This position requires Senate confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem. Later in 1629 another small fleet sailed for the colony; on board, in addition to Puritan settlers, were skilled craftsmen of all types who were engaged in Cradock's businesses. Matthew Cradock Nothing is known of Matthew Cradock's early life. [25], Even though he did not travel to the colony, he continued to operate in London on its behalf. Founded in 1628, it was an organization of Puritan businessmen that organized and established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. For other people named Matthew Cradock, see. He sought permission from the king's Privy Council to freely export provisions to the colony, claiming the colonists were in dire straits due to a shortage of provisions and threats from Native Americans. Founded in 1628, it was an organization of Puritan businessmen that organized and established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was from a Staffordshire family; a cousin, also named Matthew Cradock, was mayor of Stafford, and built a mansion on the site of Caverswall Castle, Staffordshire. [35][36] She then married Ralph Cudworth, a leading figure of the Cambridge Platonists and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, by whom she became mother of three further sons and a daughter, Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham. Later in 1629 another small fleet sailed for the colony; on board, in addition to Puritan settlers, were skilled craftsmen of all types who were engaged in Cradock's businesses. Ben W. Hooper (1870-1957), the governor of Tennessee from 1911 to 1915, was born out of wedlock in Newport, Tennessee, on 13 October 1870 to Sarah Wade, daughter of … He names his nephew Samuel who was then a student at Emanuel College. Cradock was a strong supporter of the Parliamentary cause in the years leading up to the English Civil War. Cradock wrote to Endecott in early 1629, warning him about the issue, suggesting that he settle colonists in the claimed area and also that he treat well the Old Planters (the surviving colonists from the failed Dorchester Company settlement). Although he never visited the colony, Cradock owned property and businesses there, and he acted on its behalf in London. The will of Matthew Cradock dated November 9, 1640 is recorded in Middlesex, Mass. Craddock has served in multiple other positions at the California Department of Water Resources since 1994, including assistant deputy director of the State Water Project, project manager of Oroville Spillways Emergency Recovery, chief of utility operations for the Hydropower License Office, program manager of the East Branch Extension, advisor to the State Water Project deputy director, and civil engineer. The company, in order to protect its claims, acquired a royal charter in 1629, under which Cradock was named the colony's governor in London, while Endecott governed in the colony. [Read before the Medford Historical Society, February 7, 1903.]. In early May 1641 Cradock brought word to the Parliament reports that the king was planning to send armed troops to seize the Tower of London; this news sparked the Protestation of 1641, in which Cradock played a leading role. Toy earned a Master of Arts degree in education from Stanford University. [23] Cradock, who took leave of the emigrants at the Isle of Wight, remained behind in England. Matthew Cradock's daughter Damaris Cudworth died at High Laver, Essex, in 1695.[37]. He earned a Master of Education degree from Harvard University and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of San Francisco. [22], Winthrop sailed to Massachusetts in 1630, and the fleet carrying the colonists included two of Cradock's ships, and agents and servants of his who were to see to his commercial interests. The will of Matthew Cradock himself has been already printed. Even though he did not travel to the colony, he continued to operate in London on its behalf. Rebeccah Cradock, Matthew's second wife, remarried first to Richard Glover, and lastly to Benjamin Whichcote, another senior figure of the Cambridge Platonists, Provost of King's College, Cambridge,[38] a close colleague of Ralph Cudworth's. [12] In 1640 Cradock was a member of a group of business men who opposed the conservative royalist leadership of the East India Company, engaging in an unsuccessful attempt to reform the company's directorate. Cradock was a strong supporter of the Parliamentary cause in the years leading up to the English Civil War. It called for those shareholders who were emigrating to buy out those that remained in England after seven years; the latter would also receive a share of some of the colony's business activities, including the fur trade.