FAMILIES:

Adams,Cutting,Davis,Heath,Hutchins,Jackman,Kelly,Noyes,Poore,Thorley,Thurston,Williams

In 1634, Rev. Thomas Parker and Rev. James Noyes, along with a group of about 100 people from Wiltshire England, sailed to New England on the Mary and John. The group settled Newberry Plantation in 1635 and the town was incorporated the same year.

LINKS:

wikipedia article, google map

REFERENCES:

Browns, A. W., "Materials for the Study of Newbury," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 7,1853, p. 349.

Coffin, Joshua, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845, Boston, S.G. Drake, 1845.

Currier, John, History of Newbury, 1635-1902, Boston, Damrell and Upham, 1902. Online: Internet Archive.

Photo: John Phelan, Wikimedia Commons
Looking south across the pond on the upper green