It is a singular circumstance that, in the long lists of early emigrants from England to this country, given by Hotton, there is next to nothing concerning the hundreds who com posed Winthrop's colony. Some have supposed that the emigrants themselves evaded an Oppressive law which required them to give the details of their English life and standing. Others have suggested that the lists were probably among the papers consumed in the burning of the Government House, and Hotton himself says, It cannot be doubted but that other lists were made, but they are either lost, or are' among the mass of papers still uncatalogued at the Record Office.

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