He Was, As Previously Stated, A Wealthy "Merchant And Ship
Owner Of London," And Not Only An Adventurer With The Leyden Pilgrims,
But - Nearly Ten Years Later - A Patentee Of The Massachusetts Company And
One Of Its Charter Officers.
We are told in the journal of Governor Winthrop of that Company - then on
board the LADY ARBELLA, the,
"Admiral" or flagship of his fleet, riding
at Cowes, ready to set sail for New England - that on "Easter Monday
(March 29), 1630, the CHARLES, the MAY-FLOWER, the WILLIAM AND FRANCIS,
the HOPEWELL, the WHALE, the SUCCESS, and the TRIAL," of his fleet, were
"still at Hampton [Southampton] and are not ready." Of these seven ships
it is certain that Mr. Goffe owned at least two, as Governor Winthrop - in
writing, some days later, of the detention of his son Henry and his
friend Mr. Pelham, who, going ashore, failed to return to the governor's
ship before she sailed from Cowes, and so went to the fleet at
Southampton for passage - says: "So we have left them behind and suppose
they will come after in one of Mr. Goffe's ships." It is clear,
therefore, that Mr. Goffe, who was an intimate friend and business
associate of Governor Winthrop, as the latter's correspondence amply
attests, and was a charter deputy-governor of the Massachusetts Company,
and at this time "an assistant," was the owner of at least two (probably
not more) of these seven belated ships of the governor's fleet, riding at
Southampton.
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