Little Waldingfield

His son Samuel, born at Little Waldingfield in 1624, and consequently about eleven years of age when his father came to America, became subsequently quite a distin - guished man, and took an active and prominent part in the public affairs of the colony.

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In the collection of the Harleian Manuscripts at the British Museum there is a genealogy of the family, tracing Samuel of Little Waldingfield directly to John Appleton, who died in 1412, and making it probable that he was descended from William de Appleton, who died in 1326.

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The precise year in which Samuel Appleton of Little Waldingfield came to this country cannot be ascertained.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792