Frances Vassall
Frances Vassall was twelve when she sailed from London in the Blessing in 1635. She was with her parents, William and Ann Vassall, and five brothers and sisters. The passenger list gives her as "Fra. Vassall 12", so she was born about 1623. Every passenger on that ship had brought a certificate from a minister and a justice of the peace that they conformed to the Church of England and were "no Subsedy Men", meaning none of them was rich enough to be assessed for the parliamentary tax, and the adults took the oaths of allegiance and supremacy before boarding.
The family stopped briefly at Roxbury and then settled at Scituate, in Plymouth Colony. Her father built Belle House on a neck of land on the North River. Her elder sister Judith married Resolved White, who had come over as a child in the Mayflower, in April 1640.
On 16 June 1646 Frances married James Adams, the son of a Fortune passenger. That same year her father sailed for England to press a petition against the Massachusetts government. He went on from there to Barbados and died in the parish of St. Michael in 1655.
Her children were baptised at the second church of Scituate: William in 1647, Ann in 1649, Richard in 1651, Mary in 1653 and Margaret in 1654. Deane adds a daughter Martha, who married Benjamin Pierce in 1678.
In 1656 she sold her share of her father's West Indian estate. The Plymouth Colony records say that "Frances, wife of James Adams, sold to Nicholas Ware of Barbadoes, all her right to the estate of her late father, William Vassall, in the Island of Barbadoes." Nicholas Ware was married to one of her sisters and was the executor of her father's will on Barbados.
Sixteen years later Massachusetts paid her for her father. Her father had put money into the Massachusetts Bay Company before the first colonists sailed. In 1672 the General Court granted 150 acres "to the w. of Adams, as d. of William Vassall, one of the patentees wh. prob. had rec. nothing for his money advanc. in the first coloniz." That is the last record of her.
Her brother John, who had come over at ten, was a lieutenant at Scituate in 1652. In 1661 he sold Belle House to John Cushing and went to Jamaica. Within a few years he was in the settlement at Cape Fear in Carolina, and in 1667 he was asking Massachusetts to send relief to himself and his followers.
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Cite: Heirology, "Frances Vassall (b. 1623)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/frances-vassall-1623-d038cd.