Coming Over

Coming Over discusses the English migration to New England in the seventeenth century.

Preface; List of figures and tables; List of abbreviations; 1. 'The excellency of the place': English impressions of New England; 2. 'A mixed multitude': the peopling of early New England; 3. 'Reasons moving this people to transplant themselves': migrant motives and decisions; 4. 'Needful provisions': the cost of emigration; 5. 'Promiscuous and disorderly departing out of the realm': the control of emigration; 6. 'The vast and furious ocean': shipboard socialisation and the Atlantic passage; 7. 'Occasions in England': debts, obligations and inheritances across the ocean; 8. 'A hankering desire for old England': homesickness, return visits and back migration; 9. 'A constant intercourse of letters': the transatlantic flow of information; 10. 'Dangerous and unsettled times': English news in New England; 11. 'The part of a kinsman': separation, reunion and the wider circle of kin; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.