Budleigh Past and Present

  Continued from 22 May 1941 The sad story of the Fighting G: Petty Officer Frederick William Pannell (1907-41) https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/12/ww2-75-26-may-1941-sad-story-of.html             John Endicott and Elihu Yale plaque, near the John Adams Courthouse, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Image credit: Daderot/Wikipedia For many people, especially Americans, John Endicott is famous as one of the early 17 th century European settlers of the New World. He succeeded East Budleigh-born Roger Conant as governor of Salem, and became the longest-serving governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He has long been recognised as a Devonian and in his reputed birthplace of Chagford on Dartmoor, there’s even a house named after him.     I don’t know whether John Lake Endicott, listed on Budleigh Salterton’s War Memorial, was a descendant of his famous namesake, but he was certainly a Devonian. His father Ernest Will...