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More than a week after the vessel first set out, the winds were finally favorable. The ship weighed anchor and sailed for New England. Governor John Winthrop and approximately 300 English Puritans were on board. They were leaving their homes in England to settle in a fledgling colony â Massachusetts Bay â on the other side of the Atlantic.
John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts, recorded in his famous journal, the arrival of the ship âGriffinâ, eight weeks out of England. On board was the Rev. Thomas Hooker, who went immediately on to Newtown, Massachusetts (now Cambridge), where some of his English congregation had gone ahead a year earlier. Hooker became the first pastor to this transplanted group of believers.