Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- A
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- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
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from Life-stories from early New England
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
VASSALL, William (1592–C.1655)
William Vassall, a merchant, was the son of John Vassall (ODNB) of Stepney, and the brother of Samuel Vassall (ODNB). He married Anna King at Cold Norton, Essex, in 1613. He and Samuel became assistants under the first Massachusetts Bay Company charter on 23 March 1628/9. Two of his children were baptised, in 1626 and 1628, at Little Baddow in Essex, but shortly before he emigrated he was said to be ‘late of Pritellwell [Prittlewell] in the countie of Essex’.
Vassall and his family crossed the Atlantic to New England twice in the 1630s. They joined the Winthrop fleet in 1630, and arrived in late June or July, but went home within weeks. When the Lyon set sail for England, it carried ‘Mr Vassall, one of the Assistants, and his family’. William and Anna Vassall came back to New England in 1635, on the Blessing, with five children – Judith, Francis, John, Margaret and Mary. ‘Mris Anna Vassaile the wife of Mr William Vassaile’ joined Roxbury church in 1635, but in 1636 the family moved to Scituate, in Plymouth Colony, where William joined the church on 28 November. In both the Massachusetts Bay Company and Plymouth Colony, Vassall held office as a magistrate.
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- Abandoning AmericaLife-Stories from Early New England, pp. 299 - 302Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013