 In July 1623 , two more ships arrived : the Anne , under the command of Captain " Master " William Peirce and Master John Bridges ; and the Little James , under the command of Captain Emanuel Altham . These ships carried 96 new settlers , among them Leideners , including William Bradford 's future wife Alice , and William and Mary Brewster 's daughters Patience and Fear . Some of the passengers who arrived on the Anne were either unprepared for frontier life or undesirable additions to the colony and returned to England the next year . According to Gleason Archer , " those who remained were not willing to join the colony under the terms of the agreement with the Merchant Adventurers . They had embarked for America upon an understanding with the Adventurers that they might settle in a community of their own , or at least be free from the bonds by which the Plymouth colonists were enslaved . A letter addressed to the colonists and signed by thirteen of the merchants recited these facts and urged acceptance of the new comers on the specified terms . " The new arrivals were allotted land in the area of the Eel River , known as Hobs Hole , which became Wellingsley , a mile south of Plymouth Rock . 
