Family:Robert Long and Sarah Taylor (1)

Facts and Events
Marriage[1] 3 Oct 1614 St. Albans, Hertfordshire, EnglandSt. Albans Abbey
Children
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After Sarah's death, Robert remarried and sailed with his children and new wife to America: on 7 July 1635, "Robert Longe," aged 45, innholder, "Eliza[beth] his wife," aged 30. "x children, Micell," aged 20, "Sarra," aged 18, "Robert," aged 16, "Eliza[beth]," aged 12, "Anne," aged 10, "Mary," aged 9, "Rebecca," aged 8, "Jon," aged 6, "Zachery," aged 4, and "Joshua," aged "3 quarters," and "Luce Mercer," aged 18, a servant, with a certificate of conformity from two justices of the peace and the minister of Dunstable, Bedfordshire, were enrolled as passengers for New England on the Defence.[3]


Defence (1635)
Sailed: Late July 1635 from London, England under Master Edward Bostocke
Arrived: 8 Oct 1635 at Massachusetts Bay Colony

Passengers:
~100 (Full List)
Thomas Boylston - Richard Champney family - George and Joseph Cocke - Robert and Edward Colburne - Penelope Darno - Elizabeth Fenwick - James Fitch and family - French family - Jasper and Ann Goun - Eglin Hanford and family - Roger and Mabel Harlakenden - William Holman and family - William Hubbard and family - Jo Jenkynn- John Jones and family - Robert Keayne and family - Robert Longe and family - Adam Mott and family - Francis Nutbrowne - Rich Peck - William Read and family - Symon Roger - William Sawkyn - Samuel Shepherd - John (Thomas?) Sheppard and family - Sarah Simes - Henry Stevens - William and Marie Williamson - Ann Wood

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Other information: Passenger list


References
  1. Robert Long, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    IV;318.
  2.   Hotten, John Camden. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality (1874): Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600- 1700. with their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars. (London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1874)
    p. 89.

    7th Jully 1635
    IN the defence de Lond. mr EDWARD [footnote: Or EDMOND.. The word is blotted in the original.] PEARCE BOSTOCKE [footnote: So in the original. There would seem to have been more than one ship call the Defence, since we find the names of four different commanders to ships so named: EDWARD BOSTOCKE (as here); -- PEARCE (June 20); EDWARD BOSWELL (June 22; THOMAS BOSTOCK (July 2).] vrs New Engld p Cert frō ij Justices of peace & ministr frō Dunstable in Comt. Bedfordsher:
    ROBERT LONGE ... 45 yers Inholder
    ELIZA: his wife ... 30
    x Children {
    MICHELL ... 20
    SARRA ... 18
    ROBERT ... 16
    ELIZA ... 12
    ANNE ... 10
    MARY ... 9
    REBECCA ... 8
    JON ... 6
    ZACHERY ... 4
    JJOSHUA ... 3 qrtrs old }
    LUCE MERCER ... 18. a seruant

  3. Great Migration, citing Hotten 89-90