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Essex County · dedicated 1930 · Route 107, Salem · location approximate

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The Indian region called Naumkeag. First settled by "Old Planters" from Cape Ann under Roger Conant 1626. Seat of London's Plantation in the Massachusetts Bay under Governor John Endecott, 1628. Governor John Winthrop landed here in the Arbella June 12, 1630, bringing the Massachusetts Bay Charter.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

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

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