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Settlement Timeline of Early New England Towns

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Settlement Timeline

  1. Reign of Elizabeth I (English Monarchy) in process
  2. 1585 Roanoke - North Carolina[1]
  3. "1603 James I (Stuart) Reign Begins"
  4. 1607 James Fort (Jamestown), Colony of Virginia[2][3]
  5. - Sagadahoc Popham Colony (Kennebec River), Maine, Failed Attempt[4]
  6. 1620 Plymouth Colony (Mayflower Compact)[5][6]
  7. - The Charter of New England[7]
  8. 1621 Sowams (Warren, RI) trading post established by Edward Winslow and Stephen Hopkins[8]
  9. - Nantasket (see Hull) trading post established by Plymouth Colony [9]
  10. 1622 Monhegan, (Maine) - British Fishing Camp[10][11]
  11. - Wessaguscus (Weymouth), MA[12]
  12. - Nantasket settlement[13] (see Hull) (see Roger Conant)
  13. 1623 Cape Ann, Essex Colony, Massachusetts (see Roger Conant)[14]
  14. - Cochecho Plantation[15], (see Dover, New Hampshire)
  15. - Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire
  16. - Saco, Maine
  17. - York, Maine
  18. 1624 New Netherlands
  19. - Quincy, MA (Wikipedia)
  20. 1625 Charles I Reign Begins
  21. - Chelsea, MA (Wikipedia)
  22. 1626 (1628) Naumkeag (Salem), Massachusetts Bay (John Endicott, Dorchester Company)
  23. 1628 Massachusetts Bay Colony Chartered
  24. - Charlestown, MA (Wikipedia)
  25. 1629 Province of New Hampshire Chartered
  26. - Puritan Persecution begins
  27. 1630 Winthrop fleet, Boston, PGM begins
  28. - Charlestown, MA (Puritans)
  29. - Mattapah (Dorchester), MA (Puritans)
  30. - Medford, MA (Puritans)
  31. - Watertown, MA (Puritans)
  32. 1631 Roxbury, MA (Puritans)
  33. - Newtown (Cambridge), MA (Puritans)
  34. - Saugus (Lynn), MA (Puritans)
  35. 1632 Duxbury, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)
  36. 1633 Aggawam (Ipswich), MA
  37. - Marblehead, MA
  38. - Scituate, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)
  39. - William Laud becomes Archbiship of Canterbury, Increased Puritan Persecution
  40. - Bristol Settlement[16] (See Dover, New Hampshire)
  41. 1634 St. Mary, Maryland, Lord Baltimore's Charter (Catholic) arrival
  42. 1635 Concord, MA
  43.  :Hingham, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)
  44.  :Musketquid (Concord), MA
  45.  :Weymouth (Wessaguscus), MA
  46. 1636 Colony of Connecticut established
  47.  :Harvard College, Cambridge MA
  48.  :Fort at Saybrook, Connecticut
  49.  :Dedham, MA
  50.  :Harfort, CT (digruntled Newtown, MA, Thomas Hooker)
  51.  :Wethersfield, CT (disgruntled Watertown, MA)
  52.  :Windsor, CT (disgruntled Dorchester, MA)
  53.  :Narragansett (Providence), RI, Roger Williams
  54.  :Springfield, MA (disgruntled Roxbury, William Pyncheon)
  55. 1636 - 1637 Pequot War in CT
  56. 1637 Dover, New Hampshire[17]
  57. 6 March 1638 Sandwich, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)[18][19]
  58. 1638 1st Printing Press in America, Harvard College
  59. 4 June 1638 Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)[20]
  60.  :Exeter, NH (digruntled, Boston, John Whieelwright, brother-in-law of Anne Hutchinson)
  61.  :Hampton, NH (Boston group)
  62.  :Portsmouth, RI (Boston group William Coddington and Anne Hutchenson)
  63.  :Quinnipiac (New Haven), CT (London group, John Davenport , Theophilus Eaton, no to MA)
  64.  :Fort Christina, Delaware (Swedish Settlers arrive)
  65. 1639 Fundamental Agreement signed by CT and NH
  66.  :Colechester (Salisbury) MA
  67.  :Guilford, CT (New Haven Colony)
  68.  :Milford, CT (New Haven Colony) Paul Prudden
  69.  :Newport, RI (disgruntled Providence)
  70.  :Rowley, MA
  71.  :Sudbury, MA
  72.  :Taunton, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)
  73.  :Mattacheeset (Yarmouth), Plymouth Colony, (Pilgrims)
  74. 1640 Mount Wollaston (Braintree), MA
  75.  :Marshfield, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)
  76.  :Salisbury, MA
  77.  :Southhold, Long Island, (New Haven Group)
  78. 1641 Stamford, CT (New Haven Colony)
  79. 1642 Cape Ann (Gloucester), MA
  80.  :Warwick, Rhode Island (Disgruntled Group, Samuel Gorton)
  81.  :Woburn, MA
  82. 1643 Massachusetts establishes Counties
  83.  :New England Confederation established
  84.  :Wenham, MA
  85. 1644 Branford, CT (New Haven Colony)
  86.  :Nauset (Eastham) incorporated in 1646, Plymouth Colony, settled[21][22]
  87.  :Hull (formerly Nantasket), Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)
  88.  :Reading, MA
  89. 1645 Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)
  90.  :Manchester, MA
  91. 1646 Andover, MA
  92.  :New London, CT (Glouscester, MA group)
  93.  :Nawset (Eastham), Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)
  94. 1647 Rhode Island Charter
  95. 1649 Malden, MA
  96. 1649 - 60, Interregnum - Commonwealth of England Begins (ends need for Puritan Migration)
  97. 1650 Medfield, MA
  98.  :Natick, MA
  99.  : Scottish Prisoners sent to ironworks at Saugus (Lynn) and Braintree
  100. 1651 Second Group of Scottish Prisioners arrive and sold as indentured servants
  101. 1651 (1638) Rochester, MA [23][24]
  102. 1652 Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)
  103.  :Kittery, Maine organized
  104. 1653 Kennebunkport, ME organized
  105.  :Biddeford, ME organized
  106.  :Wells, Maine organized
  107.  :Lancaster, MA settled
  108.  :East of Sowams (Warren, RI) English start settlement (includes Barrington in RI and Swansea and Rehoboth in MA [25]
  109. :Interregnum - Commonwealth of England (Oliver Cromwell Reigns)
  110. 1656 Northampton, MA (disgruntled group from CT)
  111. "1658 Interregnum - Commonwealth of England (Richard Cromwell Reigns)
  112. 1659 Nantucket, RI (New York) settled by MA group with Quakers
  113. 1660 Reign of Charles II Begins
  114. 1661 Hadley, MA
  115. 1662 New Haven Colony united with Connecticut Colony new Royal Charter
  116. 1663 Carolinas granted proprietorships
  117. 1664 New Amsterdam (New York) becomes English
  118. 1665 Newark, New Jersey (Group from Branford, New Haven, Milford and Guilford, CT (New Haven Colony)
  119. 1666 Connecticut established Counties
  120. 1668 Sowams, MA (English settlment established)[26]
  121. 1669 Middleborough, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrims)
  122. 1670 Hatfield, MA
  123. 1673 Northfield, MA
  124.  :Deerfield, MA
  125. 1675-76 King Philips War
  126. :English settlement at Sowams destroyed during King Philips War
  127. 1679 New Hampshire created out of MA
  128. 1680 Old Norfolk County, MA dissolved.
  129.  :Warren, RI (refer Sowams) settled [27]
  130. 1681 Quakers start settling in Pennsylvania
  131. 1684 Massachusetts loses charter
  132. 1685 Plymouth forms Counties
  133. :Reign of James II Begins
  134. 1686 Edmond Andros becomes Govenor of New England
  135.  :Greenfield, MA established
  136. 1689 Reign of Mary II and William III begins (William of Orange) Begins"
  137.  :"Edmond Andros sent back to England
  138. 1689-97 King William's War
  139. 1691 Massachusets recieved new Royal Charter: Province of Massachusetts Bay
  140.  :Plymouth Colony merges with Massachusetts
  141. 1692 Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
  142. 1702 Reign of Anne Begins
  143.  :1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War
  144. 1703 Rhode Island forms Counties
  145. 1707 Acts of Union (British Monarchy Established)
  146. 1714 Reign of George I Begins
  147. 1727 Reign of George II Begins
  148. 1744-48 King George's War
  149. 1747 Rhode Island/MA border determined, Bristol, Cumberland, Little Compton, Tiverton, and Warren ceded to Rhode Island
  150. 1752 Gregorian Calendar replaces Julian
  151. 1754 - 63 French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
  152. "1760 Reign of George III Begins
  153. 1775 Amercan Revolution Begins (April 19th)

Sources

  1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony
  2. ↑ Hatcher
  3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia
  4. ↑ Hatcher
  5. ↑ Hatcher
  6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony#Counties_and_towns
  7. ↑ https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mass01.asp
  8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Rhode_Island
  9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull,_Massachusetts
  10. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monhegan,_Maine
  11. ↑ Hatcher
  12. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessagusset_Colony
  13. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull,_Massachusetts
  14. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Ann
  15. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover,_New_Hampshire
  16. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover,_New_Hampshire
  17. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover,_New_Hampshire
  18. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich,_Massachusetts
  19. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Sandwich,_Barnstable_County,_Massachusetts_Genealogy
  20. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstable,_Massachusetts
  21. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastham,_Massachusetts
  22. ↑ http://blogs.capecodonline.com/cape-cod-history/2010/09/17/eastham-only-cape-town-founded-by-pilgrims/
  23. ↑ https://www.accessgenealogy.com/massachusetts/history-of-rochester-massachusetts.htm
  24. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_Massachusetts
  25. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Rhode_Island
  26. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Rhode_Island
  27. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Rhode_Island

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