Somewhere on her tree were folks who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 or so, as well as someone on the Mayflower. And on Ancestry, the following information was also posted. I have ancestors also from Newbury, Salem, and Ipswich...so this is good information to know.
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY In 1633, Thomas Parker and James Noyes, both nonconformist ministers, with a like-minded group of British subjects, decided to emigrate to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, with the sanction of the Council of New England at Whitehall. At the same time, Richard and Stephen Dummer, Richard Saltonstall, and Henry Sewall and others in Wiltshire had organized a company to establish a stock-raising plantation in the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of the high prices in England for horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs. These men persuaded Parker and his group to join them. Most of these emigrants arrived at Ipswich (then Agawam) and spent the winter of 1634 there before moving farther east. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was then extending its inhabited frontier as far as possible as a bulwark against the "Papist French."
THE LANDING In May of 1635, this small group of immigrants rowed shallops to the mouth of the Parker River (then Quascacunquen) and landed on the north shore east of the present Parker River bridge, at a spot now marked by a commemorative boulder. All was wilderness about them, and the settlers spent the first summer clearing land, building shelters, raising crops, and gathering the natural bounty of fish and berries for the winter. Each man was allotted land for a house, with a planting lot and salt meadow, the size depending on the amount of money the individual or family had invested in the venture. Mr. Dummer and his group had the largest acreage, more than a thousand acres, up river near the falls for their stock raising. Mr. Dummer was granted the right to erect a sawmill on the Newbury falls, and was given fifty acres of woodland to supply the mill. He was allowed to grind corn if he would grind "all the grain the residents might bring him." Later there were two mills in this area, one of which continued operation into the 1980s.
The First Settlers
- from http://newbury.essexcountyma.net/history.htm
The settlers of Newbury were much like those of much of what is now northern Essex county. They were not religious enthusiasts or pilgrims who fled from religious persecution in England. They were substantial, law abiding, loyal English tradesmen, of that staunch middle class that was the backbone of England.
Those that settled Newbury came at different times and on different ships, between the end of April, 1634 and July, 1635 ... On May 6, 1635, before the settlers had moved from Ipswich to Newbury, the House of Deputies passed a resolution that Quascacunquen was to be established as a plantation and its name was to be changed to Newbury. So Newbury was named before the first settlers arrived, interestingly Thomas Parker had taught school in Newbury, Berkshire, England before coming to America.
There is no record of how many families arrived in the first year. Houses were erected on both sides of the Parker River. The principal settlement was around the meeting house on the lower green. The first church in Newbury could not have been formed before June, as some of those recorded at its formation are not recorded as having arrived until June.
In the division of land the first settlers recognized the scripture rule, "to him that hath shall be given," and the wealth of each grantee can be estimated by the number of acres given him.
The reason for establishing Newbury, as stated above, was not in fleeing from religious persecution but to utilize vacant lands and to establish a profitable business for the members of a stock-raising company.
Founders
This listing was extracted by Joshua Coffin from the proprietor's book of records, folio forty-four. The record is dated December 1642 and is the first known list of the first Settlers of Newbury. (2)
- Walter Allen
- Nathaniel Badger
- Richard Badger
- Giles Badger
- Christopher Bartlet
- Richard Bartlet
- John Bartlet
- Nicholas Batt
- William Berry
- Thomas Blumfield
- John Bond
- Mr. John Browne
- Richard Browne
- Thomas Browne
- George Browne
- Joseph Carter
- John Cheney
- Mr. John Clarke
- Robert Coker
- Thomas Coleman
- Thomas Cromwel
- Mr. John Cutting
- Thomas Davis
- Thomas Dow
- Mr. Richard Dummer
- Mr. Stephen Dummer
- John Emery
- Richard Fitts
- William Franklin
- John Fry
- Samuel Gile
- John Goff
- Mr. Edmund Greenleaf
- Thomas Hale
- Nicholas Holt
- Abel Huse
- John Hutchins
- William Ilsley
- John Kelly
- Stephen Kent
- Richard Kent, Jr
- Richard Knight
- John Knight
- Richard Littlehale
- Mr. John Lowle
- Mr. Percival Lowle
- Henry Lunt
- John Merrill
- Mr. John Miller
- William Moody
- William Mors
- Anthony Morss
- John Musselwhite
- Mr. James Noyes
- Nicholas Noyes
- Mrs. John Oliver
- John Osgood
- William Palmer
- Henry Palmer
- Mr. Thomas Parker
- Joseph Peasley
- John Pemberton
- John Pike Jr
- John Pike, Sr
- Francis Plumer
- John Poor
- Mr. Edward Rawson
- Henry Rolfe
- John Russ
- Samuel Scullard
- Mr. Henry Sewall
- Anthony Short
- Henry Short
- Thomas Silver
- Thomas Smith
- Anthony Somerby
- Henry Somerby
- Mr. John Spencer
- Wid. (William) Stevens
- John Stevens
- John Swett
- William Thomas
- Daniel Thurston
- William Titcomb
- Abraham Toppan
- Henry Travers
- Nathaniel Weare
- William White
- Mr. John Woodbridge
- Mr. Edward Woodman
- Archelaus Woodman
I would imagine that the Newbury historical web site is accurate. Apparently my Heym sons aren't very interested in their ancestry, but had heard for years that they could be traced back to the Mayflower. So in my new post I'll delineate the rest of the tree so they can see it if ever they are interested...perhaps their children will be.
