NEW ENGLAND: THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHARLES EDWARD BANKS (INCLUDES 4 VOLUMES) CD-WIN/MACAuthor: Charles Edward Banks
Pages: 2 maps and 1061
Pub. Date: (1929-1937) 2007
In the early years of the twentieth century,
Charles Edward Banks collected information on all the participants in the Great
Migration from old England to New England, from 1620 to 1640. The results of his
labors are the four volumes gathered on this CD, presenting this information in
various ways. Planters of the Commonwealth arranges the immigrants
according to the vessel on which they sailed to New England, where this is
known. The Topographical Dictionary organizes the settlers by their
county and parish of English origin. Pilgrim Fathers and The Winthrop
Fleet focus on two of the most celebrated groups of immigrants, the settlers
of Plymouth in the 1620s and the passengers to Massachusetts Bay in 1630. Taken
together, these volumes set forth the best information on the settlers of New
England available three-quarters of a century ago. They remain of great value to
New England genealogists and should be consulted at the beginning of any
research project.
The full text of all four books in this compilation, totaling more than 1000
pages, can be searched at the same time and supports AND/OR, word proximity, and
other powerful searching methods. The compilation price reflects 40% off
the combined retail price of the individual CD-ROMS if purchased separately:
- The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers Who Came to
Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, the Fortune in 1621, and the Anne and the
Little James in 1623 (1929).
Banks collected available information on all passengers on the Mayflower and
three other vessels that came to Plymouth in the early 1620s, comprising the
English separatist Pilgrims who had sojourned in Leiden for the previous
decade or so, but including also the strangers from London and elsewhere. In
preparing to write this volume, the author scoured the work of his
predecessors in both England and Holland, but also undertook extensive
investigations of his own in English records. The result is a substantial
collections of relevant records, some of which served to prove the origins
of some of the early Plymouth settlers, but even more of which provided
clues to English origins.
- The Winthrop Fleet of 1630: An Account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the
Passengers and their English Homes from Original Authorities (1930).
Banks has compiled extensive information on the passengers who sailed from
England to New England in 1630, members of the so-called Winthrop Fleet. He
attempted to identify each person or family who participated in that
migration and added data on their English origin and activities in New
England. In 1630 the Massachusetts Bay Company organized and financed the
migration to New England of nearly a thousand English men, women and
children, under the command of Governor John Winthrop, and the vessels which
carried these emigrants have been called the Winthrop Fleet.
- The Planters of the Commonwealth: A Study of the Emigrants and
Emigration in Colonial Times: to which are added Lists of Passengers to
Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which brought them; their
English Homes, and the Places of their Settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640
(1930)
Banks has compiled all the information available to him by 1930 on
passengers from England to New England during the two decades between 1620
and 1640, supplementing the surviving passenger lists with some details of
his own knowledge and conclusions on their residences before and after the
voyage.
- Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England,
1620-1650 (1937).
Based on his own research and on the publications of many other researchers,
Charles Edward Banks had, by the time of his death in 1931, collected
evidence or clues for the English origin of more than half of the English
families which had come to New England during the years of the Great
Migration. The entries for the 2885 emigrants are arranged by county, and
within each county alphabetically by parish. Each entry also includes the
name of the ship on which the emigrant arrived (when known), the first town
of residence in New England and the reference supporting the proposed
English origin.
Summary by Robert Charles Anderson, FASG
for Archive CD Books USA
The CD includes high-quality images of every page as originally published (not
just a transcript) and is fully searchable using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 5
or later recommended) on any Windows, Macintosh, or Unix computer. The data on
this CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation.
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