Weymouth is settled (first) by Europeans.

(June) Named for explorer George Weymouth and originally Wessagussett (“small, salt water cove”), it first established as a trading post by a party of 10 men led by Thomas Weston. Additional settlers arrive in August, but the settlement is soon abandoned. Justin Winsor later writes, “Insufficiently clad and starving, the would-be settlers mixed freely with the neighboring Indians, first begging and then stealing from them, and thus incurring anger while they ceased to inspire fear.”