Massachusetts: Massachusetts Bay Colony—Tercentenary Commission Markers
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In 1687 Major Appleton of Ipswich made a speech on this rock denouncing the tyranny of the Royal Governor, Sir Edmund Andros. A watch was stationed on the hill to give warning of any approach of the Crown Officers.
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Adam Hawkes, the first white settler in Saugus, built on this site about 1630. President John Adams was his great-grandson.
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Site of the first meetinghouse built on the open green in 1640. The bell, hung in 1642, is said to have been brought from England by order of the Reverend William Worcester, who settled here in 1639.
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Settled in 1636 by people from Watertown and Roxbury. In early years the town extended to the Rhode Island line.
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Indian land called Norwottock. Settled in 1650 by families from Hartford. The Regicides Generals Goffe and Whalley were concealed for fifteen years in the Pastor's house.
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Before 1670 part of Hadley. Thrice attacked by Indians during King Philip's War.
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Landing place on River Parker of the men and women who settled in Newbury between 1635 and 1650.
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John Eliot established here in 1651 a village of Christian Indians called Hassanamesit - "at a place of small stones." It was the home of James the Printer who helped Eliot to print the Indian Bible.
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Indian region called Quascacunquen. Settled 1635 under leadership of the puritan clergyman Thomas Parker.
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On this site in 1623 the Dorchester Adventurers founded the nucleus of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and fishing industry. Here Roger Conant averted bloodshed between two factions contending for a fishing stage, a notable ex- ample of arbitration in the beg…