Tristan asked: Was it not Yarmouth port from which Anthony Colby sailed in 1630? Strange that there were Colbys Living in Yarmouth in the early part of the 17th C. =-= Let's agree for the moment with Anderson (The Great Migration Begins) that Anthony came as a servant to Simon Bradstreet of Horbling (oh, beautiful irony: Anthony was my father's ancestor, Bradstreet was my humble mother's). In a 2005 book on Anne Bradstreet (Charlotte Gordon: Mistress Bradstreet), the trip from Horbling is described, starting on page 79: "Finally the long-anticipated message arrived. Their ships were anchored in Southampton, three hundred miles away. . . . It was time to leave Boston, meet up with their fellow travelers in Southampton, the port town that would be their point of embarkation for America . . . . "They would have to travel rapidly to avoid the additional costs of anchorage. . . . English roads of the time were so poor that the most efficient way to reach the south coast was by water. Ships that sailed out of Boston were by necessity small and shallow keeled, since they had to navigate the perilous shallows of the Witham River. . . . "After at least three days of sailing, the little boat clipped through the Strait of Dover, where Anne could gaze up at the sharp chalk cliffs. . . . [W]hen they came in sight of St. Catherine's Point jutting ruggedly out from the Isle of Wight, they knew that the first stage of their journey was almost over--Southampton and a safe harbor were close by." Kate Forster