No doubt his parents went over the Atlantic on board the _Bonaventure_, which was plying then betwixt England and the colonies (_vide_ list of ships in Hotten's "Emigrants," pp. vii. and 35). We have another instance in the "baptismes" of St. George's, Barbados: "1678, Oct. 13. Samuel, ye son of Bonaventure Jellfes." Allowing the father to be forty years old, _his_ parents would be crossing the water about the time the good ship _Bonaventure_ was plying. Again, we find the following (Hotten, p. 245):-- "Muster of John Laydon: "John Laydon, aged 44, in the _Swan_, 1606. "Anne Laydon, aged 30, in the _Mary Margett_, 1608. "Virginia Laydon (daughter), borne in Virginia." All this, as will be readily conceived, has tended to give a marked character to New England nomenclature. The very names of the children born to these religious refugees are one of the most significant tokens to us in the nineteenth century of the sense of liberty they felt in the present, and of the oppression they had undergone in the past. If we turn from these lists of passengers, found in the archives of English ports, not to mention "musters" already quoted, to records preserved by our Transatlantic cousins, we readily trace the effect of Puritanism on the first generation of native-born Americans. From Mr. Bowditch's interesting book on "Suffolk Surnames," published in the United States, we find the following baptismal names to have been in circulation there: Standfast, Life, Increase, Supply, Donation, Deodat, Given, Free-grace, Experience, Temperance, Prudence, Mercy, Dependance, Deliverance, Hope, Reliance, Hopestill, Fearing, Welcome, Desire, Amity, Comfort, Rejoice, Pardon, Remember, Wealthy, and Consider. Nothing can be more interesting than the analysis of this list. With two exceptions, every name can be proved, from my own collection alone, to have been introduced from the mother country. In many instances, no doubt, Mr. Bowditch was referring to the same individual; in others to their children. The mention of _Wealthy_ reminds us of Wealthy, Riches, and Fortune, already demonstrated to be popular English names. _Fortune_ went out to New England in the person of Fortune Taylor, who appears in a roll of Virginian immigrants, 1623. Settling down there as a name of happy augury for the colonists' future, both spiritual and material, she reappears, in the person of Fortune the spinster, in the popular New England story entitled "The Wide, Wide World." Even "_Preserved_," known in England in 1640, was to be seen in the New York Directory in 1860; and _Consider_, which crossed the Atlantic two hundred and fifty years ago, so grew and multiplied as to be represented at this moment in the directory just mentioned, in the form of "Consider Parish, merchant, Clinton, Brooklyn."