Most of the standard authorities get the year of Edmund Frost's arrival in Cambridge correct, but in all else they are at fault. His port of sailing, his ship, and his English residence are all wrong. The facts briefly stated are as follows : During the years 1604-1607, the famous dissenting clergyman, John Robinson, preached secretly in the neighborhood of Norwich, County of Norfolk, England. There is considerable foundation for the belief that John Frost, the father of Edmund Frost of Cambridge, was a member of his congregation at one time. At this time, members of our branch of the family were located at Pulham, County of Norfolk, and at Bury St.Edmunds, Hartest and Bardwell, in the County of Suffolk, all places in close proximity to each other. The John Frost of Hartest, County of Suffolk, the probable father of Edmund Frost of Cambridge, was born about 1570. John Frost of Bardwell and Langham married Prudence Valyant

reported as Cage) on October 2nd, 1592. John Frost of Bury St. Edmunds married, February 16, 1595, at St. Michael's Church, Cornhill, London, Sarah Winthrop of

Groton, County of Suffolk, sister of Governor John Winthrop. Each of these John Frosts belonged to the Suffolk branch of the family, and were certainly kinsman of more or less distant degree. It is not difficult to say which of these three John Frosts was the father of Edmund Frost. That he was the son of John Frost of Hartest is extremely probable for the following reasons : The records at Hartest

show that the John Frost of that place had sons Edmund and John. There is no record of John Frost of Bury St. Edmunds having a son Edmund. John Frost of Langham and Bardwell had no son Edmund, but he did have a grandson by that name. So the sound conclusion appears to be that Edmund Frost of Cambridge (Mass.) was the son of John Frost of Hartest and possibly the brother of John Frost, who graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1635. About the year 1627, Thomas Shepard, a native of Towcester, England, a graduate of Emmanuel College of England (with marked sympathy for all dissenters), accepted a so-called lectureship at Earles-Colne, County of Essex, England. These lectureships were little more than thinly disguised pulpits for dissenting clergymen After having been at Earles-Colne for nearly three years, Shepard w as so interfered with and persecuted by the ruling power in the established Church of England, that he had to flee to Yorkshire and remain there in seclusion for some time. Before he left Earles-Colne, the subject of an emigration to America on the part of Shepard and some of his friends at Earles-Colne had been discussed most seriously. But Shep-

ard's sudden and enforced flight into Yorkshire postponed the execution of the plan for some time. In Tune of 1634, Shepard sailed for Ipswich, Suffolk, from Newcastle, with his family. After remaining in hiding for some months, the ship Great-Hope was secured and on it some two hundred persons embarked from Ipswich,

England, for America, October 16, 1634. Among this number according to Rev. Thos. Shepard himself were brothers Champney, Frost and Goffe. The ship Great-Hope was wrecked two days afterward off Great Yarmouth, England, but all on it were saved. This voyage to America had been planned and arranged for during Shepard's absence, by John Norton of Suffolk County, England. The master of the ship Great-Hope was, according to Shepard himself, a personal friend by the name of Captain Curling. Later under the personal supervision of Rev. Shepard, with powerful financial assistance of his warm friend, Roger Harlakenden of Earles-Colne, Essex the ship Defense was secured. Captain Bostock, master. Shepard and his party, which numbered sixty persons and included our ancestor, Edmund Frost saded from Gravesend, near London, on August 10th, 1635. A?ter a voyage lasting fifty-four days, the ship arrived in Boston Harbor OctSber 2nd, 1635. The entire colony settled at once in Cambridge, whither Thos Hooker had (missing text) them with his colony. We have now established, beyond controversy, the following facts: 1. The name of our last English ancestor was John Frost. 2. Frost (Missing text) American ancestor was Edmund 3. Edmund Frost was a prominent member of Thomas Shepards party and a close personal friend of the Rev Shepard.

4 Edmund Frost sailed from Gravesend, Kent County England, on August 10th, 1635, on the ship Defence. 5. Edmund Frost landed at Boston on October 2nd 1635 and settled at once at Cambridge, Mass. The above are facts.