Massachusetts: Massachusetts Bay Colony—Tercentenary Commission Markers
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWXP_chelmsford_Chelmsford-MA.html
Settled in 1653 by people from Concord and Woburn. Named after Chelmsford in Essex.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWXQ_danforth-homestead_Billerica-MA.html
Site of homestead of Captain Jonathan Danforth, pioneer of Billerica and famous surveyor. "He rode the circuit, chain'd great towns and farms to good behavior; and by well worked stations he fixed their bounds for many generations. "
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWXR_john-rogers-homestead_Billerica-MA.html
Near this spot stood the John Rogers homestead, which was destroyed in the Indian massacre of 1695, and the entire family killed.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWXS_meetinghouse-hill_Lowell-MA.html
Site of chapel erected in 1653 for John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians. Here he preached to the Wamesit and Pennacook Indians, converting many and establishing a village of Christian Indians called Wamesit.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWXT_the-old-parker-tavern-1680_Reading-MA.html
One-eighth of a mile to "the simple home of an ordinary man, not wealthy, not particularly distinguished, but a type of the God-fearing yeomanry .... as Ephraim Parker left it, it remains today an unchanged relic in the midst of a changingworld."
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWXU_old-first-parish-burying-ground_Rockport-MA.html
Original plot given by the first settler, Richard Tarr, who was buried here in 1732. Here lie most of the early settlers and many of the officers and soldiers of the French and Indian, Revolutionary and 1812 Wars.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWXV_john-pool_Rockport-MA.html
Here stood the first framed house in Sandy Bay (Rockport) built in 1700 by the second settler John Pool. He built the first sawmill, bridge and vessel in this settlement, and furnished the lumber used in building Long Wharf, Boston, in 1710.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMXD6_dalton-house_Newburyport-MA.html
Built in 1746 by Michael Dalton, later the residence of his son, Tristram Dalton, one of the first two United States Senators from Massachusetts. Here were entertained George Washington and other distinguished men.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMXHG_early-boundary-line_Cohasset-MA.html
Boundary line between Norfolk and Plymouth Counties, originally established in 1640 as the boundary between the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and New Plymouth.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMY15_royall-house_Medford-MA.html
Mansion built by Isaac Royall who came here from Antigua with his slaves in 1737. His son Isaac Royall, a loyalist, founded at Harvard the oldest law professorship in the United States. Headquarters of General John Stark during the Siege of Boston.