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The grist-mill was an important institution of the olden time. There were a dozen or more of these primitive mills in town along the water-courses, to which farmers brought their grain to be ground between rough stones which were turned by the big, old- fashioned undershot wheel. In Samuel Baker's mill-pond at Oak Swamp were boulders which bore the name of "one bushel rock," "ten bushel rock," "fifteen bushel rock." When the one bushel rock was submerged the mill could be started and there would be water enough to grind one bushel of corn; in the same way when the ten bushel rock was submerged there would be water enough to grind ten bushels, and so on. "The giant wheel in turning wheezed and groaned and from between the millstones came the slender stream of meal like a stream of gold falling into the meal- chest below the stones." This was the old and the ideal way of making flour, far superior to the modern way of crushing the grain in "patent" mills.
The average meeting-house on the outside was a barn-like af- fair, and on the inside naked and bare. There were no cushions in the pews and doors shut in the occupants. The light streamed in, glaring and harsh, through plain glass windows. In the winter the floor was cold, and only the few who had foot-warmers could be sufficiently comfortable to give any thought to the sermon, which to the shivering hearer seemed interminably long.
The food of the people in those early days was very simple. Rye and indian were used more than wheat, and the white, delicate flour of the present day was unknown. Brown bread was baked in shallow iron kettles, and eaten with beans or bean porridge, and often with salt pork and potatoes, both of which were in daily demand. Corn meal was also made into hasty pudding and indian pudding, the former eaten with milk or molasses, and the latter was baked in the brick oven. Pork fat was frequently used for short- ening instead of butter and lard. Rye was much used both for puddings and for bread, especially as mixed with wheat flour or corn meal. Rye "pancakes" were greatly relished; these were
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fried in pork-fat after the manner of doughnuts. The pies of our grandmothers, whether mince, apple or pumpkin, were thoroughly enjoyed by the men folks.
Many of the farmers kept a few hives of bees, and honey was often on the table, and the boys would spread it over large slabs of buttered "emptins" bread. "I never envied the king in his parlor counting out his money, but the queen in the kitchen eating bread and honey made a lasting impression on my mind."
The floors of entry, kitchen and pantry were bare. At the en- trance to the living room was a braided rug made of corn-husks. In the living room were oval-shaped rugs made of braided carpet rags; but the best rugs were reserved for the parlor.
The boys slept in rude bed-rooms up stairs, often in an unfin- ished attic, and in winter these rooms would be cold as ice and a thick coating of frost would cover the window-panes. During snowstorms fine snow would filter in through cracks in the shingled roof and form piles on the indigo-blue counterpane. There were no toilet articles in these bed-rooms, and it was necessary to go down stairs to the back entry and the wooden sink to wash, and then dry the face on homespun, scratchy linen towels, and the children would don their clothes by the kitchen fire.
The mattresses and pillows were filled with feathers from the domestic fowl. The pillow-cases were linen, and instead of sheets were coarse, scratchy, home-made blankets.
"Just before the time to jump into bed, grandma would take down from the peg on the wall the brass bed-warmer and shovel into it hot embers from the wood fire; at a signal the procession would start for bed and the warmer was thrust under the covers and pushed and pulled in and out until the inside of the bed was like toast. A whoop and I was in bed."
The household well, rigged with giant sweep, was an object of in- terest. It was the source of drinking-water, and in summer it was also the refrigerator for butter, milk and other perishable foods. These were let down several feet in pails or jars to which a string was tied.
Lurking in the water under an overhanging rock, pickerel might be seen, for minutes motionless, then darting on some in- truder too small for our eyes to see. "Green algae fast to the sides of the bucket waved long, slender branches in the ice-cold water, and no water tasted better."
An industry of some importance was the marketing of the young growth of white birches. The trees were cut and drawn to the house, and by the skilful use of sharp draw-knives were made into hoop stock. Some of the boys would acquire great facility in shaving these hoops, guiding the knife adroitly so that the hoop was not severed. Piles of birch shavings grew to vast dimensions and were used in the fireplace or stove to make a hot fire. Among others the writer recalls Mr. Lloyd Pierce and his sons, who were
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experts in this work and prepared large quantities of these hoops. which were used in making kegs.
In the cedar swamps lots were parceled among the farmers, and when freezing weather was followed by good sledding, the work of "swamping" began. The men would fell the tall, straight, cedars, and as they crashed to the ground it was fun for the boys. to trim off the branches. The largest trees were hauled by oxen: to the saw-mill, where the circular saw would cut them into blocks. for the shingle-machine. The small cedars were used for fence- rails and oyster-poles. The swamp parcels were without "metes: and bounds," and it was often difficult for an owner to find his boundaries. The older boys would be taken repeatedly to the lots and enjoined to remember their location and identify them when their fathers had passed away.
Haying was an interesting part of the annual harvest. There were three kinds of hay, known as English, fresh meadow, and salt meadow. English hay grew on high ground and was either: timothy or orchard grass and sometimes clover. Fresh meadow: grew on the overflow ground, and salt meadow on the shore of the. coves and rivers tributary to Narragansett Bay. Salt hay was: under water when the tides were high; it was formerly prized and. regularly cut in the scarcity of better hay; but now the inland farmers seldom take pains to gather it. In the olden time "salt. meadowing" was anticipated with keen relish. The teams would leave home early in the morning, and the route lay along pic- turesque roads; the smell of the salt air would indicate that the, camping place was near where the animals would be tethered .; Soon the music of whetting the scythes would be heard; then- came the swish of the blades through the grass and the swath would be spread out behind the mowers. Nor would one farmer. with his gang of men and boys be alone; he would see and hear his neighbors round about him who had come down to the shore: on a similar errand, and so there would be the exhilaration of com- pany. Without perceptible bounds each farmer seemed to know: the limits of his own lot. Salt hay was made the same way as fresh, with perhaps an extra turning of the swath. As noon ap- proaches the mowers scan the sky to learn the hour, and when the, sun is overhead and the shadows shortened there is rejoicing be- cause the time for dinner has come and the scythes become silent., Cold corned beef, especially the brisket piece, eaten with a dash of pepper-sauce, was a favorite food; with this would be "rye and injun" with slices of cheese, a boiled egg or two apiece, and for. dessert, doughnuts and pie. Dinner over, the hay was raked into windrows which were often broken into cocks. All was done with rake and pitchfork. The hay was loaded on great lumbering wagons drawn by oxen, to be unloaded into capacious mows. Pitching from the load was hard work, but the pitcher would have: his fun with the stower by burying him with forkfuls of hay. As
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the mow grew the stower would be brought nearer the rafters and feel the commotion among the barn swallows darting in and out and swooping down close to his head. "The load off, it was great fun to slide down the mow to the barn floor."
Fresh meadow work was not anticipated with pleasure, as in those days huge water-snakes might be encountered, and be- sides in some instances the hay had to be poled out to high ground.
Many of the housewives not only spun their woolen yarn but colored it. A "blue-pot" was kept in a corner of the kitchen, of which the chief ingredient was indigo for coloring blue, and sumac berries or the inner bark of the red or black oak for coloring black. The yarn was then knit into stockings and mittens by hand or woven into cloth on hand-looms. About the time of the Revolu- tionary War, Richard Goff opened a dye-house at Rehoboth Vil- lage, where yarn and cloth were dyed, and the latter fulled and dressed. This was a great accommodation to the community and was patronized by individuals far and wide. Here the cotton yarn was dyed which was spun in the Village Factory, erected in 1809. It was then put out among the women at their homes to be woven into cloth on hand-looms. In this way considerable quantities of cotton cloth, including gingham, were prepared for market, and some was used in the homes.
In the early days social distinctions were strictly observed. On the one hand were the rich and influential, and on the other the poor and uneducated. The "grand folks," as they were sometimes called, were assigned the best seats in the meeting-house and were designated as Mr. and Mrs. while those in a lower condition (not slaves) were spoken of as goodman and goodwife (or goody). The distinction was also evident in one's apparel. According to an old book of "Laws and Liberties"1 persons of mean condition were not allowed to take upon them "the garb of gentlemen, by wearing gold or silver lace or buttons, or points at the knees, or to walk in great boots; or women of the same rank to wear silk or tiffany hoods or scarfs, which, though allowable to persons of greater estates or more liberal education, 'yet we cannot but judge it intollerable' in persons of mean condition.
All intentions of marriage were to be "3 times published at public lecture or town meeting & posted at the meeting-house 14 days. Magistrates only to perform marriages." It was only shortly before the year 1700 that ministers began to exercise this function.
"No man shall take any tobacco within 20 poles of any house nor near any barn, hay cock &c. (for prevention of fires) nor in any inn, except in a private room so that none take offense."
1 Waters, in his History of Chelmsford, Mass. (1917), has a valuable chapter on "The Life of Long Ago," to which the the reader is referred.
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OLD REHOBOTH LISTS SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS
1645. Robert Martin, Thomas Cooper.
1646.
1670.
Preserved Abel, John But- terworth.
1647.
Robert Titus, Thomas Bliss.
1648.
John Miller, John Pellum.
1671.
1649.
Richard Bowen, Robert Sharp.
1672.
James Redway, John Perren. Gilbert Brooks, John Dog- gett. John Miller, Sr., Benjamin Sabine.
1653.
Richard Bowen, James Red- way.
1675.
1654.
Wm. Carpenter, Geo. Ken- drick.
1676.
Gilbert Brooks, Robert Ful- ler. Stephen Paine, Jr., John Butterworth.
1656. 1657.
Philip Walker, Obadiah Bowen.
1679.
Richard Bowen, John Perren. Anthony Perry, John Wil- mot.
1658. 1659.
1680.
Sam'l Carpenter, John Fetch.
1661. 1662.
Nicholas Ide, John Peck.
1663.
John Perrin, Sr., Gilbert Brooks.
1682. Wm. Sabine, John Carpen- ter.
1664.
1683.
John Titus, Sr., John Pag- ett, Thomas Mann.
1667. 1668.
1684. 1685. Richard Bowen, Sr., John Doggett.
GRAND JURYMEN
1646. William Carpenter.
1647. Thomas Cooper, Thomas Clifton.
1663.
James Brown.
1648.
Obadiah Holmes.
1664.
William Sabine.
1650.
Robert Sharp, Thomas Cooper.
1666.
Samuel Peck.
1651.
Walter Palmer, Peter Hunt.
1667.
Dan'l Smith, Sam'l Newman.
1652.
Henry Smith.
1668.
Philip Walker, Jonathan Bliss.
1653.
Joseph Peck.
1654.
James Walker.
1669.
Stephen Paine, Jr.
1655.
Philip Walker, Jonathan Bliss.
1671.
John Read.
1656.
Peter Hunt.
1672.
John Perren.
1657.
Nicholas Peck.
1673.
Thomas Read.
1658.
Richard Bowen.
1659. Stephen Paine.
1675.
Wm. Sabine, John Butter- worth.
1661.
Samuel Carpenter, John Fitch.
1676. 1677.
William Sabine.
John Titus, Sr.
1650.
Walter Palmer, Peter Hunt. John Read, Wm. Smith.
1673.
1651.
Joseph Peck, Jr., Jonathan Bliss.
1674.
Nicholas Ide, John Perren, Jr. George Kendrick, Wm. Carpenter.
1655.
Richard Ingraham, John Fitch.
1677.
1678.
1660.
1681. Thomas Cooper, Jr., Sam'l Perry.
1665.
1666.
George Kendrick, Richard Bowen.
1662. Daniel Smith, Samuel New- man.
1665.
John Woodcock.
1670.
Nathan'l Paine.
1674. Peter Hunt, Jr.
1660.
Nathaniel Paine.
1669.
Richard Martin, Nicholas Ide.
1652.
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1678. Philip Walker, Obadiah Bowen.
1679. Samuel Newman.
1680. Joseph Peck.
1681. John Titus, Sr., Jonathan Bliss.
1682. John Peck.
1683. Sam'l Newman.
1684. Sam'l Peck, Preserved Abel.
1685. Wm. Sabine, John, Titus, Sr.
After that the Government was interrupted by Sir Edmund Andros.
REHOBOTH INNKEEPERS
John Reed, service ended June 6, 1649.
Robert Abel, service ended July 3, 1656.
Dan'l Smith, service ended July 2, 1667.
John Woodcock, service ended July 5, 1670.
Woodcock's inn came into Attleborough in 1694, and a public house was kept on the spot about one hundred and seventy years.
RECEIVERS OR COLLECTORS
John Doggett, appointed July 7, 1648. Lieut. Peter Hunt, June 8, 1664; Richard Bullock, June 8, 1664; Daniel Smith, June 5, 1667.
GOVERNOR'S ASSISTANTS FROM REHOBOTH
John Brown, 1636, 1638-1655. James Brown, 1673-1683. Dan'l Smith, 1679-1683.
COUNTY MAGISTRATE IN REHOBOTH
Nicholas Peck, June 2, 1685-1690.
A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE Lines suggested by treading inadvertently on a grave, and written in the churchyard of Rehoboth in 1834:
Tread not lightly on our dust: Remember thou art clay; A few brief years, and die thou must, And like us, pass away.
That young heart, so blithe and gay,- That light and bounding tread, Once were ours; but now we lie Low with the silent dead.
Once were ours young Beauty's bloom, Gay health and sprightly pleasures; But cold within the silent tomb, How vain appear earth's treasures.
Once like thee we toiled for fame, We sought to live in story; But ah! transient is life's flame And fading earthly glory.
What though earth's scenes may be alluring To thy young, ardent heart, Naught but virtue is enduring When death has poised his dart.
LEONARD BLISS.
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NOTES
William Blackstone's homestead of six acres, reserved from his estate at Shawmut (Boston) in 1634, lay along the front of Beacon Street between Spruce Street and Charles River, running back to Mt. Vernon Street and beyond. Within this area have lived Copley the painter, Harrison Gray Otis, John Phillips, Channing, Prescott, David Sears, Charles Francis Adams, John Lothrop Motley, and Francis Parkman.
Many of the Rehoboth farmers were active members of the Bristol County Agricultural Society which usually held its annual fairs at Taunton. Some of the more prominent members who served on committees, or engaged in ploughing contests with oxen and horses, or exhibited live-stock, vegetables, fruits, etc., were Elijah J. Sandford, Simmons Thrasher, Lindley Horton, Nelson Goff, Geo. N. Goff, William Blanding, Danforth G. Horton, S. O. Horton, James H. Horton, Nathan Horton, David Francis, Bradford G. Goff, George H. Goff 2d, George L. Goff, Abiah Bliss, Royal C. Peck, Willard Short, George Rounds, J. C. Marvel, James A. Eddy and Welcome F. Horton. Many other names might be added, including names of women who received premiums for both dairy products and fancy articles.
These annual fairs did much to stimulate improvements in Agriculture.
REHOBOTH MEN IN THE NATIONAL ARMY, 1918
Enlisted: Clyde K. Nichols, Clarence G. Blackledge, Aran Kavorkian, Earle C. Harriman, David C. Shaw, Herbert Parmenter, Lester L. Pierce, Henry Leonard Ash, Charles H. Smith, Thomas Glancy, Louis Vieira.
Drafted: Gustave W. Richter, Charles H. Wheaton, Karl V. Larson, Robert E. Pierce, Fred A. Horton, John C. Vincent, Aldore L. Vincent, George S. Magan, Elton B. Hathaway, Arthur W. Harriman, Edward W. Oakes, Harvey W. Reynolds, Nathaniel B. Horton, Antone Manuel, Antone Perry, Jr., Elmer W. Goff, Lebaron D. Grant, Raymond J. Zilch, Raymond E. Gerauld, Wesley B. Jordan.
N. B. This list does not include the names of men who were discharged.
The Rehoboth Auxiliary of the chapter of the Taunton Red Cross was or- ganized May 12, 1917, and within a short time numbered fifty members.
Rehoboth invested $550.00 in the first Liberty Bond sale, June, 1917.
TO THE READER
The best way to open a new book is to rest its back on a table, and, holding the leaves up, let the covers fall apart. Open a few leaves at the front and then at the back, gently pressing open the sections until the middle of the volume is reached.
If the book is opened violently or carelessly, you are liable. to break its back.
To cut the leaves, use a proper paper-knife.
When turning the pages, finger them at the top.
ERRATA
Page 42, 38th line, and page 43, 5th line, for 1757 read 1657.
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THE JOSEPH PEARCE CEMETERY
A private yard on Chestnut Street, neatly kept and inclosed by a substantial wall. The principal stones are as follows :-
Arikam (Azrikam) Pearce, first settler on this farm, born Jan. 3, 1671. Died about 1740. (Vital Record has Jan. 29, 1748-9.) Huldah, his wife; no dates given. He was of the third generation from the emigrant ancestor, Capt. Michael Pierce: Michael1, John2, Azrikam3.
Dea. Joseph Pearce4, died May 5, 1787, aged 73. Mary, his wife, died Oct. 10, 1803, aged 85.
Joseph Pearce5, Revolutionary soldier, died July 21, 1840, in his 81st year. Mary Ware, first wife, died Oct. 10, 1809, in her 53d year. Lydia, second wife, died Sept. 29, 1824, in her 43d year.
Ardelia5, sister of Joseph, married Lewis Allen, who died June 20, 1846, aged 61 years. She died April 8, 1839, in her 47th year. Their children6, buried beside them here, are: Eathorn, James, Nancy M. and Mary Jane (Angell). Sarah Ann, who married Ira Stillman Baker, is buried beside him in the Hix yard.
Joseph H. Pearce6 (drummer), born Dec. 29, 1813. Died May 9, 1901, in his 88th year. Rachel, his wife, died Aug. 21, 1861, in her 51st year.
Otis H.7 (son), died Feb. 25, 1863, aged 28 years.
Carolyn M.7 (daughter), born Oct. 3, 1837, married Oren N. Goff, July 4, 1854. He was born June 2, 1829; died Aug. 7, 1915.
Children: Charles W. Goff8, born Nov. 22, 1854; married Ella B. Nichols, Jan. 13, 1878; four children9: Clifford A., Louis W. (died May 31, 1908), Clarence P., and Gladys I.
Carrie E.8, born Oct. 4, 1857; married Charles C. Easterbrooks, Dec. 21, 1881. Died April 10, 1916. One child, Elmer9, died Jan. 3, 1900.
Walter H.8, born Feb. 7, 1864; married Nellie Cavalier, Nov. 7, 1886.
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Adelaid M.8, born March 7, 1866; married (1) Arthur W. Fuller, Dec. 26, 1886; (2) Oren H. Keith. One child, Harold G. Fuller9, soldier in France.
Grace D.8, born June 10, 1871; married John E. Davis, July 10, 1888. Died September 1, 1902. Four children9: Melinda E., Howard E., Mildred G. and Marion E.
Josephine B.8, born Jan. 16, 1873; married Jeremiah A. Wheeler, Nov. 22, 1891; died Aug. 27, 1915.
William O.8, born Nov. 7, 1875; married Ruth A. Carpenter, Sept. 29, 1898. Three children:9 Earl N., Ruth E., and Walter A.
ERRATA
Page 233, last full line, after Carlton insert Etta Louise.
Page 304, line 19, for Jan. 13, read July 13.
Page 308, line 17, for 1843, read 1813.
Page 352, line 20, for George H., read Henry Slade.
Page 364, under photograph, for Clarence A., read Clarence M.
Page 366, line 32, for Marion, read Marian. Line 38, for 1915, read 1910. Line 39, for 1908, read 1898.
Page 392, lines 16 and 22, for May 2d, read May 1st. Line 30, for Oct. 12, read Oct. 20.
NOTE .- Page 275, to the "first burial" add this epitaph:
"My hours were few for death cut short my race; I was the first laid in this burying place."
INDEX
NOTE. - Many names not given in this index may be found in the bio- graphical shetches which are arranged alphabetically. Names of pastors and others connected with the churches are mentioned in the chapter of ecclesi- astical history.
Abell, Robert, ordered to keep an or- dinary, 39,42.
Agriculture in Rehoboth, 247, 410. Angier, Rev. Samuel, 89, 90, 96.
Annawan, capture and death of, 81- 85. Annawan Club, 396. Annawan Rock, 82-84.
Annawan Union Baptist Church, 207. Anness, Julian, 251.
Antiquarian Society and list of con- tributors, 234-246.
Attleborough Gore, 6.
Attleborough North Purchase, 6; Deed of, 45-6.
Autographs in facsimile, 132-3.
Baptist Churches in Rehoboth, 195. Barrett, John 223, 232. Barskin, 402. Bees, 405. Bicknell, Amelia D., 220, 235-6, 311. Bicknell Era in Education, 220.
Bicknell, Thomas W., 235, 244, 312. Blackstone, William, 6-12, 410.
Blanding Library, 235-6. Blister rust (white pine), 261. Blood, Rev. Caleb, 208. Boynton, Rev. F. H., 189. Brickmaker, 50, 57. Brown, James, 47, 68, 72. Brown, John, 30, 39, 41, 42, 47.
Canonchet, 78-80. Carnes, Rev. John, 106, 107. Case, Alfred C., 249. Cathedral Woods, 261. Cedars, 260. Cemeteries, 275. Chair, King Philip's, story of, 78. Chestnut blight, 257.
Church, Capt. Benjamin, 70, 72, 81, 83-85, 340.
Civil War, town legislation in, 156;' Soldiers of, 155-171.
Clambakes, 206-7, 215, 242, 253, 397.' Cogshall, Rev. S. W., 214. Comer, Rev. John, 195-6.
Compact, signed by first settlers, 24. Concordance, Newman's, 48.
Confirmation deed (Rehoboth), 91. Consolidation of schools, 222-3. Cotton factories, 265. Courts established at Rehoboth, 35. Cows, herds of, 253.
Deed of Philip, 55.
Deed of Wamsitta (Rehoboth North Purchase), 45-6.
Deed of William Bradford, 92-3. Deer, 104. Deputies to Plymouth Court, 141-2. Detecting Society, 398.
Ecclesiastical affairs; Congregational, 172-194; Oak Swamp, 195-203; Hornbine, 203-207; Annawan, 207- 210; Irons, 210-212; M. E., 212- 215; Elder Peck's, 215.
Education, chapter on, 216. Electric Railway, 394-5. Ellis, Rev. John, 108-112.
Farmers' Club, 251-2.
Fences, 21, 26, 27, 31, 32, 51.
Fighting town meeting, 138-140. Fishing, 33, 135, 403-4.
Flax and wool, implements and ex- hibition, 238-9.
Freshet, the great (1886), 397.
Fuller, Dr. Samuel, 48.
Gammons, Elder M. E., 199-200. Garrison houses, 69, 70. Geology as related to the soil, 247-8. Goats, 34. Goff, Darius, 234, 244, 346.
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Goff Gathering Association, 397. Goff, George N., 276, 349, 394.
Goff, Joseph, inn-keeper, 401. Goff, Richard, mill for fulling and dressing cloth, 402. Grain, prices of, 37-8, 50, 105. Grange, Annawan, 252-3.
Grass, time of mowing regulated, 39, 52.
Great Meadow Hill, 262.
Greenwood, Rev. John, 102-4, 106.
Greenwood, Rev. Thomas, 95, 97, 102. Grosvenor, Rev. C. P., 187-8, 244.
Hicks, Elder John, 197-8. Hill, Rev. John, 112. Highways, 28, 34, 35, 36, 39, 104, 393. Hazel, John, 19, 20, 32, 41. Hill-Crest, 253, 396. Holmes, Obadiah, 40, 41. Hornbeam (Hornbine), 258. Hornbine fruit belt, 249. Horton's Chapel, 353. Horton, Henry T., 250, 277, 354.
Hunt, Lieut. Ephraim, bequest of, 176-7. Hyde, Rev. Ephraim, 107, 108.
Iron forging privilege, 272-3. Irons, Rev. Jeremiah, 210. Indians, 30, 37-8, 44-6, 56, 62-87. Indian War, 62-87.
Labor, prices regulated by the town, 25.
Laws, publicly read by order of the Governor, 92. Long meeting, the, 111. Luther, Elder Childs, 199. Lyceum, 224.
Magistrates, first appointed in Re- hoboth, 42.
Manton's Neck, 15, 32. Manufactures in Rehoboth, 265. Manwhague Swamp, 260-1. Map of Bristol Co., xii. Map of Old Rehoboth, x, xi.
Map of Rehoboth streets, 3. Martin, Elder Daniel, 203. Mason, Sampson, 43.
Meeting-houses, 23, 35, 44, 61, 98, 105, 172-3, 175, 197, 199, 207, 211, 213, 215.
Massassoit (Osamequin), 5, 18, 19, 62-3, 65.
Miles, Rev. John, 52-4.
Military stores, 37, 60, 117, 118, 136, 140.
Militia of Bristol Co., 147. Military company first organized, 38. Miscellaneous topics, 393. Musters (of militia), 152.
Narragansett Swamp fight, 73. Newman, Rev. Samuel W., 18, 48, 49. Newman, Rev. Noah, 58-9, 60-1, 76, 88-9.
Nine Men's Misery, 77-8.
Old commercial records, 399. Orleans Manufacturing Co., 267.
Paine, Rev. John C., 186-7. Palmer's River, 98-9, 100-1, 102-3. Parsonages built, 50, 188, 209. Pawtucket, 5, 268, 271, 398-9, 347. Peck, Edmund, donor of carved chair, 193.
Peck, Joseph, first of name at Pal- mer's River, 42, 283.
Perryville, 271.
Philip, King, gives quitclaim deed of Rehoboth, 55-6; makes "his submission" at Taunton, 66; war- riors attack English at Swansea, 68; flees westward across Seekonk Plain, 72; burns Rehoboth, 78; is killed, 81.
Philip's chair, tradition of, 78. Pierce, Rev. James L., 200. Pierce, Genl. Ebenezer, 242. Pierce Joshua, made first cast-iron plows, 273-4. Pierce, Elder Nathan, 203. Pierce's Fight, 75-6.
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Poem by L. Bliss, Jr., 409. Poorhouse, 103, 137. Potatoes, 249.
Pounds for confining stray animals, 42, 105.
Quitclaim deed of William Bradford, 92-3.
Quitclaim deed of King Philip, 55.
Rehoboth, original extent of, 5-6; meaning of, 2, 27; purchased of Osamequin, 18-20; first perma- nent settlement, 20; incorporated, 27; burned by the Indians, 78; Seekonk set off, 140.
Rehoboth Union Manufacturing Co., (Village), 265. Relics, list of, 237-8.
Representatives to the General Court, list of, 142-144.
Revolutionary affairs, 114-130.
Robert the hermit, 379. Rock, Annawan, 82-3. Rogerson, Rev. Robert, 175-9. Round, Rev. Richard, 195, 213. Round, Rev. Sylvester, 195, 213.
Sam, the Indian, 51. Sassamon, John, 67-8.
Saw-mills and grist-mills of long ago, 204, 273-4.
Schools, 217-18; districts abolished, 218.
Seamans, Elder Thomas, lived to be 104 years old, 203-4.
Seekonk, meaning of, 5; temporary home of Roger Williams, 15; set off from Rehoboth, 140. Senators (State), from Rehoboth, 144.
Shays' Rebellion, 135-7. Sheep, 249-50. Sheldon, Elder James, 210. Silk culture, 395. Six Principle Baptists, 195.
Soldiers and sailors in the Civil War, 155.
Soldiers in new national army (1918). 410.
Spring, Roger Williams', 15.
Stevenson, John, 8, 10.
Strawberries, 250.
Strout, Rev. Joseph W., 193-4.
Swamping, 406. Swansea, 5, 43, 53-4, 68-71.
Symes, Rev. Zachariah, 49-50, 52.
Teachers, brief sketches of, 225-233.
Temperance (drinking customs), 403.
Thompson, Rev. Otis, 179-184.
Tilton, Rev. Geo. H., 190-1, 222-3, 234, 237.
Town Clerks, list of, 145.
"Townsman," the Rehoboth, 223.
Townsmen, 25, 28-9, 35, 37.
Town treasurers, list of, 145-6.
Trees, beauty of, 262-3.
Trees, native, including list of, 255- 264.
Trip-hammer, allowed to be set up, 98.
Vernon, Rev. Thomas, 185-6.
Wamsitta (Alexander) sells Rehoboth North Purchase, 45-6.
Wampum, as currency, 37-8, 44. Wannamoiset, 5-6, 30, 31.
Watch towers, to warn of fires, 262.
Watchemoket Cove and Neck, 30.
Wathen, Rev. C. W., 192-3.
Wawepoonseag, 5, 8.
Weetamoo, queen-sachem of the Pocassets, 72-3, 80.
Welsh records, 53-4.
Wharves built, 60, 100.
Wildcats, 103, 247.
Williams, Roger, 12-17.
Willett, Capt. Thomas, 389; monu- ment, 131.
Winchester, Rev. Elhanan, 195, 197. Wolves, 32.
Woodcock's garrison, 69, 70.
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