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HISTORY
OF
PLYMOUTH COUNTY,
MASSACHUSETTS,
WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF MANY OF ITS
PIONEERS AND PROMINENT MEN.
COMPILED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF D. HAMILTON HURD.
ILLUSTRATED.
PHILADELPHIA: J. W. LEWIS & CO. 1884.
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Copyright, 1884, by J. W. LEWIS & Co.
PRESS OF J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., PHILADELPHIA.
SURNAME FILE
1127771
PREFACE.
Ix presenting to the public the History of Plymouth County, the editors claim that they have at least endeavored to faithfully fulfill their promises. The most competent persons have been employed for the work, and it is sincerely hoped that readers in the various towns of the county will find the narratives of their special localities interesting and instructive. The histor- ical sketch of the county itself, irrespective of the towns of which it is composed, contains a statement of the affairs of the county, its boundaries, the administration of its government, its officers in colonial, provincial, and still later times, which have never before been published. The sketch, as will be seen, is confined strictly to the county itself, and excludes everything which might properly lie within the scope of town histories. Plymouth County, as a part of the Old Colony, and more intimately connected than any other part with its history, has a special interest, imposing on the editors in the task they have undertaken a responsibility which they have keenly felt. They submit the work to the public, trusting that their just expectations may be fully realized."
THE EDITORS.
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CONTENTS.
GENERAL HISTORY
PAGE
HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH 64
HISTORY OF WAREHAM 191
HISTORY OF PEMBROKE. 233
HISTORY OF KINGSTON 245
HISTORY OF LAKEVILLE 290
HISTORY OF MARION 321
HISTORY OF ROCHESTER 329
HISTORY OF HANSON
340
HISTORY OF DUXBURY
356
. HISTORY OF MATTAPOISETT
366
HISTORY OF HANOVER
368
HISTORY OF SCITUATE AND SOUTH SCITUATE 399
HISTORY OF CARVER 444
HISTORY OF ABINGTON 464
HISTORY OF SOUTH ABINGTON 503 HISTORY OF ROCKLAND 523
HISTORY OF ANCIENT BRIDGEWATER 539 HISTORY OF BROCKTON 544
HISTORY OF BRIDGEWATER
772
HISTORY OF EAST BRIDGEWATER 833
HISTORY OF WEST BRIDGEWATER 888
HISTORY OF MIDDLEBORO' 938
HISTORY OF HINGHAM 1056
HISTORY OF PLYMPTON
1104
HISTORY OF HALIFAX. 1130
HISTORY OF MARSHFIELD 1134
HISTORY OF HULL. 1173
APPENDIX. 1191
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V
BIOGRAPHICAL.
PAGE
Adams, Samuel.
288
Fobes family (the).
824
Alden, Albert.
1039
Fobes, Joseph B
825
Alger, Abiezer
931
Ferguson, James
821
Allen, George M
443
French, Joseph.
536
Allen, James S
886
French, Joseph E 536
Allen, Morrill.
243
Gleason, J. C.
538
Ames, Franklin
744
Gay, Ebenezer
16
Andrew, John A.
35
Gordon, Timothy
188
Andrew, John F
5€
Griffith, Thomas B
462
Arnold, M. N
498
Gurney, David B.
514
Atwood, Benjamin S.
519
Gurney, E. B. K.
355
Atwood, Shadrach.
1047
Hall, Samuel.
1169
Barrows, Horatio
1041
Harris, Benjamin W.
44
Barstow, Daniel
398
Harris, Charles W
885
Bassett, A. Waldo.
829
Harris, Jacob B
53
Bates, Jacob P
518
Hayward, Melville
58
Baylies, William
15
Healy, Oliver G
518
Beal, Benjamin
537
Hobart, Aaron
28
Beal, Joseph S.
57
Hobart, Benjamin
508
Beal, Thomas P
21
Holmes, Abraham.
23
Blackmer, G. B
338
Holmes, Charles J
24
Bouve, Thomas T.
1101
Holmes, John
13
Bowers, George P
460
Howard, Benjamin B
924
Bradford, William
9
Howard, Caleb ..
58
Brett, William F
770
Iloward, Charles E
927
Brown, Bartholomew
27
Howard, Daniel,
58
Bryant, William Cullen
14
Howard family (the).
924
Burgess, Tristam
25
Howard, Francis E
926
Burgess, Thomas
24
Howard, Frederick
769
Cary, Lucius.
58
Howard, James
928
Clark, Nathaniel.
14
Howard, John
924
Comstock, W. W
1050
Jacobs, Elisha
441
Conant, Marshall
825
Jenks, J. W. P
1053
Copeland, H. F
521
Keith, Albert.
747
Copeland, Nathan.
929
Keith, Bela ..
766 683
Corthell, William P
Keith, Preston B.
684
Crocker, Edward
684
Keith, Stillman O
831
Curtis, George.
396
Keith, Ziba C.
745
Cushing, John.
10
Kingınan, Benjamin.
764
Cushing, William
59
Kingman, Bradford
57
Davis, Charles G
48 Kingman, C. D.
1043
Davis, John
11
Kingman, Hosca.
52
Davis, Nathaniel M
18
Kingman, John W
766
Delano, B. F
439
Kingman, Joseph .. 933
Delano, E. II.
440
Kingman, Josiah W. 767
Doggett, Porcz F
232 Kingman, Lucius ..
58
Drury, Otis.
930
Kingman, Rufus P
748
Dunbar, William H
510
Lane, Jenkins
535
Dyor, E. Porter
521 Latham, Williams
41
Eddy, Zachariah
17 Leach, Franklin 830
Edes, Oliver
188 Loach, Jamos C
828
Copeland, Pardon
929
Keith, George E
522
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PAOE
vii
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Le Baron, J. B.
1044
Savery, William
461
Leonard, Caleb F
823
Sawyer, F. A
231
Leonard, George ...
1168
Simmons, Perez.
50
Leonard, Spencer.
S27
Smith, H. S. B
1052
Lincoln, Solomon.
53
Southworth, Henry
765
Long, John D
37
Sprague, Peleg
12
Loud, Jacob H.
42
Stetson, Martin S
516
Lyon, William E
500
Stetson, Nahum 820
Miller, Abishai
1042
Swift, Van R.
828
Miller, Seth
26
Swift, Zephaniah.
26
Mitchell, James H.
884
Sylvester, John
396
Mitehell, Nahum.
22
Thomas, John B 21
9
Murdock, Jesse
459
Tisdale, Edward
932
Osborne, William H
55
Tobey, Joshua B
226
Packard, Austin
59
Thomas, Joshua
10
Packard, Davis S.
749
Turner, John B
442
Packard, Ellis
768
Wales, Welcome H
745
Packard, Marcus.
769
Ward, Eliab.
53
Peirce, Ebenezer W
1053
Ward, George.
320
Peirce, Henry B
500
Ward, James W.
497
Peirce, Peter H
1033
Warren, Charles H
12
Perkins, D. S
1046
Waterman, Asa
1171
Perkins, Elijah E
1046
Waterman, L. C
397
Perkins, Jonas R
49
Webster, Daniel.
29
Perry, E. Y.
394
Weston, Thomas
1048
Pettee, Joseph
501
White, Jonathan
59
Phillips, Ezra
392
Whitman, Augustus. 515
50
Poole, Franklin
533
Whitman, Eliab
59
Pratt, Enoch
1035
Whitman, Jared
19
Pratt, Isaac, Er
1034
Whitman, Kilborn.
19
Pratt, Isaac, Jr.
1037
Whitman, Noah.
934
Pratt, Jared
1038
Wilbur, R. A
1128
Reed, Levi.
538
Williams, Charles T
935
Reed, Horace
522
Winslow, Isaae
10
Reed, Washington 535
Winslow, John
50
Reed, William L 512
Wood, Wilkes.
10
Ripley, Ebed L
1103
Wood, William H
10
Ruggles, Timothy
59
Wood, William H.
44
Russell, Thomas
12
Young, Welcome.
27
Sampson, Chandler
1170
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
PAGE
Adama, Samuel.
288
Barstow, Daniel.
399
Alden, Albert
1040
Bassett, A. Waldo.
829
Alger, Abiezer.
931
Bates, Jacob P 519
Allen, George M
443
Beal, Benjamin.
537
Allen, James S
886
Beal, Joseph S. 57
Allen, Morrill.
244
Blackmer, G. B.
338
Ames, Franklin
744
Bouvé, Thomas T 1101
Andrew, Jobn A
36
Bowers, Geo. P
460
Andrew, John F
56
Bridgewater Library
813
Arnold, M. N.
498
Comstock, W. W
1050
Atwood, Benjamin S
520
Conant, Marshall
825
Atwood, Shadrach
1047 Copeland, I. F. 521
Barrows, Horatio. 1041
Copeland, Nathan,
929
,
Phillips, Willard
887
Whitman, Benjamin
Morten, Ellis W
58
Thomas, Nathaniel.
PAGE
PAGE
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
Copeland, Pardon
929
Mitchell, James H.
884
Crocker, Edward
685
Mitchell, Nahum ..
22
Curtis, George. 397
Murdock, Jesse. 459
Dolano, B. F.
439
National Monument to the Forefathers. 64
Delano, E. H
440
Osborne, William H. 55
Doggett, Perez F
232
Packard, Davis S.
749
Drury, Otis.
930
Packard, Ellis
768
Dunhar, William H.
510
Packard, Marcus.
770
Edes, Oliver
188
Peirce Academy, Middleboro'.
1028
Fobes, Jos. B
824
Peirce, Ebenezer W
1054
French, Joseph
536
Peirce, Peter H
1033
French, Joseph E
536
Perkins, Daniel S 1046
1046
Griffith, Thomas B
462
Perkins, Jonas R
49
Gurney, David B
514
Perry, E. Y.
394
Gurney, E. B. K.
355
Phillips, Ezra.
392
Hall, Samuel. 1169
Pilgrim Hall.
190
Harris, Benjamin W.
44
Plymouth Rock
190
Harris, Charles W
885
Plymouth Rock Canopy
190
Healy, Oliver G.
518
Plymouth Square
78
Hohart, Aaron ..
28
Poole, Franklin.
533
Hobart, Benjamin.
508
Pratt, Enoch.
1035
Howard, Benjamin B
924
Pratt, Sr., Isaac.
1034
Howard, Charles E
927
Pratt, Jr., Isaac.
1037
Howard Collegiate Institute.
918
Pratt, Jared.
1038
Howard, Francis E
926
Reed, Washington.
535
Howard, Frederick
769
Reed, William L. 512
1103
Jacobs, Elisha
441
Sampson, Chandler
1170
Jenks, J. W. P.
1053
Savery, William.
461
Keith, Albert 747
Sawyer, F. A.
231
Keith, Bela.
766
Scrooby, England, Manor-House of.
66
Keith, George E.
683
Scrooby, England, view of. 66
Keith, Preston B
684
Simmons, Perez. 50
Keith, Stillman 0
831
Smith, H. S. B. 1052
Southworth, Henry.
765
Kingman, Benjamin.
764
Stetson, Martin S 516
Stetson, Nahum. 820
828
Kingman, John W
767
Sylvester, John.
396
Kingman, Joseph ..
933
Tisdale, Edward. 932
226
Kingman, Rufus P
748
Turner, John B.
442
Landing of the Pilgrims.
74
Wales, Welcome H
746
Lane, Jenkins.
534
Latham, Williams
40
Ward House, the
320A
Leach, Franklin
830
Ward, James W
497
Leach, James C 828
Waterman, Asa ..
1171
Le Baron, J. B. 1044
Waterman, L. C. 398
Leonard, Caleh F. 823
Weston, Thomas. 1048
515
Leonard, Spencer. 827
Whitman, Jared.
19
Long, John D. 38
Whitman, Noah. 934
Loud, Jacob H
42
Wilbur, R. A. 1128
" Mayflower," the.
72
Williams, Charles T 935
Miller, Ahishai 1042
1043
Kingman,
Kingman, Hosea 52
Swift, Van R.
Kingman, Josiah W.
767
Tohey, Joshua B
Ward, George.
320B
Keith, Ziha C.
745
Ripley, Ebed L.
Howard, James
928
Perkins, Elijah E.
Gordon, Timothy 189
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Leonard, George. 1168
Whitman, Augustus ..
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HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
GEOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.
BY WILLIAM T. DAVIS.
Geographical-Descriptive-New Plymouth Colony-Division into Counties in 1685-Organization of Plymouth County- Original Bounds-Changes in Boundary Lines-Incorpora- tion of the Towns-Population-Valuation.
IT is not within the scope of this narrative to in- clude a history of the county previous to its incorpo- ration. That is fully covered by the histories of its various towns. The narrative will be almost exclu- sively confined to the county proper, its boundaries, its government, its courts, its property, and its offi- cers, all of which are features which no history of either colony, State, or town has ever adequately presented.
of John Smith, with a map of the coast which he had explored.
By the province charter, bearing date Oct. 7, 1691, the colonies of Massachusetts, New Plymouth, the Province of Maine, the territory of Acadia, and all that tract of land lying between Maine and Nova Scotia, were created a single province called the Prov- ince of Massachusetts Bay. Sir William Phipps, the royal Governor, arrived in Boston with the charter on the 14th of May, 1692, and on the 16th of May proclamation of the new charter was made, and the government of the colony of Plymouth then ceased to exist.
The colony of New Plymouth, the limits of which were defined in the patent issued in 1629, by the president and Council for New England, to William Bradford and his associates, was divided in 1685 into three counties,-Plymouth, Bristol, and Barnstable. On the 2d of June, in that year, it was ordered by the General Court held at Plymouth " that Plymouth, Duxbury, Scituate, Marshfield, Bridgewater, and Mid- dleborough, together with all such places and villages that do or may lie between the said towns and the patent line be a county. Plymouth the county town, and said county called the County of Plymouth, in which county shall be kept two county courts annually at the town of Plymouth, one on the third Tuesday in March, and the other on the third Tuesday in September." It was also ordered " that Barnstable, Sandwich, Yarmouth, and Eastham, the villages of Sippican, Suckonesset, and Monomoy shall be a county, Barnstable the county town, and said county shall be called the county of Barnstable, in which county shall be kept two county courts annually at the county town, one on the third Tuesday in April, and the other on the third Tuesday in October." It was further ordered "that Bristol, Taunton, Reho- both, Dartmouth, Swansey, Little Compton, Freetown, Sowammet, Pocasset, Punkatest, and all such places,
Plymouth County is situated in the southeastern part of Massachusetts, and contains within its twenty- six towns and one city an area of seven hundred and twenty square miles, and a population of about seventy-seven thousand. It is bounded on the east by the ocean, on the north by Norfolk County, on the west by Bristol County, and on the south by Bristol and Barnstable Counties. Its soil, which is sandy in some sections, is in others well adapted to cultivation, and about twenty-four hundred small farms are tilled within its borders. Though it has a line of nearly thirty miles of coast, and five harbors,-Plymouth, Duxbury, Scituate, Hingham, and Hull,-its seafaring population is small, and its six hundred industrial establishments furnish the most remunerative occupa- tion to its people. Its territory is drained chiefly by the North River entering Massachusetts Bay at Marsh- field, and Taunton River emptying into Narragansett Bay. Its shiretown is Plymouth, from which it de- rives a name suggested by Prince Charles, afterwards Charles the First, on the return to England, in 1614, 1 towns, and villages as are or may be settled on said
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lands shall be a county, Bristol the county town, and the said county shall be called the county of Bristol, in which county shall be kept two county courts an- nually at the county town, one on the third Tuesday in May, and the other on the third Tuesday in November."
These orders were not preserved in manuscript, and consequently are not to be found in the printed copies of the New Plymouth records. The colony laws were revised in 1636, 1658, 1671, and 1685. The printed revision of 1685 contains the orders concerning the establishment of counties, the origi- nals of which, with a large amount of other material belonging to the archives of the Old Colony, mnust have been lost after the union of the colonies in 1692 while in the possession of Samuel Sprague, the last secretary of the colony. This subject is treated more fully in the history of Plymouth, contained in this volume, to which the reader is referred. Since the incorporation of Plymouth County its boundaries have from time to time been changed, until its north- erly line, which originally coincided with that of the colony and ran straight from Massachusetts Bay to Providence River, has lost and gained territory, and is now irregular and circuitous. The first change on this line was made Feb. 8, 1798, when a part of Stoughton was annexed to Bridgewater. At that date the General Court enacted " that the lands com- prised within the following-described line, with the inhabitants, beginning at the southwest corner of Widow Relief Leach's land, in Stoughton, on the west line of the school-lot; thence running north on said line to land of Caleb Howard ; thence easterly, in the range of Howard's land and Nathaniel Little- field ; thence westerly, in the range of Nathaniel Littlefield and Nathaniel Littlefield, Jr., to the road from Bridgewater to Boston ; thence south by said road to the southwest corner of Wm. Curtis' land ; thence easterly and southeasterly, in the range of Curtis' and Nathaniel Littlefield's land, to Widow Leach's land; thence northeasterly, in the range of Leach and Curtis, to the Randolph line ; thence southerly, on said line, to land of Gideon Howard ; thence southwesterly, in the range of said Howard and Leach, to Oliver Howard's; and thence in the range of said Howard and Leach to the first bounds, be set off from Stoughton to the North Parish of Bridgewater."
The next change in the northerly line took place in 1803, when Hingham and Hull were set off from Suffolk to Plymouth County. The town of Hing- hamn, within the limits of the Massachusetts Colony, originally included Nantasket, or Hull, and Cohasset,
and was incorporated Sept. 2, 1635. On the 10th of May, 1643, Suffolk County was incorporated by the General Court of Massachusetts, including Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Dedham, Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, and Nantasket, or Hull. On the 29th of May, 1644, Hull was incorporated, and remained with Hingham a part of Suffolk County until 1803. On the 26th of March, 1793, Norfolk County was in- corporated, and the act of incorporation provided that it should include all the original territory of Suffolk County except Boston and Chelsea. Cohasset had been set off from Hingham and incorporated April 26, 1770, and having remained with her mother town in Suffolk County, passed, of course, with Hing- ham and Hull under the incorporation of Norfolk, in 1793, into that county. But for some reason, prob- ably because the inhabitants of Hingham and Hull were dissatisfied with the new arrangement, a supple- mentary act was passed by the General Court June 20, 1793, excepting these towns from the operation of the act. Thus Hingham and Hull remained with Suffolk County, while Cohasset adapted herself to the new condition of things, and has always, up to this time, continued a part of Norfolk County. On the 18th of June, 1803, Hingham and Hull, agreeably to the wishes of their people, were set off from Suf- folk to Plymouth, where they still remain. The last change in this line was made in 1823. On the 14th of June, in that year, Amasa Bailey and Caleb Bailey, with their lands, amounting to about ninety acres, were set off from Scituate, in Plymouth County, to Cohasset, in Norfolk County. On the 20th of March, 1840, the boundary-line between the two towns, which had been disturbed by this change, was estab- lished as " beginning at the southwest corner of the Bailey farm as it adjoins Conchasset, on Gulf River ; thence north 87} E. 10 rods ; thence north 71 E. 24 rods to a point on the south side of the highway, near the southeast corner of house of Henry J. Turner; and from said point across the road and over the land of the Bailey farm N. 61 E. to the end of the fences on the edge of the marsh between the field and pasture; and then by a ditch N. 44 E. to the centre of Bailey's Creek ; and then by said creek to Conchasset, on Gulf River. All between the line above and the Conchasset River, in Cohasset, and all that part of the Bailey farm south and east of the line in Scituate."
The only other change in the boundary-lines of the county since its incorporation is that connected with Sippican, which was originally included in Barnstable County. On the 4th of June, 1686, " upon the request of the inhabitants of Sippican, alias Roches-
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ter, to be a township and have the privileges of a town, the court yield their desires in that respect," and the town of Rochester was incorporated as a part of Barnstable County.
According to the records of the court there was a small piece of land lying between Plymouth and Barnstable Counties, which, in the division of the colony into counties, had been assigned to neither county. With regard to this land the following entry appears in the record under date of Oct. 29, 1706 : " Upon reading a petition of Barnabas Lothrop, Esq., in behalf of himself and the heirs of Joseph Lothrop and John Thomson, gentlemen, deceased, setting forth that they formerly purchased a tract of land of Wil- liam Wetispaquin, Assemeta, and other Indians, with the approbation and allowance of the then General Conrt of New Plymouth, lying within that colony, between the counties of Plymouth, Bristol, and Barnstable. adjoining and partly bouuded upon the lands of Rochester, praying that the said tract of land may be put within the Constablerick of Rochester and within the county of Barnstable, and their deed of grant being shone forth, the wishes of the peti- tioners was granted." On the 19th of November, 1707, the following order was passed in the House of Representatives, upon the petition of the town of Rochester, praying to be annexed to Plymouth County. viz., " That the prayer of the petition be granted, the rates already assessed on them in the County of Barnstable to be paid there, and for the future that they be annexed to the county of Plym- outh, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary not- withstanding." This order, transferring Rochester from Barnstable Connty to Plymouth County, has never before appeared in print.
In addition to the towns above enumerated, the following have been incorporated in the order of their- dates :
Bridgewater, Duxbury plantation, incorporated Jnne 3, 1656.
Abington, set off from Bridgewater, incorporated June 10, 1712.
Plympton, set off from Plymouth, incorporated June 4, 1707.
Pembroke, set off from Duxbury, incorporated March 21, 1711.
Kingston, set off from Plymouth, incorporated June 16, 1726.
Hanover, set off from Scituate, incorporated June 14, 1727.
Halifax, set off from Plympton, Middleboro', and Pembroke, incorporated July 4, 1734.
Wareham (Agawam), incorporated July 10, 1739.
Carver, set off from Plympton, incorporated June 9,1790.
Hanson, set off from Pembroke, incorporated Feb. 22, 1820.
Brockton (North Bridgewater), set off from Bridge- water, and incorporated as a town June 15, 1821 ; name changed to Brockton March 28, 1874; incor- porated as a city April 9, 1881.
West Bridgewater, set off from Bridgewater, in- corporated Feb. 16, 1822.
East Bridgewater, set off from Bridgewater, iu- corporated June 14, 1823.
Marion, set off from Rochester, incorporated May 14, 1852.
Lakeville, set off from Middleboro', incorporated May 13, 1853.
Mattapoisett, set off from Rochester, incorporated May 20, 1857.
Rockland, set off from Abington, incorporated March 9, 1874.
South Abington, set off from Abington and East Bridgewater, incorporated March 4, 1875.
According to the census of 1880, the population and valuation of the towns in the county were as follows :
Population.
Valuation.
Abington.
3,697
$1,657,879.00
Bridgewater.
3,620
2,620,298.00
Brockton
13,608
5,590,721.00
Carver
1,039
597,290.00
Duxbury.
2,196
1,340,538.00
East Bridgewater
2,710
1,367,826 00
Halifax.
542
291,943.00
Hanover ..
1,897
985,625.00
Hanson.
1,309
572,791.00
Hingham
4,485
3,590,222.00
Hull.
383
617,251.00
Kingston
1,524
1,748,679.00
Lakeville.
1,008
572,735.00
Marion ..
958
489,064.00
Marshfield
1,781
978,188 00
Mattapoisett.
1,365
1,266,062.00
Middleboro'
5,237
2,556,523.00
Pembroke.
1,405
714,449.00
Plymouth
7,093
4,565,865.00
Plympton.
694
310,817.00
Rochester.
1,043
493,931.00
Rockland
4,553
2,030,697.00
Scituate
2,466
1,461,254.00
South Scituate
1,820
1,393,904.00
South Abington.
3,024
1,129,694.00
Wareham
2,896
1,124,248.00
West Bridgewater.
1,665
923,115.00
74,018
$40,991,609.00
These valuations include alone the taxable property on the assessors' books, and are exclusive not only of untaxable property, but of manufacturing shares, and of shares in National banks owned outside of the towns in which the banks are located. The boun- daries of many of these towns have been clianged since their incorporation. Abington has lost Rock- i land and South Abington ; Bridgewater has lost East
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and West Bridgewater, Abington, and Brockton, and a part of Halifax ; Duxbury has lost Pembroke, and a small part of Kingston ; East Bridgewater has lost a small part of South Abington and of Brockton ; Hingham has lost Hull and Cohasset ; Pembroke has lost Hanson and a part of Halifax ; Plymouth has lost Kingston, Plympton, and Carver, a part of Wareham, and a part of Halifax; Middleboro' has lost Lakeville, and a part of Halifax ; Plympton has lost Carver, and a part of Halifax ; Rochester has lost Mattapoisett and Marion ; Scituate has lost South Scituate and Hanover, a small part of Cohasset, and a part of Marshfield.
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