Introduction
There has been, over the years, confusion and even some disagreement on the exact resting place of Governor John Endecott who arrived in Naumkeag (later Salem) on September 6, 1628 and was the First 1 Governor in the Massachusetts Bay, 1629 2 3 4 Most genealogists, biographers and historians who study colonial history have concluded that the British destroyed many tombstones in and around the Boston area.