Excerpt from The Bi-Centennial Book of Malden: Containing the Oration and Poem Delivered on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town, May 23, 1849, With Other Proceedings on That Day, and Matters Pertaining to the History of the Place

The affections of the first planters of New England still clung, as was natural, to the soil of their nativity. They gave utterance, at parting, to the emotions of the heart, when they said, farewell, dear England, and they designed, by the names they bestowed on the places of their abode, in this land of their adoption, to keep alive in their breasts the tender associations of home.

Of the first settlers of this town I now address many Of the lineal descendants. As I turn the leaves of the early records, and read there, continually occurring, such names as Hill, Wait, Sprague, Sargent, Lynde, Howard, Nichols.

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