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To: Grampa Dave
I am a descendent of Thomas Ufford, friend of John Winthrop, who formed the Massachusetts Bay colony and founded Boston.


The Goode Ship Lyon, Master and Captain William Pierce, 1630-1635.

Ufford arrived on the good ship Lyon in September 1632 and was met in Boston by Winthrop himself. Roger Terrill, a young 18 YO on the ship, married Ufford's daughter Abigail who was also on the trip (I wonder what REALLY happened on the voyage?).

They all went on with William Pynchon to found the city of Springfield, Massachusetts in 1636, and then found and settled the city of Milford in 1639. Here's a marker on their grave:


90 posted on 10/13/2018 10:40:05 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Vote GOP this November. Take two friends to vote with you!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I should have said Milford, Connecticut. That was, in 1639, part of the New Haven colony and settled as a bulwark against the Dutch in New Amsterdam.


91 posted on 10/13/2018 10:41:38 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Vote GOP this November. Take two friends to vote with you!)
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