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From Devon to New England before 1650

This is a transcription of the names recorded in Devonians and New England settlement before 1650, a paper by R. D. Brown presented to the Devonshire Association at Budleigh Salterton in 1963.

Brown assembled his list of names from a number of sources, but the principal one was Charles Edward Banks' Topographical Dictionary of 2,885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620 - 1650, first edited and published in 1937 by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell; second edition in 1957; third edition in 1963.

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What about the Mayflower?

Although the Mayflower left Dartmouth - and subsequently Plymouth - for New England in 1620, none of the passenger or crew is known to have come from Devon. Click here for a passenger list of the Mayflower.