• Anthony Thompson, with his wife, two children, and two brothers, John and William, embarked at London, on board the ship Hector and ship ----- in company with Governor Eaton, Rev. Mr. Davenport, and others of Coventry, England, and arrived at Boston, June 26, 1637, according to Winthrop’s Journal, though Cotton Mather says it was on the 23d of July in that year.
But as no site appeared to hold out as many advantages as Quinnipiac, or New Haven, they finally concluded to make that place their permanent abode.2461, p 728