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LYDIA TUSPAQUIN5 [No. 13] (Benjamin,4 Benjamin,3 Amie,2 Massasoit1), daughter of Benjamin Tuspaquin, by wife Mercy Felix, married an Indian named Wamsley. She was drowned in Assowamset Pond, July, 1812. She was born at what is still known as "Betty's Neck," then in Middleborough, but now in Lakeville. Both her parents died when she was but a child, but her grandfather Benjamin [No. 8] continued to care for her as long as he lived, and while Lydia was still young, she went to live with Joanna Hunt, who married a Mr. Moore, and after- wards resided in Petersham, Mass., Lydia accompanying them, they caring for her as if she had been their own child. Improv- ing these opportunities, Lydia attended school and became quite a good scholar, and in after life became the chief ama- nuensis of her people residing at "Betty's Neck." While she was residing at Petersham, a bear came one night and took a small pig, when in the darkness Lydia resolutely rushed out, musket in hand, shot the bear and saved the pig before bruin had time to kill it. Lydia claimed great skill in the healing art, and was in the act of gathering herbs for medical purposes, when she fell from a high bank into Assawomset Pond and was drowned. Her married life was mostly spent at Betty's Neck.
WAMSLEY and wife LYDIA TUSPAQUIN5 had children as follows:
14. ZERVIAH,6 b. in 176 -; m. Dec. 4, 1791, James Johnson, of Gay- head. She died in July, 1816. They had one child, named Arabella, that d. when 3 months old.
15. PAUL,6 b. 176 -; m. Phebe Jeffries, and had: i. Mary. ii. Jane, m. John Rosier of Middleborough, that part now Lakeville; he
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was drowned in Feb. 1851. iii. Wealthy. iv. Lydia.7 v. Ephraim,7 never married. vi. Bathsheba, m. - Munroe. vii. - - (name not now remembered).
+16. PHEBE,6 b. Feb. 26, 1770; d. Aug. 16, 1839; m. twice-1st, Silas Rosier, and 2d, Brister Gould.
17. JANE,6 b. in or about 1771; d. April 15, 1794, aged about 23 years.
18. BENJAMIN,6 b. about 1773; d. April 22, 1799, aged about 26 years.
PHEBE WAMSLEY6 [No. 16] (Lydia Tuspaquin,5 Benjamin,4 Benjamin,3 Amie,2 Massasoit1), daughter of Wamsley and Lydia Tuspaquin, was born Feb. 26, 1770. She married Ist, Nov. 27, 1791, Silas Rosier, an Indian of the Marshpce tribe, who served as private soldier in the patriot army of the war of American Revolution, entering that service at the commencement of the conflict, and serving until its close. He died at sea, and his widow married 2d, March 4, 1797, Brister Gould. He for a time served as teamster to the patriot army in our revolutionary war. He was drowned at a place called Hawkley, in East Weymouth, Mass., Aug. 28, 1823. She died Aug. 16, 1839.
SILAS ROSIER and wife PHEBE WAMSLEY" had children as follows:
19. MARTIN, b. June, 1792; d. July, 1792.
20. JouN,7 b. Sept. 15, 1793; m. Jane Wamsley, his cousin, a daughter of Paul Wamsley and wife Phebe Jeffries. John Rosier was a sailor on board the U. S. Frigate "Macedonia," and was drowned in the Assawomset Pond, Middleborough, February, 1851. At the date of his death he resided at Betty's Neck, in what was then Middleborough, but now the town of Lake- ville. They had a son John,8 who was also a sailor, and never married.
BRISTER GOULD and wife PHEBE WAMSLEY6 had children as follows:
21. BETSEY,7 b. Nov. 26, 1797; m. Aug. 7, 1816, James Hill of Boston; d. in that place, April 16, 1824. They had children: i. Keziah,8 b. Jan. 15, 1818; m. Camoralsman Gould, and died Sept. 15, 1844, having had one child. ii. James,8 b. Sept. 15,, 1819; d. Sept. 15, 1821.
22. LYDIA, b. June 12, 1799; m. Nov. 12, 1819, Antonio D. Julio, a native of Portugal. She died April 22, 1855. They had no children.
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23. JANE S., b. March 12, 1801; m. July 14, 1821, John Williams. She died in New Orleans, May 27, 1844. They had no chil- dren. She was remarkable for her skill in managing a horse, riding on horse-back without saddle or bridle. She was also an expert swimmer, and once when swimming in the water at Ipswich she came near losing her life, from a man who aimed his gun at her head that he mistook for a wild duck. With her husband she visited Paris and other places of note in the old world.
24. RUBY, b. May 30, 1803; m. Dec. 22, 1824, Benjamin Hall of Philadelphia. She died in or about 1851. They had one child: Lydia, who d. when about five years old.
25. MALINDA, b. April 23, 1805; never married; d. June 16, 1824.
+26. ZERVIAH, b. July 24, 1807; m. Oct. 17, 1824, Thomas C. Mitchell. He died March 22, 1859.
27. BENJAMIN S., b. Oct. 31, 1809; never married; was lost at sea.
ZERVIAH GOULD7 [No. 26] (Phebe W.,6 Lydia T.,5 Benjamin,4 Benjamin,3 Amie,2 Massasoit1), daughter of Brister and Phebe Gould, was born July 24, 1807. She married Thomas C. Mitchell, Oct. 17, 1824. He died in East Fall River, March 22, 1859. She resided in North Abington until coming to Lakeville in May, 1879. She was educated in the public schools of Abington and at a private school in Boston. When a young woman she taught a private school in Boston. She was the publisher of a book "Indian History, Biography and Genealogy," written by E. W. Peirce-from which this Genealogy is taken. She died March 5, 1898 at Betty's Neck and was buried in the Mt. Vernon Ceme- tery in North Abington.
THOMAS C. MITCHELL and wife ZERVIAH GOULD? had children as follows:
28. JANE W.,8 b. in Boston, April 15, 1827; d. in North Abington, March 28, 1840.
29. ZERVIAH G.,8 b. in Charlestown, June 17, 1828; was educated in the common schools of Abington, High School at that place, and graduated at Union Academy; m. Nov. 14, 1854, Joseph C. Robinson. They had a child born March 16, 1860; still- born.
30. LEVINA C., b. in Charlestown, April 10, 1830; d. June 30, 1841.
31. DELORIS B.$ (Indian name, Chic-chic-chewee), b. in North Abing- ton, Aug. 31, 1834; was educated in the common schools of
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Abington, High School of that town, and graduated at Union Academy, E. P. Bates, principal; d. June 2, 1875.
32. MELINDA® (Indian name, Teweeleema), b. in North Abington, April 11, 1836. Was educated at the common schools in Abing- ton; Union Academy, W. A. Stone, principal; High School in Abington, E. P. Bates, principal.
33. THOMAS C.,8 b. in North Abington, Nov. 17, 1838. He was drowned while bathing in Elder's Pond in Lakeville, June 16, 1859. He was pursuing studies preparatory for the gospel ministry.
34. JOHN B.,s b. in North Abington, April 17, 1841. He was lost at sea in September, 1870.
35. LYDIA A. b. Oct. 21, 1843.
36. EMMA J. b. in North Abington, June 2, 1846; m. Jan. 1, 1873, Jacob C. Safford. They had two children: i. Helen G., b. Oct. 31, 1873. ii. Alonzo C.,? b. June 5, 1875.
37. CHARLOTTE L.8 (Indian name, Wootonekanuske), b. in North Abing- ton, Nov. 2. 1848; was educated at the common schools in Abington, and one year at the Harvard Street School, in Cambridge.
38. ALONZO H.," b. in North Abington, Sept. 1, 1850.
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CHARLOTTE MITCHELL (Indian name, Wootonekanuske)
MELINDA MITCHELL (indian name, Teweeleema)
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OUR LAKEVILLE INDIANS
In May, 1879, Zerviah Gould Mitchell and two of her daugh- ters, Melinda and Charlotte, came from North Abington to Assawompsett Neck, or Betty's Neck as we know it, and to Indian Shore, to take possession of their tribal heritage. Their lands at Betty's Neck consisted of a narrow strip of eleven acres on the southeast shore of Assawompsett Pond, all that remaincd of the eighty-five acres, the gifts of Tuspaquin. As has been recorded, in 1673, Tuspaquin and his son gave twenty-seven acres of land to John Sassamon, fifty-eight acres to Felix, Sassa- mon's son-in-law, and a neck of land, called Nahteawamet, to Assowetough, the daughter.
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HOME OF MELINDA MITCHELL, (PRINCESS TEWEELEEMA).
It was on this Indian land that the Mitchells built a com- fortable home; it was well furnished, even to a piano in the parlor. Parts of the baby grand were still in the house, long after the roof was gone. From this home they went out to earn their livelihood - by selling the baskets, brooms, and beaded work which they had made and the vegetables they had raised.
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With their wares, they were frequent visitors at Sampson's Tavern, here in Lakeville, and at the summer resort of Onset, where Teweeleema also told fortunes.
The Mitchells were ever bitter toward the white men for the wrong which the Indians claimed was done to them by the early settlers. For years the mother, Zerviah G. Mitchell, petitioned the Massachusetts Legislature to remove the State's guardian- ship from her lands and to pay her for the wood cut therefrom by their agent, Benjamin F. Winslow, of Fall River. A report was made that $1500 worth of wood had been cut in one winter from the Squim lots, although the Indians received not a penny for it. These Squim lots were numbered 19, 20, 21, and 22 - four of the twenty-five lots of the Indian Plantation, which was a tract of land in what was then Freetown but is now the east- ern part of Fall River. These lots were given to Tuspaquin the Second, who was renamed, Benjamin Squinnaway, by the English. At the second survey of the Indian Plantation made in 1764, the nineteenth lot was reported as belonging to Esther Sampson and Sarah Squin, who were grandchildren of Benjamin Squinnaway, believed to have been Benjamin Tuspaquin.
In the last century, Josiah DeMaranville brought a bill in equity to stop the cutting of wood upon five acres of land run- ning from Cranberry Pond to Lake Assawompsett. The trouble started over a certain disputed title of land; the Indians claimed that it was their inherited right to do what they were doing. Mr. DeMaranville said that it was deeded to him December 17, 1856 by Augustus W. Munroe. The defenders were Alonzo H. Mitchell of Abington and Melinda and Charlotte Mitchell, both of Lakeville.
The father of our Lakeville Indians, Thomas C. Mitchell, was part Cherokee and part English. He and Zerviah Gould were married October 17, 1824, and lived in North Abington for many years. Mitchell followed the sea and was first steward on a merchant vessel sailing out of Boston for China. He died in 1859 in Fall River.
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The mother, Zerviah G. Mitchell, was a full-blooded Indian and was born July 24, 1807. Mrs. Mitchell died March 5, 1898 in the little cottage at Betty's Neck in her ninety-first year and was buried in the Mt. Vernon Cemetery in North Abington.
In all, there were eleven children born to Thomas and Zerviah Mitchell, as listed in Peirce's Indian Genealogy. There was the daughter, Zerviah Robinson, who frequently tarried under the roof of the two sisters at Betty's Neck. A son, Thomas C.
Alonzo Mitchell, in doorway of home of Lydia Tuspaquin, his great-grandmother. At the time the picture was taken the dwelling was over 200 years old.
Mitchell, was drowned at Elder's Pond in Lakeville June 16, 1859, while bathing. Another son, Alonzo, lived in North Abing- ton and was employed in a shoe shop there. He frequently spent vacations with his princess sisters in Lakeville. These Mitchells visited Lakeville but the older residents remember the two last Indian princesses to live at Assawompsett Neck, Melinda and Charlotte.
Melinda was Princess Teweeleema, the Indian meaning of which is, "Bride of the Forest." Tewceleema, as a member of the Wampanoag Tribe, was proud of her ancestry and gloricd
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in her copper-colored skin. Whenever she appeared in public it was always in full tribal costume. On her visits to Boston to plead for her lands, she wore the feathers, beaded gown, and moccasins. While the famous princess outwardly was cheerful, she always harbored the opinion that the government had failed to show her and her sister the respect due them. She claimed to her dying day that there were two hundred acres of Indian lands in Fall River which rightfully belonged to the descendants of the Old Chieftain of the Wampanoags but that they had been scaled down to twenty-seven acres. She claimed that five hun- dred, or six hundred, acres of land in Lakeville belonged to the descendants of Massasoit by right, of which there were only eleven left. On October 7, 1919, Princess Teweeleema died in her eighty-third year, in the little cottage on the shore of Assawompsett, the lake she loved so well. She was buried in Mt. Vernon Cemetery in North Abington.
Princess Wootonekanuske, known to us as Charlotte or Lottie Mitchell, was born November 2, 1848 in North Abington. She, like her sister, was educated at the common schools in Abington. While Melinda always wore the dress of Indian royalty, Char- lotte, for every day purposes, wore more conventional clothing. Unlike her sister, Miss Mitchell visited with the people of Lake- ville, coming to one home several times for flagroot which the Indians used as a medicine. It was her great grandmother, Lydia Tuspaquin, who claimed great skill in the healing art. The high triumph of Wootonekanuske's life came when she was chosen to unveil the statue of Chief Massasoit, which is on Cole's Hill in Plymouth. Charlotte Mitchell, by patient review of history recorded in her memory, would often correct the townspeople who had the impression she was a descendant of King Philip. That warrior was her uncle, seven generations removed, she would explain. She traced her ancestry to Massasoit through her mother, who came in direct line from Amie, the daughter of Massasoit. The last seven years of her life were spent - due to broken health - at the home of white friends in Middleboro.
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Princess Wootonekanuske, last of the Wampanoags and direct descendant of Massasoit, died at the age of eighty-two. Thus the history of the Assawompsett shore dwellers is ended. Char- lotte Mitchell's resting place is in the Mt. Vernon Cemetery in North Abington. And so across the big sea waters and to the happy hunting grounds, passed the last of the Lakeville Indians.
Thousands have visited the quaint little house, the home of our Indians, to see and learn more of the fast vanishing tribe. From time to time each generation in their teens has had the urge to go there and hunt for hidden treasures and to dig for Indian relics. Many groups, both old and young, in years gone by, have enjoyed picnics at Indian Shore and have visited the rocks with the old markings which are located midway between Indian Shore and Jeremy's Point.
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LAKEVILLE
T is believed that about 1709 a pioneer settler of Eu- ropean descent came to the Beech Woods portion of what was then Middleboro but is now Lakeville. Eight years later (1717), the first white man settled upon Assawompsett Neck.
Isaac Peirce with his sons Isaac and Thomas Peirce and a Benjamin Boothe were the first white settlers of the Beech Woods section and Thomas Nelson was the first on Assawomp- sett Neck.
On the 23d of January, 1709, Benjamin Boothe and Isaac Peirce, Jr. purchased quite an extensive tract of land then lying in Middleboro and Taunton but now in Berkeley and Lake- ville. Another of the early comers to Beech Woods was Rebecca, Isaac's daughter. Rebecca became the wife of Samuel Hoar and mother of most, if not all, of the family of that name in Lakeville.
Thomas Nelson, the pioneer white settler upon Assawompsett Neck, purchased lands in 1714 but he did move there with his family until 1717.
Lakeville, until the year 1853, was included in and comprised about one-third of the western portion of Middleboro. Before the division, Middleboro was said to be one of the largest towns in the state. This made it difficult for those living on the out- skirts to gather for the transaction of public business and it led to several efforts for a legal division, one of these occurring as early as 1742. Middleboro Town House at that time was located on the corner of Grove and Main Streets. This necessitated a walk of eight miles at least, for many who had no other means of conveyance.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF LAKEVILLE
Following is a copy of Apollas Haskins' tax bills, together with a list of the petitioners for and against the division of the town.
The petitioners in favor of the division of the town and the amount of taxes paid by each individual:
Stillman Andrews
$5.52
John C. Reed 4.70
Abram Ashley
3.00
Francis Reed
1.30
James Brown
2.26
William Ramsdal
1.30
Nehemiah Bennett
1.30
Job Macomber
1.30
Albert Chase
8.45
Eleezer Richmond 2d
24.07
William A. Coombs
5.09
William Richmond
1.30
Henry Caswell
1.30
Edward H. Richmond
8.74
Oramell Churchill
1.30
Benjamin Richmond
3.80
James A. Dean
1.30
Abiel W. Southworth
5.24
Nathan B. Dunbar
6.10
Albert Southworth
1.30
John Eliott
1.30
Gideon Southworth
9.30
James Eliott
1.30
Thomas Southworth
6.48
Martin Haskins
3.10
William Southworth
7.83
Cephas Haskins
3.94
Otis Southworth
2.74
Samuel Howard
1.30
Hiram Southworth
1.30
Edwin Jenney
1.40
Paul Staples
3.32
William Jenney
1.30
Nathaniel Staples
17.04
James Jenney
1.30
Harrison Staples
4.42
Tisdale Leonard
33.55
John Sampson
16.80
Nathaniel Macomber
28.66
Nathaniel Sampson
24.20
Frederick Leonard
32.07
Abram Shaw
6.74
Samuel Miller
5.57
Levi Sampson
1.30
Samuel Miller, Jr.
1.30
John H. Sampson
1.30
Nathan Maxium
1.34
Peter Smith
1.30
Cyrus Nelson
8.36
Francis Sampson
1.30
John H. Nelson
8.36
Nathan S. Williams
1.54
Frederick Nants
1.40
Roland Hathon
5.00
William Paull
1.49
Robert Lesure
1.30
Ebenezer W. Pierce
16.70
William Harlow
13.04
The remonstrants were:
Jonthan Barney
1.30
Appolas Haskins
7.49
George Barney
11.43
Franklin Haskins
1.54
Jonathan C. Bump
6.39
Harrison Haskins
1.30
Samuel Cole
8.98
William Hubbard
3.80
Eliab Caswell
4.27
Paul L. Jones
2.84
Stilson Caswell
1.30
Ebenezer Jones
2.26
Thomas Doggett
24.24
James Leonard
13.30
John Dean
1.35
James H. Leonard
1.30
Orville Daniels
1.30
Gideon Leonard
7.44
Royal Elmes
6.05
Timothy M. Leonard
6.53
Hiram Elmes
1.30
Albert T. Mason
5.48
Andrew Haskins
1.30
Amos B. Lesure
1.30
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George Osburn
10.28
Ephraim Ward
19.06
Ephraim Pierce
4.18
Leonard Washburn
7.49
Nathan Reed
11.72
Benjamin Holloway
6.68
Enoch Haskins
6.29
Levi Reed
5.96
Seth Southworth
5.57
Luther C. Macomber
6.63
James Southworth
1.54
Enoch Southworth
6.72
Otis L. Tinkham
3.70
Persons living out of the territory:
Elaz Richmond
1.30
Martin V. Newton
4.76
Hercules Richmond
50.92
Leander A. Tinkham
1.44
Leonard Richmond
1.30
Luther L. Newton
1.64
Thomas P. Tinkham
14.16
Calvin Southworth
2.74
Albert A. Savery
5.96
The neutral persons were:
Libens Churchill
1.78
George Ward
12.34
Horatio Caswell
5.57
Joseph H. Leonard
7.88
Joshua Haskins
5.48
William Southworth
1.49
Austin Haskins
1.30
L. C. Macomber
6.68
Daniel Macomber
5.33
Property not represented:
Mrs. Rhoda Chase
7.15
Miss Judith Nelson
17.52
Mrs. Abeyael Jackson
.72
Heirs of Phebe Nelson
1.20
Miss Betsey Kensley .48
Mrs. Joanna Pierce
20.16
Mrs. Mary Leonard
3.60
Miss Abigal Southworth
1.54
Mrs. Susan Nelson
2.40
Estate of Ichabad Thomas
4.90
Miss Delana Sampson
.34
When the Massachusetts Legislature had at last decided to grant the rights of a separate township to the southwesterly portion of Middleboro, notice was given the voters in that sec- tion to meet on Saturday, January 29, 1853, to ballot for a name for the new town. The meeting was held in the school house (afterwards known as the Washburn school), which stood at that time on the present site of the Lakeville Public Library. Bristol, Laketon and Nelson were some of the names selected, Nelson receiving the majority of votes in honor of Job Peirce Nelson, Esq., as it was principally due to his efficient efforts that the new township had been secured. The name, Bristol, was understood to have been proposed by Oliver Peirce, Esq. and Laketon was recommended by Austin J. Roberts. Mr. Nelson, who was the father of the late Sidney T. Nelson and grand- father of Clifton W. Nelson and Thomas Nelson, modestly
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declined the honor and urged the acceptance of the name, Lakeville, as a compromise.
SENATE - No. 100
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
IN SENATE, April 6, 1853.
The Joint Committee on Towns, to whom was recommitted a bill relating to the incorporation of the Town of Samoset, report the bill in a new draft.
THOS. WRIGHT, Chairman.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty- Three.
AN ACT
To Incorporate the Town of Lakeville
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
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1 SECT. 1. That portion of the town of Middle- borough lying within the following boundaries, to wit: beginning at the south-westerly corner of said town, at or in the line of the town of Freetown at an angle; 4
5 thence running easterly in the line between said Mid- 6 dleborough and the towns of Freetown and Rochester
7 to a point cqui-distant between Haskell's Island and 8 Reed's Island, in Great Quitticus Pond; thence run-
9 ning northerly across said Quitticus Pond to a point
10 upon Long Point, so called, five rods casterly from the 11 bridge, at a stake; thence running northerly through
12 the Narrows in Pockshire Pond to the junction of said
13 pond with Assawampsett Pond; thence running north 14 westerly in the said Assawampsett Pond to Nemasket 15 River, where it runs from said Assawampsett Pond;
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16 thence running northerly down and following the channel of said river to the bridge of the Cape Cod
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Branch Railroad across the same; thence running
19 west five rods to an elm trec standing in the north
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20 line of said railroad; thence running north thirty-five degrees west fifty-four rods, to the north line of John C. Reed's land; thence running in said Reed's line 23 north fifty-three degrees west seventy rods to the main road; thence running in the same course seven hun- 25 dred and fourteen rods to Trout Brook, the line pass- ing a white oak tree near Trout Brook, in Thomas P. Tinkham's land, twenty links to the south thereof; 28 thence running down and following the channel of said brook to the line of the town of Taunton; thence run-
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32 of Freetown, and thence in the line and between Free- town and Middleborough, to the place of beginning, is hereby incorporated into a town by the name of Lakeville; and the inhabitants of said town of Lake-
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SECT. 2. The inhabitants of said town of Lake- ville shall be holden to pay all arrears of taxes legally assessed upon them before the passage of this act, and also their proportion of such State and county taxes as may be legally assessed upon them before the next State valuation, such proportion to be ascertained and determined by the last State valuation of property; and all moneys now in the treasury of said town of Middleborough, or which may hereafter be received therein from taxes already assessed or directed to be assessed, shall be applied to the purposes for which they were raised and assessed, in the same manner as
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if this act had not been passed.
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SECT. 4. The inhabitants of said town of Lake- 2 ville shall be holden to pay their just proportion of all debts due from said town of Middleborough at 3 4 5
the passage of this act; and shall receive their just proportion of the value of all property, real and per-
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6 sonal, and of all assets, funds and stocks now owned 7 by and belonging to the said town of Middleborough; 8 and if said towns shall not agree in respect to a divi- sion of property, funds, stocks, debts, or State or
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38 requisitions of other incorporated towns, according to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.
13 1 SECT. 3. The said towns of Middleborough and 2 Lakeville shall hereafter be respectively liable for the support of all such persons who now are relieved or hereafter may be relieved as paupers, whose settle- ment was gained by or derived from a residence with-
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10 county taxes, or the settlement of any pauper or pau- pers now supported by said town of Middleborough, the court of common pleas for the county of Plymouth shall, upon the petition of either town, appoint three competent and disinterested persons to hear the par- ties and award between them; and their award or the award of any two of them, being accepted by said court, shall be final.
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SECT. 5. The alewive fisheries of the Nemasket River shall be and remain the property of said towns of Middleborough and Lakeville, and the manner of taking said fish, and the whole management of said fisheries, shall be regulated by the selectmen of said towns; and the proceeds thereof shall be divided be- tween the said towns in proportion to the number of ratable polls in each, respectively, and the respective parts of such proceeds shall be disposed of by said towns, respectively, in such manner and for such pur- poses as each town shall for itself determine and direct.
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