id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-821 Arbella - Wikipedia .html text/html 685 90 67 Arbella Wikipedia Arbella or Arabella[1] was the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet on which Governor John Winthrop, other members of the Company (including Dr. William Gager), and Puritan emigrants transported themselves and the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company from England to Salem between April 8 and June 12, 1630, thereby giving legal birth to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The ship was originally called Eagle, but her name was changed in honor of Lady Arbella Johnson, a member of Winthrop's company, as was her husband Isaac.[2] Lady Arbella was the daughter of Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln.[3] Notable passengers[edit] Sir Richard Saltonstall, first settler of Watertown, Massachusetts, one of the founders of Connecticut Colony, later English ambassador to Holland Thomas Dudley, who served several terms as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony External links[edit] This article relating to the history of the United States is a stub. United States history stubs Edit links ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-821.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-821.txt