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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The Cradock house, past and future. (search)
ford must have been bound to serve Cradock before leaving England. At all events (in the Charlestown records, 1664), John Green, in giving a history of the first comers, says:— Amongst others that arrived at Salem at their own cost were Ralph Sprague with his brethren Richard and William who, with three or four more, by joint consent and approbation of Mr. John Endicott, Governor, did the same summer of 1628 (1629) undertake a journey from Salem, and travelled the woods above twelve milesedford had already started in ship-building, the better to pursue Governor Cradock's ambition in his trading colony of importing fish to England. This is, of course, another assumption, based on probability rather than proof, but the account of Sprague's and the letter of Cradock do establish the settlement at Mystic earlier than 1630 and the launching of boats in the colony earlier than the Blessing of the Bay. That the company, through Cradock, knew in February, 1629, of a bark already bu