Simon Crosby

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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

(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

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1. Thomas Crosby was born about 1633-1634 in England; was christened on 26 Feb 1633/34 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England; died on 13 Jun 1702 in Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts; was buried in Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts.