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Examining Passenger Lists lesson Plan

Central Historical Question:What can passenger lists tell us about who settled in the New World

and where they settled?

Materials:• Copies of Passenger Lists• Copies of Passenger Lists Graphic Organizer

Plan of Instruction:

1. Introduction: Famous explorers often kept diaries about their travels andexperiences, but how would we learn about the lives of ordinary men andwomen who moved to the colonies? (Remember, most people were illiterate).

Elicit student answers.

2. Continue with mini-lecture:

• Between 1150-1650, England's population increased from 3 to 5million.

e The colonies provided an outlet and an opportunity for people whoneeded jobs or who lost farmland in England.

e Many of these people became indentured servants but the numberof indentured servants differed from colony to colony.

8 75-80 percent of the English men and women who came toVirginia/Chesapeake in the 1600s were servants. 35 percent ofthose who came to New England were servants. (You might wantto point out these different areas on a map).

• In 1634, the King of England told officials in London to recordinformation on all the people sailing abroad. He didn't want Englandto lose its wealthier subjects and he wanted to make sure thatpassengers were loyal to the King and Church of England.

e Today, we're going to look at two passenger lists from shipsheaded to the colonies.

3. Pass out passenger lists and graphic organizer. Students work in pairs orgroups.

4. Whole class discussion:• What are the biggest differences between the two ships?o What does this information tell you about the differences between

New England and Virginia in the 1630s?

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e What do you think will change once plantation owners in theChesapeake area begin replacing indentured servants with Africanslaves?

e Imagine the setting: Officials are collecting this information aspassengers board the ship? Is the setting noisy or orderly? Areofficials guaranteed to get accurate information? How do youexplain the fact that all the passengers swore allegiance to theChurch of England (we know that many immigrants were religiousdissenters, like the Puritans who were escaping because ofreligious persecution)?

• What more do you want to know about these passengers? Whatinformation is missing from these lists? How might you go aboutfinding that information?

Citations:

Passenger list from the ship Planter, which sailed from London to Boston in 1635.http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/shi ps/ne ng_planter16 35. shtml

Passenger lists from the ship America from London, England to Chesapeake, Virginia.http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tova_america1635.shtml

© Copyright 2009. Avishag Reisman and Bradley Fogo.

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To Virginia (Chesapeake), June 23, 1635 (Modified)

THESE under-written names are to be transported to Virginia,Embarked in the America, per Certificate of from the Minister of theTown of Gravesend of their loyalty to the orders of the Church ofEngland.

Richard Sadd 23Thomas Wakefield 17Thomas Bennett 22Steven Read 24William Stan bridge 27Henry Barker 18James Foster 21Thomas Talbott 20Richard Young 31Robert Thomas 20John Farepoynt 20Robert Askyn 22Samuell Awde 24Miles Fletcher 27William Evans 23Lawrence Farebern 23Mathew Robinson 24Richard Hersey 22John Robinson 32Edmond Chipps 19Thomas Pritchard 32Jonathan Bronsford 21William Cowley 20John Shawe 16Richard Gummy 21Bartholomew Holton 25John White 21Thomas Chappell 33Hugh Fox 24Davie Morris 32Rowland Cotton 22William Thomas 22

John Yates 20Richard Wood 36Isack Bull 27Phillipp Remmington 29Radulph Spraging 37George Chaundler 29Thomas Johnson 19George Brookes 35Robert Sabyn 40Phillipp Parsons 10Henry Parsons 14John Eeles 16Richard Miller 12Symon Richardson 23Thomas Boomer 13George Dulmare 8John Underwood 19William Bernard 27Charles Wallinger 24Ryce Hooe 36John Carter 54

Women.Elizabeth Remington 20Dorothy Standich 22Suzan Death 22Elizabeth Death 3Alice Remmington 26Dorothie Baker 18Elizabeth Baker 18Sara Colebank 20Mary Thurrogood 19

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To New England, April 2, 1635 (Modified)

THESE under-written names are to be transported to New England,Embarked in the Planter, the passengers have brought Certificatefrom the Justices of the Peace according to the King's order.

A tailor, JOSEPH TUTTEll 39JOAN TUTTEll 42JOHN lAWRENCE 17Farmer, GEORGE GIDDINS 25JANE GIDDINS 20THOMAS SAVAGE, a tailor 27WilLIAM lAWRENCE 12MARIE lAWRENCE 9ABIGAil TUTTEll 6SYMON TUTTEll 4SARA TUTTEll 2JOSEPH TUTTEll 1JOAN ANTROBUSS 65MARIE WRAST 24THO GREENE 15NATHAN HEFORD 16

Servant to JOSEPH TUTTEllMARIE CHITTWOOD 24Shoemaker, THOMAS OLNEY 35MARIE OLNEY 30THOMAS OLNEY 3

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Servants to GEORGE GIDDINS:THOMAS CARTER 25MICHEll WilLIAMSON 30ELIZABETH MORRISON 12

A tailor, RICHARD HARVIEFarmer, FRANCIS PEBODDYWeaver, WilLIAM WllCOCKSMARGARET WllCOCKSJOSEPH WllCOCKSANNE HARVIEMason, WilLIAM BEARDSLEYMARIE BEARDSLEYMARIE BEARDSLEYJOHN BEARDSLEYJOSEPH BEARDSLEYFarmer, ALLIN PERLEYShoemaker, WilLIAM FEllOETailor, FRANCIS BARKER

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Use the information on the passenger lists to complete the chart below andanswer the questions that follow:

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To Virginia To New EnglandTotal PassengersRatio of Males toFemalesAge Distribution

0-4 (infants)5-13 (children)14-24 (young adults)25-59 (adults)60+ (elderly)

Number of marriedpassengers

Number of passengerstraveling with at leastone family member

1. Describe the "typical" English immigrant to the New World in terms of gender,age, and marital status on each of the ships. How does this differ on the twoships?

2. What can you tell about the social background and wealth of the averagepassenger on each of the ships? Does one of the ships have richerpassengers? What do you predict the passengers on the America will do whenthey arrive in Virginia?

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