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<p>[QUOTE="daveydempsey, post: 1790701, member: 22"]In the list of towns under Massachusetts, Rowley is named after a small village just 5 miles from me.</p><p><br /></p><p>In spring of 1639 Rowley was originally settled as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation" rel="nofollow">plantation</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Ezekiel_Rogers" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Ezekiel_Rogers" rel="nofollow">Reverend </a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Ezekiel_Rogers" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Ezekiel_Rogers" rel="nofollow">Ezekiel Rogers</a>, who had arrived from England on the ship <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_London_(ship)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_London_(ship)" rel="nofollow">John of London</a></i> with approximately twenty families. The <i>John of London</i> also brought over the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press" rel="nofollow">printing press</a> in the colonies, which was later brought to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" rel="nofollow">Harvard University</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The following spring, on September 4, 1639, the town was incorporated, and included portions of modern-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byfield,_Massachusetts" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byfield,_Massachusetts" rel="nofollow">Byfield</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groveland,_Massachusetts" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groveland,_Massachusetts" rel="nofollow">Groveland</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown,_Massachusetts" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown,_Massachusetts" rel="nofollow">Georgetown</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haverhill,_Massachusetts" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haverhill,_Massachusetts" rel="nofollow">Haverhill</a>. The town was named after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowley,_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowley,_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire" rel="nofollow">Rowley</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Riding_of_Yorkshire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Riding_of_Yorkshire" rel="nofollow">East Riding of Yorkshire</a>, where Rogers had served as pastor for twenty years before his suspension due to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)" rel="nofollow">non-conformist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan" rel="nofollow">Puritan</a> beliefs. Rogers was installed as Rowley's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastor" rel="nofollow">pastor</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="daveydempsey, post: 1790701, member: 22"]In the list of towns under Massachusetts, Rowley is named after a small village just 5 miles from me. In spring of 1639 Rowley was originally settled as a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation']plantation[/URL] by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Ezekiel_Rogers']Reverend Ezekiel Rogers[/URL], who had arrived from England on the ship [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_London_(ship)']John of London[/URL][/I] with approximately twenty families. The [I]John of London[/I] also brought over the first [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press']printing press[/URL] in the colonies, which was later brought to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University']Harvard University[/URL]. The following spring, on September 4, 1639, the town was incorporated, and included portions of modern-day [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byfield,_Massachusetts']Byfield[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groveland,_Massachusetts']Groveland[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown,_Massachusetts']Georgetown[/URL], and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haverhill,_Massachusetts']Haverhill[/URL]. The town was named after [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowley,_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire']Rowley[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Riding_of_Yorkshire']East Riding of Yorkshire[/URL], where Rogers had served as pastor for twenty years before his suspension due to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)']non-conformist[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan']Puritan[/URL] beliefs. Rogers was installed as Rowley's [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastor']pastor[/URL][/QUOTE]
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