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=== 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 | 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 settler near the Bay Road, 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}}. | *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}}. | ||