Who Sailed On The Ship Hopewell Fictional?

This project aims to compile and expand the profiles of passengers on the Hopewell in May-June 1635, which sailed from London. The majority of Hopewell passengers settled in various locations, including Robert Titus, Elizabeth Heath, and Henry Hudson. Titus arrived in 1635 with his family aboard the ship Hopewell, settling first at Rehoboth, MA, then on New York’s Long Island. He died there.

The Hopewell left London, England, July or September 1635 with her master, Thomas Babb, arriving in Massachusetts Bay. Elizabeth Heath was baptized on February 7, 162930, and immigrated to Roxbury, MA, aboard the ship Hopewell. She died on July 6, 1655.

The Mayflower’s trans-Atlantic voyage of September 6 – November 9, 1620, saw most passengers becoming Hudson’s settlers. Hudson set sail again in April 1608 with a 1594 Peter Plancius map based on a 1569 Mercator map. Both maps showed possible connections between Knight and Hudson via the resurrected Hopewell.

Henry Hudson first appeared in written history as a captain of his own ship, the Hopewell. In his first recorded voyage, the Winthrop Fleet consisted of eleven ships sailing from Yarmouth, Isle of Wright, to Salem. Two ships, the Hopewell and the Moonlight, set sail for Roanoke. Kathy Bates portrays Tomasyn The Butcher White, Hudson’s fictional wife and regent-governor.

In 1497, John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) left Bristol around May 22 and landed somewhere between Cape Cod and Baffin Island on June 24, a date known as John Cabot’s arrival.