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1797. Seth Sprague.
1798. Maj. Alden.
1799. Seth Sprague.
1800. Did not send.
1801-5. Capt. Seth Sprague.
1806. Capt. Seth Sprague. Adam Fish.
1807. Capt. Adam Fish.
1808. Capt. Ezekiel Soule.
1809-10. Maj. Alden. Samuel Walker.
1859. (Kingston).1
1811. Maj. Alden.
1812. Maj. Alden.
G. Partridge.
1862. Henry B. Maglathlin.
1863. (Kingston).
1864. Augustus Weston.
1814-15. G. Partridge.
1816. G. Partridge. Samuel A. Frazar.
1817. George Partridge.
1822. Seth Sprague. Samuel A. Frazar.
1871. (Kingston).
1872. Josiah Peterson.
1873. Hamilton E. Smith.
1826. Seth Sprague, Jr.
1874. Samuel Loring.
1875. Stephen M. Allen.
1876. (Kingston).
C. Southworth.
1650-51. G. Soule.
C. South worth.
1652. C. Southworth. John Bradford. 1653. G. Soule.
C. Southworth.
1654. G. Soule.
C. Southworth.
C. Wadsworth. William Pabodie.
1655-56. C. Southworth. William Pabodie.
1657. William Pabodie. John Rogers. 1658-63. C. Southworth. W. Pabodie.
1664. C. Southworth.
1665. C. Southworth. Josiah Standish. 1666-67. C. Southworth. C. Wadsworth.
1668. C. Southworth. Jesiah Standish.
1669. C. Southworth.
1671-82. W. Pabodie. Josiah Standish.
1686. Franeis Barker. J. Traey.
1687-89. Edw. Southworth. Seth Arnold.
1690. Deaeon J. Wadsworth. David Alden.
1694. Ensign F. Barker. Deaeon J. Wadsworth.
1700. Capt. Seth Arnold.
1701. Lieut. F. Barker.
1827. Phineas Sprague.
1828. Phineas Sprague. Gershom B. Weston.
1877. George Bradford.
1829. Gershom B. Weston.
George P. Richardson.
1879. (Carver).
1830. Gershom B. Weston.
1880. (Kingston).
1831. Seth Sprague, Jr.
1881. (Carver).
Gershom B. Weston. 1882. (Carver).
1883. (Plympton).
1833. Gershom B. Weston. Seth Sprague, Jr. 1884. (Plympton).
The first seleetmen, chosen in 1666, were Chris- topher Wadsworth, Josiah Standish, and Benjamin Bartlett.
The first constable was C. Wadsworth, chosen in 1633.
" Christopher Wadsworth chosen Constable for the ward of Duxbury, bounded between Joncs River and Green's harbour, and to serve the King in that office for the space of one whole yeare, and to enter upon the place with the Gov" elect."
1 Sinee 1858 Duxbury has been represented with other tewns, as indicated by names in parenthesis.
1834-36. Gershom B. Weston. 1837. Gershom B. Weston. Gershom Bradford. Joseph F. Wadsworth. 1838. Gershom B. Weston. Joseph F. Wadsworth. 1839. Gershom B. Weston. Benjamin Alden. 1840. Benjamin Alden. Joseph F. Wadsworth. 1841-42. Levi Sampson. 1842. Not represented. 1844. Joshua Brewster. 1845. Not represented. 1846-47. Jos. F. Wadsworth. 1848. Not represented. 1849. Aaron Josselyn. 1850. Stephen N. Gifford. 1851-52. J. W. Hathaway. 1853-54. Aaron Josselyn. 1855. Elbridge Chandler. 1856. Murlin Gardner. 1857. William J. Alden.
1858. William Ellison.
John Traey.
1685. Josiah Standish.
1860. George Bradford.
1861. (Kingston).
1813. Maj. Alden. Samuel A. Frazar.
1865. ( Kingston). 1866. Jabez Keep.
1867. (Kingston).
1868. Eden Wadsworth.
1870. Hamilton E. Smith.
Lieut. Seth Arnold.
1823. Isaiah Alden. Samuel A. Frazar.
1878. (Kingston).
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The first treasurer of the town was William Brew- ster. and the first clerk, it is believed, was Alexander Standish.
Military Record .- The following enlisted from this town during the war of the Rebellion :
John Alden.
George H. Davidson. Otis Delano.
Charles E. Alden.
Nathan O. Dorr.
John J. Lewis.
Daniel F. Simmons.
Thomas Alden.
James Downey.
George G. Lewis.
William Soulc.
James Alden. Jr.
Francis B. Dorr.
Alexander Lane.
George B. Sampson.
John W. Alden.
Augustus A. Delano.
Edward M. Magoun.
George A. Simmons.
Herbert A. Baker.
Daniel W. Delano.
John McIntire.
William T. Swift.
Edward Bishop.
Oscar Delano.
Alexander McDonald.
Samuel J. Simmons.
Howland S. Bonney.
Hiram T. Delano.
David C. Mechan.
Edward D. Swift.
James H. Bowen.
Daniel Delano, Jr.
James Mulligen.
Elisha Swift.
John S. Butler.
Proctor A. Dawson.
Martin Mullen.
James Southworth.
Jacob S. Burgess.
Edward M. Delano.
Henry B. Maglathton.
Walter Southworth.
Lewis M. Bailey.
Samuel Delano.
Thomas T. McNaught.
Siduey S. Sampson.
William Bailey.
Charles H. Dunbrack.
John McNaught.
George H. Terry.
James A. Bowen.
Ezra J. Ford.
Edwin G. Metcalf.
Jonathan F. Turner.
Joseph P. Bosworth, Jr. George H. Bailey.
Walter H. Freeman.
William H. Thomas.
Walter Baker.
Edward F. Farr.
Calvin B. Paine.
Charles M. Tisdale.
Granville Baker.
George A. Fanner.
Henry B. Paulding.
Nathaniel W. Thomas.
Henry Parston.
Henry P. Fish.
George P. Peterson.
Hamilton Wadsworth.
Joshua T. Brewster. John W. Brewster. Melzer Brewster, Jr.
John Glover. Seth Glass.
Walter Peterson. George O. Paulding. John J. Peterson.
William Heury Weston.
George Bryant.
Jonathan Glass, Jr.
James S. Weston.
Edgar H. Bailey.
Eugene Glass.
Bryant C. Pratt.
Jabez P. Weston.
Herbert A. Chandler.
Harrison T. Glass. .
Charles A. Peterson.
George H. Winsor.
David F. Church.
LeBaron Goodwin.
William Phillips.
James H. Winsor.
Edwin J. Chandler.
George A. Graves.
William A. Ramond.
Adolphus E. Winsor.
Hiram G. Cox.
Augustus A. Graves.
David Rix.
William Woodward.
Charles J. Cox.
Bailey Gulliver.
George R. Ryder.
Corindo Winsor. William Wadsworth.
George T. Chandler.
Abram Glass.
Josiah D. Randall.
Alonzo Chandler.
Lebheus Harris.
Jason H. Randall.
George S. Weston.
Charles J. Chandler.
Samuel D. Harriman.
Francis J. Randall.
James H. Weston.
John H. Crocker.
John H. Haverstock.
George F. Ryder.
Augustus Weston.
Asa Chandler.
George L. Higgins.
Charles F. Rogers.
Joshua T. Winsor.
Noah J. Chandler.
Elihu S. Harriman.
Gilbert M. Ryder.
Gersham Winsor.
Hiram Chandler.
William T. Hunt.
Charles A. Rogers.
James H. Winsor.
Jerome Chandler.
Wadsworth Hunt.
Horace E. Sampson.
William G. Winsor.
Emmons A. Chandler.
Robert S. Hunt.
Henry O. Winsor.
Edgar E. Chandler.
Joseph H. Harris.
Edward R. Weston.
J. Bernard Chandler.
Weston F. Hutchins.
Joseph A. Soule.
Elias E. Weston.
Hiram O. Chandler.
Edward G. Hunt.
Aaron H. Snell.
Alfred Weston.
Stephen Clark, Jr.
Henry Jones.
Aurelius Soule.
Nathaniel B. Weston.
Samuel A. Chandler.
Issaehar Josselyn.
John E. Josselyn.
Walter South worth.
William W. Jones.
John Southworth.
Washington King.
Nahum Sampson.
William J. Keep.
Isaac L. Sampson.
Jarius W. Levitt.
Bradford Sampson.
Henry H. Lewis.
Eden Sampson (2d).
Edgar F. Loring.
Frederic P. Sherman.
George W. Lane.
Abraham P. Simmons.
Otis W. Lapham.
Wilber F. Simmons.
Henry Alden.
Enoch Freeman.
Andrew Nothey. Adna K. Parris.
James Thomas.
Leander R. Gardner.
Leander B. Pierce.
Walter Weston.
Hiram Weston.
Sylvanus Shedd. Joseph E. Simmons.
Oscar H. Soule.
HISTORY OF DUXBURY.
HISTORY OF MATTAPOISETT.
MATTAPOISETT is a word from the Indian lan- guage, and said to signify rest.
Indians living a few miles back from the seaboard used frequently to come down to the shore at this place for the purpose of obtaining fish and clams, and at an adjacent spring stopped to rest, and hence the name that they gave that locality, the river, and some of the surrounding country.
Mattapoisett was formerly a religious parish in Rochester, set off as such in 1773, during the minis- try of Rev. Timothy Ruggles, and settling as their minister Rev. Ivory Hovey, who, in 1772, was suc- ceeded by Rev. Lemuel Le Baron. These two gen- tlemen ministered in things spiritual to the people at this place for the full term of a century. Their next minister was Rev. Thomas Robbins, D.D., who was believed to be the owner of the most valuable private library in the State.
Ship-building formerly formed an important branch of business at this place, as did also the whale-fishery, but both are now nearly or quite relinquished.
Rogers L. Barstow, Esq., an enterprising merchant, was largely interested in the whale-fishery up to the time of death.
He was an enterprising and influential citizen, and was mainly instrumental in getting up a light in- fantry company at this place in 1842, and of which he was the first captain, with Loring Meigs, John T. Atsatt, and David Pratt as lieutenants.
This company belonged to the Bristol County bat- talion, then composed of the Norton Artillery, Co- hanet Rifle Corps, of Taunton, New Bedford Guards,1 and Mattapoisett Guards. The battalion was com- manded by Maj. Benjamin R. Gulliver, of Taunton ;
Capt. Barstow next received the appointment as quartermaster on the brigade staff of Gen. Henry Dunham, of Abington.
A few years later Capt. Barstow was promoted to the office of major of the Third Regiment of light infantry, Stephen Thomas, of Middleboro', being colonel, and Ebenczer W. Peirce, of Lakeville, lieu- tenant-colonel.
Maj. Rogers L. Barstow was elected a representative to the General Court at Boston, and commissioned a justice of the peace for Plymouth County.
Probably the first or earliest company of light in- fantry raised in that part of Rochester now Matta- poisett was authorized by the following order :
" COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS .- The Committee of the Council on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of Ebenezer Barrows and others, representing that the village of Mattapoisett, in which the petitioners reside, is situated on Buzzard's Bay, and in time of war exposed to the approach of the enemy in barges, which may be repulsed by well-disciplined infantry, and that the standing company in the village con- tains on its roll one hundred and ten men, and praying to be authorized to raise by voluntary enlistment a company of light infantry, ask leave to report : that the object of the petitioners appears to be approved by the commanding officers of the regi- ment, brigade, and division, in which the petitioners reside ; and that it further appears that the facts set forth in said peti- tion are true; the committee, therefore, for the reasons set forth in said petition, are of opinion that to grant the prayer thercof would conduce to the improvement of the militia, and, in time of war, add to the safety of said village. They, there- fore, recommend that His Excellency, the commander-in-chief, be advised to issue his orders, authorizing the petitioners to raise by voluntary enlistment a company of light infantry, to be annexed to the Fourth Regiment of the First Brigade, Fifth Division, and when organized to be recruited within the limits of the town of Rochester : Provided, however, that before said company shall be organized, not less than forty-five membors be associated to form tho same; and that the organization thereof shall be completed in six months from tho Ist day of July next, and not afterwards. Which is respectfully sub- mitted.
" MARCUS MORTON, per order."
" In Counoil, June 18, 1825 .- The within roport is accepted, and by tho Governor approved.
"EDWARD D. BANGS, Secretary."
"Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Hoadquarters, Boston, Juno 21, 1825. General Order .- The commander-in-chief,
1 This is what came to bo spoken of at New Bodford as tho Old Guards, to distinguish it from anothor company that suc- ceoded it a few years later, and also called New Bodford Guards. The Old Guards wore a large, olegantly-uniformed, finely-equipped, and very excellently-drillod company. Hon. H. G. O. Colby was their first commandor. Hon. Lincoln F. Brigham succoeded him. The last company had George A. Bourne for thoir first commander, and ho was suoceeded by Timothy Iugraham.
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having approved the above-written advice of Council, directs Maj .- Gen. Benjamin Lincoln to carry the same into effect.
" By His Excellency's command,
"WILLIAM H. SUMNER, Adjutant-General."
" Headquarters. New Bedford, July 5, 1825. Division Orders. -Brig .- Gen. Ward is charged with the execution of the fore- going advice of Council and General Order of the 21st ultimo. "By order of the major-general Fifth Division,
". TIMOTHY G. COFFIN, Aide-de-Camp."
" Headquarters, Middleborough, Aug. 5, 1825. Brigade Or- ders .- Lieut .- Col. Benjamin Wood, commandant of the Fourth Regiment, First Brigade, Fifth Division, is directed to carry into execution the foregoing order of Council, General Order, and Division Order of the 5th of July, 1825, and to effect the complete organization of the company alluded to in said order, as therein directed.
" By order of the brigadier-general First Brigade, Fifth Division.
" NATHANIEL WILDER, Brigade Major."
This company of light infantry was raised, and Ebenezer Barrows elected and commissioned captain of the same.
At the first choice of field-officers for the Fifth Regiment, Capt. Ebenezer Barrows was promoted to lieutenant-colonel.
The following gentlemen, residing within the limits of what is now Mattapoisett, held commissions in the local militia higher than that of captain :
Lieut .- Col. Ebenezer Barrows in Fifth Regiment, First Brigade, Fifth Division, from 1826 to 1827.
Maj. Rogers L. Barstow in Third Regiment Light Infantry, Second Brigade, First Division Massachu- setts Volunteer Militia, from May, 1853, to 1858. Resigned and was honorably, discharged.
Congregational Church (formerly First Parish, Rochester) organized 27th July, 1736.
First Christian Church organized 1820 or there- abouts.
Universalist Church organized April 25, 1859.
Friends' Meeting, belonging to Long Plain Prepara- tive Meeting and to New Bedford Monthly Meeting. Advent Chapel.
Mattapoisett was incorporated as a town May 20, 1857.
This town furnished two hundred and fifteen men during the war of the Rebellion, eighteen of whom died in the service, viz. :
ROLL OF HONOR.
Z. M. Barstow. E. Tripp.
John T. Barstow. W. H. Taber.
Edward F. Barlow. C. H. Tinkham.
William C. Dexter. George W. Wilcox.
Charles H. Hayden. William S. Wilcox.
John A. Le Baron. John Bates.
Franklin A. Lobre. John S. Dennis.
George D. Snow. William II. Kinney.
Edward F. Snow. E. W. Remdall.
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HISTORY OF HANOVER.
BY JOHN F. SIMMONS.
CHAPTER I.
EARLY HISTORY - BOUNDARIES -- TOPOGRAPHY --- SOIL - POPULATION -STREETS-INDIAN TITLE COLONIAL GRANTS-INCORPORATION.
HANOVER, the thirteenth town to be incorporated in Plymouth County, is bounded on the north by South Scituate and Rockland; on the east by the Third Herring Brook, dividing it from South Scitu- ate; on the south by Pembroke and Hanson ; and on the west by Rockland. It contains fifteen and one- half square miles.
Boundaries .- The act of incorporation passed June 14, 1727, describes the boundaries of the town as fol- lows, viz. : " Beginning at the Third Herring Brook, at David Jacob's saw-mill dam, and from thence running near west about two hundred and fifty-six rods to the northeast corner of Isaac Turner's Great Lot; then near west with the north side line of said Great Lot, one mile to the share line, and then continuing the same course three-quarters of a mile; then turning and running near south two miles to the southwest corner of Nchemiah Cushing's lot ; then south five degrees and forty minutes west to the southerly bounds of Abington ; and on the south side it is bounded on the line betwixt Abington and Pembrook, and on Indian Head River; and southeasterly by the North River; and easterly by the aforesaid Third Herring Brook from the said North River to the dam before mentioned."
In 1878 a survey, made by the selectmen of Han- over in connection with those of Rockland, demon- strated that the bound-marks then standing did not conform to the act of incorporation, and that the line as it was actually laid out was probably lost. The Legislature was therefore called upon, and in March of that year an act was passed, " to define and estab- lish the boundary line between the towns of Hanover and Rockland." This act defined those bounds to be as follows : " Beginning at a monument in the north line of the town of Hanson twelve hundred and fifty
meters casterly from the monument at the southwest corner of Rockland, and running thence in a straight line north eight degrees and twenty-seven minutes east, thirty-three hundred and forty meters to the old stone monument at the southwest corner of the ' Drinkwater Shares,' near the Otis Ellis place ; thence running north one degree and fifty minutes west, thirty-eight hundred and sixty-three meters to a monument in range with the northerly line between the towns of Hanover and South Scituate; thence running in said range south eighty-eight degrees and six minutes east thirteen hundred and twenty-five meters to the old monument in said line at the corner of South Scituate and Rockland."
The first map of Hanover was made by order of the town in 1727. Another was made in 1794. Still another map was made by Elbridge Whiting, Esq., by the order of the town, in 1849. The sur- face of the town is generally level or rolling in char- acter, Walnut Hill, in the northeast corner of the town, and the highlands along the North River, in the southeast portion, being the most noticeable prominences. Before the advent of the Hanover Branch Railroad, the fairest gem of natural scenery was on the Indian Head River, at " Project Dale," so called. Here the roadway crept among the trees as a traveler passed west along the river bank, until, ar- riving at the residence of Charles Dyer, the rolling dam created a waterfall which, with its background of steep wooded declivitics on either side, and the pond iu the centre, formed a picture as lovely as it was unexpected.
Topography .- There are no natural ponds in town. Its many small streams are dammed, forming numerous ponds used for driving grist-mills, saw-mills, forges, and tack-works. Most of thesc are valuable only as winter privileges, and owing to the irregular water-supply, are supplemented by steam-power, when constant work must be done.
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The general course of the streams is north and south until we come to the rivers which break through
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the hills, and running easterly, form the southern boundary of the town. The granite ledges which crop out in the northeasterly part of the town, near Walnut Street. and also near Washington Street, just south of Assinippi, can be traced for a mile or more through Rocky Swamp southwest. The pre- railing stone is granite, both in these ledges and in bowlders. Barry notes a formation of graywacke near North River, which crops out also in Hanson and Abington.
Clay ouce used, as the old pits attest, in the manu- facture of bricks, occurs at Walnut Hill, and also in the Bailey pasture, so called, near the late residence of Hiram Gardner, deceased.
On the Third Herring Brook there are five ponds ; on the Indian Head River and Drinkwater River, five ponds; one at West Hanover, near the depot ; one in the northwest part of the town, and one near Main Street, recently supplemented by a reservoir pond made by using the old road as a dam.
Soil .- The soil in the central and southerly portions of the town is of a thin and sandy nature, not so fer- tile as that in the more northerly portions, where it is more productive if more stony. The best agricultural lands, however, occur at and about the Four Corners, where the graywacke foundation underlies the soil.
Population .- The population of the town, which in 1727 was but three hundred, by the census of 1880 was eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. The centres of population lie on the outskirts of the town at Assinippi, in the northeast ; Hanover Four Corners, in the southeast; South Hanover, West Hanover, and Curtis Street, or North Hanover.
Streets .- The town contains about forty-five miles of streets. An inspection of the map of 1794 shows the only public opeu streets to have been what is now Washington Street, the street leading from the Cor- ners to Palmer's Bridge, and what is now Hanover Street, as far as the church at the centre. Undoubt- edly the town at that time contained other traveled roads; but they were probably closed by gates or bars, and were uot laid out as public highways.
Barry states that among the streets laid out before the incorporation of the town was the Drinkwater road, so called. This may have been the road, of which the marks are clearly discernible, leading from Webster Street, near the Rockland line, in a north- easterly direction across the small or Drinkwater shares toward Accord Pond.
Indian Title .- Hanover was formed from portions of the old town of Scituate and the old town of Abing- ton. When the Pilgrims landed the whole northern part of Plymouth County was occupied by the Massa-
chusetts tribe of Indians, whose sachem was Chicka- tabut. This Indian claimed to own a large part of what is now Norfolk County as well. In the Ply- mouth Colony Records it is recorded that several Indians therein named in 1650 came into court and affirmed that "Chickatabut his bounds did extend from Nisamagogwanet, near Duxbury Mill, unto Tightacut, near Taunton, and Nunkatatest, which is the head of Charles River."
The record proceeds showing the attempt made to awe the savages into telling the exact truth : " This they do all solemnly affirm, saying, 'God know- eth it to be true and knoweth their hearts.'
" Witness, Increase Nowell, John Eliot, John Hoare."
In 1633, Chickatabut died of smallpox, and was succeeded as sachem by his son, Josias Wampatuck (spelled also Wampatucke). In June, 1653, the land included in the present towns of Scituate (ex- cept that belonging originally to the "Conihasset partners"), South Scituate, a part of Marshfield two miles long and one mile wide (to this day called " The Two Miles") and " that part of Hanover which was Scituate" was sold by Josias. The deed runs as fol- lows, viz :
"I, Josias Wampatuck, do acknowledge and confess that I have sold two tracts of land unto Mr. Timothy Hatherly, Mr. James Cudworth, Mr. Joseph Tilden, Humphrey Turner, Wil- liam Hatch, John Hoar, and James Torrey, for the proper use and hehoof of the Town of Scituate, to he enjoyed by them accord- ing to the true intents of the English grants; the one parsel of such land is hounded from the mouth of the North River as that River goeth to the Indian Head River, from thenee as that River goeth unto the pond at the head of the Indian Head River upon a straight line unto the middle of Accord Pond, hy the line set hy the Commissioners as the bounds betwixt the two jurisdictions untill it meet with the line of the land sold hy me unto the sharers of Conihasset, and as that line runs he- tween the Town and the shares untill it eometh unto the sea ; and so along by the sea unto the mouth of the North River aforesaid. The other parcell of land, lying on the easterly side of the North River, begins at a lot which was sometime the land of John Ford, and so to run two miles southerly as the River runs, and a mile in hreadth towards the east, for which parcell of land I do acknowledge to have received of the men whose names are before mentioned, fourteen pounds in full satisfaction in behalf of the inhabitants of the town of Scituate as aforesaid ; and I do hereby promise and engage to give such further evidence before the Governor as the Town of Seituate shall think meet, when I am thereunto required ; in witness whereof I have hereunto set iny hand in presence of
"Nathaniel Morton. his
" Samuel Nash.
"Edward Hawes. JOSIAS X WAMPATUCK. mark."
At the same time when Josias made acknowledg- ment as above mentioned, there was a deed brought into court which " hc owned to be the deed which he gave to them, whose names are above specified for
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the said lands, and that he had not given them another which deed was burnt in presence of the court." Signed by " Nathaniel Morton, Seeretary."
The line here mentioned as running straight from " the poud at the head of Indian Head River" to Ac- cord Pond was the western boundary of the old town of Seituate (in old deeds frequently called the " share line"). It ran from Aeeord Pond southerly aeross North Street in Hanover, near the junetion of that street with Webster Street, and near " London bridge," so ealled ; thenee aeross Cedar, Hanover, and Cireuit Streets, following somewhat the course of Winter Street, to the pond at the head of Indian Head River. This pond, now lying in Hanson, bears the name of Indian Head Pond, and was originally the southwest bound of the old town of Seituate.
All that part of Hanover now lying west of this so-called share line was originally a part of Abington. So much of it as extended from the south side of Aeeord Pond three miles toward the south, running on the share line, was ineluded in the grant by the Colony Court to Timothy Hatherly, one of the orig- inal " proprietors," a man of wealth, great business probity and energy, and of great generosity of nature and breadth of eonvietion. The deed from Wampa tueke to him has never been found, but in 1668, Josias eame "into eourt and owned that the three miles square, which was granted to Mr. Hatherly, that he had sold it to Mr. Hatherly, and was by him fully satisfied with it."
The land contained within the limits of Hanover west of the share line, and south of this three-mile grant, was acquired of the Indians earlier. April 13, 1668, " Josias Chiekatabut" (i.e., Wampatueke, ealled by his father's name) " of Nomassakeset, in the gov- ernment of New Plymouth, conveyed to Cornet Robert Stetson, a certain traet or pareel of land, by the Indians commonly ealled Nanumaekewit, bounded on the north by the lands formerly granted to Mr. Hatherly, and is to run by his line two miles west into the woods ; and on the east is bounded by the line of the town of Seituate, and is to run three miles south- erly from Mr. Hatherly's said grant upon the town's line; and so again westerly upon Mr. Hatherly's line upon the other side, and three miles again northerly to meet with the first line."
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