This Great Migration Study Project consists of sketches of families or unattached individuals who came to New England between 1620 and 1643. Each sketch follows a regular format. Every statement in each sketch is supported by citation to a document. Most of the citations appear in an abbreviated form, the abbreviations being expanded in the section entitled KEY TO TITLES. Two additional conventions employed in these sketches will help the reader navigate from sketch to sketch:

When a name is given all in capital letters, this means that that person came to New England during the Great Migration (1620-1643), and is, or will be, the subject of a sketch elsewhere in the Great Migration volumes. If the sketch for that person has not already been created, the name will be followed by a year and a place, indicating the known or estimated year of migration, and the first residence in New England. If a sketch for this person has already been published in the Great Migration volumes, a volume and page citation will also be added. For example, SAMUEL COLE {1630, Boston} [GMB 1:430-35] represents a sketch published in the first Great Migration volume, while NICHOLAS BUSBY {1637, Dedham} represents a sketch to be published in a future volume.

A string of citations of the form [Dawes-Gates 1:74, citing Perley 1:254, citing ELR 20:12] or [MD 16:181-82, citing PCLR 2:2:73] may serve one of two purposes. It may indicate a secondary source that cites a document, when the document itself has not been examined; or it may indicate a published transcript of a document, followed by the citation of the document itself.
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