Wincob (?). Was a gentleman of the family of
the Countess of Lincoln,
and the one in whose
name the first patent in behalf of the
Adventurers and Pilgrims
(which, however, was never used) was taken.
It is only recently
that evidences which, though not conclusive, are
yet quite indicative,
have caused his name to be added to the list,
though there is still
a measure of doubt whether it belongs there.
Weston. Requires little mention here.
Once a friend of the Pilgrims and
unmistakably the organizer
of the Adventurers, he became a graceless
ingrate and rascal.
An instrument of good at first, he became a
heartless and designing
enemy of the Planters. He was a “citizen
and merchant [ironmonger]
of London.” It is altogether probable
that he was originally
a tool of Sir Ferdinando Gorges and was led
by him to influence
the Leyden brethren to break off negotiations
with the Dutch.
He died poor, at Bristol, England.
Wright. Perhaps came to New Plimoth and married
a daughter of the
may-Flower
Pilgrim, Francis Cooke. If so, he settled at Rehoboth
and
became its leading citizen.
He may possibly have been the settler
of that name in the
Bay-Colony, and the weight of evidence rather
favors the latter supposition.
Of the Adventurers, Collier, Hatherly, Keayne, Mullens, Revell, Pierce, Sharpe, Thomas, and Weston, probably Wright and White, possibly others, came to America for longer or shorter periods. Several of them were back and forth more than once. The records show that Andrews, Goffe, Pocock, Revell, Sharpe, and White were subsequently members of the Massachusetts (Winthrop’s) Company.
Professor Arberl finds but six of the Pilgrim Merchant Adventurers who later were among the Adventurers with Winthrop’s Company of Massachusetts Bay, viz.:—Thomas Andrews, John Pocock, Samuel Sharpe, Thomas Goffe, John Revell, John White.
He should have added at least, the names of Richard
Andrews and Robert
Keayne, and probably that of Richard Wright.
Of their number, Collier, Hatherly, Martin, Mullens, Thomas, and (possibly) Wright were Plymouth colonists Martin and Mullens, as noted, being may-Flower Pilgrims. Nathaniel Tilden, a brother of Joseph Tilden of the Adventurers, came, as previously mentioned, to the Colony from Kent, settling at Scituate. Joseph, being apparently unmarried, made his nephew, Joseph of Scituate, his residuary legatee, and his property mostly came over to the Colony.