The History of Sudbury Massachusetts

Emigrants from England. ? Passenger List of the Ship "Confidence." ? Tradition about John Rutter. ? Character of the Settlers. ? Diographical Sketches. And that pale pilgrim band is gone, That on this shore with trembling trod; Ready to faint, yet bearing on The ark of freedom and of God. Pierpont. In passing from the early condition of the territory of Sudbury, arid its aboriginal inhabitants, we will next notice who they were, who became possessed of this territory as settlers, and so changed its condition; whence they came, their names, and their character. The town was settled by Englishmen. The plan of set- tlement originated at Watertown, which was settled a few years previous by Sir Richard Saltonstall and Company, who came to America in the ship "Arbella." TSIr."SaltonstalTs party landed at Salem, went from there to Charlestown, and thence about four miles up Charles River, where they founded Watertown. Few, if any, colonial places were better prospered than this. It rapidly grew in strength and importance, and soon parties went out from it to form new settlements. Some went to the places now Dedham and Concord, andsome as far off as Wethersfield, Conn. In fact, emigration from Water-town helped form some of the best towns of the period. In 1637, it was proposed that a company proceed westerly, and settle at what is now Sudbury. The reason for starting this settlement was, as the petitioners state in their paper, " straitness of accom...