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Founding Salem, Massachusetts Roger Conant ( c. 9 April 1592 – November 19, 1679) was a New England colonist and drysalter credited for establishing the communities of Salem , Peabody , Beverly and Danvers, Massachusetts (Peabody, Beverly and Danvers were part of Salem during his lifetime).
Native Americans lived in northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas.The peninsula that would become Salem was known as Naumkeag (alternate spellings Naemkeck, [9] Nahumkek, [10] Neumkeage [11]) by the native people who lived there at the time of contact in the early 1600s.
Lawrence and Cassandra were married 25 January 1623/4 at Kingswinford, Staffordshire, England. [1] [2] Along with their four surviving children, John, Josiah, Mary and Daniel, the Southwicks emigrated to Salem, Massachusetts, sometime between mid-1637 and early-1639 when they were admitted to the First Church in Salem.
The Salem Maritime National Historic Site is a National Historic Site consisting of 12 historic structures, one replica tall-ship, and about 9 acres (36,000 m 2) of land along the waterfront of Salem Harbor in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Salem Maritime is the first National Historic Site established in the United States (March 17, 1938 ...
Salem Story: reading the witch trials of 1692. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55820-4. Savage, James (1860). A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co. Upham, Charles (1980). Salem Witchcraft: Volume I. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. pp. 143, 191– 197.
Location of Salem in Massachusetts. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Salem, Massachusetts. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts ...
Charlotte Forten Park [238] is dedicated in Downtown Salem., [239] a graduate of the Salem Normal School For Teachers & later in 1856, a teacher at the Epes Grammar School in Salem. The Epes School stands off Aborn St as the oldest wood grammar school building still standing, [240] still occupied. Today it is a modest 4-unit apartment building.
She was one of eight children, among them her sisters and fellow Salem defendants Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Cloyce. Mary Towne and her family moved to America around 1640. She married Isaac Estey, a farmer and barrel-maker, in 1655 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Isaac was born in England on November 27, 1627; the couple had eleven ...