A little more on early Boston Immigration After the initial planting of Northern Ireland in 1610 those who had come from Scotland, now called Ulster men in Northern Ireland, Scotch-Irish by historians and just Irish by North Americans started to migrate to North America as early as 1636. There was an attempt to emigrate on the ship Eagle Wing on September 9, 1636. A Company of 140 persons, led by the Clerk Robert Blair, set sail for Boston from Groomsport on Belfast Lough. The trip was enlivened with one newborn named Seaborn, but severe storms and a leaky hull, close to the banks of Newfoundland, convinced this group that these were signs from God to return to Northern Ireland, which they did, making port November 3, 1636. By 1670 emigration was once again underway with the major ports being New Castle Delaware/Philadelphia and Charleston, South Carolina. The first major migration to Boston was in 1714 when five ships arrived, two more in 1715, six in 1717 and fifteen in 1718, ten in 1719 and thirteen more in 1720. All told, that between 1714 and 1720, 54 vessels landed in Boston. 4 August 1718 five small ships bearing 120 Scotch-Irish arrived at Boston from the River Bann area of Northern Ireland. These contingents of Scotch-Irish became the initial three groups that settled Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. 50 of these families were sent to settle Worcester County. Others eventually settled the towns of Pelham, Warren and Blandford, Mass. Another group left Boston and went north to settle in Maine, spent a winter at the mouth of the Merrimac River, followed the river to Dracut, Mass and eventually in 1719 settled Londonderry then called Nutfield with 70families. Londonderry so prospered that by 1734 church records show 700 communicants present at the sacrament. Londonderry spawned such stock that six Governors of New Hampshire, nine members of Congress and five justices of the Supreme Court of the State were to trace their homes there. Communities from Londonderry spread throughout Rockingham, Hillsboro and Merrimac counties in New Hampshire. At least ten distinct communities were comprised of settlers from Londonderry, all of which became important towns. Numerous families moved northward and westward over the Green Mountains joining other Scot-Irish groups that moved north from the Worcester settlement settling along the Connecticut River in Vermont and New Hampshire.