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:*At Canton turn south onto Washington Street which shortly becomes the Bay Road or Bay Street on its way to Taunton. | :*At Canton turn south onto Washington Street which shortly becomes the Bay Road or Bay Street on its way to Taunton. | ||
:*From Taunton take Summer Street/MA-140 to the southeast. This becomes County Street or County Road bound for Clifford. | :*From Taunton take Summer Street/MA-140 to the southeast. This becomes County Street or County Road bound for Clifford. | ||
:*Near Clifford the County Road merges going south with MA-18/Acushnet Avenue/Ashley Blvd into New Bedford. | :*Near Clifford the County Road merges going south with MA-18/Acushnet Avenue/Ashley Blvd on the way into New Bedford. | ||
=== Settlers and Records === | === Settlers and Records === | ||
Boston was founded in 1630 by Puritan immigrants from England. New Bedford was settled in 1652 by some Pilgrim families of Plymouth, Massachusetts, who had purchased their new homeland from the Indians.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Bedford,_Massachusetts#Immigration_to_New_Bedford New Bedford, Massachusetts] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 16 October 2014).</ref> The road between these two important ports attracted settlers who would be able to more easily get access to the markets which those ports provided. Many of the earliest settlers along the Bay Road would have been from Boston or New Bedford. Look at the earliest deeds along the Bay Road to learn the names of the first settlers. If you already know the name of a Bay Road settler, you have a good chance of finding his or her genealogy in sources like: | |||
*Lucy Mary Kellogg, et. al., ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620'', 23+ vols. (Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975- ). {{WorldCat|2168141|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|86888|item|disp=FHL Book 974.4 D2mf}}. | |||
*Robert Charles Anderson, ''The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633'', 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c1995). {{WorldCat|33083117|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|22717|item|disp=FHL Book 974 W2a}}. | |||
*[https://www.themayflowersociety.org/ General Society of Mayflower Descendants] | |||
*[http://www.americanancestors.org/about/ New England Historic Genealogical Society] | |||
=== External links === | === External links === | ||