• 1620 - The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth on the 6th of September.  Plymouth Colony is settled.
• 1620 - The first child of European extraction is born in New England in November to Mrs. Susanna White.
• 1621 - Thirty five persons arrived on 11th of November destined to remain in Plymouth.
• 1624 - Plymouth contained 32 dwelling houses, about 180 persons.
• 1624 - Weymouth, Massachusetts settled.
• 1626 - Beverly, Boston, and Salem, Massachusetts were settled.
• 1628 - The foundation of the colony of Massachusetts was laid on the 19th of March.
• 1628 - Charlestown Massachusetts is settled.
• 1629 - King Charles confirmed the patent of Massachusetts and it was called "The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England".
• 1629 - Lynn Massachusetts is settled.
• 1630 - The colony of Plymouth contained nearly 300 souls.
• 1630 - Braintree, Cambridge, Dorchester, Medford, Roxbury and Watertown, Massachusetts were settled.
• 1630 - Winthrop arrives with 12 ships with 840 passengers in July at Charlestown.

Year

New England Historical Events

Events in Daniel Ladd's Life

1633

• The legislature of Massachusetts passed an act for settling the Indians' title to lands in this jurisdiction.  It prohibited the purchase of lands from the Indians, without license from the General Court.
• Three ministers of celebrity, John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, and Samuel Stone, together with john Haynes, afterward governor of Connecticut, and 200 emigrants from England arrived at Boston.
• Colonists are invited by the natives to settle on the Connecticut river.
• The first watermill in the colony was erected in Dorchester; another was also built at Roxbury.
• At the close of the year and the following winter, the small pox broke out among the natives of Massachusetts and made great devastations among this race.

• Daniel took the oath of Supremacy and Allegiance on 24 March 1633/34, while the ships, the Mary & John of London under Captain Robert Sayres, among them, lay in wait on the River Thames for departure to America.

• House of Representatives Established.
• Massachusetts aims to prevent the Dutch from settling Connecticut.
• Captains Stone, Norton and 8 others of Massachusetts are murdered by the Indians at Connecticut river.
• Roger Williams, minister of Salem, holding tenets which were considered heretical and seditious, is banished from Massachusetts.
• Some people of Salem went to Agawam River, and began a town which was called Ipswich.
• A market place was erected, a house of common entertainment was set up and the first merchant's shop was opened in Boston.

• As 24 March 1633 was the last day of the year, at that time on the calendar. Arriving Boston May or early June 1634.
   
• The ships lay offshore of Massachusetts Bay and docked Nantasket in Boston harbor. Daniel and Joseph went with friends to Ipswich, MA on the coast about 30 miles from New Hampshire.
   

• The deputies of the colony apprehending great danger from the discretionary power of the magistrates, agreed that some men should be appointed to frame a body of laws in resemblance of  a Magna Charta.
• Massachusetts colonists, experiencing inconveniences from the nearness of their settlements to each other, began to emigrate from the first settled towns.  The towns of Newbury, Watertown, Roxbury, Hingham, Weymouth and Scituate were established.
• An extremely violent storm did great injury in New England.  Immense numbers of forest trees were destroyed along with many houses and the Indian corn was beaten to the earth.
• Settlements began on the Connecticut river at Mattaneaug which was afterward called Windsor; Wethersfield; and at Suckiaug which was called Hartford.
• The general court of Massachusetts prohibited the currency of brass farthings.  It also established a commission for military affairs with power of life and limb. 
• During the year, 20 vessels arrived, bringing nearly 3000 passengers, among whom were 11 ministers; and about 145 freemen were added to the colony.
• Rossillon, commander of a French fort at La Heve, on the Nova Scotia shore, sent a French man of war to Penobscot, and took possession of the Plymouth trading house, and all the goods.  The Plymouth people never afterward recovered their interest at Penobscot.

• Mr Hooker and Mr Stone, ministers of Newtown, with their whole congregation, travelled above 100 miles to Suckiaug, later Hartford, Connecticut.
• The government of Connecticut was organized under a commission from Massachusetts including the towns of Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield.
• The body of laws adopted by the colony of Plymouth, style "The General Fundamentals", is established. 
• Roger Williams, on his expulsion from Massachusetts, went to Seconk (Rehoboth) where he procured a grant of land from Osamaquin, the chief of Pokanoket.  He called it Providence.
• A warrant was issued to the lord admiral of England, to stop ministers, who did not conform to the discipline and ceremonies of the church, form going beyond sea.
• A treaty of peace with the Narraganset Indians was entered to prevent them from joining the Pequots.

• The Pequots killed six men and three women near Wethersfield, took two young women captive and killed 20 cows.
• The commission given to Roger Ludlow and others for governing Connecticut having expired, an independent government was now established by the people of that colony.
• A proclamation by the king of England, to restrain the disorderly transportation of his subjects to the American colonies.  It commanded, that no license be given them, without a certificate, that they had taken the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, and conformed to the discipline of the church of England.
• Troops from Connecticut, attacked the Pequots at Mistic fort.  A severe conflict ensued killing 500 to 600 Indians.  Of the English, 2 were killed, 16 wounded.
• First trial by jury.  The use of grand juries began in Massachusetts.  In criminal cases, proceeded by the inquest of a grand jury, and by petit juries as to matters of fact.
• Articles of Confederation proposed.
• The towns of Dedham, Concord, Duxborough, Taunton and Sandwich began to be built and settled.

• He was first mentioned in the Ipswich, MA town records where on "January 5, 1637, Daniel was granted 6 acres of land in Ipswich, MA, on which he built a dwelling."

• The town of New Haven is laid out near the bay of Quinnipiack.
• Judicial court established in Connecticut.
• The purchase and settlement of Rhode Island.
• Harvard College Founded.
• Newtown is renamed Cambridge.
• Exeter is founded.
• There was a great earthquake that shook the earth with such violence, that people could not stand, and most moveable articles in their houses were thrown down.
• The government of Plymouth colony caused three Englishmen to be put to death for the murder of and Indian near Providence.
• The assembly of Maryland prepared a collection of regulations and laws.

• Daniel sold his land in Ipswich, MA to Henry Kingsbury for 10 pounds on March 31, 1638 and moved to Salisbury, MA.

• The inhabitants of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield adopted a constitution for Connecticut.
• The first general election at Hartford.
• Milford, Guilford, Stratford and Fairfield settled.
• The Province of Maine is established by Sir Ferdiuando Gorges.
• The settlements of Rowley, Salisbury, Hampton, Sudbury, Yarmouth, and Barnstable established.
• The first printing press in North America was set up by Stephen Day at Cambridge.
• The general assembly for the towns in Plymouth Colony was held for the first time.  They had a few laws which they termed general fundamentals.
• The House of Assembly is established in Maryland.

• Some records show that Daniel Ladd married Ann [Unknown] at Salisbury, MA.
• Daniel was one of the first settlers of Salisbury.  On October 29, 1639 he was granted 8 acres of land.
• After building a cabin, Daniel acquired more land, a practice he followed the rest of his life.

• The inhabitants of Providence, to the number of 40 persons, combined in civil government.
• The first general court in the province of Maine was held at Saco.
• The general court of Massachusetts gave liberty for two new plantations; one of which was called Pentucket (Haverhill), the other, Andover.
• Emigration from England Ceases.
• Indian lands purchased; Stamford, Farmington, Southington and Westfield.
• Settlements are established on Long Island, Delaware Bay and at Southhold

• His first daughter, Elizabeth, was born January 11, 1640 in Salisbury, MA.

• The general court of Massachusetts established 100 laws, called the Body of Liberties.
• The exigencies of the Massachusetts colonists, arising from the scarcity of all foreign commodities and the unsaleableness of their own, incited them to provide fish, clapboards, planks, and other articles; to sow hemp and flax; and to look to the West Indies for a trade for cotton.
• Dover and Portsmouth are assigned to Massachusetts jurisdiction.

• First commencement at Harvard College.
• Thomas Mayhew settles Martha's Vineyard and began a settlement at Edgarton.
• Darby Field, an Irishman, went to the white Hills in New Hampshire, nearly 100 miles west of Saco.
• Woburn settled, along with Glouchester, Topsfield and Warwick.
• This year 127 freemen were admitted to Massachusetts; 50 towns and villages existed; and ships had been built from 100 to 400 tons.
• Indian war in Maryland which continued for several years.
• Propositions for confederation were sent from Connecticut the the Massachusetts general court and was later amended to include Plymouth.

• His first son, Daniel Jr. was born July 24, 1642 in Salisbury, MA.

• Articles for the Union of New England colonies including Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth is signed.
• Massachusetts was divided this year into four counties, or shires; Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, and Norfolk.
• The township of Wells, in the province of Maine, was granted.
• Miantonomah, chief of the Pequot, gave Uncas, chief of the Mohegan's, battle.  The Mohegan's obtained the victory.  Uncas soon after, cut off Miantonomah's head.
• Inhabitants of Watertown began a plantation at Nashaway, which was called Lancaster.

• The towns of Providence, Newport and Portsmouth are incorporated with the power to govern themselves; but agreeably to the laws of England.
• The Massachusetts general court is divided into two houses, The magistrates by them selves, and the deputies by themselves; and that what the one should agree upon should be sent to the other, and if both should agree, the the act is passed.
• There were now 26 training bands of militia in Massachusetts; and the soldiers, composing the, were ordered to "be exercised and drilled," eight days a year.
• Treaty between Massachusetts and the French.
• Nantasket, having now 20 houses, was named Hull; Eastham was built by the people of Plymouth; Martha's Vineyard was annexed to Massachusetts; Southampton on Long Island, was annexed to Connecticut.
• William Brewster, ruling elder of the church in Plymouth, died in the 84th year of his age.

• In the early Spring of 1644, he joined a group of men, under the leadership of Rev John Ward, and moved westward looking for unclaimed land.
• They formed a town site 50 miles west where the Spicket River emptied into the Marrimac River and named it Pentucket, later changed the name to  Haverhill, Essex Co, MA.
• Each received 10 acres within the town and 100 acres of surrounding area.

• The general court of Massachusetts laid an impost on wines and strong liquors, for the support of government, the maintenance of fortifications, and the protection of the harbors.
• Manchester, in Massachusetts, was incorporated.
• In the colony of Connecticut there were eight taxable towns; Hartford, Windsor, Wethersfield, Stratford, Fairfield, Saybrook, Southampton and Farmington.
• At the Massachusetts general court, Passaconaway, chief of the Merrimack, and his sons, came and submitted themselves and their people and lands to its jurisdiction.

• He moved to Pentucket (Haverhill) in 1645 after selling his property in Salisbury.
• His second daughter, Lydia was born April 8, 1645 in Haverhill, MA.

• The general court of Massachusetts passed the first act to encourage the carrying of the gospel to the Indians.
• Ever since the confederation, the commissioners for the United Colonies had been chosen by the magistrates and deputies; but the freemen of Massachusetts, viewing them as general officers, now chose their own commissioners for themselves.
• A battle was fought near the confines of Connecticut between the Dutch and the Indians with mutual firmness and obstinacy.  The Dutch ultimately kept the field.

• On February 14, 1646 his daughter Mary was born.
• As Haverhill, MA settled rapidly, he became a dealer in land and added to his land holdings.
• In 1646 he was taxed forty pounds.

• The first general assembly of Rhode Island, consisting of the collective freemen of the several plantations in the colony, met at Portsmouth.
• The Massachusetts general court, having given land for a town where the Indian converts of Nonantum assembled, took measures for bringing them into a more civilized state.
• Trade was opened between New England and Barbados, and other islands in the West Indies which was profitable to the colonists.
• An epidemic disease passed through the colonies on the American continent.  The Indians and English, French and Dutch, were affected by it; the mortality was not great.

• The New England colonists sent to the governor and council of Canada a proposal that there should be perpetual peace between the colonies, even though their mother countries were at war; the negotiation was without effect.
• Rhode Island petitioned to be admitted into the union; the commissioners for the united colonies made it a condition that the colony should acknowledge itself within the jurisdiction of Plymouth.
• The Plymouth colony court ordered that no person shall purchase or receive any Indian land that lies within the line of that colony without the order of the court.
• Massachusetts laws of the greatest necessity that had been previously enacted were collected, ratified by the court and printed for the first time.
• The first instance of capital punishment for witchcraft in New England occurred.  Margaret Jones of Charlestown was indicted for a witch, found guilty, and executed.
• The towns of New London, Malden and Marblehead were established.

• Charles I of England was beheaded at Whitehall at the age of 51 years; The house of lords was suppressed; the oaths of allegiance and supremacy were abolished; the power fell into the hands of the people.  Justice was no longer to be administered in the king's name.
• Upon the death of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, most of the commissioners appointed to govern the province of Maine, having deserted it, the remaining inhabitants were now obligated to combine for their own security.
• The first body of laws for the commonwealth of Connecticut was established by that court.
• John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts died at age 63.

• On November 1, 1649, his son Samuel was born.
• At the (town) meeting of April 16, 1649 it was acknowledged by John Robinson that Daniel Ladd had bought six acres of accommodations of him, which the town granted him. Approved on by the Selectmen. At that time a settler could not sell the land which the town had granted him, without its consent.

• Boundaries are settled between the Dutch and English.
• The constitution of Maryland was established and divided into counties.

• The parliament of England passed the famous Act of Navigation requiring the use of English owned ships for the transportation of merchandise.
• The general court of Massachusetts granted land to the natives and they built a town which they called Natick.
• The towns of Norwalk, Middletown and Medfield were incorporated in Massachusetts.

• On March 10, 1651 his son Nathaniel was born.

• The inhabitants of the Province of Maine were, by their own request, taken under the protection of the colony of Massachusetts.
• The first mint was erected in New England for coining money.

• The commissioners of the United Colonies, apprehensive of hostilities with the Dutch, concluded provisionally, that 500 men should be the number raised out of the four jurisdictions.  Plymouth colony appointed a council of war.
• The boundary between Massachusetts and Maine was established.
• The first fire in Boston was recorded by early historians.

• The general court of Connecticut passed an act sequestering Dutch lands and property of all kinds, at Hartford, for the benefit of the commonwealth.
• Peace is established between Holland and England.
• A College is proposed for New Haven.
• The number of ratable persons in the colony of Connecticut, this year, was 775.

• On September 16, 1654 his son Ezekial was born

• The general court of Massachusetts, in consideration of the straits of the colony in the article of clothing, passed an act of assessment on spinning.
• This year Mrs. Ann Hibbins of Boston was tried and condemned for witchcraft; and the next year was executed.
• An epidemic distemper, similar to that of 1647, prevailed through New England.
• The Dutch invade the Swedes at Delaware, take their forts and destroy New Gottenburg.

• The first Quakers who appeared in New England, arrived. The general court of Massachusetts, considering them hostile to civil and ecclesiastical order, passed sentence of banishment on 12 persons of that sect, the whole number then in the colony.
• Miles Standish, the hero of New England, died at Duxbury, at an advanced age.

• The Massachusetts legislature granted a license to certain persons, to supply the eastern Indians with arms and ammunition for hunting, on paying an acknowledgment to the public treasury.
• William Bradford, governor of Plymouth, Edward Hopkins, former governor of Connecticut, and Theophilus Eaton, governor of New Haven, died this year.

• On November 4, 1657 his daughter Sarah was born.

• An insurrection had been raised in Maryland by Josias Fendal.
• There was a great earthquake in New England.
• Oliver Cromwell, protector, died on the 3rd of September.

• At the meeting of the assembly of Maryland, the burgesses, by the direction or connivance of Fendal, governor of the colony, dissolved the upper house, and assumed every power in the state.
• William Robinson, Marmaduke Stephenson, and Mary Dyer, Quakers, were brought to trial before the general court of Massachusetts and sentenced to die.

• He entered into partnership with Theophilis Shatwell and constructed a sawmill on the Spiggot (Spicket) River.  It was constructed within what are now the city limits of Salem, New Hampshire, and was the first mill erected on that stream.
• They paid the village 5 pounds a year for the privilege.
• From The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts:
  1659 - Daniel Ladd's accommodations. Six acres of accommodations: Four acres to his house lot; more or less: Robert Clement's bounding on the east, and Henry Savage on the west. Five acres in the plain: William White on the east and John Williams on the north. Nine acres up the great river, Thomas Ayers on the east and George Browne on the west. Four acres of meadow in the east meadow, more or less; Joseph Peasly on the south, and George Browne on the north. One acre and a half of meadow in the pond meadow; James Davis Sr. on the south, and Robert Clement Jr. on the north. One acre of meadow at Hawkes meadow; John Davis on the south, and Thomas Whittier on the north.

• The Navigation act was confirmed; no sugar, tobacco, ginger, indigo, cotton, fustic, dying woods, of the growth of the English territories in America shall be transported thence to any country than those belonging to the crown of England.
• The only English colonies on the American continent, after the emigrations of half a century, were Virginia (20,000), New England (48,000), and Maryland (12,000); which are supposed to have contained at this time, no more than 80,000 inhabitants.
• Brookfield, Massachusetts, Woolwich, in the province of Maine, the township of Norwich in Connecticut settled.
• There were at this time, in New England ten Indian towns, of such as were called Praying Indians.  The first Indian church in New England was embodied at Natick.

• From The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts:
  Daniel Ladd's 2nd division, containing 27 acres of upland, be it more or less; with sixteen acres of ox-common and a half, bounded by George Corley and John Hutchins on the west; by a black oak, a white oak, a red oak and a walnut on the south; by a walnut and a white oak on the east , by two white oaks and an ash on the north. Three acres of meadow lying on Spicket River, bounded by Thomas Davis on the south, and Robert Clements on the north: and on spot of meadow at Primrose swamp, and another spot at the east meadow, at the head of the meadow that was John Davis's adjoining to his own. For the land that was taken off Daniel Ladd's 3rd division, we added a piece on the north side of the highway round the meadow that was Goodman Hale's bounded by the highway and Merrie's Creek. Third division of meadow containing 3 acres, be it more or less, bounded by John Page on the south, a pin on the east, his own uplands on the west, and uplands on the north of the said meadow, lying in mistake meadow. Daniel Ladd doubtless found farming quite a different thing form what most farmer of the present day find it. His house lot was in the village; his planting ground in two places, - a part of it "in the plain" from one to two miles east of the village, ant the other part "up the great river" at least as far, on the west of the village - while his meadow lands were in seven lots, and as many distinct meadows. East meadow was in the easterly part of the town, three miles from his home lot, while Spicket meadow was at least eight miles in the opposite direction. Pond meadow was two miles northeast; and mistake meadow somewhere in the westerly part of the town.

• Charles II was acknowledged to be their sovereign lord and king.
• The government of New England received a letter from the king stating that there should be no farther prosecution of the Quakers who were condemned to suffer death or other corporal punishment and that they be forthwith sent over to England for trial.  Upon this order, 28 Quakers were released from prison and conducted out of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts.

• From The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts:
  When we reflect that in those days "highways" were at best but primitive cart paths, through the woods, with stumps still standing, hills ungraded, and streams unbridged; and that the land was new, rough, and worked only by great labor, we may have a faint idea of some of the hardships of our first settlers. Had they not been men of iron nerve, tireless muscle, and indomitable energy and perseverance, our town would still be but a waste and howling wilderness.

• The charter of Connecticut was granted by king Charles II, with the most ample privileges, under the great seal of England.
• The charter included the colony of New Haven; but that colony did not accept it, nor agree to be united under one government with Connecticut.
• An act was passed appointing county courts, one in each county, to consist of eight of the most able, honest, and judicious persons in the county.
• The three townships settled on the Connecticut river, in the colony of Massachusetts were made a county by the name of Hampshire.
• The government of Maryland reverts to lord Baltimore.
• A mint is established in Maryland.

• A militia company was organized in town this year (1662). William White was chosen Captain, and Daniel Ladd Lieutenant.

• Charles II conferred a charter on Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
• An act of parliament was passed, to monopolize the colonial trade for England.
• The towns upon the west end of Long Island petitioned to be annexed to Connecticut.
• On the 26th of January, there was a tremendous earthquake in the northern parts of America.

• On May 14, 1663 his daughter Elizabeth married Nathaniel Smith in Haverhill.

• King Charles II granted a patent to his brother, the duke of York and Albany, for several extensive tracts of land by the name of Nova Caesarea, or New Jersey.
• Articles of capitulation were signed by which the fort and town of New Amsterdam were surrendered to the English.  In honor of the duke of York, New Amsterdam now took the name of New York.
• The Dutch garrison at Fort Orange capitulated to the English; and in honor of the duke, was called Albany.
• Articles of capitulation were made with the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware bay and river, which completed the subjection of New Netherland to the English crown.
• Elizabethtown, Newark, Middletown and Shrewsbury are settled.
• The line between the colonies of Massachusetts and Plymouth was settled by a committee from each colony.
• The first meeting of the general assembly of Rhode Island was held on the 1st of March and the government was organized.
• The English formed a treaty with the Five Indian Nations, by which these natives gave their lands and submitted to the king of England.

• The City of New York is incorporated under the care of a mayor, five aldermen, and a sheriff.
• The militia of Massachusetts consisted of 4000 foot, and 400 horse.  The colony maintained a fort at the entrance of Boston harbor, with five or six guns; two batteries in the harbor, and one at Charlestown.  The number of its ships was about 80, with 12 over 100 tons.
• The English inhabitants of Maryland now amounted to 16,000.
• The government of Rhode Island passed an order to outlaw Quakers, and to seize their estates, because they would not bear arms; the people in general rose up against it, and would not suffer it to be carried into effect.

• War is declared between France and Great Britain.
• The general assembly of Connecticut divided the colony into the counties of Hartford, New Haven, New London, and Fairfield.
• The buccaneers of America, about this time, began their depredations, including Lewis Scot, John Davis, and Henry Morgan, a Welshman.

• A treaty of peace was concluded at Breda between England and Holland. By this treaty New Netherlands were confirmed to the English.  A treaty was also concluded, at the same place, between England and France.
• A general treaty of peace and alliance was concluded between England and Spain.
• The Massachusetts towns of Mendon, Brookfield and Westfield along with the town of Lyme Connecticut were incorporated.

• The general court of Massachusetts appointed four commissioners and resumes the government of Maine.
• Worcester is established, and Beverly is incorporated in Massachusetts; Haddam Connecticut is incorporated.

• On November 4, 1668 his son, Daniel Jr., married Lydia Singletery in Haverhill.
• Daniel Ladd's principal occupation was farming and he also was involved frequently in land sales and exchanges. He served in various town positions, and was a selectman in 1668.
   

• The Old South Church is established in Boston.
• The friendly Indians in New England, having raised an army of 600 or 700 men, marched into the country of the Mohawks to take revenge for their injuries.
• Hudson's Bay Company established.

• On May 15, 1669 his daughter, Lydia, married Josiah Gage in Bradford, VT.

• The Treaty of Madrid, between England and Spain, The pirates and buccaneers, who had annoyed Spanish America, were cut off from all future protection from England.
• A considerable number of inhabitants of New Haven removed to Wallingford for the settlement of that town, which was first called New Haven Village.

• The assembly of Maryland passed acts for "encouraging the importation of Negros and slaves".
• The number of men from 16 to 60 years of age, in Connecticut was 2050.
• The town of Derby, Connecticut was settled and the first church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was organized.

• Duties are laid by parliament on the colonies.  This was the first act which imposed customs on the colonies alone, to be regularly collected by colonial revenue officers.
• The union between the three colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Connecticut was renewed at Plymouth.
• From the settlement of the first church in Massachusetts at Salem to this time, 40 churches were gathered, and 120 towns built in New England.

• The Dutch capture New York City and soon after, all New Netherlands consented to the same Humiliating submission.
• Duties are laid by parliament on the colonies.  This was the first act which imposed customs on the colonies alone, to be regularly collected by colonial revenue officers.
• New England is supposed to have contained, at this time, about 120,000 souls, of whom about 16,000 were able to bear arms. The town of Boston contained 1500 families.
• Father Marquette discovered the Mississippi River on the 17th of June.

• A treaty between England and Holland restores New Netherlands to the English.
• Petaquamscut and the adjacent parts, in the colony of Rhode Island, were incorporated by the name of Kingston.
• The only printing press in Massachusetts had hitherto been at Cambridge.  John Foster set up a press in Boston.
• Daniel Gookin, of Cambridge, completed his Historical Collections of the Indians in New England; which furnished an account of their numbers, customs, manners, religion, government, and condition.

• On December 1, 1674, his son Samuel married Martha Corliss in Haverhill, MA.

• The memorable war between Philip, king of the Wampanoags, and the New England colonists, now commenced.
• The colony of New York offered as an encouragement to settlers from Europe, 60 acres for each freeman, 30 for his wife, 50 for each child, and 50 for each servant.

• "In 1675 occurred King Phillip's War, when the inhabitants of Haverhill, though not attacked, were greatly alarmed, and endeavored to protect themselves against the ravages of the hostile Savages. Troopers and militia were furnished with firearms and ammunition by the General Court, and towns were ordered to provide fortifications and garrisons. Daniel Ladd, Peter Ayer and Thomas Whittier were appointed to designate what houses should be garrisoned. Armed scouts were kept on the watch for the enemy day and night during the whole time. As late as 1684 thirty-five troopers were kept constantly on the scout, on the borders of Haverhill, Amesbury and Salisbury, and a foot-company was kept ready for service in each of these towns. Joseph's large, strong house, with its numerous port-holes, so conveniently near the border line of Salisbury and Haverhill, would furnish ample accommodations, not only as a "house of refuge" for the half a dozen families of the neighborhood, but for the troopers constantly on the scout in the out-lying district."

• King Philip is killed August 12 when he was shot through the heart.  Philip, in the progress of the English settlements, foresaw the loss of his territory, and the extinction of his tribe; and made one mighty effort to prevent those calamities.
• In this short but tremendous war, about 600 of the inhabitants of New England were killed in battle, or murdered by the enemy; 12 or 13 towns were entirely destroyed; about 600 building, chiefly dwelling houses were burnt. 
• In addition to these calamities, the colonies contracted an enormous dept; while, by the loss of their substance through the ravages of the enemy, their resources were greatly diminished.
• Maryland now contained about 16,000 inhabitants; of whom the Roman Catholics were to the number of Protestants in the proportion of one to a hundred.
• New Jersey is divided into East and West Jersey.
• A fire in Boston burned down about 45 dwelling houses, the north church, and several ware houses.

• Maine is bought by Massachusetts.
• The general court of Massachusetts passed a new law for apprehending and punishing, by fine and correction, every person found at a Quaker's meeting.
• East Greenwich, in Rhode Island is incorporated.

• The province of New York contained, at this time, about 24 towns, villages or parishes.  There were now in the city of New York 343 houses.
• The town of Salem contained 85 houses.

• On July 12, 1678 his son Nathaniel married Elizabeth Gilman in Haverhill, MA.

• A terrible fire broke out near the dock in Boston about midnight on the 8th of August. Above 80 dwelling houses, 70 ware houses, with several vessels and their lading, were consumed. The entire loss was computed to be L200,000.

• New Hampshire was separated from Massachusetts.
• Connecticut contained, at this time, 26 small towns.  It owned 24 small vessels.  There were in the colony 20 merchants.  There were few servants, and not more than 30 slaves.  The militia amounted to 2507.
• Rhode Island colony consisted of 9 towns or divisions.  The militia consisted principally of ten companies of foot.  The principal place of trade was Newport, where the building were generally of wood, and small.
• A remarkable comet was seen in New England.

• Charles II granted William Penn and his heirs true and absolute proprietary's of the province of Pennsylvania.
• The first colony comes to Pennsylvania and commenced a settlement above the confluence of the Schuylkill with the Delaware.

• Penn, accompanied by about 100 passengers, chiefly Quakers, arrived at Newcastle.
• The city of Philadelphia is laid out.  In less than a year, 80 houses and cottages were built.  The first settlers were generally Quakers.
• Newark was said to contain about 100 families.
• New Hampshire contained four townships, with 4000 inhabitants, and mustered 450 militia.

• On July 31, 1682 his daughter Mary, married Caleb Richardson in Newbury, MA

• The first assembly of Pennsylvania was held at Philadelphia.
• The first legislative assembly of New York was held.
• A fire broke out in the richest part of Boston and consumed a great number of dwelling houses, ware houses and vessels.

• The high court of Chancery in England gave judgment for the king against the governor and company of Massachusetts; their charter was declared to be forfeited; an their liberties were seized into the kings hands.
• Philadelphia already contained 300 houses and 2000 inhabitants.

• Charles II died and was succeeded by his brother James II.
• Quo warranto was issued against the governor and company of Connecticut; A similar writ was issued against Rhode Island.
• The colony of Plymouth was divided into three counties; Plymouth, Barnstable and Bristol.
• The inhabitants of Canada amounted to 17,000; 3000 of whom were supposed to be capable of bearing arms.

• On December 12, 1685 his daughter Sarah married Onesiphorus Marsh Jr. in Haverhill, MA.

• Protestant French refugees sought an asylum in New England; 30 families settled in Oxford, Massachusetts.
• Writs of quo warranto were issued against East and West Jersey.
• A treaty of peace and neutrality for America between France and England was concluded at London.
• The city of New York is incorporated by charter; Albany, on the Hudson, was incorporated this year.

• A writ of quo warranto was issued by King James against the charter of Maryland.
• Sir Edmund Andros went to Hartford where the assembly of Connecticut was then sitting, demanded the charter and declared the government dissolved.

• On November 30, 1687 his son Ezekial married Mary Folsom in Haverhill, MA.

• The governor of New England, Sir Edmund Andros, with his council, made laws and levied taxes at their pleasure.
• The inhabitants of several towns in Massachusetts refused to levy the assessments.  The selectmen of Ipswich pass a vote and are fined and imprisoned.  An agent is sent to England to represent their grievance to the king; there seems to have been but little ground to hope for success to the cause of the colonies.
• New York, East and West Jersey are added to the jurisdiction of the four colonies of New England. 
• The first Episcopal church in Massachusetts was erected in Boston and called King's Chapel.
• The French, settled in New France, now amounted to 11,249 persons.

• King James having abdicated the throne, William, prince of Orange, and Mary, daughter of James, were proclaimed in England.
• Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of New England, and other members of the council, are seized and imprisoned; and the old magistrates were reinstated.
• A new council took the title of "A council for the safety of the people and conservation of the peace".  Representatives of 54 towns met in Boston and it was determined to "resume the government according to charter rights".
• The governments of Rhode Island and Connecticut resumes its government.
• King William and Queen Mary were proclaimed by the colonies.

• The French, detached from Canada, destroy Schenectady, Salmon Falls and the fort at Casco.
• Application was made to Connecticut by Massachusetts for immediate assistance.
• The first paper money is issued in the colonies.  Massachusetts issued bills of credit, as a substitute for money, for the payment of the troops.

• His daughter, Mary, died.

• New York passes an act declaring the rights of representation and other privileges.

• On August 11, 1691 his son Nathaniel died as a result of wounds received in a fight with the Indians at Cape Elizabeth (Maquoit).

• New charter for Massachusetts.  Sir William Phips is established as governor and the new government thus became organized.
• The imputation of witchcraft was accompanied with a prevalent belief of its reality; and the lives of a considerable number of innocent people were sacrificed to blind zeal and superstitious credulity.  Nineteen persons were executed and one pressed to death, all of whom asserted their innocence.
• The distress of the colonists, at this time, was great.  The sea coast was infested with privateers; the inland frontiers east and west were continually harassed by the French and Indians; and at the same time had incurred a heavy debt.
• The town of Windham, in Connecticut, was incorporated.

• The king and queen of England assumed the government of Pennsylvania into their own hands.
• The Pennsylvania assembly passed an act, requiring all parents and guardians to have the children instructed in reading and writing, and taught some useful trade.
• The first printing press in the province of New York was erected in the city of New York.

• Daniel Ladd died on July 27, 1693.