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Old Planters (Massachusetts)

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The Gardner group, who were to settle the area, did succeed in maintaining themselves after their landing, though the commercial goals of the Dorchester Company were not met. There were also disagreement between the Plymouth colonists and the Dorchester Company settlers, due to patent conflicts.
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The Plymouth colony had made excursions along the Massachusetts coast including north to Cape Ann. Some records report that Cushman and Winslow of Plymouth had received a patent for Cape Ann (1623/24). Other reports suggest that salting structures had been built in the Cape Ann area to support
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In Massachusetts, the 'old planters' proved through their hard work that settlement was possible; subsequent to this, there was a major influx of 'new planters' that continued over a decade. The early expansions centered around
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Winthrop's establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony drastically altered the institutions of the few souls who had pioneered the area earlier. A proper government was organized. Within four years,
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brought more settlers and set up the first parsonage. Rev Higginson also established the notion that the settlement was of religion and not trade, seemingly contradictory to the interests of London.
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Roger Conant, having first been at Plymouth, was probably instrumental in working out a compromise, part of which resulted in the Dorchester group moving to the Naumkeag area.
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Some of the Old Planters may have followed Winthrop from Salem; Conant and Gardner stayed in the Salem area. So too did some people who arrived with Winthrop, such as Major
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and the Cape Ann effort. Some of the old planters, however, managed to thrive in the less tolerant religious atmosphere of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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to the south instead. Even though center of government was in Boston, by 1700, the population of the Cape Ann area, which was organized into
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in the 1640s, had also grown rapidly. The population of New England went from less than 500 to over 26,000 in the years from 1629 to 1640.
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in Maine, which lasted one year before being abandoned. During that year the colonists built a seaworthy boat, the
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Some of these, with Conant, have been referenced as the 'old planters' of Salem: Woodbury, Trask, Balch, Palfrey.
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Two early areas of settlement were Plymouth (c 1620) and Nantasket (c 1621). The Plymouth Colony began with the
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John Endecott brought with him, in 1628, the patent that replaced the Dorchester Company with the
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Planters of Early New England: A Sketch of Roger Mowry Mann's Seventeenth Century Ancestors
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Newsletter. Reporting historic preservation developments in the greater Salem area.
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With Gardner, and then Conant, in the lead, this early group was known for
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Looking at Salem's beginnings: The White and Gardner family contributions
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Life of Francis Higginson, First Minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Life of Francis Higginson, First Minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Raymond, R. (2003) 'Map of the Old Planters 1000 Acre Grant of 1635'
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By 1630, Puritan interests had organized a massive influx led by
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The Essex colony started at Cape Ann in 1623 with a party led by
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that were not part of the two major settlements in the area, the
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The Alliance between Pilgrim and Puritan in Massachusetts
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Index

Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay
Plymouth Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Plymouth Company
George Popham
Ferdinando Gorges
Popham Colony
Virginia pinnace
Plymouth
Essex County, Massachusetts
Mayflower's
Nantasket
Roger Conant
Cape Ann
Thomas Gardner
John Tylly
Dorchester Company
Naumkeag
Essex Institute
Cape Ann
Roger Conant
John Lyford
John Balch
Thomas Gardner
independence and tolerance
John White
Merrymount
John Endecott
John Winthrop

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