Arbella

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The Arbella was the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet on which, between April 8 and June 12, 1630, Governor John Winthrop, other members of the Company and Puritan emigrants transported themselves and the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company from England to Salem, thereby giving legal birth to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. John Winthrop is reputed to have given the famous 'City upon a Hill' sermon aboard the ship, though research indicates that the sermon may actually have been delivered previously in England.

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Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940

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• The Winthrop Society is a hereditary organization made up of the descendants those who arrived on the Winthrop Fleet or other Great Migration ships before 1634.