 Robert Peck, the Rector of St Andrew's Church, and his associate Peter Hobart, emigrated to the new colony of Massachusetts with half of his congregation, most likely all of the 133 people on "HMS Diligent", which departed in June 1638 from Ipswich, England.Peck had been censured by religious authorities for his Puritan practices, and his daughter had married the son of another well-known Puritan minister named John Rogers.The passengers on the "Diligent", working-class people such as shoemakers and millers, a number of ministers, and gentry, were mostly Puritans.