Watch and Wait on Thacher Island (1635)

“When news was brought to us in the gun room that the danger was past, oh how our Hearts did then relent and melt within us!” wrote Reverend Richard Mather in his diary. The ship he had been on, the James, was part of the Great Migration of Puritans from Britain to the New World. His ship had the misfortune of being one of those at sea when what is still believed to have been the strongest hurricane to ever hit New England struck. They had no warning of what was to come and the storm tossed the James, which had broken away from her anchors, towards the rocks until to the relief of all on board, the storm moved on and they could limp into Boston harbor, thankful to be alive. Another reverend who happened to be at sea at the time was not so lucky.  Ship Name: Watch and Wait Ship Type: Pinnace  Tonnage: Unknown  Year Built: Unknown  Nationality: Colonial America  Year Wrecked: 1635 Reason For Wreck: 1635 Colonial Hurrican  Location Wrecked: Thacher Island Cape Ann  Lives Lost: 21 Sources:  https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/remembering-the-great-colonial-hurricane-1635/ http://www.newenglandlighthouses.net/thacher-island-twin-lights-history.html Storms and Shipwrecks of New England, By Edward Rowe Snow, Published 1943 by Yankee Publishing Company https://www.wmur.com/article/hurricane-colonial-great-1635-anniversary/37396843 https://historicipswich.net/2021/08/15/wreck-of-the-watch-and-wait-august-24-1635/ https://archive.org/details/bookofnewengland00dra/page/245/mode/1up https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/captain-pens-guide-to-cape-ann-shipwrecks/article_68946c02-710d-50c7-a4a6-82acad20f42f.html