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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
Francis Higginson and Samuel Skelton were the two most prominent and influential of the godly ministers provided by a committee of the company for this band of colonists. Three of the vessels set sail in the early part of May, and arrived at Salem in June, the rest of the fleet soon following. Of their arrival Higginson wrote: When we came first to Neihum-kek, Naumkeag. we found about halfe a score Houses, and a faire House newly built for the Gouernour, we found also abundance of Corne planted by them, verie good and well likeing. And we brought with us about two hundred Passengers and Planters more, which by common consent of the old Planters were all combined together into one Body politicke, under the same Gouernour. There are in all of us both old and new Planters about three hundred, whereof two hundred of them are settled at Neihum-kek, now called Salem; and the rest have Planted themselves at Masathulets The name Massachusetts Bay was at first only applied to t