According to Richardson,846 “In 1630, Edward Converse immigrated with the Winthrop Fleet to New England, settling initially at Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he operated a ferry between Charlestown and Boston. He was admitted as a member of the Boston church in the fall of 1630. He requested to become a freeman 19 October 1630, and was admitted 18 May 1631. He married, second, SARAH _____, shortly before 14 Oct. 1632, when they were dismissed from the Boston church to participate in forming the new Charlestown church. He served as selectman at Charlestown, 1635-1638, and grandjuryman there in 1638. In 1640, Edward and Sarah removed to Woburn, where he was a commissioner to end small causes in 1643, and deputy to the General Court in 1660.”