King George III had brought the political negotiations with the Massachusetts Bay Colony to a halt, demanded that all civil disobedience in the colony cease and threatened to nullify the Massachusetts charter, thereby stripping the Colonists of legal ownership of their land and their homes. The people of Middlesex County set about acquiring land, building homes, working hard and enjoying a life they might otherwise have never known.īy the time the landmark year of 1775 arrived, all of that effort was in danger of being undone. They were successful in their venture over the years, many Loker households populated Sudbury and the surrounding towns that came into existence. Their goal was to join a group of likeminded Puritans as founders of the town of Sudbury, a frontier town 20 miles west of Boston and eight miles south of Concord in Middlesex County. Members of the Loker family who represented my line of descent left the tiny village of Bures, Essex, England, in 1638, bound for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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