The Norcross family is a succession of prominent New Englanders in America deriving from All Hallows Bread Street, London, Middlesex, England, whom upon arrival in the colonies (1638), first settled with fellow Puritans in Salem, Massachusetts, then resettling with the new community in Watertown, Massachusetts,Bond, Henry, MD. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts's (Boston: NEHGS, 1860). whose progenitor Jeremiah Norcross was a landowner within the town in 1642.U.S. Arsenal Map; 1642Thompson, Roger. Divided We Stand: Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630–1680. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. The patriarch was married to Adrean [Chadwick].Bond, Henry, MD. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts's (Boston: NEHGS, 1860), p. 376.
