The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 — Volume II, Bi-By
This second volume in the third series of the Great Migration Study Project contains new research to uncover the details of 121 immigrants with surnames beginning with Be to By who came to New England between 1636 and 1638 and appear in the Great Migration Directory. Sketches include details on origin, previous residences, migration, first residence, removes, return trips, occupation, church membership, freeman status, education, offices held, estate, birth, death, marriage, children, associations, and an expanded comments section. An appendix includes nine sketches that fall within the alphabetic range of the present volume but had been incorrectly dated or simply overlooked the first time around.
By Nathan W. Murphy, AG, FASG
Published by American Ancestors in July 2026
6 x 9 hardcover, 904 pages
List of sketches:
John Bibble
John Bickerstaff
Old Bickford
Priscilla Bickford
Richard Biddlecombe
Richard Bidgood
James Bill
John Birchall
Nathan Bircher
Goodman (Thomas?) Bird
Jathnell Bird
Thomas Bird
James Bishop
John Bishop
Richard Bishop
Thomas Bishop (b. 1618)
Thomas Bishop (b. 1616)
Walter Blackborne
Edward Blackley
Elizabeth Blackstone
Henry Blague
Richard Blake
Anne Blanchard
Joseph Blanchard
John Blanford
William Blanton
Peter Blatchford
Henry Bloomfield
John Bloomfield
Abraham Blush
Henry Boade
Thomas Boardman
Francis Bolt
Thomas Bone
Richard Borden
William Bordman
Haniel Bosworth
Bridget Boule
John Bourne
Nehemiah Bourne
Richard Bourne
Thomas Bourne
James Boutwell
Griffith Bowen
George Bowers
Mary Bowler
William Bowstred
Matthew Boyes
Jarvis Boykin
Joanna Boyse
Thomas Boyse
John Bradley
Arthur Bragdon
Arthur Branch
Peter Branch
Agnes Brayne
Edward Breck
Allen Breed
Thomas Brewer
John Briant
Edward Bridge
John Briggs
Margaret Bright
John Brinsmead
John Brittell
James Britton
Henry Brock
John Brockett
William Bromfield
Henry Brooks
Richard Brooks
Thomas Brooks
Chad Brown
Edmund Brown
Edward Brown
John Brown
Nicholas Brown
Nicholas Brown
Thomas Brown
Thomas Browning
John Bryant
James Buck
John Buck
Susan Buck
Roger Bucknall
William Bucknam
Robert Buffam
William Bull
John Bullard
William Bullard
Thomas Bunce
George Bunt
Edward Burcham
_____ Burge or Burgess
John Burgess
Thomas Burgess
Phebe Burley
William Burne
_____ Burnell
John Burnham
Benjamin Burr
John Burrage
George Burrell
John Burrows (b. 1609)
John Burrows (b. 1624)
John Burt
John Burton
Alice Burwood
William Bury
Nicholas Busby
William Busby
Peter Busicot
William Buss
Nicholas Butler
Thomas Butler
Benjamin Butterfield
Anthony Buxton
Henry Byley
John Byley
Mary Byley
Nicholas Byram
1635 arrivals included in Appendix:
William Blake
James Brown
John Brunson
Mary Brunson
Richard Brunson
Thomas Bushrod
Samuel Butterfield
Henry Butterworth
Samuel Butterworth