Earliest Settlers: Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1643

• from: From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 7 [July, 1853], pages 276-278

About the year 1632, the inconvenience of going to Plymouth (about 12 miles) for everything being very great, a few precincts were formed, which were subsequently incorporated into towns. To prevent as much as possible a removal of the better sort of persons from Plymouth, it was thought advisable to apportion some of the remotely situated land to such special persons as would promise not to remove, but who would cultivate it by servants in their employ, as farms. Allotments were therefore made of land at a place called Green's Harbor, where no grants had ever been made.

This constituted the beginning of the town of Marshfield; which, although it contained a very fair proportion of the intelligent members of the colony, was not incorporated until sometime afterwards.

• List of Freemen of 1643, the earliest settlers:

1. Rev Edw Buckley
2. Mr Thomas Burne
3. John Dingley
4. Mr Nathaniell Thomas
5. Mr. Wm Thomas
6. John Russell
7. Thom Shillingsworth
8. Robte Waterman
9. Mr Edward Winslow
10. Josias Winslow
11. Kanelme Winslow

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from: Lysander Richard's History of Marshfield, The Online Edition, Volume II, Chapters I & III - Families

• Alden
• Ames or Eames
• Baker
• Bates
• Bourne
• Carver
• Church
• Clift
• Damon
• Emery
• Ewell
• Ford
• Gardner
• Hagar
• Hall
• Hatch
• Henry
• Keene
• Kent
• Lapham
• Leonard
• Little
• Macomber
• Nelson
• Oakman
• Peterson
• Phillipsw
• Porter
• Richards
• Rogers
• Sherman
• Sprague
• Sylvester
• Thomas
• Tilden
• Tolman
• Trouant
• White
• Whiting
• Willad
• Williamson
• Winslow
• Wright

Links

• http://plymouthcolony.net/marshfield/richards/families.html
• http://marshfieldhistoricalsociety.com/
• http://marshfieldhistoricalsociety.com/Marshfield_Historical_Sites.php
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/marshfieldhistoricalphotos/
• USGenWeb Marshfield, MA
• http://plymouthcolony.net/marshfield/facts.htm
• http://plymouthcolony.net/marshfield/facts.html#note1
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Marshfield,_Massachusetts

Sources

• Richards, Lysander Salmon. History of Marshfield, 2 vols. Plymouth, MA: The Memorial Press, 1901. 1905 Reprinted Salem, MA: Higginson Books, 1996.
• Memorials of Marshfield, and guide book to its localities at Green Harbor. Thomas, Marica Abiah (1854)