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Roger Clap's Landing

Middlesex County · dedicated 1930 · Charles River Road and Beechwood Avenue, Watertown · location approximate

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Near this spot Roger Clap and other passengers of the "Mary and John," coming by boat from Nantasket landed their goods "with much labor and toil" in June, 1630. They shortly rejoined their companions at Mattapan who had founded there the town of Dorchester.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

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