...thus proposed was adopted, is proved from the fact that the large grant of land, made to Governor Cradock by the General Court, March 4, 1634, was called by the Cradock family Our Manor of Metford in New England , thus being in contradistinction to the Manor of Metford in Staffordshire. That the laborers, sent by Governor Cradock, should not have known exactly how to spell the name they had brought with t...