The “fitt place” is now Cambridge, which, under the name of “the newe towne,” first appears in the Records of Massachusetts, July 26, 1631. Dudley writes (“Letter to the Countess of Lincoln”): . . . “we beganne againe in December to consult about a fitt place to build a Towne vppon leavinge all thoughts of a fort, because vppon any invasion wee were necessarily to loose our howses when we should retire thereinto; soe ...wee grew to this resolucon to bind all the Assistants (Mr. Endicott and Mr. Sharpe excepted, which last purposeth to returne by the next shippes into England) to build howses at a place, a mile east from Waterton neere Charles river, the next Springe, and to winter there the next yeare ...that a fortifyed Towne might grow vpp. . . .” See Young, Chronicles, 320, which modernizes the spelling. See Journal for August 3, 1632 ; also printed in D.J.W. .