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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).
First Church in Salem, Unitarian Universalist, founded in 1629. John Hodges House (1788) Built for the founder of the Salem East India Marine Society who founded what is now the Peabody Essex Museum. Derby House (1762) First brick house built in Salem after another man had died of a cold who lived in a brick home. Home of America's first ...
The Putnam family of prominent old colonial Americans was founded by Puritans John and Priscilla (Gould) Putnam in the 17th century, in Salem, Massachusetts. Many notable individuals are descendants of this family, including those listed below. John Putnam was born about 1285 and came from Aston Abbotts, Buckinghamshire, England. He was married ...
"In 2005, the Salem Mission bought the closed St. Mary's Italian Church on Margin Street from the Archdiocese of Boston," 2006; Kimberley Layne Driscoll (born August 12, 1966) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the mayor of Salem, Massachusetts [84] and is the 73rd lieutenant governor of Massachusetts since 2023.
Robert Coles (c. 1600 – 1655) was a 17th-century New England colonist who is known for the scarlet-letter punishment he received in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and his role in establishing the Providence Plantations, now the state of Rhode Island.
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.
Willard served as an advisor to the Nashaway Company which founded Lancaster, Massachusetts, in the 1640s and 1650s, and he settled in Lancaster by 1660. [6] [7] In 1651 Willard laid out 1,000 acres for settlement along the Assabet River which may have included parts of what is now Maynard, Massachusetts when a Native American leader, Tantamous (Old Jethro), defaulted on a mortgage for a debt ...
The Province of Massachusetts Bay [1] was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States. It was chartered on October 7, 1691, by William III and Mary II, the joint monarchs of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and was based in the merging of several earlier British colonies in New England.