Note 34 — PART I Financing the Plymouth Colony

On Sherley’s addresses, Marsden, Amer. Hist. Rev., VIII, 301; Plooij, Pilgrim Fathers from a Dutch Point of View, 100. Plooij says that London Bridge was his business address and Crooked Lane his “town house.” I have been unable to verify it. Sir Ambrose Heal, The London Goldsmiths, 1200–1800 (Cambridge, 1935), 242; Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 287; Acts of Administration, 1657 (Somerset House, London), fol. 242. Sherley’s public appointments, A.O.I., I, 730, and II, 14, 310, 479, 676, 1082, 975; also William A. Shaw, History of the English Church during the Civil Wars and under the Commonwealth (London, 1900), II, 434.

P.R.O., E. 134, 22 James I, Mich. 22; P.C.C. 86 Swann (1623); Bradford, “Letter Book,” 68. The ships owned in part by Sherley were the John and Mary and the Hector of London, 220 tons and 250 tons respectively. Sherley refers to sending a letter in the Mary and John, very likely the same ship. A vessel of that name brought goods to Boston in 1633 and 1633/34, P.R.O., S.P. 16/17/83 and 16/17/117; Winthrop Papers, III, 130, 149; Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 391; Recs. Mass. Bay, II, 262. The Lyon sent to Boston in 1632 belonged to Sherley and the other London partners in the “Undertakers”; it was lost on its way to Virginia bearing 800 pounds of beaver as returns, Bradford, op. cit., 254–255.