A set of historical addresses and papers recounts the town’s early settlement as a 17th-century coastal community, describing the arrival of an expedition organized by a London merchant, the reception and assistance of nearby colonists, early hardships, and contacts with Indigenous people; it then surveys municipal development across the first twenty years, including land distribution, governance, and economy, and offers a later retrospective on demographic, civic, and local changes thirty years hence, placing local events within broader early-modern Atlantic and English contexts.