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It is ordered that the magistrates of Ipswich shall have power to discharge Mr. Easton & Mr. Geoffry from building at Winnacumet, & if they will not take warning to clear the place of them. MGC
Nicholas Easton, a tanner, immigrated to New England in 1634. Ne was disarmed at Newbury with Richard Dummer and John Spencer for supporting Anne Hutchinson and was banished from Massachusetts. He went on to settle the plantation of Newport and later became the Governor of the Rhode Island colony. Mr. Geoffry was possibly an inhabitant of Newbury or Ipswich. The men may have been attempting to settle here under the General Court's November 2, 1637 grant.
