Simon Crosby

- Abt 1639

• Name	Simon Crosby  [1]
  Birth	Probably England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1639	Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [1]
  Person ID	I1410	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	8 Aug 2011

  
  

  Family	Living
  Children	1. Thomas Crosby,   b. Abt 1633-1634, England d. 13 Jun 1702, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 68 years)
  Family ID	F424	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2011

  
  

• Notes

  Simon Crosby and Anne (Brigham) Crosby brought [Thomas Crosby] to New England, arriving in The Susan & Ellen which put into Boston in the month of July, 1635. They settled in Cambridge... - New York Genealogical and Biographical Record [1] (Research): The site for what would become Cambridge was chosen in December 1630, because it was located safely up river from Boston Harbor, which made it easily defensible from attacks by enemy ships. Also, the water from the local spring was so good that the local Native Americans believed it had medicinal properties.[citation needed] The first houses were built in the spring of 1631. The settlement was initially referred to as "the newe towne". Official Massachusetts records show the name capitalized as Newe Towne by 1632. Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns (including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop. The original village site is in the heart of today's Harvard Square. The marketplace where farmers brought in crops from surrounding towns to sell survives today as the small park at the corner of John F. Kennedy (J.F.K.) and Winthrop Streets, then at the edge of a salt marsh, since filled. In 1636, Harvard College was founded by the colony to train ministers and the new town was chosen for its site by Thomas Dudley. By 1638, the name "Newe Towne" had "compacted by usage into 'Newtowne'." In May 1638 the name was changed to Cambridge in honor of the university in Cambridge, England [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S387] NYGBR, v LXXI, pp232-235 (Reliability: 3). [S535] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts (Reliability: 3).