Deacon Edward Converse House, first house built in Woburn, 1640

Deacon Edward Convers (1587 - 1663) was an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who founded Woburn and helped establish Charlestown. A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was an associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more "purity" of Worship and Doctrine, The Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called the Massachusetts Bay Company, for the institution that founded it was an English settlement on the east coast of North America Charlestown is a part of the city of Boston, Massachusetts located on a peninsula north of Boston proper He was also a wealthy landowner in the colony. ^[1]

Convers was born February 23, 1587, in Navestock, England. Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable Navestock is a Civil parish in the Borough of Brentwood in south Essex, in the East of England region of the United Kingdom. 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. Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 (an early part of the Great Migration) was the largest fleet ever assembled to carry Englishmen overseas to a new homeland Events 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. The Great Migration may refer to the Winthrop Fleet of 1630, wherein eleven ships delivered 1000 passengers migrating from England to the Massachusetts

Convers died on August 10, 1663, in Woburn, Massachusetts. Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire

He also founded the First Church of Charlestown, and established the first ferry from Charlestown to Boston.

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• http://dickconverse.tripod.com/Story--ConverseFamily.htm