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Title: Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland ... connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland; containing narratives, descriptions, and many views, some done from old prints; also much matter pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic;
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955
Subjects: Cities and towns Cities and towns Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: Boston, Mass.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Co., Surrey, England Kindness Ian Forbes-Robcrlson, Esq. LEICESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK, ENGLAND Ethelfredas conquest of Mercia. On that day, the Stars and Stripes were dis-played on the grandstand, and the namesakes of Warwick in this country, whichdoubtless included the Warwicks of New England, were represented on this occasion.This group was photographed, but unfortunately the plate was lost. ^ The Massachusetts Warwick, which is near Worcester, has sometimes beencalled the Switzerland of America. It was one of the four grants made by theGeneral Court in 1735 for his Majesties Province in the Massachusetts Bay.Samuel Newall and others signed the first petition for the town, which was calledthe plantation of Roxbury, or Gardners Canada, so called because the pref-erence of sites was given to those who were descendants of the officers and soldierswho served in the expedition to Canada in 1690. Warwick was incorporated in1763 and was named either for Warwick or for Guy, Earl of Warwick.
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203 WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS THE family of Sir Richard Saltonstall, who sailed from Yarmouth, England,in the ship Arbella, and who founded our Watertown, came from thesmall villages of Nether and Over Saltonstall, which are a part of Halifax,in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Mr. Richard M. Saltonstall, who has edited aninteresting book, written by Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, describing Sir Richard Salton-stalls ancestry and descendants, a short time ago visited the two \dllages in Englandwhich are named for his family and when he arrived there the people expressed theirfear that one of the family had come back to claim the land. These two hamlets(of which we give pictures, on this page and the next) are very small and almostdeserted, yet they form a most interesting link between England and America.Back of these old towns is Saltonstall Moor, which is well known to sportsmen. The Enghsh family of Saltonstall can be traced back from Thomas de Salton-stall to Frederick II, Earl of Guilfor

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