Massachusetts bay colony biography of george

English emigrant and Massachusetts colonist

George Felt (February 28, 1601 – c. 1693)^[1] was a 17th-century English emigrant to the New England Colonies.

A mason by trade, he is considered a founder of the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, and is one of the three main early settlers of North Yarmouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Yarmouth, Maine), along with John Cousins and William Royal.

Arrival in the Colonies

George Felt arrived in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in late 1628, aboard the ship Abigail with John Endecott, regarded as one of the Fathers of Anglo-Saxon White PuritanNew England.^[2] Felt was born at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, and is considered the first of the Felt family in America.

He went to Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the following year where he helped form a government with thirty-three other colonists in 1633. He erected a cabin at the original settlement, southwest of what was then