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First Period Houses of Massachusetts

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Humphrey House, Swampscott

Ellery House, Gloucester

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...men doe now
build, as lokinge on a
setled Commonwelth, and therefore, wee looke at posteryty and what may be vsefull or profitable for them...
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—James Luxford to John Winthrop, 1637
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