Excerpt from Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol. 3: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation England, where they carried on the business of manufacturing nails. There were two brothers, John and Edward, sons of Christopher, both of whom emigrated to Massachusetts, John in 1639 and Edward in 1643. John was the first settler of Cambridge village, and both lived and died in what is now known as Newton, Massachusetts, this town having been set off from Cambridge. They and their descendants are well described in a paper read by Mr. John Noble, clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Boston before the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, at a meet ing held in 1903. Speaking of the will of the first Edward Jackson, the immigrant, he says. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.