R. C. Winthrop, _J. Winthrop_, vol. II, p. 443; C. Deane, in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings_, Series I, vol. XI, pp. 166 _ff._; Mellen Chamberlain, _Ibid._, Series II, vol. VIII, p. 110; J. Parker in _Lowell Lectures_, pp. 365 _ff._; and Osgood, _American Colonies_, vol. I, pp. 145 _ff._, 183. At length, however, the consent of the patentees was obtained, after their counsel had approved the legality of the step; and in October, in contemplation of the removal of the government to America, Winthrop was elected Governor, and Humphrey, Deputy, in place of those who were to remain behind.[327] Eight months later, in the early summer of 1630, Winthrop and a band of between nine hundred and a thousand immigrants landed in America, and settled what were later known as the towns of Charlestown, Boston, Medford, Watertown, Roxbury, Lynn, and Dorchester.[328] Eighty of the inhabitants already planted at Salem under Endicott had died during the winter, and of those who formed the present settlements, about two hundred succumbed between the time of leaving England and the end of December, including Johnson, his wife the Lady Arbella, the Reverend Mr. Higginson, and other important members of the colony.[329] Footnote 326: Decision of the English Chief Justices in 1677; _Acts Privy Council, Colonial_, vol. I, p. 724. _Cf._ _Ibid._, p. 841. Footnote 327: _Massachusetts Records_, vol. I, pp. 59 _f._ At the last moment, as Humphrey's sailing was delayed, Dudley was elected in his place. _Ibid._, p. 70. Footnote 328: The ships did not all arrive together. Some were delayed until the first week in July. John Winthrop, _History of New England_ (ed. Boston, 1853), vol. I, p. 34. _Cf._ Young, _Chron. Mass._, pp. 310 _ff._ Footnote 329: Dudley's Letter, in Young, _Chron. Mass._, pp. 311, 319.