In 1635, a group of about 100 colonists from Wiltshire, England led by a Rev. Thomas Parker and cousin Rev. James Noyes, along with the latter’s brother Nicholas, settled and a place called Newbury Plantation, in Essex County, Massachusetts. It started off as mostly a small and modest settlement, but would expand as the colonists. Read more »
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