Edward Convers
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Deacon Edward Convers (1587 - 1663) was an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who founded Woburn and helped establish Charlestown. He was also a wealthy landowner in the colony.[1]
Convers was born February 23, 1587, in Navestock, England. After his first wife died, he married Sarah Smith in 1617. He and his family arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, with the Winthrop Fleet on June 12, 1630, in the early stages of the Great Migration.
Convers died on August 10, 1663, in Woburn, Massachusetts.
He also founded the First Church of Charlestown, and established the first ferry from Charlestown to Boston.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Richardson, Doug. The English Origin and Ancestry of The Parker Brothers of Massachusetts and their Probable Aunt, Sarah Parker, Wife of Edward Converse. NEHGS Register, Vol. 153. January, 1999, No. 609. See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~converse/sources/nehgs.html. Accessed 20 May 2007.
