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following photo presentation has been compiled
from the photos of John Danforth who visited the
Danforth home in Framlingham, England. The home, located two hours
from London in a rural part of England outside of
Framlingham, once belonged to Nicholas Danforth,
who as a widower with six children left this home
behind when he boarded the Griffin at London in
1634 and sailed to New England.
He arrived in
Boston on the 18th of September and became the
surveyor who set out the boundaries of Concord,
Roxbury, Dedham and Dorchester. He was a
selectman for Cambridge, served as a deputy to
the General Court, and was among the original
signers of which would make appropriations for
the establishment of what would become Harvard
College.
Nicholas Danforth
died in April of 1638 and his son Thomas Danforth
inherited his father's farm which was known as
"Danforth's Farm" but later became the
town of Framingham, Massachusetts.
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