The same Year also the Town of _Sudbury_, being the twenty fourth, began to be built in the Inland Countrey: It is furnish’d with great store of fresh Marsh, but lying very low, it is much endammag’d with Land-floods. [Sidenote: _Braintree._] About this time there was built at Mount _Wollestone_, by some old Planters and certain Farmers of the great Town of _Boston_, a Town nam’d _Braintree_, being the twenty fifth, within the _Mattachusets_ Government: It is well peopled, and hath great store of Land in Tillage. [Sidenote: _Gloucester._] In the Year 1641. Mr. _Richard Blindman_ coming from _Green Harbour_, a Place in _Plymouth_ Patent, with some few People of his acquaintance, setled in _Cape Anne_, where they built the twenty sixth Town, and nam’d it _Gloucester_. [Sidenote: _Dover._] There is also situate upon _Puscataque_ River, to the North-East of _Boston_, a Town call’d _Dover_, being the twenty seventh, the People by voluntary resignation being under the _Mattachusets_ Government. [Sidenote: _Wooburn._] In the Year 1642. was erected the eight and twentieth Town, call’d _Wooburn_. [Sidenote: _Reading._] In the Year 1644. _Reading_ the nine and twentieth Town was built, being in the Government of the _Mattachusets_; it is well water’d and situated about a great Pond, having two Mills, a Saw-Mill, and a Corn-Mill, which stand upon two several Streams. [Sidenote: _Wenham._] A little after was built the thirtieth Town in this Colony, call’d _Wenham_, situate between _Salem_ and _Ipswich_; it is very well water’d, as most Inland Towns are, and the People live altogether on Husbandry. [Sidenote: _Spring-field._] About the Year 1645. one Mr. _Pinchin_, having out of desire to improve his Estate by Trading with the _Indians_, setled himself in a place very remote from any of the Towns of the _Mattachusets_ Colony, yet under their Government, and great store of People still resorting to him, they at last erected a Town upon the River _Canectico_, calling it _Spring-field_, being the one and thirtieth Town; it is very fitly seated for a Beaver Trade with the _Indians_, in regard it is situate upon this large Navigable River, and upon some Rivulets of the same. [Sidenote: _Haverhill._] In the Year 1648. was founded the Town of _Haverhill_, being the two and thirtieth, about a Mile or two from the place where the River of _Merrimeck_ receives into it self the River _Shawshin_, which is one of her three chief Heads. [Sidenote: _Malden._] Not long after, the Town of _Malden_, being the three and thirtieth Town, was built by certain People that came out of _Charles-Town_; these two Towns being sever’d the one from the other by the large River of _Mistick_.