- Genealogy of the descendants of William Chesebrough of Boston, Rehoboth, Mass., the founder and first white settler of Stonington, Conn., born 1594, in or near Boston, England, and died 1667, Stonington, Conn. He sailed from Cowes, England, in good ship "Arbella" (of Gov. John Winthrop's Massachusetts Bay Colony), March 29, 1630, and arrived in Salem, Mass., New England, America, June 14, 1630, by Anna Chesebrough Wildey