The Massachusetts Colony was founded in 1628, but gained steam with the arrival of the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 and the founding of Boston, Edmund Lockwood, Thomas Howlett and Samuel French were among those Winthrop Fleet passengers.
Soon to follow were families named Williams, Greene, Gorton, Rhodes, Arnold and others. Ancestral families would continue to arrive in the colony through the end of the century under a variety of circumstances. Malcolm MacCallum arrived in 1651 as a Cromwellian prisoner of war indentured to the Lynn Iron Works. Hugh Mahurin would arrive about 1690, one of the last. He also toiled in the iron works of Massachusetts Bay.
Families like the Singletarys and Jennisons remained in Massachusetts until the early 1800s. With the death of Joseph Jennison in 1818 and the removal of son, Peter to New York by 1812, the last of the Massachusetts families had departed.
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