♂ John Elderkin

1612 - 1687

John Elderkin
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Paltiah Elderkin
Paltiah Elderkin
1635 - 1713

Among the first in New London, John Elderkin kept the inn there.  He built the first corn mills, and the first and second churches in New London and Norwich. In 1661 he constructed the very first merchant vessel ever built in New London, the “New London Tryall', for 200 pounds. Many mills, buildings, and bridges of the area were built by him.

 

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1635


Age: 23y
1635 Rhode Island founder Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident, after speaking out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.

1637


Age: 25y

immigration


USA ⇓
He came first to Lynn and then to Dedham.
1637 • After a court battle, King Charles I of England hands over title to the North American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the founders of Plymouth Council for New England.

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