Page 6 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, May 10, 2024 375th anniversary of Malden’s incorporation as a town – Part 3 Explorers and cofounders By Inna Babitskaya 50 O ne of the key persons in the establishment of the Eastern Bank Building on Rte. 1S 605 Broadway, #301 * Saugus (781) 233-6844 www.bostonnorthdental.com Massachusetts Bay Company and Colony was Rev. John White (1575–1648), called the Patriarch of Dorchester and the Founder of Massachusetts, who never visited New England. Rev. White served as rector of the parish of Holy Trinity in Dorchester. After learning about the Pilgrims’ expedition, he became the leading person in obtaining charters for the Dorchester Company, the New England Company and the Massachusetts Bay Company. In March 1624, due to his efforts, the Dorchester Company was organized. White organized the supDr. Priti Amlani Dr. Bhavisha Patel * Restorative Dentistry * Cosmetic Dentistry * Implant Restoration * Zoom Whitening * Teeth in a Day - All on 6 * Invisalign * CEREC Crowns (Single Visit Crowns) * Root Canal Treatment * Sedation Dentistry ~ Full Mouth Rehabilitation ~ Before After plies’ delivery to the colonists of Naumkeag (Salem). He planned to establish a colony for the so-called non-Separatists and thought that Naumkeag would be the best place for it. In order to obtain fi nances, he had to fight against the city administration and wealthy people, whose desire to acquire more property and wealth contradicted his purely religious motives. Eventually, he founded the New England Company, which included the members of the Dorchester Company. On March 4, 1628/29, White obtained a royal charter for the company. On March 19, 1628/29, the Council for New England gave a land grant to a new joint-stock company that was called “The New England Company for a Plantation in Massachusetts Bay.” Merchant and politician Matthew Cradock became the company’s fi rst manager, and Sir Richard Massachusetts Bay Colony charter, 1629 Saltonstall (1586–1661) was its main shareholder. The company received a grant for an area between the Charles and Merrimack Rivers, from “the Atlantic and Western Seas and Ocean in the eastern part to the South Sea in the western part.” Cradock immediately began to recruit settlers and buy essential supplies for sea travel and settlements. In February 1628/29, the New England Company began to prepare ships for the future voyage. White’s close friend John Endicott was employed by the company to be the fi rst governor of the colony in Massachusetts. White right away ordered two small ships, Peeter and Happy Entrance, sent with supplies. On June 20, 1628, the Abigail left for New England with John Endicott and 100 new settlers. In 1628, they landed at Naumkeag (future Salem), which had been founded by fi shermen, who moved there from Cape Ann in 1626. In order to make their settlement easier, the company created some kind of “warehouse” where the colonists could get clothes, fabrics, food and other supplies. In 1628, with Endicott’s group, the company sent clothes “suffi cient for one hundred men, including three hundred suits of clothes, four hundred shirts, and four hundred pairs of shoes. Two hundred of the suits of clothes... There were a hundred waistcoats of green cotton..., a hundred Monmouth caps, fi ve hundred red knit caps, milled, and one hundred black hats, lined in the brows with leather... The stock contained four hundred pairs of knit stockings, ten dozen pairs of Norwich garters, three hundred plain falling bands, two hundred handkerchiefs Rev. Francis Higginson Rev. John White, Patriarch of Dorchester and Founder of Massachusetts Sir Richard Saltonstall and a stock of sheer linen... to make up other handkerchiefs. Scotch ticking was supplied for beds and bolsters, with wool to TOWN | SEE PAGE 11
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