I have an ancestor who was in Massachusetts in 1640. What is the best way to research ships that arrived before that time?

There were few towns with more than 1,000 residents. There are only two "big" towns in England, Bristol and Norwich. Farming was how land was made rich; wealth was how it was made. What was the ...

Captured pirates William Phillips and Edward Savill testified on Aug. 27, 1696, that one of two ships that left the Bahamas went to Virginia and New England before reaching Ireland.