Re: Sailing of the Mary and John

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.org>]

>Thank you for reminding us of the anniversary of the sailing of the Mary and 
>John from Plymouth, Devan, England, on March 30, 1630. In a scholarly article 
>published a decade before the appearance of the Quarterman book, the eminent 
>genealogist Dr. David Greene resolved the question as to whether Henry Way 
>and family sailed from Plymouth on the Mary and John in 1630 or on the Lyon 
>from Bristol in 1631.  Both versions are in different places of the 
>Quarterman book.

That's very interesting.
Could you supply the title, publisher, etc. of this article?
And what was the resolution that its author proposed?

>I believe, however, that I am the only one to point out, in my book, that 
>Henry Way was a skipper and master mariner who lived at Bridport, only 12 
>miles from Weymouth, and that the home port of the Mary and John was Weymouth 
>(named for being the mouth of the Wey River.)  Moreover, the Mary and John, 
>unlike the tiny Lyon, was a veritable ark with all its animals.  The 
>passengers of the Mary and John decided to settle on Dorchester Neck because 
>it was easier there to pen up their cattle.

Interesting point about Henry Way, Bridport, and Weymouth.

I've seen the story about the cattle in colony records.

>Henry Way and family almost certainly embarked their farm animals and 
>household effects at Weymouth before it made a stop at Plymouth.   Plymouth 
>was simply the last port of call or jumping off place for America for the 
>Mary and John, as it had been for the Mayflower earlier and was to be for 
>subsequent shipload of colonists going to Australia and New Zealand, for 
>example.

Are there records showing the Mary and John taking on cargo at Weymouth,
or is this speculation?

>Henry Way's grandson, Aaron Way, Jr., married the granddaughter of the 
>Reverend John Maverick, Mary Maverick, who was also on the Mary and John.

Presumably you mean Rev. John Maverick was on the Mary and John.
Apparently his granddaughter Mary was born in Mass.

>By doing so, their Way descendants became descendants not only of nobility but 
>of royalty.  By two separate lines, the wife of the Reverend John Maverick, 
>Mary née Gye (Guy) Maverick, was descended from English King Henry III and 
>from his son Edward I.  Through them we are descended from what Sir Winston 
>Churchill in his History of the English Speaking People termed the oldest 
>royal house in Europe, that of Alfred the Great.

Very interesting.  Is this line listed and documented in your book?

>  We are also descended from 
>Queen Margaret of Scotland, King Stephen of Hungary, Rollo the Viking and 
>William the Conqueror, and a King of France.  Edward I married Eleanor of 
>Castile, the royal house of ancient Castile.

Also very interesting.  Same question for these lines.
Also, which King of France?

>Dane Bowen in Alexandria, Va., researching Bowen, Way, Carlton (Carleton), 
>Sanders (Saunders), Chaudoin (Chaudoins), Richey (Ritchie, Richie, Ritchey)

John S. Quarterman <jsq@quarterman.org>
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