife:        Martha
    and children:    Robert                10
                     William                6
                     Peter                  4
                     John                   2
                     Agnes                  8

Roger Porter, 55, of Long Sutton, Hants, husbandman, Settled Watertown
Accompanied by:
    and daughters:   Joane
                     Susan
                     Mary
                     Rose

John Sanders, 25, of Langford, Wilts, husbandman, Settled Salisbury
Accompanied by:
     his wife:       Sara 
     ? relationship: John Cole             40
     servants:       Roger Eastman         25
                     Richard Blake         16
                     William Cottle        12
                     Robert King           24
 
John Rolfe, 50, of Melchitt Park, Wilts, husbandman, Settled Salisbury
Accompanied by:
    his wife:        Ann
    their daughter:  Hester
    their servant:   Thomas Whittle        18

John Goodenowe, 42, of Semley, Wilts, husbandman, Settled Sudbury
Accompanied by:
    his wife:        Jane
    their daughters: Lydia and Jane

Edmond Goodenowe, 27, of Donhead, Wilts, husbandman, Settled Sudbury
Accompanied by:
    his wife:        Ann
    their sons:      John                   3
                     Thomas                 1
    servant:         Richard Sangar        18

Thomas Goodenowe, 30, of Shafsbury [Shaftesbury, Dorset], Settled Sudbury
Accompanied by:
    his wife:       Jane
    his son:        Thomas                  1
    his sister:     Ursula

Edmund Kerley, 22, of Ashmore, [Dorset], husbandman, Settled Sudbury
Accompanied by:
    ? relationship: William Kerley, of Ashmore [Dorset], husbandman
    ? relationship: Edmund Morres, of Kington Magna, Dorset, carpenter

Stephen Kent, 27, of Nether Wallop, Hants, Settled Newbury
Accompanied by:
    his wife:       Margery                26
    servants:       George Church          16
                    Hugh Marshe (or March) 20
                    Anthoney Sadler         9
                    Nicholas Wallington, a poor boy
                    Rebecca Kent           16
 
John Stephens, 31, of Goversham [?Caversham], Oxon, husbandman, Settled Newbury
Accompanied by:
    his wife:       Elizabeth
    his mother:     Alice Stephens
    ? relationship: William Stephens       21, of Goversham, husbandman
    servants:       John Lowgee            16
                    Grace Lowgee

Thomas Jones, 36, of Goversham, tailor
Accompanied by:
    his wife:       Ann
    their 4 [unnamed] children       under 10
    and servants:   William Baunche        24
                    Jude Donley
 
Martha Wilder of Shiplake, Oxon, spinster
Accompanied by:
    her daughter:   Mary
    ? relationship: Augustin Bearce        20
                    Martha Keene           60
                    John Keene             17
                    Elizabeth Keene
                    Martha Keene
                    Josias Keene
                    Sarah Keene

John Benson of Coversham [Caversham], Oxon, husbandman 30, Settled Hingham
Accompanied by:
    his wife:       Mary
    their children: John                    3
                    Mary                    1

William Ilsley, 26, of Nether Wallop Hants, Shoemaker, Settled Newbury
Accompanied by:
    his wife:       Barbara
    servant:        Phillip Davis          12
    ? relationship: John Ilsley            24, shoemaker, Settled Salisbury

Joseph Parker, 24, of Newbury, [Berks], tanner, Settled Newbury

Sarah Osgood, of Horrell [Wherwell] Hants, spinster, Settled Newbury
Accompanied by:
                    Sarah Osgood            9
                    John Osgood             7
                    Mary Osgood             5
                    Elizabeth Osgood        3
                    William Osgood and William Jones, children under 1 l
    servant:        Margery Parke

John Ludwell, 50
Accompanied by:
    servants:       Henry Hangert          40
                    David Wheeler          11

Richard Bidgood, of Romsey, [Hants], merchant, Settled Boston


Transcriber's Notes:

*  An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not
   the transcriber, or is used to call your attention to additional information
   in the transcriber's notes.

*  Information as stated in the "columns represent" section is listed for each
   passenger when provided.


Contributor's Notes:

Additional research indicates that John Osgood, the husband of Sarah Osgood was
aboard the Confidence although not listed on the manifest. Earlier in 1638 he
had petitioned his monarch as a yeoman (therefore paid taxes to the monarch) to
be allowed to leave for New England. As no response had been received by 23
March 1638 he obtained the services of the headmaster of Winchester School to
write to a friend at court on his behalf enquiring as to the status of his
application (this document is held at the PRO Kew). Despite not being listed
on the manifest, John Osgood is documented as being chairman of a committee in
Newbury in late 1638 and was made a freeman of Massachusetts in early 1639,
finally settling in Andover in 1645 where he and Sarah raised three more
children. Of the individuals listed on the manifest it would appear that
Richard Bidgood was the most likely alias of John Osgood during the voyage.

In some cases the grouping of the 'family units' has to be treated with some
caution as it is known that John Sanders (also known as Saunders) and his
'servants' was in fact a religious group escaping to the 'freedom' of the New
World.

It is also interesting that other members of the Osgood and Kent families had
preceded John and Sarah Osgood: Christopher Ogood and his wife Margery Osgood
sailed from Southampton to New England in the 'Mary and John' on 24 Mar 1634 
and settled in Ipswich with Richard Kent, Mrs Jane Kent and their children Mary
and Richard. I guess there could have been quite a party when they all met up
again in the New World.


Correspondence 26 March 2001:

Agnes Bent, daughter of John and Martha Bent, was born ca. 1631.  She married
Deacon Edward Rice, ca 1647. Edward was a son of Deacon Edmund Rice and 
Thomasine (Frost) Rice. Edmund and Thomasine are the 9th Great-Grandparents
of Sharon Hartmann Krisko.

More information about Deacon Edmund Rice and his descendants
can be found at:  Edmund Rice (1638) Association.

Correspondence 04/27/01 Passengers Taynter and Guy
My ancestors weere on the ship "Confidence", they were Nicholas Guy 
and Joseph Taynter (Tainter).
Joseph Taynter married Mary Guy and settled in Watertown, Ma. 
There is a book on this family called  "History and Genealogy of the 
Descendants of Joseph Taynter, who sailed from England April, A.D. 1638 
and settled in Watertown, Mass.  Prepared by Dean W. Tainter in 1859.
Joyce

Correspondence 4/21/02 passenger Tainter/Taynter
I have located ancestors on the passenger list for the ship "Confidence."   
I am a descendant of Joseph Tainter, Mary Guy, Nicholas Guy and Jane.  
In addition to the book "History and Genealogy of the Descendants of 
Joseph Taynter", who sailed from England April, A.D. 1638 and settled 
in Watertown, Mass.  Prepared by Dean W. Tainter in 1859, I have a 
chart that was prepared by another ancestor at the turn of the century.  
This chart lists several of the decendants. Laurel


Correspondence 07/03/01 passenger Wallington (also see correspondence 08/21/02)
You have a Nicholas Wellington (poor boy)listed as a servant for a 
Richard Kent. He is my great great great great great great grandfather. 
He changed his name to Wallingford the moment his feet touched American 
soil, or so it seems. He was a Master Mariner and married a
Sarah Travers (or Travis) and they had 13 children. 

John born 9/6/1655
Nicholas born 1/2/1657
John II born 4/7/1659
_______ born 5/20/1661
Mary born 8/29/1663
James born 10/6/1665
Hannah born 11/27/1667
William born 2/27/1670
Joseph born 4/20/1672
Elizabeth born 6/23/1674
Ester born 6/8/1676
*Benjamin born 6/27/1678 (This is my great great great
great great grandfather)
Abigail 6/24/1680

Nicholas left home in 1681 and never again returned home. He is thought 
to have been killed by Barbery Corsier n/k/a pirates as attested to by 
his wife when she went to collect his pension.
Christine Christensen-Wallingford


Correspondence 08/21/02 passenger Wallingford
Information on Nicholas Wallingford

Forth Child was Sarah Wallingford b: 5/20/1661 and I believe William 
was born in 1669 not 1670.

Benjamin (my distant grandfather) died in 1733 in Anne Arundel Co. Maryland.

This according to my cousin who has been researching our family history 
for the last 25 yrs. Elizabeth W

Correspondence 2/14/02 passenger Wilder
I just found a book on FTM, "Descendents of Francis LeBaron of Plymouth, 
Mass.". Compiled by Mary LeBaron Stockwell. The excerpt below appears to 
be the Martha and Mary on the Confedence Ships list on your site. 

(*)The following notes on Edward Wilder are from the "Book of the Wilders,"
and the "History of Hingham." Edward, son of Thomas and Martha Wilder of
Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England, b. 1623 (?); d. Oct. 28, 1690; m. April,
1651, Elizabeth, dau. of Anthony Eames [Ames], of Hingham, d. June 9, 1692.
He was in Hingham, Massachusetts Bay, in November, 1638, on the arrival of
his mother from England, in the ship Confldence, from the port of
Southampton. He remained in Hingham, and was made a freeman in 1645.
Children [order uncertain]: John, b. 1653, d. April 11, 1724, m. Rebecca
(???): Elizabeth, b. 1655, m. July 16, 1673, Israel Fearing: Ephraim, d.
Oct. 21, 1690: Isaac, d. Sept. 26, 169-, m. Mary Whiton: Abia, m. William
Clark: Mehitable, 
m. Joseph Warren: Anna: Abigail, d. June 6, 1718: Hannah, b. Mar. 6, 1666, 
d. 1690: Mary, b. April 7, 1668, m. 1696, Francis LeBaron: Jabez, b. 1671,
d. 
May 21, 1731, m. Mary Ford. The "History of Hingham" says: Widow Martha 
Wilder, mother of Edward, probably came from Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England.
Edward Wilder was a soldier in the war against King Philip. The author of
the "History of Hingham" calls Anthony Eames "of Marshfield." See also
Barber's "Hist. Colls.," p. 506, "Hingham."
Bushy Hartman


Correspondence 4/10/02 passenger Richard NEWTON??
I have a handwritten account of an ancestor having arrived on 
the Confidence.  His name was Richard Newton.  He does not appear on the 
transcribed list on ISTG.  His name, again according to the handwritten 
account, first appeared in 1639 and was one of the original Proprietors 
of Sudbury.  Can someone help us with a source for this information so
we can add his name to the list?? Jean McLean


 Correspondence added 11 March 2007, passenger EASTMAN
My ancestor, Roger Eastman (spelled Estman in our family records) came over on this
ship in 1638. He was a servant of John Cole.  Two brothers came with him; one went to 
Philadelphia and the other to Georgia.  I am hoping to find relatives of the two brothers.
Ramona Johnson

'Confidence' passenger list held at PRO Kew: C01/9/99.

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