Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (1995) and The Great Migration, 1634-1635 (1999-2011)

The standard compiled sketches of the early New England settlers. Cited by the Holbrook-Low colonial tree and by WikiTree, but not yet read here: GMB 1:127-130 for William and Nathaniel Bassett, and The Great Migration 3:350-353 for Thomas Holbrook and Jane Powyes, including their marriage at St John’s, Glastonbury, on 12 Sept 1616. The tree also cites it in general for Thomas Prence and William Collier.

Also cited (via WikiTree) for Thomas Lamb of Roxbury, arriving in 1630 with his wife Elizabeth and sons Thomas and John (GMB 2:1153), and for Adam Hawkes of Charlestown and Lynn, father of Susanna (Hawkes) Cogswell (The Great Migration 3:253-257).

Vol. III of The Great Migration Begins was read in the archive.org text (https://archive.org/details/greatmigrationbe0003ande) for John Woodbury (3:2054-2057): Somersetshire; Cape Ann 1624, Salem 1626; “To England in 1627 to explain to those interested, financially and otherwise, the condition, needs and prospects of the settlement”; freeman 1631; deputy 1635-39; selectman 1636-41; the Old Planters’ farms of 25 Jan 1635/6; “absent, now dead” at the January 1641/2 court; his wives (the mother of Humphrey unknown; Agnes by 1636, d. 14 Feb 1672/3); Humphrey, “b. about 1608 … m. by 1637 Elizabeth Hunter (had a household of three in the Salem 1637 land grant) [TAG 40:80-81]”; Humphrey’s deposition of 16 Feb 1680/1 and Richard Brackenbury’s; “He was present for every selectmen’s meeting until death interrupted him in mid-stride in the winter of 1641”; and the rejection of the Burlescombe marriage of 1596.