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This 11th day of May, 1693, the town hath voted: Whereas we the inhabitants of Taunton judging it to be for ye public benefit of ye province that at least one of ye Superior Courts, if not some of ye Inferior Courts, be kept at Taunton, it being so much in ye centre of ye colony, and ye greatness of our number, compared with our neighbor towns, do order the selectmen to write a petition to ye next General Court to be held by ye Governor, Council and Representatives, that we may have one or more of ye Courts here in Taunton.
Notwithstanding the strong petition embodying excellent reasons for a change made by the Selectmen (as further shown in the chapter re- lating to the courts and bar of the county), the request was without result, and Taunton waited more than fifty years for what she was en- titled to when the county was incorporated.
Soon after the accession of William and Mary to the throne of Eng- land what is known as King William's war was begun between England and France, and the colonies were soon involved. Almost at the com- mencement of the conflict, in 1689, the inhabitants of Bristol county were called upon for men and money. The Indians were easily incited to join the French, and unprotected settlements on the Maine coast were attacked, and Dover, N. H., was partially destroyed. The colo- nies were greatly alarmed and feared a repetition of their previous ex- periences. In April, 1690, an order was issued by the Council of War commanding that a " watch be forthwith kept in every towne & village of this Colony of so many persons as the towne or village shall appoint." This order was obeyed in Taunton and at other points in this county. Captain Church, the famous Indian fighter, was induced to take com- mand of an expedition and volunteers were called for. The quota to be furnished by each town was fixed by the court, and if they were not forthcoming they were impressed. The records abound in impress warrants and inspection returns of arms and munitions. Any person being impressed and refusing to join the troops was to be fined four pounds, or otherwise to be committed to prison. A levy was made in
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October, 1689, upon the towns for support of the war, which was fol- lowed by others during the contest. Among the numerous expeditions were two of importance, one by way of Lake Champlain to attack Montreal, and one made up of a naval force, to proceed up the St. Lawrence to attack Quebec. Both failed. Many other minor expedi- tions were fitted out for defense of places along the coast, or to retaliate for the barbarities of the Indians. While no actual depredations were committed within the limits of Bristol county in this war, many eastern villages suffered severely. This struggle closed with the treaty of Ryswick, September 20, 1697.
The period of quiet was of short duration, for what is known as Queen Anne's war began in 1702, and peace was not again declared until 1713, with the treaty of Utrecht. In the beginning of the conflict the French and Indians appeared in the exposed parts of New England and, while no important consequences followed, there was much dis- tress in many localities and great expense entailed. Major (as he then was) Benjamin Church comes again into prominence in connection with this war, and other Bristol county men took an active part, among them Capt. Thomas Leonard, of Taunton, and numerous inferior offi- cers. The two principal campaigns of the war were those of 1707 and 1711, in both of which there was a considerable number of Bristol county men in the rank and file, a large portion of them being impressed into the service. At the close of the war New England entered upon a period of about thirty years of comparative peace and quiet.
What is known as the old French and Indian war began in 1744, and although it bore little relation to the immediate region in which we are here interested, Massachusetts was among the foremost colonies to take an active part in the conflict. Louisburg fell before Governor Shirley and his troops after a two months' siege, beginning March 24, 1745. A few Bristol county men took part in this war, which was con- cluded by a peace treaty made in 1748. There was some further trouble in 1749, during which provincial troops were sent to the frontier, where the territory between the St. Lawrence and New England was still claimed by both French and English. A troop of horse under Capt. Zephaniah Leonard, of Taunton, accompanied a part of those forces.
The last colonial war began in 1754 and continued until the so-called treaty of Paris in 1762, to which we must give brief space. In this struggle for conquest the Indians, as usual, bore a conspicuous part.
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The white English population in the colonies was then a little over a million, while the French were 100,000 strong and occupied the region of Nova Scotia, the St. Lawrence, the great lakes, with a line of trading posts through the valley of the Mississippi to the Gulf; they had gained great influence with the natives and, while there was out- ward peace, the old differences were inwardly chafing and only a spark was needed to again light the fires of war. In New England the In- dians began their common course of plundering and murdering inhabit- ants in the frontier settlements. An expedition was sent against them as early as 1754, in which was Capt. Thomas Cobb's company, which went from Taunton and was made up of Bristol county men. In 1755 Massachusetts voted twelve hundred men for two expeditions, one against Crown Point and the other to Nova Scotia. Taunton was the military headquarters for this region, and two companies went from this county to Nova Scotia and one to Crown Point; the former were commanded respectively by Capts. Nathaniel Gilbert and Job Smith, and the latter by Capt. Richard Godfrey. In August, 1757, Fort Will- iam Henry, at the head of Lake George, N. Y., was invested by twelve thousand French and Indians under the brilliant Montcalm, and was destroyed. During that year a company went from Bristol county under Capt. Joseph Hall; another under Capt. Ebenezer Dean, besides parts of other organizations. In the succeeding years of the war Mas- sachusetts continued to send forward large numbers of soldiers, more or less of whom in each year were from Bristol county. Quebec was captured in 1759; Fort Niagara fell before Sir William Johnson, while the French were driven from the Lake Champlain region by General Amherst, who captured Montreal in September. The conquest of Canada was complete.
During this extended period of alternating intervals of war and peace many and important changes took place in Bristol county. On Oc- tober 19, 1694, the Rehoboth North Purchase was incorporated as the town of Attleborough, and on September 10, 1697, the bounds between these two towns were established. This North Purchase comprised the large tract of territory lying north of Rehoboth and including what became the towns of Attleborough and North Attleborough as at pres . ent constituted, Cumberland, R. I., and a tract one and one-half miles wide extending east and west, and a part of Wrentham and Foxborough. In 1661 Capt. Thomas Willett was employed by the inhabitants of Re- hoboth to purchase this tract from the Indians, which he did, and the
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title remained with him from April 8, 1661, to April 10, 1666, when he assigned it to the Plymouth government; on the same day agents of the colony deeded it to the eighty-two purchasers, with the exception of certain reservations, viz. : 1 " A farm granted before to Major Josiah Winslow, a farm granted to Capt. Thomas Willett, and two hundred acres of land to Mr. James Browne about Snake Hill, and ten acres of Meadow thereabouts; and the Meadow called Blackstone's Meadow the West Plaine; and the South Neck the quantity of two hundred acres; and fifty acres granted to Roger Ammidown with four acres of meadow ; and three acres of meadow to Nicholas Ide; and half an acre to George Robinson; also some Meete proportion of lands for the Indians at Sin- nichiteconett, for the use of the said Indians." This latter reservation was afterwards laid out and recorded to the Indians. For his good of- fices in making the purchase Captain Willett was granted the farm just named, consisting of five hundred acres, "on the easterly side or end of the said lands, to him and his heirs forever." He was also voted a gratuity by Rehoboth.2
Several divisions of land were made on the North Purchase previous to 1672, the first one on June 22, 1658. On April 18, 1666, a committee, of which Captain Willett was one, was appointed "for the settling and
1 While this tract is commonly represented as having been a part of the old town of Reho- both, John Daggett, the historian of that town, insists that such was not the case; that this im- pression has gained currency through a misapprehension of phraseology in the records; that its boundaries were always kept distinct, and that it was for a period known as Rehoboth simply because it had no other specific name. Mr. Daggett wrote: "The vote of the town of Rehoboth regarding the North Purchase annexation was: 'To bring the inhabitants thereof into some law- ful jurisdiction for their safety.' This rather carelessly expressed vote meant they were to be subject to the town government of Rehoboth, and entitled to its benefits and privileges. Under this peculiar arrangement, its settlers voted in that town, and one of its inhabitants was once elected a representative."
2 Capt. Thomas Willett, the first on the list of purchasers of the North Purchase, came to this country about 1630 when he was still a young man. He was a inerchant, and before his emigra- tion had become acquainted with the Pilgrims at Leyden, which led to his departure for America. Settling first at Plymouth, he was soon sent by the Company of Plymouth to superintend their trading house at Kennebec. In 1647 he succeeded Miles Standish in command of the Plymouth military company. He was governor's assistant from 1651 to 1665, when he was sent by the Plym- outh Court with commissioners to New York, then just surrendered by the Dutch, to assist in organizing a new government. So popular was his work there that he was chosen the first Eng- lish mayor of New York city, and was re-elected. Soon after the settlement of Rehoboth he re- moved to Winnamoisett (now a part of Swansea), where he passed most of the remainder of his life. Captain Willett and Rev. John Myles, the first Baptist minister in New England, are hon- ored as the principal founders of Swansea. Captain Willett cultivated friendly relations with the Indians, as far as he was able, which gave him an influence that was of prime importance in making purchases of lands. He was twice married and had several children. He died August 4, 1674, and was buried at the head of Bullock's Cove in what is now Swansea. His share in the North Purchase was sold by his son to John Wilkinson.
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stating of the late purchased Lands on the north side of our town." This committee reported as follows:
The Committee that was chosen by the town April 18th, 1666, at a town meeting, for the stating and settling of the late purchased lands, upon the North side of our town, the aforesaid committee being met together this twenty-third of April, we see cause that there shall be seventy-six whole shares and equal purchasers in the afore- said Lands, and six persons that have half shares, which we see cause to add to the seventy six whole shares, so that the whole number of shares amounts to seventy- nine shares.
Following is a list of those persons who drew for a division on the North Purchase March 18, 1668-69:
John Titus,
Will. Buckland,
Mr. Newman,
Joseph Buckland,
James Gillson,
Rich. Martin,
John Ormsby,
Israil Peck,
John Butterworth,
Children's lands,
Anth. Perry,
George Kendrick,
Nathl. Paine,
Eldad Kingsley,
John Lowell,
Goody Hide, Tho. Cooper, Jr.,
Thomas Grant,
Rice Leonard,
Mr. Myles,
Mr. Brown,
John Allin, Jr.,
Richard Bemis, Jr.,
Nath. Peck,
Nicholas Peck,
John Fitch,
George Robinson,
Ichabod Miller, Jr.,
Joseph Carpenter,
Jonathan Fuller,
Robert Wheaton,
Preserved Abel,
Jonathan Bosworth,
John Doggett,
John Woodcock,
Sam. Peck,
Deacon Cooper,
John Allen, Sr.,
Robert Fuller,
Phillip Walker,
Nich. Ide,
Nath. Paine, Jr.,
Tho. Read,
Capt. Willet,
Richard Whittaker,
Joseph Peck,
James Reddeway,
Sam. Carpenter,
John Read, Sr.,
Sam. Newman,
Edward Hall,
Jonathan Bliss,
Stephen Paine, Sr.,
Nicholas Tanner,
Roger Amidowne,
Jona. Palmer, Robert Miller,
Will. Saben,
Thomas and Jacob Ormsby, Tho. Willmot,
Will. Carpenter,
Richard Bullock,
Gilbert Brooks,
Sampson Mason,
Daniel Smith,
Wid Carpenter,
John Peck,
John Kingsley,
Left. Hunt,
Ben. Buckland,
Obadiah Bowing,
Jaret Ingraham,
Hen. Smith,
John Peren, Sr.,
Francis Stephens,
Sam. Luther.
Robert Joanes, John Read, Jr.,
Following is a list of the purchasers or proprietors made under date of May 28, 1672 :
Capt. Thomas Willett (one share, John Wilkinson's).
Mr. Stephen Paine, Sen., two shares (one that was his own and one that was ap- pointed for John Martin). 7
Mr. Noah Newman, 1 share. Lieut. Peter Hunt, 1 share. Mr. James Browne, 1 share. Samuel Newman, 1 share. John Allen, Sen., 1 share.
John Savage,
Stephen Paine, Jr.,
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John Woodcock, 1} shares.
Thomas Estabrooke's & share (bought of Roger Amidowne).
Thomas Willmot, 2 shares (one he bought of Jo. Carpenter and one of his own). Sampson Mason, 1 share.
Anthony Perry, 1 share.
John Butterworth, 1 share (this sold to Daniel Jenkes, excepting the meadow). Philip Walker, 1 share.
John Ormsby, 1 share.
Richard Martin, 1 share.
Stephen Paine, Jun., 1 share.
Robert Jones, 1 share.
Obadiah Bowen, 1 share.
John Pecke, 1 share.
James Redeway, 1 share.
Samuel Carpenter, 1 share.
John Titus, 2 shares (one that he bought of his mother-in-law, Abigail Carpen- ter, and one that was his own).
Mr. John Myles, 1 share. William Carpenter, 1 share.
Joseph Pecke, 1 share.
Thomas Cooper, Jun., 1 share.
Ensign Henery Smith, 1 share.
Thomas Cooper, Sen., 1 share.
Samuel Pecke, 1 share.
William Buckland, 1 share.
Joseph Buckland, 1 share.
Benjamin Buckland, 1 share.
John Reade, Sen., 1 share.
John Reade, Jun., 1 share.
Nicholas Pecke, 1 share.
Elizabeth, Hannah, and Lydia Winches- ter, 1 share; this sould to Daniel Shep- ardson.
Daniel Smith, 1 share.
Jonathan Bliss, 1 share.
Rice Leonard, 1 share.
William Saben, 1 share.
John Perrin, Sen., 1 share.
George Kendricke, 1 share.
George Robenson, 1 share. John Doggett, 1 share.
John Fitch, 1 share.
Richard Bowen, Jun., 1 share. Elizabeth Bullucke, 1 share.
John Miller, Jun., 1 share. Robert Fuller, 1 share. Robeat Wheaton, 1 share.
Ester Hall, 1 share. John Miller, Sen., 1 share.
Jaret Ingraham, 1 share.
John Kingsley, 1 share.
Gilbert Brooks, 1 share.
Thomas Reade, 1 share.
Thomas Grant, { share.
Jonathan Fuller, 1 share.
James Gillson, 1 share (bought of Samuel Saben).
Samuel Luther, 1 share (this share sold to Mr. Philip, Squire).
Nicholas Tanner, 1 share.
John Allen, Jun., 1 share.
Preserved Abell, 1 share.
Francis Stephens, 1 share.
Nicholas Ide, 1 share.
Richard Whittaker, 1 share.
Nathaniel Pecke, 1 share.
Israel Pecke, 1 share.
Jonah Palmer, 1 share.
Robert Miller, 1 share.
Nathaniel Paine, 1 share (} of it he bought of Richard Bowen, Sen., and the other of Jeremiah Wheaton).
Joanna Ide, of New Norwich, halfe a share.
John Savage, ¿ share.
Thomas Ormsby, } share (bought of Richard Bowen, Sen.).
Jacob Ormsby, { share (that was his mother's).
John Polley, 1 share (that he had of his father, Jon. Bosworth).
William Allen, of Prudense, 1 share he bought of Nathaniel Paine.
John Lovell, 1 share. Eldad Kinsley, 1 share.
A good deal of difficulty was met in making satisfactory divisions of
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the lands of the Purchase, particularly the meadow lands, and many votes were passed relative to the matter before the incorporation of the town. On the same day when the last foregoing list was prepared, it was voted "that for the comfortable and peaceable settlement of the lands and meadows of the north side of the town; whereas there has been great dissatisfaction in respect of the unequal division of mead- ows; and, forasmuch as there was a committee chosen in the year 1668 for the bounding of the meadows between the Tens, there shall be a new committee added to them, to make diligent search and take a de- liberate view of the meadows and swamps within all the several Tens, with power to add to those Tens which needed amendment and bound them all," etc.
On February 18, 1684, it was voted that there should be a division of fifty acres to the share on the Purchase, and William Carpenter, sur- veyor, was chosen to lay it out. This division was made June 29, 1685, and was "fifty acres of upland among eighty-three persons." Again, on October 31, 1699, two divisions were voted, viz. : Fifty acres to a share in both divisions, twenty five acres to each division. For this the lots were drawn on November 7 of that year.
The petition for town incorporation was signed by John Woodcock, Daniel Shepperson and John Callender and is dated October 17, 1694. The last provision of the act of incorporation has a bearing upon the relations of the North Purchase with Rehoboth, and is as follows:
Provided, also, That the Inhabitants of the said place do continue under the power and direction of the Selectmen, Assessors, and Constables of Rehoboth (whereunto they were formerly annexed) as well referring to any assessments and arrears thereof, as all other things proper to the duty of Selectmen, Assessors, and Constables respectively; until they are supplied with such officers among them- selves, according to the directions in the law in that case made and provided.1
The first town meeting records of Attleborough in existence are for May 11, 1696, two years after incorporation; at that time John Wood- cock and John Rogers were chosen agents "to manage our concerns in matters relating to that part of our township commonly called the Mile
1 Previous to this the North Purchase was within the jurisdiction, but not merged in the limits of Rehoboth. The inhabitants were subjected to the municipal authority, and had, for the time, all the rights of freemen of that town. It was, properly, a plantation of Rehoboth. It was ordered by Plymouth Court to be within the jurisdiction of that town until it should be incorporated, "July 5, 1671." The "court have ordered that the North Purchase (so called) shall lie unto the town of Rehoboth until it comes to be a township; and in the meantime to bear the seventh part of all the rates that shall be levied for the public charges of that town; and when the sa id purchase shall become a township by itself, then the said township of Rehoboth to be eased in their rates."-Old Colonial Records.
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and Half." Three assessors were chosen at that meeting: I. Wood- cock, Thomas Tingley and Samuel Titus. At the next town meeting, November 23, 1696, a subscription was made "by way of free gift to- wards the building of a meeting house," on which the names of John Woodcock, John Lane, George Robinson and David Freeman appear for one pound each, and Israil Woodcock and Thomas Woodcock, ten shillings each. At the meeting of March 22, 1697, the following officers were chosen: "Mr. John Woodcock, Anthony Sprague, Daniel Jenks, Jonathan Fuller, Thomas Tingley, selectmen; Anthony Sprague, town clerk; I. Woodcock, constable; Nicholas Ide and Joseph Cowel, sur- veyors; Henry Sweet, tithingman; Thomas Tingley and Samuel Titus, fence-viewers; John Woodcock, Anthony Sprague, and Daniel Jenks, assessors; John Lane, grand-juryman; Benjamin Force, for the jury of trials in April next at the Quarter Sessions at Bristol."
The regular town meetings continued, at which necessary regulations were voted, to some of the more important of which brief reference may be made. In 1698 strict orders were issued against permitting any "foreign Indian or stranger" from coming into the town " being armed under hunting pretences." Persons were forbidden also from harbor- ing such Indians, measures that were made necessary by frequent in- sults and injuries that had been suffered to some extent ever since the close of Philip's war, from strolling natives.
On the 4th of March, 1699 or 1700, in town meeting, Daniel Shep person gave a piece of ground for a site for a pound " at a place com- monly known and called Red Rock Hill, by the roadside by a pine-tree, which pound is to be built thirty feet square and finished by the last of June, 1700." In 1700 a vote established " a training-place to be on the south side of David Freeman's house, between the two ways, viz., the Bay road and the road that leadeth to Nicholas Ide's house." In 1702- 03 Nicholas Ide and Anthony Sprague were chosen a committee with the Selectmen, "to agree in behalf of our town concerning the lines and bounds between Attleborough, Dorchester and Wrentham."
The records of the proprietors' books of the North Purchase begin in 1672, and from that time forward were separately kept. These records contain little of particular importance for many years after that date. On September 16, 1707, it was voted " that the committee, with the surveyor, shall lay out all needful highways for the proprietors in said purchase, and make restitution to persons whose lands are taken for this purpose in any of the undivided lands." A large part of the high-
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ways in this town were thus laid out by the proprietors, associated with the Selectmen.
In November, 1708, a committee was chosen to aid in determining the northerly bounds of the Purchase. This began the long and vex- atious dissension on this subject, which was not finally settled until many committees were appointed, meetings held, and at last an agent sent with a petition to England. 1
On July 21, 1714, it was voted that two acres of land " on the hill before Dr. David Freeman's, where the burying place now is, shall be laid out for a burying place for Attleborough."
Attleborough, as originally constituted, was first settled by William Blackstone, who came to America about 1625, and was also the first settler on the site of Boston. He had been a preacher in the estab- lished church, but came over here to escape religious intolerance and bigotry. The same causes drove him from Shawmut (Boston) to search for a new retreat. The peninsula of Boston was then called Blackstone's Neck, and in 1634 he sold his rights there, receiving £30. He first settled on the banks of the Pawtucket River, but in 1635 re- moved still farther into the wilderness, settling within the bounds of old Attleborough, on the east side of the Pawtucket, at the place which now bears his name. This was about ten years before the beginning of permanent settlement in Rehoboth and a few years before that of Providence. The title to his lands there was respected by the Plym- outh government, and was recorded to him after his death. On July 4, 1659, he married Mrs. Sarah Stevenson, widow of John Stevenson, of Boston. Mr. Blackstone died May 26, 1675, just before the begin- ning of the Indian war.
I The proceeding relative to this boundary continued until past the middle of the present century, entailing a vast amount of trouble and expense. As early as 1720 a hundred acres of undivided land was voted to be sold "to defray the expenses of defending the northern line." On January 3, 1750-51, Col. Thomas Bowen, Maj. John Foster and Capt. Samuel Tyler were chosen a committee, to prepare a petition to the General Court "that some effectual method may be taken for the perfecting of a straight line from the middle of Accord pond (so called) west- ward to that station which is three English miles south of the southermost part of Charles river, agreeable to a settlement made by the government of New Plymouth and the Massachu- setts in the year 1610." This petition was sent and the matter finally settled. Many persons who had settled on lands claimed in this town were ejected. The cause of the whole difficulty is said to have been a divergence made by the commissioners of the two colonies in 1640 in the line between the colonies. Starting at a certain point and intending to reach by a straight line the most northerly point of Plymouth Colony on the easterly side of Rhode Island, they found when they had reached a point about three miles from their destination, that their course would carry them too far to the south. Then, instead of rectifying their whole line, they made an angle and took a new course directed more to the north ward so as to reach the intended point.
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The first settlement within the bounds of the present Attleborough was made by John Woodcock, whose name has been so frequently mentioned. He located in the neighborhood where Hatch's tavern stood in recent years, where he and his sons settled soon after the first division of 1669. There he built and kept a public house, became a large land owner and farmer. His license, dated July 5, 1670, was as follows:
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