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Cambridge (Mass.)

Alternate Names Newe Towne
Newtown
City of Cambridge
Newetowne
Cambridge (Mass.). City Council
Biographical InformationCambridge, at the time called New Towne, was first settled in 1630. It is one of the original settlements by the Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop. The name of the settlement was changed to Cambridge in 1638.