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CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS CHARLESTOWN, MASS. “I know histhry isn’t thrue, Hinnissy, because it ain’t like what I see ivry day in Halsted Street. If any wan comes along with a histhry iv Greece or Rome that’ll show me th’ people fightin’, gettin’ dhrunk, makin’ love, gettin’ married, owin’ th’ grocery man an’ bein’ without hard coal, I’ll believe they was a Greece or Rome, but not befur.” — Dunne, Finley Peter, OBSERVATIONS BY MR. DOOLEY, New York, 1902 HDT WHAT? INDEX TRAVELED MUCH IN CONCORD MA 1621 September 20, Thursday (Old Style): The party of visitors from the Plymouth settlement landed their shallop at Squantum in Quincy, and then toward nightfall they crossed over to what eventually would become the site of Charlestown. THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE HISTORIAN TYPICALLY SUPPOSES NOW TO BE THE WHY OF THEN. THE REALITY IS VERY MUCH TO THE CONTRARY, FOR NOW IS NOT THE WHY OF THEN: INSTEAD, THEN WAS THE HOW OF NOW. ANOTHER WAY TO SAY THIS IS THAT HISTORIANS WHO ANTICIPATE OFFEND AGAINST REALITY. A HISTORY WRITTEN IN THE LIGHT OF SUBSEQUENT EVENTS AMOUNTS TO SPURIOUS MAKE- BELIEVE. TO DO A GOOD JOB OF RECORDING HISTORY, ONE MUST BECOME IGNORANT (OR FEIGN IGNORANCE) OF EVERYTHING THAT WE NOW KNOW TO HAVE FOLLOWED. HDT WHAT? INDEX TRAVELED MUCH IN CONCORD MA 1629 Charlestown was settled some 9 years after the foundation of the Plymouth Colony, by a group of English Puritans incorporated by royal charter as the Massachusetts Bay Company. The Reverend Francis Higginson was leading a group of 300 settlers (including many of his own congregation) aboard a fleet of five ships. The main body of the Massachusetts Bay Colony would come the following year in the John Winthrop Fleet. Their symbol would be an Indian man clad only in a loincloth saying, “Come over and help us.” TRALFAMADORIANS EXPERIENCE REALITY IN 4 DIMENSIONS RATHER THAN 3 AND HAVE SIMULTANEOUS ACCESS TO PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. THEY ARE ABLE TO SEE ALONG THE TIMELINE OF THE UNIVERSE TO THE EXACT TIME AND PLACE AT WHICH AS THE RESULT OF A TRALFAMADORIAN EXPERIMENT, THE UNIVERSE IS ANNIHILATED. BILLY PILGRIM, WHILE CAGED IN A TRALFAMADORIAN ZOO, ACQUIRES THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD TIME, AND SO WHEN HE RETURNS TO EARTH, HE BECOMES A HISTORIAN VERY LIKE ALL OUR OTHER HISTORIANS: ALTHOUGH HE CANNOT HIMSELF SEE INTO THE FUTURE THE WAY THE HDT WHAT? INDEX TRAVELED MUCH IN CONCORD MA TRALFAMADORIANS DO, LIKE ALL OUR OTHER HUMAN HISTORIANS DO HE PRETENDS TO BE ABLE TO SEE ALL PERIODS OF OUR PAST TRAJECTORY NOT WITH THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE LIVING DURING THOSE PERIODS, BUT WITH THE OVERARCHING EYE OF GOD. THIS ENABLES HIM TO PRETEND TO BE VERY VERY WISE AND TO SOUND VERY VERY IMPRESSIVE! HDT WHAT? INDEX TRAVELED MUCH IN CONCORD MA 1630 During the early 1630s, the citizens of Charlestown would be petitioning their newly elected representatives on the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony for more land. A wide extent of territory on the “main land” 8 miles northward would be granted, an area that now includes Woburn, Massachusetts, Winchester, and Burlington, as well as parts of Stoneham and Wilmington. Edward Johnson would be playing a large role in this. THE AGE OF REASON WAS A PIPE DREAM, OR AT BEST A PROJECT. ACTUALLY, HUMANS HAVE ALMOST NO CLUE WHAT THEY ARE DOING, WHILE CREDITING THEIR OWN LIES ABOUT WHY THEY ARE DOING IT. Edward Johnson migrated to Charlestown, presumably in the Winthrop Fleet. At this point, as landfill had not yet begun, Boston consisted of the 3 hills of a 487-acre almost completely detached and easily defensible peninsula, to wit, Fort Hill, Copps Hill, and Trimont: He would return to England in 1636 or 1637 and, in a 2d passage, escort his wife, seven children, and three servants.1 1. Seven discounting the infant that had died: Edward, 1620; George, 1625; Susanna, 1627; William, 1629; Martha, 1631; Matthew Johnson, 1633; John Johnson, 1635. I don’t know how to account for the record, that this father continued apparently to sire children by his wife in England while he was far across the ocean, in America, except that some of these children who bore the name Johnson may actually have been nephews and nieces rather than sons and daughters (I am not the 1st to comment on the problem presented by the records here). HDT WHAT? INDEX TRAVELED MUCH IN CONCORD MA HDT WHAT? INDEX TRAVELED MUCH IN CONCORD MA HDT WHAT? INDEX TRAVELED MUCH IN CONCORD MA In England, William Coddington was chosen as an Assistant of the company (Assistant Judge of Court of Colony of Massachusetts Bay) before his embarkation with John Winthrop. He had lived at Boston in County Lincoln, where the record of St. Botolph’s church shows that he and his wife Mary Moseley Coddington, daughter of Richard Moseley of Ouseden, in County Suffolk had Michael Coddington, baptized on March 8, 1627, who died in two weeks, and Samuel Coddington, born on April 17, 1628, buried on August 21, 1629. The Winthrop fleet that brought “the Great Emigration” of this year comprised 11 vessels: • Arbella (the flagship) •Ambrose • William and Francis • Talbot • Hopewell • Jewel • Whale •Charles • Success • Mayflower •Trial Altogether the fleet brought about 700 colonists — here is an attempt at reconstructing a passenger list. • DANIEL ABBOTT Cambridge • ROBERT ABELL of Hemington, Leicestershire Boston • WILLIAM AGAR probably of Nazing, Essex Watertown • GEORGE ALCOCK probably of Leicestershire Roxbury • Mrs. - - - Alcock • FRANCIS ALEWORTH • THOMAS ANDREW Watertown • SAMUEL ARCHER Salem • WILLIAM ASPINWALL of Manchester, Leicestershire Boston • Mrs. Elizabeth Aspinwall • Edward Aspinwall • JOHN AUDLEY Boston • JOHN BAKER Charlestown • Mrs. Charity Baker HDT WHAT? INDEX TRAVELED MUCH IN CONCORD MA • WILLIAM BALSTON Boston • Mrs. Elizabeth Balston • WILLIAM BARSHAM Watertown • THOMAS BARTLETT Watertown • GREGORY BAXTER perhaps of Sporle, Norfolk Roxbury • WILLIAM BEAMSLEY Boston • Mrs. Anne Beamsley • THOMAS BEECHER of Stepney, Middlesex Charlestown • Mrs. Christian Beecher • EDWARD BELCHER of Guilsborough, Northamptonshire Boston • Mrs. Christian Belcher • Edward Belcher, Jr. • EDWARD BENDALL of Southwark, county Surrey Boston • Mrs. Anne Bendall • JOHN BENHAM Dorchester • JOHN BIGGES of Groton, county Suffolk Boston • Mrs. Mary Bigges • JOHN BLACK Charlestown • JOHN BOGGUST probably of Boxted, Essex • JOHN BOSWELL of London Boston • ZACCHEUS BOSWORTH of Stowe, IX Churches, county Northants Boston • GARRET BOURNE Boston • NATHANIEL BOWMAN Watertown • Mrs. Anna Bowman • SIMON BRADSTREET of Horbling, county Lincoln Cambridge •Mrs. Anne Bradstreet • BENJAMIN BRAND probably of Edwardston, county Suffolk Boston • AUGUSTINE BRATCHER Charlestown • ...... BREASE probably of Edwardston, county Suffolk • WILLIAM BRENTON of Hammersmith, county Middlesex Boston • Isabel Brett • HENRY BRIGHT of Bury Saint Edmunds, county Suffolk Watertown • ABRAHAM BROWNE of Hawkdon, Suffolk Watertown • Mrs. Lydia Browne • JAMES BROWNE Boston • RICHARD BROWNE of Hawkdon, Suffolk Watertown • Mrs. Elizabeth Browne • George Browne • Richard Browne, Jr. • WILLIAM BUCKLAND of Essex Boston, Hingham, and Rehoboth • RICHARD BUGBY perhaps Saint John Hackney, Middlesex Roxbury • Mrs. Judith Bugby • RICHARD BULGAR Boston • Mrs..... Bulgar • WILLIAM BURNELL Boston • JEHU BURR probably of Essex Roxbury and Fairfield, Connecticut • Mrs....... Burr • Jehu Burr • ROBERT BURROUGHS • JOHN CABLE probably of Essex Dorchester and Fairfield • THOMAS CAKEBREAD of Hatfield Broadoak, Essex Dedham • Mrs. Sarah Cakebread • CHARLES CHADWICK Watertown HDT WHAT? INDEX TRAVELED MUCH IN CONCORD MA • Mrs. Elizabeth Chadwick • Anne Chambers • WILLIAM CHASE probably of county Essex Roxbury • Margery Chauner • WILLIAM CHEESEBROUGHof Boston, Lincolnshire Boston, Rehoboth • Mrs. Anne Cheesebrough • Sarah Cheesebrough • Peter Cheesebrough • Samuel Cheesebrough • Nathaniel Cheesebrough • EPHRAIM CHILD of Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk Watertown • Mrs. Elizabeth Child • RICHARD CHURCH perhaps of Polstead, Suffolk Boston • JOHN CLARKE of county Suffolk Boston • WILLIAM CLARKE of London Watertown • Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke • RICHARD CLOUGH Charlestown • .... COBBETT • WILLIAM CODDINGTON of Boston, Lincolnshire Boston and Newport • Mrs. Mary Coddington • WILLIAM COLBRON of Brentwood, Essex Boston • Mrs. Margery Colbron • ANTHONY COLBY Boston and Salisbury • Mrs. Susanna Colby • WILLIAM FROTHINGHAMof Holderness, Yorkshire Charlestown • Mrs. Anne Frothingham • JOHN GAGE probably of Polstead, Suffolk Boston •Mrs. Amy Gage • WILLIAM GAGER of Suffolk, surgeon Charlestown • HUGH GARRETT Charlestown • RICHARD GARRETT probably of Chelmsford, Essex Boston • Mrs....... Garrett • Hannah Garrett • ..... Garrett • CHRISTOPHER GIBSON of Wendover, county Bucks Dorchester • Mrs. Mary Gibson • Elizabeth Gibson of Saint Andrew the Great, Cambridge Salem • RALPH GLOVER of London Boston • JOHN GLOVER of Rainhill, Lancashire Dorchester • Mrs. Anne Glover • THOMAS GOLDTHWAITE Roxbury • Mrs. Elizabeth Goldthwaite • HENRY GOSNALL probably of Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk Boston • Mrs. Mary Gosnall • JOHN GOSSE (GOFFE) Watertown • Mrs. Sarah Gosse • JOHN GOULWORTH • RICHARD GRIDLEY of Groton, Suffolk Boston • Mrs. Grace Gridley • Joseph Gridley • Abraham Gridley • Bridget Giver of Saffron Walden, Essex Boston • GARRETT HADDON Cambridge, Salisbury HDT WHAT? INDEX TRAVELED MUCH IN CONCORD MA • Mrs. Margaret Haddon • ROBERT HALE Charlestown • Mrs. Joan Hale • JOHN HALL of Whitechapel, London Charlestown • Mrs. Joan Hall • Mrs. Phillippa Hammond • ROBERT HARDING probably of Boreham, Essex Boston • THOMAS