James Draper (settler)
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James Draper "The Puritan" was an early settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was born and married in Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England, and came with his wife to New England shortly after 1647. H
Grave marker for James and Miriam Draper; oldest marker in Westerly Burial Ground, West Roxbury, Massachusetts
Entry sign to Westerly Burial Ground
Entry plaque to Westerly Cemetery, mentioning the earliest tombstone, belonging to James and Miriam Draper
Nathaniel Whiting was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts. He owned several mills on Mother Brook and is said to have dug the canal, the first man-made water way in America.
James Draper (settler)
…Draper and Jonathan Fairbanks petitioned the Town of Dedham to build a fulling mill on Mother Brook, but the selectmen granted the right to Draper and Nathaniel Whiting instead. According to his tombstone, Draper died 13 July 1697, and the following month, on 19 August, his widow appeared before the Suffolk County…
A stone from 1886 marking the location of the first mill built on Mother Brook