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Groton, town (township), Middlesex county, Massachusetts, U.S. It is located on the Nashua and Squannacook rivers, about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Boston. Settled and incorporated in 1655, it was probably named for the ancestral home of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop in
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A Brief History of Groton, MA. Groton had its precarious beginnings when John Tinker followed Indian Trails from the Bay area and settled near the mouth of Nod Brook on the Nashua to set up his trading post to do business with the Nashaway Indians. The area was known as Petapawag, an Indian name for swampy land.
Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, within the Greater Boston metropolitan area. ... They settled along the rivers, which ...
Lawyer, governor. Signature. John Winthrop (January 12, 1588 [a] – March 26, 1649) was an English Puritan lawyer and a leading figure in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England following Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of colonists from England in 1630 and served as governor ...
Groton residents have helped author every major chapter of America's history. First settled as a trading post with Native Americans, Groton was America's original frontier. In 1655 trader John Tinker helped establish the Groton Plantation, encompassing much of today's Nashoba Valley Region. Learn More About Groton's history by visiting:
Nov 29, 1738 A petition signed by certain inhabitants of Dunstable and Groton, to the number of twenty-one settlers and fifteen non-residents, was presented to "His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq., Captain General and Governor in Chief; and to the Honorable the Council and House of Representatives in General Court assembled," showing that those of the petitioners, who belonged to Dunstable ...
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Oct 21, 2005 · UPDATED: July 11, 2019 at 12:00 a.m. Part 2. Capt. James Parker, a native of England, sailed in the 1630s to the Puritan colony at Massachusetts Bay. He became one of the principal figures during the formative years of the town of Groton, which this year celebrates its 350th birthday. Part 1 of this series included a brief synopsis of Parker ...
