When we stopped in the Sudbury Town Hall recently, we noticed a copy of an old map on the wall.

The map was “Saxton’s Map of Suffolk 1575.”

Many names on the map were unfamiliar, or in different locations from where they are now.  “Ipswitche” was closer to Rhode Island than to New Hampshire.  “Saxted” and “Bedfeld” were east and north of the area labeled “Framlinghm,” which by 1600, dropped the “l” to become “Framingham.”