Historic Markers for the Welch ancestors, listed by town.

Charlestown - John Harvard Mall

Edward Johnson mentioned in Hill marker 

A.D.  1637
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY
COMELY AND FAIR HOUSES
WERE STANDING ON AND NEAR THIS HILL.
AMONG THE SETTLERS WHO LIVED HERE WERE
JOHN HARVARD  RALPH SPRAGUE  GEORGE BUNKER
ZECHARIAH SYMMES  THOMAS LYNDE
WILLIAM FROTHINGHAM  EDWARD GIBSON
THOMAS BEECHER  ROBERT HALE
JOHN GREENE  WILLIAM WITHERELL
EDWARD JOHNSON AND INCREASE NORWEL
SECRETARY OF THE COLONY
OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY

Concord - Lowell Road

Reverend Peter Bulkeley House marker 

      Here in the house of the       
       Reverend Peter Bulkeley       
    first minister and one of the    
        founders of this town        
     a bargain was made with the     
Squaw Sachem, the Sacamore Tahattawan
          and other Indians          
     who then sold their right in    
 the six miles square called Concord 
       to the English planters       
  and gave them peaceful possession  
             of the land             
             A. D. 1636.

Hingham - North St

First Landing marker 


        IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF         
        REVEREND PETER HOBART         
                 AND                  
THAT COMPANY OF ENGLISH MEN AND WOMEN 
       WHO FOUNDED THE TOWN OF        
               HINGHAM                
 LANDING NEAR THIS SPOT IN SEPTEMBER  
                1635                  
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   ERECTED BY OLD COLONY CHAPTER      
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION  
                1913

Nantucket

Left: stone marker on Capaum Pond Rd, Nantucket, indicating where Tristram Coffin's home was located. Middle and Right: signs in the Whaling Museum on Nantucket; the map locates the land of our ancestors Tristram Coffin (in red) and his son-in-law Stephen Greenleaf (in green), who never lived on Nantucket.

Watertown - Charles River Road


On the side of Charles River Rd away from the river, one block SE from Watertown Square, stands a very nice monument to the founders of Watertown. On the top stands a greater-than-life-size statue of Sir Richard Saltonstall. On the base are carved 116 names for the founders of Watertown. Included in that list are three of our ancestors: Edward Garfield, John Prescott, and Richard Woodword. [Click on parts of the image to see them larger.]

Woburn - Woburn Center

Edward Johnson mentioned in Woburn marker 


WOBURN
   Settled by men from
Charlestown under Captain
Edward Johnson.  Named in 1642
after Woburn, Bedfordshire. Here
were born and crew up together
Colonel Loammi Baldwin, the
Engineer, and Benjamin Thompson,
(Count Rumford) Philanthropist
and Scientist
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Massachusetts Bay Colony   
   Tercentenary Commission