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 EC iiy now praise taiiious men, 
 HnC ouv tathcry that bcciat U6. 
 Cbc lor^ batb wroucibt cKcat iilorv b\] tbcni, 
 Cbroiuib bi» iKcat rower from tbe beiiinntnci. 
 
 Cbere be of fbem tbat bave left a name bebinCi tbem, 
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 anC tioine tbere be wbicb bave no memorial, 
 
 lUbo are iKri6beC> as tboiuib tbev> baO never been, 
 
 anr> are beeome as tbouiib tbeg baO never been born, 
 
 hni' tbeir ebilC^ren after fbem; 
 
 .li3ut fbese were mereitul men. 
 
 lUbose riiibfeonsnes!? batb iioi been forootfen. 
 
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Ye Freemen's Purchase. 
 
 1659-1683. 
 
 BY PALO ALTO PIERCE. 
 
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 SOUTH MAIN STREET 
 
 'HE purchase of the four 
 mile tract known as "Ye 
 Freemen's Purchase" was 
 transacted in 1659. The land 
 was transferred by deed from 
 W a m s i 1 1 i and his s q u a w 
 Tattapanum tu twenty -six 
 persons known hereafter as 
 "original purchasers" in con- 
 sideration of "twenty coats, 
 two rugs, two iron pots, two 
 kettles and one little kettle, 
 eight pair of shoes, six pair 
 of stockings, one dozen of hoes, one dozen of hatchets. 
 two yards of broadcloth, and a debt satisfied to John 
 Barnes, due from Wamsitti to the said Barnes," which in 
 in all probability was for fire water. These proprietors 
 were a colonial body and all transactions till 168li, when 
 the town was incorporated, were chronicled in what is 
 known as "The Proprietors' Records," which unfortunately 
 cannot be found. 
 
 In 1747 a portion of Tiverton was annexed, and in 
 1803 Fall River was set ofi:'. 
 
 A brief history of the original purchasers is as fol- 
 lows (Authority — Davis' Landmarks of Plymouth) : 
 
 Of Timothy Foster, the owner of the first lot, very 
 little can be learned. Ralph Earl, however, was an early 
 
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SL'Ulcr upon this lot. and he was a son of William Earl 
 of Portsmouth, R. I. A sister uf Ralph became the wife 
 (,)f [ohn Borden, who owned the northerly half of this lot 
 as early as I Tin. 
 
 llumphrev Turner, owner of the second lot, (now in- 
 eluded in the City of Fall Riven, was of Scituate, where he 
 was constable from Ki.'iO to Hi:V.». He was a representative 
 to Colonial Court from lt;4(> to lt;.jo. His son Joseph was 
 the next owner. He sold in 1071 to Israel Hubbard who 
 in turn sold toCapt. Benjamin Church, who settled thereon 
 in 17(1(1. 
 
 Christopher Wadsworth, owner of the third lot, to 
 wliom carh- records refer as "Xtofer Wadsworth," settled 
 first in iJuxbury. He was constable of that town in 1033, 
 a selectman in Idt'id, servinij six years, and a representative 
 to Colonial Court in l('>4(t, serving four years. He died in 
 l';77. 
 
 I'^dmund Chandler, owner of the fourth lot, where the 
 City Farm of I'all River now is, retained it through life. 
 His son Joseph was the next owner. He sold in fulvl(i73to 
 Henry Brightni.in nf Portsmouth, R. I. Edmund Chandler 
 was constable of 1 )iixburv in 1 ('i.'!7 and representative to Col- 
 onial Court in I li:;'.' Matthew Boomer was the first settler on 
 this lot in 1()7."). He is referred to by colonial record as 
 ■•residing in the (lovernment without order, not attending 
 Public Worship of (jod, living lonely and in a heathenish 
 manner." 
 
 Samuel House, tjwner of the fifth lot, was a resident 
 of Scituate, dying there in ICiCil. His sons, .Samuel and 
 Joseph, sold, March in. l(;7s, to Henry Bri.ghtman and 
 Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, R. 1. The next vear 
 Cornell .sold his half to Cieorge Lawton, [r., of Portsmouth. 
 Brightman and Lawton were the first settlers. 
 
 Henry Howlaiid of l)uxbur\-. owner of the sixth lot, 
 did not occu])y, liul his sons, John and .Samuel, became 
 actu.-il settlers. John died in lt;s7. Samuel died in 171*;. 
 Henry, the original purchaser, died in lt'i7»'. 
 
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George Watson, owner of the seventh lot, retained the 
 same through life, it descending to children and grandchild- 
 ren, as his grandson John Watson sold his right, July '20, 
 IToi'i, to Henry Brightman. 
 
 Ralph Partridge of Duxbury, owner of the eighth lot, 
 died before the deed was given, and at the division in Itiiio 
 his heirs received the lot which his grandsons Ralph and 
 Peter Thatcher on Oct. ■2".', It')'.t4, conveyed to [ohn Reed, 
 who became an actual settler and lived thereon till his 
 death, Jan. o, 172o. Ralph Partridge emigrated to America 
 in lt'i3t>, and died in ItioS. 
 
 Timothv flathertvof Scituate, owner of the ninth lot, 
 sold his right to Capt. James Cudworth, who in ItiSl sold 
 out to Simon Lynde of Boston from whom it descended to his 
 son Samuel Lynde, also of Boston, who gave it to his 
 grandchildren, Thomas and Elizabeth Valentine. Timothy 
 Hatherty was Governor's Assistant for many years, and 
 Cohmial Treasurer from KUU to l(i42. 
 
 Lt)ve Brewster, owner of the tenth lot, was born in 
 England, came to America in Iti-JlJ, and settled in Dux- 
 bury, where he died. This lot passed to his son Wrestling 
 Brewster, who sold the southerly half to John Boyers, who 
 in turn sold it to Edward Thurston, Sr. of Portsmouth. R. I., 
 Oct. ?). 17l>^!. His son Thomas settled thereon. Thomas 
 died March -JiMTSo. 
 
 Richard Morse of Du.xburv, was owner of the eleventh 
 lot, but very little can be learned of him. He appears as 
 owner of a certain tract of land in Duxbury called "Eagles 
 Nest." Thomas Gage was the first settler upon this lot. 
 
 Walter Hatch of Scituate. owner of the twelfth l(_)t, was 
 the son of William Hatch, ruling elder of the Second 
 Church of Scituate. His son Joseph was the ne.xt owner, 
 who on June s, 1 To.") sold the same to Jonathan Dodson, 
 a settler. 
 
 Thomas Southworth, of Plymouth, owner of the 
 thirteenth lot, came to America in ItJ'JS. He was a 
 brother of Constant .Southworth. Thomas was a lieutenant 
 of militia, commissioned March 7, ItU^, and promoted to 
 
the rank <>i captain in Augiist. It'.oi*. He was representa- 
 tive from Plymouth three years to the Colonial Court and 
 ♦ iovemor's Assistant nfteen \ears. He died Dec. 11, 16tif». 
 William Paybodie. owner of the fourteenth lot. ex- 
 chan^red the same for land elsewhere. This lot was soon 
 after owned by Capt. Benjamin Church. William Pav- 
 b<Kiie was Town Clerk of Duxbun.- from ItiW to 16S4. 
 He was representative to the Colonial Court twentv-tliree 
 vears. He wa< bijm Nov. I'-t. l*^!'.'. ai;d d:ed in 17"7. 
 
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 Josiah \\ mslow. Sr.. owner of the fifteenth lot. was the 
 y..ung-est son of Gov. Edward Winslow. Josiah emigrated 
 t.. America in \>>2'.>. .settled at -Marsh field. "was Town^'cierk 
 oi Marshneld in 1^4.5. and .so remained till his death in 1674. 
 He was bom in l>i»-,. He sold this lot April S. 1661. to 
 William Makepeace of Bo.ston. who occupied it till his 
 death. William Makepeace was drowned" August. 16S1. 
 It was i:j>.;,r. this lot and a portion of the sixteemh lot that 
 the rescrv.i::on to Tabatacusen was made. 
 
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 Siami'-jeE Xisfes '■".a? low^aer 'Osf case iTnemrr-airsE i-oc, i" 
 
 
the Indians in Aut(ust. UU."). He was Colonial Marshal 
 for many years. 
 
 |ohn Barnes of Plymouth was owner of the twenty- 
 seeond lot. whieh inehtded much of the land on whieh 
 As.sonel X'illaj^e has been built. The south line of this 
 lot eorresponded with the south line of the burying ground 
 opposite the Christian Church. The north line was prob- 
 ably near the north line of land owned by the Pickens 
 estate and Mrs. W. II. Hathaway, a little .south of Elm 
 street. I'rom west to east it extended from the bay four 
 miles into the woods. In August, Ifitw;, John Barnes sold 
 this lot to Hugh Cole of Swansea, and in Kis,; it passed 
 into the hands of Benjamin Chase, who was the first to 
 settle on it. It is of interest to know that Ijy the deed 
 of |tis.'> all the meadows along the river br/oic tlw path are 
 excepted from sale, showing that there was a path along 
 the river corresponding to what is now Water Street, 
 though not on the same lines, ever since the settlement 
 of the town, 'i'his is the John Barnes to whom Wamsitti 
 became indebted for sundry articles taken up at his shop, 
 and the transaction is mentioned in the deed of "Ve Free- 
 men's Purchase." 
 
 [ohn Tisdale of Marshtield. i afterward of Taunton i. 
 was owner of the twenty-third lot. It is upon this lot 
 that a ]>ortion of Assonet \'illage is located. He was a 
 selectman of Taunton in Uml', and served till his death 
 in June, !t>7.">. He was a Representative to the Colonial 
 Court in I'mL lie was killed by the Indians, his dwelling 
 burned, and his gun carried away by them, to be recov- 
 ered at Rehoboth, Aug. I. h;7.">. His son Joshua .settled 
 upon this lot and died thereon about 1714. The high rock 
 east of A.ssonet station was upon this lot and hence has 
 been known ;is Joshua's Mountain. The north half of this 
 lot was at <.)ne time owned b\- (rcorge Winslow, through 
 his wife Kli/.abeth, who was the daughter of [oshua Tis- 
 dale. He deeded the .same May li', 1741, t(j Barnabas 
 Ti.sdale. (See Register ;5 1 -(Hi). 
 
OLD MAN OF JOSHUA S MOUNTAIN, 
 ASSONET, MASS 
 
 K e 11 e 1 m W i n s 1 ( ) \v, 
 owner of the twenty- 
 fourth lot, was a brother 
 of (tov. Edward Winslow 
 and came to America in 
 l<i-j;i. Mc was a son of 
 Edward Winslow and 
 wife Magdaline OUyver 
 of ])roit\^•ich, England, 
 and was born April liit, 
 1 -■■)'.•'••. He removed to 
 Marshlicld about ir,41, 
 thence to Freetown about 
 lii.-.'.t. He died at Salem 
 Sept. 1."., \iu-2. aged 73 
 vears. This lot was set- 
 tled by Nathaniel, son of 
 Kenelm, and Josiah, a 
 grandson. NTathaniel did not long remain, but Josiah 
 continued to reside thereon till his death, April :!, ITtU. 
 lie w;is born Xo\". 7, li'iCi'.i. 
 
 James Cudworth, owner of the twent\--hfth lot, was 
 born about hWi'. He was a son of Rev. Ralph Cudworth. 
 and brother of Rev. Ralph Cudworth, D. D., author of 
 "The Intellectual System of the Universe." He came to 
 Plymouth in lii;u, but removed to Scituate, where he held 
 otifice, both civil and military. He was (governor's Assist- 
 ant for several years, and in ItiM was Deputy Governor 
 of Plymouth Colony. He was at one time Commander- 
 in-Chief of the combined forces of Massachusetts and 
 Plymouth Colonies. He was sent to England to transact 
 business for Plymouth Colony, and while there died of small 
 pox, aged 7<> years. His grandson James settled upon his 
 purchase. He was born April ."l, 1 •',»;."). and died about 17-".'. 
 John Damon of .Scituate was owner of the twenty- 
 sixth lot. He rc])resented his town in the C(jlonial Court 
 ini(i7.')and Ii'mii. He died June. ltM7. This lot passed 
 
to his heirs, who in 1 71:? and 1714- sold to Tim<ithy Lindall 
 of lioston, who caused it to l_)c settled upon. It remained 
 in the Lindall family till the War of the Revolution. 
 
 In Itls:; I'reetown eeased to Ik- proprietary and became 
 a town corporate. The earliest record occurs in Itis."), the 
 two missinjr years probably being entered in the old Pro- 
 prietors' Records, which are lost. 
 
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Freetown. Mass. 
 
 1683-1780. 
 
 BY GILBERT M. NICHOLS. 
 
 n( )'r much of community affairs or of dealings between 
 town and town would appearin the early history of New 
 England settlements, and the story of the first hundred 
 years must tell of the people and their privations, and of 
 the individual battle for existence. With the wild beast 
 and unsleeping savag'e prowling about their dwellings or 
 waylaying them in the daily path of duty, even in the 
 fields where they compelled the resisting soil to yield up 
 to them its scanty store, the pioneei"s of our independence 
 and pride early learned the price of lite itself. Little of 
 historic importance seemed to be happening among these 
 bleak and barren hills where the settlers were grimlv 
 struggling for a foothold ; yet through faith that kept them 
 brave, and strife that made them strong, by unremitting- 
 vigilance and toil and well-earned victories, they were 
 laying deep the foundations of New England character, 
 whereon their posterity might safely build the beautiful 
 and the enduring in that " self-reverence, self-knowledge, 
 self-control," which alone could lead them to the 
 " sovereign power" that was their destiny. 
 
 The ambition of our forefathers was not the winning 
 of great possessions nor the nice observance of proprieties. 
 Their problem was how and where best with axe and gun 
 to subjugate a wilderness, make a home and rear the 
 
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family of ten or a dozen children, sound in wind and limb, 
 resourceful, resolute and stront^; to stand alone. The 
 conditions of those times would not tolerate a leisure cla.ss 
 nor admit of ei.^ht-hour ai;itations. The labor days were 
 lonjj and the holidays were few. when every household 
 JKid to supply its own recjuirements. Neig-hbors would 
 unite their stren<>:th to rai.se the frame of ham or dwelling-, 
 which was built near some perennial spring not too far 
 from the •• trail," and out of native timber the furnishings 
 were hewn, plain, substantial, like themselves, made for 
 u.se and warranted to last for generations. In winter the 
 men were employed in cutting away the woods and 
 clearing the land for planting, or they were threshing out 
 the wheat and rve with flails on frosty mornings. Huge 
 stacks of wood were thrown up near the house to feed the 
 great open (ire that was kept blazing on the ample hearth, 
 whereto everv morning the green oak back-log was rolled, 
 and tile shining andirons set before. When not too 
 blustering and cold, they used to haul loose-lying 
 boulders from lichj or woodland, and enclose the clearings 
 with those same walls wiiicii, now in ruins, are become the 
 boundar\- lines of pathless woods once more, or only serve 
 to n:ark the industry of the settlers in those days when 
 sheep and cattle roamed at large through all the woods, and 
 their divers '• ( v)earmarks " became matter of record more 
 voluminous than all else, excepting only the data of town 
 meetings. In late autumn and early spring, the neighbor- 
 ing teams of o.xen were yoked to the long-beamed, iron- 
 shod wooden plow, and the land that had been cleared of 
 limber and underlirush b\- axe and fire and made fertile by 
 the ashes, was broken uj) and roughly jirepared for 
 potatoes or corn, which was soon to l)c seen zigzagging 
 among the blackened stumjis, vet lhri\-ing as if in a 
 garden, quite free from weeds and insect enemies. Much 
 of the winter forage for stock was gathered from natural 
 meadows ;ind marsh lands, and here in summer time the 
 swishing scythes were glancing in the early morning, and 
 
the •■ whinney-whet " of the mower's rifle minified pleas- 
 antly with the plover's mellow note, while even the lonely 
 bittern listened unalarmed. 
 
 What the women did in those days was of no less 
 importanee, and as eaeh family kept sheep upon the hill- 
 side, so each housewife spun the yarn, wove the cloth and 
 fashioned i^-arments for her household. Sonae sunnv day 
 in spring, after the May storm had blown over, the sheep 
 were washed and sheared, and the wool picked apart — this 
 last task very often given to the small boys and girls. 
 The next procedure was carding the wool into rolls, and 
 for this two hand cards were employed. W'ith the wool 
 placed on one of them, the Colonial dame carded it with 
 the other till it was entirely transferred from the first to 
 the second. This process was repeated as many times as 
 in her judgment was necessary, when she made the wool 
 into rolls about a foot long, and then it was ready for the 
 spinning wheel. A pretty picture was that of the Puritan 
 maiden 
 
 "Seated beside her wheel, and the carded wool like a snow-drift. 
 Piled at her knee, her white hands feeding the ravenous spindle, 
 While with her foot on the treadle she guided the wheel in its motion." 
 
 But we are told b\- one who rememl)ers her grand- 
 mother's method that she always stood, and walked back and 
 forth at her spinning. As she walked away from her wheel 
 the thread spun out and was twisted: as she returned, the 
 \'arn was wound on the spindle, and so she continued 
 walking backward and forward till the spinning was done. 
 The hand loom was next brought into use, and the yarn was 
 woven into cloth. If intended for blankets or underwear, 
 the wool was left its natui-al color; Init if designed for outer 
 garments for clothing the famih-, then it was dved a 
 beautiful or desirable hue with the bark of various trees, 
 the lea\'es of the peach or mosses gathered from the rocks. 
 Peach leaves made a pleasing shade of yellow, wliile the 
 stain derived from moss was a bright brown. 
 
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ICarly in ihu cij^hteenth century the town, recoi^nizing 
 its CDmmunily interests, hired a minister of the j^o.spel, 
 and al.so opened a school tor the children, albeit their free- 
 born spirits ill mij^ht brook the formalities and limitations 
 which church usaj^e of the times would force upon them. 
 Hut before church or school had been established, even 
 from the lime of the town's incorporatii.m. the citizens had 
 assembled at convenient places for the choice of such 
 officers as .sliould .serve them, and for sober consideration 
 of questions of commou interest. They had gathered 
 about the great heirloom of their Anglo-Saxon ancestry, 
 worth more to them than school or ritual, and in recogni- 
 tion of the rights of the people, in veneration of order and 
 law. thev had held their /o-„wi iiu-ctiii_^'-s. In most communi- 
 ties the meeting-house of the church was made the moot- 
 house of the town, but it was the "middle schoolhouse " 
 (near the bleachery of to-day) that sheltered the legal 
 voters of Freetown through the storm}- town-meeting- 
 times of old. There, where they had learned to read, they 
 were called upon to reason, and there these "children of 
 a larger growth " were " warned " again to gather where 
 they might give and take post-graduate courses in matters 
 pertaining to the public weal, and learn decision, assertion. 
 and withal, submission to the will of a majority — until the 
 next sjjring meeting. lC\-cr\- question of common interest 
 was submitted to this most absolute of bodies, and 
 thoroughly discussed, with many adjournments it mav be, 
 until sooner or later, for better or for worse, it was settled 
 by the will of the majority. livery record in the old 
 books might tell its story of a battlefield of wit and 
 tongue, where, as likely as not (and is not human nature 
 still the same?!, the \-ictors in the contest over election of 
 .selectmen celebrated their victory by making the defeated 
 candidate their //i*//-/vv/v', and he had to serve. 
 
 But the citizens of Freetcnvn earlv learned to look 
 outside the limits of their own little communitv. and we 
 lind them in HllHi giving serious consideration to the well- 
 it 
 
being" of the colonies as a wliole. No doubt they were 
 much indebted to the (Ireat and (ieneral Court for the 
 suggestion, but we find them raising the banner of 
 ]}atriotisni and joining in the sentiment of the English 
 right to rule, during the campaign again.st the Canadian 
 French in that vear. 
 
 Not many men were required of them at first, nor any 
 great amount of munitions <)f war, but there appears 
 among other charges against the town in that year: To 
 
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 one pair pumps for Tarlxi Carv. ;i shillings d pence: to 
 clock for Tarbo Car\-'s snapsack, "i shillings: to cash paid 
 for Thomas Traintor's musket, 1 pound ♦i shillings, and 
 another charge of '• -2 shillings for mending the country's 
 gunn," which one of the two recruits was to carry through 
 the privations and dangers of King William's war. From 
 this time on, as occasion required, Freetown failed not to 
 furnish her quota of soldiers and supplies. 
 
 15 
 
Through lliL- iMX-iieh and Indian War the hdmirdf this 
 section was well sustained by Thomas (.'rilbL-rt. In 174.">. 
 as captain of a company, ])rcsumably from his own neij^'h- 
 borhood. lie shared in the g'lory of the Louisburg eam- 
 paijcn. where the small force under Sir William Pepperell 
 besie^^ed and captured the notorious fortress which had 
 sheltered the enemies of our fishing- industry in northern 
 waters for so many years. 
 
 In IT.".,"i the same soldier, serving as lieutenant- 
 colonel, is known tu have been with the victori<ius forces 
 at Crown Point, and later, in the battle uf Lake George, 
 when his .senior officer was killed, he took command of the 
 regiment. ("lilbert afterward became prominent as the 
 leader of the Lovalists in southern New England. 
 
 The war cloud of the Revolution was now gathering 
 on the hori/.on, and the far-sighted of the colonists were 
 ])re])aring for tiie storm, a history of which comes down 
 to us largeh- b\- old tradition and grandmother's tales of 
 "Whig and Toi'v times." From all sources it appears 
 that the ])eoi)lc wei'c wide-awake to the great subject of 
 government, though biltcrlv tlivided on the qtiestion at 
 issue. In that ]>arl of our town annexed to tts from 
 Tiverton in 1717. and still known as New Freetown, a 
 eomjiany of minutemen were training, tinder Captain 
 Levi Roun^cville, .and m.'iking readv for the call that 
 would Soon be sounded in the "Lexington Alarm." 
 Soutliward the dozen households located along the plung- 
 ing yue<|ueehan were w.atchful and brave, liberty men all, 
 who, later in the e'onllict, pro\-ed themselves competent to 
 defend their own ag.iinsl the marines of England. But 
 whi!<- the southern and eastern ])ortions of the town were 
 preparing to contest the rule of the mother countrw the 
 village of .Xssoiiet, under the master spirit of old Colonel 
 (iilbert, held loyal to the crown, as appears from the adop- 
 tion of tile fnjliiwing resolutions relative to the destritctiiui 
 of lea in I'osion harljor : 
 
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Province of ye Massac musf.tts Bav, 
 
 January, 1T74. 
 Bristol, ss. 
 
 At a Legal Town meeting at Freetown, in sd. County, on 
 Monday, ye iTth day of Instant, A. D,, 1TT4, on purpose to 
 know ye minds of sd. inhabitants of sd. Town Respecting a 
 Body of People Assembling together at Boston on ye Sixteenth 
 Day of December last past, and then Destroying 342 Chests of 
 Tea, Capt. George Chase, Moderator of sd. Meeting, after 
 sum Debates and Duely Considering ye bad Consequences 
 which probably may arise from ye proceeding of sd. Body, the 
 Question was put wether ye Town would act on ye affare, and 
 it passed in ye Affirmative, then ye Town made Choice of 
 Thomas Gilbert, Abiel Terry, James Winslow, Esqrs. , Capt. 
 Jael Hathaway and Doc'r Bullock a Committee to Draw up 
 sum Votes and Resolves Respecting ye Destroying sd. Tea, 
 and lay ye same before this meeting on Wednesday, ye S'ith 
 Day of this month, at Eleven of ye Clock in ye forenoon, then 
 ye meeting was Ajornd, and ye Committee Resold ye following 
 Resolves, viz: 
 
 1st— That it is ye Duty of this Town at this time to Express 
 our Sentiments in Matters which so nearly Concern us more 
 spedely, as there seams to be Reason to fear there is a Spirit of 
 Anarchy, Disorder and Confusion prevailing in sum parts of 
 this Province. 
 
 2nd — Resoh'd, That ye Body of People at Boston on ye 
 1 6th Day of December last, taking upon themselves the Stile 
 and Appelation of a Body of People who did not Indeavor to 
 prevent a number of people (in Indian Dress or Disguise) from 
 acting there Savage Nature in ye Destruction of ye Tea 
 aforesd, as we Apprehend, was not doeing there Duety, but was 
 Contrary to Law, and we fear will bring upon us the 
 Vengeance of an Affronted Majesty, and also plunge us in Debt 
 and ^Misery when ye Injured owners of sd. Tea shall make 
 there Demand for ye \'alkie of ye Same. 
 
 3rd — Kcsolrd, That this Town do hereby Declare that we 
 Abhor, Detest and for Ever bare our Testimony against the 
 proceedings of ye Body and Indians aforesd, or any others who 
 
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have or shall act in any Riotous manner, it being so very Con- 
 terary to ye .Spirit of our Laws and ye Liberty of ye People. 
 
 4th — A'lsoh'i/. That Thomas Gilbert, Esqr. , our present 
 Representative Doe, and he is hereby instructed to use his 
 utmost Indeavor as a Member of ye Hon. House of Rep- 
 resentatives, that sum Effectual means, if possible, be Taken to 
 prevent for ye futer all such Riotous and Mobish proceedings, 
 and if Demand shall be made by ye owners of sd. Tea for ye 
 Damage done them by ye Body or Indians aforesd, that he 
 appear, use his Indeavor, and Vote against any part thereof 
 being paid by us who are so Innocent of ye Destroying ye same . 
 
 5th — I'olcd, That these Votes and Resolves be farely 
 Recorded in ye Town Book, and a Copy thereof be Trans- 
 mitted to ye Press, that ye World may know our minds 
 Respecting our libertys and Good Government, and ye Resolu- 
 tions we have to obey ye good Laws of our land, which under 
 God for so long this Province have been happy in ye Injoy- 
 ment of. 
 
 Thomas Gilbert, 
 AiiiEL Terrv, 
 James Winslow, 
 Jail HArHAWAV, 
 Jesse Bullock.. 
 This is a True Record by me. 
 
 Zebf.uee Terry, 
 
 Town Clerk. 
 
 ICvidcntly the vilhii^e of As.sonet was a Tory strong- 
 hold. Here early in 177.">, by direction of General Gage 
 at Bo.ston, Colonel Gilbert had stored considerable cjuanti- 
 ties of war material, and marshalled three hundred men of 
 Hri.stol County for the purpcse of quelling the insurrection 
 in this section. But the Whig towns of the county mus- 
 tered their forces, and marched them two thousand strong 
 upon the "detested" village, dispensed the Tory battalion 
 and compelled its leaders to seek .safety in flight. This 
 demonstration occurred a week or more before the battles 
 of Lexington and Concord. The ■•Esse.x Gazette," a 
 
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newspaper published in Salem, in its issue of April l^lh, 
 177.T, eontained the following- communieation : 
 
 ••Boston. Monday, April ITth. 
 A letter from Taunton, dated last Friday, men- 
 tioned that on the Monday before ]3arties of minutemen 
 from everv town in that eoiintw with arms and ammuni- 
 tion, met at Freetown early that morning, in order to take 
 Colonel Gilbert, but he had fled on board the man-of-war 
 at Newpfirt. They then divided into parties, and took 
 
 WINSLOW HOUSE, BUILT IN 1706 
 
 twenl_\--nine Tories who had signed enlistnients and 
 reeeived arms in the eolonel's eompanv to join the King's 
 troops. They also took thirty-five muskets, two ease 
 ■bottles of powder and a basket of bullets, which thev 
 brought to Taunton. There were upwards of two thou- 
 sand men embodied there last Monday." 
 
 In one of their incursions into Freetown the Whigs 
 seized upon Colonel (jilbert's son-in-law, Ephraim Wins- 
 
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low, Esq., who, so far from being a violent partisan in the 
 quarrel, was more interested in settling disputes and main- 
 taining peace in the community. However, by virtue of 
 his connection with the old Tory chieftain, he was identi- 
 fied with the Lovalists, and was clearly a subject for the 
 visitation of Wliig wrath. 
 
 Thrusting their bayonets into every no()k and corner 
 of his dwelling (which still stands, the oldest house in 
 t<i\vn) the Whigs discovered Esq. Ephraim hidden away 
 in the l;irge, old-fashioned brick oven, in the ashes of 
 humili.alion. After subjecting the non-resisting man to 
 manv indignities, they set him on a horse. ■' hind side 
 before," and started with him for Taunton jail. Col. 
 ('iill)erl. returning from Xcwporl. and learning of the 
 affair, set out after tlicm at full gallop, witli black 
 Pompe\-, his slave and faithful attendant, following with 
 e.vtra jiistols "under his arms." To show the great 
 respect and awe which the whole countrv hereabout felt for 
 the old soldier, it was reported on this occasion that when 
 Col. Ciilbert came up with the maraiulers, he rode directly 
 among them, laid his hand on Winslow's shoulder and 
 said: " l^])hr;um, what arc you doing here ? Start \'our- 
 self home." And home he went, leaving the astcmished 
 Whigs gazing after him. 
 
 i\Iost of the older, more wcallhv and influential of the 
 inh.abitants of .\ssonct were conscr\-ati\'e in the ae'itation 
 for independence, being unwilling to risk their property 
 and social ])osition, or, in their old age, inca])able of shift- 
 ing their allegiance from a recognized authority, under 
 which they had prospered, to untried laws and the chances 
 of revolution. As they were true to their convictions, 
 historv _ will not re])roach them, and their townsmen of 
 to-day should not suffer their names to lie dishonored; 
 neither let them lightly censure him. of all Tories most 
 notorious, whose f.aithfulncss to trust was held to consti- 
 tute ;i crime. For his allegiance, that seemed withheld 
 frcpm his country, yet was not given to a King. 
 
 ■M 
 
The order of established law was his divinity, and 
 before no other throne did his manly spirit bow. That 
 law whieh. in no small measure, he had helped to frame, 
 should he not eonform to it ? and "that same good law by 
 whieh. under (rod, |he| had l)een blessed and happy," 
 tinder whieh he had served so faithfully and eonspie- 
 tiously for so many years — shoiild he renounee it now? 
 Beeause, in some evil hour, the law had been unwiselv 
 directed, or in foolishness enforced — would he now turn 
 traitor to that law? No I rather would he shake the dust 
 from off his feet, leave his kindred behind him, and the 
 country that he had loved more than thev all, and, flving 
 unt(.) regions far reuKjte, and strange, and wild, dwell 
 there, "tis said, "in peace for twenty years," — dwell there, 
 indeed, but ne\-er live again. 
 
 After the e\'ietion of the Torv leaders, the Whigs 
 eame into power, and the town sustained its part in the 
 prosecution of the war. 
 
 ( )n February -iiith. 177<'i, a meeting was called in His 
 Majesty's name, which met March 4th. and chose a Com- 
 mittee of Correspondence. Inspection and Safety, and voted 
 to build boats "to cross the water in if our enemies 
 should attack our friends on the other shore" — of Taunton 
 River. The committee chosen were: 
 
 SiKI'HKN BciRDKN, BEN.|.\MIN RkI'.I), 
 
 IdXAiiiAN Rkei), Piiiiir H A I iii:\\ w, 
 
 S.\Mi i;i. Barnahw M.Miik Xhriux. 
 
 AllNKK WiNSI.nW. NaTIIAMKI, ^MoRIhN, 
 
 Cai'i . Li;\ I R( u'NsiA ii.i.K. 
 
 The following Declaration of Independence in this 
 same vear shows how much the spirit of the town had 
 changed in the short time since the days of the " Boston 
 Tea Party :" 
 Bristol, ss. 
 
 These, are, in ye Name of ye governor and people of ye 
 Colony of ye Massachusetts, to notify and warn ye freeholders 
 
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ami other inhabitants of Freetown to assemble and meet 
 together at our publick meeting-house ye loth of this instant 
 July, at -i o'clock P. M., then and there to chuse a moderator, 
 also to act what ye Town Shall then think proper in respect to 
 (iiving our Deputy instructions to act in the general Court in 
 regard to these Colonyes being Decld Independent. 
 
 Dated at Freetown, Jul}' ye '2nd, 17',*''. 
 
 Stephen Borukn, 
 JoNN. Read, 
 Sam'i. Barnabv, 
 Ai;nek Winslow, 
 
 Selectmen of 
 Freetown. 
 
 Persuant to ye above warrent met and made Choyce of 
 Mr. Stephen Borden moderator. Then Chose a Comite, mager 
 Joshua Hatheway, Col. James Winslow, John Hatheway, to 
 Draw up instructions for our Deputy. They accordingly Drew 
 up and brought in ye following ones: 
 
 Whereas, George, the Third, King of Create Britain, in 
 Violation of ye Principles of British Constitution and of the 
 Laws of justice and humanity, Hath, by an accumulation of 
 oppressions unpariled in history, excluded ye Inhabitants of 
 this as well as ye other neighboring Collones from his Protec- 
 tion; and whereas, he hath paid no regarde to any of our Remon- 
 strances and Dutefull petitions for redress of our Complicated 
 Grevinces, but hath purchased foreign Troops to asist in 
 Enslaving us and linciteed ye Savages of this Countery to 
 Carry on a war against us, as also ye Negroes, to imbru their 
 hands in ye Blood of their masters in a manner unpractised by 
 Civilized Nations, and moreover hath Lately insulted our 
 Calematyes by Declaring that he will have no mercey on us 
 till he hath Subdued us; and, whereas, the obligations of 
 alegence being reciprocal between ye King and his subjects, 
 are now dissolved on ye side of ye CoUonies by ye Dispotism 
 and Declaration of ye King, insomuch that Loyalty to him is 
 Treason against the good people of this Countery ; and, whereas, 
 not only ye parliment, But there is (Ireat reason to beleave Too 
 many of ye people of Great Britain have concured in ye aforesd 
 arbitrary and unjust proceedings Against us; and, whereas, the 
 
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Publick Virtue of this Collony, so esential to its Liberty and 
 happiness must be indangered by a futer political union with, 
 or Dependence on, a Crown and nation so lost to patriotism and 
 magnanimity; We, the Inhabitants of Freetown, in publick 
 Town meeting assemble, for giving instructions to our repre- 
 sentetive by Direction from ye general Court, Do in publick 
 Town meeting Vote and declare, and Direct our representetive 
 to Declare in ye general Court that we are ready with our 
 Lives and fortunes To Support the General Congress in Declar- 
 ing the united american Colonies free and independent of 
 Greate Britain, and also Direct our said representetive to move 
 in the (Teneral Court for ye Delegates for this Colony to be 
 Directed to move for, and give votes for, said Independence, 
 provided, that the internal police of this Government Be 
 allwaise left to the people of the said Colony, and we declare to 
 all ye world that we do not make this Declaration out of pride 
 or Envy, but By the Dictates of the Laws of Nature, and 
 appeal to ye Supreme Governor of the world for our Sincerity 
 in the Declaration. 
 
 The above instructions was Voted, and the meeting was 
 Dissolved. 
 
 But the town is not rid of all its Tories yet, as seen by 
 the list of names voted for trial on May 31st, 1777: 
 
 George Brightman, William Winslow, Luther Winslow, John 
 Winslow, Jael Hatheway, Solomon Terry, Abiel Terry, Abiel 
 Terry, Jr., William Hatheway, Silas Hatheway, 2nd, Silas 
 Terry, Ebenezer Terry, Benjamin Thompkins, Ralph Pain, •■>nd, 
 George Chace, (jeorge Chace, Jr., Bradford Gilbert, Ephraim 
 Wmslow, Ammi Chace, Horah Durfee, Jonathan Dodson, Job 
 Terry, Silas Sherman and Beniamin Cleveland, Abraham 
 Ashley and John Rriggs. Major fiishua Hatheway chosen 
 agent, in behalf of town. 
 
 At a meeting of the town May 22nd, iTsii, to consider and 
 to take action in regard to form of government sent out from 
 the conventions of this State, the following were chosen a com- 
 mittee: John Hatheway, 2nd, William Winslow, Amos Snell, 
 George Winslow, Philip Hatheway, Jr., Benjamin Reed, Joseph 
 Norton, Peter Crapo and David Durfee. Reported (and 
 adopted) as follows: 
 
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Wc, the committee, being chosen b_v the town of Free- 
 town, in the County of Bristol, at a public town meeting held 
 on May 22nd inst., to inspect into the form of government that 
 was laid before us, have met together this 2Tth of May inst., 
 and do conclude and make over report to the town meeting that 
 stands adjourned from May -12nd to this day, as follows: 
 
 That, taking ye form of government into consideration, 
 we do find articles appear inconsistent to that liberty that we 
 have been contending for, namely: The third Article in the 
 declaration of Rights for one the power of the Governor, for 
 2nd the power invested in the House of Representatives, for 
 :!rd the manner of laying excises or duties on Manufactories; 
 lastly, and we do finally give it as our opinion that it is better 
 for us to be under the same form of government as we have 
 held to ever since the commencement of this war until this 
 unhappy contest is decided. 
 
 Tliirty votes fur and sixteen votes against above report. 
 
 •J4 
 
Slave Trade in Freetown. 
 
 TfT the beginning of Freetown's history the slave trade 
 J ^ l)et\veen New England and the West Indies had 
 become thorotighly established, increasing yearly in its 
 activities, with Newport as the chief market place. 
 
 •• This trade was conducted in sloops, brigantines and 
 .schooners, usually of forty or fifty tons. They carried 
 small crew.s — the captain, two mates and six men, often 
 including a cooper who set up barrels and casks. Taunton 
 staves and Xarragansett hoops were in much demand for 
 this work. White oak staves went into rum casks, and 
 red oak into sugar hogsheads. The average price of 
 slaves was from thirtv to thirtv-five pounds per head." 
 
 After the Indian wars were ended, and opportunity 
 was afforded for cultivating the arts of peace, the inhabi- 
 tants of Freetown became largely interested in shipping 
 industries, opening thereby commercial relations with 
 \Mrious ports and markets, and in a few years the sign of 
 •■ W. 1. (k)ods" was displayed on the village stores, which 
 were more numemus in former times than at present. 
 
 At that period slaverv was coiintenanced bv all 
 classes in church and state, and ■•negro boys and girls" 
 were ptirchased on the same basis of utilitv as sugar and 
 molasses and merchandise in general. The early Free- 
 town families invested in them prestimably to the extent 
 of their means, using them for farm labor and house 
 service, as they had little adaptability for other pursuits. 
 This traffic ccmtinued without interruption till the begin- 
 ning of the Revolution, when it was soon brought to a 
 
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close, as it was scarcely possible for the small American 
 vessels to escape beinij ca]:)turecl by the British cruisers 
 lvin,n' in wait for them aloivj,- llie Atlantic coast. 
 
 In 1783 it was abolished in Massachusetts by the deci- 
 sion of the Supreme Court, but for a tpiarter of a century 
 followinir. a considerable number of ncsjjro sku'cs survived 
 in the communities to which thev had been transplanted, 
 and then, under the influences of an uncongenial climate, 
 they rapidly jiasscd away. History has little to tell of 
 them. As individuals they were hardly known, except as 
 some special incident brought them into notice, or their 
 names were mentioned among other goods and chattels in 
 their masters' wills. Jacob Hatheway, in his will written 
 in 1754, gives to his children, three "negro bovs," Hector, 
 Henoni and I'erow, and four "negro girls," Hagar, Dina, 
 jenne and Scalier. 
 
 The graves of these children of service mav still be 
 identilictl in some of the ancient familv burial grounds, 
 huddled by themselves in the most obscure corners, at a 
 res])ectful distance from the white man's resting place. 
 
 'I'Ik' churches built during the colonial period were 
 always furnished with " negro pews," which were situated 
 in the remotest ])arts of the spacious galleries, and so 
 firmly fixed was this custom that such pews were con- 
 linued in the old churches long after slaverv had ceased to 
 exist in .■in\- portion of Xew I'.ngland. 
 
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An Indenture. 
 
 THIS Inilcntiirc witncssctli that wc. tlic suhseriljers. 
 Aimer \^'insl(l^\•, Sanmel I)arnab\-, Stephen ISorden 
 and Jonathan Read, seleetmen of ye town of Freetown in 
 yeeountyof Hristol, in ye state of ve Massachusetts Bay in 
 New Eni^'land, yeomen, have bound Josias Hall, Indian 
 man, to serve as a servant to labor for ve term of one 
 vear from ye date of this Indenture unto I'hilip Hathwav, 
 yeoman of said Freetown, during all which term ye .said 
 Josias Hall, his said master faithfull}- shall ser\-e, his law- 
 ful commands he shall gladly and cheerfully obey; his 
 secrets keep; hurt to his said master he shall not do, nor 
 wilfully suffer to be done by others, neither shall he 
 absent himself from his said master's service either liy day 
 or bv night, without his master's leave or consent, but 
 ^hall at all times behave himself as a faithful servant 
 ought to do during th(; whole of said term; and \'e said 
 master shall willingly furnish boarding and lodging suit- 
 able for such a servant's term, and allow him such wages 
 for his service as shall be thought or judged by impartial 
 men that he shall earn b\- his labor for his master in said 
 term. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our 
 hands and seals this twenty-second day of April, in ye 
 vear of our Lord, one thousand se\-en hundred and 
 seventv-nine, and in \-e third year of .American Indepen- 
 dence. 
 
 Ai;m:u Winsuiw, 
 S.\Mii;i, Kaknai'.n , 
 Siiriir:\ P.dkiha. 
 |(i\.\riiAN Ri:aii. 
 
 I Nil I e] — Copied from an old diary. 
 
Harriet Livermore. 
 
 HARRIET Livermore, the eccentric female preacher, 
 visited Assonet several times in the early part of the 
 last centnry, for the purjjose of assisting' at the '•protracted 
 meetings," which at that period were convened occasion- 
 ally in the Christian Church. Her personal appearance 
 and her peculiarities of mind and manner are very 
 minutely described in Whittier's " vSnow Bound." 
 
 The deacon's wife, who entertained her at such sea- 
 sons, often found it a most difficult task to satisfy the 
 rcciuiremcnts of so capricious a guest, and the minister's 
 son, who was constrained to act as page in conveying her 
 foot-stove to and from the church, gave ample testimony 
 to the severities of his experience. 
 
 ( )n one occasion, in her character of " A^ixen and 
 I)c\-otee," she enacted a \-iolent scene in the pulpit on 
 being referred to b\- one of the speakers as "The sister 
 wdio lliiiiL-s she has had a call to ])reach." 
 
 At hei" final lca\'c-taking, with an evident desire to 
 make amen<ls for past misconduct, she presented a set of 
 silver tea spoons to the deacon's wife, who had served her 
 so f.iilhfullv. 
 
 2.S 
 
Church History. 
 
 BY REV. LEONARD WOOLSEY BACON. D. D. 
 
 TTT the time when 
 y-*- the broad terri- 
 tory of " The Free- 
 men's Pnrehase " be- 
 gan to be slowly 
 oectipied by white set- 
 tlers, the heroic age 
 of the Old Colony was 
 already past. The 
 signs of that decad- 
 ence had begun to 
 show themselves, 
 which ilhistrates the 
 thesis maintained by 
 Dr. Bushnell, that mi- 
 gration is followed by 
 a tendency to barba- 
 rism. The heroic age 
 was followed by an age 
 of land speculation. Not unnaturally nor unreasonably the 
 large immigration from over sea and the natural iucrease 
 at home directed the minds of the colonists to the prob- 
 able ftittire value of the unoccupied lands about them. 
 The rules b\- which entrance into these lands was 
 restricted were honorable to the wisdom and the righte(.)US- 
 ness of the colonial government. There was to be no 
 scrambling, and no straggling of uuorganized squatters 
 
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 REV L W BACON, D. D 
 
into the wilderness; and (whatever miglit be the assump- 
 tions of rii^ht on the part ni the British erowni the Indian 
 title to ownership and jurisdietion was to be respeeted 
 until superseded b\- fair treaty and purchase. The lands, 
 havin;4- been ri.n-hteonsly acquired, were to be entered 
 upon bv nr.Li'anized companies sufficient in numbers and 
 resources for town L;-o\-ernmeut and defense, and tor main- 
 t.-iinin;4' the sclmol and the church. 
 
 It was mendv in the si)irit of investment that, nearly 
 forty years after the landing;- at Plymouth, a company of 
 twentv-si.\ of the second _t^-eneration from the Pili^rims 
 made --The l'''reemen's Purchase." Not one of the 
 twenlv-si.x became a settler on the newly-acquired domain, 
 and the returns bv sale were shiw and uncertain. The 
 desolations wrouLi'ht throu;4h all this reijion by Kint^ 
 I'hiliji's War ( l»'i7.">-r>). were not promotive of settlement, 
 and there are indications in the record that some of the 
 earliest ad\-enturcrs into the forest were no ornament to 
 the Christian name. l!ut, little l:)y little, men worthier of 
 the Pil.Lirim stock, heirs <ir assis^ns of the oriu'inal pur- 
 chasers. occui)ied the lots into which the I'urchase was 
 divided, and althoUL;h uo record appears of formal organi- 
 zation for worshi]!. we mav confidently assume that before 
 the end of the sc\-enteeuth century there was worship 
 here in the cabins of the settlers, and gatherings, fnmi 
 time to time, in the name of Christ. The earliest public 
 action t(jwards the organization of the church is the vote 
 of a town meeting June Jo, ICi'.i'.i, proposing to build a 
 house cif worshi]) at some point convenient to "mir neigh- 
 bors in Taunton" (meaning, doubtless, that part of 
 Taunloii which is now Hcrkley), in case these Taunton 
 neighbors should be willing to unite in the expense. The 
 negotiation had uo result, and nearlv three vears later 
 I I'ebruary, l7o-_') the town wisely rest)lved that the 
 spiritual house should take precedence of the material 
 one, and th;it no buiUling should be undertaken at the 
 town's expense until they had obtained the services of a 
 
 ;ti) 
 
ininislcr, \vho should also be a teaclitT of tlic childrL-n. 
 Xol till two VL'ars later was one found to aceept the double 
 duly — William Way, who (doubtless with a well-grounded 
 distrust of his own qualifieations) professed his willinjj- 
 ness to be eontent to receive for his labors in the gospel 
 no more than should be freely offered him bv the Ljootl 
 will of the people. P)Ut, in the opinion of the Colonial 
 ;4overnment, the emjaloyment of William Wav was not a 
 sutificient compliance with the requirement that each town 
 should maintain "a learned and orthodox minister," and 
 ;ifter two years of his service the town found itself made 
 the subject of a formal complaint from the (irand Jurv for 
 its dclinciuencN' in the matter. The town appointed Lieu- 
 tenant [ob Winslow, selectman, its agent, with a double 
 commission; first, to answer for the town before the 
 Countv Court, and secondly to consult with the pastor of 
 Taunton about having the schoolmaster duly "appro- 
 bated " as a minister. The double mission was a double 
 failure. In January, 17<i7, the schoolmaster-minister was 
 dismissed, and a peremptory writ issued from the Court of 
 (leneral Sessions requiring the town to pro\-ide itself with 
 a minister. This ^vas the unhapjiy end of tlic town's lirst 
 experiment in church work. 
 
 The \-illage statesmen were quite ecjual to the 
 exigency. They met the demand of the Colonial Ciovern- 
 ment with a counter stroke worthy of veteran diplomatists. 
 At a town meeting March i-'lst, IToT. it was decided l)y a 
 two-thirds yote to apply to the bishop (_)f London for a 
 Church-of-lingland minister. It is easy to conjecture the 
 motives that led to this action. ( )iic was the wish to save 
 themselves the expense of a minister's salary. Another 
 was the working of Ouaker principles of protest against a 
 paid ministry, and of the Rhode Island princi])les mow 
 the principles of all America) against the interference of 
 the ci\'il State with religious concerns. And 1 cannot but 
 suspect that withal there was some soreness in the hearts 
 of these Old Colony citizens at the then recent extinction 
 
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u\ llieir noble little indepL-ndent rL-jniblic. l;)rin;4in_n' them 
 under the more theneratie and not always gentle jnrisdie- 
 ti(in of "the liav." I'nless we deny the leaders of the 
 Old Colony all sense of humor, there must have been 
 some gentle ehuekling in that town meeting, in which 
 •■more than two-thirds of those present and \-oting " 
 answered the mandamus of the eourt 1)\' proposing to refer 
 the matter to the bishop of London, and ask him to send 
 a clergyman. It was a proposal offcnsi\-e in the highest 
 degree to the atithorities at Boston, at which, nex'crthe- 
 less, it was most unsafe for them to take offense. Prob- 
 ably the Freetown people would have relished an Engli.sh 
 clergyman as little as the lioston Puritans, but the o])]")or- 
 tunity of turning thus at bay upon their new masters was 
 too dclightftd to lie missed. The implied threat so dex- 
 teroush- con\-eved had \dsible eft'ect. Three years later 
 (IThM, when the town was preparing to btiild its first, 
 meeting hou.se, -U) feet by I'li. and Is feet between joints 
 a lot of land for meeting-house, school-house, training 
 field and Inirying ground was given by a Boston citizen, 
 and a subsidy of twenty-five pounds was granted bv the 
 General Court, and bestowed by vote of the town on the 
 Rev. Joseph Avery, whose brief ministry seems to have 
 been acceptable and peaceful. But after his departure (he 
 afterward became the first pastor of Norton) a sharp con- 
 tention arose over the appointment of his .successor, and 
 when it had been \-oted by the town to call Recompense 
 Wadsworlh, at a .salary of twenty pounds a year, f(.(hn 
 Read. Jr.. protested against the " rash and heady " vote, 
 on the three grounds that the town had no sufficient 
 knowledge of the candidate's fitness; that the appropria- 
 tion of twenty pounds was contrary to the gospel; and 
 finally, that the town had already voted to be .supplied bv 
 the bishop of London. The candidate (prudent man !) 
 .solved the contention by declining the call. He afterward 
 became m;ister of one of the Boston Free Grammar 
 Schools. 
 
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REV FREDERIC PLUMMEK AND HIS WIFE. RACHAEL HATHAWAY PLUMMEf 
 
 REV JAMES TAYLOR. 
 
 REV. BENJAMIN S. 8ATCHEL0R, 
 
The records lh;il fi)ll(i\v indicate that a spirit of faction 
 had taken possession of the little commnnity. Augusts, 
 I ill', "in order for the encouragement of the preaching 
 I if the word of Cud in the town." an appropriation of 
 twenty-live pounds was voted for the year, but the candi- 
 date who was introduced failed of general approval. A 
 little later a vote to rai.se ten pounds to repair the meeting- 
 house — then only three years old — was pa.ssed, again.st the 
 recorded protest of five citizens, and it was more than a 
 vear before the completed house of worship was delivered 
 to the .selectmen for the use of the town. ^Meanwhile 
 (|une -i, 171-^) the town had appointed one of its own 
 citizens. " Jonathan Dod.son, to be mini.ster of the gospel 
 for this town, until there is a supply fnjm England, accord- 
 ing U) a former vote of this town." ^Ir. Dodson's pasto- 
 rate seems to have continued more than two year.s — an 
 unusual length of tenure in the Freetown of that period. 
 At the end of his ministry some of the leading citizens 
 offered their personal pledge of support to the Rev. 
 Thomas Craighead, whose work proved so acceptable that 
 after a few months a town meeting was convened (Sept. 
 '■', 1717) to decide whether Mr. Craighead should be 
 in\itcd to remain as the minister of the town; and not- 
 withstanding the recorded protest of five citizens alleging 
 the insuftieiency of the warrant and the ancient appeal to 
 the l)ishop of London, a vote of 2."i to o committed the 
 tiiwn Id its res]ionsibility for Mr. Craighead's salary. But 
 so short-li\ed was his po])ul.'irity that presently he had to 
 sue the town for unpaid arrearages of salary, which were 
 not ])aid until several of the citizens had been locked up 
 in the debtors' jail. These energetic proceedings seem to 
 have turned nu'ii's hearts once more toward the bishop of 
 London, as appears from a vote of July l'.». 1721, tender- 
 ing tlie use of the meeting-house to the Rev. James 
 McSparren •• to carry on the worship of (iod according to 
 the Iruc intention of his order." which was the order of the 
 Church of ICngland. Mr. McSparren was minister of 
 
•' The Narrayansctt Church," in Kingston, Rhode Ishind. 
 the foremost representative in this region of that Societv 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which 
 was spending money profusely in the attempt to secure a 
 foothold for "his order" in Xew England. This frank 
 bid for a subsidy, with the otTer of a church building, 
 seems, .strangely enough, to have met with no response. 
 
 The reader will have been impressed throughout this 
 dreary history with the fact that the church business was 
 carried on in town meetings, and recorded in the town 
 records. This was the natural ctmsequence of the vicious 
 principle of the Massachusetts government, as distin- 
 guished from the more liberal constitution of Plymouth 
 and of Connecticut. By providing that the electoral fran- 
 chise was to be conferred only on communicant members 
 of the church, it had doubtless honestly intended to ennoble 
 and spiritualize the civil state. The actual result, as in 
 this instance, was rather to secularize the church. When 
 the voters of the town and the members of the church were 
 presumably the same persons, it would have been a mere 
 scruple of formalism to insist that the town meeting should 
 adjourn, and then come to order again as a church meet- 
 ing. But the merger of the two meetings into one had the 
 inevitable effect to make the church business a department 
 of town politics. 
 
 It is not in the least strange, neither is it discredit- 
 able to the fathers of the town that these forty years of 
 faction and unrest should have led their minds, by reac- 
 tion, not only to the principle of which the Bapti.sts were 
 the strenuous champions, of the non-interference of the 
 State in spiritual affairs, but also to the Quaker protest 
 against a paid ministry. The affair with Mr. Craighead 
 was practically the end, for a quarter-century thereafter, 
 of eft'orts to settle a pastor of the town. 
 
 But it would be a mistake to infer that there was here 
 a break of continuity in the church history of the town. 
 When official ministrations ceased in the town meeting- 
 
house, tlic mcelin^i^s of Friends began to l)e frequented, 
 and within ten years after the stormy elose of the Craig- 
 head pastorate, a (Juaker meeting-house was built (ITi'T) ?) 
 and seems to liave beeome the real religious eentre and 
 p.arish church of the town. " For at least half a century." 
 it is ;dlegcd, "the Friends, or (Juakers, were numerically 
 the largest worshiping congregation in town, embracing 
 the men of first minds, most money and best manners."* 
 The meeting.-house was built, a few miles north of the old 
 town church near Mother's ISrocjk, " near what is still 
 called Ouaker Hill, not far distant from the bleachery, and 
 iust across the street from what is known as the South 
 .School House." P>ut tlie work of the Ouaker meeting, 
 interesting and \-aluable as it was, had no seed in itself 
 after its kind. After a generation <u- two, the deserted 
 cha]5el was removed to the n(jrthern edge of the town, 
 where a more recent building now occupies the place of it, 
 and is still used for worship bv a congregation having few 
 or no Ouaker characteristics. 
 
 At last, in the year 17+7, it seemed as if a better day 
 was dawning for the Freetown church. September ;^>i)th 
 of that \'car took place the first distinct and formal organi- 
 zation of a church, according to the order which the New 
 ICngland f.ithers had drawn from their studies of the New 
 Teslamcnl, .and two months later — December L'nd — was 
 ordained to the ollicc of pastor a man whose name deserves 
 to l)e held in loving remembrance bv later generations, 
 Sil.as Brett. lie was at this time about thirtv vears old. 
 lie was born in liridgcw.-itcr. had studied at Vale College, 
 h;ul been a student of theohjgy with the pastor of his 
 native town, and before coming to Freetown had preached 
 lor a time ;it ICaston. Many a foreign missionar\' has gone 
 to his held with less evidence of the martyr spirit than 
 was shown by Silas Hretl when he came to re-open for 
 
 "IC. \V. Pfircie in ■• History of' Bristol County." p 297. 
 
DEACON BENJAMIN BURr 
 
 SINIA W, KING. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF DEACON BENJAMIN BURT. 
 
 37 
 
Christian worship the deserted and ruinous ehurch by 
 Mother's Brook. Three days before his ordination as 
 pastor, he subscribed and caused to be engrossed upon the 
 town records a formal covenant, in which he bound him- 
 •self, tiuus: " That from the day of my solemn separation 
 to the pastoral office in said ehurch, and for and durin,^- 
 llie full term of time of my continuance in that office in 
 .said ehurch, I will neither directly nor indirectly take 
 advantai^-e bv the laws of this province to gx't a salary set- 
 tled on me in the town of Freetown, l)ut look for and 
 expect mv support by the free-will ofteriny" of the people." 
 It is easv to refer this new quickening of church life, and 
 this act of faith on the part of the new pastor, to that high 
 tide of spiritual earnestness that began at Northampton 
 about the vear ITln, and is known as " The Great 
 Awakening." One of the early fruits of Mr. Brett's min- 
 istrv was the gift bv three of the townsmen, under date of 
 April b"., 174s, of a farm of fifty-three acres, near the 
 ehurch, " for the use of the ministry, and for the benefit 
 of the people in that part of the town forever." But there 
 are small proofs that this example of liberality had any 
 considerable following. The town was persistent in refus- 
 ing all aid to the ehurch, even so much as keeping in 
 repair the meeting-house, which was its own property. 
 Seven years after Air. Brett's settlement it was voted 
 (March is, 17.".4) "that those that are disposed to repair 
 the town's meeting-house so as to render it fit to meet in 
 for worshi]), that thev may have the liberty to repair the 
 said house on their own cost and charge, and not at the 
 charge of the town." I'atient Mr. Brett pursued his course 
 from year to year, supported by the glebe farm and a little 
 stipend fiom the most ancient of Protestant missionary 
 societies — tlial which was organized under the patronage 
 of Cromwell in aid of the labors of Eliot and his fellow- 
 workers, and which, being reorganized after the Restora- 
 tion, was able to make a small appropriation for Mr. 
 
 lis 
 
Brett's preaching and pastoral work among the dwindling 
 families of Pocasset Indians near the Wattippa Pond. 
 But it is evident that the high hopes of prosperity for the 
 Freetown Church, which had been expressed in glowing 
 language in the ordination sermon by Mr. Porter of 
 Bridgewater, were never fulfilled. The volume of records 
 so diligently kept by the pastor gives proof of his fidelity 
 and devotion. But at the close of nearly thirty years, his 
 letter of resignation, dated February 2-4th, ITTti, recounted 
 with unaffected pathos the hopes with which he had 
 entered on his work, and his " waiting with long patience 
 for those fruits which would have been more precious to 
 him than the fruits of the earth are to the husbandman," 
 and how, when doubts had arisen whether it was his duty 
 to continue his labors in so barren a field, with much study 
 and prayer to learn the way of duty, he "could not see 
 his way clear to leave his people, and therefore resolved 
 to go on with his work, and endure hardness as a good 
 soldier of Jesus Christ. And though since that, some 
 small appearances of success in mv work have repeatedly 
 revived mv former hopes and encouraged me to renew my 
 labors and the exercises of patience, yet repeated disap- 
 pointments, the want of support, the prevailing of secta- 
 rian principles, and especiallv the public disputes of the 
 country, in which Freetown has had an unhappy share, 
 have brought me to think it my duty to ask a dismission 
 from my pastoral office among you." 
 
 The stormy church meeting which brought matters t(.) 
 this crisis had been held some fourteen months before 
 (Liird's Day, December llth, ITT-li. when 
 " After the last prayer, a resolve of the Provincial Congress at 
 Cambridge, recommending that Thursday, the fifteenth of 
 December, be observed as a day of Thanksgiving, to render 
 thanks to Almighty God for all the blessings we enjoy, and at 
 the same time to humble themselves before God on account of 
 their sins, &c., was publicly read. This done, Col. Gilbert 
 rose and objected against observing that day. I told him I pro- 
 Si) 
 
posed to take the minds of the assembly as soon as I was ready. 
 I then told the brethren of the church that if it was their minds 
 to receive the advice of the Congress, and observe the day 
 recommended for those purposes, I desired they would signify 
 it by holding up their hands. Esqr. Brightman interrupted us 
 by alleging that I told them I proposed to take the minds of 
 the assembly, bnt I now called upon my brethren only. I 
 replied I thought it proper to take the mind of the church first, 
 and then renewed my call to the brethren, and they unani- 
 mously held up their hands. Then I told the assembly I 
 desired all such from sixteen years old and upwards who were 
 willing to join with the church in keeping the day recommended 
 for the foresaid purposes, to signify it by holding up their 
 hands, and a minor number did so. Upon this some cried out 
 it was not a clear vote, and Abiel Henry told me he hoped I 
 would call for a contrary vote. I replied nothing as I remem- 
 ber. Col. Gilbert moved that the next Thursday seven nights 
 might be the day. I replied: If any of them had a mind to 
 keep that day too, I had nothing to object, but the church 
 voted to keep the day recommended by the Congress. Col. 
 Gilbert alleged that the Congress was an unlawful assembly, 
 and that if we received their advice and observed the day 
 recommended, we adopted all their resolves. I replied I did 
 not think it a proper time and place to debate those matters, 
 and the assembly being in a great commotion. Col. Gilbert 
 moved that it should be pat to vote whether they would keep 
 Thursday se'nnight as a day of thanksgiving. Accordingly I 
 proposed to those that remained in the meeting-house that such 
 as were disposed to keep Thursday se'nnight as a day of public 
 thanksgiving and humiliation should signify it by holding up 
 their hands, and a number of those that didn't hold up their 
 hands for keeping next Thursda}', held up their hands, but 
 whetlicr a major or minor I couldn't tell. This done, they were 
 in motion to go out of the meeting-house, till I told them I 
 hoped they would not run away without the blessing, upon 
 whicli they stopped, and the blessing was given. 
 
 In such a storm as this it is no wonder that the frail 
 little organization, which, in the fairest weather, had 
 much ado to keep afloat, made shipwreck. Good .Silas 
 
 10 
 
CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND PARSONAGE. 
 
 CONGREGATIONAL PARSONAGE 
 
 41 
 
Brett carried his L^rav hairs and his children with him to 
 Easton, where he died in IT'.M, at the at^e (if 75. Col. 
 Gilbert, his antagonist, took refuge in the British 
 provinces, and his property at the center of the village 
 was confiscated. In the distractions of the War of Inde- 
 pendence and the agitated period which followed, the flock 
 was scattered as .sheep having no shepherd. But these 
 vici.s.situdes only serve to illustrate the inextinguishable 
 vitality of the church. The meetings for worship had not 
 long ceased in the old meeting-house by Mother's Brook, 
 when other congregations began to organize themselves to 
 provide for the needs of the people. Peace had not yet 
 been restored to the country, when (February. ITsl) was 
 established a church in the southern part of the town, 
 which is now the First Baptist Church of Fall River. At 
 a still earlier date, apparently, a church was gathered at 
 the southern edge of Assonet village, and one at East 
 Freetown. It need surprise no one, in view of the past 
 history, that all three of the congregations which suc- 
 ceeded to the old jiarish church were identified with that 
 denomination which is distinguished in all American his- 
 tory as the foremost champion of the principle of the 
 mutual independence of church and .State — the Baptists. 
 The congregation at Assonet built its house (.)f worship 
 (in the years l";*;!-*;) on a sighth- hill-top, where the line 
 of its foundations may still be traced. And here seems to 
 have been the principal center of the town's religious life, 
 within the rigid lines of doctrine and discipline that then 
 characterized all Baptist churches. But about the year 
 ISO" a remarkable change took place, which mav be 
 referred to a combination of influences. The whole coun- 
 try was feeling the '• more abundant life " that pulsated 
 through all the churches in that great revival at the open- 
 ing of the nineteenth century, which has been called 
 •■The -Second Awakening;" the reaction from the stren- 
 uous and narrow dogmatism of the dvnasty of the 
 Edwardean theologians was rising to its high tide in the 
 
 42 
 
Unitariaiiisni (if P><)slnn, and inakiny itself fell even at this 
 distanee from that eenlre, and with these remoter influ- 
 ences was joined the influenee of a p(.)werful personality 
 
 that of the beloved and revered pastor of the church, 
 Philip Hathaway. Under his leading- iiearlv the entire 
 church came to renounce their adhesion to the tenets of an 
 exaggerated Calvinism, and to the exclusiveness of the 
 Baptist fellowship, and to range themselves with '• The 
 Christian C<inneetion," which was just then beginning to 
 crvstallizc about dilTcrent nuclei in different parts of the 
 
 CHRISTIAN CHURCH EAST FREETOWN 
 
 country. The churches of this Connection in New Eng- 
 land differed from the Congregational churches about 
 them, in their protest against doctrinal tests as conditions 
 of church fellowship, and against the re([uircmcnt of a col- 
 lege education in all candidates for the ministry. From 
 the Congregationali.sts of the present day they differ in no 
 definable particular, except that of being organized into a 
 distinct sect. The current .setting toward the new " Con- 
 nection " was so strong as to take with it botli the Baptist 
 Churches in East Freetown. 
 
 43 
 
At Assonet there were visible and material signs of 
 spiritual vitality. The Baptist meeting-house, which for 
 a dozen years had been occupied in an unfinished state, 
 was now completed with lath and plaster, and simulta- 
 neously those who cherished the memory or the tradition 
 of the old parisli church .and of the godlv ministrv of vSilas 
 
 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, BUILT (809 
 
 Brett Ijegan to bestir themselves. Many things had taken 
 place in the thirt\- years since Silas J-irett had withdrawn 
 in .sorrow from the scene of liis disappointed hopes. 
 Peace had settled down upon the once distracted town, and 
 with peace had come prosperity. In iso;-! the thriving vil- 
 
 44 
 
lage of Fall River had been set off as a separate town, and 
 the reason which had fixed the meeting-house at Mother's 
 Brook as central to the town had ceased to exist. There 
 could have been little left but a ruin of the poor shell of a 
 building which for nearly a century had passed through 
 such vicissitudes of use and neglect ; consequently, when 
 the revival of the church led to the erection of a new house 
 of worship in the year 1809, there could be no hesitation 
 in placing it at the natural centre of the newly delimited 
 town — the "Four Corners" of Assonet. As there must 
 have been small remains of the old meeting-house, so 
 there could have been but few survivors of the little com- 
 pany of twenty-one persons who constituted the church at 
 the time of Mr. Brett's dismission. The church and 
 .society which undertook the work of building, was practi- 
 cally a new organization, and we cannot but admire the 
 zeal and self-denial that disposed their scanty number to 
 undertake a church building, which, in point of costliness 
 and of architectural pretension, was so far in advance of 
 anvthing previouslv attempted in the town. 
 
 The Christian community of the town of Freetown 
 was thus organized for Christian work, worship and fel- 
 lowship, substantially in the form which continues to this 
 day. The two hamlets of East Freetown were provided 
 with chapels, and the village of Assonet was doubly pro- 
 vided. Some of the more notable facts in the external 
 history of the church since this time may be thus briefly 
 stated. 
 
 About the year ls.'!-J the (.)ld Baptist meeting-house 
 that had stood for thirty-fotir years, and for twenty-five of 
 them had been occupied by the " Christian" congregation, 
 was superseded by the neat and commodious structure that 
 still stands cli_)se alongside the foundations of its prede- 
 cessor. 
 
 In the year Istis, on the occasion of the presentation 
 to the Xorth Church by Dr. Nathan Durfee, of Fall River, 
 of an organ of thirtv-eight stops, an addition of twenty 
 
 4.j 
 
feci Nv;is in.-ulc t<i the len-'th nf the church, providing- thtis 
 an (jrgan-rodin and choir loft, and in the Ixisement a con- 
 ference room ; the galleries were lowered, and other im- 
 provements were effected. 
 
 In Is'.i.") the Sonth Church underwent extensive ini- 
 pro\-emcnt and embellishment, ami a parsonage was built. 
 
 In 1s;h; the old I'ricnds' Meeting-House, which many 
 years before had been mo\cd from " Uuaker Hill " almost 
 to the northern l)oundar\- of the town, was torn do\vn.and 
 the present l)uilding erected. 
 
 In I'.iDl the (plaint mansion known as the Ca]itain 
 Rufus Bacon place, was bought for a ])arsonagc to the 
 North Church, and largch' repaired. 
 
 The following is an incomplete list of those who hax'e 
 served the town in one connection or another, in the min- 
 istrv of the gospel : 
 
 f\ rill, lOWX c IIUKCH. 
 
 1 Tn-l 1 7(m;. Will i.wi ^VA^■. 
 
 1 TlH-l 7 1 I . }i >si- I'll A\ i;k\'. 
 
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 1 74 7-1 77i',. Sii \s r,KKrr. 
 
 /.\- /■///; ASS(K\I-.T HAI'TISr ( IICRC//. 
 
 ( Incor])orated by .Vet of (General Court. June -I'.',, 17'.'7. but 
 
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 . I>A\lh SlMM(i\s. 
 
 ISO, . Pllll II' 11 A I HAW AN . 
 
 IX Tim ASSO.XliT " UIKISTIAX" CHCRCII. 
 
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 AiikAiiwi [ArKsox. 
 
 A. A. WlllIAMS. 
 Jiill.N I'.rRI'.ANK. 
 
 R. B. I^i.HKiiK.K. 
 
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 W. C. Walk. 
 
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 REV A L-. DUNCAN REV FRANCIS H, BOYNTON, 
 
 /.\- ////; .VOA'/V/ Ll/l'RCH, ASSOXE'r. 
 
 iConstituted hv Council, April lit;, IsiiT). 
 
 Cruris CoE. 
 Ll'TllKR Lki.and. 
 C A IAIN Park, 
 CtKokcp: S. WiiiiE. 
 I'liii II' C<ii,i;\, 
 Charles Nk iini.s. 
 Oris Lane. 
 James (tTRNEV. 
 Joseph P. Tvi.er. 
 .STK'rsdN Raymond. 
 
 E. W. RiiKINSON. 
 
 Cll ARI,E> CirWIRERI.AIN. 
 
 S.VMUEI. WodUIURV. 
 
 John !<:. Corw 
 Ai;ei. Vj. Duncan. 
 
 48 
 
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 I'KANCIS H. H()VNTf)X. 
 (iliiRi,!, W. IIa I IIAWAV. 
 WllIIAM II. CLII.EK. 
 W. A. TiAXKV. 
 
 Will. C. \\'i II m. 
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 M.ii.ii ■^'■; »iM''ffhfi n n n n n n n .1 
 
 RESIDENCE OF MRS SAMUEL S. BARNABY 
 
 49 
 
c^-^^ ^ i^ito-5^ 
 
 ^. '*•}■ ■%•., ^"%: ^iiP-' : ;?* Vj.> T^ 
 
 CLAMBAKE GROVE 
 
 The Assonet Clambake. 
 
 TT lllST* )RV 1)1 l''r<.-Llii\vn wnukl hardly be cdinplclc with- 
 /A out some account of tlic Assonet claml)ake, j^'iven for 
 so manv \-ears under the ausi)ices of tlie Cliristian Churcli 
 Society as almost to be reckoned in amonL;' its institutions. 
 The idea of a bake as a means of raisint;' monev for the 
 chui'cli oriij,inated with Swanse:i, and ^Vssonet was the first 
 to follow her lead. The tirst bake here was held in Istiti, 
 and the thirt\'-fiuirlh and last in IMHt. When the bake 
 was i)i'o]>osed, there were nian\- elderh' coTiser\-atives to 
 |)i'o])hes\' failure, but i;raduallv patience and \'outhful zeal 
 won tlK- cla\-. Willing helpers cleared Thresher's (Trove, 
 dut;' the clams, and supplied the vejj^etables from their own 
 i^ardens. .\lioui three hundred dinner tickets were sold 
 tliis first \-ear. and the sale steadily increased until one 
 vear as nian\- as eit^hteen hundred seats were taken. The 
 averajre nundjcr sold was one thousand, the supplies 
 necessary fortius number beini;' estimated at sixtv bushels 
 of clams, four barrels of sweet ])otatiies, three hundred 
 ])ounds of fish, one thousand ears of corn, and two hiin- 
 
dred pounds of dressint;-. The dimensions of the bake 
 were twenty-five feet by eii^ht feet. Three eords of wood 
 heated the stones, wliieh were then eo\-ered witli roek- 
 weed and canvas. 
 
 There were other means for raisin^t^' mone\- on the 
 jjroimds: a faney tal)le furnished ]>y the Sewinjj^ Society, 
 an ice cream booth, and cake, eandw flower, .sandwich and 
 coffee tables. These were common features of everv 
 l)ake. A \-ariation appeared one vear — Istls, in the shape 
 
 U ^ AIKEN 
 
 ot /'//(■ .lss(i//i-/ J/issi/i^'-i-r. a four-]iai.;'e slieet, one-fourtli of 
 it reading matter, dealing with e\-er\-thing from praise of 
 the clambake to the deseri]3tion of a Chinese wedding, the 
 remaining space taken up h\ advertisements of Taunton, 
 I'all Ri\-er and Providence firms, friends of the bake pro- 
 moters. An tmexpected diversion \\'as furnished in jsriit 
 by the September gale. Manv of the guests found their 
 way home again in spite of falling trees and toppling chim- 
 neys. The II7/I!/ Cliccy. howex'cr, could not return to 
 
 51 
 
Providence until the next day, Init lay all night tossing off 
 Cud\vorth"s Wharf, while her passengers found impromptu 
 lodging and entertainment in the homes of the villagers. 
 Although in most respects the Assonet clambake was 
 like any similar institution, it was uniciue in this, that it 
 came to be ///(• dav of the vcar for meeting old friends and 
 renewing old associations. I'or many years it was 
 A.ssonet's Old Home Festival, looked forward to with 
 
 THOMAS LEEBURN. 
 
 eagerness, and remembered with pleasure. In time there 
 grew to be a lessening of interest and a falling off in 
 attendance, and finally the l)ake w.is discontinued alto- 
 gether. The reasons for its decline are not far to seek. 
 Many of its old patrons had cither died or moved awav 
 from this section of the e'liunlrw and sccondh', competition 
 had entered in to make it impossible that any but the 
 fittest clambake shuuld sur\-i\-e. The ubiquitous trolley- 
 car and the frecjuent park and shore resorts, with their 
 daily menu of baked clams, have come off eoncpierors. 
 
 52 
 
School History. 
 
 BY MRS. PAUL M. BURNS. 
 
 DrkIX(r the coliinial and the provincial jjcriods, the 
 |)(i\ver to select teachers and to reg'idate the schools 
 was vested in the town as a corporatii^n. and not in any 
 IJarticiilar officer of it. From the year 1()S;3 — the date of 
 the incorporation of Freetown as a town — until 1702, we 
 find no records of school affairs, but in the latter year 
 Roliert Durfec, at a town meeting, was chosen town's 
 agent, to obtain a man "to dispense the gospel and teach 
 the children readin and ritin." Two years later William 
 \Va\" accepted the trust, scrying as minister and school- 
 master until ITnT, when, by yote of the town, he was dis- 
 missed. Stibsecjuent ministers must have served as 
 schoolmasters, though no mention is made of the fact in 
 the town records. 
 
 May 15, 171s, the next mentioned date, the town 
 •• mayde choyce of Jacob Hatheway to seek for a school- 
 master." In ( )ctober of the same year "Thomas 
 roberts " was allowed thirty-six pounds for one year's ser- 
 \-ice " at three several places: Walter Chase's, at or near 
 John Howland's, public meeting-house." Roberts and 
 the town did not agree, and at a meeting held February 
 14. i7:.M. itwas voted " to seek a new schoolmaster." The 
 next few years it would seem that the matter of education 
 was neglected, as there were repeated actions taken at 
 various town meetings, but nothing definite done. In 
 \1-2-2 the town voted "to erect two schoolhouses at the 
 middle of each half of the town from meeting-house or 
 
 53 
 
cciUcr." School was to he three times removed during' 
 the year: -'I'Mrst, at meetini^-house, second, lower part 
 of town, third, n])])er part of town." In ITi'T these two 
 hniltlini^s wi're sold at pnhlie auction, one for two dollars, 
 the other foi' li\-c dollars. We next learn that in 1 7--'.'i 
 William (lai^e was em])lo\'ed to teach school lor one year 
 for thirt\'-t\vo ])ounds, he to ]iro\-ide his own hoard. 
 I )nrin;4' the llii'ce followinL;' x'ears his snccessor. William 
 Caswell. tan!j,'ht. with an increase in salar\' of six pounds. 
 |ul\' hi, lT"-".i. it was voted to huild two schoojhouses. Xo 
 record can he found of their locations. When we take 
 into consi(lerati<jn the fact that at this time — I7;!n — there 
 were fewer than ciL;ht\- families in all the wide extent 
 from (Jueciueehan I'alls to Stace\"'s lirook. and then, fur- 
 ther, think of this territor\- as a \ast wilderness infested 
 with wild .inimals. we shall not l)e stirprised that children 
 were not sent to school, or that the town was repeatedly 
 indicted for not " haxdnL^' a schoolmaster as the law 
 directs." 
 
 ICphraiin Tisdalc. in I74."i, soUl to the town "land 
 with house thereon, situated hetween said Tisdale's home 
 and Sonet Huld ISridj^e for 1 (10 pounds old tenor. " Tis- 
 d.ilc wa- to furnish con\'cnient seats and taldes, and it was 
 aL;'reed that it should he iinished to the " turnini;' of ve 
 key." The locilum of this liuildini^' was in the villaire, a 
 little south of the fountain, and on the opjiosite side of the 
 street. It stood foi- t went \'-seven \-ears, an<l was then 
 destroNcd hy lii-c. Shadrach Hathaw.iv was in all prolj- 
 ahility the first teacher of this school. Tradition sa\-s he 
 was a college ti'raduate. lie died Decemher ;!, 174'.i, at the 
 .-li^e of lhirl\- three, and lies huried on land owned hv the 
 late Uaniel Macond)i.u'. lie was one of the orii^iual mcni- 
 hers of .Silas iirctt's church. In Mav. 174.s, it was voted 
 to huild " a schoolhouse twent\--four feet lont;' and twenlv 
 leet wide, upon kind m centre of town, near or upon spot 
 on which ould schoolhouse stands." A huildin^ com- 
 mittee was chosen, hut on Jauuar\- l'7, 17.")."., this commit- 
 
 r)4 
 
tee was dismissed, and •'choyce mayde " of Nathan .Sim- 
 mons to finish said liotise. Thus we see that this build- 
 injj' was in jirocess of eonstruetion for seven years. 
 
 In 1747 what is known as New or East Freetown was 
 added to Freetown, and in 1 7.")ti and 17.">7 the ])eople of 
 tliat section were allowed a proportion of the school 
 monev. Their first schoolhouse was erected in 17ri'_'. by 
 Captain I-^lisha Parker, at a cost of twenty-one pounds six 
 shillings. It was to be shin^'led ••ruff and sides." and 
 furnished with seats, and a ■•_Li,'ude" brick chimnev. It 
 was located near Alason's Corner. 
 
 In 1770 the town allowed si.Ktv dollars to the people 
 over the •• (xreat Ponde "to reimburse them for building a 
 schoolhouse. In Atiyust of the same vear the town voted 
 to " las. Tisdale twentv-fottr pottnds eleven shillings to 
 keep school in New Freetown twelve weeks, in old part of 
 town fourteen weeks, a:nd at Assonet sixteen weeks." 
 
 The following is the enrollment of ptipils in the town 
 Februarv ■2s, ll'-A. Elijah Briggs, teacher: 
 
 1. X.\ IH.^N BORDE.V, '..'0. CaLF.H HklGliS. 
 
 ■.*. P.AiiENCK BoRDKN. ".'1. Rhoiiv Bki(;(;s. 
 
 li. H.^NNAH Borden. 'Z'i. Ruth Negus. 
 
 4. Lucy Durfee. _ 23. Edward Bralev. 
 
 5. Nathan Durfee. "^4. Isaac Boruk.n. 
 
 (1. Si.MFoN Borden. ^2."). Benjamin Bravion. 
 
 7. fuDHH Borden. •2r,. Peleo Brayton. 
 
 S. Phokhe Hatheway. -r, . Ruth Boruen. 
 
 '.I. Robert Hatheway. -JS. Charles Durfee. 
 
 l(t. Prudence Hatheway. -i'.l Mary Borden. 
 
 II. Pekrv Borden. 30. James Bokden, Jr. 
 
 \-i. Stephen Borden. :![. Parker Borden. 
 
 13. Lemuel Chace. '-i'i. Abner Borden. 
 
 14. Betiy Borden. 33. Abe Bupler. 
 
 15. WiLi.LAM Durfee. 34. Sa.m. Sherman. 
 P',. [amis GlFKORD. 3.x Aaron Borden. 
 K. SlIHHEN (ilFKilKL). 3(i. JoHN ChACE. 
 
 IS. Klihu Gifford. 3T. Isaac Haihewav. 
 
 1'.). I'Ki.LLdVE Borden. 3f^. Peres Sherman. 
 
:3'.i. 
 
 Rl IH Nf.gus. 
 
 411 
 
 40. 
 
 Is.AAc Butts. 
 
 .")(!, 
 
 11. 
 
 Rf.iiecc.a Dlkkkf.. 
 
 .il 
 
 1-.'. 
 
 IsKALT, PkRKN". 
 
 m. 
 
 i:!. 
 
 (rl'A)RGF, RfAH. 
 
 .") '. ') , 
 
 4+. 
 
 Ell.l/A HokDEN. 
 
 54. 
 
 45. 
 
 HkN kN H A rilFWA V. 
 
 55. 
 
 4(i. 
 
 A r.ij \ 11 Di ki KF,. 
 
 5(1. 
 
 4;. 
 
 AllKI, BdkhKN. 
 
 5^ 
 
 4!S. 
 
 RUTIAKI) BOKDK.N'. 
 
 5S 
 
 Ezra Burden. 
 Ai, HERMAN" Negus. 
 Jane Hatheway. 
 JOSHUA Hatheway. 
 Susanna Bowen. 
 Thomas Durfke. 
 Susanna Borden. 
 Thomas Turner. 
 Mary (iIfford. 
 Aaron Turner. 
 
 511. E/KA Ll'lHEK. 
 
 ( )ne lumdix-d voars later, March 1. isTi', the enroll- 
 ment was two hundred and sixty. l^lijah l>riti;gs ^vas 
 succeede<l in ITTi' bv Shadraeh Wmshiw, who was em- 
 ])l(iyed ti> teach twn months in each section fur twenty 
 shillin,i;s per week with an additional allowance of six 
 shillinjrs per week for board. Winslow was the son of 
 James, and the i^randson of Captain Josiah Winslow and 
 was born December 17, 1750. He entered Vale Colle(i,"e 
 in 17i'>s, was u^'radiiatcd in 177l', and l)e;4an teachint^ in 
 that vear. In 17s:'. he married Klizabeth Rol)bins and 
 settled in I'oxboro'. where he practiced medicine. Ma\' 17, 
 177:1, the town x'oted to build a schoolhouse at Assonet, 
 •• on s[jot <if one jjurchased from l^'phraim Tisdale in 1745. 
 completed in 174i'i," that one havint.;' been destroyed by 
 fire. This house was for many years the jilace where the 
 town meetini;"s were held. (oshna Howard Brett, son of 
 .Minister Brett, tauL;ht in this buildinjj;. He afterward 
 remoxed to 1 )elaware Co., New ^"ork, where he jM'acticed 
 nieilicine. I'h'om 177.'i to 17'.il there :ire no records of 
 interest in education. In 17'.il the number of school dis- 
 tricts was se\-en : 
 
 No. 1. the South part of the town, now h^ill Ri\-er, 
 eonsistiiii; of fort \--se\'cn families; 
 
 X(i. 11, from X'alcutine's Brook''' to what is known as 
 the Barnaby place, fifty-two families : 
 
 *This was a favorite resort of .Abigail (Durfee) Valentine and after her 
 death, it was referred to by her children as ■■Mother's Brook," by whieh 
 name it is now known. 
 
No. Ill, frcim the Hanialn- place to the foot of Rid^'e 
 Hill, incliidiny Bryant's Neck, fifty families; 
 
 No. IV. Assonet, fifty-eight families: 
 
 No. ^^ Slab Bridge and ■■Backside.""" fortv families; 
 
 No. \'I, the district east of Bolton's cedar swamp, 
 fortv families ; 
 
 Xo. \'n, the district westward from ■■Ye Grcatc 
 Watuppa Ponde, " seventeen families. 
 
 In IT'.is the state required supervision of its schools. 
 The ministers of the gospel and the selectmen, or a com- 
 mittee specially chosen for the purpose, were required to 
 \'isit and inspect the schools once in e\-erv six months. 
 This \-isitation was a formal and solemn affair. The dig- 
 nitaries heard the clas.ses read, examined the writing and 
 ciphering books, and departed, leaving on the records 
 their testimony to the good behavior and proficienc}- of 
 the scholars. The chief text hook in those days was the 
 New England Primer, printed between ITS.") and IT'.hi. 
 It contributed, perhaps, more than anv other book. exce])t 
 the Bible, to the strengthening of those sturdv qualities 
 that insured to America her libert^• and her free institu- 
 tions. The print was small, irregular and hard to read. 
 The eyes that pored over it by fire-light or by candle-light 
 must ha\e ached. It contained some curious cuts of 
 animals and odd looking trees, but the children who read 
 its pages never heard of Nature studv. The onlv history 
 studied was that found in the Bible. Not very much was 
 known .about the size and shape of the world in those 
 early days, and indeed such knowledge did not seem 
 important to the people. The world was a ]:ilace to fight 
 in and to die in. The writing books had copies set by 
 the teacher, ^^'hile she mended pens (goose quills i. the 
 children brought up their exercises for inspection. Severe 
 was the punishment for a blot, and happy the child who 
 
 *"Back.side" wa.s the term used by the people living on the east side 
 of Bolton's cedar swamp to designate the district lying to the west of said 
 swamp. 
 
 57 
 
could write write well, for j,n-aeeful penmanship was con- 
 sidered a i^-real accoin])lishment. •• Doin;^ sums" was no 
 iriHiuL;- matter, althoui^-h it made no demand on the rea- 
 soning powers of the child. The work was done by rules 
 easily learned and applied. Examples in multiplication 
 having as many as fifteen figures in each factor were but 
 ordinary feats of skill, (ieorge II. Martin says, "In its 
 tax upon the mental power of children the arithmetic work 
 of a hundred years ago was play compared with modern 
 reciuirements." 
 
 It was not until 1 7'.t.-. that Freetown, in compliance 
 with the state law mentioned above, saw- fit to chocse her 
 school committee. It consisted of Nathaniel Morton, Ben- 
 iamin Durfee, and ISenjamin Weaver. They had special 
 instructions to divide district No. V, ;in<l in September, 
 IT'.Ml, rendered the following report ; --that the Chipway 
 road, so called, be the dividing line in ,s;iid district ; that 
 the .school house be erected a few rods northwesterly from 
 the house of Capt. Peregrine White, this district to be 
 known .is Xo. Mil, the other part to be still known as 
 Xo. V." Xcw buildings were erected by (ieorge Taber in 
 each district, and were ready for use in IT'.ts, the cost to 
 the town for the erection being £*>~>. 4d. each. This .same 
 year, IT'.is, " Assonet drstrict was subdivided to be known 
 as X^o. IX and Xo. X. The children north of Capt. William 
 Read's ])lacc, on Taunton road, to attend No. IX, and 
 those north of the Tisdale lot, Xo. X." The school build- 
 ings were erected, the one near the residence of the late 
 I'hili]) |. Tripp, the other at the to]) of the hill, a little 
 west of the home of Col. Riehmoiid. 
 
 The latter sehoolhouse was built by Simeon Webster, 
 for the sum nf one hundred and fort\' dollars. It was 
 twent\- li\e feet wide b\' thirty feet li->ng, with eight-foot 
 posts. The walls inside were covered with matched pine 
 boards, and it was plastered (jyerhead. There were two 
 windows on the front or east side, one on the south, two 
 on the west, and none on the north. The door was in the 
 
IK irthrast front corner, and ojiencd into a six b\- six foot 
 entry, partitioned from the main room by unmatched 
 boards. A door with a wooden lateh and a leather strinsr 
 
 o 
 
 opened into the main room. There were no shades to the 
 windows, no maps nor pictures. In the north end was a 
 hir_tje firephiee, in which fotir-foot wood was burned. At 
 the rii^'ht was the desk, which was simply a frame of planed 
 pine boards three by six feet, standins^' four and a half feet 
 high. The desks for the older pupils were pine planks 
 two feet wide, arranj^ed in a continuous line around three 
 sides of the ro(_)m. These planks were fastened to the 
 walls l)y cleats, and were inclined toward the centre of the 
 room. The seats were a continuous line of planks on 
 uprij.(hts, at the height of a chair, and without backs. 
 Seated in this way the back of each child was toward the 
 centre. The younger children sat on licnches luade In- 
 boring holes in planks, into which short legs were placed. 
 These, too, had no backs. There was no receptacle for 
 books and slates, except now and then a small individual 
 drawer hung underneath the jolank desks. The building 
 committee would not accept this house after completion 
 •• unless said Webster would relinquish Ss, which he did." 
 In 1n3.-) seventy scholars attended this school. 
 
 The Assonet district now had seventv-eight families, 
 and maintained two schools. "The north subdivision 
 included children from the ( )uld Bridge to Capt. Wm. 
 Read's;- from the west end of Water street to the home of 
 Xat Hatheway " + The south subdivision extended from 
 •• the foot of Ridge Hill to the Ould Bridge, including all 
 families on Terrv Road." The schoolhouse was lirst 
 located near the site of the present Christian Church, but 
 was afterward removed to the site opposite the Pound. 
 Not long ago the hearth.stone of the old .schoolhouse was 
 discovered lying beneath the walk in front of the Christian 
 Church. 
 
 *The site of the house now owned by Miss Sarah Porter. 
 +The site of the house now occupied by Mrs. M;iry Fletcher. 
 
 59 
 
It would seem al this lime that the distriets were 
 growing more responsible for the support of the sehools 
 and that the execuli\-e duties were being vested in the 
 distriet committees. In IsOIj was established the custom 
 of the selectmen of calling a meeting of citizens in each 
 school district, and of choosing a committee of three to 
 " superintend the business of said district." Each district 
 was to have the care of the schoolhouses, and keep them 
 in repair, " on its (.)wn account." This same year — 1803 — 
 the south part of the town was set off, and known as Troy. 
 This necessitated a change in district lines, and in 1805 
 Benjamin Weaver, Charles Strange and Job Morton were 
 chosen " to revise districts and adjust arrears of schooling 
 from ISOl to ISO.")." By reference to the preceding pages 
 it will be seen that districts I and VII now belong to Trov. 
 Districts formerly II and III were united as South District 
 No. I; Assonet West, No. II: Assonet East, No. Ill, late 
 No. IX (Tripp's), now No. IV; late No. X (Forge), now 
 No. V: late No. \' (Slab Bridge), now No. VI ; late No. 
 VIII (Peregrine White'si, now No. ATI; late No. VI (East 
 of Bolton's cedar swamp), now Xo. \"III. 
 
 '•i\mount due each district according to recorded 
 report of committee : 
 
 South Distriet. No. 1 $187 91 
 
 Assonet West, No^ 'i .53 ;!8 
 
 Assonet East, No. :> 41 80 
 
 No. 4 74 17 
 
 No. ') 59 15 
 
 No. (1 ■24 00 
 
 No. 7 4!) -iO 
 
 No, 8 54 50 
 
 Bknjamin Weaver, J 
 
 Chari.es Strange, ' Committee. " 
 
 Jni! Morton, \ 
 
 .■\bout the year ls(i4 a new .schoolhouse seemed neces- 
 .sary in East Freetown, and Col. Benjamin Weaver, Wil- 
 liam Roun.seville and Washington Hathaway were chosen 
 
 60 
 
a committee to inspect all the town schools, and report. 
 They reported the need of a school in the neighborhood of 
 •■ Backside,'" and recommended that it be built on land 
 belonging to Shubel Rowland, located a .short distance 
 north of the residence of Alden Lucas. In the same year 
 the town voted to purchase " a lot of land that belongs to 
 Wm. Leonard, for a schoolhouse for the northerly part of 
 As.sonet district, if it can be purcha.sed forSK'"." A build- 
 
 
 THE Ol TOWN HOUSE 
 
 ing of two rooms was desired, which should be known as 
 the Town House, and should be '• for the reception of the 
 poor, and to keep school in fcn-ever." The old house near 
 Assonet Bridge was to be sold at public auction. The 
 committee appointed reported at a subsequent meeting 
 that, in their opinion, this building could be erected for 
 eight hundred dollars. In isnn Dean Read was allotted 
 the contract to build it, for eight hundred and fifteen dol- 
 
 61 
 
lars. 'Vhv old scIhidI IniildinL^- was sold at auction fur three 
 lumdrcd and ninety dollars, and finally became the 
 projicrly of Cajjtain ]*>lmund Hathaway. 
 
 The first election of a o^eneral school committee was 
 made in isi;.!. This committee consisted of Joseph 
 Weaver, ICarl Samjjson and Hercules Cushman for the old 
 part of the town, ;ind William Rounseville, Jol) Morton 
 and Malaclii White for the new part. But the pe(.)ple were 
 so dissatisfied with this plan that tlic followino- year they 
 voted to " return to plan cjf l.so:;." April !'■•, l'<14, it was 
 voted that "Capt. j. Strang'e, Major Jos. Weaver, Capt. 
 lieni. T-awton, lulmund Pierce and Capt. Lynde Hathaway 
 for the old part of the town, and Job Morton, Esq., Deacon 
 Abrani Ashley and Mr. [osiah De Moranville for the new 
 jiart. be a committee to di\'ide, subdivide and revise the 
 school districts, as shall be found indispensable." August 
 l."i, ls|}, ilie\- rendered the following report; "Begin- 
 ning at the dix'iding line between Freetown and Troy, 
 with the house and family of Stephen Barnaby and 
 Ebenezer Miller, from thence on p<_ist road northward and 
 eastward to h^phraim Hathaway's and to \Vm. Borden's 
 north line, 24 families making District No. I ; hence, along 
 post road, including house of Pearce Phillips,* and all fam- 
 ilies on Brvant's Xeck, to [(jhn Dene's, foot of Ridge Hill, 
 •_'•; families making District No. H; from guide post near 
 the old (Juaker meeting-house, and from post road south- 
 easterh' on Bedford road to Cedar Post, or the house of 
 Jacol.) llatheway, all families within reach. District No. HI." 
 .\ scliool building situated between the house of Silas 
 Tcrr\' and ih.at of Samuel Bragg was probablv the one 
 used for this district. District N(.). IV extended from 
 "the loot of Ridge Hill to Four Corners, including the 
 widow Sarah Chase, containing thirty families; District 
 No. \' from Poui" Corners on both sides down Water 
 street, wesll\- from the house of holder Phili|) Hath- 
 away, to the house of James Marbel comprising twenty- 
 
 *Now the residence of Frank F. Terry. 
 
 62 
 
nine families." The sehool building was located a little 
 west of the gunshop. "Beginning with Washington 
 Hathaway's family on the north side of Water street to 
 Four Corners, up both sides of Taunton road to home of 
 Captain Bliffins ; on Plymouth road to house of Nat 
 Hathawav ; from guide post at Mill Bridge, on Slab Bridge 
 road to home of Dan Hathaway ;'l families, known as 
 District No. A'l. Forge district to continue and remain 
 /// statu quo, ."Jn families. District No. \'II ; lastly all fanailies 
 on Taunton Road, from Captain Ijliffins' to T. V. tree,* 
 1.". families. District No. N'lII." 
 
 In jsl.'i the town chose a general school committee, 
 while the residents in each district chose a "prudential 
 committee," frequently referred to as school agents. "The 
 school committee were to judge the qualifications of school 
 masters: the school agents were to notify the proper 
 inhabitants of districts in which thev respectively resided 
 to attend school meetings whenever required to do so by 
 the people thereof." The committee for the new part of 
 the town reported the necessity of a division of the dis- 
 trict known as "Backside" and recommended the erection 
 of a schotjlhouse nearer the Furnace. This building was 
 completed in isls on land of Cornelius Chace at the east- 
 ern extremity of the Chace road, and was used for sehool 
 ])urposes until the ye;ir l^iW nr istl-J wlien a new school- 
 house was built several rods west of it, and the (jld one 
 sold to Reuel Washburn. In isli; the two districts south 
 of Ridge Hill were united, but in is^n the records show 
 that their school building was burned. When rebuilt it 
 was located on land of Captain Job Terry, near the present 
 site of C. P. Hathaway's harness shop. It remained here 
 many years, but finally, in c<)nse(|uence c)f the increased 
 population on Bryant's Neck, it seemed desirable to 
 change the district line and move the building farther 
 north. Captain Terry strongly objected and forbade the 
 
 •Taunton-Fieetown tree. 
 
 63 
 
reiiKivul. 'l~hc f()ll()\vint4' is the actidii of the town relative 
 to this matter: X'oted that "the whole differenee as to 
 division lines between distriets be referred to a committee 
 to consist of three persons, and said committee be and are 
 hereby authcjrized to establish such lines conditionally or 
 absohitel\- as school committee shall think expedient;" 
 and votctl that ■•the school committee be a committee to 
 settle difference in districts I and II agreeable to vote on 
 E. 1'. Ilathcvvav's motion." The committee evidcntlv 
 
 OLD SOUTH SCHOOL HOUSE 
 
 [From Paiiitiii:^ 1>V >! E. X- llAUIEWAY) 
 
 sided with the majority, for the building was moved in 
 
 spite of Captain Terry's ])rotestations, and the next vear, 
 
 iN+ii, the town voted to pay him $."i.44 which he had 
 
 expended in instructiou of school in district No. I." 
 
 The old building- near the dwelling of Thomas Lucas, 
 
 was in I>Sl':J removed to the Braley district and situated 
 
 where the "Chipway road and Proprietors' wav cro.ss." 
 
 The town voted •■§.")(» to defray the expen.se of removal 
 
 and |)uttuig in rep;iirs." The five districts in New or 
 
 (it 
 
l^ast Freetown are nnw knuwn as (Juanapoag No. IX; 
 Slab Bridge No. X: Braley Xo. XI; Mason's No. XII; 
 and Furnace No. XIII. 
 
 In ls4;> was published the first rejiort of a school 
 committee to the citizens of the town. The election of 
 school committee for a period of three years was first made 
 in ls.">s. Thomas G. Nichols was elected for three years. 
 Philip j. Tripp for two years, and George T\-ler for one 
 \ear. 
 
 In is5(t the Forge district was divided and a school 
 maintained near Seth Rowland's home on the Howland 
 Road. How long this continued is uncertain, but prob- 
 ;ibly several years. The "Old Forge" held its last session 
 during the winter of is.iCi and '."■)7, with Rev, A, G, Com- 
 ings as teacher. The present Forge School building was 
 erected in Isi'i:.'. In the meantime some of the children 
 were sent to the village school, and some to an improvised 
 school opened in the "corn crib" which stands in the yard 
 of the late Daniel Macomber. In is.")!* Districts No, VI 
 (Village), and No. X (vSlab Bridge i were united, and in 
 the following year Districts No. \' i Water vStrceti and No. 
 \'III (Tripp's I were added thereto. 
 
 The next important question to be decided was the 
 abolition of the scIkioI district system. A great majority 
 clung to this system with unyielding tenacity, l)nt the 
 good .sense of the people finallv prevailed, and, after the 
 cjuestion had Ijeen submitted to them for five successive 
 years, it was carried in 1 m'>h bv a \'ote of forty-three to 
 forty. The threatened loss of seventy-five dollars of the 
 .State School Fund undoubtedly helped the citizens to vote 
 on the right side. Massachusetts in Iss2 made the aboli- 
 tion of the school district system compulsory, thus ending 
 one of the longest and most stubbornly conte,sted contro- 
 versies in the school history of the state. 
 
 In the earlv part of Isil'.t a new house was built in the 
 south district, the scholars attending, during its erection, 
 the neighboring school most convenient for them. After 
 
 65 
 
the coniplclion of this hmise Ihc Pound seliool was dis- 
 eonlinucd and the schoL'irs in that district were added to 
 tile South and X'ilhii^e districts, which gave the oppor- 
 tunil\-. so long desired, of grading the village school. 
 In this same \'ear, ls(;it. the old buildings known as the 
 pound, I'orge. and Tripp were sold and subsequently 
 converted into dwelling houses. 
 
 Although improvements have been made in school 
 accommodations and management from vear to vear since 
 lNt)'.>, few of them are noteworthy. The school-rooms 
 loda\'are well lighted and well ventilated and as efifrciently 
 equijjped as the average countrv school. The teaching 
 force is good. The text-books since Iss4- give equal 
 opportunities to all. When we hear people sigh for the 
 good old da\'s, "when I was a bov," we should know 
 that education fiftv vears ago consisted of mcmorv tasks, 
 mostly meaningless, to which children were driven by 
 fear of the rod. ( )f the numerous teachers who were 
 emplo\-ed here during some ])art of the century jttst 
 closed, few l>clie\ed in sparing the rod. P)Ut memory 
 dwells rather upon the patience and tact of those instruc- 
 tors, and calls u]) manv names e\er to ho honored and 
 cherished. Among them mav be mentioned Stephen 
 C'rary. Harriet Hriggs, Philip [. Tri]!].!, Walter I). Nich- 
 ols, l-Llizabeth i\. Hathaway, Susan Phillips, Nancy Gray, 
 Jennie Harper, Minnie Chace and Melora Whitcomb. No 
 doul>t there are others, Init the writer's attention has been 
 directed lo these as deserxdng of special mention, 
 
 I'^rom among lliose who ha\-e contriljuted to the catise 
 of education, the name of Pjorence Hathawax', now Mrs. 
 (.'rowell. should not be omitted. To her belongs the 
 honor ol being the first woman in this town to exercise 
 hei' [)ri\-ilege of voting on school affairs. She was also 
 the hrst woman here to ser\-e in the capacitv of school 
 committee, lo which office she was elected in March, 
 IMM. Though no longer a resident, her influence is still 
 felt, and will continue to be felt by rising generations. 
 
Ill Marcli, I~^'.'ii, l''r(.'ctii\vn \-iited to unite with unv 
 other town <ir towns in the cnipli)\ inent cif a district 
 superintendent of schools; but it was not until ten years 
 later, April, J'.hiu, that a union with Swansea and Seekonk 
 was effected and a superintendent employed. This may 
 be considered the last imporiant chanii^e in the educa- 
 tional system of this town. ^Ia\- its citizens constantly 
 striye to culti\-ate a proji^ressiyc spirit in the conduct of 
 its schools, with open mind to recot^nize the best and will 
 to appropriate it, for in public education lies social safety. 
 
 An article of this kind would hardly be complete 
 without some mention of the pri\-ate schools which existed 
 in such numbers in the i)ast century, and of which Freetown 
 had her share. In 1 T'.h; the town yoted "to giye the use 
 <if the schoolhouses within the town, when not in use by 
 the town," for priyate schools. It Avould be impossible 
 to mention all who tau.<;ht priyate schools, but a threat 
 injustice woidd be done should the name of Pulcheria 
 Cordelia ( )li\-ia Rump fall into obli\'iou. Mrs. Hiimji 
 was an ( )lney, and it is .said, was connected with the 
 family of ex-Secretary of State Olney. Her home was 
 at Proyidence, and it was while a student at P>rown 
 Uniyersity that Dr. Pump became acejuainted with her. 
 They were subsequently married, and located here about 
 ]N]s. The Paddock house became their permanent home. 
 Here Mrs. Hump opened a priyate school and taught 
 music, painting, embrcjidcry and French to the young 
 people of the town. Dr. Piump gaye instruction in Latin. 
 Mrs. Bump was a woman who awoke the admiration of 
 all with whom she came in contact for her pleasing man- 
 ners and easy conyersational power. Her influence in 
 arousing their ambition and in forming their taste was 
 .in a[)preciablc factor in the lives of all her pupils. To 
 her may be gi\-en the credit of mucli of the culture and 
 refinement here today. 
 
 In the upper part of the gambrel-roofed house on the 
 north side of the '•As.sonet Great Bridge" was a hall in 
 
 or 
 
which licnjamin Crane kept a private school of much 
 note. He was the father of ICdward Crane, who at one 
 time edited an American paper in Paris, and who ren- 
 dered assi.stance to the ICmpress Euijenie in her flight 
 from France. 
 
 Many otlier men of rccou-nized educational ability 
 have gone forth fnan this little town and held honored 
 places. It is not the purpose of this chapter to summar- 
 
 RESIDENCE OF WILLIAM DEAN 
 
 ize all the x'arinus indniduals who have been teachers 
 or been graduated fnun the higher institutions of learn- 
 ing. ^'et it is a nc itewi >rth\- fact that on tlic records of 
 lierlin Cniversity, of Holyoke, Brown, Yale, Harvard, 
 Cnion. Smith. Radcliffe, Cornell, and Welleslev Colleges 
 of .M.-issachusetts Institute of Technologv. of the Wor- 
 cester Polytechnic and Pratt Institutes, mav be found 
 enrolled the names of the s<ins and daughters of '-Ye 
 Ancient Town of I'rcctown." 
 
 68 
 
GUILFORD H. HATHAWAY LIBRARY 
 
 The Guilford H. Hathaway 
 Library. 
 
 'HE CUILFORD H. HATHAWAY LIBRARY is a 
 pretty little building occupying a central position in 
 Assonet \'illage. It was built in lSt*5, and given to the 
 town bv Miss E. Florence Hathaway, now Mrs. J. F. 
 Crowell. as a memorial of her father. The gift was 
 especially appreciated bv the people, because they had 
 grown to realize that the town-office, which had served 
 them as library for three years, was quite inadequate to 
 their growing needs, be.sides causing much inconvenience 
 to the town officers. This makeshift library was, however, 
 an important step in the right direction, and one for which 
 we have again to thank Miss Hathaway. It was she who 
 by her own personal efforts so interested the town in the 
 question, that finallv at the Town Meeting held in March. 
 l>Lt2, it was voted to organize a library. Mr. George B. 
 Cud worth, Mr. Gilbert M. Nichols and Miss Hathaway 
 
 (lit 
 
'were apiiointed as trus- 
 tees, and the apprupri- 
 atiiin of twenty-five 
 ■ dollars made, necessary 
 to establish a claim on 
 the one hundred dol- 
 lars otfered b\- the 
 State. The State sent 
 promptlv its mone\' 
 equivalent in books, 
 and the lil)rarv was 
 begun. Books were 
 distributed and re- 
 ceived twice a week. 
 Miss Hathaway giving" 
 her services as libra- 
 rian ever}- Thursday 
 afternoon, and Mr. Cud- 
 worth and Mr. Nichols 
 alternating on .Saturdav 
 nights. To meet the 
 growing demands of its patrons. Miss Hathaway solicited 
 mone\-. and received encouraging returns from Mrs. 
 Rachel Plummer, of Assonet, ]\Ir. Bailev Evans, of Provi- 
 dence, and Mrs. Mar\- M. (rager of Brooklyn, X. Y. 
 When the librar}' began to outgrow its limits, and there 
 was talk of mo\-iiig to another part of the Town Mall, Miss 
 I [athawa\- came forward with her generous propi)sition. 
 and the present library was the ultimate result. Mr. John 
 D. Wils(.n gave the lot, the charge of building was under- 
 taken b\- Mr. Cudworlh and Mr. Nichols, and the work 
 was promptly and satisfactorilv carried through. The 
 library was ready for the public in the fall of ISil."), and at 
 once found eager and a])preciati\-e patrons. Its main room 
 is amply lighted day and evening, and is furnished with a 
 reading-l;d)lc well-slocked with current magazines and 
 weeklies. These are a gift from the ladies of the Tuesda}' 
 
 7il 
 
 GUILFORD H. HATHAWAY 
 
MRS J F CROWELL 
 (Formerly E. Fi..h:ence II vthawav J 
 
 free in consideration 
 of her services as libra- 
 rian. Miss Charlotte 
 Nichols haskindlvgiv- 
 en much of her time 
 on Saturday evenings. 
 The town has never 
 ceased to be grateful 
 for Miss Hathaway's 
 gift, and appropriates 
 annually an increasing 
 amount for its mainte- 
 nance. This and the 
 income derived from a 
 bequest of $.>()() made 
 by Mrs. ( lager in isitii 
 insure to the town a 
 steady and satisfactor\- 
 growth in cme of its 
 most useful institu- 
 tions. 
 
 Club, an organization 
 also owing its origin to 
 Miss Hathaway. The 
 volumes now number 
 about twelve hundred 
 and fifty. They are 
 selected by the trus- 
 tees, Mr. Cudworth, 
 Mr. Nichols, and Mrs. 
 II. M. Irons, the last 
 elected to take Miss 
 Hath a w a y ' s place 
 when she gave up her 
 residence herein l^ilt.5. 
 The building has no 
 regular attendant, but 
 is placed in charge of 
 the postmistre.ss who 
 hasherolfice here rent- 
 
 71 
 
 JOHN WILSON 
 
Military History. 
 
 BY COL. SILAS P. RICHMOND. 
 
 THE WRITER fully realizes that this brief chapter 
 will not do justice to the subject in hand ; Init he 
 will make it as l;road and comprehensive as his ability 
 will permit, and \-iiuehes for its trutlifiihuss as far as his 
 knowledge extends. 
 
 During the struggle of PlynidUth Colony with the 
 Indians, thai portion of the country which later became 
 the Freemen's Purcliasc was mostly occupied by the red 
 men. Hence we lind but few white men from that local- 
 ity mentioned in the Indian wars. Samuel Nash, the 
 owner of the twcntv-tirst lot. where Assonet now stands, 
 commanded a force against the Indians in ItU."). And 
 there were some men from this section who served with 
 that great Indian tigliter. C<ilonel Church. Colonel 
 Thomas Crilbert commanded a company in the forces sent 
 to Cape Breton in 171.">. Later he was lieutenant coUmel 
 of Second Regiment. Bri.stol County Militia, under Colonel 
 l>;/,ra Richmond, and ftnight in the French and Indian 
 War. He was a Tor\- and commanded a battalion in the 
 King's forces in the Revolutionarv ^Var, and (rcneral 
 Gage sent him an "espontoon." 
 
 For a long time Col<.)nel Cilbert was a man of wealth 
 and a leader in Assonet; and many men who were secretly 
 Whigs dared not declare their principles for fear of him. 
 Ihit later the Whigs obtained control and Colonel (Gilbert 
 was driven out and his prtjpertv confiscated. Captain 
 Ambrose I'arnaln- was one of the most wealthv men in 
 
Frcelown ill IT.Mi. anil al that time he was a Torv, but 
 later he beeame a Whig- and exerted great influenee in the 
 Patriots' catise. 
 
 Captain Levi Ronnsvill was a Torx' in 17(i^, but later 
 became a Whig, and was eaptain uf the Minute Men oi 
 Freetown who responded to the first eall, known as the 
 "Lexington Alarm," April in, ITT.'i. The roster of the 
 company was as follows; — Captain. Levi Rounsvill ; 
 Lieutenants, Samuel Taber and Xatt Morton: Sergeants, 
 John White and Consider Crapo ; Corporals, Joshua Law- 
 rence and Seth Hilman. Privates, Philip Taber, Uriel 
 Peirce, Benj. Lawrence, AImcI Cole, Consider ^Vhite, Jesse 
 Keen, Jacob Benson, John Clark, John Bralev, Pcrcival 
 Ashley, Ichabod Johnson, Michael Ashley, Seth Morton, 
 Jeff Sachems, Israel Haskell, Louis DeMoranville, Abram 
 Ashle\-, Charles DeMoranville, Aaron vSeekel, Abner 
 Haskins, Beniamin Runnells. Thomas Rouns\-ill. Peter 
 Crapo and Joseph Racket. 
 
 The first company of militia was formed in Freetown 
 in Itis."), and was commanded bv Thomas Tcrrv. This com- 
 pany retained its organization for more than one hundred 
 years, and had two terms of serx'ice in the War of the 
 Revolution, and was commanded in that war b\- Captain 
 Benjamin Read. The roll of the company in ITmi, was 
 as follows : — 
 
 Captain, Benjamin Read ; Lieut., Philip Hathaway jr. 
 Ensign, Benjamin Evans; Sergts., (iuilford Evans, .Sam- 
 nel Hathaway and vSilas Hathaway ; Corps., David Doug- 
 lass and John Payne; Musicians, James Win.slow and 
 George Winslow ; Privates, Ephraim Briggs, John Briggs, 
 Abner Briggs, Daniel Braman. Isaac Bur1)ank, (rreenfield 
 Chace, Je.s.se Cud worth, Gilbert Chace. George Chace Jr., 
 Richard Clark. Fairfax Chace, Thomas Evans, John Evans 
 Jr., (ruilford Grinnell, Daniel Grinnell, ISenjamin Crrin- 
 nell, Jonathan Hathaway Jr., Seth Hathaway, Joseph 
 Hathawav, Robert Hathawav, James Hathaway Jr.. Sil.-is 
 Hathaway, Eben Hathaway, Peter Jucket, Job Keen. 
 
Walter Nichols, Solomon Payne. Warden Payne, Job 
 Payne, Benjamin Porter, Samuel Richmond, Rufus Ray- 
 mond, William i\ead, Isaac Record, Charles Strange, 
 James Strange, Lot Strange, Job Terry, Solomon Terry, 
 Abiel 'i'errv [r.. IJenjamin Weaver, David Winslow, 
 Oliver Winslow, William Winslow, Richard Winslow, 
 Ezra Winslow and Thomas \Vinslow. 
 
 The second companv of Freetown, Capt. Henry 
 Brightman, and the third company of Freetown, Capt 
 James Norton also pai ticijjated in this campaign. These 
 com])anies ser\'ed in a regiment of which John llathawav 
 was Colonel; vSylvester Richmond Lieut. -Col. ; Manasseh 
 Kempton and Joseph Durfee [Majors. Capt. Benjamin 
 Weaver commanded a companv in the I'atriot Armv and 
 was promoted to Lieut. -Col. Jul\- lo, 1 T^s. 
 
 Col. Joseph Durfee commanded the forces which 
 repelled the British attack on Freetown at Fall River, Way 
 L'."i, ITTs. Cajit. James Richmond and Jonathan Rich- 
 mond were in the marine service of the Patriots, 177N-S(I. 
 
 Jail llatliaway and Ceorge Chace were captains in 
 Col. Thomas (iilbert's baltallion of Tories. 
 
 Da\-id \'alentine of I'^all River, in Freetown, was the 
 general of the I-iristol County men in the Sha\'s Rebellion. 
 He fled to England after the defeat of the rebels, but 
 afterwards rctui'ned and was pardoned. No other prt)mi- 
 nent men in I'^reetown were with tlie rebels at that time. 
 
 Ca])t. lien jam in Weaver, wlio commanded the first 
 Company of Militia in Freetown at that time, by the vigi- 
 lance of himself and liis men, sa\-ed the government sup- 
 ])Hes from I'alling into the hands of the rebels. 
 
 Freetown furnished two com[)anics in tlie War of 
 bsP2. Tile roster of the' first companv was as follows: 
 
 Ca])lain, Lynde llatliaway; Lieut.. Thomas fSurbank; 
 Sergts., Jo.sepli I'Aans, Preserved Cotton and Joseph 
 I'^vans'Jd; Musicians, Calvin I'ayne and William Winshnv ; 
 Privates, Zephaniah .\ndros, Thomas ISootli. William 
 Burr, Lutiier i!riggs, Is.aac P>url)ank, 
 
 74 
 
John Hriggs, .Stephen liurdcn, I Inkier Chaee, Edmund 
 Chace, Simeon Chaee, vSamuel Chaee, (rilbert Chace, James 
 Chace, John D. Ciidworth. Miehael Chace, Daniel Doug- 
 lass Jr., Paul Davis, John Dean. John Dean -id, Ebenezer 
 Dean, King Dean, Benj. Dean Jr., Joshua Downing-, Wil- 
 liam Evans. Lemuel Edmin.ster, Ephraim Hathaway, Dan- 
 iel Hathaway, Lot Hathaway, Miehael Hathaway, [oseph 
 Hathaway 2d, Ennis Hathaway, Jason Hathaway. Henrv 
 ]'. Hathaway, Noah Hathaway, Bradford Hathaway, John 
 llaskins, Malaehi Howland, Seth Howland, Enoeh Hath- 
 away, Silas Hathaway, Philip Hathaway, Malbone PLith- 
 away, Joseph Marble, h^benezer Miller, Mason Martin, 
 Charles Marble, William Nichols, John Nichols, Henrv 
 Payne, l^aalis Phillips, Peirce Phillips, .Solomon Payne, 
 Abram Payne, (xeorge Pickens, Adino Paddock, Henry 
 Porter, John \\ Pratt, John Read, Dean PL Read, Joseph 
 Read, Thomas Randall, l^enjamin Raymond, Abram 
 Richmond, Isaac Richmond, .Samuel Richmond, Ciilbert 
 .Staples, John .Strange, Joshua Seekel, Joseph Terry, 
 Thomas Terry, Silas Terry, John Wilkinson, James Web- 
 ster, Darius Wilbur, l);irnab\- Winslow, Ephraim Wins- 
 l(_iw jr., Gilbert \Vinslow, Kcnelm Winslow, William 
 \Vinsl(_)w. 
 
 The roll of the second Company was as follows: 
 Capt., .Simeon Ashley; Ensign, Samuel Mactjmber; 
 Sergts., Bishop Ashley, fohn Rounsvill, (Gilbert Rounsvill, 
 Philip Taber, John Allen, Benjamin Ellis, Josiah 
 DeMoranville, and Clark Haskins; Musicians, Ephraim 
 (lUrney and Thomas Rounsvill Jr.: Privates, Abram Ash- 
 ley 2d, Abram A.shlev yd, Taber Ashley, Thomas Ashley, 
 Leonard A.shley, Jonathan ISralcy, Job Braley, Abiel 
 liriggs, John Bent, Asa Clark Jr., Jo.seph Clark, George 
 Cummings, L Cunimings, William Ca.se, Frederick Down- 
 ing, James (rorham, David S. Hathaway, Philip ILith- 
 away, Natt. Hathaway, Natt. Jucket, David Lawrence, 
 .Spencer Lawrence, Asel Lucas, He/.ekiah Mason, Noah 
 Perkins, Ira Pitt.sley, Abram Pittsley, Alc.x.-inder Pittsley, 
 
lames I'ittsk'V, Mike Rcvnolds Jr. ,\Vill)ur Reynolds, Luther 
 Rogers. Silas Rmmsx-ille, jnhn Tnbey, James White, Jolin 
 White, Malaehi While. Samuel Wh ite, Jr. , Wm. Westgatc. 
 
 L'iiiu])an\' ■•('," of Assonet in Freetuwn was ehartered 
 iin petitiiiu nf Robert P. Slrobridge and hftv-two others. 
 The petition was granted in ( ieneral Order No. 12, Boston, 
 Mass., |une 7, I^.Mi, "prox-iding that within six months at 
 least f(U-tv-eiglil men shall be enlisted." Silas P. Rieh- 
 niond, |olin W. Marble, I'^benezer W. Peiree and (icorge 
 1). Williams signed the enlistment paper on June s. ls.">n, 
 and fortv-seven others signed within the next two days. 
 ( )n June 14, 1 s.'io an election of ofheers was ordered in 
 (reneral ( )rder Xo. 14. directed to Robert P. Strobridge. 
 fune 'I'-K IN.")!' olheers were elected asfollows: Capt., liben- 
 ezer W. Peiree; 1st Lieut., Augustus C. Barrows; •2nd 
 Lieut., Ciiles L. Leach; :!d Lieut.. John W. :Marl)le ; 4th 
 Lieut., Daniel II. Cudworlh. By (xeneral Order No. 7s, 
 luly ."), l,s,")(t the Company was lettered "O," and attached 
 to the I'd Regiment, L'd Brigade, 1st l)i\-ision, M. \^. ^1. 
 |uly Pi. is,",() Robert P. Strobridge was a])poiuted first 
 sergeant and clerk. 
 
 The first (lul\- of the com])an\- was in the escort at the 
 funeral of President Ta\lor in Boston, August l.'i, |s.')(i. 
 Luring the following ten \-cars the comi)anv was com- 
 manded b\- L'aptains Augustus C. Barrows, John W. ]\kir- 
 ble, Silas P. Richmond, ]ames ^L Mathewson. and John 
 W. Marl)le a seeoml term. Company (i was the school 
 of the (ifhcers and fort\--two of the soldiers of I'rcetown 
 who fought in the war In ])reser\-e the Union. 
 
 IntheCi\il Warof isill-.'i, I'rectown res])ondc(l noblv. 
 At that time there were two hundred and fort\- men in 
 t<iwn between the ages of eighteen and fort \'-li\'e who were 
 ;d)le to d(i military duty. ( )f these, one hundred and 
 liftv-fi\'e men enlisted and scrx'cd the I'nited States. 
 man\- of ihcm scr\ing two anil three terms each; and 
 of these, ('/!,'///(•(■// u'l/-,- iiii/iiinssioinii offiif/s. including one 
 Oeneral, two Colonelsand a Major. A large number of them 
 
 7i; 
 
laid (Inwn their lives, on the field of battle, in the hc)S])i- 
 tals and in the rebel prisons, for the Union the\- l(i\-ed. 
 
 The "Minute Men" from Freetown who went to 
 the front April l.'i. isCil. were: — Bri;.^. fieneral Ebenezer 
 W. I'eiree: Ca])t. and A. I). C. Silas P. Riehniond ; Ca]H. 
 )()hn W. Marble; 1st. Lieut. Huniphre\- A. I'raneis; :id 
 Lieut. John ]\L Deane ; Ser_t;ts. James H. LLithawav and 
 (jeorj4'e D. Williams; Corps. Frederie Thaver and Chester 
 W. Hrii^'g's ; Privates James C. Clark, James PL Haskell. 
 Russel Plaskins. Ephraim H. ILaskins, Charles R. Ras- 
 kins, (reori^e II. Haskins, Urial M. Haskins. David IJ. 
 llill. Rtissel H. HathawaN'. John Maleom. Culnmbus 
 Peiree. Luther Piekens, Cjeorj^'e F. Putnam, Edward E. 
 Read. Weleome H. Riehmoiid, [ames H. Whittaker and 
 Henediet A. W'inslow. 
 
 The I'reetown men who went into the field with the 
 ;id Ret^'t. Mass. Vols, in lsr,-_>. were; — 
 
 Col. Silas P. Riehmond : Cajn. John W. Marble; 
 Serials. L"T^<-'^ H. Hathawa\\ Stephen Hathawav and 
 I'rederie Thaver; Corps. I'rial M. Haskins. l^phraim H. 
 Haskins and David B. Hill ; Privates Albert 1!. Ashley. 
 Franeis (i. HriL;'<4's, Franklin L Chaee. Sumner J. Chip- 
 man. (ieor_i;-e Duffee, Andrew T. Hambly. Cieori^'e H. 
 Haskins. James PL Haskell, Otis Haskell, Aaron I). 
 llathawa\-. Andrew L Hathawav. Lynde Hathaway. 
 Andrew ]. Horr. Shubael G. Howland. Thomas \V . Mur- 
 tautjh,(jeor;^e A. Paine, F^dwin H. Rennis, lulwin S. Rouns- 
 ville. Simon 1). Rounsville. Asa Spooner Jr., Henediet A. 
 W'inslow. ('ieor;..;-e F. Wileo.x and ]\Ltreenah B. Wileox. 
 
 The men from I'reetown enlisting;' in the -JMlh ReLi't. 
 M.iss. \'ols.. were: — Col. k^benezer \V. Peiree; Major 
 Ji'hn M. Deane; Capt. (leort^'e D. Williams ; Lieut. Charles 
 G. Bosworth; C(.)rp. Martin \'an B. Haskell; Musieian 
 James Booth; Privates |ohn Bodth. Abram Haskell, ICph- 
 raim Haskell. William ILiskell, Henry L. Hill. Miehae! 
 -Malony. Albert R. Pittsley. James Pittsley. William 
 Pittslev. Culbert Revnolds. Cornelius West^^'ate. k:iisha 
 
\Vest;4atc. Klisha B. WcstgatL-, John \Vcstt;-atc, Joseph 
 WestL;-ate. [oseph L. Westt^atc. PrcSL'r\-c(l Wcstg'ate and 
 Ivrhvard Wilbur. 
 
 The I<'ructii\\-n men who joint'd the .".sih Rci^'t., Mass. 
 \'()ls., were: — C'A. Silas P. Richmond: Lieut. Ephraim 
 Id. Ilaskins; Serials. Aaron I). Hathaway and Abrani 
 T. Haskell; Corps. Marcenah 15. W'ileox and Peter A, 
 Maker; Pri\-ates I'raneisCj. Iiri^-o-s, Thomas P>ro\vn, Imios 
 P.. Pavne. I'hilip A. Wilcox. Alson (i. Ashley. Abiel 
 Hathaway. David 1!. Hill. William B. Pratt. William S. 
 Winslow. Jonathan Her\ey, Richard A. Macomber. (Tcorj^e 
 !•>. Patterson. Charles H. Read. ( )cta\-ins \'. Robinson and 
 ISencdict A. Winslow. 
 
 The men from I'reetown wdio sei"\"ed in the I'-Jd Unat- 
 tached Co.. Mass. \'ols., were: — Capt. |ohn \\'. Marl)le ; 
 Lieuts. I'rial AP Haskins and Chester ^^^ Brigt;'s ; Sers^ts. 
 Fred. A. Thaver. Sumner |. Chi])man and Andrew J. 
 Hatha\\'a\- : Corps. ^Velclm^c Id. Richmond. George H. 
 Haskins, I'h'anklin J. Chaee. luhvin T. Ronnsville, Edwin 
 R. Philips. Whn. R. I )ean, Andrew ). Thresher and Eugene 
 Hathawa\-; Prix'ates Alexander I'2. Bragg, Ivbenezer Briggs, 
 S\d\'ester R. Briggs, Azel Chaee, (ieorge B. Cudworth, 
 Reuel W. 1 )avis, ( icorge II. Dean. Albert A. Evans, 
 Andrew T. Ilambly, Abram H. Haskell, James H. Has- 
 kell, Willi.am Haskell. Job. T. Hathaway. Lynde Hatha- 
 wa\'. Samuel C. Hathawav. (Veorge ( ). Hotighton, lidm 
 II. Kcnnison, Simeon C. Leach, job V. Lucas, Peter A. 
 ^laker, John II. Nichols. Charles C. Pa\-ne. Henry 11 
 Payne, Lewis P. Phillips. William Pratt, William H. Pratt- 
 John li. Rose. Philander Ronns\dlle. Hiram H. Simmons, 
 William Tlior])e, Joseph l!. Weaver, Thomas Westgate, 
 Ambrose B. Winslow, Jose])h W. Winslow. Kenelm 
 Winsh.w, \\'illiam II. Winslow and l-dlerv Wyatt. 
 
 The I'reetown men in the I'. S. Xa\'\' were: — Engi- 
 neers. I'dbridge L:iwton and Andrew Lawton : Ensign, 
 11. 1-dbridgc Tinkham ; Pilots. James W. Ihirr and William 
 Read; Seaman. R. A. Macomber and [ohn H. Peircc. 
 
 78 
 
Thf follDwiiii;- lMX'cU>\\-n men served the I'niled 
 States ill iMll-Ci,". in ntlier orijanizations tlian those Ijcfore 
 mentioned: — Capt. Albert B. Ashlev, 4th Muss. L"a\-. and 
 U. S. C. T. : Capt. Darius A. Cudwortli, 1 sth .Mo. \'ols. ; 
 Capt. James R. Mathewson. 7tli Mass. \'(>ls. ; Lieut, (reon^'e 
 lUirfee. 4th Cav. and I'. S. C. T. : Lieut. George H. 
 Winslow. I'titli ALiss. X'ols. ; Henry H. Sproat, AL D., 
 .\sst. Sur--.. U. S. C. T. : Capt. Hiram B. Wetherell. O. M.. 
 I'. S. A,: Horaee (t. Ashle}'. Franeis Allen. Inhn H. 
 Alton. Alson G. Ashley, Alon/.o H. Braley, Philo L. 
 Braley, Cornelius E. Bliss. Robert Brand, (ieorge W. 
 Burnham, Thomas E. Blitfins, Franklin (j. Chace, Fisher 
 A. Cleveland, \\'illiam A. Case, Azel Chaee, Joshua Els- 
 bree. ( reorye W. h'llis. William FT. Fisher, i Mexiean 
 War 1. Charles ( kdlin^er, Herbert L. Hatha\va\-. Cah'in 
 llorr, fames Hervey, William H. Henderson. Rol^ert S. 
 [enkins. George ]MeCully, Samuel A. ]\Lieomber, Riehard 
 A. ALieomber, John H. Peiree, Eber A. Ray, John Sulli- 
 van, Calvin Thomas, Jr., James F. \'inal, Franeis H. \"inal, 
 Lemuel A. Washburn. 
 
 As a majoritv of the people in Freetown had relatives 
 or especial friends in old Companv G. ;'>rd Regt,, M. V. M.. 
 I have deemed it ])roper to add a few further items in its 
 historw It has already been told that its first tour of duty 
 was in the eseort at the Ta\-lor funeral in Boston, Its 
 next tour of duty, out of town, was at the annual brigade 
 muster in I'^ast Bridgewater in September, |s.",(i, less than 
 three months after its organization. And ;it that muster 
 Co. (j bore off the honors at the prize drill of all the eom- 
 panies in the brigade. Company G was also in the eseort 
 at the reception of the Prince of ^Vales in Boston in jsun. 
 Its service in the war was us follows : — April \-'>. JMiL at 
 ten o'clock P. M., Brig. Major George Clark. Jr.. arrived 
 from Xew Bedfortl on horseback with orders for the coni- 
 pan\- to report in Boston the next day. At 4 ]). m., A])ril 
 m, we took the cars for Boston, — in the hurry some of the 
 members of the company were not warned, — and on ar- 
 
 7!) 
 
riwil \v;is (|uarlfrcil in ( )1(1 Colony Depot hall for thai 
 niL;'ht. At I'l I'. M., A])ril ITtli.we marched to the State 
 House to reeei\-e etinii)inents. ( )vere()ats, llannel sliirts, 
 kna])saeks, ha\"ersaeks, tin enps, kni\'es and forks and can- 
 teens were issued. I'hence we marched to Central Wharf 
 and on hoard the steamer S. R. SpauldiuL;". Citizens cheered 
 as we marched ihrouoh the streets, and a salute of cannon 
 and small arms was tired from Central Wharf as the 
 steamer drop]ied into the stream. ( )n the morniuL;' of the 
 Isth we sailed under sealed orders. Nine miles at sea our 
 sealed orders were <ipcneil and we found our destination to 
 he Fortress .Monroe. \'a. ( )u April I'.ith, the annix'ersarv 
 <if the hattle of Lexinj^ton, the National and State colors 
 were luiisted and saluted and the dav dtd\' commemorated. 
 April L'oih we arrived at I'ortress Monroe; landed and 
 stacked arms on the Parade Ciround, and slept a few hours 
 in the sun. At 4 P. .M . . on the same dav, after a lit^ht 
 ration, we wci"e ordered on l)oard the I'. S. Cunhoat 
 Pawnee. Ammunition was issued, and we sailed at ."i.:!!) 
 P. M. for Norfolk Xa\\- Yard. ]iassin;j^, without molesta- 
 tion, ohstruclions in the channel, a se\'en 'j;uu hattcr\- at 
 Scwcll's Point and I'^orts ■• Xorfolk " and ■' Xclson." all in 
 possessi<in of the rehels. We arri\-ed at the Na\'\' \'ard 
 at '.' p. m.. ,-'(7;r narrowh" escapini;' lieinL;' tired u]ion 1)\- the 
 entire hroadsides of the Men-of-\Var Ships "Pennsylva- 
 nia " and •■ Cund)erland." ha\-ini;' heen, h\' them, mistaken 
 tor enemies. ( )n diseoxcrinL;' who we were a cheer arose 
 from the Cumherlaud. which we answered, and the hands 
 on the other shi])s ])la\-e<l National airs. \W- foun<l the 
 r. S. ships Merrimac, (iermantown ami Pl\in<juth already 
 scuttled and sinkin;^. All hands were ordered ashore u> 
 assist in hurniiii;- and destrovin,;.;- the Xavv Yard. We 
 took the Cund)erlaud in tow and arri\'ed hack at l'^lrtress 
 Monroe ,it C A. M , Sunda\-. Ai)nl :.' I , verv tired and 
 hunn'rw haxin;.^' heen without food for ei;4'hteen hours. 
 
 iHirini;- the followiu;.;- three weeks we had short 
 rations, hartl fare and hard work. Ma\- f, there was a 
 
 SI) 
 
terrible tempest and i;ale; no slielter for the men of 
 the reserve gtiard, and it -was so dark that the sentries 
 eotild not walk their beat. Mav -27 we exehanged oiir 
 ragged elothing for a light flannel uniform ftirnished by 
 Massachusetts. Jtme 24 the eompany was detailed to gar- 
 rison Fort Calhotm — on the Rip-Raps — in Hampton 
 Roads. I'nder the direction of General Btitler we fired the 
 "Sawyer (nm " at the rebel battery at Sewell's Point. 
 This gtiii carried a shot seyen miles; it afterwards burst 
 at Newport News. Va.. killing and wotmding seyeral 
 Union soldiers on the day of the Monitor and Merrimac 
 fight. Jul\- If' the company was ordered to Fortress Mon- 
 roe and sailed for Boston on the Steamer Cambridge, ftily 
 ll'th, we arrived in Boston Harbor and encamped on Long 
 Island: July I'-J. was mustered out. July I'.'l, we landed in 
 Boston and received a grand welcome from the citizens of 
 Boston, and after the parade, we were dismissed on the Com- 
 mon. We arrived at our Armor\- at .'i p. lu. the same 
 day. The citizens all turneil out to meet us. The Armory 
 was decorated in fine style. The \-oung folks of the ^■il- 
 lage gave the eompany a complimentary Ball in the 
 evening. August 14, U. S. Paymaster I'sher j^aid the 
 company oft" at the Armory in gold — Captain, §421 .2t; ; 1st 
 Lietit., S:!:i.-).M» : I'd Lieut., $:!:;'.•.. "is : 1st Sergeant, S7s.4l' ; 
 I'd Sergeant. SUs.iU ; Corporal. $:}:<.:•:>: Private, S4!i.iil'. 
 
 The man\- millions of people in this great "Land of 
 the Free and Home of the I)ra\-e" are always glad to re- 
 member and honor otir soldiers who fought and sulTercd 
 to maintain the Union wcall lo\'e. At the same time the\- 
 do not forget the widowed mothers who gave their sons, 
 and the brave wives who ga\-e their husbands to the ser- 
 vice of their cottntrv. In the heat of battle there comes 
 to the soldier a spirit of daring antl he becomes almost 
 reckless in his advance: and even \\-lien bax'onct is locked 
 with bayonet, and the result is uncertain, the desperation 
 of his eft'orts diverts his mind from the grim isstie, and he 
 concpiers or falls, almost unconscior.s of the danger. Not 
 
 SI 
 
SI) with tlic dear ones at home — they were always viewini^ 
 the chances; now witli Ijoilin;^ anxiety, and anon with 
 frec/.ini;- linfi-nr. Let us revere the i^"reat army of bra\-e 
 liearts who suffered at liome. Some of tliem are still with 
 US, manv liax'c passed to the beyond, and we can onlv 
 lionoi- them in memor\-. Amonij,' the last. I wish to name 
 Irene Isabel I'aN'ne I'eirce, who, after the repulse at Big' 
 Bethel, held u]> the hands of her falterin;,^' husband, and 
 with the aid of two of his former Staff ( )fticers, did far 
 more than the ])ublie e\'er knew to reinstate that hu.sband, 
 and to complete tlie recruitini;' of the I'Hth Mass. Vols., 
 which later ])erformed such j^'allant serx'ice in the field. 
 Such mothers, widows and wi\-es deser\-e monuments as 
 grand and lasting as an\' erected in memor\- of the most 
 gallant soldier who fell in battle. 
 
 Aiiu.Ki i)Ak I i,i; I r Asiii.kn, son of h^lbridge G. and 
 Henrietta M. i I'.ooth i Ashley, was born in Lakeville. 
 Sejitembcr s, ls;i.s, and was educated in Lakeville and 
 
 Wareham schools. A 
 sailor and mate of a 
 merchant ship before 
 the rebellion, he en- 
 listed in the U, S. 
 Navv in Mav, l^t;i, 
 and served on the 
 frigate Mississippi, of 
 which Admiral Dewev 
 was then Lieut. -Com- 
 mander. He was dis- 
 charged in fnne, isCii', 
 at ex|.iiration of term 
 of enlistment. He 
 enlisted in C\)mpany 
 A, :;d Ma.ss. Vols.", 
 in August, ls(l:i, was 
 a c c r edited to t h e 
 quota of Freetown, 
 
 CAPT. ALBERT B ASHLEY. 
 
 82 
 
and served through the 
 campaign in North Car- 
 olina. He enlisted in 
 4th Mass. Caw, r)eeem- 
 l)cr :-M, ]s{\:',, and ser^•cd 
 in South Carolina and 
 Florida, taking ]5art in 
 the battles of Gainsboro. 
 Honev Hill and Poeotal- 
 igo. He was promoted 
 March 1l'. 1st!.",, to I'd 
 Licul., L'lst Regt., I'. S. 
 C. T., was on garris(jn 
 dut\' in Fort Johnson, 
 [ones Island, Fort ^Vag- 
 ner, Morris Island, and 
 commanded the coui- 
 pany ou picket duty lieut. charles g bosworth 
 
 in the rear ot Charleston. Fie was jironiotcd to Cap- 
 tain in March, IstiC. He was on detached service as 
 ([uartermaster of marine transportation at Hilton Head 
 from July, Isii.") until April, Isf.i;. then mustered out and 
 honorably discharged. .Appointed Light Keeper at Hay 
 Point, Port Royal Flarbor, in Mav, IsCiCi, he served until 
 April, IstiT. He was on the Police force in Taunton, 
 Mass., during the remainder of is'il, and until December, 
 IsCi'.t. Appointed by a Boston company as general mana- 
 ger of eoal mines in Indiana and Illinois, in December, 
 1S()!), he served until his resignation in IMti'; then he be- 
 came consulting manager of same mines until the present 
 time. For seventeen vears he has been connected with 
 the lecture board of the (irand Masonic Lodge of Masons 
 in Illinois, and is now Crand Lecturer. He was married 
 at Hilton Head, S. C, Oct. ;jo, \S{\r, lo Janette W. Miller 
 of Dedham, Mass. Children: — Jennie W., born Septem- 
 bers, IMIC; All)ert M., May '.•, IsT:). 
 
 Charles G. Buswnkin, son of William S and Myra 
 
 \V. Bosworth. was born in Rehoboth, Mass., September 
 
 s:i 
 
I'.t, ls;iO: educated in Rchiil)i>th schools and learned the 
 carpenter's trade. He came to Freetown in Isr.d and 
 worked at his trade in the " I-'urnacc " district. He was a 
 member of tlie P>ast iM-eetown Light Infantry, l.s.")-2-5('), 
 and enlisted as a jjrivate in Company F, 'i'.»th Regt., Mass. 
 Vols., November If,, Isdl. He was appointed a corporal 
 in fanuary, Istli', and jjronioted to sergeant the same year; 
 he was commissioned L'd lieutenant ^larch '2-2, ISC,;^, and 
 1st lieutenant, March !'.>, lst;4. Lieut. Bosworth was 
 with the U'.tth Regt. in all its campaigns and battles. He 
 was shot through the l)odv at the battle of "The Crater" 
 July ;!o, lstl4, and was reported "mortally wounded," 
 Init pidled through, mainlv b\' force of will, yet 
 was unaljle to perform further duty. He was mus- 
 tered out as disabled 
 |une ti, I St;,",. Since 
 the war he has done 
 light work as a car- 
 penter. He is a mem- 
 be r of Post IIH), 
 G. A. R., of Ma,ss. 
 Lieut. Bosworth mar- 
 ried Rachel Ashle)- 
 July i'.""), ls.v_'. Their 
 children : — Emilv \V., 
 born August 7, 1851:5; 
 IClizabeth A., Nov. '27, 
 ls.",<; ; h:iijah A., Nov- 
 ember .">. |s.^.', ; h^rauk 
 A., Dec. :il , l.s."i7, and 
 Rachel I)., November 
 •_'4, 1S7.V 
 
 LIEUT. CHESTER W BRIGG5. 
 
 CllKSTKR \V(i(,i> r,Ki(,(,s, son of Capt. Franklin and 
 Sally ( Hathaway i liriggs, was born in Freetown, May, 
 1^4 L He receixed his education in the town schools and 
 al Mxricksand I'eircc Academies. He taught school sev- 
 
 s-l 
 
eral years. He enlisted in Company ("., :id Regl., M. V. 
 M., in ist'H*: was appointed corjioral in ImII. He went 
 forward with the •' Minute Men " April 1.".. IsCil. and 
 served three months as corporal at Fortress Monroe and 
 vicinity, taking- part in the destruction of the Norfolk 
 Xavy Yard. Clustered out on Limg Island. Boston Harbor, 
 July -I-I. isiil, he helped 
 to raise the L'-Jd I'nat- 
 taehed Co., Mass. VijIs., 
 and was commissioned •2d 
 Lieutenant of the com- 
 pany. Mustered in Aug- 
 ust Is, 1m;4, he served 
 one hundred davs. 
 
 Lieut. Brig-gs taught 
 .school again after the war 
 and served in town office. 
 In ls74- he went to Bos- 
 ton and engaged in the 
 hide and leather busi- 
 ness, carrying it on suc- 
 cessfully until 1 SI) II , 
 when he returned to 
 Assonet in poor health. 
 He died July :'! , IsKl. c*pt. j^mes w burr 
 
 J.AMES \V.\sni.\(;rox Bl'RK, son of Captain James and 
 Chartley ( Chace ) Burr, was Ijorn at Assonet \'illage, 
 Freetown. Mass., January -27, I sir,. He liecame a mar- 
 iner and was for several vears engaged in the coasting 
 trade. Later he engaged in the freighting of rough rice, 
 cotton and other goods between the ]:)orts of Savannah, 
 Darien, or Brunswick, (la., and Charleston, S. C. For 
 this purpose he usually sailed from Assonet, in ballast, in 
 September, and returned in Mav. I)nring the summer 
 months he would overhaul, paint and put his schooner in 
 proper condition for the next season's work in the south ; 
 and if conditions were favorable, make a few coaling trips 
 
between Philadelphia or Baltimore and some Xew Eng- 
 land port. 
 
 He was in Charleston harbor with his vessel during 
 the bombardment <if Fort vSnmter in April, Istll. During 
 the Civil War he lieeame a pil<_>t in the U. S. Navy, and 
 served on sex'eral U. S. vessels in southern waters. After 
 the surrender of Charleston, S. C he piloted Admiral 
 Dahlgren to I'^'rt Sumter and assisted in replacing the 
 " .Stars and Stripes " over that fcnt. 
 
 The Southern carrying trade for A.ssonet vessels, in 
 which several were engaged at the time, ended with the 
 commencement of the Civil War. After the war Captain 
 Burr renio\'cd to Fall Ri\"er, Mass., where he engaged in the 
 meat and produce business. He married Phebe Rathburn 
 Phillips, daughter of James and Phebe (Porter ) Phillips, 
 
 who died at Fall 
 River, Mass., June 2s, 
 is'.'l, aged Ti' years. 
 They had two sons. 
 Job Pierce Burr, who 
 died October I'C, ls44, 
 aged one year and 
 se\'en months ; and 
 1 " r a n k \Va s h i n g t o n 
 llurr, who is a resi- 
 dent of Fall River, 
 ^lass., at the present 
 time. 
 
 Captain Burr died 
 at his residence on 
 Oak street. Fall River, 
 ]\Iass.. August Mrd. 
 ls'.i3. 
 
 CAPT. DARIUS A CUDWORTH 
 
 IiAKii s A. CrnWDUiii, son of Luther and Betsev 
 ( Phillips I Cudworth, was born in Freetown. April 1, isSCi, 
 and was educated in the public schools in the town. In 
 
 S(i 
 
1^.",>< he went to Missouri lo engage in railroading. At 
 that time Missouri was a slave State, and society not con- 
 genial to Yankees. Yet there was an element of union- 
 ism even there, and in l^»'il the nucleus of a Union regi- 
 iment was formed in Linn County, where Cudworth re- 
 sided, and which he joined. Recruiting was slow there, 
 for all the native born men went into the southern armv. 
 but the regiment was finally filled, and became the 1 ^th 
 Mo. Yol. Inf., in March, ImI-J, and Mr. Cudworth was mus- 
 tered in as 1st lieutenant and regimental quartermaster. 
 The regiment went South at once to Island No. In. in the 
 Mississippi, and thence up the Tennessee River, and was 
 engaged in the battles of Pittsburg Landing and Shiloh, 
 A])ril <i and 7. l.s()2, losing iHm) men and officers in killed, 
 wounded and missing. Also it participated in the cam- 
 jiaign and capture of Corinth, Miss. At the battle of 
 Corinth. Oct. '■'> and -f, lNtl2, Lieut. Cudworth was at- 
 tached to the Staff of (tcu. John McArthur as Division 
 Uuarter Master and Aide-de-Camp. In the winter of 
 1m;;^-('i4 they took part in the occupation of middle Ten- 
 nessee and helped to rebuild the railroad from Nashville 
 to Decatur. Ala.; and in the spring of Ist',-^ joined Sher- 
 man's Armv, south of Chattanooga, and took part in the 
 battles of Reseca, Dalton, Kenesaw Mountain and siege 
 of Atlanta. On July -i-I, LsCi, before Atlanta, Gen. 
 Yeach's division, to which Lieut. Cudworth was attached, 
 with Crcn. Sweenv's di\-ision, under (jen. (Granville M. 
 Dodge, held in check the great flanking force of the rebel, 
 Gen. Hood, which prevented a .serious disaster to the 
 Cnion forces; it was in the flanking movement that routed 
 the Rebels out of Atlanta, and in the engagement at 
 Junesborough, Ga., where Hood's armv v.-as again de- 
 feated. He went with Gen. Sherman on the March to the 
 Sea and through the Carolinas. They met and defeated 
 Hardee's army, near Beaufort, N. C, the last of March. 
 l^i'<r>. This was the last battle in which the Isth Mo. 
 Yols. were engaged, and here Lieut. Cudworth received a 
 
 87 
 
commissidii as CapUiin of Cumpaiiy K, which had buen 
 issued soniL* nionths hefi^ire. His term of service having 
 expired, he was was honorably mustered out Marcli ^7, 
 IStij, and after a brief visit to his parents at the old home 
 he returned to the West where he has lived ever since. 
 For man\- \-ears he has been successfully engaged in the 
 real estate Imsiness in St. Paul, Minn. Capt, Cudworth 
 married Cordelia A. Mills, of Br(_iokfield, Mo., September 
 L'T, iM'i'.i. Their children; — Donna Mills, born October 
 •2*>. ls7o; l'"rank Harmws, jul\- 4, lsT3; Adda Blossom, 
 r)ee. ."i, IsT:;: Luther Phillips. July 11, isTC ; James Wal- 
 ter, Mav -JT.lsTs; Rdger Logan, iJec I'T, issr,. 
 
 |()ii.\ Mii.iiiN I)t:.\M''., son of John and Lydia 
 ( Andros ) I)eane, was b(M"n at Assonet \"illage, Freetown. 
 Mass., Januarv >>, ls4o. Mis grandfather, Thomas Andros, 
 was a soldier of the American Revolution. His education 
 was obtained from the Water Street District vSehool, the 
 
 Assonet Academy, the 
 Myrieksville Academy, 
 and the Foxboro English 
 and Classical School. At 
 the age of lit, he beijan 
 teaching school at Berk- 
 ley Common, and later 
 taught for several terms 
 at the South District of 
 Assonet Village, being- 
 engaged there at the 
 luxaking out of the war 
 of the rebellion. 
 
 He had enlisted in 
 the Assonet Light Infan- 
 try, Co. <;. ;'.d Regt., 
 Mass. \'ol. Militia, in 
 Se}>teml)er. ls.")S, was 
 appointed Sergeant and 
 
 Companv Clerk in Aug- 
 88 
 
 LIEUT, JOHN M DEANE. 
 At P,iri5, Ky , l86i 
 
usl, Isiin, and was 
 elected Third Lieut- 
 enant in September, 
 iscit, at the annual 
 muster of the reg-i- 
 ment at Wareham. 
 :\Iass. 
 
 Leaving- his school 
 he responded to Pres- 
 ident Lincoln's call for 
 troops April 1.3, Isdl, 
 and served three 
 months at Fortress 
 Monroe, Yn., as Sec- 
 ond Lieutenant of his 
 company. He took 
 part in the destruction 
 MAJOR JOHN M DEANE <'f th"-' Norfolk Navv 
 
 Major 29th Regiment, Mass Veteran Volunteer Intanlry. 1865 \ ard OU thC Uigllt Of 
 Department Commander, 1897, Dept of Mass. G. A. R. \ •] ,,, i^..i 1 
 
 April I'll, iMil. and 
 was for a few weeks in command of the guard kept at Fort 
 Calhoun — the Rip Raps — in Hampton Roads. He was 
 mustered out with his regiment at Boston. Mass., Julv ■iii. 
 isiil, and again took up teaching at the South school. 
 
 He was ajjpointed bv (jovernor John A. Andrew a 
 Second Lieutenant in the -.^Dth Regt., Mass. Vols. June I, 
 J ^<ii' : was promoted to First Lieutenant December -I'J, istlii : 
 to Adjutant of the regiment November I, isf.;; ; to Captain 
 June s, ISM and to ]\Lijor May W,. 18(1.-). 
 
 He .served as Acting A.ssistant Adjutant (reneral at the 
 Military Post of Paris, Ky., from April to vSeptember. 
 Isfi:'., and was on detached .service at the Draft Rendez- 
 vous, Boston Harbor, from September. bMi.", until May. 
 lN<I4. In January I8<i4, he took a large detachment of re- 
 cruits to the .■)4th and .■).'Jth Mass. Regiments — colored — 
 then encamped on Morris Island, South Carolina. 
 
 89 
 
Ik- SLTvud cin ilic staff <if Major (icncTal ( ). 15. Wil- 
 cox from April until liis nnister out in AuL^'ust, lst;;>. 
 bfini;' apjjointcil I'rcxost Marshal of tile First Division, 
 '.•th Armv Corps x\pril ■_'.">, \st\:,. Pruvost Marshal of 
 Geor'^etown, I). I'., Ma\- l'<i, 1m'i,"i and Prevost Marshal ami 
 PassOfticer, District of \Vashin:j,ton. July 11. iMl.'). 
 
 In accordance with the followint^' communication he 
 was c(mimissioned Major of U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, 
 to date March iTj, ImI.',. 
 
 War Dei'artment, Washington, i 
 June 15, 18<i5. \ 
 
 Sir: — You are hereby informed that the President of the 
 United States has appointed you for gallant and meritorious 
 service in the attack on Fort Steadman, Va. , a Major of Vol- 
 unteers, by brevet, in the service of the United States, to rank 
 as such from the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand, 
 eight hundred and sixty-five. Should the Senate at their next 
 session, advise and consent thereto, you will be commissioned 
 accordingly. Immediately on receipt hereof please communi- 
 cate to this department, through the Adjutant General of the 
 Army, your acceptance or non-acceptance, and with your letter 
 of acceptance, return the oath, herewith enclosed, properly 
 filled up, subscribed and attested, and report your age, birth- 
 place and the State of which you were a permanent resident, 
 
 Edwin M. Sianton, 
 Brevet Major Jimx M. Dkank, Secretarv of War. 
 
 U. S. \^olunteers. 
 
 Captain Deane's ;.,;allantr\' in action at Fort Steadman, 
 Vti.. was reported to Major Ceneral John (t. Parke, com- 
 manding the i'th Armv Corps, bv the Inspectors' Depart- 
 ment of 1st Division of that Corps, (reneral Parke in a com- 
 munication to the War 1 )epartment, dated May 20, iSi'ut, 
 recommended that Capt. Deane be made a Major of V. S. 
 Volunteers, by brevet, for gallantry in action. The rec- 
 ommendation of (General Parke was approved and for- 
 warded to the War Department bv Major Crcneral (xeorge 
 (j. Meade, commanding the Army of the Potomac, June 
 
 1, IHt)."), whence tlie appointment was made June 1;"), istSj. 
 
 90 
 
In accordance with the fullMwiuj^- communication he 
 was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor: — 
 
 Rkcord and Pension OiricK, War DKPAKiMh.xr, , 
 Washington City, March Mil, 1895. )" 
 
 Major John M. Deank, 
 
 Late 2!ith Massachusetts VoUintecrs, 
 F"all River, Massachusetts. 
 
 vSik; — I have the honor to inform you that by direction 
 of the President, and in accordance with the Act of Congress 
 approved March 3, ISii:!, providing for the presentation of 
 Medals of Honor to such officers, non-commissioned officers and 
 privates as have most distinguished themselves in action, the 
 Assistant Secretary of War has awarded you a Medal of Honor 
 •'For most distinguished gallantrv in action at Fort vSteadman, 
 \'irginia, March "^o, ISiiS, in serving with other volunteers, a 
 previously silenced and abandoned gun, mounted en barbette, 
 at Fort Haskell, being exposed to a galling fire from the 
 enemy's sharpshooters." The medal has been forwarded to 
 you toda}- by registered mail. Upon receipt of it please advise 
 this office thereof. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 W. F. AiNswoRTH, Col. U. S. Army, 
 Chief Record and Pension Office. 
 
 Adjutant (ieneral William Sehouler of Massachusetts, 
 in his report for the- year ls(;."j, pages 4n4 and 4n,"). eon- 
 ecrning- the battle of I-^ort .Steadman, \'a., says; •'Among 
 the other officers h<inorablv mentioned for good conduct 
 "on this occasion were Captains Clarke, Browne, Deane. 
 I'izer and Lieutenants Joslyn, McQuillan and Senll\-." 
 "Captain Deane, in the latter part of the hght, showed 
 great gallantrv at Fort Haskell." 
 
 Colonel Ciilberl F. Robinson, ::!r(l Maryland Infantry, 
 commanding ;ird Brigade, 1st Di\-ision, '••th .\rmy Corps. 
 in his report of the battle of F'ort Steadman, Va., to 
 Division Headquarters — Serial No. ".».">, War of the Rebel- 
 lion Otiicial Records of the L'nion and Confederate 
 
 91 
 
Armies, pajjes 334 and 335 — says: "I liavt- the honor to 
 mention the followino; ol^eers and enlisted men for praise, 
 for deeds set at^ainst their names, and to reiterate the eulo- 
 ginms of their re^^imental commanders. 
 
 'I'wentv-Xinth Massachusetts \'eteran \"ohinteers: — 
 Captain John M. Deane, commanding the regiment 
 after the cajiture of Major Ricliardson, and Lieutenant 
 Henr\- C. [oslvn cajitured wliile on picket and escaped 
 through llic ranks of tlic enemy in an audacious dash, ex- 
 posed to every danger; worked a gun in Vovt Haskell 
 during the latter part of the engagement, only leaving it 
 to charge back to Battery No. 11; Sergeant William H. 
 Howe, Company K. and Priwate Le\'i B. (jaylord. Com- 
 pany A. for working barbette guns in Fort Haskell side 
 by side with Captain Deane and Lieutenant Joslvn, after 
 all but two of the artiller\- detachment had been killed or 
 wounded." 
 
 In the battle of Fort Steadman, Va., before daylight, 
 Captain Deane captured and disarmed a captain of the -ith 
 North Carolina regiment; and later in the day, in the 
 charge back from i-'ort Haskell to Battery No. II, he cap- 
 tured and disarmed the major of the 4lh (leorgia regiment. 
 The latter also had in his possession and delivered to Cap- 
 tain Deane a c:irpet bag, containing clothing and other 
 articles belonging to Captain (leorge D. Williams of the 
 t>'.tth Mass. regiment, which he had taken from Captain 
 Williams' (piarters. 
 
 Major Deane has the revolvers and belts of both the 
 above mentioned Confederate ofUcers in his possession at 
 the present time. Neither of them carried a sword. 
 
 His military serx'ice, covering nearh' fortv-two months, 
 was both variable and honorable. It consisted of life in 
 garrison, cam].) ;ind field, and on the transport; of dutv on 
 the campaign and in the seige ; of service as a line, staff 
 and field ofHcer. He commanded his regimei;t in the field 
 from -March until Ituu-, l.sd."). 
 
His service took hitn into thirteen different States, and 
 required thousands of miles of travel. He served and 
 fought in the Second, Fifth and Ninth Army Corps; with 
 the Army of the Potomac and with the Army of the Ohio. 
 He served under (rrant, .McClellan. Burnside. Hooker and 
 Meade as Commanding (lenerals: and under Sumner. 
 Hancock. Burnside, Sedgwick. \Vm. 1-". Smith, Warren, 
 Wilco.x and Parke as Corps Commanders. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF JOHN M DEANE, WATER ST. 
 Erected I896-7 Front View. 
 
 His discharge paper gives him the credit of having 
 been engaged in twenty battles. P'or more than nine 
 months in the seige of Petersburg he was constantly un- 
 der the fire of the enemy's artillery, and most of the time 
 within range of their min^tar batteries and musketry. 
 
 From November, IstU until the evacuation of Peters- 
 burg by the enemv in April, jstl.'., he was in the trenches 
 near Fort Steadman. the nearest point to, and within easy 
 
 93 
 
speakiny distance of the enemy's main line of Avorks. 
 where artillerv duels and mortar practice were daily and 
 nightlv induli^cd in, and where sharpshooting and picket 
 firing was a ])astime. 
 
 He was never ol)liged to quit the field on account of 
 sickness, and was never wounded, althtnigh twice hit b_\' 
 fragments nf sliells and twice by bullets 
 
 After his muster out and final discharge from the 
 armv in August. Ist;."], he resumed teaching in the south 
 district. In Maw ism;, in conncct'on with ]Mr. Alon/o 
 
 RESIDENCE OF JOHN M. OEANE EAST VIEW. 
 
 Hathaway of Freetown, he engaged in a general merchan- 
 dise business in Fall Ri\'er, under the firm name of Hatha- 
 way l\: I )eane. Mr. Hathaway retired from the firm in March 
 |s,-_', since which time the business has been conducted 
 b\' Mr. I )eanc. He has always divided his time between 
 Fall Ri\-cr ;uid his natu'c village of Assonet, to which he 
 is very mucli attached. 
 
 November l'h. IsCC, he was married to Mary (xrav 
 
 I'earce, a grand-daughter of Freetown, born at Norwich, 
 
 U4 
 
Connecticut. Xovemljer I'l'.. Is4t;. and at the time a resi- 
 dent of Assonet X'illage. Their children are Milton Irv- 
 ing, born April 8<i, lsr,s — served as (runners' Mate with a 
 detachment of Company F. Massachusetts Xaval Brig-ade, 
 <if Fall River, on the U. .S. Monitor Lehigh during the 
 Spanish-American War; Richard Bovnton, fulv 12, lsti!»; 
 Charles Learned, August 2.j, InTI ; Anna Louise Andros, 
 July I's, isTT; and Wallis Pearce. ^'Liv -2. lss|. 
 
 He joined Richard Boi'den Post Xm. 41;, Department 
 of Massachusetts. Crand Army of the Republic, of Fall 
 
 RESIDENCE OF JOHN M DEANE. WEST VIEW 
 
 River. Mass.. in iss."). and has served his Post five years 
 as its Commander. He was a Xational Aide de Camp in 
 l^'.'i); A.ssistant Xational Inspector in I s<,i4 ; Department 
 ,\id de Camp in ls>s, 1 s'.i4 and IIhhi; member of the De- 
 partment Council of Administration in l>s!i: Chief Mus- 
 tering Officer of the Department in l^'.'o; Assistant Quar- 
 termaster (reneral of the Department in ls!i2: Junior Vice 
 Department Commander in Is'.*."); Senior Vice Department 
 
 Commander in l^'.n;. and Department Commander in 1>^!>7. 
 
 i).) 
 
Mai<\ (■Il<.\^ I >i:ani-;, da'.i;j,htur of Abner Tompkins and 
 Sarah Read iBri;^;4si Pcaixx', was l)orn at Norwich, Conn., 
 
 November liH, bs4t'>. 
 In b~>."')3, she re- 
 moved to Providence, 
 R. I., and in b^Ci.") to 
 Assonet ^"illag■e, Free- 
 town, Mass. , where she 
 was married to Major 
 |ohn M. I)eane, Nov- 
 ember I'll, iscc. 
 
 .She was educated 
 at the city schools of 
 Providence, R. P, and 
 at the Ipswich Female 
 vSeminary, Ipswich, 
 Mass. 
 
 After her marriage 
 she removed with her 
 hu.sband to Fall River, 
 
 MARY GRAY DEANE 
 President of Dept of Mass , Woman's Relief Corps, 189! MaSS., whcrC .sllC bC- 
 
 came interested in church and benevolent work. 
 
 .She is a charter member of Richard Borden Woman's 
 Relief Corps No. Km;, of Fall River, organized in May 
 Is^s. and serx'cd that Corps the first four years of its 
 existence as its President, since which time she has been 
 its Treasurer. In IMh) she served as National and Depart- 
 ment Aide; in I MM as Department Inspector; and in I s'.i:^ 
 as President of the De[)artment of Massachusetts W(_)man's 
 Relief Corps. In 1 sn:! she served as Department Coun- 
 sellor; in 1 M>+ as Special Department Aide; in ISKi; as 
 Assistant National Inspector; in IsKT as Chairman of the 
 Natifiiial i':.\cculi\e Board, W. R. C. ; in Ps'.»S as Depart- 
 ment Patriotic Instructor; in 1 MUi as Nati(.)nal Inspector, 
 and in I'.Hi-jshc is again .serving as Special Department 
 Aide. .She is a member of (Juecpiechan Chapter, Daugh- 
 ters of the American Re\'olution. 
 
HU-Ml'iikKV A. FkaN( IS was born in I'^all River, Mass.. 
 August (■), Is.'U. and L-(lucated in the public schools 
 
 Assonet in November, 
 
 ."dge ti)iil makers' trade 
 
 (if that city. He went to 
 Is.M. and there learned the 
 of lohn Crane at the 
 "Old Forge." Decem- 
 ber, l.s.")4, he enlisted in 
 Company C, :'.d Regt.. 
 I'd Brig., l.st Div., M. 
 V. M. He was appointed 
 Corporal in 1 ^5.") ; First 
 Sergeant and Company 
 Clerk February 4, Is.'if, ; 
 vSecond Lieutenant, Sep- 
 tember ."i, Istio. He en- 
 tered the U. .S. ser\-iee as 
 First Lieutenant, April 
 \'>. I sill, ser\'ed at For- 
 tress Munroe, ^'a., and 
 w a s h n n o r a b 1 v d i s - 
 charged at the end <if 
 his term of service, July 
 
 2:.', 1 Mi 1 . LIUET, HUMPHREY A FRANCIS 
 
 He was employed at the rifle faetorv in Ass(jnet, 
 1 -^t'':.'-!?, and removed to Taunton June In, |s77, where 
 he was employed at the A. Field & .Sons' Tack Works fur 
 -•"' years. At jiresent he is employed by the Atlas Tack 
 \V(;rks, Fairh.aven, ^Lass., as foreman of the blacksmith 
 department. He held the office of Town Clerk for .several 
 years in Freetown, also other prominent positions. 
 
 He is a meinber of Post '■'>, d. A. R. of Taunton. Mass., 
 and is a Royal Arch >Lason. 
 
 He married .Sybil A. Thresher of Assonet, October :^ I , 
 l^.V'. Their children -. — Ralph H., born April 1'.'. Is''^; 
 Wayland L., Februarv io, jsCii. 
 
 Cii.\RLKS RussKi.i. H.\sKiNs. son of Russcll and Mercy 
 ' Hathaway ) Haskins was born in Freetown July -'>. l-s43. 
 
He had few :uh'antages in early life, except the u-ood pub- 
 lic schools of Freetown. He became a railroad employe 
 soon after his school days were over. In February, l.^.-)7, 
 he joined Company (i, .'id Reirt., M. V . M. On April 15. 
 isCil, he responded to the "Minute Men's" call, going- 
 with his company to Fortress Munroe and taking part in 
 the destruction of the Norfolk Navy Yard, April -Jd, l.sdl. 
 May 2;!, bsiW, (rcneral Butler, commanding at Fortress 
 Monroe, sent a bodv of Union troops across Black River, 
 and occupied Hampton, \"a. .Several of Company It men, 
 with others, were detailed for guard duty at the Hampton 
 end of the bridge, one of them being Charles R. Haskins. 
 During the night he heard a noise in some shrubbery near 
 his post, and saw an object crawling towards him. He 
 challenged, but received no reply. He challenged again 
 and cocked his musket. At the click of the lock three ne- 
 groes sprang up and separated, and one cried out, "Good 
 (iod! Massa, he cock 'em I Don't shoot, don't shoot!" 
 Haskins ordered them to halt, and told them if they moved 
 an inch he would let davlight through them, and then 
 called the Corporal of the Guard, David B. Hill, of Com- 
 panv G. and he in turn called the Lieutenant of the 
 (ruard, Cephas Washburn. Jr.. of Company A, and both 
 were soon at Haskins' jjost and found the three trembling 
 slaves, who stood uncovered and offered profuse apologies 
 for the manner of their approach and begged piteously to 
 be taken inside the Yankee lines, "for old massa" would 
 send them to Xew Orleans if he got them again. On 
 being asked whv thev separated when they sprang from 
 the ground, they replied : "So that ma.ssa hit but one if he 
 shoot." P^vidently they had carefully planned to escape 
 from slavery and were quite well posted in regard to the 
 trouble between the North and South. Thev were taken 
 to the guard house and ke])t until morning when Haskins 
 escorted ihcni to (General Butler's headquarters. Butler 
 complimented Haskins and presented him with a photo- 
 graph of himself, after putting his autograph on it. .Soon 
 
 98 
 
■ They havf. 
 Then I declare them Id l)e eon- 
 
 after the owner nf the three shu'es appeared at headciuar. 
 ters and with threat assurance demanded the immediate 
 return of his property. \\'hile the Virginia slavehoklcr 
 with great dignity, was talking about his constitutional 
 rights, (icncral liutler was adroitly asking (|Uestions. 
 •• Have these slaves helped to dig the entrenchments over 
 in Hampton?" asked General Butler, 
 replied the A'irginian. 
 traband of war and I decline to give them up." They 
 were at once set to work building an oven inside the fort- 
 ress. Thus originated the name of •■contraband," as aj)- 
 plied to shu'cs. Later Charles R. Haskins served with 
 distinction as a Sergeant in Company H, 4oth Regt.. 
 Mass. \'ols. until the close of the war. 
 
 After the war he had a lung career as a prominent 
 railroad official. He was a member of the (i. A. R. and 
 a Knight Templar. He died in lHoo and was buried with 
 Militar\- and Masonic honors in Assunet cemeterv. 
 
 LIEUT URIAL M HASKINS. 
 
 Uki.m. M. H.\ski\s. 
 son of C\'rus and .Susan 
 Haskins. was born in 
 Pennsyh'ania, Aj^ril 1'.'. 
 Is4:!. While a child 
 his parents mnved back 
 to Berkley. Mass., his 
 father's natix'e town, 
 and later thev moved 
 to Freetown, where 
 I' rial learned the tack 
 maker's trade at the 
 •• ( )ld Forge." He en- 
 listed in Comi)an\" (t. 
 :lrd Regt.. M. V. M. in 
 ls.'>N. He was appoint- 
 ed Corporal in l-stin. 
 He responded to Lin- 
 
 L.olC. 
 
ELBRIDGE LAWTON 
 Chief Engmet 
 
 ciiln's call April l.">. 
 iM'i 1 , and i^avc up his 
 Corpiiral's warraiU In 
 have a cninradc <j;(i 
 who would not do So 
 as a ])i"i\'ale. He par- 
 ticipated in all the 
 events with his eom- 
 panv at I'ortress Mon- 
 roe. duriuLC its three 
 month's ser\'ice. lie 
 enlisted in Company 
 A, :!rd Mass, \'ols., 
 September l':1, IsCrJ. 
 and serx'ed as a Cor- 
 poral in that eom- 
 p a n \' t h 1- o u t;- h t h e 
 eampaii^'n in North 
 Carolina. He assist- 
 ed in reeruitin;^- the I'l'd Companv. Unat. Mpss \'o1s. Aul^'- 
 ust. l.s<U. and was commissioned First Lieutenant of that 
 eompau)-. Detailed Actinia Assistant Adjutant Ceneral 
 at Read\-ille for a few weeks, he afterwards was ap])ointed 
 Adjutant of the Battallion stationed there and served as 
 such durin;4- the remainder of his serxdee. After the war 
 Lieut. Haskins aj.^ain took up tack makini;-, workin,^' in Vir- 
 L^inia and other States, but for the last twentv-five vears 
 has lix'cd and worked at his trade iti Taunton. Mass. He 
 has been in the Cit\- (TO\'ernment as L'oucilman, ;ind is a 
 member of Post :!, C. A. R. He married luhalana F. 
 Brigi^s in bsTl. Their children : -Susie K.. born Janu- 
 ary 1, |s7l'; I'A-a M.. Auj^'ust :i, ls74 ; Certie L.. Julv 1. 
 1^77; Ada A.. January ■_'4. Is7'.t. 
 
 P^i.r.kiiMiK Law mx, son of jol) (",. and Poll\- iStran;4XH 
 Lawton, was born in Freetown in August, bsi'ii. He had 
 the distinction of being in the United States serxdee longer 
 than any other l-'reetown man. He entered the U. S. 
 
 101) 
 
Xavv as :id Asst. Knj^inct'r. in March, 1 ^4.s ; served on 
 the coast (if Mexico in the ■• W'aterwitch ;" was made I'd 
 Asst. Engineer in Septenaber, ls4'.i; jiromoted to 1st Asst. 
 Engineer in February, is.'il, ;ind became Chief Engineer 
 in 1 s.'H'i. He was on dutv at different times on Coast 
 Survev Steamers Bibb, Saranac and John Hancock; Behr- 
 ing Straits Surveying Expedition. 
 
 In istiii-ti:', on the "Roanoke," "Cohjrado," "Minne- 
 sota" and "Mississippi" lie was I-"leet iMigineer of Admi- 
 ral Farragut"s Squadron, and at the capture of New Or- 
 leans. He had charge of the bnilding of the machinery 
 of the "Madawaska," lsi).")-t;(;. and was on special duty at 
 liridgewater. Mass,, iM'iT-tiii, Chief l^ngineer at Boston 
 Xavv Yard ls(iit_7l ; Chief Engineer at Mare Island Navy 
 Yard, ls71-7f); Chief Engineer at New York Navy Yard, 
 Is77-M>. He was ordered to Anapolis as one of the Board 
 "\ \'isitors in Issn, but was too feeble to go. In the 
 Spring of Issl he was retired for disabilit}- incurred in 
 line of duty. He married Matilda Durham, Baltimore. 
 Md.. in 1s.")L'. Died in Boston, Jul}-, isM', leaving a wid- 
 ow, daughter and son. He was fearless and uncomprom- 
 ising in the discharge of his duty: loved and resjiected by 
 his fellow officers and those under his authority. His 
 memory is a legacy and inspiration. 
 
 Anhkew Lawtox, son of Job G. and Polly ( vStrange ) 
 Lawton. was born in Freetown. April ti. ls-.^."i. He en- 
 tered the U. S. Navv as ;!d Assistant Engineer, June l'4, 
 l^.'io. Was on duty in the Coast Survey is.'.ii-.", 1, and on 
 the Steamer "^Vaterwitch" in the Home Squadron. He 
 was promoted to 2d Asst. Engineer Feb. lit!, Is.'.l. In 
 1 >.'.i'-.'.:! he was attached to the Frigate "Saranac." On 
 May L'l, !>•:>:',, he was promoted to 1st Asst. Engineer. In 
 1 -.".4-.'i.'i he was on the Frigate " San Jacinto," engaged in 
 Coast Snr\-cv. During ] .Sofi-.-.S he was in the East Indian 
 Squadron, and was on special duty in Boston in 18.">9-(in. 
 
 His commission as Chief Engineer was dated April 
 ■j;;. is.-.'.i. In Isfin-Cl he was attached to .Steam.ship "Hart- 
 mi 
 
fdi-fl," ill the West dull' S(|iuulriin. He was on special 
 (lut\' at TauiUon. Mass.. in !>■•■>-!. and in Im;;;-);,") was on 
 s])ecial (lut\- at Pxiston \a\-\- Yard, and at Wilniinii'ton, 
 1 )ela\\are. 
 
 Chief En;^-ineer of the " Hartford." the Flai;ship of 
 the Asiatic vS(|nadron in lst;t;-ri,S: in ls(;'.», he was ordered, 
 as Chief iMii^ineer. to the Philadelphia Na\-\- Yard, and 
 died while on dnt\- there, ^htrch 17. 1^71. 
 
 |iiiiN \V. MAKia.i;. son of John H. and Mary (Teal) 
 Marble, was horn in Somerset. Mass., March 1. Is-jc. He 
 was educated in Somerset schools, and learned a ship car- 
 ])enter's and joiner's trade. He came to Freetown in ls4-7 
 to work as a ship carpenter and settled here permanently, 
 takini.;" u]) a contractor and Imilder's business. He joined 
 Compan\'('., :!rd Reg't. M. \'. M. at its inception, and was 
 elected :'.d Lieut. June •_".». |N.">n; l.st Lieut. June 14, is.M ; 
 Captain April l".', 1s.", + . He resigned in April ls."i."i; 
 
 re-enlisted as private 
 JMay .s, LS,"),), and was 
 appointed Jst Sergt. 
 He resigned May 20, 
 L^^TiT, and took his 
 place in the ranks; 
 was appointed 1st 
 Sergt. Jan. iM, l.s.".l_i: 
 elected -Id Lieut. Jul}- 
 '2. Is.Mi and Captain 
 July 21, isciu. He 
 commanded the com- 
 pany in the "Minute 
 Men's" service at 
 I'ortress Monroe in 
 1 sTi 1 , i)eing mustered 
 out July 22. INC. 1, at 
 Long Island, Boston 
 Harbor. tie wi.s 
 
 CAPr JOHN W MARBLE 
 
 102 
 
GEN EBENEZER W PIERCE 
 
 elected captain of 
 Company A, 3d Mass. 
 \'ols. and mustered in 
 Sept. -lA, iMii'. He 
 served throui^hout tlie 
 North Carolina cam- 
 paign, being a part of 
 the time commander 
 of detached troops at 
 Craines Mill and at 
 Deep (nilly. He was 
 mustered out June i' •> 
 1 Miy, at Camp "Joe 
 Hooker" in Lakeville, 
 .Mass. Captain Mar- 
 ble wa.s the leader in 
 raising the 22nd Unat- 
 t ached Compan\-, 
 .Mass. \'ols.. and was 
 eommi.ssioned Captain and mu.stered in Aug. IS. lsc;4. He 
 .served with that Company in the lUO days' campaign. 
 After the war he again took up the business of carpenter 
 and builder. He built Anthonv & Swift's Abattoir and 
 ice houses at the Forge in b'reetown in IsTl, and for more 
 than twenty years was superintendent of that business. 
 Captain Marble was alwavs prominent in all public mat- 
 ters in t(.iwn, being a power in polities, and in Issl was 
 elected a member of the Massachtisetts Legislature from 
 the tlth District of Bristol County. He married Hannah 
 j. DcMoranville July 4. Is4.s. Their children— Betsey P.. 
 born Aug. '1-i. ls.^4; Mary T., ( )ct. I'T, ls.-,5; John W., 
 -March :i. is.-.S; Henry W., Feb. !.">, I^iio. Capt. Marble 
 died June is. I'.tiMi. 
 
 Ekenkzer W. Pierce, son of Ebenezer and Joanna 
 I Weaver) Pierce, was born April In, IS'22, and was edu- 
 cated in P'reetown schools and Andover Academy. He 
 inherited a fine property, largely real estate, and engaged 
 
 w-', 
 
in sliL-ep raisint;-. He enlisted in the -ilh Artillery, M. \'- 
 ]\I. in 1^4:1. lie was eleeted Major of the same Aug. 31, 
 Js44, and Lieut. -Colonel Sept. .">, 1^4<'>. He enlisted in 
 C()mi)any ("t. :'.d Re.irt. M. V. M. June s. ]s.5(i. He 
 became Captain of same June i".'. l.s."iO; Major of Md Regt. 
 Aug. •">, lx'>\ ; Lieut. -Col. April :.', ls;VJ. He was cornmi.s- 
 sioned Brig.-Creneral -'d Brigade. 1st Div. M. V. M. Nov. 
 7. l.s.")."). He responded t<> Lineoln's eall AjMul !.'>. i.^^tll 
 
 and 
 
 .■rved three nmnth- 
 
 lie etimmanded the Union 
 
 RESIDENCE OF GEN EBENEZER W PEIRCE 
 
 troops at the battle of ISig Bethel Va. — the hrst battle of 
 the war — June in, lsr,l. He was eommissioned Colonel 
 of the 2;»th Regt. .Mass. N'cils. Dee. L'.. iMILand stationed 
 at Newport News. \'a. In May Isc,-.' Cul. Pieree with his 
 regiment took ])art in the e.xpedition to Norfolk and Suf- 
 folk. \'a. He joined the Army of the Potomac in June, 
 lsriL> at \Vhite House Landing and was attached to 
 Meagher's Irish Brigade, Richardson's Div.. Sumner's 
 
 104 
 
Cnrps. June .'In, Im;^. in the seven days retreat aeross the 
 Peninsular, while restint;' at Nelson's Farm near White 
 Oak Swamp, the enemy suddenly opened upon the Divis- 
 ion with artillery. vSeveral hundred mules that had been 
 unhitched from the supply train, to water, stampeded and 
 threw the troops into eonfusion. Before order was restored 
 several of the -J'^ih Regiment were killed and wounded, 
 including Col. Pierce, who lost his ri^fht arm at the shoul- 
 der. He went to Massachusetts to recover, and aH:ain 
 joined his regiment at Harper's Ferry, \':i.. Oct. s, IStlii. 
 On Nov. 1'.', Ist;-i, he was detailed for recruiting service in 
 Massachusetts. He rejoined the regiment March jJl, K'>t)8, 
 at Newport News. \'a., and accompanied it to Paris, Ky. 
 He was on detached dut\- — commanding post at J'aris — and 
 on recruiting service in Massachusetts from April iti to 
 August i".', 1 ^I'lo. when he again joined the regiment, going 
 with it til Kiist Tennessee, where he remained until March 
 ls»'>4. Then the regiment re-enlisted for three years and 
 all were granted a thirty days' furlough. (_)n ^lay Iti, 
 l.stl4. Col. Pierce with liis regiment left Pxiston, Mass.. and 
 joined the Army of the Potomac at Cold Harbor, \'a.. May 
 •^1', I>t>-t. On July ■^■), 1M)4, he obtained leave of absence 
 and returned to Massachusetts, where he remained on sick 
 leave until ( )ct. 24. l">i;4. when he rejoined his regiment 
 at Petersburg, Va. He resigned his commission as colonel 
 Nov. s, ls(i4, and returned home. 
 
 After the war he was appointed Revenue Collector 
 but not confirmed. He also travelled West and South 
 speculating in real estate unsuccessfully. Returning to 
 Assonet he passed the remainder of his days in no especial 
 business. He served one term on the board of selectmen 
 I if Freetown. Col. Pierce married Irene I. Payne of Free- 
 town, and thev had one sun, Palo Alto Pierce, born Jan. 
 l'l', I^.');;. ( )n Mav 1. Is7."i, Mrs. Pierce obtained a divorce 
 from Col. Pierce. (Ju April .">. IM'i', he married Ida E. 
 Crardner. He died Aug. 14. I'.hi:^. 
 
Wli.l.lAM RkaI), son of John and Rosamond (Hath- 
 away i Read, was horn in Freetown, Alarch 13, iso;*, and 
 was educated in the public schools of Freetown. He com- 
 menced to ;4'o to sea early in life, and became a master 
 
 mariner before he was 
 3i> years of age. When 
 the vSoutherners seceded 
 he commanded a mer- 
 chant vessel in the south- 
 ern trade, and was at 
 Darien, (la., the last of 
 April, isci. While he 
 was loading- a cargo of 
 lumber, one evening he 
 overheard a part of a 
 plan to take his vessel ; 
 so in the night he 
 .slipped quietly out of 
 the river and put to sea 
 and came home. He 
 had with him at that 
 time his son, Charles H., 
 who afterwards served 
 When he reached home he found 
 lad gone vSouth with Company tr. 
 
 CAPT WILLIAM READ 
 
 in the .'iSth Mass. \'ols. 
 that his sou l^hvard \i. 
 
 ;!d M. V. M. On the L'L'd of X, 
 
 Isf,-!-, Capt. Read was 
 
 appointed Acting Ensign and Pilot and attached to the 
 Ironclad Passaic of the !->outh Atlantic Blockading Squad- 
 ron. Pie served until June l.'!, Isti.',, when his services 
 were no longer rc(|uired. After the war he again engaged 
 in maritime business until his death. He was drowned in 
 A.ssonet Bay July s, l.sTo. Capt. Read married Eliza Sta- 
 ples A]jril l's, Is;;,s. Their children — Rosamond A., born 
 Jan. l;;, l.s;'.:,t, William II. H., May 1l', Ps41, Edward E. 
 and h^llen E. (twinsi Feb. 7, Ps4;i, Charles H., Jan. 'is, 
 Is4.-., Plelen M., Feb. 1.'., Is-ls, Irving \V., March 2!t. 
 
 l.sr.o, Ella ]., Fel). 17, is.-i;!. 
 
 100 
 
Su.As PjiiRCK RiciiMONii. SOU of Isuac and Lucinda 
 ( Peirce) Richmond, was born in Freetown June 11», ls31. 
 on the Richmond Homestead, which has been owned in 
 the family continuously since 177"). Educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Free- 
 town and at Peirce 
 Academy, iliddle- 
 boro. he entrao-ed in 
 farming and lumber 
 business in earlv life. 
 He enlisted in Com- 
 pany (t, :!d Regt. .M. 
 V. M. in May, l>.Vi. 
 He was appointed cor- 
 poral in April ls;>l ; 
 commissioned -tth 
 Lieut, of same com- 
 pany in Augu.st, ls.51 ; 
 8d Lieut, in August, 
 1S53: Lst Lieut, in 
 May, lN."<4 : Captain in 
 May. ls.3.'); Major and 
 Brigade Inspector ^'d 
 Brig. M. V. M. July 
 L".i. 1 >.".»;. He was in Kansas in 1 sri7-.s, and .served with 
 John Brown in repelling the Border Ruffians. He returned 
 to Mas.sachusetts and was appointed Aid-de-Camp, 'id Bri- 
 gade, M. \'. M.. Sc])t. 1."., l>.".s, and in that capacity 
 responded to the call for the "Minute Men" April l.">, I'^tU, 
 .serving at Fortress Monroe and Hampton. Va., taking- 
 part in the battle of Big Bethel June li>. \>f>l. At the 
 end of that campaign he returned to Ma.ssachu.setts and 
 was honorably discharged. On the -^th of May, IsC-j. he 
 was commissioned Lieut. -Colonel, :)d Regt. ^L \'. ^L,and 
 as such re.sponded to the call to reinforce the Army of the 
 Potomac at the time of (reneral Banks' retreat in the 
 Shenandoah Valley. In julv, Istl-J, he was ordered by 
 
 1117 
 
 COL SILAS P RICHMOND. 
 
("iDv. Andrew to reorganize and recruit the -'Id Regt. M. \'. 
 M. to the maximum for service in the field. He completed 
 that work and the regiment was mustered into the U. S. 
 service, lii4o strong, Se])t. l.-|, l^t'>2. He was commis- 
 sioned as Colonel of the :')d Regt. ()ct. 7, l~>tiL', and on 
 Oct, '22, l.st>2, he proceeded with the regiment by steamer 
 to Newdjern. N. C. During that campaign, he participated 
 in the Battles of Kingston, W'hitc-hall, ( ioldslioro. Deep 
 (iullv, Blounts Creek and in repelling the bombardment 
 of Newbern, N. C, he commanded a brigade a part of the 
 time. At the end of this term of service he returned to 
 
 RESIDENCE OF SAMUEL RICHMOND 1775, IS4AC RICHMOND 1825, 
 COL SILAS P RICHMOND 1865 
 
 Ma.s.sachusetts On the I'sth of Scpteinlicr, Im!:!, he was 
 commissioned Colonel of the .'iSth .Mass. \'ols., and pro- 
 ceeded to recruit that regiment. Nov. iM, jsc,;;, he was 
 appointed superintendent of recruiting in Bristol, Plvm- 
 outh, Barnstable, Nantucket and Dukes Counties, and as 
 sucli continued the recruiting of the ."iSth Regt. until it 
 was ordered to join the Armv of the Botomac April I's. 
 IM',4, July I'.i, |st;4. he was detailed Asst. Provost Mar- 
 shal (reneral of the Department of the fiouth. and served 
 as such at Hilton Head, Savannah, (ia., and Charleston, 
 S. C. He was on the first steamer tliat reached vSavannah 
 
 108 
 
when it was taken, and on tlie first U. S. steamer that 
 went to Charleston, when that eity was eaptured. He was 
 iTonorabiv mtistered out of the service in Sept. 1S(;.">. He 
 eni^aged in lumber and ^r.ain liusiness in Indiana and 
 Miehit^'an in |sf,7-'.>. Col. Richmond has been a Justice of 
 tlie Peace for more than forty years, and is also a Xotary 
 Public. He was for ten years chairman of the Board of 
 Selectmen of Freetown. As Auditor in \x'>-i he ])repared 
 the first printed report ever made of the finances of F"ree- 
 
 RICHMOND LANDING, FORGE POND, 
 
 town. lie has also served as Assessor, Town Clerk and 
 School Committee. He served eifjhteen years as Moderator 
 at annual town meetin_i;s. He was a Representative in the 
 Legislature from the lUh Bristol District in Is'.ii'. He was 
 a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1 M>l' : 
 a turnkey in the Ma.ss. State Prison In71-'.I; deputy keeper 
 in the Bristol County Hou.se of Correction 1n7!»-s-_': Cen. 
 Trav. Agt. C. C. (). Cn. Iss^-iJ; president Bristol County 
 
 mil 
 
Agricultural Society isS'.l-Hl : member of Post 1, Mass. G. 
 A R. He IS a Mason and Knight Templar since ISfio. 
 [an. I. l^'.'il, he was appointed deputy sheriff and ccnirt 
 crier of the Supreme and Superior Courts in P>ristol County, 
 and now holds that position. 
 
 Married Elizribeth J. Haskins June If,, is.-.o. Chil- 
 dren: Emm:i A. bi>rn March !<•, Is.M: Cynthia E., 
 
 uly 1, 1^.^4: Walter S., 
 lsi,\); Lillian F,, Aug, s. 
 
 March l'.-,, is.-,;;; Sarah E. E., 
 Feb. L'L', is.-,7; Flora J,, May 7, 
 
 Married Zadic .Scott Jan. 17, 
 E., Ijorn Aug. •_".», 1^71 ; Roy S. 
 Mav 14, l^s-j; I'orrest S., Aug. 
 7, Ism; ; Mark 11., ( )ct, ."",, ISSli. 
 
 ISiiii. Children: Annie 
 Aug. ;;, ls7:i; Ruth E., 
 4, lss;;; Isaac F,, Jan, 
 
 U. 1^i.i;kiiu,k Tinkii.\m. son of Harvev and fane 
 iC'ornishi Tinkhain, w.is born in ^liddleboro, Mav 7, 183:^, 
 and was educated in the public schools in that town. He 
 learned the complete trade of a shoemaker. In ls.-,4 he 
 
 married Betsey D. 
 Weaver of Assonet and 
 settled down in Free- 
 town and carried on 
 shoemaking. 
 
 In IsC, I he entered 
 the U. S. Na\'y as a 
 blaster's Mate, and was 
 promoted to Ensign in 
 isd;;. He was attached 
 at different times to sev- 
 eral steamers in the 
 .\ t 1 a n t i c Blockading 
 Squadron. He also par- 
 ticipated in several im- 
 portant na\-al battles, 
 among which were the 
 ENSIGN H ELBRiDGE TiNKHAM battlcs of Port Royal, 
 
 no 
 
X e w Orleans, Fort 
 Fisher and Mobile Bay. 
 In the last named battle 
 he was on the flagship of 
 Admiral Farragut and 
 received sixteen severe 
 s])linter wounds from 
 which he never fully re- 
 covered. He remained 
 in the Xa\-v until Im'm. 
 when he was honorablv 
 discharged. Afterward he 
 was for several vears 
 Railroad Station Agent 
 at Assonet. He died 
 February 1-2. l.s'.t-t. and 
 his widow died June '.», 
 1 "^'.m;. 
 
 CAPT GEOSGE 0, WILLIAMS 
 
 (tEOR(;k D. Wii.i i.\\i<. son of Dr. Seth P. and .Sinai 
 ( Dean I Williams was born in Freetown, Jan. ','. ls-2-i. 
 He was educated in Freetown schools and the Normal 
 School at Bridgewater. After graduation, he taught 
 schools in }ilassachusetts. Illinois and Minnesota. He 
 enlisted in Company G. :>rd Regt.. M. \'. M.. in June, 
 is.JO. and was discharged in June, 1>.")4. He re-enlisted 
 in the same companv in !>>.")!•: responded to Lincoln's call 
 April !.■), IStil, and served three months at Fortress 
 Monroe, as a Sergeant : taking part in the destruction of 
 the Norfolk Navy Yard, April I'o. ImW. He enlisted in 
 Company F. -2'Jth Mass. ^'ols.. in December, isiil, and 
 was appointed Sergeant. He was detailed as Regimen- 
 tal Ordnance Sergeant during several months. He was 
 promoted to -id Lieut.. Jan. :.'7. 1 m;:1 ; Isl Lieut.. May-_M. 
 1^»''4, Captain, June s, lst'>4, and mustered out Aug. H, 
 iM'i."-. For several mtraths he was in garrison at Newport 
 News, Va. In May, ISt'.ii, he to(jk part in the expedition 
 to Norfolk and Suffolk. Va. In June. l^irJ. he joined 
 
 III 
 
ihc Ann\- of Ihc I'olimiac, serving in il until March, l^<;:i, 
 then he went with his retjiment to Kentucky, and in 
 April joined the army of den. firant in the .sie^e of Vick.s- 
 burg. After the surrender of A'ieksburg he advanced to 
 Jackson, Miss. In Au,L;ust, Isf,:',, he returned to Ken- 
 tuckv and marched throuj^h Cumberland (kq) into East 
 Tennessee with (',L-n. lUirnside, and was at the siege of 
 Kno.wille. In April, lsCi4, he came home on veteran 
 furlough. In Mav, |s(U, he again joined the Army of the 
 Potomac and remained with it until he was mustered out. 
 He served during the siege of Petersburg. He displayed 
 great gallantrv at the Battle of Malvern Hill, where he 
 \-olunteered to take a message to another regiment which 
 required him to cross an open helcl in full \'iew of the 
 enem\- and exposed to a murderous fire. He walked 
 across and back again in the coolest manner, winning 
 much })i'aise from his commander and the plaudits of his 
 comrades. At the battle of I'ort Steadman, \'a.. before 
 daylight, his compans' was nearh' all cajjtured before it 
 had time to man the works. While trying to rally his men 
 in the darkness, a rebel olhcer seized hini b\' the throat, 
 threw him on the ground and took his sword. In turn 
 he knocked the reliel down, recovered his sword, and 
 took that of his antagonist and led the rebel, a prisoner, 
 to regimental headquarters; on the way he notified Capt. 
 John M. Deane of the next company of the serious state 
 of affairs in the camp, thereby saving that officer from 
 capture or perhaps death. The captured sword, which he 
 brought h;ime. was marked "Charleston ITTil." Capt. 
 Williams was always to be found on the firing line when 
 duty called. He was wounded in the left arm at the 
 battle of Poplar Crove Church, \'a., Aug. I'.). istU. 
 
 Capt. Williams married Eliza Young Miller of Fall 
 River, April ■_'»;, |st;4. After his discharge from the army 
 he returned to the homestead farm at Assonet, where he 
 died March '.», l'.io-_'. 
 
 ir.' 
 
Lii IT. (lEiiki.l': DuKl'KK, of Freetown, served as a 
 private in Cnmpany A, :')rcl Re.^-t., Mass. \'ols.. as a Ser- 
 i^eanl of Company IS, 4lli M.ass. Cavalry, and as I'd Lieut, 
 in -Jlst Re--l., r. S. C. T. 
 
 C.M'i. JwiKs R. .M \ I iii;\vs(i\ eame to Freetown in 
 I •*^.")4. and woi-ked in the I)a\"is iK: Thresher Cun Faetorv 
 six years. lieenlisted in Conipan v C. -".rd Re^t.. .M.\'..M.. 
 in Aul;'.. 1^"i4. lie was eleeled 1st Lieut, ifrom private), 
 Ma\- >-, l>.'i."i: eleeted Captain Mareli 4, Is;)"; resij^ned 
 lulv, iM'iH. He joined the 7th Re,nt.. ;\lass. \'ols., and 
 was eoumiissioned I'nd Lieut., June \'i. jsci ; 1st Lieut.. 
 Nov. |:;. |m;1: Captain, ( )et. l'.'.. 1m;-_'. Mustered out 
 |une I'T. lst;4. He died in Taunton. 
 
 LiI'M;!'. F^riikAiM 11. Haskixs, son of Russell and 
 Mere\- Haskins, was l)orn in Freetown. lie was a mem- 
 ber of Conipan)- C, :ird Ret^t., M. \'. M,. and ser\ed with 
 the eompan\' in the Fortress Munroe eain])aii^n in I Mil. 
 He joined the "iSth Rej^'t.. Ahiss. \'ols.. in 1 m;4, ser\-ed as 
 1st Sergt., and was eommissioned I'nd Lieut.. An;^'. 8, 
 lsfi4. He was killed in 
 the battle near the Wel- 
 don Railroad, \'a., Se]5t. 
 
 ■■'.o, I sea. 
 
 L I i; r I . j 1 1 II .\ A. 
 S\\i,i;s, of Somerset, 
 ^Llss., enlisted in Com- 
 pany (;,, :'.rd Res;-t.,M.\'. 
 M., in June, 1 s.").') : dis- 
 ehari.;-ed jul\-, I s.".r,. He 
 was a 1st Lieut, in the 
 I'iith Rei;t., Mass. \"ols.. 
 Lee. l:;, IsCil , and served 
 with that re<.i,-iment until 
 Se])t. 1:.'. 1 s{\-j_ when he 
 resio'ned. 
 
 Li p:r r. C. i;i > k(, k H. 
 \\'l\sM i\\ . son of ^Vbner 
 
 LIEUr GEORGE H WINSLOW 
 
 lu; 
 
Winslow. was Ixini in l-'rcelown. He enlisted in Cum- 
 panv (i, :ir(l Rl\l;1.. M. \'. -M.. in ls"i.". ; was dischari^ed 
 |an. .".1. l.s.'i'.i, and muslerL-d into Companv (t iFall Riven. 
 2f.th ReL;!., Mass. \'()ls., Sept. •j!4. IsCI. He served as 
 Pri\-ale. Ci)r])i>ral. Serijeant. and was eommissioned :^d 
 Lieut.. Ma\- ol , IsC,;;. He was mustered out Xov. 7, 1m;4. 
 
 Cait. Hiuam r>. WKniKKKli, was appointed bv Pres- 
 ident Lineoln a Captain and Uuarter-Master in the Reg'- 
 ular Arm\- and ser\-ed during- the Rebellion. After the 
 war he came to I'reetown and lived on the homestead of 
 Ca]3t. Elisha Pratt, the father of his wife. I"or •!'> year.s 
 he was prominent in town affairs, servini^' on the school 
 committee several terms. 
 
 The followiuL;' men enlisted in the Spanish- American 
 War, is'.ts, viz. : — 
 
 Mii/ro.v Ir\in(, Dkaxk, (runner's ]\Iate. l\ S. Moni- 
 tor, Lehio'h. 
 
 Pkmi'.Ki IKI-: I'liKi K. Companv F, 1st Rei^t.. M. \'. M. 
 
 Fkank RwssKi.i, WiM,, Companv I, 1st Reyt., R. I. 
 \'olunteers. 
 
 vSoldiers buried in l-^reetown, whose i;"raves are dec 
 orated each Memorial I)av : 
 
 Assi im; r Ci;mi;tkkv. 
 
 1/ III (if Riht llion. 
 
 John (J. Aha.ms, Russk.m. H.aski.ns, 
 
 Chester W. Iluiia;'^, Chakii^ R. Haski.s's, 
 
 Clemen 1 C. C.\x.n'on, Sam C. Haihawav, 
 
 James C. Ciark, Lvnde Haihawav, 
 
 Ceokce H I)ian, Andkiw T. Ma,\ii:i,v, 
 
 Wll.l.L4.M R Hl.AN, RoiiEKI llNKINS, 
 
 JoSh.l'H W. Di;.\HA.M, |0H.N W. MaKULI^, 
 
 Wiii.ia.m H. Fisiikr, |(ihx H. Xh hoes, 
 
 JoSH'H \V. (JlUE, i^l IHI.K Pk KENS, 
 
 Ja.MKS H. HasREEE, WlEElA.M PkAl I, 
 
 Abua.m Haskeel, Enos B. Pav.ne. 
 
 Ai;kam H. Haskeel, Ekexezer W. Pierce, 
 
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James M. Pkikce, 
 William Rkad, 
 Edward E. Rkad, 
 William Rosk, 
 Andrew J. Thkksiii-,r, 
 James Thompson, 
 
 H. E. TlNKHAM, 
 
 Joseph B. Weaver, 
 
 Thomas Westgaie, 
 William S. Winslow, 
 Joseph W. Winslow, 
 Elerv B. WvAi I. 
 
 Gkorgk D. Williams 
 Bkai.ia- Ckmi: ikrv. 
 //'(?;• ('/' Rebel lion. 
 Philo L. Bralev, Martin Haskell, 
 
 George McCullv. William Haskell, 
 
 Ephraim Haskell, Phineas Revnolds, 
 
 Brali-a \ II.I.K Cl.Mi; ll.KV. 
 
 War of Rebellion. 
 
 John Wesigaie, Preserved Westgate. 
 
 War of iSi2. 
 Roger Haskell, Thomas Westgaie. 
 
 Noah Revnolds, 
 
 CiiAii: Ckmi iKRN. 
 
 War of Rebellion. 
 AzEL Chace, James F. Vinal. 
 
 War of I Si 2. 
 Asa Spoon kr. 
 
 MiiR riiN Ckmhiimo'. 
 
 1/ ar of Rebellion. 
 Andrew J. Filler, Edmund Williams. 
 
 Charles T. Peirce. 
 
 War of Revolution. 
 Joseph Cole, Isaac Peirce. 
 
 Nathaniel Morion, 
 
 R|( 1! \l( iMi Ci:\IK I KRN'. 
 War of I Si 2 . 
 John Richmond, Isaac Richmond, 
 
 Sa.muel Richmond. |r. Abram Richmond. 
 
 War of Revolution. 
 Sa.muel Rich.mond, Jonaiiian Richmond. 
 
 James Richmond, 
 
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R( II \s\ I 1,1 1, Cl.M I. I \.\<\ . 
 II 'iir of l\i'lhtlu')i. 
 Ai.i'.F.Ki \l. Chalk, James M. Hervey, 
 
 Skiii H. Chack, Simon D. Rounsville, 
 
 FisHKK A. Clevei.an'ii, Calvin Thomas. 
 
 War I'J I Si 2. 
 GiLllEKr RoUN.SVIl.l.K, Thi^mas Rouns\'ille. 
 
 SlI.AS RuUNSVILI.K, 
 
 II 'ar i</ Rc'vol lit toil. 
 
 Le\-| RoUNSVIl.lE. 
 
 Will ri-: Cl:Ml■:Tl-;l<^ . 
 
 II ar of Ribiilioit. 
 Ephkaim Boomer, ()i,ivEk Washburn. 
 
 S. A. Macomi;ek, 
 
 II' a r of I Si 2. 
 Elijah 1'akklr 
 
 I'll 1 1 ir \l\ A\> Bl UI Al, f iKi II Ml 
 
 II or of KcboUion. 
 William Thokpl. 
 
 .MniiAKi, Haiiiwxw ]!i ui \i, (iki h nd. 
 II or of Rchclliiiii . 
 
 RUSSKLL II H \ I ha WAV. 
 
 II' or of I Si 2. 
 
 Mil II A h,L H A III A\\ \ N . 
 
 OrAKI'.K l!l UIAI ('rl<(UM>. 
 
 Il'or of Robillion. 
 JOHN RhVlf. Samuel Peirce. 
 
 Pi.rNLMik BriOAi (iuoi \i>. 
 
 II 'or o I Rilhlliiiii . 
 Andrew La w i hn. 
 
 V \\ \l l!i UI \i ('ik( ii \[i. 
 // or of Rcl'c/lioii. 
 (5eorge. O. Houi-HidN, IIknkv 11. Payne. 
 
 Charles C. Pavne, 
 
 II 'or (>l I Si 2. 
 Henry Payne, (^kokoe Paine, 
 
 110 
 
The Lawyers. 
 
 BY BENJAMIN BU FFINTON. 
 
 WiiiiAM A. Le(i\akii. (if Raynliam. was orraduated 
 friiiii Hi"(i\vn University in IT'.i.'l. He was amont)" the first 
 of the pri)fessic)n to praetice law at Asscmet \'ina<^e in 
 I'reetown. He bcjarded in the faniil\- of Col. I'.enjaniin 
 Wea\-er, and nsed the west front ehamber of the eolonehs 
 house for his oihee until he finished a buildinj^ eonstrneted 
 of lumber sent from Raynham. This IniildiuLi' stood a 
 short distanee s<juth of the Con,n'reL;ational meeting-house, 
 and was used for a sehool house in later vears. Mr. 
 Leonard remained at Freetown onl\' a short time and 
 then returned to Ravnham. 
 
 W'asIIIM, 11 IN Ha'IHAw \^ . a nati\-e of Freetown, was 
 the Son ot Joseph and I'^uniee i W'inshiw i Hathawav. He 
 was born September 4, 1777, and was graduated from 
 I-»rown University in 17'.is. His law oftiee stood on the 
 north side of \\'ater Street. He eommeneed the praetice 
 of law in or about \s\\-i. He died Februarv In, IMs. 
 
 (iKiiK(,i-: BnNi'.M X\ K HoiMKs, a native of Roehes- 
 tei , was the son of Abraham and Hethiah (X\-ei Holmes. 
 He was admitted to Pivmouth Count\- bar, April, Iso'.i. 
 He located in Freetown about ls|n. in a building on the 
 north-west cm-ner of Main and Water Streets, and prac- 
 ticed law in Freetown and Fall River. He married 
 I'^lizabeth, dauo;hter of Thomas and Abii^ail Paxme, of 
 Freetown, January s, lsl:'.. Mr. Holmes was a brother 
 i.if Charles j. Holmes, I'^sci., a lawyer of great aliility and 
 
 117 
 
a k-adini4" cili/.cn of F"all River for nianv years. In tlie 
 war i)f l^|■_', Mr. (ieori^'e l>. X. Hulmes .served in the 
 I'niled States nax'v. 
 
 IIkri fLEs CrsiiMW was Ixirn in Aliddleboru. He 
 there studied law, and sonn after his admittanee to the 
 bar he was appointed clerk of the Plymoutli Countv Court 
 and was elected as representati\-e to the State Legislature. 
 In ls|;'. he settled in Freetown, whence he was sent as 
 Representative to the (reneral Court for eight sessions. 
 He served one \'ear, Is^'f', in the (xovernor's Council. He 
 was also a Collector of Customs. He served in the militia 
 of Bristol County and was elected Colonel of the Fifth 
 Regiment. He returned to Middlel)oro in Inl'^', and was 
 again sent to the State Legislature. He died in ls;i2. 
 He was a man highh- honored bv his fellow-citizens and 
 eminenth' succc-ssful in his profession. 
 
 Hk/kkiaii I5a 1 I'KI.I.K wasborn in Dover, Mass., May i', 
 17ns. lie was a graduate of Brown Universitvin the class 
 of IsKi, and afterwards studied law in the office of Hercules 
 Cushman, the honored attorne\- of Freetown. Upon his 
 admissiiui to the bar he became partner of ^[v. Cushman, 
 but only fnr a few years, when he removed to Swansea 
 and there practiced law until \s-27. l^hen he settled per- 
 mancnth' in I'all River, and fur many \'cars was one of 
 the foreninst men of the bar in this vicinity. He was 
 actixelv interested in all matters relating to the welfare of 
 his adopted home, filling many offices of trust and respon- 
 sibility. He was a member of the Massachusetts House 
 of Representatives 1 s:is-;;ii, and lN4s-4'.t. He died Jan- 
 uarv l'l', 1 sTl'. 
 
 Ri I Is B\(ii\ was a native of Rochester, and came 
 to Freetown in isjt. He occupied the same office that 
 was used 1)\- Mr. Hulmes. He was interested in the mili- 
 tia iif the .State and was commissioned Captain of the 
 Assonet Light Infantry Company, June L'l, IMS, which 
 he held fur si.\ years. He was a memljer of General 
 
 118 
 
Court for the year ls-J7, and cliairinan of tlie County 
 Commissioners for lsi!s. He rcmo\-ed to tlie Slate of 
 Xew York during' the latter year. The house now owned 
 and used for a parsona.u;e by the Conjjj'rei^-ational Society 
 was built and occupied by Mr. Bacon. 
 
 E/KA ^Vll KiNSdN was born in W'rentham. Mass., Feb- 
 niarv 14. isul, and died in Dedham, Mass., February tl, 
 l^^■_'. He was graduated fi^om Brown I'niversitv in the 
 class (if lsii4, and was admitted to the bar in js-js. He 
 came to Freetown in March. 1n-J'.». and ojiened a law office 
 in the same buildini^- that was used by Mr. Holmes and 
 Mr. Bacon. He soon nio\-ed to Seekonk, Mass., and in 
 is;',.') hf mo\'ed to Hedliam. Mass., where he remained 
 until his death. He was a member of Massachusetts 
 House of Representati\'es three sessions: a member uf 
 the Massachusetts Ccmstitutional Convention in Is.",:',, an<l 
 Associate [nsticc of Massachusetts Sujierior Court from 
 \s:,\\ to issi'. 
 
 WiLi.iAM H. IvnnN . a native of Middleljoro, was grad- 
 uated from iSrown I'niversitx' in is:; I, and settled in 
 I'reetown in ls:i."); but because of po^r lu-altli he soon 
 returned to Middleboro, where he died in Is:',s. 
 
 losi.ni ll\iii\\v\\ was born in iM-eetown. ^larch '.'. 
 IT'.i'.t. He was the son of lohn and Betse\' iW'inslowi 
 1 latliaw;i\-. He was a <.;'raduate of Brown Universit\' in 
 ] si'o. He located and {practiced law in Fall Rix'cr in 
 |s2,"i to |s:!7. The first newspaper ])rinted in Fall River 
 was "The Monitor," which was first i)nblished January t>, 
 IsL'.'i, 1_)\- Xathan Hall. Mr. Hathaway was its first editor. 
 He was con.sidered one of the most brilliant law\'ers of his 
 dav. He was elected a member of the (icneral Court in 
 Is^'T. He came to Assonct in ls;;7. where he ojtened a 
 law office. He went back to l'\ill River in |s4+. but 
 Soon returned to Asscmet, where he died Ai)ril !•. ISti.V 
 He was durint;' his life distini^uished as a temperance 
 lecturer. 
 
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I'j.NAiii.w I', ll\llll\\\^ was born X(ivcml)ci" I'J. 
 IT'.iT. in 1-" recti iwji, Mass. He was the s<in of Dr. Xichulas 
 and Anna I'eircc IlatlKway. Elnathan fitted for coUe.^'e at 
 
 I'ei rce A e a d e m v in 
 -M id(llel)iir( I, and was 
 graduated from Brown 
 L'niversity in the elass 
 of Isls. He sttldied 
 law and located for 
 l^ractice in Assonet 
 \'illai^e. He was en- 
 .L;a,L;ed for nianv \-ears 
 in most of tlic impor- 
 tant cases that came 
 l)efore the courts of 
 Bristol l'oiint\-. He 
 held manv offices in 
 the town. \'iz. : Asses- 
 sor for li \" c V e a rs, 
 Treastirer for one \-ear. 
 Senator for one vear, 
 ELNATHAr. P HATHEWAY Rc ] irescn tat i vc to the 
 
 (ieneral Court foj- five \'ears, member of the Massaelui- 
 setts Constitutional Convention in \s:,:\. He married 
 Salome Cushman. He died January i!;i, ls.")S. 
 
 Xii iini \s H A I 111 w A\ , son of Elnathan I', and Salome 
 ( Cushman I Hathewax'. was l)orn in iM'eetown. Septem- 
 ber :'., bs-jl. He attended the public schools of his nati\-e 
 town, and I'liillips .\i-adeni\'. He lilted tor collci^'e at 
 I'ieree AcadLun- at .\1 iddlclxjro, and was irracUiated from 
 lirown Cni\-crsit\- in the class of ls47. He studied law 
 in his father's ot'ficc, ])rc])arator\' to bein,!j," admitted to 
 the b.ir as a law\-cr in his nati\c town. In Is.'jC, he was 
 electcl to tile State Senate; in Js.M he was a])|)ointed 
 weigher and n'au;;er in the Custom House at Boston, and 
 held the office until Is*'.]. He remo\-ed to l'\dl Ki\er in 
 iM'iT, where he resumed the practice of law, and for years 
 
was an aclix'c member of lliu l)ar nl' ISrislol (."(Hinl\', bcin^;' 
 the successful aU<irue\- fur tlie defeudant iu mau\-crim- 
 iual cases. Mr. llathewax' was elected alderman in 1S74; 
 a mcinbef of the (rcnd'al C'durt in IsT-'i. and was Post- 
 master at l'"all Ri\-er under the administralKiu ut" President 
 Cleveland. He was elected Cil\- Solieitcir foi" the \-ear 
 1 s'.iii, Mr. Hathe\va\' is well and fa\'<)rabl\- known as a 
 political speaker, haxdnt;" alwa\'s been a worker in the 
 ranks of the I)emoeralic ])art\'. His son, Nicholas llathe- 
 wa\'. |r., was t^raduated at lirown I'niversity, class of 
 b'^s;!. He studied in ihe law ot!ice of P)ralcy c*t .Swift, 
 preparatory to l)ein;4' admitted to the bar in bsss. He is 
 now a ])ractieinj;' law\-er in b'all Ri\'er. 
 
 lriK,i Hi\m K. l>i<.\i i:\ was born in Rochester, 
 Mass.. the son of Samuel T. and Mar\- King" Rraley. His 
 j.;'rand father Abncr Hrale\- married Pollv Hinds of Free- 
 town, and lived for a sliort time in I'.ast Freetown. 
 mo\"im;' from there to l"airha\'en. where their son Sam- 
 uel T. was born. Tliex" then nio\-ed to that part of North 
 koeliester known as Bralcv Hill. Itradford liraley. the 
 brotlier of Abner P>ralev. was elected Selectman of P'ree- 
 town in Is.'io. and twice went as Representative to the 
 Le^'islattire, |udire Brale\- was educated in the common 
 school of liis nati\"e town, Rochester ^\c;idem\- and Peirce 
 Academv at Middleljoro. He studied law with Hon. 
 llosea Kiu,i;nian at riridL^cwater. and was admitted to the 
 bar in Plymouth Counl\-, ( )ctol)er, 1.^7:!. He be<4'an to 
 practice law in I'\all River, December, IsT:!. He served 
 the city as Cit_\- Solicitor in bs74, and as Mayor in 1 ^^•J 
 and Iss3. He was appointed a iudoe of the Superior 
 Court m Is'.tl. He married Caroline \\'., daughter of 
 Philander and Sarah L. Leach. 
 
 ^Vhen acting ofhciallv he is one of the few men who 
 come at once to the point and who sav nothing unless they 
 have something relevant to sav. The recent testimony of 
 a Boston newspaper mav fittinglv be quoted in character- 
 ization of the judge: "No Massachusetts judge seems to 
 
 I'Ji 
 
Ill butler in his place than (hies Inth^e Hralev in the 
 equity session. Prompt in the despatch of business, quick 
 to see the points at issue, able instantly to disentangle the 
 web of sophistry, or clear away the clouds of misstate- 
 ment, misunderstandino;, or doubt, he pierces to the very 
 marrow of the tiuestion. and decides abh'. fairlv and 
 courageously." 
 
 NoTK. — December IT, li(02, (iiivcrmir W. Munav Crane worthily 
 advanced Judge Braley to a seat on tlie bench of the Supreme Judicial 
 Court, vice Judge Marcus P. Knowlton elevated to Chief Justice. 
 
 The Hon. J.v.mes ^I. Morton was Ixirn on Septem- 
 lier .">lh, ls:;7. His parents, James M. and Sarah i Tobey) 
 Morion, were both nati\x'S of the eastern part of the town 
 of Freetown. 
 
 judge ^blrton was educated m the I'all River High 
 School, ISrown Universitv, and the llarx-ard Law School. 
 He began the practice of law in the office of the late 
 Judge Laphatn. 
 
 In I .s<U he formed a partnership with Hon. John vS. 
 I>ra\-ton and later Hon. Andrew J. Jennings was taken 
 into the firm, which continued until Judge Morton's 
 ti|)poinlment to the Supreme Judicial Court of this State 
 b\- ( lovernor Hrackett, in September, IS'.Mi. 
 
 The \'acane\' on the iJcnch which Jtulge Morton was 
 called to fill was made 1>\- the promotion of Associate 
 lustiee Walkridge A. Field to the place of Chief Justice, 
 a position which, np to that time, had been held for many 
 \'cars b\- the Hon. Marcus Morton, who was also a descend- 
 ant of the East I'reetown familv. 
 
 123 
 
The Physicians. 
 
 BY PALO ALTO PIERCE. 
 
 EARLY in the beuinnini^- of tlic seventeenth eentnry we 
 hear of an old midwife called (iranny Brightman, 
 whose cirenit of practice was very extensive. She lived 
 in the southern part of Freetown, near Slade's Ferry. 
 On one occasion we find her in Beech Woods in Lakeville, 
 pressing onward in a severe snow-storm to the assistance 
 of a suftering sister. Her horse gave out and she called 
 upon Isaac Peirce (who had squatted there i, for a fresh 
 one, but he refused her and allowed her to pursue her 
 journey as best she could. This was not the end of it, 
 however, for when Isaac Peirce, — who was a Quaker, and 
 had left the Ma.ssaclausetts l>a}- Colon_\- on account of the 
 bitter feeling which still continued there toward those 
 professing that faith, — next went to the Friends' Oi:arterly 
 Meeting at Swansea, whom should he find there but ( irann\- 
 Brightman? She had come to enter complaint against him 
 for refusing her assistance in her time of need, and after 
 a patient hearing it was determined as the sense of the 
 meeting, that he should make to her a formal and huml)le 
 acknowledgement of his fault, which he accordingly did. 
 In ]7:!4, March twenty-sixth, the town voted to 
 Thomas Brownell the sum of six pounds to doctor Hannah 
 Xegus one month, and again the said Brownell was paid 
 the ne.xt year for similar services five pounds, ten shil- 
 lings, and was to find meat for himself and furnish his 
 
 own horse. 
 
 12:! 
 
I)k. Iniix TiKMk. ;i n;iti\'e <if I'reetown, Hvintr at 
 what was then called Piowenville, within the present limits 
 of I'all River, had a practice which extended as far as 
 Newport on the south, where his services were constantlv 
 in demand during the Revolution. In manner he was 
 very brusque. The story is told of his having been called 
 to josiah Winslow, one of the settlers, who had while 
 attempting to mend his chimne\- by standing on the 
 trammel, sustained a fall and injury to his head. Dr. 
 Turner arriving, and asking the usual " How d'ye do," 
 his patient answered in a faint voice, " ( )h doctor, I'm 
 afraid I've knocked m\' lirains uul I " " Pshaw, Mr. ^\'ins- 
 low, no such thing, vnu never had any brains," was the 
 doctor's replv. Dr. Turner was of large frame and well 
 proportioned, and lived to a good old age highly esteemed 
 among his brethren. He had two sons who were physi- 
 cians, lohn, the vounger, born March •2'2, 174>;, com- 
 menced jM'acticc in I'reetown and liad the care of a hos- 
 pital for inoculation of sm;dl-])o.\ in 1777. He was also 
 employed by the (iovernment in the Xavy. 
 
 Dr. Jksse Bn.LocK came into I'reetown o\'er tme 
 hundred years ago, from I\eho1)oth. He married Mehit- 
 able Winsl(n\- in 17ii."i. In 1774 he was chosen one of a 
 committee to draft resolutions express! \'e of the sense of 
 the town in regard to the destruction of the tea in Boston. 
 Harbor. In 1777 Dr. liullock w.is recommended to have 
 the care of a hospital for the inoculation of small pox., 
 In 17711 he was chosen chairman of a committee to draw 
 up instructions for a delegate to the Constitutional Con- 
 \-ention of 17s<i. [u 17^:1 he was elected Representative 
 to (Tcneral Court. He was also appointed a Justice of the 
 Peace. He had an extensive practice, at least territorially, 
 and was a man of wide reading and general intelligence, 
 and was considered an authorit\- in his profession. 
 
 Dr. Wli.i.iAM CAun.xii k was horn in Rehoboth in 
 1771, jnirsued his medical studies with his uncle. Dr. Jesse 
 Bullock, and finalh" took a large share of the practice. 
 
 124 
 
With medical literature and many of those branches 
 usuallv pursued in medical schools, he was probably not 
 intimately acquainted : his knowledge was obtained rather 
 at the bedside of the sick than from books. He po.ssessed 
 a delicacy of discrimination which the mere book-worm 
 might envy. His method of treatment was heroic, and 
 he was very successful. His native good sense, mechan- 
 ical turn of mind and a lack of anything like timidity in 
 seasons of danger, eminently fitted him for his profession. 
 He was famed for his success in treatment of intermittent 
 fever by active emetics and cathartics. He was naturally 
 irascible and combative, and had it not been for his relig- 
 ious principle he might have be,en quarrelsome, for he 
 freejuently acknowledged that the control of his temper 
 had cost him many a se\'ere effort. Dr. Carpenter's influ- 
 ence in public and private was thrown decidedly on the 
 side of order and good morals. He died December (>, 
 1 ^V.K aged 7^ years: 
 
 Dk. X|( ipii.As Ha ^llI.\\A^ was contemporary with Dr. 
 Carpenter. Born in North r)ighton, December 4. ITTM, 
 he was the son of Stephen and Hope iPeircei Hatheway, 
 He graduated from Brown University in June, 17i>-t, and 
 commenced the practice of medicine in Freetown the same 
 year He married Anna Peirce, December '■'•. 17'.'."i. In 
 171M1 he had what was called a pest-house, and one thou- 
 sand persons went thither to be iu'K'ulated, there to 
 remain si.x; weeks. Dr. Hatheway attended for this period 
 and received from each patient two dollars for his ser- 
 vices. He practiced in Freetown twenty-three years, and 
 was very generally beloved. Dr.' Hatheway and Mr. 
 David Leonard (grandfather of Secretary John Hay i mar- 
 ried sisters, and in 1^17 both men with their families 
 moved to Ohio, to the great regret of their townspeople. 
 -Mr. (iuilford H. Hathaway used to tell how he remem- 
 bered, as a small boy. sitting down by the roadside and 
 crying when he saw Dr. Hatheway's household goods 
 being carried away. His wife Anna died Sept. 'is, \S-2->, 
 
 V2-) 
 
and April 1."-, 1^L'4. I )r. 1 latheway married Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Mortiin, \vidi)w nf David Morton. A daughter Anna, l)orn 
 in 1>-J7, afterward Mrs. Gillespie, was the only eliild bv 
 this marriage. He died Augu.st 24, l.s48. Dr. Hathewav 
 went west with the intention of quitting tiie praetiee of 
 medieine, but the localit\- where he settled was malarial, 
 and his medieal services were in such demand that he 
 acquired a very extensive practice. All his traveling was 
 done on horseback; once even he rode to Massachusetts 
 and returned ujion his horse. He was at one time Asso- 
 ciate lustice for fninn County and a Representative to the 
 < )hio State Legislature in Is-J-J, 1 s.'!-f-:3.-.. He was a man of 
 great ;il)ility, in politics a strong Jacksonian Democrat. 
 He was j)ortl}', of a commanding presence, and was affable, 
 generous, and enjoyed fully the confidence of everyone 
 who knew him. 
 
 Dk. Tli<l\l\^ iliMr succeeded 1 >r. Hathewaw He 
 was born in .Middleboro, jul\- s, IT'.ni, and died ( )cto- 
 
 l)er ."i. Is77, aged sT 
 years. He fitted for 
 college at Pierce Acad- 
 emy in ]\Iiddleboro, 
 being a student there 
 at the opening in jsiis, 
 and was graduated 
 Irom Hrown Univer- 
 sity in is] 4. In choice 
 of a ])rofession his 
 mind was first direct- 
 ed toward the minis- 
 Irw but he finallv de- 
 ' ided upon the prac- 
 tice of medicine, studv- 
 ing with Dr. Arad 
 Thompson of Middle- 
 boro till prepared to 
 THOMAS BUMP, M D practicc, and then en- 
 
tering' the extensive field of I )i". Xieliolas Hathewiiv in 
 Freetown, which the latter had concluded to abandon, 
 and continuing in it for nearly .sixty years. Unlike most 
 physicians he kept his prices d(5wn to the old standard . 
 extracting a tO(.)th for "nincpencc" and charging from a 
 cjuarter of a dollar to thirty-sex'cn and a half cents for 
 a visit, and if the patient was poor rarely calling for pay- 
 ment of these small sums. The war prices caused by the 
 Rebellion compelled him to increase his charges, which 
 even then he did not allow to e.xceed fifty cents a visit. 
 Dr. Hump was repeatedly elected to the .school board, 
 where he .served twelve years. He was Town Clerk in 
 the vears 1 s:i4,-':io,-'3'i,-':-53,-'84, and was a Selectman in 
 l^-Js. He was a Representative to the Oeneral Court in 
 1 ^•_'s--_".'. was commissioned justice of the Peace Febrir- 
 ;irv ■2'>. [soO. and Surgeon of the .")th Regiment of local 
 militia in I sis. In politics he was a iJemocrat, not simply 
 bv profession, but by heart. In fact he was too honest a 
 man to be anything by profession that he was not in real- 
 ilv. He married, iust before he came to Freetown, Mis.s 
 Pulcheria ( )lney of Providence. 
 
 There were some other phvsicians in town in the 
 centurv covered bv Dr. Hathc\va\- and I )r. Bump. Dr. 
 loshua H. Brett, son of the first minister ordained in 
 I'reetown, born June -il*, 17.'. I, was a physician of some 
 note, and was also chosen a school-master for the year 
 17s:!. A Dr. James Ashlev, who lived in the easterly 
 part of the town, had a medical bill allowed by the town 
 m lso4. Dr. Cornelius Tobey, who appears as a Select- 
 man in IsnCi, was son of Dr. Tobev of Dartmouth, a man 
 quite distinguished in his time, being the preceptor of 
 Dr. William Baylies of Dighton and Dr. Ebenezer 
 Winslow of Swansea. Dr. ( )li\-cr Cu.shing had an 
 account allowed in IMT,. He was a graduate of the 
 medical department of Brown University and he re- 
 mained but a year in Freetown. Dr. Seth E. Pratt, 
 son of Dr. Seth Pratt of Easton, commenced prae- 
 
 127 
 
tiec in 1 auiilnn near 
 Mvricksvillc in 1^:!l' and 
 removed in Freetown 
 in I ^. "■."). He remained 
 ()nl\' abdiil three years, 
 wlien lie returned {<< 
 iiaston, where he died 
 shnrtly after. Dr. 1'.. 
 \V. Hathaway, a native 
 of Freetown. studied 
 with Dr. Pratt and Dr. 
 Swan. After praetisiuL;' 
 hei'e with more eredit 
 to himself tlian profit, 
 he remoxed to Fall 
 l-iix'er, and later went 
 to California. ^^^^^^ ^ mcHois, m d 
 
 Dk. TiiiiMAs (',. \ii iiiiis, a son of Cajitain John 
 Niehols, was hoi'u in Freetown, Xo\-eml)er '.*, j.^l'.'. and 
 reeei\'ed his literar\' education at L'niou L'olle;,^'e, where 
 he was L;'raduated in hs4:'. with hiL;h standinj;' in his class. 
 In the I-^all of 1n44 he l)e_L;-an studxinj;- with Dr. Willard 
 Parkei" in Xew \'ork L'it\-, and atten<led the course of 
 lectures at the L'olle;^-e of I'hvsicians and Sur_t4'eons in 
 that city the suceeedini.i' winter. Ife next studied at the 
 Jeffersou Medical Colle;.4e in I'hiladelphia. and returned 
 to Freetown to Ijcj^'iu the practice of medicine there in 
 |s47. In iN.'iL' he was married to Miss Irene Lazell, 
 daui^iiter of ISar/.illai Crane of Berkele\-. In Isfn' Dr. 
 Nichols became a partner and the financial manager in 
 the firm of X. R. Dax'is (.K: Co., conlimunL;' this connection 
 until his death, l'\-bruar\- It!, 1 s,s;;. He was for over 
 thirl\' \'ears an aclix'c and inlluential mendjer of the Con- 
 gregational Church in Assonet, a man who took a deep 
 interest in public affairs and was foremost in all that 
 pertained to the best interests of the town. 
 
 128 
 
I>k. I'JiMiNM \'ai,kn I INK HAriiA\\.\\ was Ixirn in 
 Freetown, January h^, Isss, tlie son of Capt. iMlnuiml 
 Ilathawa)-. He was j^'radnated from Brown Uni\-ersity in 
 I s4n, studied medicine and located in Providence, R. I., 
 wliere he practised until the ^''^'^^ mines of California 
 were discovered in l.s4'.t, when he went to San Francisco 
 and later entered the commission and warehouse business 
 with his brother, Charles W. Hathawav. As a membei" 
 of the \'i|4ilance Committee of Is.'iii, he became a |)romi- 
 ncnt fijrure in the stirring affairs of that time. The 
 brothers were j^encrous supporters of Starr King's church. 
 Dr. Hathawav was married in l.s<>2 to Miss Katherine 
 A. liuffum of Pro\-idence, R. I. He was a resident of 
 Herkcley, Cal.. at the time of his death, December In, 
 isn'.t. Although he ne\'er practised medicine in Free- 
 town, mention of him among our ph\-sicians seems most 
 appropriate, as he ne\-er lost interest in his nati\'e town, 
 the bell of the Christian Church being a gift from him. 
 
 Dr. IdSKi'ii C. H.vriiEWAV, son of Hon. Elnathan P. 
 Hathewa}-, was born in Freetown in ls:i:i. He studied 
 medicine with Dr. Bump for one vear, then entered the 
 Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where he grad- 
 uated in I >.">•'>, and at once established an office in ( )ttawa, 
 Illinois. He was one of the oldest members of the La 
 Salle County Medical Society, and has acted as president 
 of the same. He was also connected with the State Med- 
 ical Societ}'. At one time he held the position of County 
 Physician and Surgeon, and was an efficient member of 
 the United States Board of Pension E.xaminers. In ls.")7 
 the doctor married Miss Annie Crane of Assonet. She 
 died March l."i. |sr,.",, and he married Miss Mary J. Church 
 in Jtme, jst;], and again Februar\- H, is'.»7. he married 
 Mrs. C.'S. Phelps. 
 
 Dr. Bradiiirh Brai.EV was the youngest son of 
 l->,ekiel and Mar\' I'Frip])! liralcw Born [uh' li', IT'.'-'!, 
 he commenced his life of usefulness by going among the 
 sick as a nurse, and on the death of Dr. Spooner of Long 
 
Plain. ]Hirchas(j(l his l^ooks and ciualiticd himself fur his 
 sul)S'j(HK'nt Iohl;' and successful practice. He held vari- 
 ous tiiwn offices, was a Justice of the Peace fur many 
 years and twice represented his town in the Lej^islature. 
 He married Patience Parker, b}- whom he had nine sons 
 and three dau;j,'hters. Three sons. Alphonso C, AU)nzt) 
 H.. Philo L.. and his two sons-in-law, Lemuel Washburn 
 and (rcort^e McCuUy, were in the Union Arm\-. and two 
 died of disease contracted in the service. Dr. P)rale\- died 
 February 7. isTi'. lie was an uncle of his Honor, H. K. 
 P>raley of Ivall River. 
 
 I)K. Sirni P. Wi 1.1, I.V.MS, father of the late Capt. (ieorye 
 Dean Williams practiced in Freetown for quite a term of 
 years, and it is ret^Tctted that it is iiupossible for the 
 writer to li'ive a detailed account of his life. 
 
 Conteni]iorar\' for a short time with Dr. Pnimp and 
 finally ahsorbin,:^' the entire practice, was Dr. Ht;M<\' H.\m- 
 iLii'N Si'RiiAl', son of \inv\ and Hethania Sju'oat, and 
 
 a yrandson of Judu;e 
 ^^'eston of Phunouth 
 County. He was born 
 in ]Middleboro on April 
 P». Is-I-L'. He spent his 
 early life at the old 
 vSproat homestead in 
 Muttock. a house not- 
 able for the fact that 
 Lafayette once spent 
 the niL^ht there, while 
 iSen ja U"! i n I'^rank 1 i n 
 held receptions in it. 
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 A c a d e m y a n d r e a d 
 m ed ic i n e with D r. 
 Comstock, later attend- 
 iuL^- the Harvard Med- 
 ical School, where he 
 
 HENRY H SPROAT, M D 
 
 IHO 
 
was _L;'ra(huitc(l with 
 hdiior in \'^>'<'<. He 
 was then chusun for 
 imnicdiatL' service in 
 the army, hein;^ ap- 
 pointed Acting Assist- 
 ant Surgeon of the 
 L'.'itli Army Corps, and 
 after Lee's surrender 
 was sent to Texas, 
 where he was dis- 
 charged on account of 
 illness in vSeptember, 
 l^t'>."i. Xext he estab- 
 lished a practice in 
 l-^ast Taunton, but 
 after a short time he 
 went to California. chsrles a briogs, m d 
 
 extending the tour to China and Japan. Upon returning 
 to San F"ranciseo he accepted the post of surgeon on one 
 of the Pacific Mail .Steamers running between San Fran- 
 cisco and Panama. When these trips were discontinued 
 he came ea.st and located in Assonet in Istl'.'. In Septem- 
 ber. Is7:.', he married Katherine, daughter of John and 
 ICllen Thorpe. He resided in Assonet until his death, 
 -March 14. \^'.i-2. He was a member of the Mas.sachusctts 
 Society of the Cincinnati, inheriting membership from 
 his uncle. Col. Ebenezer Sproat of Revolutionary fame, 
 who was one of the charter members. He was also a 
 member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. lie was 
 considered an authority as a physician, and was a genial 
 man of generous nature, a .stranger to sophistry. 
 
 Dk. Cmari.es A. Brici.s. the present physician, was 
 born in Charlestown. Mass., December l'-'>. \'-^*'>-'>. He 
 attended the public schools in Brockton, was graduated 
 from Brown University in l^s."'. and studied at the Long 
 Island College Hospital from issf, to 1>^^'.|. He was 
 
 131 
 
a]j])ointcd interne at the hi>spital after o-raduation and 
 remained there one year. In IMM he went to Swansea, 
 but in 1N'.»L' eame to Assonet. in Freetown. The esteem 
 in whieh he is hekl speaks for itself and needs no 
 eomment. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF CHARLES A BRIGGS, M D 
 
 132 
 
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 John Reed, Samuel (Jardiner. 
 
 John Reed, Job Winslow, Samuel (iardiner, Benjamin 
 
 No record, [Cha.se, Robert Durfee. 
 
 Joshua Tisdale, Samuel Rowland. John Simmons. 
 
 No record. 
 
 Job Winslow, John Hathaway. William Makepeace. 
 
 Job Winslow, Josiah W^inslmv, Robert Durfee. 
 
 Job Winslow, Joshua Tisdale, Thomas Terry, 
 
 Josiah Winslow, Joshua Tisdale, Nicholas Morey, 
 
 Job WMnslow, John Hathaway, John Terry. 
 
 Josiah Winslow, Thomas Thurston, John Terry. 
 
 John Hathaway, Thomas Thurston, John Terry. 
 
 Josiah Winslow, Ralph Earl, William Winslow. 
 
 Job Winslow, Ralph Earl, Joseph Reed, 
 
 Jonathan Dodson, Thomas Terry. Joseph Reed. 
 
 Josiah Winslow, Thomas Terry, William Winslow. 
 
 Jonathan Dodson, Joseph Borden, lleorge Winslow. 
 
 No record. 
 
 Capt. Constant Church, Wm. Winslow, Jos. Brightman. 
 
 Robert Durfee, Thomas Thurston, Joseph Brightman. 
 
 Thomas Terry, Joseph Reed, Samuel Tnsdale. 
 
 George Winslow, Nicholas Morey, Thomas Gage. 
 
 Walter Chase, John Hathaway, Isaac Hathaway. 
 
 Capt. Josiah Winslow, Capt. Chas, Church, Thos. Thurston, 
 
 Ebenezer Hathaway, Capt. Chas. Church, Jona, Dodson, 
 
 Samuel Valentine, Capt. Chas. Church, David Cudworth, 
 
 Thomas Terry, Esq., Jacob Hathaway, Samuel Forman. 
 
 WalterChase, Jacob Hathawav, Geo. Winslow, Benj Chase. 
 
 No record. 
 
 Thomas Terry. Jacob Hathawav, Samuel Forman. 
 
 No record. 
 
 Thomas Terry. Jacob Hathaway. Samuel Forman. 
 Thomas Terry. Jacob Hathaway. Samuel Forman. 
 Barnabas Ti.sdale, Ambrose Barnabv. Steven Chase. 
 Barnabas Tisdale. John Winslow, Abiel Terry. 
 Samuel Tisdale, James Chase, Steven Chase. 
 John Winslow, James Chase, Steven Chase. 
 John Winslow. Samuel Valentine, Abiel Terry. 
 Steven Chase, George Chase, Abiel Terry, 
 
 , George Chase, Abiel Terry, 
 
 Ambrose Barnaby, Joshua Boomer, Abiel Terry. 
 144 
 
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 $100.00 
 
 fi(i.67 
 
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 456.50 
 
 266 67 
 
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 T5(> 
 757 
 
 75S 
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 760 
 
 7(i4 
 7(15 
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 770 
 771 
 773 
 77:i 
 774 
 
 77'.t 
 
 ;sii 
 
 7^1 
 
 782 
 
 783 
 
 784 
 
 785-' 
 
 787 
 
 788 
 
 78« 
 
 790 
 
 7!M 
 
 :'■>■> 
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 704 
 705 
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 Ambrose Barnaby. Joshua Boomer, Abiel Terry. 
 Ambrose Barnaby, Capt. Geo. Brighiman. Abiel Terry. 
 Thomas Durfee '2nd. Abraham Burden, James Chase. 
 No record. 
 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd, Nathan Simmons. Philip Hathaway. 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd, Nathan Simmons. Philip Hathaway. 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd, Nathan Simmons, Abiel Terry. 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd, James Winslow. Abiel Terry. 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd. Nathan Simmons, Philip Hathaway. 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd, Nathan Simmons, Philip Hathaway. 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd, Nathan Simmons, Philip Hathaway. 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd, Nathan Simmons, Philip Hathaway. 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd, Nathan Simmons, Philip Hathaway. 
 Thomas Duifee 2nd, Abraham Burden, Thos. Gilbert, Esq. 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd, Jael Hathaway, Thos. Gilbert, Esq. 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd, Jael Hathaway, Thos. Gilbert, Esq. 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd, Jael Hathaway, George Chase. 
 Stephen Burden, George Winslow, Samuel Barnaby. 
 Stephen Burden, George Chase, Samuel Barnaby, 
 Elisha Parker, George Chase, Samuel Barnaby. 
 Joshua Hathaway, Thomas White, Samuel Barnaby. 
 George Wrasluw, Thomas White. 
 
 Nathaniel Morton 3rd, George Winslow, Samuel Barnaby. 
 Nathaniel Morton 3rd, George Winslow, Samuel Barnaby. 
 Nathaniel Morton 3rd. Benjamin Evans, Samuel Barnaby. 
 Peter Crapo, Benjamin Mason, Philip Hathaway, Jr. 
 Nathaniel Morton 3rd, Philip Hathaway, Samuel Barnaby. 
 Nathaniel Morton 3rd, Philip Hathaway, Samuel Barnaby. 
 Nathaniel Morton 3id, Benjamin Evans, Samuel Durfee. 
 Nathaniel Morton 3rd, Benjamin Evans, Benjamin Durfee. 
 Nathaniel Morton 3rd, Joshua Brett, Benjamin Durfee. 
 Nathaniel Morton 3rd, Benjamin Weaver, Benj. Durfee. 
 Nathaniel Morton 3rd. Ephraim Winslow, Benj. Durfee. 
 Nathaniel Morton 3rd, Ephraim Winslow, Benj. Durfee. 
 Nathaniel Morton 3rd, Ephraim Winslow, Benj. Durfee. 
 Philip Rounseville, Ephraim Winslow, Benj, Durfee. 
 Nathaniel Morton, Ephraim Winslow, Benj. Durfee. 
 Nathaniel Morton, Ephraim Winslow, Pardon DavoU. 
 Nathaniel Morton. Ephraim Winslow. Jonathan Reed. 
 
 Nathaniel Morton, Jr., Benjamin Reed, Benjamin Durfee, 
 
 ''•'■ Nath'l Morton, Jr , Ephraim Winslow. Luther Winslow. 
 
 145 
 
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 133 33 
 
 133.33 
 
 10(!.(i7 
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 260.00 
 266 67 
 233 33 
 200 00- 
 250 00 
 300 00 
 333.33 
 400.00 
 333.33 
 333.33 
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ASS1-:SS()RS OF FR1-:ET()\VN. 
 
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 1799 
 
 1800 
 
 1801 
 
 1S02 
 
 1803 
 
 1804 
 
 1805 
 
 1800 
 
 1807 
 
 1808 
 
 1809 
 
 1810 
 
 1811 
 
 1812 
 
 181H 
 
 1814 
 
 1815 
 
 1816 
 
 1817 
 
 1818 
 
 1819 
 
 1S20 
 
 1831 
 
 1823 
 
 1823 
 
 1824 
 
 1835- 
 
 1827 
 
 1838 
 
 1S29 
 
 1830 
 
 1S31 
 
 1832 
 
 1833 
 
 1S34 
 
 1835 
 
 1830 
 
 1S37 
 
 1838 
 
 1839 
 
 1S40 
 
 1841 
 
 Nath'l Morton, Jr., Eph. Winslow, Esq., Thomas Borden. 
 
 Nath'l Morton, Jr., Eph, Winslow, Esq., Benj. Durfee. 
 
 Nath'l Morton, Jr., Eph. Winslow, Esq., Benj. Durfee. 
 
 Nath'l Morton, Jr., Eph. Winslow, Esq., Charles Durfee. 
 
 Nath'l Morton, Jr., Eph. Winslow, Esq , Thomas Borden. 
 
 Nath'l Morton, Jr., Col. Benj. Weaver, Jael Hathaway 2nd 
 
 Nath'l Morton, Jr., Daniel Douglas Job Terry. 
 
 Job Morton, Charles Strange, Job Terry. 
 
 Job Morton, Charles Strange, John Terry. 
 
 Job Morton, Col. Benjamin Weaver, Benjamin Doggett. 
 
 Job Morton, Joseph E. Reed, Kempton Burbank. 
 
 Job Morton, Gardner Weaver, Charles Strange. 
 
 Job Morton, John Terry, Charles Strange. 
 
 Job Morton, Ambrose Barnaby, Charles Strange. 
 
 Job Morton, Esq., Edmund Hathaway, Charles Strange. 
 
 Job Morton, Esq , Edmund Hathaway, Charles Strange. 
 
 Job Morton, Esq., John Terry, Charles Strange. 
 
 2(i 
 
 Esq., 
 Esq., 
 Esq., 
 Esq , 
 Esq., 
 Esq., 
 
 Job Morton, 
 Job Morton 
 Job Morton 
 Job Morton 
 Job Morton 
 Job Morton 
 Job Morton, Esq 
 Job Morton, Esq 
 Job Morton, Esq, 
 Job Morton, Esq 
 Job Morton, Esq 
 Job Morton, Esq 
 
 Col 
 
 Benj. Weaver, Hercules Cushman. 
 Robert Porter. 
 
 Silas Terry, Robert Porter. 
 
 Silas Terry, Col, Benj. Weaver. 
 
 Alden Hatheway, Robert Porter. 
 
 Alden Hatheway, Robert Porter. 
 
 Robert Porter, Ephraim Merrick. 
 
 Robert Porter, Stephen Barnaby. 
 
 J<jhn H. Peirce, Stephen Barnaby. 
 
 Ephraim Merrick, Stephen Barnaby. 
 
 Azariah Shove, Stephen Barnaby. 
 
 George Pickens. Stephen Barnaby. 
 Abram Ashley, John Hathaway, Lot Strange. 
 Job Morton, Esq., John Hathaway, Lot Strange. 
 Job Morton, Esq., Malachi Howland, Philip P. Hathaway. 
 Job Morton, Est]., Malachi Howland, Philip P. Hathaway 
 Job Morton, Esq , Malachi Howland. Stephen Barnaliy. 
 Calvin Thomas, Malachi Howland, John Hathaway. 
 Job Morton, George Cummings, Allen Chase. 
 Calvin Thomas, Lynde Valentine, Joseph B. Weaver. 
 Charles A. Morton, George Cummings, Job Peirce. 
 Charles A. Morton, George Cummings, S. S. Payne- 
 Charles A, Morton, Joseph Cudworth, S. S. Payne. 
 Charles A. Morton, Joseph Cudworth, John Winslow, Jr. 
 Charles A. Morton, Joseph Cudworth, John Winslow, |r. 
 Charles A. Morton, Joseph Cudworth, John Winslow, Jr 
 
 140 
 
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 3533 33 
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 1200.00 
 1500.00 
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 3500.00 
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ASSESSORS OF F KIClCTi )\VX. 
 
 YEAR- 
 
 IS42 
 1S43 
 1S44 
 1.S45 
 l.S4(i 
 is,t7 
 ISts 
 1M40 
 isad 
 is.il 
 18.")2 
 1S53 
 lHo4 
 1S55 
 1856 
 ls,-)7 
 1858 
 1859 
 1S60 
 1801 
 1863 
 1863 
 18(!4 
 1X1)5 
 180(! 
 1867 
 1868 
 1S69 
 1870 
 1871 
 1S72 
 1873 
 1874 
 1875 
 1876 
 1877 
 1.S78 
 1879 
 1880 
 1881 
 1.S83 
 1883 
 1884 
 
 Chas. A. Morton, Jos. Cudworth. Elnathan P. Hatheway. 
 Chas. A. Morton, Jos. Cudworth, Elnathan P. Hatheway. 
 Philip P. Hathaway, Jos. Cudworth, Elnat'n P. Hathewaj-. 
 L. R. Mason, Jos. Cudworth, Elnathan P. Hatheway. 
 Abishai Chase, Joseph Cudworth, Elnathan P. Hatheway. 
 Reuel Washburn, Lynde Valentine, Lot Strange. 
 Reuel Washburn, Lynde Valentiue, Lot Strange. 
 Reuel Washburn, Lynde \'alentine. Lot Strange. 
 Reuel Washburn, Philip J. Tripp, Lot Strange. 
 Reuel Washburn, Philip J. Tripp, Alden Hatheway. 
 Reuel Washburn, Philip J. Tripp, Alden Hatheway. 
 Reuel Washburn, Philip J. Tripp, Alden Hathewa)-. 
 Thomas S Hathaway, Philip H. Evans, Paul Lawrence. 
 Lynde Valentine, Silas P. Richmond, Reuel Washburn. 
 Amb. W. Hathaway, Silas P. Richmond, Cornelius Chace. 
 Arab. W. Hathaway, Thos. G. Nichols, Reuel Washburn. 
 Philip J. Tripp. Thos. (t. Nichols. James Ashley. 
 Silas P. Richmond, Sylvester Kriggs, James H. Snow. 
 Silas P. Richmond, Sylvester Briggs, James H. Snow. 
 George W. Hall, Sylvester Briggs, Harrison L. Allen. 
 George W. Hall, Sylvester Briggs, Harrison L. Allen. 
 George W. Hall, Ambrose W. Hathaway, James H. Snow- 
 George W. Hall, Thomas Leeburn, Reuel Washburn. 
 George W. Hall, Sylvester Briggs, Reuel Washburn. 
 S. P. Richmond, Manasseh H. Terry, James H. Snow. 
 S. P. Richmond, Manasseh H. Terry, James H. Snow. 
 
 Chester W 
 Chester W 
 Chester W 
 Chester W 
 George W. 
 George W. 
 George W. 
 George \\'. 
 George W. 
 George W. 
 George W. 
 (Icorge W. Hall. J. 
 William M. Carnoe, 
 
 ■ Briggs, 
 , Briggs, 
 Kriggs, 
 Briggs, 
 Hall, M. 
 Hall, M. 
 Hall, M. 
 
 (leorge W. Hall, 
 George W Hall. 
 George W. Hall, 
 Philip H. Evans 
 
 Manasseh S. Terry, James H. Snow. 
 Manasseh S. Terry, James H. Snow. 
 M. S. Terry, Orsmond F. Braley. 
 M. S. Terry, Joseph White. 
 S. Terry, Joseph White. 
 S. Terry, Cornelius Chace. 
 S. Terry, Jonathan R. Gurney. 
 Hall, JL S. Terry, Jonathan R. Gurney. 
 Hall, J. Henry Peirce, Hudson Winslow. 
 Henry Peirce, J. R. Gurney. 
 Henry Peirce, J. R. Gurney. 
 Henry Peirce, Orsmond F. Braley. 
 K. W. Peirce, Charles Braley. 
 Henrv Peirce, RLarcus M. Rounseville. 
 Henry B. Payne, Marcus M. Rounseville. 
 J. Henry Peirce, Charles E. Chace. 
 J Henry Peirce, Job F. Lucas. 
 147 
 
 Hall 
 Hall 
 
 J. 
 
 AMT. 
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 83000.01 1 
 3500.00 
 2800.00 
 2500.00 
 3300.00 
 3600.00 
 2950.00 
 3000.00 
 2500.00 
 3500.00 
 3500.00 
 3500.00 
 4000 00 
 4200.00 
 4200. 0(i 
 5100.00 
 4200.00 
 4200.00 
 5200.00 
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 4700 00 
 7000.00 
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Assi:ss()Ks ()!• i-Kivi-yrowx. 
 
 1885 
 ISSli 
 
 1887 
 
 1888 
 
 1S89- 
 
 1890 
 
 1891 
 
 1892 
 
 1893 
 
 1894 
 
 1895 
 
 1896 
 
 1897 
 
 1898 
 
 1899 
 
 1900 
 
 1901 
 
 1903 
 
 George \V. Hall. Joseph \V. Winslow, Job F. Lueas. 
 George W. Hall, Joseph \V Wins'.ow, j. R. Gurney. 
 George \V. Hall, Joseph AV. Winslow, Charles Braey. 
 Palo A. Peirce, Joseph \V. Winslow, Frank H. Ashley. 
 Palo A. Peirce, Joseph W. Winslow, Alden B Lucas. 
 Palo A. Peirce, Joseph W. Winslow, Alden B. Lucas. 
 Palo A Peirce, Joseph W. Winslow, Alden B. Lucas. 
 Palo A. Peirce, Joseph W. Winslow, Alden B. Lucas. 
 Palo A. Peirce, Joseph W. Winslow, Alden B. Lucas. 
 Palo A. Peirce, Joseph W. Winslow, Alden B. Lucas. 
 Gilbert JI. Nichols, Joseph W. Winslow, Alden B Lucas. 
 Gilbert M. Nichols, Henry Carnoe. George A Braley. 
 Gilbert M. Nichols, Anthony D Hathaway, Geo. A. Braley. 
 Gilbert M. Nichols, Anthony D. Hathaway, Geo A Braley. 
 Gilbert M. Nichols, Anthony D. Hathaway, Job F. Lucas. 
 Gilbert M. Nichols. Anthony D. Hathaway, Geo. H. Gibbs. 
 Gilbert M. Nichols, Anthony D. Hathaway, Chas. Braley. 
 (Gilbert M. Nichols, Anthony D. Hathaway, Chas, Braley. 
 
 A.MT. 
 
 K.VISF.l). 
 
 S4800.00 
 
 5000.00 
 
 (1000.00 
 
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 6000.00 
 
 0000.00 
 
 6000 00 
 
 5000.00 
 
 6000.00 
 
 6000.00 
 
 7000.00 
 
 7000.00 
 
 6000.00 
 
 7500.00 
 
 8500.00 
 
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 9000 00 
 
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 'Money. | Highway Tax. :f Amount raised including Highway Tax. 
 
 
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 COMMITTHE. 
 
 1S04 
 1814 
 
 18-27 
 
 1^<2.S 
 
 'si9 
 
 1S80 
 1831 
 
 H:« 
 
 is:!8 
 
 1S34 
 
 1S3,-) 
 
 1H38 
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 1841) 
 
 1841 
 
 1842 
 
 1H43 
 
 1844 
 
 1845 
 
 1846 
 
 1S4T 
 
 184N 
 
 1S41) 
 
 1«51 
 
 l8o-2-'5S 
 
 I So 4 
 
 iO 
 
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 Job Morton, Col. Benjamin Weaver, John Turner. M. D. 
 
 Washington Hathaway, Col. Benj. Weaver, Wni. Rounseville. 
 
 Maj. Joseph B. Weaver, H. Cushnian, R. Strobridge, Wm. Rounse- 
 ville, Job Morton. 
 
 Thomas Bump, H. Cushnian. Rufus Bacon, Azariah Shove, 
 Job Morton. 
 
 E. P. Hatheway, Thomas Bump, Lot Strange. J. B. Weaver. 
 J. Taylor, John T. Lawton, Job Morton. 
 
 J. Gurney, Thomas Bump, Lot Strange, P. Hatheway, J. Taylor, 
 Wm. Strobridge, Job Morton. 
 
 J. Gurney, Thos. Bump, Stetson Raymond, J. Taylor, Job Morton. 
 
 J. Gurney. Thomas Bump. S. Raymond. E. P. Hatheway, J. Tay- 
 lor, Ezra Wilkinson. Job Morton. 
 
 P. Hathawav, Thomas Bump. .S. Raymond, Elkanah Doggett, 
 J. Taylor, Job Morton. 
 
 P. Hathaway, Thomas Bump, S. Raymond, E. P. Hatheway, 
 J. Gurney, Wm. Coe, Job Morton. 
 
 , Thomas Bump, S. Raymond, , J. Gurney. Ebenezer 
 
 Babbitt, Job Morton. 
 
 Lot Strange, Thomas Bump, S. Raymond, E. P. Hatheway. 
 , A. Jones, . 
 
 Thomas Bump, S. Raymond, E. P. Hatheway, J. Gurney, A. Jones. 
 
 Benj. Crane, G. H. Hathaway, Chas. A. Morton. 
 
 Benj. Crane, James Gurney, E. W. Robinson. A. Hitheway, Jr., 
 Chas. A. Morton. 
 
 E. P. Hatheway, E. W. Robinson, Chas. A. Morton. 
 
 ,E. P. Hatheway, Thomas Bump, Chas. A. Morton. 
 
 J. Taylor, J. B. Weaver, Chas. A. Morton. 
 
 Benj. Crane, E. W. Robinson, Chas. A. Morton. 
 
 Guilford H. Hathaway, Asa Clark, David Clark. 
 
 Guilford H. Hathaway. Chas A. Morton. Jos. B. Weaver. 
 
 John S. Maxwell. Chas. A. Morton. Jos. B. Weaver. 
 
 John S. Maxwell. P. J. Tripp. Jos. B. Weaver. 
 
 Lot Strange. P. J. Tripp, J. B. Weaver. 
 
 Lot Strange, Philip J. Tripp, Alden Hatheway. Jr. 
 
 Nicholas Hatheway, Wm. B. Staples. Robt. P. Strobridge. 
 
 Thomas G. Nichols. Philip J. Tripp, Reuel Washbuvn. 
 
 Thomas G. Nichols, Thomas Bump, Philip J. Tripp, Thomas S. 
 Hathaway, Chas. A. Morton. 
 
 Thomas G. Nichols, S. P. Richmond, Reuel Washburn. 
 
 A. G. Commgs. E. W. Peirce, Reuel Washburn. 
 
 149 
 
SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF FRICin'oWX. 
 
 YEAR. 
 
 1857 
 
 
 I8r,8 
 
 
 i8r)9 
 
 
 18()0- 
 
 61 
 
 18G'2 
 
 
 1803- 
 
 T>4 
 
 1865 
 
 
 18(16 
 
 
 1867- 
 
 •72 
 
 1873 
 
 
 1874 
 
 
 187.") 
 
 
 1876 
 
 
 1877- 
 
 '78 
 
 1879 
 
 
 1880 
 
 
 1881 
 
 
 18,S3 
 
 
 1883 
 
 
 1884- 
 
 '85 
 
 1886 
 
 
 1887- 
 
 '88 
 
 1889- 
 
 '90 
 
 1891- 
 
 •93 
 
 1894- 
 
 '95 
 
 1896- 
 
 '97 
 
 1898 
 
 
 1899 
 
 
 19(10- 
 
 •02 
 
 COMMITTEE. 
 
 Abel G. 
 Abel G. 
 Abel G. 
 
 Thomas G. Nichols, E. W. Peirce, Reuel Washburn. 
 Thos. G. Nichols (3 yrs.), Philip J. Tripp (2 yrs.), Geo. Tyler (1 yr. 
 Thomas G. Nichols, Reuel Washburn. Nathan T. Strange. 
 Abel G. Duncan, Reuel Washburn, E. W. Peirce. 
 
 Duncan, (iranville S. Allen, John II. Deane. 
 
 Duncan, Granville S. Allen, Sylvester Briggs. 
 
 Duncan, Reuel Washburn, Svlvester Briggs. 
 Thomas G. Nichols, Reuel Wasliburn, Abel G. Duncan. 
 Thomas G. Nichols, Reuel Washburn, Sylvester R. Briggs. 
 Thomas G. Nichols, Reuel Washburn. Noah Hathevvay. 
 Thomas G. Nichols, H. E. Tinkham, Hud.son Winslow. 
 John W. Pickens, H. E. Tinkham, Hudson Winslow. 
 John W. Pickens, Hiram B. Wetherell, Hudson Winslow. 
 George B. Cudworth, Hiram B. Wetherell, J. R. Gurney. 
 George B. Cudworth, Noah Hatheway, J. R. Gurney. 
 George B. Cudworth, Noah Hatheway, Harrison L. Allen. 
 John W. Pickens, Noah Hatheway, Harrison L. Allen. 
 John W. Pickens, Gilbert il. Nichols, Harrison L. Allen. 
 |ohn W. Pickens, Gilbert M. Nichols, Charles S. Chace. 
 George B. Walker, Gilbert M. Nichols, Charles S. Chace, 
 George B. Walker, Gilbert M. Nichols, James G. Ashley. 
 George B. Cudworth, Frank A. Barrows, James G. Ashley. 
 George B. Cudworth, Fi-ank A. Barrows, Albert F. White. 
 E. Florence Hathaway, Frank A. Barrows, Albert F. White. 
 Wmslow Nichols, Frank A. Barrows, Albert F. White. 
 Winslow Nichols, Palo A. Peirce, Albert F. White. 
 Winslow Nichols, Earl F. Pearce, Elijah D. Chace. 
 AVinslow Nichols, Viola N. Burns, Elijah D. Chace. 
 Winslow Nicliols, Viola \. Burns, Elijah D. Chace. 
 
 l.-)(i 
 
REUEL WASHBURN. 
 
 GEORGE W HALL 
 
 CAPT GRANVILLE S ALLEN 
 
 AL DEN HATHEWAY, JR. 
 
 I.")! 
 
LIST OF POSTMASTERS. 
 
 There are two post offices in Freetown, one at Assonet 
 Village, and one at East Freetown. 
 
 The names of Postmasters at the office in Assonet and 
 terms of service are as follows: 
 
 Stephen B. Pickens ISll-lT 
 
 Robert Strobridge 1817-22 
 
 George Pickens 1.S22-41 
 
 Guilford H. Hathaway 1841-4.5 
 
 Joshua Shove 1843-72 
 
 Daniel L. Johnson 1872-82 
 
 Elbert E. Winslow Iss2-.s6 
 
 Elnathan P. Hatheway 18s6-.h<i 
 
 C. Isabel Hatheway 1889-97 
 
 M. Florence Uean 1897- 
 
 Tlie official name nf this post office was changed from 
 I'reetown to Assonet April I, lOol. 
 
 Rural Deliverv was estalilished at this office April 1, 
 1!H)2. Stephen A. Hatheway, Carrier. 
 
 The names of Postmasters at Ivast Freetown and terms 
 of service are as follows: 
 
 Amos Braley Isll-Ui 
 
 Alirahani Hraley 1810-22 
 
 The office was discontinued in or about \S-j-2 and reestab- 
 lished in 1 s."):.'. 
 
 Reuel Washburn 1852-86 
 
 David Lawrence 188(1-87 
 
 Rachel E. Lawrence 1887- 
 
 Riiral I)eliverv for East Freetown was established from 
 Clifford ])ost office within the limits of Xew Bedford in ]'.'o-2. 
 James WebiD, Carrier. 
 
 I\Ionev orders are issued ;Lt both »\ssonet and East Free- 
 town ])ost offices. 
 
 In2 
 
REPRESENTATIVES TO CiEXERAL COURT. 
 
 YEAR. 
 
 -NA.ME?. 
 
 YE.\R. 
 
 1775 
 
 .NAMES. 
 
 1683 
 
 
 Thomas Durfee, 
 
 ll)S4 
 
 Joseph Bailey. 
 
 
 Joshua Hathaway. 
 
 lti85 
 
 Joseph Bailey. 
 
 1776-77 
 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd. 
 
 1686 
 
 Job Win.slow. 
 
 1778 
 
 Thomas Durfee 2nd. 
 
 lll^H 
 
 Lt. Thos. Terry. 
 
 
 Nathaniel Morton. 
 
 1690 
 
 Samuel Gardiner. 
 
 1779 
 
 Nathaniel Morton. 
 
 1(192 
 
 Job Win.slow, S. Gardiner. 
 
 1780-'81 
 
 John Hathaway. 
 
 1693 
 
 Jahleel Brenton. 
 
 1782 
 
 Joshua Howard Brett. 
 
 lTli2-'05 
 
 Voted not to send. 
 
 1783 
 
 Dr. Jesse Bullock. 
 
 i;ini-'09 
 
 None. 
 
 1784 
 
 Capt. Levi Rounseville. 
 
 1713 
 
 Nicholas Murey. 
 
 1785 
 
 Nathaniel Morion 3rd. 
 
 1714-'15 
 
 
 1786 
 
 Lt. Nathan Dean. 
 
 171(1 
 
 Rcbert Durfee. 
 
 1787-88 
 
 Ambrose Barnabv. 
 
 1717 
 
 1 
 
 
 Capt. Jael Hathaway. 
 
 171S 
 
 Ni 'ne. 
 
 1789 
 
 None. 
 
 1719- 20 
 
 Samuel Torman. 
 
 1790 
 
 Hon. Thos. Durfee, Esq. 
 
 1721 
 
 Nicholas Morey. 
 
 1791-'93 
 
 Ephraim Winslow. 
 
 1722 
 
 Thomas Gage. 
 
 1794 
 
 None. 
 
 172S--24 
 
 John Reed. 
 
 1795-97 
 
 Ephraim Winslow. 
 
 1725 
 
 Thomas Terry. 
 
 1798-'99 
 
 Nathaniel Morton Jr., Esq. 
 
 1726-27 
 
 Thomas Gage. 
 
 1800 
 
 Nathaniel Morton Jr., Esq. 
 
 1728 
 
 Samuel Valentine. 
 
 1801 
 
 Simeon Borden. 
 
 1729-30 
 
 Lt. Joseph Reed.' 
 
 1802-'03 
 
 Nathaniel Morton, Esq.f 
 
 17;?l--33 
 
 None. 
 
 1804-'07 
 
 William Rounseville. 
 
 17:i4-'35 
 
 Henry Tisdale.* 
 
 1808 
 
 William Rounseville. 
 
 1736 
 
 Thomas Gage. 
 
 
 Ebenezer Peirce, Esq. 
 
 1737-43 
 
 Henry Tisdale. 
 
 ISOil 
 
 William Rounseville. 
 
 1 744-' 45 
 
 None. 
 
 
 Nathaniel Morton. Esq. 
 
 1746-49 
 
 John Winslow. 
 
 ■ 1810-11 
 
 William Rounseville. 
 
 17.50 
 
 Samuel Valentme. 
 
 
 Stephen B. Pickens. 
 
 1751- .53 
 
 
 1812-13 
 
 William Rounseville. 
 
 17.54 
 
 John Winslow. 
 
 
 Robert Strobridge. 
 
 17.5.5-56 
 
 
 1814 
 
 Robert Strobridge. 
 
 17.57 
 
 None. 
 
 
 Job Morton. 
 
 1 7.58 
 
 
 181.-I 
 
 Robert Strobridge. 
 
 1 7.59 
 
 None. 
 
 
 lob Morton, Esq 
 
 1760-64 
 
 Col. Thos. Gilbert, Esq. 
 
 isKi-in 
 
 Job Morton. 
 
 176.5-'70 
 
 Thomas Durlee 2nd. 
 
 
 Hercules Cushman, Esq. 
 
 1771-'73 
 
 Col. Thos. Gilbert, Esq. 
 
 1820 
 
 Nathaniel Morton. 
 
 1774 
 
 Col. Thos (Hlbert.Esq. May. 
 
 1S2I 
 
 Hercules Cushman. 
 
 
 Thos Durfee 2nd. Sept. 26. 
 
 1822 
 
 Col. Hercules Cushman. 
 
 *State allowed six shillings per day and town voted two shillings. 
 1 Twenty-five hundred inhabitants. 
 
 1.53 
 
REPRJ::SKNTATIV1':S To CEXEKAI. COURT. 
 
 YEAR. 
 
 NAMES. 
 
 18-23 
 
 J lib Morton. 
 Hercules Cushman. 
 
 lsi4 
 
 Jnli Morton, Ksii. 
 Kbenezer Pc-irce, Ksq. 
 
 1.S-J5 
 
 Job Morton, Esq. 
 Elnalhan P. Hathewav. 
 
 
 Job Morton, Esq. 
 
 is-Jii 
 
 Azariah Shove. 
 
 
 HerL-ules Cushman. 
 
 1S->T 
 
 Job Morton, Esq. 
 Gilbert Rounseville. 
 
 182.S 
 
 Thomas Hump. 
 Elnathan P. Hatlieway. 
 
 1S2'J 
 
 Thomas Bump. 
 
 
 [ohn T. Lawton. 
 
 ]s:!0 
 
 Josiah Durfee, Jr. J 
 Ephraim Atwood. 
 
 is:ii 
 
 I'^phraim Atui"id. 
 
 18:«--34 
 
 Geiirgi- 1'ii.kens. 
 Elnathan P. Hatlicuav. 
 
 is;ir> 
 
 Gc-cirge Pickens. 
 
 Capt. Malachi Hi)\vland 
 
 ls:iH 
 
 Capt. Calvin Thomas. 
 Guilford H. Hatliawav. 
 
 1S37 
 
 Cliarles A. Morton. 
 Alden Hatliewax', |r. 
 
 183S 
 
 Alden Hatliewax-, (r. 
 
 1830 
 
 None. 
 
 1S40 
 
 Capt. Malachi Hnwland. 
 
 1841 
 
 Thomas Evans. 
 
 YEAR. 
 
 NAMES. 
 
 1842 
 
 Joseph B. Weaver, Esq. 
 
 1843 
 
 Dr. Bradford Braley. 
 
 1844 
 
 John Winslow, Jr. 
 
 1845 
 
 Benjamin Dean. 
 
 1846 
 
 Edmund D. Hathawav. 
 
 1847 
 
 William B. Staples. 
 
 1848 
 
 Joseph Staples. 
 
 1849 
 
 John Dean. 
 
 isno 
 
 William Hall. 
 
 1851 
 
 Dr. Bradford Braley. 
 
 1852 
 
 None. 
 
 1853 
 
 Benjamin Evans. 
 
 1S,54 
 
 Capt. Job Terry. 
 
 1S55 
 
 Jlerchant White. 
 
 1K50 
 
 Ambrose W. Hathaway. 
 
 18.5? 
 
 Dr. ThcimasG. Nichols. 
 
 185!) 
 
 Capt. Marcus M. Rounseville. 
 
 l.Sfil 
 
 Jiihn D. Wilsnn. 
 
 is(i6 
 
 Dr. Thomas G. Nichols 
 
 1872 
 
 William Dean 
 
 1875 
 
 Washington Read. 
 
 1876 
 
 Granville S. Allen. 
 
 188(1 
 
 John W Marble. 
 
 1.S,S4 
 
 Henry H. Winslow. 
 
 1887 
 
 Arthur G. Rounseville. 
 
 1S!)1 
 
 Col. Silas P. Richmond. 
 
 1S!I5 
 
 Nathan R I)a\is. 
 
 lilOl 
 
 Handel E. Washburn. 
 
 1>JII2 
 
 i;ilbert M. Nichols. 
 
 1 Nineteen hundred inhabitants 
 
 154 
 
SENATORS FROM FREETOWN. 
 
 Thomas Durfee 17 — 
 
 Nathaniel Mc.rti.n, Ksq 1H04-1808 
 
 Kluathan H. Hathcway 1843 
 
 I'hilip J. Tripp 1875 
 
 MEMBERS OF GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL. 
 
 Hi>n. Th.imas Durfee, PZsti 179- 
 
 Hon Hercules Cushman ls-26 
 
 Capt. Rufus Bacon 1S'2T 
 
 GOVERNOR. 
 
 Marcus Uorum 1840. is4:i 
 
 155 
 
30V. MARCUS MORTON 
 
 REV, ALBERT G, MORTON 
 
 BIRTHPLACE OF GOV MARCUS MORTON 
 
 infi 
 
TIk- lln\()u \i;i,i: .Mvkiis Mmkkix, LL. 1)., third 
 in descent from "Major" Nathaniel .Moi-tuii, |r.. of liast 
 Freetown, and son of Nathaniel Morton .■!rd.,antl liis wife, 
 Mary Care\-, of liridt^i'ewater, was born Fel.M-uarv 11», 17.s4 
 at East I'reetown. in a honse probably built 1)\- his pater- 
 nal j^'rancb'atlier. He was ,L;r;iduated from Brown I'nix-er- 
 sity in |s(i|, studied law at Litehlield, Conneetieut, and 
 was admitted to the bar in Taunton in bs(h. For four 
 vears lie represented his distriel in Congress dnrin;,^' the 
 presidene\' of Ab_)nroe, and took part in the disetission on 
 the Missouri Compromise. lie held numerous offiees of 
 trust in the State: — Clerl: of tlie State Senate, memljer of 
 the State l{.\eeuti\-e Couneil, Lieutenant-( rO\-ernor. and. on 
 the death of (io\-ernor luistis in \^-2~>. Aetiny"-! rovernor. 
 This hist offiee lie soon resi<.^ned on being- appointed yus- 
 tiee of the Supreme Court, a jjosition wliieli he held for 
 fifteen vears. resigning in Is.'l'.i to serve as (rovernor of 
 Massachusetts. He was elected bv a single vote over 
 Edward hv\-erett-^one ballot superscribed ■'Maccus Mat- 
 toon" being counted for him. He hehl this 'position twice 
 again during his lifetime. In his campaigns he liad the 
 support of nian\- of the anti-slaverv leaders. In 1 s-'l'.t. 
 Whittier. writing of E\-erett and Morton, said: "Of the 
 two, I jirefer Morton." He received the degree of LL. L). 
 from Brown in I s-jCi. and from Harvard in ls4(». He died 
 in 1 stUand liesburied in .Mount Pleasant Cenieterv,Taunt(.in. 
 His residence is now the Morton Hospital of Taunton. 
 
 A daughter. I'rances Wood, married Mr. (leorge 
 Henry French of Ando\er, and their daughter Alice is 
 the well known author whose pen-name is Octave Thanet. 
 
 Ai,l;i-;Kt ("i. .Miii<r(i\. second son of [ob .Mort<ui, born 
 in 1^114, was a wideh' known Elder of llu- Christian 
 <lenomination, holding pastorates at North Dartmouth. 
 Mansfield, New Bedford, I'ro\-idenee, and .\niesburv. His 
 ministry extended over a period of si.Kty-four vears. dur- 
 ing which he attended five hundred funerals, and ])er- 
 foniied the marriage ser\'ice three hundred times. He 
 died in 1 ^H'.t and is buried in Lubec. Maine. 
 
 l.-)7 
 
The Industries. 
 
 V\\\\X the early pio- 
 neer started out 
 into the wilderness to 
 seek a plaee for his 
 home, the great desid- 
 erattim to his mind was 
 a never - failing spring 
 near which tn locate. If 
 in addition to this he 
 EAST BRIDGE \y^t; fortimatc cnough to 
 
 lind a stream of water included within his land which 
 could l)e utilized to furnish mill power, his prosperity and 
 influence was increased far beyond his less fortunate 
 neighlxirs. Although I'^reetown had only small streams 
 flowing through its territory, yet from the great differ- 
 ence in altitude of the source and mouth a great inany 
 dams could be built along their courses. On Assonet 
 River above the village are remaining ten dams within a 
 distance of about six miles, in all stages of preservation. 
 On Mill IJrook and Terry Broi)k are three dams; while on 
 Fall Brook in East Freetown remain si.x dams to show 
 the large amount of business carried on within the dis- 
 tance of two and one-half miles. The greatest number of 
 dams were constrticted f(.)r the use of saw-mills, but several 
 furnished power to grist mills and iron works. The dates 
 of the construction of nearh- all of these dams have been 
 lost and can onlv be approximated. 
 
 The first dam across Assonet River was probably the 
 one near Locust Street, where now remain only its ruins. 
 
 158 
 
It was built in nv about the year Hi'.*.".. At first tlie power 
 was used for a saw mill, but a fullino--mill was subsequently 
 added, a grist-mill and machinery for carding wool. This 
 mill also had a bolting machine, and here was put in the 
 first machine for grinding corn and cob together, about do 
 years ago. On the west side of the dam there was a saw- 
 mill owned by (lilbert. Barnaby. and Kenelm Winslow, 
 which has not been used for nearh" sixty \'cars. 'i'hey were 
 built by the Winslow family and remained in the owner- 
 ship of that family until ls',);\. 
 
 The second, which is now known as I'orge dam, was 
 built in ITn^'. It was carried away by a freshet and re- 
 built in 17ii:;. On the west side of the dam a grist mill 
 was built, and was run by members of the Hatheway fam- 
 ily until about IS-Jo, when it was sold to Josiah Winslow. 
 About 1n4."> Mr. Winslow- gave up the grist mill, and in 
 company with tlenry Porter put in machinerv for making 
 cut nails. Dayid M. Anthony and Capt. John W. Marble 
 bought the mill privilege in 1.SS5. and in this l)uilding 
 Capt. ^larble set up a shingle mill which was run four or 
 five years. In \s',\-2 J. Henrv Peirce began sawing all 
 kinds of lumber here, and at the present time is doing an 
 extensive business. 
 
 June 1-t, 17n-l-. articles of agreement were signed by 
 James Tisdale. Sr., John Paul, Edward Bobbet, .\l)rahani 
 Hathaway, lulward Paul. Malachi HoUoway. James Tis- 
 dale, Jr., John Spttr, John Burt. Joseph Dean, Nathaniel 
 Holloway, Timothy HoUoway, Albert Burt, John Wilbur, 
 and William Phillips, all of Taunton, and by Josiah Wins- 
 low, Benjamin Chase, and John Hathaway, of I'^reetown. 
 to build some iron works on the land of Nathaniel \Vins- 
 low of Freetown. The iron was to be obtained upon land 
 in Taunton called the " Red weed land" which was owned 
 by Abel Burt. The compan\- was to pav Abel Burt but 
 two shillings .per ton for the iron as it lay on the ground, 
 until they had paid eighteen pounds; then Burt was to 
 receive tliree shillings per ton. e\-en if others who owned 
 
iron mines engaged to sell their iron at a lower price. 
 The forge was built, on the east side of the dam. and 
 remained in the hands of the c(i;ni3an\- until 1>l'o, when 
 Thomas Slrobridge bought it and manufactured scythes, 
 axes, and carpenters' tools. Then John Crane. Sampson 
 <& Nichols. W'cax'cr & ( )sbornc. succeeded one another 
 there in the manufacture of edged tools and uails. For a 
 time Thomas and John Thorjie used the mill for washing 
 waste. Then Crocker & Hassett manufactured nails. It 
 was Ijurnecl about Is74. 
 
 SAW MILL AT TIbOALE'S DAM 
 
 The third dam was that at Assonet Village. l:>uilt about 
 the _\X'ar ITlo. .\ grist mill was soon set up on one side 
 of the dam. to l)e followed later b\- a saw-mill on the oppo- 
 site side. "Indian corn has ]MMl)ably been ground here 
 every year for nearh' two hundred vears and lumlier sawed 
 for more than a century." The grist-mill was run for 
 about fort\' \'ears 1)V I )a\'id Babbitt. wh<i was stricken down 
 while at his daily labor on March 1^. IIhil', aged ^•"> years. 
 
vStill liiLi'hcr 11]) the stream than the {nv^v dam and a 
 little below what is known as the I lowland saw-mill, tradi- 
 tion saith that Philip Rounsevill ptit up a dam, some traces 
 of which still remain. He probahl_v erected and for a time 
 operated a saw mill thereon. The fifth dam was probably 
 that one where David Terr\- now has a bleachery. A 
 grist mill was built on the north side of the dam vears 
 before the knowledge of any person now living and was 
 taken down in l>7-_' by Capt. Henry 11. Winslow, who 
 then built the mill for cleaning waste. (3n the south side 
 
 GRIST MILL AT TISDALE'S DAM 
 
 Built 1710 
 
 of the dam were a trip-hammer shop, a blacksmith shop, 
 and one for making ccjtton batting. It was owned by 
 Henjamin Porter and son Henrv. The dam was carried 
 .iway by a freshet Februarv -Js, ls.")7, and again in March, 
 l"^"^*;. In 1 >^4i'p the mill was burned and after being rebuilt 
 was used for cleaning waste. 
 
 The remains of a dam can be seen at the present time 
 at Slab Bridge. The old Howland saw-mill, the date of 
 
 161 
 
CI 
 
 ;i)nstruction of which canmil he tound, has been operated 
 until verv recent years with the old up-and-down saw. 
 The dam near the residence of the late Joseph R. Dunham 
 is probably of more modern construction, and the mill has 
 been used of late years by Paul Burns, for sawing box 
 boards. 
 
 The dam near Maple Tree Bridge was begun in 1sl'.'> 
 by William Haskins. and finished in IM'T. A grist-mill 
 was erected beside it the next year, wliich was run until 
 ist;.^. At this time A. W. Peirce and Charles S. White 
 put in machinery for sawing lumber, and took out the 
 grist-mill. In July, IsTl!, Julius C. Haskins bought the 
 prijpertv. vSince lss7. lohn T. Haskins has owned and 
 run the mill. 
 
 A small stream known as Mill Brook, that empties 
 into Assonet River through Payne's Cove, came into earlv 
 use as a motive power. Near the head ol Pavne's Cove 
 was erected a dam many years ago on which was operated 
 a saw mill, a grist mill, and afterwards a small foundrv. 
 Here Edmund B. Lewis had a bleachery and dve house. 
 The Crystal Sjiring Bleachery, built in ISM', now stands 
 on this site. 
 
 ( )n Terrv iSrook man\' years ago was erected a dam, 
 and here was probalilv operated a saw-mill. After a long 
 period of disuse, in ls-j;t ;i cupola furnace was erected 
 thereon and was run by Elkanah Doggett until about lSo4. 
 Then (lideon P. Hathawa\' for fi\'e or six vears made 
 threshing machines there. The building was then used 
 tor a spt)oling mill, and afterwards [ohn Thorpe carried 
 on the waste-cleaning business. }\lr. Thorpe was the first 
 one to conduct this business in Freetown. Finallv the^ 
 mill was burned, and the dam was removed to gi\'e place 
 to a reservoir for the Crystal Spring Bleachery. 
 
 At East Freetown, Fall Brook has furnished power 
 since the early settlement. ( )f the dam at the village, 
 where a saw-mill owned by the late Capt. (t. S. Allen 
 stands, no dates connected with its first owners can be 
 
found, and ihcrc is a similar lack of data c'lincernin;^- the 
 dam near the depot now utilized by iee companies from 
 New liedford. At the dam. between the above two. where 
 Lincoln K. Chase now has a saw-mill, there "was erected 
 in or near the \'ear 17"^4 a blast furnace where iron ore was 
 not only smelted but also mantifactured into what then 
 went under the name of hollow-ware. The original pro- 
 jectors of this enterprise were Cajit. Le\i Rounsevill and 
 Capt. Abraham Morton of h.ast Freetown; Capt. fob 
 Peiree and Joseph Leonard ii'di of Middleborough, and 
 Selh Keith of Bridgewater. Capt. Levi Rotmsevill, Capt. 
 Job Peiree and Seth Keith owned a quarter interest each, 
 and Philip Rounsevill. Capt. Abraham Morton and Joseph 
 Leonard cid) owned the other quarter or one-twelfth part 
 each. Fuel in East Freetown was then abundant and 
 readily and cheaply obtained, and much of the iron (n^e 
 was taken from Assawamsett Pond, in Middleborough. The 
 small village that as a consequence thus grew up near by 
 came naturally to be called the " /■'uniacc ]'i/Iiigc," or ''l-'iir- 
 Hiuc Xcig/tbor/iood," which names still serve to designate 
 the locality and are in familiar use. although the fttrnace 
 either as a l>hist or cupola, has long since ceased to be oper- 
 ated. A few years after its erection this furnace came to 
 be owned almost exclusively by members of the Rounse- 
 vill family and hence came to be called the " Rounsevill 
 I'urnace." In L^ll. James Alger of i>ridgewater. Gen. 
 Cromwell Washburn of Taunton, and Col. Salmon Fobes 
 of Bridgewater, purchased three-fourths of this furnace, 
 and in 1M4- James Alger bought the remaining quarter. 
 Cren. Washburn at the same time disposing of his to 
 Alger & Fobes. Xahum Alger of Bridgewater. and 
 afterwards of Freetown, became agent and manager, and 
 the firm of Alger & Fobes, Ijesides carrying on the fur- 
 nace, also ran two saw-mills, a grist-mill, a blacksmith 
 shop, and a countr\- store, thus furnishing employment 
 for some fift_\- men. In i ^1 ^ the propcrt\- changed owners, 
 being principallv. if not wholly, purchased by Samtiel 
 
 Hi;! 
 
Slater, David \Vilkins(m and Charles Dyer of Providence, 
 and Benjamin Dyer of Cranston, R. I. These parties took 
 upon themselves the name of " Providence Foundrv Com- 
 pany," employini{ Capt. Calvin Thomas, of Pembroke, as 
 superintendent, who also became part owner. The old 
 blast furnace was then, or soon after, demolished, and its 
 place supplied bv a cupola furnace. Here thev no longer 
 smelted iron ore. taken from Assawamset Pond and other 
 places adjacent, but instead used "pigs" l)rought from 
 New Jersey to Assonet per water carriage, and from thence 
 transported l)v o.x-teams to East P^reetown. Succeeding 
 the furnace business at this water privilege was a sash- 
 door - and - blind - factory, that has not been in operation 
 for several vears."'- The iron railing in tlie Arcade .at 
 Providence was made in Freetown. 
 
 l^\irther up the river is another dam owned 1)\' 
 lonalhan R. (rurney. where there is a sasv-mill; and 
 above this rs one owned by the lieirs of Paul Burns. 
 The last mentioned dam was erected in isiis by Paul 
 - ]\1. Burns of Freetown, 
 
 and (jcorge W. Dean of 
 Taunton. A saw - mill 
 was erected thereon and 
 tor man\- vears an ex- 
 tensive business was car- 
 ried on under the man- 
 agement of ^Ir. Burns, 
 whose death occured in 
 issi;. In !sss the (tco. 
 Dean heirs sold their 
 -H-, interest in the propertv 
 to Paul 1 turns, |r. , who 
 conducted the business 
 for several years. Re- 
 centlw it has been oper- 
 ;itcd 1)V a voungcr broth- 
 er, William B. Burns. 
 
 PAUL M, BURNS 
 
 •Quoted with slight ch mse-i from the Historv of Ityhtul County. 
 
Aniilhcr of the tmvn industries of less ini])ortaiK'e 
 commereially, but quite as neeessary t(j the eomfort of the 
 people, was the shoe-makinLC business. In earlv times, 
 the shoemaker went from liouse to house and made up 
 shoes for the whole family once a vear. There were three 
 tan-vards in the town: one situated between the house 
 and barn of Frank F. Terry, owned by Pierce I'hillips, 
 who had his shoemaker's sho]) near b\- ; while another 
 shoemaker, Joseph Read, had his shop in the next yard; 
 
 a K tA/IS i SONS GUN MANUFACTORY 
 
 one on the small stream which flows through the mead- 
 ows north of the Martin liouse, owned by lames Phillips 
 until about 1>41 ; and the tliird was near the east bridge, 
 owned by Sylvester R. and Chester Brisj-trs. 
 
 X. k. h.WIS .V SONS, MFKS. Sp(JKTIX(; KIKK ARMS. 
 
 Xaiiian R. Davis, the senior member of this Arm. 
 and the founder of the gun Imsiness in Assonet, was born 
 in Somerset, .Mass., August Is. l---_'s. At the age of nine- 
 
N R DAVIS 
 
 Iccn he entered the 
 works of the " Dean 
 Cotton and Macliine 
 Co.. in Taunton, 
 ^hiss., and learned the 
 maehinist's trade, re- 
 mainini^' with tliem 
 three \'ears. His first 
 woi-k as a master me- 
 e h a n i e w a s wit h 
 (;eor,L;-e l\ Foster & 
 Co., of Taunton, mak- 
 ing" rides 1)\- hand, 
 'i'wo \-ears kiter he 
 transferred his tool 
 chest to the shops of 
 Colt's Pistol Co.. at 
 Hartford, Conn., 
 \v h e r e h e 1 e a r n e d 
 much of the L^un btrsiness. Ueelininy an offer to aid in 
 establishinj^- a branch of their liusiness in London, Eng- 
 land, Mr. Davis found em])loyment with J. R. Brown, of 
 Pro\-idence. R. I., where, b\- invitaticm of Mr. Brown, he 
 nii,L;hl ha\c made the firm "Brown c\: Da\-is," instead of 
 •' Brown iX: Sharpe," as the well known company is called 
 toda\-. ( )n [uh- 1st, ls."i."., he came to Assonet, and form- 
 ing- a partnershi]! with Daxdd C. Thresher, of that xdllage, 
 undci- name of X. R. Da\-is t\: Co., thc\' began the manu- 
 facture i>f muzzle-ltiading rifles at the ■■ Forge," so called. 
 Here, with an engine-lathe, run by water power, for 
 machinery, and Wvt emplo\-ees, thev manufactured (more 
 literalK' than toda\'i about one hundred and fifty rifles, 
 wdiicli were sold in small lots to hardware jobbers of Xew 
 \'ork. In the Autumn of ls."i4 thev removed from the 
 " I'orge " to the old Thresher building near the foot of 
 Water stret.'t, where in is.^s the\- introduced the manu- 
 facture of the muzzle loading shot-gun, the business slowly 
 
 Kill 
 
(levcl(i])in;j; uiuil llic ad- 
 vi.'nl (if \\ar in I><'il closed 
 tlic sli(i|) lUr a scasdii. 
 Later in thai \ear, how- 
 ever, umlcr sid)-ciintract 
 witli the n'eiicral <4'(i\-frn- 
 mciil. they hei^an the 
 mamitaettire n\ parts ot 
 the Sprinytield rilk-d mus- 
 kets, the arm in ;j,"eneral 
 use tlir(iUL;hi>ut the War 
 of the Rehelliiin. In 
 l^i'ii^, lieeause of faiiini4- 
 heallli. Mr. Thresher re- 
 tired from the business, 
 and Thomas (i. Nichols. 
 M. [).. became an etjual 
 partner in the firm. War 
 
 N // DAVIS. 
 
 W. A. DAVIS 
 
 times were favorable 
 to the i^un Imsines.s, 
 and the plant was en- 
 larged accordiunh'. em- 
 ploying;' one hundred 
 men. and runnin|4 both 
 ni;4ht and da\-. 
 
 The L;"nn-shop was 
 burned to the ground 
 Mav I'.i. [stU, hred it 
 is lieliex'cd bv some 
 cmissarx' of the South- 
 ern Co n f e d e r a c \- . 
 There beinj^ no insur- 
 ance it was a total loss, 
 L;d\- e rn m e n t contract 
 .md all. I'.ut from that 
 wreck of half a cen- 
 tur\- since N. R. 1 )a\-is 
 
 lf)7 
 
&. Co. sax'cd iiidiX' 
 than they lost : they 
 saved that which has 
 made possible the bus- 
 iness of todav : faith 
 in tliemsel\-es and in 
 the future of the coun- 
 try, their credit in the 
 l)usiness world and 
 I he e<iura;j;e to tr\' 
 a,L^ain. 
 
 New machinery 
 was ])urchased at war 
 prices and set up in 
 the old Xich(jls c^: 
 Sampson store, where 
 soon lhe\' were at 
 work ai4'ain making- 
 musket parts as Ije- 
 fore. Bv the close of 
 the war thev had finished amon;,; other parts lido.iMKi 
 rear leaf sii^'hls. 
 
 The rim-fire lireech-loadin^' double guns were hrst 
 made in Isi'ii;. This stx'le was soon superseded Ijy the 
 more popular center-tire top-action gun which, with im- 
 provements from time to time, is the firearm now placed 
 upon the market. In the winter of l.s7:!-4 the business 
 \\-as renioNcd to ihe building formerlv occupied by the 
 Assonet Machine Co.. which has been much enlarged 
 \\'ilhin a few \'ears and refitted to suit the requirements. 
 l>y the death of 1 )r. Xichols in Iss:;, the old partnership 
 was l)ro]cen. and in kebruar\- of the \"car f(.)llowing Mr. 
 I)a\-is, liax'ing actpiircd the whole propcrt\', admitted as 
 jiartners in the business his s<jns. ^V. A. and X. W. Davis, 
 under the firm name of X. R. I)a\-is \- Sons. 
 
 RALPH H FRANCIS 
 Foieman with N R Djvis & Sons 
 
 Ujs 
 
FOUR CORNERS LOOKING NORTH. 
 
 FOUR CC'Ruct 
 
 1G9 
 
The Shipping Industry. 
 
 BY JOHN M. DEANE. 
 
 s 
 
 siiii' luniiuM,. 
 
 HIP BUILDINCr was one of the earliest and most 
 important industries of Freetown. Xot onl\- were 
 vessels built for its own citizens, who were largely 
 interested and engaged in the coastwise and foreign 
 trades, but many were built for those living in other 
 towns. A study of the long list of \-essels hailing from 
 Freetown, which follows, most of them having been built 
 b\- its own citizens, must impress one with the fact that 
 our ancestors were wide awake, |)ersevering. and fully 
 alive to the possibilities of transportation and commerce 
 in their day and generation. 
 
 The first vessels of which we ha\'c anv record were 
 built in ITs-j, and the last one in bs-fs. At Hrst onlv the 
 smaller \-esscls were constructed, but after about ten vears 
 those of one hundred tons burden, or more, were built. 
 This industry was perhaps at its height aliout the year 
 isjii, when seven vessels were in process of construction in 
 the town at the same time. One of them, a sloop, was 
 built in the door \-ard of the hrst house south of the 
 bridge on South Alain street. In lannching, this sloop 
 had to slide across the street, across an open lot, and mtt) 
 the river, at a point where it was no wider than the length 
 of the sloop itself, but the wavs were so constructed that 
 she took to the water lengthwise of the river. Another 
 was built in front of the present residence of Charles H. 
 
 170 
 
Read, on West Water street; the sehooner President at 
 the ship yard on Water street; one on Weleome's shore; 
 one near Cudworth's wharf; the sehooner Florida at the 
 ship yard at the head of Pa\-ne's Cove; and the sloop Mary 
 Elizabeth at David Robinson's shore. 
 
 Kempton Burbank, as boss earpenter, constrneted many 
 of the Assonet vessels, whieh, for strength and seaworth- 
 iness, had a wide reputation, [oli Favne also built several 
 vessels. He was the boss earpenter on the schooner Flor- 
 ida in 1.SH4, the last ve.ssel built on I'ayne's Cove, and also 
 on the schooner Carrier in l.S-is, the last vessel built at the 
 ship yard on Water street, or in the town. The stub of 
 one of the dog shores, that was ctit awa\' when this vessel 
 was launched, is still in the ground and in a good state of 
 preservation. The other was taken out bv the ice in the 
 winter of I'.'i)]. Tlie writer was launched in the Carrier, 
 and remembers the breaking of the bottle of wine on her 
 prow as she slid into the water. Another custom of the 
 times was to place a coin, for good luck, under the masts 
 of vessels when they were stepped. At one time, from 
 forty to fifty hands were employed in ship building in the 
 town. I'nder what disadvantages those men had to work, 
 as compared with the methods em])lo\'ed in modern ship 
 building! Then evervone had to be a thorough mechanic, 
 and must have served his full time as an apprentice. He 
 must be able to swing the heavv broada.xe, and to hew to 
 the line. By hand, and with few tools and appliances, he 
 must work out and set up the vessel's ribs, and, by the aid 
 of ring-bolts and hand-spikes, be able to twist the stout 
 planking into place and fasten it with hand made tree- 
 nails. From the heavy gnarled oak and apple tree, trunk 
 and branch, he must plan and form the knees or braces, 
 that are to tit angles, right, acute, or obtuse, and bolt them 
 to place with his ri\-eting hammer. The deck, after being 
 fastened with hand made spikes, was caulked, and the 
 seams filled with h(}t tar poured from periwinkle shells. 
 The oakum for caulking did not come in ready made 
 
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strands, hnt in sulid hales, and liad to Ik- wliipped, and 
 picked, ;ind wurked intu strands, hv hand rolling, on the 
 knee. 
 
 Iron rods and bars had to be cut by hand with a cold 
 chisel, a birch withe wonnd round its head serving- as a 
 handle to hold it in place, as the sledge hammer, wielded 
 1)\- hinnan power, descended upon it with force. When 
 the time came for setting up the standing rigging, a hot 
 day must be selected in which to first stretch the large 
 ro[)es. and make the bight that is put over the mast-head. 
 The n<ible old acorn tree, that stood in Xiehols' pasture, 
 under which the children of ilie \'illage have s]5ent so 
 man\- hap]>\- hours, served well in this o]:>eration. ( )ne end 
 of the rope to be stretched was fastened to it, while the 
 tackle was fastened to a large junijicr tree across the lot, 
 A powerful team of oxen, with the aid of the tackle, did the 
 stretching, the large tarred rope lieing kept off the ground 
 b)' crossed sticks lashed together, placed under it at short 
 intervals. It is a pity that the old acorn tree, a wide 
 sp)reading white oak, should lia\-e been destroved bv b(_)ys, 
 who are now men, who thoughllcssh- built fires in a ca\-it\- 
 that ajipcared near its base. 
 
 A saw-pit and a steam-box were about the only 
 adjuncts of an ancient shi]) \-ard. The former, being a 
 long frame about six feet high, was built o\-er a trench two 
 feet dee]5. The timljcr to be sawed was ])laced on the 
 frame, and the splitting saw was worked b\- two men, one 
 on the frame, the other in the trench. The steam-box was a 
 long box with a large covered kettle under the center, and 
 connected with it by a spout for conducting the steam into 
 it. After the timber to be steamed had been placed in the 
 box. the ends were stuffed with seaweed to prevent the 
 escape of the steam. 
 
 A small rude shed in which to store the carpenters' 
 tool chests, and such material as must be kept under 
 cover, w,-is often the only building on the plant. These 
 ancient sliij) carpenters had no whistle, bell, (jr clock in 
 
 17',' 
 
the tDWcr tii call tliL-m t<i, ordismiss them from, their daily 
 labors. The risini;- sun found them at the yard, and its 
 sellinj;- in the west told them when it was time to "knock 
 off." (irou- was served at 11. (in .\. M.. and -I. mi p. ^[. In 
 modern ship building;', a noN'icc nia\- touch the button and 
 machinery will do the rest. It has been said of Captain 
 Welcome Halhawaw who. in hisda\', was hu\i4'el\- interested 
 in shijipiny and shi]) building;', that he could model a ves- 
 sel, build her. ri^- her. niaki; her sails. ;ind sail her. 
 
 CAPT WELCOME HATHAWAY 
 
 The first records of vessels hailing;' from the town 
 
 were kept at the ofiice of the old Hii^hton C'.istoms District. 
 
 These were later transferred to the Custom House in Fall 
 
 River, where those for the \-ears prex'ious to \7s\\ were 
 
 burned in the o-reat fire that \-isited that place Sunday 
 
 )ulv -2. |s+::. Bv act of Congress, the office of Collector of 
 
 Customs at iJighton was discontinued, .\pril 1, 1^8:!. and 
 
 by the same act. Fall River was made a ])ort of entry and 
 
 delivery. 
 
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The fi)ll(i\vinir list of vessels liailinj;" from Freetown 
 since tlie year 17N2. and once owned wholly, or in part, by 
 citizens of the town, was takert from the records of the 
 Custom Ili)use at Fall River, and kindly furnished b}- Cap- 
 tain FLdward T. Marvel, Deputy Collector of Cu.stoms, to 
 whom the thanks of the writer, and also of the Committee 
 on Histm^y, are heartil)' extended for his interestin^f and 
 valuable contribution. 
 
 The list includes l.")S sloops, 72 schooners, -Jo brie.s, 
 1 brig'antine. i' barques, and 1 ship, a total of 2.")4 vessels. 
 
 The number of tons burden, and the year of construc- 
 tion are given in each case, when stated in the records. 
 
 The names of the Master and owners are from the 
 last marine paper issued \o each vessel. In a few cases, 
 however, names have been taken from former marine 
 papers, or supplied from memorv. 
 
 In a few instances, incidental notes have been added 
 to the list bv the writer. 
 
 Vessels that were built for owners not livinj.;- in F'ree- 
 town do not ajipear in the list. 
 
 I.lsr ot \ KSSKLS H.MLINt; IROM KREETi iWX, 
 FROM ITSi' IT) I'.tO-i. 
 
 Sloop Languedoc. ■iO tons. Built 17sx!. Ephiaim Briggs, Master. 
 
 Ephraim Briggs and Philip Hathaway, owners. Sold 1801. 
 Sloop Hard Times. 8H Ums. Built 17S2. Edmund Briggs, Master. 
 
 Edmund Briggs, John Briggs and James Richmond, owners. Sold lTi)0. 
 Sloop Dolphin, -ili tons. Built 1782. Augustus Chase, Master. 
 
 Augustus Chase, John Briggs and Edward Chase, owners. 
 
 Also Zephaniah T. Briggs, Master. 
 
 Stephen Barnaby and Malbone Hathaway, owners. Broken up 1838. 
 Schooner Peace and Plenty. 30 tons. Built 178:!. Jonathan Read, Jr., 
 
 Master. 
 
 Jonathan Read, Jr.. Jonathan Read, George Read, Joseph Borden and 
 
 Isaac Winslow, owners. Broken up 1802. 
 Sloop Resolution. 60 tons. Built 1784. Charles Chase, Master. 
 
 Simeon Borden and Perry Borden, owners. 
 
 Also Henry Gardner. Master. 
 
 Varnum Thurston, Abraham Gardner and William Gardner, owners. 
 
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Sloop Dolphin. 4S tons. Built 1784. Elisha Gregor)-, Master. 
 
 Elisha Gregory. Ebenezer Crane, Jr., and Joseph Dean, owners. 
 Sloop Friendship. 51 tons. Built 1784. 
 
 Jonathan Harnaby, Master and owner. 
 Sloop Industry. 33 tons. Built 1784. John Kriggs, Master. 
 
 Benjamin Winslow, Avery Winslow and Ebenezer Crane, owners 
 
 Sloop Elizabeth. 47 tons. Built 1784. Joseph Brightnian. Master. 
 Joseph Brightman. Jonathan and Nathan Brightman, owners. 
 
 Sloo]) Betsey. •')1 tons. Built 17s4. .\hiel Hathaway, Master. 
 
 .\biel Hathaway. Isaac Merritt and I'eirce Phillips, owners. 
 Sloop Briton. 4t) tons. Built 1784. Aaron Borden, Master and owner. 
 Sloop Rose. 311 tons. Built 178,"). Valentine Blethen, Master. 
 
 Valentine Blelhen and Ambrose Barnaby, owners. Sold IMOl. 
 Sloop New York Packet. .17 tons. Built 1785. 
 
 Thomas Tripp, Master and owner. 
 Sloop Defiance. 35 tons. Built 1785. 
 
 William Read, Master and owner. 
 Sloop Swallow. 47 tons. Built 1786. Walter Chaloner, Master. 
 
 Walter Chaloner, Joseph Durfeeand Benjamin Durfee, owners. 
 
 Also Waller Chaloner, sole owner. 
 
 Sold New Bedford 1798. 
 Sloop Kingfisher. 30 tons. Built 1781). Ephraim Briggs, Master. 
 
 Ephraim Briggs, Benjamin Peirce and Abiel Briggs, owners. 
 
 John Payne, Jr. and William Read Jr., once part owners. Sold New 
 
 port 17SI5. 
 Sloop George. 155 tons. Built 17s(i. ( )l)ed Freeman, Master. 
 
 Henry Brightman, owner. 
 Schooner Rebecca. 48 tons. Built 17f^(j. Zephaniah Terry, Jlaster. 
 
 Zephaniah Terry, Isaac Merritt, Job Terry, Solomon Terry, and Ben 
 
 jamin Dagget, owners, 
 
 Abiel Hathaway, Zebedee Terry and Henry Bra.gg also commanded 
 this vessel, and with Samuel Swany and David Perkins were part owners. 
 
 Sloop (Juick Time. 50 tons. Built 17S(i, Godfrey Bri.ggs, Master. 
 
 Godfrey, Joseph and Malbone Briggs, owners. 
 Sloop Lark. '27 tons. Built . Registered 17!):!. Richard Borden, 
 
 Master. 
 
 Richard and Thomas Borden, owners. 
 
 Also Nathan Gardner, Master. Peter Gardner, owner. 
 
 Also Job Simmons, Master. Peleg Gardner, owner. 
 Sloop Sallie. (il tons. Built 178.'^. Thomas Payne. Master. 
 
 Thomas Payne and Simon Potter, owners. 
 Schooner Phebe, 31 tons. Built 1788. Henry Carter. Jr., Master. 
 
 Henry Carter, Jr., and Thomas Borden, 3rd, owners. Sold Newport, 
 
 1805. 
 
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Sloop Sully. '■'•'2 tons. Built IT.SK. Nathan Briggs, Master. 
 James Nichols and Job Chase, owners. 
 
 Sloop Two Brothers. 41 tons. Built 1788. Samuel Borden, Master. 
 
 Simeon Borden and Perrv Borden, owners. 
 Sloop Eliza. 44 tons. Built 1789. Samuel Dixson. Master. 
 
 Samuel Dixson and David Kennedy, owners. 
 
 Also Joseph Crandelle, Master. 
 Sloop Carlton. 4(i tons. Built 1780. 
 
 I'arker Borden, ilaster and owner. 
 
 Also John Davis, Master and owner. 
 
 Sloop Rainbow. 2.5 tons. Built 1789. 
 
 Job Simmons, Master and owner. Sold 179."i. 
 
 Sloop Polly. :''4 tons. Built before 1789. Philip Hathaway, Master. 
 Philip. Lot and Joseph Hathaway, owners. Sold 1790. 
 
 Schooner May Flower. 24 tons. Built before HnO. 
 
 Job Allen, Master and Owner. 
 Sloop Monmouth. HO tons. Jo.seph Church, Master. 
 
 Nathaniel Bowen, owner. Sold 1792. 
 Sloop Lively. 34 tons. Built before 17s9. Nathaniel Lewis, Master. 
 
 Zebulon White and Ambrose Barnaby, owners. Sold Philadelphia, 
 
 1 792. 
 Sloop Hannah. 37 tons. Built before 17.'^9. Edward Woodman, Master. 
 
 Isaac Brightman, owner. Sold 1790. 
 Schooner Diadema. S8 tons. Built 1791, Philip Hathaway, Jr. , Master. 
 
 Philip Hathaway, owner 
 Sloop Randolph. ::i2 tons. Built 1791. Jonathan Cleveland, Master. 
 
 Jael Hathaway, owner. Sold 1801. 
 Brig Diadema. 101! tons. Built 1791. Benjamin Tew, Master. 
 
 Philip, Joseph and (luilford Hathaway, owners. 
 
 Sloop Ilibernia. 41 tons. Registered 1792. John .Shaw, Master. 
 John Shaw and John Dennis, owners. 
 
 Sloop Four Cousins. ."iO tons. Built 1792. Sheffel Weaver, Master. 
 Thomas Davis, Benjamin Davis and George Read, owners. 
 
 Sloop Esther. 1)2 tons. Built 1792. Joseph Andrews. Master. 
 
 James Dean, James Dean. Jr., David Dean and Samuel Dean, owners. 
 
 Also James Dean. Jr., Master. 
 Sloop Mary. ()2tons. Built 1792. Jonathan Bowen, Master. 
 
 Jonathan Bowen, George Shove, Darius Chase, and Richard Clark, 
 
 owners. 
 
 Also .Shellel Weaver, Master, and with Samuel Tobey and Ichabod 
 
 Read, part owners. Sold Newbern, 1793. 
 Schooner Arethusa. s.T tons. Built 1793. Edmund Valentine, jMaster. 
 
 Edmund and William Valentine, owners. Sold Providence. 1794. 
 
 17(i 
 
Sloop Chartley Ann. 47 tons. Built 179:1 Philip Hathaway, Master and 
 owner. Sold at Camden, X. C, 179"). 
 
 Schooner Assonet Packet. 41 tons. Built 1793. Ebenezer Payne, Master. 
 Ebenezer Payne, Kempton Burbank, Philip Hathaway, 2d, and Calvin 
 Hathaway, owners. Sold Sag Harbor, 1798. 
 
 Sloop Mary Ann. 49 tons. Built 1793. Jonathan Bowen, Master. 
 
 Jonathan Bowen, George, Asa. Stephen and Samuel Shove, owners. 
 
 Sold Providence, 1794. 
 Sloop Dolphin. 63 tons. Built 1793. Josiah Wardwell, Master. 
 
 Benjamin and Peleg Brightman. owners. 
 
 Also William Richmond, Master. 
 
 Sloop Friendship, .'jy tons. Built 1794. Dudley Chace, Master. 
 
 Dudley Chace. Thomas Davis, David Cleveland, and Thomas Durfee, 
 
 2d, owners. 
 
 Also Simeon Jones, Master. 
 
 James Morrison and Samuel Weaver, owners. 
 
 Also Xathan Weaver, Master. 
 Schooner Liberty. 47 tons. Built 1794. Philip Chase. Master. 
 
 Philip. Isaiah and Isaac Chase, owners. 
 
 Also Simeon Jones, Master and owner. 
 
 Brig Maria. 98 tons. Built 1794. Sheffel Weaver. Master. 
 
 lonathan Bowen, Joseph Hathaway, Darius Chase, Stephen Shove, 
 
 Edmund Hathaway, George Shove, David Bowen and Gamael Dean, 
 
 owners 
 Sloop Harriote. 61 tons. Built 1794. Abraham Simmons, Master. 
 
 David Barnaby, Anson and Valentine Blethen, owners. 
 
 Brigantine Clarissa. 160 tons. Built 1794. William Richmond, Master. 
 John Davis, owner. 
 
 Sloop Polly. 50 tons. Built 1794 Joseph Andrews, Master. 
 
 Jaharick Shaw, Samuel Leonard and Samuel Fales, owners. 
 
 Also James Brigg, Master. 
 
 Daniel Cartwright, Master. John Hathaway, owner. 
 
 Philip Chase, JIaster. 
 
 Philip, Isaac and Isaiah Chase, owners. 
 
 Jonathan Luce. Master. 
 
 Jonathan and Warren Luce, owners. 
 Sloop Polly. 36 tons. Built 1794. John Crane 2d, Master. 
 
 John Briggs, 2d, Philip Hathaway, Joseph Hathaway and Calvin 
 
 Hathaway, owners. Sold Newport, 1795. 
 
 Sloop Discovery. 49 tons. Built 1794. N'oblc Perry, Master. 
 Noble and Joseph Perry, owners. 
 
 Sloop Betsey. 34 tons. Built 1794. Simeon Burr, Master. 
 
 Dudley Hathaway, Joseph Hathaway and William Read, Jr., owners. 
 Sold 179,^ 
 
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Sloop Humbird. 38 tons. Built 1794. Joseph Church, Master. 
 Nathan Bowen, owner. Sold Bristol, 1801. 
 
 Sloop Discovery. 49 tons. Built 1794. Seth Chase, Master. 
 Darius Chase, owner. Sold 1795. 
 
 Sloop Union. 44 tons. Built 179.'). Josiah Paddock, Master. 
 
 Josiah Paddock, Richmond Paddock, Job Peirce and Clothier Hath- 
 away, owners. 
 Also Clothier Hathaway, Master. Sold 1797. 
 
 Schooner Rambler. 69 tons. Built 1795. Xathau Weaver, Master. 
 
 Nathan Weaver, Sheffel Weaver, Jonathan Read, Jr., and heirs of 
 
 Ichabod Read, owners. 
 
 Also Sheffel Weaver, Master, and George and Daniel Read, part owners. 
 
 Last at Georgetown, S. C. 1798. 
 Sloop Two Peters. 38 tons. Built 1795. Seth Chace, Master. 
 
 Gilbert Chace and Peter Nichols (Blacksmith) owners. Sold Perth 
 
 Amboy, 1798. 
 Sloop Welcome. 44 tons. Built 1795, and at once sold to Solomon Thorn- 
 ton Jr. and Christopher Thornton. 
 
 Brig Charlotte. 101 tons. Built 1795. 
 
 Wanton Steere, Master and owner. 
 Schooner Apollo. 94 tons. Built 1795. Philip Chace, Master. 
 
 Augustus Chace, Josiah Paddock, Job Peirce, and John Terry, owners, 
 
 Brig Orange. 125 tons. Built 1795. Stephen Chace, Master. 
 Edmund Valentine, owner. 
 
 Sloop Betser. 55 tons. Built 1795. Henry Pettis, Master. 
 Ebenezer Crane, Ji,, ApoUos and Levi Dean, Owners. 
 
 Sloop Brandawine. 73 tons. Built 1795. Abel Borden, Master. 
 Abel, Abner and Joseph Borden, owners. 
 
 Brig William. 129 tons. Built 1796. Luther Winslow, Jr.. Master. 
 
 Luther Winslow, David Valentine, Luther Winslow, Jr. and Edson 
 
 Valentine, owners. 
 
 Also Edward Gardner and Edson Valentme, Masters. 
 
 Brig Polly and Nancy. 105 tons. Built 1796. Benjamin W. Brown, Master. 
 Also William Read, Jr., Master. 
 
 Benjamin W. Brown, Robert Porter, Samuel Pickens, and Edmund 
 Hathaway, owners. Sold 1797. 
 
 Sloop Dolphin. 61 tons. Built 1796. 
 
 Edson Valentine, Master and owner. 
 Also Nathan Weaver, Master. 
 
 Thomas Davis, Thomas Freelove, Jr., Joseph and Oliver Read, own- 
 ers. Sold 1799, 
 
 Sloop Lucy. 49 tons. Built 1796. Philip Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Philip Hathaway and Edmund Hathaway, owners. Sold 1801. 
 
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Sloop Fair Rosamond. 51 tons. Built 179(i. William Read. Jr., Master. 
 
 William Read, Jr., Dudley Hathaway. John Hathaway, 2d, and 
 
 Edmund Hathaway, owners. Sold 1797. 
 Sloop Law Book. 30 tons. Built 1796. Daniel Bamaby, Master. 
 
 Daniel Bamaby, Ambrose Barnaby, Valentine Blethen, and Jonathan 
 
 Davis, owners. Sold New Bedford, 1797. 
 Sloop Endeavor. 38 tons. Built 1796. Valentine Blethen, Master. 
 
 Valentine Blethen, William Valentine, David Cleveland and Robert 
 
 Miller, owners. Sold 1798. 
 
 Sloop Regulator. 32 tons. Built 1 79(1. Valentine Blethen, Master. 
 
 Valentine Blethen, William \'alentine and Thomas Davis, owners. 
 
 Sold 1803. 
 Sloop Sea Flower. 73 tons. Built 1797. William Read, Jr., Master. 
 
 William Valentine, owner. Sold Bristol, 1801. 
 Sloop Rover. 37 Ions. Built 1797. Peter Nichols, Master. 
 
 Peter, James and Joseph Nichols, owners. Sold New Bedford, 1801. 
 Sloop Warden. 34 tons. Built 1797. Edmund Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Edmund Hathaway, Benjamin W. Brown and Samuel Pickens, own 
 
 ers. Sold Newport, 1799. 
 Sloop Eagle. 35 tons. Built 1797. Isaac Burbank, Jr., Master. 
 
 Kempton Burbank, owner. Sold 1800. 
 Sloop Defiance. 34 tons. Built 1797. John Terry, Master. 
 
 John and Zephaniah Terry, owners. Sold Providence, 1800. 
 Sloop Quick Times. 34 tons. Built 1797. Ephraim Briggs, Master. 
 
 Peter Nichols and Isaac Burbank, owners. Sold 1813. 
 Sloop Ranger. 24 tons. Built 1797. Benjamin Porter, Jr., Master. 
 
 Benjamin Porter, Jr., ai d Jonathan Bowen, owners. Sold 1799. 
 Sloop Mary Dean. 50 tons. Built 1797. David Padelford, Master, 
 
 David Padelford, Ebenezer and Enos Dean, owners. 
 Brig Celia. 118 tons. Built 1798. Joseph S, Martin, Master. 
 
 John Davis, owner. 
 Sloop Betsey. 37 tons. Built 1798. Ebenezer Payne, 2d, Master. 
 
 Ebenezer Payne, 2d, Luther Briggs and Philip Chase, owners. Sold 
 
 1802. 
 Sloop Wealthy. 35 tons. Built 1798. John Payne, Jr., Master. 
 
 John Payne. Jr. and Augustus Chase, owners. Ashore and broken up 
 
 1802. 
 Schooner Hiram. 78 tons. Built 1798. Philip Chase. Master. 
 
 Philip, Gilbert, Augustus and Darius Chase and Luther Briggs, own- 
 ers. Sold Charleston, 1799. 
 Schooner Diana. 89 tons. Built 1799. Edmund Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Edmund and Philip Hathaway, oivners. Sold 1801. 
 Sloop Eliza. 37 tons. Built 1799. John Boyce, Master. 
 
 Edward Shove. Joseph Shove, Josiah Paddock, Guilford Hathaway 
 
 and Oliver Grinnell, owners. Stranded at Snow Hill and sold 1804. 
 
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Schooner Marian. 78 tons. HuiltlT99. Guilford Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Guilford Hathaway, Jonathan and Benjamin W. Bowen, owners. Sold 
 at Newport, 1800. 
 Schooner George. So tons. Built 1799. Sheffel Weaver, Master. 
 
 Isaiah, Thomas and George Borden, Jr., owners. 
 
 Also George Borden, Jr., Master. Sold. 
 Sloop Adams. 37 tons. Built 1799. 
 
 Gilbert Staples, Master and owner. Sold 1816. 
 Sloop Justina. 69 tons. Built 1799, for Newport parties. 
 Schooner Friendship. 101 tons Built 1800. John Read, Master. 
 
 John Read, Joseph Shove, Edward Shove, Kerapton Burbank, David 
 
 Cudworth and Gilbert Tisdale, owners. Registered at Wilmington, 
 
 1802. 
 Schooner Persis. 9;! tons. Built 1800. John Strange, Master. 
 
 John Strange, Alden Hathaway, Xoah Hathaway and Benjamin 
 
 Chacf , '.3d, owners. Last at Georgetown. S. C, 1801. 
 Brig Spanish Lady, 127 tons. Built 1800. Philip Chase, Master. 
 
 Philip Chace, Augustus Chace and Luther Briggs, owners. Surren- 
 dered at St Mary's, 180'2. 
 Brig Neptune. 41 tons. Built 1800. .Anson Blifhns, Master. 
 
 John Bowers, owner. 
 Schooner Grand Turk. l'J:nons. Built 1800. Henry Pettis, Master. 
 
 Edsoii Valentine, owner. 
 
 Also Edson Valentine, .Master, and Jonathan Bowen, part owner. 
 Schooner Hiram. 113 tons. Built 1800. Nathan Weaver, Master. 
 
 Sheffel Weaver, Enos Cleveland, Jonathan Read and Jonathan Read, 
 
 Jr., owners. 
 Schooner Republican. 99 tons. Built 1800, Elisha Gregory, Master. 
 
 Elisha Gregory. Ebeuezer Crane, Au.gustus Chase, Eleazor and Peter 
 
 Nichols, owners. 
 Schooner Hecate. 9'3 tons. Built 1801. A/,el Howard, Master. 
 
 Francis Howard, George Baylus and John Angior, owners 
 Schooner Fair Play. 95 tons. Built 1801. John Brown, Master. 
 
 John and Samuel Brown, owners. 
 Brig Industry. 1-H tons. Built 1801. Benjamin Davis Jr., Master. 
 
 Benjamin Davis Jr , and Collins Chase, owners. 
 Schooner Betsey. 84 tons. Built isoi. John Strange, Master. 
 
 John Strange, Josiah Paddock. Paddoi-k Richmond and Sylvester 
 
 Briggs, owners. 
 Schooner Atalanta. 127 tons. Built 1801. Edmund Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Edmimd and Noah Hathaway, owners. 
 
 Also Benjamin P. Chase, ilaster. Edmund Hathaway, sole owner. 
 
 Also Philip Tew, Master. Stranded and lost on Cape Henry 1810. 
 Schooner Polly Merrick. 67 tons. Built 1801. 1 )avid Miller, Master. 
 
 Also Joseph Childs. Master. 
 
 Isaac Merrick and David Miller, owners. Sold New Bedford, 1808. 
 
 ISO 
 
Schooner Harriet. 106 tons. Built 1801. Philip Chase, Master. 
 
 Philip, Gilbert and Augustus Chase, John Strange, Luther and Gilbert 
 
 Briggs, owners. Registered 1809. 
 Sloop Argus. 44 tons. Built 1801. Job (!. Lawton, Master. 
 
 Daniel Douglas, Ebenezer Peirce and Job Peirce. owners. Sold 1804- 
 Schooner American La<ly. HO tons. Built IsOl. Ebenezer Payne, 2d, 
 
 Master. 
 
 Ebenezer Payne, 2d, Ebenezer Payne and John Cudworth, owners. 
 
 Registered at Camden, 1804. 
 Brig Defiance. 11.5 tons. Built ISdl. (Uiilford Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Guilford and Philip Hathaway, owners. Registered at Savannah, 1801. 
 
 Sloop Sally. 88 tons. Built 1801. John Briggs, Master. 
 
 John Briggs 2d and Kempton Bjrbank, owners. Last at Bristol, 1806. 
 
 Schooner Republican. 46 tons. Built 1802. George C. Briggs, Master. 
 
 George C. Briggs, Luther Briggs, John Terry. Kempton Burbank, and 
 
 Malbone Hathaway, owners. Sold 1811. 
 Schooner Abigail. 106 tons. Built 1803. James L. Valentine. Master. 
 
 Thomas Valentine, Augustus Chase, Anson Bliffins and James L. 
 
 Valentine, owners. 
 Sloop Volly. 21 tons Built 1802. William Hall, Master. 
 
 Ebenezer Peirce, Joseph and Stephen Barnaby, owners. Sold 1814. 
 Sloop Lily. 40 tons. Built 1802. Job Terry, Master. 
 
 Job Terry, Wanton Hathaway, and Job Payne, owners 
 
 Brig Jefferson. 112 tons. Built 1802. Aaron Dean, Master. Aaron Dean, 
 Samuel Dean, Bailey Winslow, Nicholas Hathaway, Job Peirce, Eben- 
 ezer Peirce and David A. Leonard, owners. 
 
 David A. Leonard, at one time a resident of Assonet Village, was the 
 
 grandfather of the Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, the most noted 
 
 and inlluentia' diplomat of the pre.sent age, whose mother, Helen 
 
 {Leonard) Hay, was born at Assonet. 
 Brig Hiram. 116 tons. Built 1802. John Strange. Master, 
 
 John Strange, (Gilbert Chace, Richard Clark, Oliver Grinnell, Silas 
 
 Payne, Josiah Paddock, Kempton Burbank Joseph. Edward and 
 
 George Shove, owners. 
 Sloop Swift. 51 tons. Built 1802. John Bourn, Master. 
 
 Samuel Bourn, William, Philip and John Winslow 3d, owners. 
 Schooner Prudance. 46 tons. Built 1802. Henry Munroe. Master. 
 
 Henry Munroe and Samuel Townsend, owners. 
 Brig President. 155 tons. Built 1802. Simmons Hathaway. Master. 
 
 Simmons and Philip Hathaway, owners. 
 
 Also Benjamin W. Brown, Master. 
 Sloop Antelope. 86 tons. Built 1N02. Sheffel Weaver. Master. 
 
 Sheffel Weaver. Jonathan Read and Jonathan Read, Jr., owners. 
 
 Also Nathan Weaver. Master. Changed to schooner and sold 1803. 
 
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Sloop Fair Play. 40 tons. Built 1801.'. Henry Carter, Jr., Master. 
 
 Henry Carter, Jr. and Thomas Borden, 3rd, owners. Sold Providence, 
 
 1803. 
 Sloop Two Brothers. 47 tons. Built 1802. Theophilus Chase, Master. 
 
 Josiah Paddock, Joseph Shove, Edward Shove and Jason Hathaway, 
 
 owners. 
 Schooner Pegasus. Ill tons. Built 1803. John C. Richmond. Master. 
 
 John Bowers and Benjamin Davis, owners. 
 
 Also Audley Clarke, Master. 
 
 Atidley Clarke, Peleg Wood, Jr., and Christopher Fowler, owners. 
 
 Sloop Ranger. '.28 tons. Built 1803. David Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Henry Hathaway, owner. Broken up 1,'^il. 
 Schooner Angenora. 89 tons. Built 1803. Nathan Simmons, Master. 
 
 Edson Valentine, owner. Sold Bristol, 1804. 
 
 Sloop Triton. 4!) tons. Built 1803. Henry Tew, Jr., Master. 
 
 Ebenezer Peirce, Job Peirce, John Terry and Silas Terry, owners. 
 
 Sold Bristol, 1800. 
 Sloop Sinia. 39 tons. Built 1803. 
 
 Augustus Chace, Jlaster and owner. Broken up 1811. 
 
 Schooner Caroline. 113 tons. Hailt ls04. John Pierce, Master. 
 
 ApoUos Dean, Peter Nichols, Levi Dean, Heirs of Eleazer Nichols, 
 widow Hopey Terry and Zephaniah Terry, owners. Sold 1813. 
 
 Schooner Dover. 107 tons. Built 1804. Daniel Chase, Master. 
 
 Peter Nichols, Anson Bliffins, Z. Terry, Jr., Gilbert Chase, John 
 Terrv, Luther Briggs and Eleazer Nichols, owners. Registered 1809. 
 
 Schooner Hiram. 110 tons. Built 1804. Anson Bliffins, Master. 
 
 Anson Bliffins and James L. Valentine, owners. Last at Charles- 
 ton, 1810. 
 Sloop Amy. 37 ton.s. Built 1804. James Burr, Master. 
 
 James Burr, Daniel Douglass and Daniel Douglass, Jr., owners. Last 
 
 at Bristol, isil. 
 Brig Mount \'ernon. LS? tons. Built 180."). Joseph Peirce, Master. 
 
 Joseph Peirce, Josiah Paddock, Richard Clark. Joseph, Edward and 
 
 George Sho\-e, owners. 
 Ship Perseverence. 200 tons. Built 180.5. Simmons Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Simmons and Edmund Hathaway, owners. 
 Brig Fair America. 138 tons. Built 180.5. John Strange, Master. 
 
 John Strange. John Hathawav, Samuel and Samuel Hathaway, Jr., 
 
 owners. 
 Schooner Traveller. 73 tons. Built 1805. Frederick Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Alden Hathaway, owner. Registered 1809. 
 Schooner Little Ann. 74 tons. Built 1805. George C. Briggs, Master. 
 
 Robert Porter, Paddock Richmond, Joseph E. Read and Henry Porter 
 
 owners. Last at Washington, North Carolina, 1800. 
 
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Sloop Fame. 34 tons. Built 1805. Jason Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Jason Hathaway and John Ciidworth, owners. Sold Sag Harbor, 1811. 
 Sloop Eunice. 48 tons. Built 1806. James Chase, Ma.ster. 
 
 Edmund Hathaway and Guilford Dudley Hathaway, owners. Sold 
 
 1811. 
 Sloop Unicorn. 69 tons. Built 1807. George C. Briggs, Master. 
 
 George C. Briggs, Benjamin Weaver and Ebenezer Peirce, owners. 
 
 Sold Bristol, 1809. 
 Schooner Betsey. 86 tons. Built 1807. Nathaniel Briggs, Master. 
 
 Nathaniel Briggs, Josephas Briggs and Gilbert Staples, owners. For 
 
 eign from Georgetown, 1817. 
 Sloop Jane. 64 tons. Built 1807. Allen Chase, Master. 
 
 Allen Chace and Gilbert Chace, owners. Sold New Bedford, 1810. 
 Sloop Roema. 46 tons. Built 1808. John Read, Master. 
 
 Robert Porter and Henry Porter, owners. Sold New Bedford. tSOll. 
 Sloop Ann Matilda. 68 tons. 
 
 Gilbert Chace, Master and owner. Sold 1809. 
 Sloop William. 51 tons. Built 18i)9. John Read, Master. 
 
 Ephraira Merrick. John Read and Isaac Merrick, owners. Foreign 
 
 trade 1811. 
 Schooner Mary. 68 tons. Built 1809. George I.Jean, Master. 
 
 Benjamin Dean of Freetown and William Nichols of Troy, owners. 
 
 Sold Providence, 1823. 
 Sloop Angenora. 48 tons. Built 1809. Philip Tew, Master. 
 
 Ambrose Barnaby. Hathaway, Silas Hathaway and Isaac N. 
 
 Hathaway, owners. Last at Newburn, 1811. 
 Sloop Eagle. 48 tons. Built 1809. 
 
 Job Payne, Master and owner. 
 Sloop Eudora. 49 tons. Built 1810. Benjamin Chace, Master. 
 
 Philip Hathaway, owner. Sold 1815. 
 Sloop Cohannet. 32 tons. Built 1810. 
 
 Augustus Chace, Master and owner. Broken up l.'<29. 
 Schooner Cincinnatus. 82 tons. Built 1810. 
 
 James L. Valentine, Master and owner. Sailed from Newport, Decem- 
 ber 25, 1810 and lost at sea. 
 Sloop Henry. 62 tons. Built 1810. 
 
 John Read, Jlaster and owner. Last at Savannah. 1818. 
 Sloop Polly. 22 tons. Built . George Chace, Master. 
 
 George Chace, Augustus Chace and Job Peirce, owners. Broken up 
 
 1838. 
 Schooner Merino. 73 tons. Built 1810. Benjamin H. Lawton, Master. 
 
 Benjamin H. Lawton, John Terry, Silas Terry, Earl Sampson and 
 
 heirs of John Hinds, owners. Sold Newport, 1818. 
 Sloop Mercaton. 49 tons. Built 1811. George C. Briggs, Master. 
 
 Ebenezer Peirce and Joseph Weaver, owners. Sold 1851. 
 
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Schooner Meleta. 14H tons. Built IHll. Jnhn Eddy. Master. 
 
 Isaac Mernck, David Terry, Samuel Hatliaway and Thomas Randall, 
 
 owners. Last at Philadelphia, IHXri. 
 Schooner Aurora. 129 tons. Built 1811. Anson Bliffins, Master. 
 
 Anson Bliffins, Robert Strobridge and Stephen B. Pickens, owners. 
 
 Foreign from New York, 1S17. 
 Sloop Mary Ann. 39 tons Built 1812. John Briggs, Jr., Master. 
 
 Allen Chace, part owner. Last at Newport, 1S17. 
 Sloop Lily. oT tons. Built 1812. Benjamin H. Lawton, Master. 
 
 Benjamin H. Lawton, Joshua and Seth Rowland, owners. Sold 181.'). 
 Sloop Swallow. 44 tons. Built 1812. Ebenezer Payne, 2d, Master. 
 
 John and Silas Terry, owners. Last at Newport, 181."). 
 Sloop Ann Eliza. 35 tons. Built 1813. William Sekell, Master. 
 
 John Cudworth, part owner. Sold 1823. 
 Slonp Massachusetts. 41 tons. Built 1813 Robert Strobridge, Master. 
 
 Robert Strobridge and Thomas Burbank, part owners. Sold 1821. 
 Sloop Liberty. 3.5 tons Built 1813. William Sekell, Master. 
 
 William Sekell and Ebenezer Payne, owners. Sold at Newport 1817. 
 Schooner Friendship. 27 tons. Built 1814. 
 
 Cornelius C. Hamlin, Master and owner. Lost near Martha's Vine- 
 yard, Aug. 18, 1830. 
 SIoo]) Victory. 30 tons. Built 1814. Philip Chace. Master. 
 
 Artemas Willard, owner. Broken up 1838. 
 Sloop Fame. 47 tons. Built 181."). John Phillips, Master. 
 
 Edmund Hathaway, Augustus Chase and John Phillips, ovyuers. Lost 
 
 in 1816. 
 Sloop Rosette. 47 tons. Built 181,"). Clothier Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Samuel Hathaway, John Hathaway and Isaac Merrick, owners. Sold 
 
 at Bristol, isi.'"). 
 Schooner Cerena. Built 181.5. Adino Paddock, Master. 
 
 Adino Paddock. Earl Sampson, John Nichols and Benjamin Babbitt, 
 
 owners Foreign from Wilmington, 1819. 
 Schooner Atalanta. 184 tons. Built 1815. James Chace, Master. 
 
 Edmund Hathaway, owner. 
 Sloop General Jackson 30 tons. Built 1810 Thomas J. Evans, Master. 
 
 Guilford H. Hathaway, James W. Hathaway and Guilford Hathaway, 
 
 owners. Broken up 1841. 
 Schooner Liberty. 00 tons. Built 1810. William Hall, Master. 
 
 William Hall, David Dean, Ezra Dean, Olive Hathaway, Heirs of 
 
 Joseph Nichols and Charles Strange, owners. 
 Sloop Roseta. 46 tons. Built 1816. Jason Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Jason Hathaway, Peter Nichols and Allen Chace, owners. Sold 1824. 
 Sloo]) John and Philip. 67 tons. Built 1816. Henry Slade, Master. 
 
 John H. Pierce and Philip P. Hathaway, owners. Sold in New York. 
 
 1817. 
 
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Sloop Sarah Ann. 40 tons. Built 1816. Daniel Burt, Master. 
 
 William Carpenter, owner. Left New York. December. I^^is. and 
 
 lost at sea. 
 Sloop Planter. .55 tons. Built 1816. Philip Lee. Master. 
 
 Stephen Barnaby. Philip, Isaac N. and John Hathaway, ."jth. owners. 
 
 Sold at Savannah. 1823. 
 Brig Atalanta. i:!4 tons. Built 1816. 
 
 Edmund Hathaway. Master and owner. Foreign from Wilmington, 
 
 1819. 
 Brig Polander. ilO tons. Milton Andros. Master. 
 
 Condemned and sold as prize at Savannah, li^ls. John Read, owner. 
 
 Again sold at Brunswick, Ga.. 1818. 
 Sloop Success. 33 tons. Built 1816. George C. Briggs, Master. 
 
 John and Silas Terry, owners. Foreign from Newburn, 1820. 
 Sloop Eliza. 39 tons. Built 1816. Augustus C. Barrows. 
 
 A. C Barrows and Seth P. Williams, owners. Broken up. 1841. 
 Sloop Martha Jane. 30 tons. Ephraim Tisdale, Master. 
 
 Sylvanus S. Payne, Allen Chace, Washington Read. Luther Pickens 
 
 and Job Payne, owners. 
 Sloop Ruth. 47 tons. Built 1^17. Sctli Wuislow, Master. 
 
 George Pickens and Pierce, owners. Lost on passage Charles- 
 ton to Providence, 1819. 
 Sloop Union. 49 tons. Built 1817. John Clark. Master. 
 
 John Cudworth and Daniel Douglass, nwners. .Sold New Bedford, 
 
 1819. 
 Schooner Millenium. lOS ions Built 1817. John Clark, Master. 
 
 John and Richard Clark, owners. Foreign from Newbnrn, 1820. 
 Sloop Wellington, 37 tons. 
 
 John Brown, Master and owner. Broken up at Assouet. 1843. 
 Schooner Susan. 118 tons. Built 1817. Nathaniel Briggs, Master. 
 
 Edmund Hathaway and Josephas Briggs. owners. Went foreign from 
 
 Ale.xandria. 1823. 
 Sloop Jane. 33 tons. Benjamin H. Lawton. Jr. , Master. 
 
 John Cudworth and Benjamin H. Lawton, Jr., owners. Sold 1826. 
 Schooner Washington. 63 tons. Built 1817. Adino Paddock. Master. 
 
 Adino Paddock, William Winslow and Benjamin Burt, owners. For- 
 eign from Newport, 1.824. 
 Brig Enterprise. Timothy Lewis, Master. 
 
 Guilford H. Hathaway, ex. of estate of Edmund Hathaway, sole 
 
 owner. Sold at Bristol, R. I . 183.5. 
 Schooner Susan. 118 tons. Built 1817. Anson Bliffins, .Master. 
 
 Nathaniel Briggs of Freetown and Joseph Badge of Boston, owners. 
 
 Sold at Newbern, 1827. 
 Schooner Betsey. 172 tons. Anson Bliffins, JIaster. 
 
 Edmund Hathaway, owner. Lost 1828. 
 
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Schooner Ephrnim. 78 tons 
 
 Josephas Briggs, Master and part owner. Foreign from Newport, 1822 
 Sloop Phebe Ann. 33 tons. Edmund Briggs, Master. 
 
 Joseph Briggs, owner. Sold 1823. 
 
 Sloop Hen. Built 1818. Benjamin Porter, Jr., Master. 
 
 John Nichols and Earl Sampson, owners. Sold 1833. 
 Schooner Rose in Bloom. 06 tons. Built 1818. Jacob Brightman. Master. 
 
 Robert Strobridge and Ephraim Merrick, owners. Sold 1822. 
 Brig Betsey. 142 tons. Built 181!). Elisha L. Pratt, Master. 
 
 Edmund Hathaway, owner. Foreign from Wilmington, 1820. 
 
 Schooner John and Mary. 56 tons. Huilt 1819. Henrv Cleveland, Master. 
 
 Henry Cleveland, ot Troy ; Abraham A.shley, Jr , Charles Crapo and 
 
 Job Terrv, owners. Sold 1822. 
 Sloop Sea Flower. 38 tuns. Built 1821. Welcome Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Welcome Hathaway. Jason Hathaway and Thomas J. Lee, owners. 
 
 Sold 1823. 
 Sloop Infant. 31 tons. Built 1821. (.ieorge Chace, .Master. 
 
 Augustus Chace. owner Broken up, 1842. 
 Sloop Rising Sun. Built 1821. 
 
 Artemas Willard, Master and owner. Sold 1832. 
 Sloop Elenor. 4!) tons. Built 1S22. William Sekell, Master. 
 
 William Sekell. S. S. Payne, Noah P. Hathaway and fob Pierce, own- 
 ers. Sold at New Bedford, 183.5. 
 Schooner Good Return. 1(15 tons. Built 1822. Richard Clark, Jr., Master. 
 
 John, Jesse, Richard and Richard Clark, Ir , owners. Foreign 1.S23. 
 
 Also Job Terry, Master. 
 Sloop Morning Star. 46 tons. Built 1823. Ephraim Tisdale, Master. 
 
 Ebenezer Payne and Sylvanus S. Payne, owners. 
 Sloop Trader. 86 tons. George Dean, Master. 
 
 George Dean and Gershom Burr, owners. Sold 1835. 
 Sloop Fair Play. 36 tons. Built 1823. Edmund D. Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Edmund D., Guilford and James Hathaway, owners. Sold 1833. 
 
 Sloop Fairhaveu. 44 tons. Built 1824. Guilford H. Evans, Master. 
 
 Edmund Hathaway, Guilford H. Evans and David Evans, owners. 
 
 Sold at Providence 1828. 
 Sloop Providence. 38 tons. Built 1824. James M. Hathaway, Master. 
 
 James M. Hathiway, Peter Nichols, Dean Durfee, George Dean and 
 
 Sumner Briggs, owners. Sold at Providence, 1826. 
 Sloop Three Brothers. 65 tons. Built 1825. George Dean, Master. 
 
 George Dean, Benjamin Dean, Joseph Durfee, Laban Smith and Job 
 
 Pierce, owners. Named for the three brothers, John, (leorge and 
 
 Benjamin Deane. Sold 1831. 
 Sloop Hannah. 35 tons. Benjamin I. Brown, Master. 
 
 Broken up, 1829. 
 
 l.sr, 
 
Sloop Boliver. 4') tons. Built 1826. Allen Payne, Master. 
 
 Allen Payne, (ieorge Dean and William Sekell, owners. Sold at St. 
 Mary's, 1839. 
 
 Sloop Argo. 44 tons. Built 1S28. Benjamin H. Lawton, Master. 
 Benj. Terry and William Strobridge, owners. Sold 1833. 
 
 Sloop Sapello. 71 tons. Built 1828. Welcome Hathaway, Master. 
 
 Benjamin Dean, Jr., George Dean, Welcome Hathaway and Joseph 
 Durfee, Jr., owners. Sold Aug. 16, 1839. 
 
 Sloop Marshall. 70 tons. Allen Chace. Master. 
 
 Allen Chace and George Dean, owners. Sold 1S34. 
 
 Sloop Merchant. 62 tons. Built 1829. Franklin Briggs, Master. 
 
 Franklin Briggs, Job Pierce, Guilford H. Hathaway. Ambrose W. 
 Hathaway and Samuel R. Bragg, owners. 
 
 Sloop Ann JIaria. ()5 tons. Built 1829. Nathaniel Briggs, Master. 
 
 Nathaniel Briggs. Benjamin Dean, George Dean, and Adino Pad- 
 dock, owners. Lost at sea. All hands lost. When last seen Captain 
 Briggs was scudding before a gale of wind off Cape Hatteras. 
 
 Sloop Macon. 67 tons. Built ls30. William Hall. Master. 
 
 William Hall, Job Pierce and Joseph Durfee, Jr., owners. Sold 1835. 
 
 Schooner John Henry. 110 tons. Built 1832. George Henry, Master. 
 John G. Burns and New York owners. Sold at New York, 1838. 
 
 Sloop Franklin. 32 tons. Built 1832. Allen Payne, Master and owner. 
 Sold 18.53. 
 
 Schooner Caroline, (ill tons. Joseph F. BlifHns. Master. 
 Philip H. Evans, owner. Sold at Provincetown. 1>*4~. 
 
 Schooner Canton. 110 tons. Built 1832. George W. Gibbs, Ma.ster. 
 
 Sloop Wave. 40 tons. Built 1833. Stephen B. Barnaby, Master. 
 Stephen B. Barnaby and Stephen Barnaby, owners. Sold 1841. 
 
 Sloop Science, Built 1833. James Burr, Master. 
 
 James Burr, Job Pierce and Joseph Durfee, Jr., owners. Sold Savan- 
 nah, 1836. 
 
 Schooner Cashier. 74 tons. Built 1834. Allen Payne, Master. 
 
 Allen Payne, Joseph Durfee, Job Pierce, and S. S. Payne, owners. 
 Went ashore at Kill Devil Hill near Cape Hatteras, 1837. Sold Eliza- 
 beth City, 1837. 
 
 Sloop William Wray. 6(1 tons. Madison L)urfee, Master, 
 Madison Durfee and John Brown, owners. Sold l.'<41. 
 
 Sloop Actor. 2.5 tons. Franklin Briggs, Master. 
 
 Franklin Briggs and Job Pierce, owners. Sold at New York. 1848. 
 
 Sloop Hamilton. 33 tons. Augustus C. Barrows, Master. 
 
 Augustus C. Barrows, George Dean and James W. Hathaway, owners. 
 
 Sloop Independence. 35 tons, James Dean, Master. 
 
 Benjamin Dean, owner. Bought at Taunton, Mass. Last at New- 
 port. 1851. Sold. 
 
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Schuiiner President. S3 tons. Built 1.H34. Simeon Coombs. Jr., Master. 
 Luther Cudworth. John Dean, Benjamin Dean, Welcome Hathaway 
 and Guilford H. Hathaway, owners. Sold. 
 Built for Captain Luther Cudworth. 
 Schooner Florida. 82 tons. Built 18;34. Samuel Pridham, JIaster. 
 
 Samuel Pridham, George Dean and Franklin Briggs, owners. Sold 
 Brunswick, Ga., I808. Built for Captain Franklin Briggs. 
 Sloop Mary Elizabeth. Built 1834, Henry M. Chace, Master. 
 Tisdale Briggs, sole owner. Sold at Newport, 18(54. 
 Built by David Robinson at Robinson's Shore. 
 Also, Allen Payne. Master. 
 Schooner Virginia. 133 tons. Built 1836. Thomas Andros, Master. 
 
 Job Pierce, George W. Hall, William Hall, Allen Chase, Welcome 
 Hathaway, and Allen Payne, part owners. Last at Bristol in 1848. 
 Sold- 
 
 Built for Captain William Hall. 
 Schooner Alexander M. 14'i tons. Built 1837. William Pratt, id, Mas- 
 ter. 
 
 William Pratt. 2d. George Dean, John Dean, 'id, Benjamin Dean and 
 Franklin Briggs, owners. Last at New Bedford, 1843. Sold. 
 Sloop Osterville. 31 tons. Augustus C. Barrows, Master, 
 
 A. C. Barrows, Joseph Durfee, Jr., Job Payne, Jr. and Job Pierce, 
 owners. Broken up at Assonet. 
 Sloop Company. 63 tons. Built 1838. James W. Burr, Master. 
 
 James W. Burr, Job Pierce and James Burr, part owners. Sloop Com- 
 pany rig changed to schooner 1K41. Last at Savannah, 1851. Sold. 
 1st Paper. Sloop Bri.stol 31 tons Built 1S3S. Edmund D. Hathaway, 
 Master. 
 
 Also Henry JI. Chace. Master. E, D Hathaway, Guilford H. Hath- 
 away, Thomas Evans, Luther Cudworth and James W. Hathaway, 
 owners. Driven ashore by ice during the winter of ISidl at Gardner's 
 Neck, Swansea, and broken up. 
 Sloop Pinion. 3(1 tons. Henry M. Chace, Master. 
 
 Philip H. Evans, owner. Lost at Watch Hill, 1857. 
 Sloop Glide. 34 tons. 
 
 Philip H. Evans, Master and owner. 
 Also Henry JL Chace, Master. Broken up at Assonet. 
 Barque Harriet. 147 tons. Built 1808. James Madison Durfee, Master. 
 John D. Wilson, Alden Hatheway, Job Terry, James M. Durfee, Job 
 Peirce, George Dean, Charles Hathaway, Ambrose W. Hathaway, 
 Barnaby Hathaway, Welcome Hathaway, Robert Porter. John Mac- 
 omber, John Crane and Benjamin Dean of Freetown, Isaiah Winslow, 
 Robert P. Strobridge, Joseph P. Haskins and Frederick Saekel of 
 Middleboro, Philip Durfee and Benjamin Almy of Providence, owners. 
 The Harriet was fitted out at Winslow's Rocks, near the mouth of the 
 Assonet river for a whaling voyage. The investment proved to be an 
 unlucky one for her owners. She was condemned at Pernambuco, 
 
 Brazil, in 1848, 
 
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Barque Elizabeth. 849 tons. Built at WaUloboro, Me., is:is. Elisha 
 Gifford. Master. 
 
 Elnathan P. Hatheway. Franklin Briggs, Job Peirce, John D. Wilson, 
 Benjamin Dean. John Dean, George Dean. Welcome Hathaway. Gideon 
 P. Hathaway, Davis J. Barrows, James Burr, James W. Hathaway, 
 Edmund D. Hathaway and Guilford Hathaway of Freetown, Alonzo 
 Davenport of New Bedford, Clothier Allen. John Allen Jr., John C. 
 Haskins and Joseph Haskins of Middleboro, owners. 
 
 This was one of the two whale ships fitted out at Freetown, the 
 venture in both cases proving disastrous, and %'ery disheartening to 
 their owners. The Elizabeth was twice fitted out at Hathaway's wharf 
 in the Narrows. She first sailed in 1841. On this voyage an entire 
 boat's crew of six, including the captain, were lost. When last seen 
 from the ship they were fast to a whale. A fog came up and shut them 
 out of view: in the morning their boat was found bottom up. The 
 names of the unfortunate sailors were Bradford W. Winslow, captain, 
 son of John Winslow; Benjamin Hall, son of William Hall; George S. 
 Evans, son of Thomas Evans; and William H. Thresher, son of Henry 
 Thresher, all of Assonet, and David Hathaway, boatsteerer, son of 
 Russell Hathaway and Daniel Reed, son of George Reed, both of Steep 
 Brook. The date of this sad event was June IT, 1S43. 
 
 She sailed on her second and last voyage July 4. 1IS44. Elisha 
 Gifford, Master. She was burned at the Fiji Islands in lS4(i. Two of 
 the }-oung men of the village that were numbered with her crew, 
 Charles, son of Hampton Pierce, and Thomas W. Pierce Jr., never 
 returned home. The latter died of sunstroke near Sacramento, Cal. 
 
 Sloop Nation. 27 tons. Built 1840. Bayliss Hathaway. Master. 
 Welcome and Jason Hathaway, owners. 
 Last at Providence in 18.52. 
 
 Schooner John P. Collins. 81) tons. James W. Burr. Master. 
 James W. Burr and James Burr, part owners. 
 
 Sloop Alabama. !)5 tons. Built 1840. Edwin Harris, Master. 
 
 Edwin Harris, Stephen B. Barnaby. James W. Hathaway. Guilford 
 Hathaway. F. S. Hathaway, Thomas T. Hathaway, Thomas Evans, 
 Edward D. Hathaway, John WinsUnv and (Juilford H. Hathaway, 
 owners. Last at New York in 1843. 
 
 Sloop Eagle. 22 tons. John Brown, Master and owner. 
 Broken up at Assonet in 18.56. 
 
 Sloop America. .5(i tons. Daniel C. Brown. Master and owner. 
 Disappeared from the records in 1^43 
 
 Schooner Imperial. 1.56 tons. Built 1841. Joseph H. Read, Master. 
 
 Joseph H. Read, John Dean 2d, Benjamin Dean, Guilford H. Hath- 
 away, Edward O. Hathaway, John D. Wilson and Charles W. Hath- 
 away, owners. Disappeared in 1S47. Sold. 
 
 Sloop Chief. 28 tons. James L. Robinson, Master. 
 
 James L. Robinson and Job Terry, owners. Sold in 1S43 
 
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Sloop J. Pierce. 4S ions. Built 1^42. George iJeiin, Master. 
 
 George Dean, John D. Wilson and Job Peirce, owners. Sold in Rock- 
 land in 185(!. 
 Abner Winslow was the boss carpenter in building this sloop. 
 
 Sloop Narragansett, 35 tons. Peleg Barker, Master. 
 
 Thomas L. Robinson of Boston, owner. Broken up in 18(14. 
 
 Schooner John K. Randall. 144 tons. Built ls4T. William Williams, 
 Master. 
 
 George Dean, Benjamin Dean, Job Peirce and John D. Wilson, owners. 
 Last at New Bedford in IS."")!. Sold. 
 Built for Captain George Dean, at the ship yard on Water Street. 
 
 Schooner Carrier. 143 tons. Built 184IS. Elisha Gibbs, Master. 
 
 Elisha Gibbs, John D. Wilson. Luther Cudworth, Job Peirce, Wel- 
 come Hathaway, Guilford H. Hathaway, Benjamin Dean and John 
 Dean, owners. 
 
 Built for Captain Luther Cudworth at the ship yard on Water street. 
 The last vessel built in Freetown. Altered into a Brigantine in \S~)l. 
 Sunk in a collision off the New Jer.sey coast in 1S.")2. Loaded with 
 sugar for New York. A total loss. The crew escaped in the vawl 
 boat, which was sent to Assonet. The last vessel hailing from Free- 
 town that engaged in foreign trade. 
 
 Schooner Mary A. Rowland. 109 tons. James W. Burr, Master. 
 
 James W. Burr, James Burr and William Read, part owners Sold 
 at Providence in 181)2. 
 
 Captain Burr was engaged in the Southern carrying trade at the break- 
 ing out of the War of the Rebellion. 
 
 Schooner Charles W. Bentley. 119 tons. William Read, Master. 
 
 William Read, Luther Cudworth. George W. Hall and James Burr, 
 owners. Sold in 1SG2. 
 
 Captain Read was in Charleston, S. C, just before the firing upon Fort 
 Sumter. One evening he overheard a whispered conversation on the 
 dock about the seizing of his vessel the next day. He cut loose that 
 night and escaped. 
 
 Schooner Challenge. 104 tons. George N. Bailey, Master. 
 
 George X. Bailey, Joshua A. Smith, Jabez Smith, Joseph W. Smith, 
 Benjamin G. Rogers, Reuel Strickland, Joshua Crandell, Edward Ash- 
 ley, Franklin Potter, Josiah Wyman of New London, Luther Pickens, 
 Luther Cudworth, George W. Pickens of Freetown, and Washington 
 Read of Providence, owners. Sold. 
 
 This schooner, Benjamin F. Pickens, Master, escaped from Charleston 
 harbor just before the firing upon Fort Sumter, in April, 1861. She 
 was fired upon by the rebel batteries on shore as she passed out of the 
 harbor. 
 
 Schooner J. Truman. 117 tons. Samuel Pridham, Master. 
 
 Samuel Pridham, George Dean, Franklin Briggs, Thomas Leeburn, 
 Luther Pickens, George W. Pickens, Luther Cudworth and William 
 Read, owners. Sold at New Bedford in 1802. 
 
 1 90 
 
Just before the tiring upon Fort Sumter Captain Pridhani was at Savan- 
 nah Ga., loaded with rough rice for Charleston, S. C. He was quite 
 undecided for a time whether to go to Charleston and deliver the nee 
 or come North with it. He finally went to Charleston, unloaded, and 
 then came home. In passing out of Charleston harbor two shots were 
 fired at him from the rebel batteries on shore. One cannon ball passed 
 between the masts, the wind of it knocking the cook down. 
 
 Sloop Rosetree. 'id tons. Augustus C. Barrows. Master and owner. 
 Broken up at A.ssonet in ISijCi. 
 
 Sloop A. K. Watkins. 26 tons. Benjamin F. Luther, JIaster. 
 
 Benjamin F. Luther and Welcome H. Richmond, owners. Sold at 
 Newport in 1SS4. 
 
 Sloop Zebra. :!T tons. Robert I'orter, Master and owner. Sold. 
 
 On the night of July f^, 1870, this vessel was anchored near the mouth 
 of Joshua's Channel. A high wind coming up Captain Porter, Captain 
 William Read and Robert Jenkins (colored), who were on board, started 
 to put out an extra anchor. They lashed it to the stern of a .skiflf boat. 
 As soon as they pushed oft" from the vessel the boat was swamped and 
 carried to the bottom by the anchor. Captain Porter, as he drifted by 
 the vessel, caught hold of the bobstay and hauled himself on board. 
 In the darkness he could not see his companions, but he heard Captain 
 Read say, as the current swept him past the vessel. " throw me a line." 
 Captain Re.ad and Robert Jenkins were drowned. Their bodies were 
 recovered. 
 
 Schooner Addie Randall. 4(1 tons. Alfred B. Davis, ilaster and owner. 
 Broken up at Assonet in 1902. 
 The last vessel to hail from Freetown. 
 
 WELCOME HATHAWAY HOMESTEAD 
 
 191 
 
SIlll'I'INi; AXI) ((iMMi;k( K. 
 
 Before the ach'eiit nf railroads freighting was kirgely 
 (lone hv water. The vessels took their eargoes as far 
 inland as possible, after whieh the merehandise was sent 
 to its destination by teams, mostly ox teams. For this 
 reason the head of navigation on a river easv of approaeh 
 and aseent was cjuite likelv to beeome an important and 
 busy trading point. Sueh was Assonet Village seventy 
 and more years ago when it was no unusual thing to see 
 more than a seore of \'essels tied to the whar\'es or 
 anehored in the ba\' ; and long strings of teams coming 
 in from Fall Ri\'er, Taunton, Aliddleljoro, and other 
 places with manufactured articles, wood and farm produce, 
 for shipment to Providence, Newport, New York, or for- 
 eign ports; and going out with sugar, molasses, salt, 
 flour, rum, and other domestic and foreign goods for 
 inland traders or home consumj)tion. The iron railing 
 used in building the Arcade at Providence. R. L, is said 
 to have been made at the East Freetown furnace, and 
 sent to its destination via Assonet. At times the lower 
 wharves and also Lawton's wharf would be well covered 
 with hogsheads of molasses, and other merchandise await- 
 ing sale and transportation inland. Occasionally the river 
 would be dotted with pine apples, oranges, limes and 
 other deea\'ing tropical fruits that had been thrown over- 
 boartl from \-essels engaged in the West India trade. 
 Heavih- laden vessels would ha\-e a part of their cargo 
 lightered at Joshua's channel after which they would jiro- 
 ceed to the wharves. Captain Edmund Hathawav, an 
 owner in several of the Freetown vessels, was at one time 
 largely engaged in the West India trade. He was assisted 
 b\- his son, Ciuilford H. Hathaway, one of whose duties 
 was to ride over to Dighton on horseback and pay the 
 customs or duties on the imported goods. He has often 
 told that he ]xud more duties at the Dighton Custom 
 House in one \-ear, than was paid by anv other three 
 towns in the Dighton Customs District. While many of 
 
the smaller eraft engai>'ed in freit^'hlin;^' wood, lumber and 
 other eommodities to Providenee and Newport, or mer- 
 chandise between New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore 
 and near-by ports, there was ([uite a tleet of the larger 
 ves.sels that engaged in winter in the southern carrying 
 trade, that is, the carrying of rough rice, cotton, cotton 
 seed and other goods between Darien, Brunswick, and 
 .Savannah, (la., and Charleston, S. C. This fleet had been 
 reduced to four schooners when the war of the rebellion 
 broke out in IStll, and put an end t(j it, probably forever. 
 
 Darien, (la., was the rendezvous for the ^Vssonet peo- 
 ple engaged in this freighting, as well as for several trad- 
 ers who with their supplies took passage south on these 
 vessels and opened places of business there; returning on 
 them in the spring. The seascui lasted from Sej^tember 
 to May. 
 
 The trading at Darien was largelv with the (xeorgia 
 "Crackers," a class of poor whites that in the fall of the 
 year drifted slowly down the long rivers from the interior 
 of the state on home-made rafts of lumljcr which they 
 managed with long poles and sweeps. This lumber and 
 such farm produce as the\' could bring with them on their 
 rafts, would be conyerted into money on their arrival at 
 the seaboard. They would remain in the coast cities until 
 spring, or until the low state of their finances compelled 
 them to depart for home. The journey back often had to 
 be made on foot. 
 
 The plank used in making the floor of the large barn 
 on Water street, now owned by Mrs. Ambrose Dean, was 
 taken from one of these rafts, the numerous augur holes 
 in it, showing where the planks were ])inned together. 
 
 Welcome H. Richmond and Charles H. Read are 
 probably the only persons at present living in Assonet 
 Village, and Nathaniel Bralev, (ieorge Braley, Jason Pitts- 
 ley and Warren I'ittslev at East Freetown, who had any 
 part in this southci'u business. 
 
 193 
 
l)urin;^thL' war of Isl-J. (Hir jitirts l^ciiiL;' blockaded. 
 Captain Janit-s Burr, who was at that time master of one 
 of the vessels engaj^ed in the southern trade, drove a six 
 horse team, loaded with shoes, from Boston to Charles- 
 ton, S. C. ( )n liis way he passed through Washington, 
 D. C leaving that cit\' but a few davs before the public 
 buildings were burned by British soldiers. On his return 
 he brought a load of cotton. P)V trading horses often he 
 kcjit his team in good condition, and did not have one of 
 his <iriginal horses on his arri\-al home. During the sum- 
 mer months the vessels of this southern fleet were refitted 
 at Assonet, giving emplovmcnt to many of its citizens. 
 Sometimes thev would make one or two coaling trips to 
 Philadelphia or Baltimore before returning' south. If no 
 cargo could be obtained to take south, thev would go out 
 in ballast. The winter's supph" of corn, tlour and other 
 goods for the village and its immediate vicinity was stored 
 every fall, before the closing up of the river by ice, in the 
 building now standing on the lower wharf and known as 
 the corn store. The firm of Pcirce and \\'ilson was the 
 last one to use this building f(.)r this purpose. There was 
 also a corn store at the Fall Ri\-er road bridge. About 
 si.Kty years ago the two l(_)wer floors of this building were 
 utilized as a dwelling, and the upper floor as a dance hall. 
 Then and for many years thereafter Mr. Nathaniel Porter 
 of East Bridge water was the favorite dancing master for 
 the village, and the well remembered phrase "'All read\", 
 Mr. Porter." originated in this hall, and was repeated at 
 Deane's hall on Water street for many years by the floor 
 directors of the annual dancing school. These annuals 
 were alwa\-s terminated with a grand l>all and turkey sup- 
 per, in which Mr. Porter was assisted by his nephew. Mr. 
 Fuller, as second violin, and a Mr. Pratt as cornetist. No 
 better, more respected oi- more belo\-ed musician.s ever 
 played in the village than this trio. Porter. F'uller and 
 Pratt. The ttirkey supj^iers were sometimes served at 
 pjenjamin Deane's, and sometimes at John Deane's. Ben- 
 
jamiii owned the hall and enjoyed danein;^; lohn was 
 always a spectator except when called upon to dance "the 
 broom stick," a dance that no other man could ever exe- 
 cute without makiui^- a misstep ur tripping over the crossed 
 brooms. 
 
 This upper corn store and a cottage next south of it 
 were burned in ISsti. The roof of the South church was 
 ignited by the flying sparks. Fortunately this was discov- 
 ered in time to save the building. Deane's Hall was built 
 in ]J>47. It was sold and altered into a machine shop in 
 iM'ilt, and became the gun shop in l^T-"!. All this com- 
 mercial activity has departed from along the ri\er front, 
 and not a single vessel is owned in the town at the pres- 
 ent time. Several of the wharves are verv much out of 
 repair, and are no longer used as such. It is manv vears 
 since a vessel has tied to the upper or Winslow's wharf, 
 the longest wharf on the river. Its caplog has now disap- 
 peared, and its wall is fast slipping out into the river. 
 Lawton's wharf is in good repair, and a load of wood is 
 occasionally taken from it by an out of town craft. Rod- 
 man's wharf is in fair repair, but is not used as such, hav- 
 ing been fenced in. Welcome's wharf is fast going to 
 destruction. Time, tides and ice have destroyed the two 
 easterly sectitins of the lower wharves, but the westerly 
 section, or Nichols' wharf is in good repair, and wood and 
 box boards are occasionally shipped from it. Cudworth's 
 wharf, now used as a coal and lumber yard by Cudworth 
 & Davis, is at present being rebuilt. Hatha way's wharf at 
 the Narrows, where the whale ship Elizabeth was twice 
 fitted out is now nothing more than a stone heap. Two 
 or three parties are still engaged in the wood business 
 at Assonet Village, most of their wood however is now sent 
 to Fall River and Newport bv rail. The East Freetown 
 wood dealers ship bv rail to New Bedford and other places, 
 and also send considerable both to New Bedford and to 
 Fall River by teams. Within a few years large quantities 
 of white pine has been cut and converted into lumber at 
 
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portable saw mills, especially at ICast Freetown. William 
 Richardson came from the South to Assonct when a young 
 man, and settled at .Slab Bridge. He commenced buying 
 wood land and dealing in wood. Before his death he could 
 cut and sell a cord of wood every day, and vet never own 
 any less cords of wood, the growth on his many acres being 
 at least one cord per day. William D. Jenkins, a wealthv 
 planter, that lived near Brunswick, Ga., used to spend his 
 summers at Assonct, sometimes coming and going with 
 Ca])t. lames \V. I'urr, on his vessel. 
 
 I III \iai<im:ks. 
 
 Freetown ha\'ing l)een largelv interested in ship 
 building and commerce, it followed as a natural conse- 
 quence that many of its citizens, especially the younger 
 men, would become mariners. It is worthv of note that 
 most of those who chose a sea-faring life soon became 
 masters of vessels, and manv of them became noted, both 
 at home and abroad, as highlv successful navigators oi 
 \'essels engaged in the coastwise, and also in the foreign 
 trade. The Rew Thomas Anilros, of Hcrklev, who lived 
 on a farm bordering i in the Freetown hnc, taught naviga- 
 tion at his home. l'ndoul)tedl\- soiue <if the Assonct 
 youths a\'ailcd themselves of the opportunitv to studv 
 with him. Fi\'e of his sons became masters of vessels 
 in the merchant scr\-ice. Two of them. Thomas |r. and 
 ISenedict, became residents of Assonet Village, marrving 
 Sarah and Eunice, daughters of Peter Nichols, black- 
 smith. Thomas was for a time engaged in the coastwise 
 trade, and later sailed between New York and Mediter- 
 ranean ports. Benedict for sex'eral vears sailed between 
 New ( )rleans and Liverpool. 
 
 Capt. James Chace was an exceedingly fortunate and 
 successful nax'igator. He sailed for Captain Edmund 
 Hathawa\-. It was the pride of Captain Chace that "he 
 sailed the seas for fortv \-ears, made thirtv-three trips to 
 
 1 '.m; 
 
I)L-rniuda, and never Inst a man or a spar." He married 
 Phebe A., daughter of Augustus Chace. 
 
 As master of a whale ship. Captain Henry H. Wins- 
 low made two voyages from New York, and two from 
 Providence. R. I. His last voyage was from l'ro\-idenee, 
 in the ship Cassander. While in the South Atlantic he 
 had taken from another ship two native Africans who had 
 been decoved on board. The crew, in lest, told these 
 natives that the captain would sell them when he got into 
 port. Believing this, they set fire to the ship and jumped 
 overboard. One was rescued, the other plunged a sheath 
 knife into his side as he went o\-L-rboard and was not seen 
 again. The crew were obliged to take to the boats, and 
 after ten days of suffering and hardship, they landed on 
 the east coast of South America, in latitude :!ti degrees. 
 When five davs out in the open Imats thev fell in with a 
 vSpanish vessel, but the captain being afraid of them, re- 
 fused to take them on l)oard, to take them in tow, or to 
 assist them in anv manner. ')uring a gale of wind, Cap- 
 tain Winslow's boat was capsized and its occupants were 
 .il)lio'ed to ufet into the other boats. One of the crew died 
 while m the boats, and the third mate was drowned in 
 making the landing. Captain Winslow, with an interpre- 
 ter, made his way forty miles on the beach, and ninety 
 miles farther in a small vessel, to a port where he secured 
 a vessel to go to the assistance of his crew. At this time 
 he was but twenty-eight years of age. He went to Cali- 
 fornia soon after the discoverv of gold in that state. He 
 returned to Assonet several years ago, and today is the 
 onlv survivor of all the manv Freetown captains that once 
 so proudly and nobl\- trod the quarter deck of a .sea- 
 going vessel. He married Marv Ann, daughter of Henry 
 Porter. 
 
 Captain [ol) C. Lawlon. on one of his many voyages 
 across the ocean, lost his rudder at sea. With commend- 
 able ingenuitv he made a temporary one from old ropes, 
 hung and managed it bv chains ])assed over the stern, 
 
 U)7 
 
and cither sidt of ihc shijj. and by his coul dclcrmination 
 and never liriny perseverance brought liis sliip safely into 
 port. For this remarkable feat he received high public 
 commendation, and a substantial recognition from the 
 insurance companies interested in his vessel and her 
 cargo. Several models of this rudder are now in exist- 
 ence, one being on exhibition at the National Museum 
 in Washington. Another was shown at the Loan Exhibi- 
 tion, ( )ld Home week. He married I'ollv, daughter of 
 Captain Charles Strange. 
 
 CAPT WASHINGTON READ 
 
 Captain Washington Read followed the sea fifty-two 
 years, commencing as cabin l:)o\- for his father when nine 
 years of age. At the age of thirteen he commanded a 
 sloop which plied between Fall River, Providence and 
 Newport, and in all sailed as master of sixteen different 
 vessels. In the ship Caroline Read, named for his wife. 
 (Caroline, daughter of Allen Chacei, he circumna\'igated 
 the globe. Starting from New York in Fs5(», being then 
 
RESIDENCE OF RALPH H FRANCIS 
 
 Re. Dai'd A Leonard, G'anHfatner of Hon John Hay S* 
 
 BUILT BY ELDER PHILIP HATHAWAY. 
 Pemode'ed by Capt. Washington Read. 
 
 191) 
 
llnrly-SL-\-fn years of age, he doubled Cape Horn to San 
 l'"raneiseo; thenee to Singapore, thenee to Calcutta, thence 
 around the Cape of (rood Hope to London, and from there 
 home to New York. The trip occupied .seventeen months. 
 When he arri\-ed off San Francisco circumstances com- 
 pelled him to ])ass through the (rolden (xate, a strait 
 five miles long and one mile wide, with bold and rocky 
 shores, in the night time, against a strong head wind. 
 ^Vhilc on the (|uarter deck, directing the m(.)vements of 
 his shi|), his stout heart ga\'e wav, and he shed tears. 
 His usual go(.)d fortune did not forsake him, however, 
 and the morning found him safely at anchor in San Fran- 
 cisco bav. Ca])tain Read crossed the Atlantic about 
 se\'eiitv times, his wife accompanying him thirt\'-eight 
 times. He never grounded or lost a vessel. He rescued 
 many sur\'ivors from numerous wrecks, taking fift\'-two 
 from one wreck in mid-ocean, encountering great peril in 
 so doing. For this he received high commendation from 
 the Lord Mavor of London, the rescued being British 
 subi'ects. 
 
 Captains Edmund Hathawav. Job Terry, George C. 
 Briggs, (jeorge W. Pickens, (leorge W. Hall. F^lnathan 
 B. Hathawav, Allen Read, and man\- others whose names 
 are unknown to the writer, in connection with this partic- 
 ular serx'ice, sailed to foreign p<_)rts, the four last named in 
 vessels not hailing from Freetown. Captain Elnathan P. 
 Hathewav sailed one of the largest ships out of New York, 
 and made the quickest trip to Rio Janeiro mi record at the 
 time. Among those known to the writer who were mas- 
 ters of vessels, engaged in the Southern carrving trade, 
 were I'ranklin Briggs, Xathaniel Briggs. |ames ISurr, 
 James \V. Ikirr, Luther Cudworth, Geoige Dean, William 
 Hall, Welcome Hathaway, Adino Paddock, Benjamin F. 
 Pickens, Samuel Pridham, Joseph II. Read and William 
 Read. During the War (.>f \^\-2 Captain Franklin Briggs 
 was captured by the British and confined in Dartmoor 
 ])rison, where he sulfered many hardships. 
 
 2(H) 
 
In the following list of masters of vessels there are 
 many who are well deserving of espeeial mention, but 
 imfortunately there is no record of their sea service to 
 refer to and the writer knows of no living person that he 
 can appeal to for information concerning them. In the 
 list of vessels hailing from the town the names of many 
 of them appear as masters of several different vessels when 
 their final papers were taken out at the Custom House. In 
 
 CAPT EDMUND HATHAWAY HOMESTEAD, 
 Nov^ Owned by His G'andson, E. G Lawton. 
 
 manv instances they commanded other vessels mentioned 
 in the list, but before the issuing of their last papers, and 
 also, in some cases, thev commanded vessels hailing from 
 some other port. It should be borne in mind that unless 
 in command of a Freetown vessel when her final papers 
 were issued, a master's name does not appear in this 
 chapter, unless supplied from memory. 
 
 201 
 
MAS■^1.K^ (;k \ essicls. 
 
 Augustus C. Barrows. Stephen B. Barnaby, Jonathan 
 Barnabv, Anson Bliftins, X'alentine Blethen, Aaron Bor- 
 den, Joseph Brightman, Jose])hus liriggs, Ephraim Briggs. 
 Edmund Briggs, John Briggs, John Brown, Jonathan 
 Bowen, Philip Chaee, Augustus Chace, Allen Chace, Seth 
 Chace, Henry M. Chaee, Joseph Chureh, John Clark, Ben- 
 jamin Davis Jr., Aaron Dean. Elisha (Gregory, Edmund 
 Harris, Philip Hathaway, Jason Hathaway, Baylies Hath- 
 away, Abiel Hathaway, Edmund D. Hathaway. Benjamin 
 H. Lawton, Ebenezer Payne, Allen Payne. Sylvanus vS. 
 Payne, Thomas Payne, Oeorge Pickens, John V. Pratt. 
 Elisha L. Pratt, William Pratt, Benjamin Porter Jr.. John 
 Read, Jonathan Read Jr.. William Read Jr.. John .Strange. 
 Charles .Strange, William Sekell, Pliili]) Tew, Benjamin 
 Tew, Hathaway Tew, John Terry. Zephaniah Terry, Ed- 
 mund Valentine. James L. Valentine, Nathan Weaver and 
 Sheffel Weaver. 
 
 Captain Albert Briggs. now a resident of Buffalo, N. Y.. 
 beeame interested and noted in lake navigation, and for- 
 merly commanded the large iron steamer Merchant. 720 
 tons, on the Buffalo, Milwaukee and Chicago line. 
 
 The following named were largely interested in ship- 
 ping as owners in vessels, but did not themselves follow 
 the sea: Ambrose P)arnabv. Isaac Burbank. Kempton Bur- 
 bank, Thomas I)Urbank, Luther Briggs. Benjamin W. 
 Brown. 1 )arius Chace. (lilbcrt Chace. Isaiah Chace. Rich- 
 ard Clark. John Cudworth. Ebenezer Crane Jr., Thomas 
 Davis, Benjamin Dean, John Dean, Joseph Durfee, Joseph 
 Durfee, Jr., Alden Hathaway. Noah Hathaway, Guilford 
 Hathaway. Guilford H. Hathaway. Ambrose W. Hathaway, 
 James W. Hathaway, Joseph Hathaway. Isaac Merrick, John 
 Nichols, Peter Nichols, Job Peirce, Elery Peirce, Job Payne, 
 Luther Pickens. Samuel Pickens. Josiah Paddock. Earl Samp- 
 son, (.Teorge Sho\-e, Asa Sho\-e, Stc])hen Shove. .Samuel 
 
Shove, JosL-ph Shove. Kphraim Tisdalc, Silas Terrv. Edson 
 Valciuinc, \Villiam X'alcntine ami John I). Wilson. 
 
 Anion_t;' the traders that went to Darien. Ga., winters, 
 as referred to in this ehapter, may be mentioned Benjamin 
 F. Briggs, Benjamin I)can, John Dean. Thomas Lcebnrn, 
 and John I). Wilson. 
 
 Erka n M. — The last vessel built at the shipyard on Payne's Cove was 
 the Sloop Alabama, Thomas Evans, boss carpenter, not the Florida, as 
 stated on page 1' 1. 
 
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KEY TO MAP OF ASSONET 
 RIVER AND VICINITY. 
 
 I. 
 
 VVinslow's Point. 
 
 2, 
 
 Robinson's .Shore. 
 
 3. 
 
 Bar Rocks. 
 
 4. 
 
 Winslow's Rocks. 
 
 5. 
 
 Silas Hatliawav's Creek. 
 
 (i. 
 
 Gull Rock. 
 
 7. 
 
 Merrick's Shore. 
 
 s. 
 
 The Conspiracy. 
 
 9. 
 
 Darius Phillips'. 
 
 10. 
 
 The Narrows. 
 
 11. 
 
 Simon's Rock. 
 
 12. 
 
 Babbitt's. 
 
 i;i. 
 
 Ilathaway's 'Wharf. 
 
 14. 
 
 Davis' Landing. 
 
 I.'). 
 
 Tew's Landing. 
 
 1(). 
 
 Perch Rocks. 
 
 17. 
 
 Shepard's Cove. 
 
 18. 
 
 Pine Island. 
 
 UK 
 
 Westcott's Island (South) 
 
 20. 
 
 Cedar Tree. 
 
 21. 
 
 The Turn. 
 
 22 
 
 The Cleft. 
 
 2:!. 
 
 Fowle's Meadow. 
 
 24. 
 
 Fowle's Meadow Point. 
 
 2n. 
 
 Boyce's Creek. 
 
 2(;. 
 
 Stacy's Creek. 
 
 27. 
 
 Tripij's Creek. 
 
 2S. 
 
 Clam Point. 
 
 29. 
 
 Nab's Creek. 
 
 30. 
 
 Town Farm Brook. 
 
 :n. 
 
 Porter's Shore. 
 
 82. 
 
 Smith's Point. 
 
 ;i3. 
 
 John Terry's Landing. 
 
 SI. 
 
 Oyster Point. 
 
 Drawn by Gilbert M. Nh 
 
 304 
 
S.5. 
 
 Evans' Wharf. 
 
 :!ti. 
 
 Ship Yard Site. 
 
 3T. 
 
 Bleach ery Pond. 
 
 as. 
 
 Hopping Paul Brook. 
 
 ;k). 
 
 Araos' Pond. 
 
 40. 
 
 Terry's Brook. 
 
 41. 
 
 Bleachery Reservoir. 
 
 4-'. 
 
 Spur Track to Davis Place 
 
 
 Ledge. 
 
 4:1 
 
 King's Point. 
 
 44. 
 
 Smooth Shore. 
 
 45. 
 
 Bass Rock. 
 
 411. 
 
 Bass Rock Point. 
 
 47. 
 
 Cudworth's Wharf. 
 
 48. 
 
 The Lower Wharves. 
 
 49. 
 
 Welcome's Rock. 
 
 ')(). 
 
 Welcome's Point. 
 
 r>\. 
 
 The Gulley.s. 
 
 53. 
 
 Channel Rock. 
 
 5;!. 
 
 Pierce's Point. 
 
 54. 
 
 Welcome's Wharf and 
 
 
 Shore. 
 
 55. 
 
 Rodman's Wharf. 
 
 5(1. 
 
 The Ship Yard, or Build- 
 
 
 ing Lot. 
 
 57. 
 
 Lawton's Wharf. 
 
 58. 
 
 South Water Street. 
 
 59 
 
 Billy's Marsh. 
 
 «(). 
 
 W'inslow's Wharf. 
 
 111. 
 
 Assonet Four Corners. 
 
 62. 
 
 Old Tide Mill Site. 
 
 (i:!. 
 
 Old Tan Yard Site. 
 
 114 
 
 Tisdale's Dam and Pond. 
 
 •15. 
 
 Porter's Dam and Pond. 
 
 06. 
 
 Winslow's Dam and Pond. 
 
 67. 
 
 Forge Dam and Pond. 
 
 (18. 
 
 Forge Road. 
 
 69. 
 
 Joshua's Mountain. 
 
 205 
 
The Assonet River. 
 
 BY JOHN M. DEANE. 
 
 THE Assonet River is about twelve miles long. It has 
 its soiiree in Cranberrv Swamp, a large swamp lying 
 south east of Assonet \'illage, on the farther side of the 
 high ridge that skirts the village on the east known as 
 Break Neek Hill; and between the tw(5 roads leading from 
 Assonet to New Bedford. From the swamp the stream 
 takes a northerly eourse, erossing the northerl}- New Bed- 
 ford road at Slab Bridge ; so named because the bridge 
 that crosses the stream at this point was once made of 
 slabs. Here are the ruins (.)f an old dam, and a mill of 
 some kind was undi_)ul;)tedlv once located at this point. 
 It next crosses the Howland road, and here we find the 
 ruins of the Howland saw mill. At the Water Rock rcjad 
 we find the I)unham saw mill, the roadwav itself being 
 the dam. 
 
 At its crossing of the new Countv road is located the 
 Charles I )avis Saw mill. About half a mile bc\'ond this 
 mill the stream, having reached the level lands of ^lyricks, 
 turns to the west, crosses the Beech-woods road, and also 
 the Fall River rail road, at a point about one mile south 
 ol the Myricks station. After passing the railroad it turns 
 south, and at Maple Tree bridge on the Myricks road is 
 located the Haskins saw mill. On the edge of the stream 
 South of the railroad l)ridge, and near the Mvricks road 
 there once stood a maple tree that was the corner bounds 
 of Bristol and Plymouth counties, and the towns of Middle- 
 borough, l*"rectown, I)ightonand Taunton. In 1 7M.") Berk- 
 
 20(i 
 
ley was incorporated and took the place of Diyhton at the 
 maple tree. Later a stone monument was erected, and in 
 If^'i'A Lakeville was incorporated and took the place of 
 Middleboroutfh at the .stone monument. Often have we 
 lain across the top of this monument and informed our 
 sch(.K)lmates of the Myricksville Academy that we were 
 living in one state, two counties, and four towns, all at 
 the .same time. This is no longer possible. The .state 
 and two counties are still there, l)ut that part of Taunton 
 was annexed to Berkley in IST'.t. Just below the Maple 
 Tree bridge the stream enters the Forge pond. Its course 
 after leaving the pond at the Forge dam is shown on the 
 map. At high tide salt water flows up to Tisdale's dam. 
 At full tides the rise and fall is about seven feet. The 
 source of the river is nearh- in a direct line east of its 
 mouth, and but two or three miles from it. The junction 
 of its main channel with that of Taunton river is opposite 
 storehouse point, Somerset, a short distance above the rail 
 road bridge. Island Bed, just below the junction of the 
 channels, and across which the rail road is built, is partly 
 in Freetown and partly in Fall River. 
 
 The favorite fishing grounds of our old time residents 
 were at the mouth of Payne's Cove, up Joshua's and 
 Shove's Channels, off Cedar Tree, at the Perch Rocks, 
 in The Narrows, and off Winslow's Rocks; while thev 
 found good clamming at John Terry's Landing, at The 
 Cleft, in The Narrows, at Merrick's and Robinson's shores, 
 and at The Conspiracy. They ctjuld rake oysters all along 
 the Main Channel below Payne's Cove, or pick them up 
 on the mud flats at low water. Large quantities of striped 
 bass used to be taken from the channel in the bay, in the 
 winter time, by inserting a large round net, attached to a 
 long pole, through a hole cut in the ice, and sweeping it 
 round and round. The fish, somewhat chilled by the cold 
 water and drifting with the current, became an easy prey. 
 Up J<whua's or Shove's Channels, at certain stages of the 
 tide, with a pole and double hooked line it was not an 
 
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unusual thing fur one to catch white perch two at a time, 
 getting- from one to two hundred on board Ijefore the fish 
 struck out into the main channel. This was before the 
 waters of our lieautiful river were contaminated by the 
 refuse of the Copi:)er Works on Taunton river, and the 
 Bleacheries and saw mills on its own banks. This reftise 
 not only keeps most of the fish out of the river, but has 
 materially injured the oyster beds, killed off the tall sea- 
 weed that formerly grew on the mud flats, and destroyed 
 all the thatch that formerly grew above Bass Rock Point. 
 Thatch was provided by nature to protect the soft muddy 
 sod of the marshes from the action of the waves. The 
 three marshes above Bass Rock Point having been deprived 
 of this protection are being slowly but surely cut into and 
 washed awav. (ireat windrows of seaweed used to be 
 thrown up on the shores of the bav in the fall of the 
 year, by the actiim of the wind and tide, a large portion 
 of it coming from the High Flat boimded by Joshua's, 
 Shove's and the main channel. This was carted ofi' and 
 used as a fertilizer. Some of our citizens made a business 
 of gathering seaweed from the mud flats in boats, first 
 twisting it around a long pole, then taking it on board 
 and cutting it off the pole. From a deep hole below the 
 mouth of the river boatloads of decaved seaweed constantly 
 l)eing swept into it by the current, were taken out with 
 oyster rakes and sold for fertilizing purposes. An ordinary 
 boatload of seaweed sold for one dollar and twentv-five 
 cents. 
 
 The fa\-orite bathing places on the river are Lawton's 
 wharf. Welcome's shore. Cud worth's wharf, the (.Tulleys, 
 Sniixith shore. Porter's shore, the Cleft, in the Narrows, 
 and at Merrick's shore. 
 
 At The Narrows, Babbitt's was formcrh- a popular 
 summer resort. Ijcing largeh' patronized bv people from 
 Taunton and \'icinit\-. Clambakes, a dance pavilion, a 
 bowling alle\'. and sail and row boats were provided for 
 visitors. Clambakes were also provided for parties at 
 
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Darius Phillips' and at Thomas Jefferson Tew's. There 
 was good fishing and bathing at either place. 
 
 In the great gale of September 2:i, Isi;), the large 
 rock on the east sIkh^c at the Narrows, known as Simon's 
 Rock, is said to have turned over. At high tide that day 
 the water was .seven feet deep in Water street at the shijj 
 yard. In the gale of September s, Ist!!*, the water was 
 three feet deep at the same place. It was in this latter 
 gale that the steeple of the South Church was blown off. 
 
 Any vessel that can pass through Motmt Hope Bay 
 can without difficulty reach the mouth of Joshua's Channel. 
 Vessels drawing eight feet of water can reach the lower 
 wharves at full tide, and those drawing seven feet the 
 upper wharves. Captain Washingt(m Read once sailed 
 his ftill rigged ship up to the lower wharves, where he 
 turned around, and sailed out again. 
 
 Amos' Pond is said to have taken its name from a 
 man named Amos, who rode into it to water his horse, 
 and disappeared, horse and all. in a quagmire. 
 
 At John Terrv's Landing the main channel runs close 
 to the shore, which at that point is so bold that vessels are 
 easily laid alongside the bank and loaded with wood. 
 John Terry, for whom the landing was named, lived alone 
 on Bryant's Neck, which at every high tide becomes an 
 island. He lived in a loy; hut having neither windows or 
 door, but loopholes throtigh which he could shoot if 
 attacked by Indians. Entrance or exit cotild be had only 
 through its large stone chimney. He was buried on Bry- 
 ant's Neck, but the location of his grave is not known. 
 His cabin was located at the Junction of the two cart- 
 paths, just across the low marsh that separates the neck 
 from the main land ; and near the head of Shepard's Cove. 
 
 Channel Rock was lifted from the channel near The 
 (rulleys in 1n44 by the incoming tide; it had been 
 chained at low water to a strong stick of timber laid across 
 the two large derrick scows that had been used in the 
 
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rebuilding;' iif Rodman's Wharf, and was floated to its 
 present location on the shore. 
 
 Welcome's Shore was used as a ■■ dry dock" by vessel 
 owners. A vessel havint^ been pui on at higdi tide wt)uld 
 be heeled oft" shore. As soon as the tide receded work 
 would commence on the upper side of the vessel's bottom. 
 When finished the vessel would be turned around at high 
 water and the other side of the bottom exposed and re- 
 paired in like manner. To hurrv the drving of paint, 
 and prevent its being washed oft" by the incmning tide, 
 straw was burned under the vessels bottom. The writer 
 well remembers how the music of the caulking hammers 
 of John and Hampton Pierce rang through the village as 
 thev drove home the oakum on \'cssels undergoing repairs. 
 
 Rodman's Wharf was formerly known as Chase's Land- 
 ing. Water street was then a driftwav, and a gate or bars 
 was maintained at the four corners. Here the river used 
 to be forded, and stepping stones to Pierce's Point were 
 used at low water. John Deane was the last man to ford 
 the river at this point with a team. His horse got stuck 
 in the mud, and this deterred others from making further 
 attempts to ford the river at this place. 
 
 It is an old saying that "it always rains when Billy's 
 Marsh is mowed." It is a fact that the hay does almost 
 alw.avs get wet before it is made and housed. 
 
 The heavy stone wrdl along the south bank of the 
 river, east of Lawton's Wharf, was built by Joseph D. 
 Hathaway and Leander Andros of Berkley, in 1S4:7, for 
 Captain fob (t. Lawton. A part of the filling was taken 
 from the sand bank near what is now the town cemetery, 
 and a part from the sand bank on South Water street. 
 
 The two-arched stone bridge that spanned the river 
 on the Fall River road was carried away by the freshet of 
 February 13, l.SSd, the immediate cause being a large log 
 that came down over Tisdale's dam. This struck the 
 south abutment with great force, and remaining in an 
 
 au) 
 
eddy, continued to pound the ahutnifnl, at last loosening 
 the stones, and allowiuL^ the swift current to reach the 
 gravel behind them. Tlie Ijridge was rebuilt with a single 
 arch the following summer. In the meantime a roadway 
 through the Allen Chace land to Elm street was utilized. 
 The railroad bridge and embankment at Hopping Paul 
 Brook was carried away at the same time. A train of 
 empty coal cars soon came along and plunged into the 
 brook, killing the fireman, Edgar Francis Russell, of Som- 
 er.set, Mass. 
 
 A tide mill was once maintained just east of the Fall 
 River road bridge. The ruins of the dam are still \-isible. 
 The grist mill that was built here by Joseph Winslow was 
 raised June 2.-), l78-t. When the mill was taken down 
 much of the heavy timber of its frame was used in build- 
 ing the stable that now stands near the bridge. 
 
 The old sh(je makers' shop, bark mdl, curry shop and 
 tan-vats that were located on the river bank near the Elm 
 street bridge, and known as the tan yard, have given way 
 to a modern dwelling and grass plot. 
 
 The winter of ITTH-'mi was the coldest of the eigh- 
 teenth centurv. The ice on the rivers and bays was so 
 thick that loaded teams passed over it from Assonet to 
 Newport. 
 
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Record and Tradition. 
 
 BY JOHN M. DEANE. 
 
 HKKli (IF IIIK FRKKMKX S I'UKCllASK. 
 
 OX THE third day of July \Cu>i\, the General Court of 
 Ph'miiuth, granted unto sundry of the aneient freemen 
 of that iurisdiction, \-i/, : Capt. fames Cudwurth and others, 
 the lands conveyed by the following deed dated April 2. 
 Ki.jlt: 
 
 Know all men by these presents, that we, Ossamequin, 
 Wamsitta, Tattapanum, Natives, inhabiting and living within the 
 government of New Plymouth, in New England in America, 
 have bargained, sold, enfeoffed and confirmed unto Captain 
 James Cudworth, Josiah Winslow Sr.. Constant Southworth, 
 John Barns, John Tesdale, Humphrey Turner, Walter Hatch, 
 Samuel House, Samuel Jackson, John Daman, Mr. Timothy 
 Hatherly, Timothy Foster, Thomas vSouthworth, (reorge Wat- 
 sun, Nathaniel Morton, Richard Moore, Edmund Chandler, 
 Samuel Nash, Henry Howland, Mr. Ralph Partridge, Love 
 Brewster, William Paybods% Christopher Wadsworth, Kenelme 
 Winslow, Thomas Bourne and John Waterman, the son of Robert 
 Waterman and do by these presents bargain, sell, enfeoff and 
 confirm from us our heirs, unto James Cudworth, Josiah Winslow 
 vSenior, Constant Southworth, John Tesdale iVc., and they and 
 their heirs, all the tract of upland and meadow lying on the east- 
 erly side of Taunton river, beginning or bounded toward the 
 south with the river called the Falls or Uiieipiechand, and so 
 
extending itself northerly until it comes to a little brook, called 
 by the English by the name of Stacey's Creek; which brook 
 issues out of the woods, into the marsh or bay of Assonate close 
 by the narrowing of Assonate Neck, and from a marked tree, 
 near the said brook at the head of the marsh, to extend itself into 
 the woods on a north easterly point four miles, and from the 
 head of said four miles on a straight line southerly until it meet 
 with the head of the four mile line at Ouequechand, or the Falls 
 aforesaid, including all meadow, necks or islands lying and being 
 between Assonate Neck and the Falls aforesaid, (except the land 
 that Tabatacason hath in present use) and the meadow upon 
 Assonate Xeck, on the south side of the said neck, and all the 
 meadow on the westerly side of Taunton River from Taunton 
 bounds round until it come to the head of Weypoyset river, in 
 all creeks, coves, rivers, and inland meadow not lying above four 
 miles from the flowing of the tide in. and for the consideration 
 of twenty coats, two rugs, two iron pots, two kettles and one 
 little kettle, eight pair of shoes, six pair of stockings, one dozen 
 hoes, one dozen of hatchets, two yards of broadcloth and a debt 
 satisfied to John Barnes which was due from Wamsitta, unto 
 John Barnes before the •^4th of December IDoT, all being unto 
 us in hand paid, wherewith we, the said Ossamequin, Wamsitta 
 Tattapanum, are fully satisfied, contented and paid, and do by 
 these presents exonerate, acquit, and discharge, ( Here all the 
 grantees are again named) they and either of them and each of 
 the heirs and executors of them forever. Warranting the here- 
 of from all persons from, by or under us, as laying any claim 
 unto the premises from, by i^r under us, claiming any right or 
 title thereunto, or unto any part nr parcel thereof, the said 
 (grantees ) to have and to hold to them and their heirs forever, 
 all the above upland and meadow as is before expressed, with 
 all the appurtenances thereunto belonging from us, Ossamequin, 
 Wamsitta and Tattapanum, and every of us, our heirs, and every 
 of them forever, unto them, they, their heirs, executors, ad- 
 ministrators and assigns forever, according to the tenure of East 
 Greenwich, in free soccage and not /// C(if>itc nor by knights' 
 service. Also the said Ossamequin, Wamsitta and Tattapanum 
 do covenant and grant that it may be lawful for the said 
 (grantees) to enter the said deed in the court uf Plymouth, or 
 in anv other court of record provided for in such case, in and for 
 
 •ii:j 
 
the true performance whereof r)ssamequin, Wamsitta and Tatta- 
 paniim have hereunto set our hands and seals this -ind day of 
 April li;5!). 
 
 • SEAL I 
 
 Wamsitta his x mark. • seal - 
 
 Tattai'anu.m her x mark. - seal - 
 
 Signed sealed and delivered in presence of 
 
 Thomas Cooke. 
 Jonathan Bricd. 
 John .Sassamon. 
 
 (.)ssamftiuin ( Massasoit ) never sii^ned the deed. He died about 
 
 It was acknowledged June 9. H)5!l, by Wamsitta (Wamsutta or Alexan- 
 der) and the squaw Tattapanum (Xanumpum or Weetamoe) before Josiah 
 Winslow and William Bradford, assistants. 
 
 Wamsutta died in l(ili2, and Weetamoe his wife was drowned in 
 'I'aunton river in August, 1070. 
 
 Captain James Cudworth, Constant Southworth Josiah Winslow Sr. 
 and John Tesdall were chosen a committee to view and divide the land mto 
 twenty-six parts, according to their judgement of quantity and quality, and 
 to dispose of the same by lot. each owner binding himself to rest contented 
 with the portion falling to him. It was al.so agreed that the owner of the 
 lot in which should fall the land Tabadascon has in present use for the 
 Indians that keep the Ferry, and which has been reserved by the grantors, 
 should allow it until further agreement was made with the Indians; and as 
 an Indian called Pianto had asked to have three or four acres on some plain 
 to plant during his lifetime, the owner shall agree and the land shall return 
 to him after Piantos decease. Each lot was to run from the river to the ex- 
 treme eastern bounds, and any one cut off from any portion of his lot by 
 neck water or marsh was to be allowed free passage over the land of 
 another. 
 
 In |uly 10M2 the Court ordered that the inhabitants of the Freeman's 
 land at the Fall River shall be a township having a constable and Grand 
 Jury Man and henceforth be called Freetown. 
 
 A part of Tiverton, East Freetown, was annexed in 1747. 
 
 Fall River was set off February 26, 1808. 
 
 A part was annexed to Fairhaven June 15, 1^15. 
 
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t'OLONEI, THOMAS CI I.Bi: R r"S LETTER TO GENEKAI. RUCGLES. 
 
 Freetown, April ye 5, 1775, 
 Honorable Sir : 
 
 I received your favor of the :!lst of March. 
 
 Nothing could animate the spirits of the friends to government 
 
 to a greater height, than to have the approbation of theCieneral. 
 
 My son took a long boat and went to the man of war, and 
 
 brought back a letter from Captain Wallis to the Admiral, which 
 
 I send to your care by a poor man, which is the safest way that 
 
 can be thought on at this critical time. I hear from Captain 
 
 Wallis that he fears to venture up the river with his ship fearing 
 
 there is not sufficient depth of water. A vessel of less force 
 
 might answer the purpose. Except there be support bv land or 
 
 water there is reason to fear the friends of government will give 
 
 out, for they are daily threatened with all kinds i:)f punishments 
 
 even with death itself. Last Monday the rebels mustered from 
 
 Middleborough and Berkley and Swansea and Dighton and 
 
 made up a hundred and forty in arms; marched by mv house 
 
 where was twenty five with the Kings' arms well loaded. I went 
 
 out before ni)' door told them they were a poor set of deluded 
 
 rebels so they marched off without tearing down my house or 
 
 killing me as the day before they swore they would do. I had 
 
 the pleasure to see the Generals' letter to the Justices. I expect 
 
 but little assistance from those out of town but if the General 
 
 sends troops here they shall have houses of my own sufficient for 
 
 them. We are in high expectation of seeing the day of their 
 
 arrival, when we may hope to sleep without fear. There has 
 
 been no act of violence since my last, except the three men were 
 
 at Boston last week on their return were pursued at or near 
 
 Raynham bridge, by a number of men, some on horseback but 
 
 they took the bush and made their escape. My son and others 
 
 say I have a thousand curses every day, but don't say the Lord 
 
 hath part, but thank God I neither love nor fear them. Pray 
 
 give my compliments to all true friends. I am your obliged 
 
 obedient and humble servant. 
 
 Thomas (Gilbert. 
 
 THE EIRST ACTEAE WAR MOXEMENT iiE THE KE\()I,U ITON. 
 
 ( )n the nth of April. 177."i, ten days before the battle 
 of Lexington, an expedition of minute men from the 
 
 21o 
 
other towns in the eotinty, principally from Attleboro, 
 was formed to march to Assonet Village, to seize arms 
 and munitions collected there by Col. Thcmias (Hlbert, 
 and capture him and three hundred other Royalists said 
 to be harboring there. Col. John Daggett of Attleboro 
 commanded the expedition, which numbered upwards of 
 two thousand men. Capt. Charles Strange, who then 
 lived on the present town farm, saw the troops as they 
 passed his house in the night. Col. (iilbert on learn- 
 ing of the approach of the expedition took what he could 
 of the munitions and with some of his followers went on 
 board one of the English men-of-war at Newport. 
 
 Col. Daggett, after seizing the arms and ammunition 
 left behind by the fleeing Tories, sent out scouting parties 
 and without bloodshed, twenty-nine men who had signed 
 enlistments in the colonel's company to join the King's 
 troops were taken prisoners. "At Taunton in the after- 
 noon the prisoners were separately examined, eighteen of 
 whom made such humble acknowledgements of their past 
 bad conduct, and solemn promises to behave better for the 
 future, thcv were dismissed ; but the other eleven, being 
 obstinate and insulting, a party were ordered to carry 
 them to Simsbury Mines, but they were sufficienth' hum- 
 bled before they had got fourteen miles on their way 
 thither, upon which they were brought back the next day, 
 and after signing proper articles to behave better for the 
 future, were escorted to Freetown." 
 
 The foregoing quotation is from a Boston letter that was published in 
 the Essex Gazette of Salem, April 18, 1775. 
 
 rilK ll.\TTI,E (ir l-REKTOWX. 
 
 The Brittle of Freetown was fought near the southern 
 boundr\- of the town on Sunday, May '_'.■>, 177s. About 
 one hundred antl lift\' English soldiers, under the com- 
 mand of Mai. Ayers, came up Mount Hope Bay in boats 
 in the night and landed near where the Ouequeehan river 
 empties into it. The English soldiers occupying the south 
 
 21(i 
 
part of Rhode Island, and the iMig-Hsh sailors from the 
 ships hovering off our eoast were eonstantlv eommitting 
 depredations and harassing the peoj^le living on the main 
 land, destroying their property and often making prisoners 
 of them. Col. Joseph Durfee, a brave and patriot citizen, 
 who had alread}^ served as an officer in the American Army, 
 and who had taken an active part in the battle of White 
 Plains, had returned hf)me. Finding his fellow citizens in 
 dire distress and exposed to the depredations of the enem\-, 
 he obtained from Gen. -Sullivan at Providence permission 
 to raise a guard for their protection. He established a 
 guard house on the shore near what is now the foot of 
 Central St.. Fall River. Before dayliglit on the date above 
 mentioned, Samuel Reed, the sentinel, discovered a boat 
 stealthily approaching the shore. His challenge not being 
 answered, he fired his musket. The guard thus alarmed 
 formed behind a stone wall and gave battle. The enemy, 
 having a cannon opened with grape shot. Col. Durfee 
 with his men retired slowly up the hill until they reached 
 a bridge that crossed the stream near where the city hall 
 of F"all River now stands. Here he made a determined 
 stand, and so valiantly was he supported by the loyal 
 volunteers of old Freetown and Tiverton, who had rallied 
 around him, that the enemy soon sounded the retreat. 
 They took away their wounded but left one dead and one 
 dying soldier on the field. When the enemy landed they 
 burned a new house, a saw-mill and a grist-mill that be- 
 longed to Thomas Borden. On their retreat they set fire 
 to the house and other buildings of Richard Borden, an 
 aged man, and took him away prisoner. Col. Durfee fol- 
 lowed closelv with his men, who kept up an annoving 
 musketry fire upon the retreating troops. He also saved 
 the latter burning buildings from destruction. One Eng- 
 lish soldier was killed after they had taken to their boats. 
 Hoping to stop the firing by our men they ordered Mr. 
 Borden to stand up in the boat, where he could be recog- 
 nized. This he refu.sed to do, and threw himself flat on 
 
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ihc buttdiii of the boat. When Cjuestioned he positively 
 refused to give any information to the enemy. After a 
 few day.s they released him on parole. The two Engli.sh 
 soldiers that were killed were buried at mid-day near 
 where they fell. Our brave band of patriots suffered no 
 loss. Twenty-five years later that part of Freetown where 
 the battle was fought was incorporated as the town of Fall 
 River. Col. Joseph Durfee at one time owned and lived 
 in the house on Water street. Assonet Village, now occu- 
 pied by Mrs. Daniel Johnson. lie was the grandfather 
 of our late honored fellow citizen, John Durfee Wilson. 
 
 HKISTfJL COU.N'TV. 
 
 Bristol County, established in Kls.", when Plymouth 
 
 C\ilcinv was divided into three counties, now contains about 
 
 si.x hundred square miles of territorv. (_)riginallv it also 
 
 embraced the towns of Tiverton, Little Compton, Bristol. 
 
 W'arren, Barrington and Cumberland, R. I. Bristol was 
 
 made the county town much to the displeasure of Taunton. 
 
 It was in 174('i that the above mentioned towns were made 
 
 a part of the state of Rhode Island. The countv kept its 
 
 original name and Tauntiui was made the county or shire 
 
 town. In 1S'_'N, after much ccuilroversy over the matter. 
 
 New Bedford was made a half-shirc town. At one stage 
 
 of this controversy there was a fair prospect that Freetown 
 
 might be made the shire town as a compromise. In 1S77 
 
 the justices of the superior court were authorized by statute 
 
 to adjourn anv of the terms of that court to Fall River, 
 
 where a court hcjuse and jail have since been built, and a 
 
 Registry of Deeds established. There are now three cities 
 
 and seventeen towns in the countv. onlv five of which, 
 
 Taunton, Rehoboth, Dartmouth, Swansea and Freetown 
 
 were in existence when the county was formed. Norton, 
 
 Mansfield, Dighton, Berkley, Raynham and Easton were 
 
 formerlv a part of Taunton; Attleboro, North Attleboro 
 
 and Seekonk a part of Rehoboth ; Xew Bedford, Acushnet, 
 
 Fairhaven and Westport a part of Dartmouth. Somerset 
 
 •2i,s 
 
was set off frum Swansea, and Fall River from Freetown. 
 The population of the eounty by the eensus of I'.hki was 
 •2r)-J,(i'21t, a gain of 'A'4,niH) sinee the census of IMt.'). 
 
 The first settlement in the eounty was within the limits 
 of Taunton. Bog iron ore is found in several localities 
 notably in Freetown, where it was once extensivelv dui;' 
 and worked. 
 
 The territory embraeeil in the eounty was formerly 
 lari^'ely occupied by the Wampanoag, Pocasset and Nemas- 
 ket Indians, who were ruled over bv Massasoit who died in 
 ItU'il, leaving two sons, Alexander or Wamsutta who died 
 in ]<itj-J, and Philip or Metacomet who died in ItiTtl. 
 
 i'dl'l'IA 1 II IN (IF IkKlldWX. 
 
 The population (;f Freetown in the year ITt!.") was 
 14'.tL'; in ITTil. I'.miI; in IT'.hi, l'-jol' ; in I soo, :>.-,;;.-,; in IMO, 
 isTS; — Fall River was .set off from Freetown in 1S(»;} — in 
 182(t, l.stiS ; — A part of Freetown was annexed to Fairhaven 
 in 1815 — in ls3<», I'.to'.t; in ls4n, ITTi'; in ls.-)ii, 1<'>1.">: in 
 istio, l.")-21 : in IsTo, i;;7-_'; in Isso, K'.L'lt; in Isito, 1417; 
 and in r.»nii. l:V,t4. 
 
 It will be noted that there was a steady increase in 
 population in the territory now called Freetown up to and 
 including the census of ls3ii. Undoubtedly the decline in 
 population in the town ccmimenccd with the advent of 
 railroads in the county, or about the year IS:!.'), as they at 
 once diverted the freight traffic from the smaller rivers, 
 and the towns located on them, to such places as had con- 
 veniences for reshipping bv rail. 
 
 \.\I,UATI(iX III I KKK'I'i'WN, 1 So 1 . 
 
 Polls :^)t;:!, dwellings I'-io. barns l.'is, shops 3n. tan 
 houses 4, warehouses ■_', saw mills '.», gristmills s. carding 
 mills 1, fulling mills 1, other mills 1, inm works and fur- 
 naces ."), other buildings I'.t, tonnage .s.")4, superficial feet 
 of wharf land -Jtl.T'Jo, acres <if tillage land t')ii4, mowing 
 land itTl, fresh meaduw I'lh, salt marsh '.to. pasturage -2303, 
 
 2i9 
 
woodlaml tmcncliiscd ITnii, unimprnx-cd land s.';4.';, unim- 
 provable land T.'ii', lainl in mads L'7n. land under water 81 
 acres. 
 
 Horses '.•■i, mules /i, oxen 'JH. cows •■!!."), steers and 
 heifers '.^'-i'-'i, sheep '.tN;"), swine ■242. 
 
 Bushels of corn raised .")5i7, rye sn."). oats -21^. barley 50, 
 tons Eni^'lish hay cut hf^'.K fresh hay l."..">, salt hay NTyi. 
 
 vStock in trade §14,705. Money at interest $:i0,199. 
 Money on hand and on draft Sl's-I-:.'. 
 
 Bank stock S-l.-"""- Total valuation S;'.n-j,r,7.-,. 
 
 \ Al.l .VnoX ()|- I KKETOWX, lsr,|. 
 
 Polls ;)7:^, dwellin<^'s t^.s7, barns 2i:'>, shops !*, tan 
 houses 1. warehouses H'>. saw mills .'!, t^ristmills 4-, other 
 mills 4, cotton factories 1, spindles l.'iii, woolen factories 1, 
 cards 2, blcacheries 1, tool factories 2. small arms fac- 
 tories 1, nail and tool machines 2*K other works and 
 buildings I4i.', tonnage 464. Acres of tillage land ."iCid, 
 orchards i!ii."), m<i\ving land initi'. woodland lL'.L'7ti, land 
 under water li'4. Tons of hav cut n4s. cords of wood 
 cut 1(114. 
 
 Nunibcr of horses 147, o.xcn litl. cows .'(14, steers and 
 heifers 17<i, sheep '.>^>'), swine l".ii!. 
 
 Stock in trade Sll.M.'.o. Money at interest $ti;t,:>S4. 
 Mone\- on hand and on draft S21,:il4. 
 
 Piank, railroad and insurance stocks S'^-">,141. 
 
 Value of real estate $47;!,o4'.». \'alue of personal 
 estate |;3r.l,102. Total valuation $s:i4.151. 
 
 Amount raised, including highway tax, SfiiifjCi. l;i. 
 Rate of tax S<i."in on Sjood. 
 
 Tax on polls, highway 58 cents and in money Sl.od. 
 
 Total number of acres of land taxed •Jii,482. Acres of 
 land in the town, by special survey, ■_'4,'.»7."). 
 
 VAl.r.V IK IN Ml IKKKTOWN, lltdL'. 
 
 Polls .">(;,"), dwellings :'>x'>. grist mills I, blcacheries 1, 
 
 small arms manufacttiries 1, other Iniildintrs , tonnage 
 
 none. Acres of land taxed 2\.'i~\. Horses :i75, cows ^28, 
 
 230 
 
oxen 2n, steers and heifers ilu, sheep ■2'>, swine t;:;, f(.)\vl 
 •2-2:'>:>. Real estate $'>'.»:!, ilTn, personal estate Si \-i, '>'■',:>. total 
 valuation S>^i'^,"ii'5, amount raised Sln.KTo, rate of tax 
 Sl:i.7ii on Slnod. poll tax Sii. Miles of hio-hway in the town 
 ti", dogs licensed \-2'i. births :'.;'. marriages S, deaths IK. 
 
 FROM THE TiiWN KKtilKDS. 
 
 Job Winslow's yeare marks for his cretures is a hole 
 in the right yeare and a slot in the left yeare. 
 
 At a legal town meeting at the public meeting house 
 Jul}- the 7, 1777. the town of Freetown voted to set up a 
 salt works at ur near Boomer's Cedars. Stephen Borden, 
 Jonathan Read and Benjamin Davis being appointed a 
 committee to carry on the said works. 
 
 julv 2-2. 17mi. Salt works sold at auction for one year 
 
 to Joseph Winslow for In Bu. salt to be paid in the fall. 
 
 Xdie. — Boomer's Cedars were near the present location of the 
 Mechanics Mills, Fall River. 
 
 E.^ST IRKKTiiWN. 
 
 East or New Freetown, formerly a part of Tiverton, 
 was annexed to West or old Freetown in 1747. The 
 easterly line of the freemen's purchase was the line that 
 divided old Freetown on the east from that part of Tiver- 
 ton. For a time two tax books were kept by the as.sessors. 
 One for "Xew Freetown not including the District of Slab 
 Bridge," and one for •'Old Freetown including the District 
 of Slab Bridge." 
 
 East Freetown on account of its balmy atmosphere, 
 shad\' drives and beautiful ponds, which afford excellent 
 boating, bathing and fishing, is fa.st becoming a popular 
 .summer resort. The visitors come from New Bedford, 
 Taunton. Boston. Providence, Xew York and other places. 
 The local settlements are Pleasantville, Beach Bluff, Round 
 Hill, Cleveland Park and Morton Park. 
 
 KARLV TR.-\NSl'ORr.\TIl)N. 
 
 The state house at Boston and the Congregatiimal 
 Church at Assonet, are both on the same meridian, Boston 
 
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 F A C - i I M I L E OF AN E N T R r IN THE F K t e i '_' ». N R t C u K li S 
 THE HAND-WRITING OF JOHN READ, JR TOWN CLERK 
 
bein^- 4ii miles due north of tlie villiatj,'e l)v post road, and 
 4."> miles by railroad. Hefore the advent <if railroads a four 
 horse passenger and mail eoaeh passed through the village 
 having eonnections at Fall River and Taunton for other 
 imjiortant points. Baggage wagons also ran between New- 
 port and Boston onee or twiee a week. Rufus B. Kinsley, 
 the founder of Kinslev's express, was the proprietor of both 
 lines, and drove one of the eoaches. There was also a 
 stage eoaeh line from New Bedford to Boston that passed 
 through East Freetown. The stage left New liedford 
 every Tuesday morning, arriving at Taunton in the even- 
 ing. The passenger fare was three penee i si.x eents ) per 
 mile. 
 
 l.A TKR IKANSI'OK-lA'riiiX. 
 
 The owners of the Fall River railroatl, which was 
 opened to Myrieks in June ls4.">, and e.xtended to .South 
 Braintree in IS-tti, desired to run alongthe east shoreof the 
 bav, and cross the river on a draw bridge near Bass Rock 
 Point. The sur\'c\' then ran up what is now Pleasant 
 Street t(j Porters' pasture, thence out bv the Tripp farm. 
 This being objected to by the shipping interests, they pro- 
 posed to strike the river near Lawtons' wharf run along its 
 east bank, and cross P^lm .Street near Philli])s' barn. A 
 third survey crossed High .Street near the pound, and Elm 
 .Street near the residence of ( jeorge Clark. These locations 
 also being strongly objected to, they declared they would 
 get as far awav from the village as possible. Thev did so, 
 the\' went well up on the side of Break Neck Hill. The 
 grade at the cur\X' just south of the Assonet Staticjn is said 
 to be seventy feet higher than at the wharf station in Fall 
 River, and to be the highest point above tide water 
 between Fall River and Boston. 
 
 The opening of this railroad to Myrieks gave Assonet 
 \'illage a route to Boston and Providence via the New 
 Bedford and Taunton railroad running through East Free- 
 town, which was o]:)cned in ls4ii, the Taunton P)r;inch rail- 
 
road running' from Tauntun to Manslield opened in ls;!6, 
 and the Boston and Providence railroad opened in ls35. 
 The extension of the Fall River railroad to South Braintree 
 gave the village a second route to Boston, via Middleboro 
 and BroektcMi, and the building of the road from Somerset 
 [unction to .South Braintree a third route, via Taunton and 
 Randolph. There is little choice in these routes as regards 
 distance. The railroad stations in the town are East Free- 
 town, and Brale\'s on the New Bedford road, and Assonet 
 and Crystal Spj-ing on the Fall River road. The morning- 
 train to, and the evening train from Boston will stop at 
 Terry's on signal. An electric railway from New Bedford 
 to Middleboro, passing through East Freetown was btiilt in 
 isii'.i. A franchise has been granted for an electric mad 
 from Fall River to Taunton, via Assonet and F>erklev. 
 
 RAILRU.Mi .VCCIHE.VTS. 
 
 Soon after the opening of the Fall River railroad a 
 freight train ran off the north end of the turn out at the 
 Assonet station, ditching the locomotive and several freight 
 cars. No one was injured. 
 
 ( )n account of a washout at the time of the freshet in 
 Jssfi a train of empty coal cars plunged into Hopping Paitl 
 Brook, killing the fireman. 
 
 Before daylight October ^d, iMiii. the two rear passen- 
 ger cars of the steamboat train frmn Fall Rix'cr to Boston, 
 which was running very fast at the time, left the rails at 
 the Forge crossing and were dragged over the sleepers 
 some distance, when the rear car struck a wood pile and 
 was thrown on its side. In this position it was dragged 
 about thirty rods further. This car contained thirty-five 
 passengers. None of the passengers were killed, but sev- 
 eral were severeh' iniurcd, including a seven years' old 
 child and a Mrs. Drink water, who had her left arm 
 wrenched off at the shoulder, and her right arm dislo- 
 cated. The late (iov. John A. Andrew was a pa.ssenger 
 on the train, he having been to Fall River to speak at a 
 
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pulitical meeting the night before. The eause of the acci- 
 dent was the breaking of a rail that spanned a small cul- 
 
 vert at the Ft)rge crossing. 
 
 There was a smash-up of freight trains on the New 
 l>edford railroad between East Freetown and Braleys 
 stations, about the year ISMi. No one was injured. 
 
 1 .1 II il I R( lAl IS. 
 
 At the annual town meeting in MaiX'h, I'.mi:.', an appro- 
 priation was made and a committee chosen to purchase a 
 stone crusher, with a view of impro\-ing the condition of 
 the roads in the town. 
 
 The State Highwav Commission allotted five thousand 
 dollars of the state's appropriation, for the building of a 
 state road in East Freetown, from the New Bedford to 
 the Lakevdle lines, on the county road, a distance of three 
 and one-third miles. The stone crusher after its purchase 
 was located there, and during the season about one mile 
 of the road was built. For the season of 1'.h(.'>, the State 
 Ilighwa_\- Commission has allotted $(ir)0(i for the continua- 
 tion of this work. 
 
 At the annual town meeting in March, 190:!, $10<i() of 
 the town's appropriation of S2.")(H) for highways, was allotted 
 for the building of a macadam road from the East Freetown 
 road station towards the county road provided, however, 
 that the citizens of East Freetown raise S!.">On by subscrip- 
 tion for the same purpose. 
 
 'iiiK ( iiji ( I ikM;K s 1 1 iki-:. 
 
 ll was in jsln that two \-oung men from Middlelioro, 
 ha\-in"- travelled throuidi south-eastern Massachusetts, 
 with a view of finding a promising location for business, 
 decided that Assonet Village seemed to have far better 
 prospects than any other place in Bristol Count}-; so Earl 
 Sampson and John Flinds opened a store on the south- 
 west corner of Main and Water slrcets. This firm was 
 dissolved the next year by the death of Mr. Hinds. 
 
Capt. J(.)hn Xicliols was then taken into partnership bj^ 
 Mr. Sampson, and tlie lirm of Sampson l\: Xichols became 
 a noted one, and did a Incrative lousiness for many years; 
 people eomin;^' to it frf)m all the surrounding towns for 
 their supplies. About Is^n the old store building was 
 removed and the present one erected. This firm was 
 .succeeded by Capt. S_\-l\-anus ,S. Payne, who in turn was 
 succeeded by his son-in-law, John W. Peabody. In 186U 
 Mr. Peabody moved into a new building he had erected 
 on the opposite side of Main street, and the old store was 
 converted into a tack factory by the Star Tack Co. After 
 a few years it was rc-opened as a grocery store by E. E. & 
 J. H. Winslow. This firm was succeeded by James H. 
 Winslow, who at the present time has a meat market in 
 connection with his grocery and grain departments. The 
 office of Dr. Thomas (t. Xichols and also the town library 
 were once located in a room over the grocery store, entrance 
 to the same being by an outside flight of stairs on the 
 north end of the building. This room had previously been 
 used as a law office. William Strobridge was a part owner 
 of the building and he (jccupied the south end i>f it at one 
 lime as a store. Since his occupancy this end of the build- 
 ing has been used for various purposes, at one time as a 
 harness shop, at another time as a barber's shop. For 
 several years it was used as a school room for the Water 
 street district school. Town meetings were at one time 
 held in it. The firm of X. R. Davis i.S: Co. at one time 
 used it in connection with the upper floor of the building 
 as a gun manufactor\-. The basement at the south end of 
 the building was for many years used as a tenement. 
 
 I'ASIIMKS. 
 
 On Fast and Thanksgi\-ing days "in ye olden time" 
 
 many of the young people of the yillage repaired to the 
 
 top of Joshua's Mountain. Here they could gaze on the 
 
 blue hills of Milton, and chisel their names in granite. Old 
 
 stvlc base ball was also played on these holidays in Nichols' 
 
 jxisture. 
 
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Cherry partus In SIl-u]) Ilrdnk, both by land and water, 
 were much in vnoiic fifty and more years ajro. The very 
 sweet bhiek cherry, of medium .size that thev sought did 
 not thrive north of the Stephen liarnabN- farm, or south of 
 Bovvenville. They either picked the cherries on a half lav, 
 or paid a few cents per quart for what thev picked. This 
 species of eherrv is now almost extinct. 
 
 Berry partus to ihe Narrows afforded both pleasure and 
 profit. Capt. Welcome Hathawa_\- with the fine sail boats 
 
 NATHANIEL PORTER (See Page 1:14.) 
 
 Born at Plymouth, Mass., June 3 1805 Died at East Bndgewater, Mass . April 26, i88o. 
 
 that he l)uilt himself, and later his son Hon Carlos Hawes 
 Hathaway were ever ready to accommodate these parties. 
 Black huckleberries grew in large quantities on both sides 
 of the ri\-er at the Narrows. The pickers always returned 
 with well filled baskets unless they had spent too much 
 time along the shore, or at Babbitt's bowling alley. Some 
 sold their surplus berries to James M. Phillips, who sent 
 them to the Boston market, others dried them for winter use. 
 
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THE MTSTER (iKOUND. 
 
 What is now tlie town Cemetery was formerly known 
 as the Cluster (iround. Here seventy or more years ago 
 all the military eompanies in this \'ieinity had to assemble 
 annually for eleetion of offieers, drill and such other duties 
 as might be re(|uired of them. Delinquents were often 
 brought into camp under guard, and required to perform 
 military duty. The popular ration was muster cake and 
 eider. The muster cake was a kind of gingerbread baked 
 in loa\'es about si.x l)y eight inches in dimensions and scored 
 across the to]) three or four times both ways. Many relics 
 of the Assonet Light lnfantr\- that formerly mustered here 
 arc in existence today, notably the sword of Capt. N.athan 
 T. Strange, the last commanding officer of the company. 
 Tradition says that there were "hot times in the old town" 
 muster days. 
 
 'iiiK MRi: iM-.i'AR r\ii:x 1'. 
 
 The Water Witch Engine Company, Elbridge M. 
 Martin, Foreman, flourished in the middle of the last 
 centurN', resplendent at times in red shirts, black panta- 
 loons and shin\- hats and belts. When out for practice 
 the b(.iys backed their "tub" into the stream at the Elm 
 vStreet bridge and iilled her from leather fire buckets of 
 which two or three hung from the machine. After fasten- 
 ing on the two covers they woulil drag her up to the Con- 
 gregational Church yard, the self-acting bell in the mean 
 time tinkling merrily, much to the delight of the village 
 urchins. If she was half full on arrival at the church 
 yard, they would "shake her up" in an attempt to put 
 water o\-cr the church spire, the Foreman all the while 
 shouting "Meet the brakes!", ".Meet 'cm good, boys!", 
 and doing his best to inspire the men with his unbounded 
 enthusiasm. Thcv could throw water over the spire all 
 right if the circumstances were favorable. 
 
 ( )n one occasion, the machine being loaded, ^Ir. Apollos 
 Pierce came along driving an ox team. He stopped his 
 
team, smootlied his braided leatlicr whip hash ilown beside 
 its oaken handle, assumed a position of calm expectancy, 
 and in the vernacular of his kind drawled out, "Now 1 
 want to see that air thintj work.'" The Foreman trum- 
 peted the command •■ Play away I" The Hoseman clapped 
 his hand over the nozzle, held back the sputtering, spatter- 
 ing water just a second, and then turned the hose squarely 
 upon Mr. Pierce and drenched him from head to foot. 
 
 The machine itself was a veritable freak. The pump 
 was worked by two horizontal brake bars, pivoted to the 
 top of the box, and having a handled outrigger attached 
 to each of the four ends. It took twelx'e persons to man 
 the brakes, one on the ends of each bar, and two on each 
 outrigger. Inaction she was a sort of push and pull affair. 
 It is a matter of regret that the machine was sent to the 
 Town Farm for storage, where it was allowed to decay. 
 As a curiosit}- at World's Fairs it would easily have divided 
 the honors with the original loc(.)motive engine. 
 
 But the Water Witch has something to her credit. 
 vShe extinguished a fire that had made considerable head- 
 way in the upper story of Ephraim Atwood's grocery store 
 that stood about six feet northeast of the dwelling house 
 now owned bv Ralph H. Francis, and that was flanked on 
 the other side by a barn. Undoubtedly she saved these 
 three buildings from destruction. 
 
 Atwood's store was for years the Democratic head- 
 quarters for the town. Here crackers and cheese were 
 di.spen.sed town meeting days to the faithful who had jour- 
 neved from the far east. Town meetings were then held 
 in a store room in the house that stands near the Elm 
 .Street Bridge. Later they were held in a room in the 
 .south end of the building now occupied by James H. Wins- 
 low as a grocery .store. Still later the town meetings were 
 held in the building on the south side of Water Street that 
 had formerly been the store of Capt. Allen Payne. The 
 move from this building was into the present Town Hall. 
 built in l^^*^, Charles C. Marble of I'all River architect and 
 
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Iniilik-r. 'Flic buildini; formerh' dceupied b\- Mr. Atwoud 
 was moved in the east side of Pleasant Street, converted 
 into ,1 dwelling' lionse, and is now owned bv (jeorye B. 
 Cud worth. 
 
 The \\'ater Witch en;.;-ine and the never to be for^g'otten, 
 if \-ou e\-er saw it once, town hearse, that was for man}' 
 years in charjre of Joshna Shove, as undertaker, and which 
 for unique build was a fit companion for the enj^'ine, were 
 stored in a small building" that stood just south of the 
 present location of the ptdjlic library, and known as the 
 hearse house. 
 
 As a result of the fire of ( )ctober 5, issti, that destroved 
 the houses occupied bv foseph H. Clark and llenr\' M. 
 Chacc. and damaged the South Church ; and the burning 
 of the barn of John D. Wilson that was struck by lightning 
 some mr)nths later, the following article was inserted in the 
 warrant calling a special town meeting August l'h. IssT: 
 Article \'II. — " To hear a report of the selectmen in regard 
 to the cost of Fire Extinguishing Apparatus and to take 
 such action in regard to the purchase of the same as the 
 town ma\' deem ad\-isable." 
 
 The action taken on the above article was to accept 
 the report of the selectmen in regard to the fire apparatus, 
 to appropinate the sum of eight hundred dollars for said 
 apparatus, and to appoint a committee of three to procure 
 the fire apparatus and to have charge of the same. The 
 committee appointed Benjamin F. Aiken, (leorge B. Cud- 
 worth and James A. Manchester, jmrcliased the engine 
 Narragansett of the town of Warren. R. I. The engine 
 was built b\- L. Button iS: Co.. Waterford, X. Y., and at 
 the present time is in good condition. A hook and ladder 
 truck was purchased of the town of Franklin, Mass. A 
 hose reel and eight hundred feet of iK.ise were also pur- 
 chased. Ample jn"o\'ision was made for storing the ap- 
 paratus in the town hall when it was built. The present 
 fire department (I'.to;;) consists of a board of engineers or- 
 
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i;-anizc(l under the slate law: Ralph II. Franeis. Chief 
 Engineer. Levi M. Hathaway, Andrew B. I'ieree and 
 Eugene A. Herbert, Assistant ICngineers. 
 
 Early on the morning of August l-'i, IMHi, hre was dis- 
 covered at the gun shop on Water Street, Assonet Village. 
 It had started on the outside of the ell, near tlie ground. 
 l'>\- hard work on the part of a few individuals it was held 
 in check until the arrival of the fire engine, and although 
 it had by that time reached the roof of the l)uilding it was 
 quickly extinguished after the engine was brought into 
 action. 
 
 Among the buildings that have lieen burned at Assonet 
 \"illage and vicinity within about si.Ktv years are the dwel- 
 lings owned or once occupied by Tisdale Briggs. fohn S. 
 Thomas, James Hyland. Bradford Clark, Ambrose \V. 
 Hathaway. John H. Campfield. with bam. James Win.slow, 
 James W. E. Clark. William Richardson. Solomon Ctim- 
 mings. Bailey Brightman. Hiram Brightman. Joseph H. 
 Clark, Henry M. Chace, Philip T. Evans, with barn, Seth 
 Ilowland, Apollos Pierce, with two barns, Arthur Demor- 
 anville, George Sisson and Ebenezer Briggs; the barns of 
 Williams Winslow, Elnathan Hathaway, (leorge Cura- 
 mings. William Copeland. Philip E. Tripp and John D. 
 ^^'ilso^ ; Henrv Porter's nail factor\-. John Cr.ane's two 
 nail factories. William Thorp's waste mill, the old furnace 
 building, the freight house at Assonet Station, Crystal 
 vSpring Station, an unoccupied building of Ambrose Dean, 
 and the gun shop of N. R. Davis & Co.. in ls(;4. 
 
 Till-; a>s()m;t f.mks. 
 
 In IstJl Dr. Nathan Durfce. of Fall River, presented 
 to the Congregational Society of Freetown the beautiful 
 pipe organ that was at that time standing in the old Music 
 Hall. Fall River. To make room for the organ, and also 
 for the choir which formerly had been located in the 
 gallery at the east end of the church, the building was ex- 
 
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tended westward twenty feet. A much needed vestrv and a 
 kitchen were at the same time provided for in the basement. 
 
 The tliin. Amos A. iJarstow, (.)f Providence, R. I., 
 kindly presented the society with a ftirnace for heating the 
 building. The monster turtle back stove, with a big 
 crack in its side, and its scores of feet of stove pipe, sus- 
 pended with long wires, which ran over the center aisle 
 and up through the high ceiling, was remox'ed from the 
 double pew, near the door, it had so long occupied, and in 
 which the Sabl^ath school boys so delighted to sit cold 
 winter days, often t<i the annoyance of Deacon Beni'amin 
 Burt, who, for many years, took the care of the old sto\-e. 
 
 l)uring the 3'ear an association was organized whose 
 object was to raise funds for the erection of a parsonage, 
 and to assist in paying the expenses of the society. At a 
 meeting of this sssociation Dr. Thomas G. Nichols of 
 Assonet. John M. Deane and George T. Hathaway of Fall 
 River were chosen a committee with full power in the 
 matter. Friends of the society subscribed $-2-27r>, and the 
 above committee inaugurated a series of entertainments 
 that pro\'ed both enjovable and profitable. There being 
 no iniblic hall in the \'illage a temporarx' floor was laid 
 over the pews of the church and on March M, 4 and 5, l.sii.s, 
 a fair and entertainment was given. At this fair the organ 
 was played for the first time in public at its new location. 
 Professor Whiting of Boston presided at the organ the first 
 evening. The Fall River Chorus Society. I'li voices, Ly- 
 man W. Deane, director and organist, entertained the com- 
 pany the second evening. ( )n the third evening Professor 
 Crleazen of Providence, R. I., presided at the organ, and 
 there was \-ocal music b_\- local artists. There was a special 
 train from I'all Ri\-er the second evening. The net pro- 
 ceeds of this fair were one thousand dollars. 
 
 The ( )ratorio of Esther that had been given with 
 pleasing success in Fall Ri\'er under the direction of 
 Charles H. Robbins, was repeated in the Congregational 
 
Church at Assonet, April l', iscs. The net proceeds of 
 this entertainment were one hundred dollars. 
 
 August 20, lSf)S, the society gave a clambake at Tis- 
 paquin grove. A special train brought a large number of 
 friends from Fall River. The Mechanics Band of Fall 
 River furnished music for the occasion. A heavv down- 
 pour of rain commenced while tho.se at the .second tables 
 were eating. The gross receipts were $599.68 and the net 
 proceeds of the bake were $385.77. 
 
 February 22, 2'A and 24, ls7<i a floor was again laid 
 over the pews and a fair held in the church. The choir 
 assisted by friends gave a concert the first evening, Benja- 
 min A. Eddy, organist. The Fall River Glee Club. Ly- 
 man W. Deane, director and organist entertained the 
 company the second evening, and L. Soule of Taunton 
 director and organist, assisted by George Bridgham, of 
 Taunton, and others furnished the entertainment the third 
 evening. A special train was run from Fall River the 
 second evening. Much enthusiasm and merriment was 
 produced by the voting, at ten cents per vote, of dift'erent 
 articles to persons in the audience. In these friendlv con- 
 tests an afghan brought Si)ti.5i», a bed quilt $23. 9i), and a 
 clothes wringer S2tj. The total receipts from the voting 
 contests were §271. The door receipts were $177, the 
 gross receipts Sl(»95.5ii, and the net proceeds of the fair 
 $<U1.31. 
 
 The fair of ls7l was held in the church February 2.s, 
 and March 1, 2 and 3. Lyman W. Deane and friends of 
 Fall River furnished the vocal and instrumental music. 
 There was a special train from Fall River two evenings. 
 In the voting contests two breakfast jackets brought S7n.4o, 
 a sofa pillow $4L2i». A cradle, that was disposed of four 
 times before it went to a \'oung man that decided to keep 
 it $5L2:!. A saw and .saw hor.se $40.34 and a blacking 
 brush $27.35. The receipts from the voting were $25u.3o. 
 The door receipts were ,S21.s, the gross receipts $1243.70 
 and the net receipts Sti29.33. 
 
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The next fair was held in the ehiirch Febriiarv ;iO, 21, 
 22 and 2o, 1n72. The programme for the first evening 
 was vocal music by j\lr. Warren, Cieorge Crane and Miss 
 Munroe of Taunton, and Miss Deane. of .Somerset, Miss 
 Ida Burt, of Taunton, pianist. Their selections were of 
 a high order and were well rendered. The band from the 
 Perkins Institution for the Blind, of Boston, furnished the 
 music for the second evening. There was a concert the 
 third evening under the direction of Lyman W. Deane, of 
 Fall River. The solos of Charles H. Ryder, John W. 
 Pritchard and Velona W. Haughwout, of Fall River, and 
 George Bridgham, of Taunton called forth rounds of ap- 
 plause. 
 
 The voting was decidedlv interesting and amusimj. 
 A sofa pillow was voted to Mrs. Lyman W. Deane, of Fall 
 River. A fancy chair the embroidering of which was the 
 work of Mrs. John AI. Deane went for §156.-1:0 netting the 
 society $l<'5.To. Mrs. C(_il. Frank Allen, of Providence, 
 R. I., received lusn out of l."i6-l: votes cast and was declared 
 tlie winner. The laziest man in the audience, being called 
 for to exercise with the buck-saw on a good sized hickory 
 log, several candidates were brought out. After a spirited 
 contest in which tiSn votes were cast, a well known and 
 jovial young man from Fall River was declared "it." 
 This voung man had attended the whole series of Assonet 
 Fairs, and he quickly sized up the crowd that unsolicited 
 l)y him, was running his campaign, while he was spend- 
 ing his money and doing his best to elect some other 
 fellow. He had decided in his own mind not to put him- 
 self, for that evening at least, in the hands of his friends. 
 With no malice and aforethought he placed himself be- 
 tween "the gang" and the outer door. After the polls 
 were closed scouting parties sent in different directions 
 failed to find him. The doorkeeper averred that "he did 
 not speak as he passed by," and that he disdainfully refused 
 a return check proffered him. 
 
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It cost the same enthusiastic company §51.60 to place 
 a bottle of soothing syrup where they thought it would do 
 the most good, or at least, where it would make the most 
 sport for them. 
 
 Special trains were run from Fall River the first and 
 third evenings of the fair. Aboiit 9U0 were present the 
 third evening, 4nO of them coming from Fall River. The 
 crush at the church was so great that many of the village 
 people retired in order to make room for the visitors from 
 abroad. The door receipts were S-!'25, showing that there 
 were 'Jii.'iO paid admissions. The receipts from the voting 
 amounted to §:^.70.3n. The gross receipts were $1419.09 
 and the net receipts $777.til. 
 
 The last fair inaugurated by this committee was held 
 in the church March 4, ."), t; and 7. 1^7:^.. An Old Folks 
 Concert, Lyman W. Deane, Director and Organist, was 
 given the second evening of the fair, and (ieorge Bridg- 
 hani of Taunton al.so entertained the audience with his 
 inimitable character songs. The entertainment the third 
 evening was by \V. H. flunt of Bost(>n, humorist, and T. 
 P. Ryder, pianist. Over six hundred round trip tickets 
 were sold on the special trains that were run from Fall 
 River the second and third evenings of the fair. There 
 were over seven hundred present the second evening, five 
 car loads coming on the special train, and many in the 
 eighty teams that were counted in the village that even- 
 ing. The door receipts were $284, showing a sale of 2:U(> 
 admission tickets. The receipts from voting were $111, 
 the gross receipts $11 •_' 1.82 and the net receijits $454.01. A 
 turkey supper was served in the vestry at all these fairs, 
 using on the average Hmi pounds of turkey. 
 
 The other principal features of these fairs were the 
 confectionery, ice cream, cake, lemonade, flower and fancy 
 tables, coat room, art gallery, supper room and the auction 
 the last evenings of the fairs, when no especial entertain- 
 ment was prii\nded. 
 
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At the fair of IslL' the Washington Read and the 
 Daniel Mc(io\van tables eaeh netted fifty dollars. There 
 was also a Read table at the fair of l.sl:'. A four page 
 paper was also published in ccmnection with the clambake 
 and two or three of the fairs. The paper published in con- 
 nection with fair of iStlS netted $-2(Hi, and that of ISTD 
 $l."i7. By this series of entertainments the society was 
 benefitted to the amount of i«;:!'.m»s.5:j. 
 
 Just previous to iMls the society had found it difficult 
 to raise $.'!!•( i per year to pay the minister, but for several 
 ensuing years found no difficulty in paying $i::!no, annual 
 expenses. In the work required of this committee Dr. 
 Nichols attended more especially to the village end of 
 affairs. Mr. Hathaway paid particular attention to Fall 
 River, and Air. Deane conducted affairs during the enter- 
 tainments taking especial charge ol the voting. 
 
 At the close of the fair of I.^Lj this committee that 
 during the fi\'e years of its existence had worked in perfect 
 harmony within itself; that had planned and carried out 
 so successfullv this series of entertainments, and that had 
 worked the enthusiasm of the friends of the S(_)ciety up to 
 such a pleasing and liberal pitch, declined to serve any 
 longer, and the society has not held a real fair since that 
 time. 
 
 The last report of the treasurer of the Association, be- 
 fore mentioned was made in October 1874. There was 
 then no cash balance left on hand and presumably the or- 
 ganization went out of business at that time. 
 
 The parsonage had not materialized. Some years 
 later there was talk of building a chapel, l)ut there being 
 a difference of opinion as to whether it should l)e a chapel 
 or parsonage that should l)e built, the matter was dropped. 
 
 In August l.Sl»l the church extended a call to the Rev. 
 Leonard Woolsey Bacon, D. D..of Norwich, Conn. The 
 call was accepted by Dr. Bacon who is a hard worker not 
 only in the spiritual but also in the temporal field. Since 
 that time the church building, that was so badly out of re- 
 
 2:«i 
 
pair, that it was pronotinced dangerous to ring the hell in 
 the steeple, has been very thoroughly repaired and painted ; 
 the organ that had been somewhat neglected put in proper 
 condition, and the heating apparatus improved. All this 
 at an outlay of about $l<;oii. 
 
 The heirs of Mrs. Hannah G. Payson, of Boston, who 
 in her life time was a staunch and liberal friend of the so- 
 ciety, owned the liarl Sampson place on North ^lain Street, 
 which had been rented several years as a parsonage. They 
 offered to sell it to the society at a very favorable price. 
 The offer was accepted, and the society has since its pur- 
 chase repaired and imjjroved the house at an e.Kpense of 
 about $o^u). 
 
 It is safe to say that as regards temporal matters the 
 society never before was in as good condition as it linds 
 itself today. 
 
 THE GOLD FKVKR. 
 
 Soon after the discovery of gold in California in ls4'.' 
 nearlv seventv of our citizens, mostly young men. went 
 there in search of the precious metal. Not all found and 
 retained it in liberal quantities. This rapid emigration to 
 California was a striking feature of the times. ."iS ships, 
 M7 barks, 41 brigs and 1 .'i schooners, or 1.">I vessels in all 
 cleared from the port of Boston, for California in one year 
 following the discovery of gold in that state. Thousands 
 who left their homes with high expectations of sudden 
 wealth soon learned that '•all is not gold that glitters," 
 and that "most that is good is not gold." The town has 
 never ftiUy recovered from the disheartening effect of this 
 sudden and severe drain upon its young manhood. The 
 following is Freetown's list of '4'.iers : 
 
 Tracey Allen. Ephraim Anthony, h^dmund Anthony, 
 Levi N. Baker, Stephen B. Barnaby, Daniel Bennett, 
 Samuel R. Bragg, Lorenzo I). Braley, Albert Briggs, 
 Benjamin Burt, Jr., Peter Carnoe, George Chace, Thomas 
 Evans, Thomas Evans, Jr.. James Gardner, Benjamin M. 
 Grinnell, John Grinncll, Edwin Harris, Pnarnaby W. Hath- 
 
 337 
 
;nvay, Benjamin Hathaway, Charles W. Hathaway, Ed- 
 mund 1). Hathaway, Edmund V. Hathaway, Elias Hath- 
 away. Gideon P. Hatheway, Guilford Hatliaway, John 
 Hathaway, Valentine Hathaway, Ebenezer Jones, Lorenzo 
 D. Lawton, Paul Lawrence, Arad T. Leach, Charles Mes- 
 sears, Eleazer Nichols, John Nichols, George Payne, Rev. 
 John Perry, Luther Pickens, Galen Pierce, Philip Pierce, 
 Thomas W. Pierce, Edward Pratt, Eli.sha L. Pratt, John 
 V. Pratt. Benjamin Porter. Bradford G. Porter, Frederic 
 Porter, Henry l^orter, Robert P(jrter, Joseph Roljinson, 
 Samuel Roljinson, William Robinson, Joseph Rounseville, 
 Walter S. Rounseville, Nathan Spooner, Gilbert Staples, 
 William B. Staples, James Taber, John Tew, William 
 Williams, Albert Winslow, tlcnrv Winslow. Benjamin 
 T. Winslow. 
 
 IIIK IKMCERANrE MUlKllEs. 
 
 The writer has been asked to gi\'e an account of the 
 temperance movement in Freetown. He acknowledges at 
 once his inability to give more than an outline of the 
 different temperance societies that have from time to time 
 existed in the town for the support and furtherance of this 
 most worthy cause. 
 
 In its early davs Freetown was no exception to the 
 general rule, and New England rum with other spirituous 
 licjuors were staple articles of commerce with all its mer- 
 chants. 
 
 The great temperance wa\-e that was started in Bal- 
 timore, bv six reformed drunkards, came sweeping over 
 the northern section of the country, and Bristol coimty, 
 Freetown included. Ijccamc deeply interested in the move- 
 ment. vSoon after the temperance agitation commenced in 
 Assonet three of its traders resolved among themseh-e.s 
 that they would no longer keep intoxicants for sale. They 
 spilled what stock they had on hand into the gutter, and 
 ever after faithfully kept the pledge they had made with 
 each otlicr. Williams Winslow. who kejH the Assonet 
 
 Hotel, was one of the pioneer tenipcrance men of the 
 
 2;!s 
 
CDUiitw As c;irl\- as ls;i,") he stopped selling;' ardent spirits 
 at his hotel. For this he was more or less persecuted. 
 One niu'ht several angur holes were bored into his sign 
 post. In the first week of October, 183.5, at a meeting held 
 in the Congregational church, Assonet Village, the 
 Assonet Temperance Society was organized, a constitution 
 and by-laws adopted and the following officers elected: 
 W. H. Eddy, President; A. B. Crane, Secretary and 
 Joseph Staples, Treasurer. 
 
 The records of the society show that up to and includ- 
 ing the meeting of June 7, 18-1-1, about one hundred and 
 fifty persons, male and female, had signed the jjledge and 
 become members of the organization. There is nothino- 
 to .show just when this society was disbanded, but there is 
 no doubt that it was in existence some years after the 
 above date. There is convincing proof in the records that 
 there were several earnest, consistent and fearless advo- 
 cates of the temperance cause connected with this society. 
 The caustic resolutions, that they from time to time in- 
 troduced and advocated, tended at least to make some of 
 the meetings of the .society quite exciting, and to demon- 
 strate just how far some temperance advocates were will- 
 ing to go in furtherance of the temperance cause when it 
 came to choosing between it and personal or political 
 interests. From the start reported violations of their 
 pledge by members of the society gave numerous special 
 investigating committees much work to do, and caused 
 more or less friction in the society. Often these reports 
 were started by enemies of the temperance movement, 
 and were not only proved to be false but also (juitc mali- 
 cious. Some members however humbly acknowledged 
 their delinquency, expressed their regret and asked to be 
 retained as members of the society, promising to do better 
 in the future. Others unblushingly pleaded guilty and 
 asked to have their names blotted from the pledge and 
 from the roll of membership. It may be said that some 
 of the latter continued the immoderate use of intoxicants 
 
 239 
 
as lonj^' as they li\'ed. In the winter of ls4(i the society 
 apjiointed several eommittees whose duty it was to hold 
 temperance meetinji^ in the different districts of the town 
 including Ashley's, Braley's, Mason's and the Furnace 
 districts. These meetings were continued during the 
 winter of 1^41 and perhaps later. In 1>^4I a special com- 
 mittee reported that there were at least six grog shops in 
 the town. Three of the offenders who were located in the 
 eastern part (.)f the town were prosecuted by a committee 
 app<iinted l)y the societ)- for that purpose. Two convic- 
 tions were obtained. The other offenders promised to 
 stop selling liquor if not prosecuted for their past misdeeds. 
 
 In the winter of ls4n a Youths' Temperance Societv 
 was formed at Assonet with Lorenzo D. Lawton, President, 
 and Simeon Burt, Secretar}-. This s()cicty was \-erv active 
 during the winter and spring, holding weekh' meetings 
 which were largely attended by Ijoth young and old. The 
 two societies joined in celebrating the 4th of Julv. 1^41. 
 which proved to be a red-letter day for the temperance 
 people of Assonet. Nathaniel Collier of Boston, a re- 
 formed inebriate, was tlie principal speaker. The first 
 gathering was held in the North church which was filled 
 from floor to galleries. At the close of this meeting the 
 audience formed in procession and marched to music with 
 temperance motto banners flying to a grove where more 
 than three hundred persons partook of a bountiful collation 
 prox'ided In' the ladies of the \-illage. Henry L. Deane, a 
 distinguished vocalist of Taunton, also t(_Hik part in the 
 exercises of the dav. 
 
 Among the active members of the Assonet Temper- 
 ance vSoeietv other than those already named may be men- 
 tioned: Th(jmas Andros, jr., Augustus C. Barrows, John 
 Burbank. Benjamin Burt, Benjamin Crane, Jr., William 
 Carjicnter. Allen Cliace. Joseph Durfee, Jr., lilkanah Dog- 
 gett, Alden Hathaway, Jr., Cuilford H. Hathaway. Am- 
 brose W. Hathawaw lohn T. Lawton, John Nichols. Cur- 
 tis C. Nichols, Thomas G. Nichols, Peter Nichols, James 
 
 2Mt 
 
Phillips. Sylvanus S. Payne. John B. Pariss, .Stetson Ray- 
 mond, E. \y. Robinson. James Taylor and Ephraim 
 Winslow. 
 
 The East Freetown Washini^tonian Temperanee Soci- 
 ety was organized at a meeting held at the Mason Meet- 
 ing House, April ."i, ls4fi. The following officers were 
 elected: Charles Bierstadt. President ; Tracey Allen, Vice 
 President and Reuel Washburn, vSecretary and Treasurer. 
 The first work engaged in by this society was the prosecu- 
 tion of one of the parties thai had i)reviously Ijeen pros- 
 ecuted for rum selling by a committee of the Assonet 
 Temperance Society. He was finally forced out of the 
 neighborhood. Pledge breakers and politics gave this 
 society some trouble and by the records it seems to have 
 expired December ti. 1847 on accoimt of a lack of interest 
 among its members. The following named members of 
 this societv are mentioned in its records: Tracey Allen, 
 James Ashley, Charles Bierstadt. Horatio A. Braley, Fisher 
 A. Cleveland, B. Cushman, Abisha H. Chace, .Sylvanus 
 Cole, John Duffie, .Samuel F. (Treene. Arad T. Leach, 
 Andrew J. Morton. William A. Morton. Hezekiah Mason, 
 Marcus M. Rounseville, John .Spare, (leorge L. Smith, 
 John Townsend. Benjamin G. White. Reuel Washburn 
 and Thomas Whitcomb. 
 
 The Assonet Division. No. 184. .Sons of Temperance, 
 was organized at As.sonet Village May :i4, 18t;i), with 
 George D. Williams as Worthy Patriarch and Don C. H. 
 Hathaway as Recording Scribe. This society had a mem- 
 bership of about forty and was in excellent condition at 
 the time of the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion. 
 Its meetings were often enlivened by visitors from divisions 
 located in neighboring towns. Sixteen of its members 
 enlisted in the army. This .society also had its troubles 
 with delinquents. It surrendered its charter January Iti, 
 1m;4. 
 
 Star Lodge No. 77. Independent Order of Good Temp- 
 lars was instituted at Assonet \'illage .Septemper 11, lsti8, 
 
 -Ml 
 
with fifteen memi)ers. Thomas (t. Xicliols was tlie first 
 Chief Templar, Hattie L. Brij^s^s, \'iee Templar and S. R. 
 Brijjj^s. Secretary- This lodge was removed to East Free- 
 town about the year 1^77, where its membership in- 
 creased to ninety-five. It surrendered its charter May Id, 
 18SU. Reuel \Vashburn was the last Chief Templar, 
 Emma Keen, Vice Templar and (Jenic Bralev, Secretarv. 
 
 Pearl Division, Xo. it:'.. Suns of Temperance was or- 
 ganized at East Freetown July .">, Iss'.i, with William A. 
 Gurney, Worthy Patriarch and Granville S. Allen, Re- 
 cording Scribe. Its charter was surrendered in Xovember, 
 
 Bethel Division, Xo. lit;. Sons of Temperance was 
 organized at Assonet X'illai^'e, Febriuiry S, 1,S94 with Rev. 
 A. L. Bean Worthy Patriarch and Isabel R. Burrell, Re- 
 cording Scribe. There were about forty signatures to the 
 charter list, and at one time the society had about seventv- 
 five memliers. This division surrendered its charter in 
 December. 1M»7. 
 
 Each of these temperance societies contributed its 
 share of good to the cause which it espoused. If they did 
 not entirely stop the use of intoxicants as a beverage in the 
 town, if they did not redeem e\'erv drunkard that lived 
 within their jurisdiction, they surely helped to restrict 
 such use of the former, and saved some of the latter from 
 a drunkard's grave. 
 
 The temperance sentiment of the town today is far in 
 advance of that of fifty years ago. Then drunken men 
 were almost daily seen upon the streets, often disturbing 
 the peace and quiet of the commonwealth by their loud 
 and profane language, some of them at times endangering 
 the life and limbs of our citizens by their cruel and reck- 
 less driving in our streets. These disturbances were some- 
 times intensified and prolonged by young men, who for 
 sport harassed these tm fortunate men in various wavs, 
 goading them at times almost to desperation. Such con- 
 
 242 
 
duct on the part of either party would not be tolerated 
 today. Let us be thankful for this _<^reat improvement in 
 our citizenship and rejoice that the school children of the 
 present day are not obliged to be witnesses of such drunk- 
 en depravity in public places. Decidedly the world is 
 growing better. I )ecidedlv Freetown is better. 
 
 i;kner.\l notes. 
 
 The present Christian Church at Assonet was built in 
 1S:!3. It originally had two front doors, each reached by 
 a short flight of steps. There was a large window be- 
 tween them. A swell front pulpit was located between 
 the two inner doors at the east end of the audience room, 
 the pews faced it, to the ea.st. The windows of ordinarv 
 sash and glass were of the full height and width of the 
 present window frames, were furnished with outside 
 blinds, and each including the large window in front had 
 a fan shaped blind over its top. The blinds were painted 
 green. The south side nf the basement was left open and 
 was used for storing wagons, farming implements, &c. 
 until is-t^J, when it was closed in and fitted as a vestrv. the 
 only entrance being by a door on the south side. The 
 speaker's desk was on the south side of the room. The 
 floor was built on an incline. It had stationary board seats 
 facing the desk. The political meetings of the earlier po- 
 litical campaigns were usually held in this vestry. In 
 IstiT the floor of the audience room was raised several 
 inches, the pews turned, and the pulpit removed to the 
 west end. The windows were altered to their present form, 
 a front door was made in the center, nearly level with 
 the ground, and substituted for the two originally built, 
 and an inside entrance cut from the vestibule into the 
 vestry. Later the original pulpit was removed, a plat- 
 form built across the west end of the auditorium and a 
 portable pulpit substituted. In 1^7."> the vestry was re- 
 fitted, the floor being made level, the desk placed on the 
 
 24a 
 
west side of the room, settees substituted for the station- 
 arv seats, and the outside entranee elosed. 
 
 I'urnaee heat was substituted for that of stoves about 
 Iscii. The Ijell whieh wei;^'hs tliK.) pounds was presented 
 to the soeiety by Dr. lidmund V. Hathaway of San Fran- 
 eiseo, California, a native of Assonet, in ISt;;!. The hole 
 that was burned through the roof of the ehureh bv the fire 
 of |ss<i, and wliieh eaused eonsidei'able damagfe to the 
 eeiliny, was over the rafter that replaced the one broken 
 by the fall of the steeple in the gale of ls<>S. At that time 
 pieces of the steeple penetrated the ceiling and fell to the 
 iioor of the audience room, the rfiain portion of the steeple 
 however rolled off the roof and fell to the grotmd. 
 
 The soeiety was not incorporated until l8<iS. 
 
 The RiAKKKXi) jdiiN BuRiiANR was the son of Isaac 
 and Mary Tisdale Burbank. All his life l(.)ng he was 
 
 identified with the 
 Christian Church in 
 Assonet, which he 
 joined during one of 
 the revivals of re- 
 ligion that took place 
 in the early ministry 
 of Elder James Tay- 
 lor. He soon after 
 decided to become a 
 minister, bttt unfort- 
 unatelv his health had 
 never been robust, 
 and he found himself 
 unable to follow any 
 regular course of 
 study. Finally or- 
 dained as a Christian 
 minister, he preached 
 
 REV. JOHN BURBANK 
 
 244 
 
occasionally throughout his life, supplying the pulpit from 
 time to time in Assonet, East Freetown and Smith Mills; 
 ill-health, however, always prevented him from accepting 
 a pastorate. He was a zealous advocate of iustice and 
 morality, and warmly upheld the cause of temperance and 
 that of anti-slavery. He was noble-minded and sincere, 
 genial in conversation, often elocjucnt and impressive in 
 the pulpit, a man who won general respect through his 
 faithfulness to high ideals. He died in isss at the age of 
 eighty-one years, and lies buried in the grave-yard op- 
 posite the Christian Church. 
 
 The Congregational Church at Assonet was built in 
 ISOS-i). Ebenezer Pierce of Middlebom, now Lakeville. 
 was the master builder. A portion of the timber and 
 boards were brought from Maine in the Sloop Unicorn, 
 Ebenezer Pierce of Assonet, owner, James L. Valentine, 
 master, and George C. Briggs, John Brown and Jack Shep- 
 ard, crew. Benjamin Dean, Sr., carted the lumber from 
 the wharf at Assonet to the building site. Circular seats 
 with circular book racks in front of tlicm were constructed 
 for the choir at the east end of the gallery. Pews built 
 crosswise of the gallery and modelled like those in the 
 bodv of the house, with seats on each side, were construct- 
 ed on the north and south sides of the gallery. A pew of 
 the same model was also made over the top of each of the 
 two stairways that lead from the vestibule to the gallery. 
 These two pews were called the slave pews. They were 
 removed when the gallery was remodelled in IMIT. There 
 was once a sounding board in the church. The original 
 pulpit made on a raised platform, had a paneled frtuit. It 
 was removed when the alterations to the church were 
 made in l.s<',7. The clock in the steeple of the church was 
 placed there in \ss2. It was purchased from Amherst 
 College, the money being raised by subscri])tion. The Rev. 
 George F.Walker who was mainlv instrumental in securing 
 
the clock, set it up, — making the three dials himself - 
 and cared for it during his pastorate. 
 
 "The records of the Congregational Church of Christ 
 gathered in Freetown, in the County of Bristol, and 
 Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England, 
 September ye 30th A. I). 1747," is the way it is written on 
 the title jiage of the record book kept by the Rev. Silas 
 Brett. Before the Province i>f Massachusetts Bav was 
 divided into coimties in lti4;!, it had such divisions, but 
 they were designated regiments, which at and before that 
 date denoted an equal number of general and territorial 
 divisions in the colonv. 
 
 Freetown was the fifth town (organized in Bristol 
 Couiit\'. 
 
 The bounds between Freetown and Tiverton were 
 established June 17, 17ou. 
 
 The easterly line of the Freemen's purchase was the 
 line that divuled old Freetown on the east from Tiverton 
 previous to 1747. when that part of Tiverton was annexed 
 to Freetown and has since been known as New or East 
 Frect(nvn. 
 
 The three telegraph offices in the town are at the As- 
 sonet, liralevs and East Freetown railroad stations. The 
 telephone pay station at Assonet is located in the public 
 librarv building. East Freet(iwn has private telephones 
 but none for public use. The express offices are at the 
 foui' railroad stations. 
 
 The enrolment of Freetown in ISi;;', was 2o.V When 
 recruiting for the war of the rebellion was stopped Free- 
 town had filled her cpiota and had a surplus of four men to 
 her cre-dil. Twent\- of her citizens were commissioned in 
 
 ■J4(; 
 
the armv or navv, ten (if them servin<4' in t\v(i or tiKire or- 
 g'anizations. Eight i)f them tirst served as enlisted men. 
 In rank there was one brigadier-general, one colonel, one 
 major, live captains and seven lieutenants in the army and 
 two chief engineers with the rank of captain, one ensign 
 and two acting ensigns in the navv. 
 
 Captain Levi Rottnseville who marched from F^ree- 
 tiiwn with his c(;impany of minute men Ajjril l'.», 177."), was 
 the father of the Rev. William Rounseville who repre- 
 sented the town of Freetown for ten successive vears in 
 the General Court at Boston, and great-grandfather of the 
 Rev. William R. Alger, a noted author and divine. Lieit- 
 tenant Nathaniel Morton of the same company was grand- 
 father of Hon. Marcus Morton, formerly Governor of 
 Massachusetts; and Private Peter Crapo was grandfather 
 of Colonel Henry H. Crapo, formerlv Crovernor of ^lich- 
 
 Hon. Marcus Morton was Collector of Customs at the 
 port of Boston ft)r four years. Hercules Cushman was 
 Collector of Customs for the district of Dighton 18^3-^5. 
 fames M. Morton was postmaster at Fall River 1853-57. 
 Nicholas Hathaway was postmaster at Fall River 1885-89. 
 
 The barn built by Benjamin Dean, Sr. and later owned 
 bv John Dean, that stood on Water street until ls<')5, was 
 for many years the abattoir for Assonet and its vicinity 
 with Thomas W. Pierce in charge. It also served well as 
 a meeting place for more than half a hundred boys that 
 were born on that street. 
 
 Of the three wharves, commonly called the lower 
 wharves the middle one was built by Ebenezer Pierce and 
 by him sold to Elder Philip Hathaway. Its location was 
 known as the coal landing. 
 
 ->47 
 
Gf.okck W. I'ickens, son of George and Ruth (Read) 
 Pickens was born at Assonet, March 17, ]S2i>. He chose 
 
 the life of a mariner 
 which occupation he 
 foUowed until a short 
 time before his death 
 At first engaged in 
 the coastwise trade 
 he later became mas- 
 ter of a vessel in the 
 foreign trade. The 
 last thirty yearsuf his 
 sea-faring life he 
 spent as an officer on 
 the Fall River Line 
 of steamboats to New 
 York. He was strict- 
 ly upright and honor- 
 able in all his dealings 
 with his fellow men. 
 GEORGE w PICKENS Hc ucvcr failed to 
 
 express his opinion of such shams and frauds as came to 
 his notice, in his own inimitable wav. His flow of lan- 
 guage was rapid and his word painting unique. He was a 
 member of the Congregational Church at Assonet. He 
 married Elizalieth C daughter of Benjamin Dean. Their 
 children were John Wilson, born June '.», islti, Isidore 
 Frances, born Februarv I'.*, 1 .S4S, Clara Washington, born 
 September l'.>, is.M, Benjamin L)ean, born [ul\' l.">, ls."i'.», 
 Benjamin I)ean, born November 1, Istio and Elizabeth 
 Allen, born januarv 1>. lsi<:',. The last three died when 
 Vi)ung. llcdied I'^ebruarx' !i4, Is'.t'.i. 
 
 ■US 
 
An Account 
 
 i l)e Old hloD)e r e^bival, 
 
 FREETOWN, MASS. 
 1902. 
 
Old Home Festival. 
 
 THE first suggestion of the Old Home Festival for Free- 
 town — an occasion memorable in the annals of the 
 town — was made in a meeting of the Assonet Village Im- 
 provement vSociety, and warmly approved. Pursuant to 
 instructions from the Societ}-, a Circular was sent out into 
 all parts of the town, calling a meeting of citizens to iDe 
 held at the Town Hall, Monday evening, March 3d, l!t02, 
 at which "the sentiment (^f our people, whether favorable 
 or unfavorable, might be distinctly ascertained, and that 
 our invitation, if one is to be sent forth, niav represent a 
 cordial welcome from the whole communit\-." It was 
 added that : 
 
 "The old town has abundant reason to be proud of 
 her citizens, adorning stations of eminent usefulness in the 
 neighboring cities and the State and Nation: as they in 
 their turn may well delight in the fair village and the 
 pleasant home.steads from which they sprang. If it shall 
 be decided that our community shall send out the invita- 
 tions that arc to call 'her S()ns from far and her daughters 
 from the ends of the earth,' the result cannot but be de- 
 lightful and memorable." 
 
 The meeting thus called was large, unanimous and 
 enthusiastic, and resulted in the organization of The 
 Festival Association with the following officers : 
 
 President : 
 Major John M. Deane, of Freetown and Fall River. 
 
 Vice-Presidents: 
 His Honor, (leorge Grime, Mayor of Fall River. 
 Charles A. Morton, Esq., East Freetown. 
 Judge James M. Morton, Fall River. 
 Judge Henry K. Braley, Fall River. 
 Andrew J. lennings, Esq., Fall River. 
 Elbridge G. Paul, Esq., Fair Haven. 
 2.50 
 
Corresponding Skcretarv — Rev. Leonard \V. Bacon, Assonct. 
 Recording Secretary — Mrs. Edward H. Kidder, Assonet. 
 Treasurer — N. W. Davis, Assonet. 
 
 Chairmen of Com.mittees: 
 
 On Program, Music and Speakers — Rev. P. A. Canada. 
 
 On Invitation, Reception and Hdspitality — Rev. Leonard 
 W. Bacon. 
 
 On History— Dr. C. A Brings. 
 
 On Decoration — B. F. Aiken. 
 
 On Banquet — Ralph H. Francis. 
 
 On Transportation — Gilbert ^L Nichols. 
 
 On Ways and Means — N. W. Davis. 
 
 The Officers with the Chairmen of Committees, together 
 constituted the deneral Executive Committee. 
 
 CoMMll lEF, ON LWITA'I'ION, RECF.Pno.N 
 
 AND HospirAi.rrv : 
 Rev. Leonard W. Bacon, Mrs. Earl F. Pearce, 
 
 Col. Silas P. Richmond, Handel E. Washburn, 
 
 Geo. B. Cudworlh, Mrs. Edward H. Kidder, 
 
 Miss C. C. Nichols, Milton I. Deane, 
 
 Miss Lucy Evans, Richard B. Deane. 
 
 Co.M.Mi ri EE ON Program, Music 
 AND Speakers: 
 Rev. P. A. Canada, Rev. L. W. Bacon, 
 
 John M. Deane. 
 
 0.\ Hisi'ORV: 
 Dr. Charles A. Briggs, John H. Evans, 
 
 Palo Alto Peirce, Mrs. Helen M. Irons, 
 
 Charles A. Morton, Mrs. Paul M. Burns. 
 
 O.vi Decorations: 
 H. F. Aiken, Miss S. B. Porter, 
 
 Palo Alto Peirce, Mrs. L. W. Bacon, 
 
 Earl F. Pearce, Miss L M. Hathaway. 
 
 On" Banquet: 
 Ralph H. Francis, Mrs. Albert H. Thurston, 
 
 Mrs. C. A. Briggs, Dr. C. A. Briggs, 
 
 Mrs. N. \V. Davis, N. W. Davis. 
 
 251 
 
On Transportation': 
 
 (rilbert M. Nichols, Joseph S. Taylor, 
 
 Francis E. Baker, Harold G. Irons, 
 
 Andrew "SI. Hathaway. 
 
 On Wavs and Means: 
 
 N. W. Davis, Earl F. Pearce, 
 
 J. M. Deane, Harris E. Chace, 
 
 j. D. Hathaway, G. M. Nichols, 
 
 N. R. Davis, Dr. C. A. Bri.a^gs. 
 
 On Fikr\V(jrks; 
 Milton I. Deane, Charles L. Deane. 
 
 On Rk( (jriiing Visitors: 
 Mrs. Charles W. Payne, Miss Georgia B. Cudworth. 
 
 The following ladies were volunteers in collecting and ar- 
 ranging a most successful antiquarium : 
 
 Miss Caroline M. Evans, Miss Mercy M. Hatheway, 
 
 Mrs. N. W. Davis, Miss Helen G. Pickens, 
 
 Mrs. Octavia Pickens, Mrs. David Terry, Jr., 
 
 Mrs. John M. Deane. 
 
 Chorus: 
 
 Director — Rev. L. \V. Bacon. 
 
 Organists — Mr. Alton B. Paull, Miss Mabel G. Bacon. 
 
 Violinist — Miss Florence F. Purnngtim. 
 
 Pianist — Miss Louise Carnoe. 
 
 Sopranos — Miss Elizabeth R. Bacon, Mrs. Charles W. Pavne, 
 Miss Helen H. Irons, Mrs. Sarah A. Balcom, Miss Lucy Walker, 
 Mrs. Frank McCreery, Miss Georgia B. Cudworth, Miss Flor- 
 ence B. Evans and Mrs. E. H. Kidder. 
 
 Altos— Mrs. Ralph H. Francis, Miss Sarah B. P()rter, Mrs. 
 P. A. Canada, Mrs. Frank W. Dean and Miss S. E. Rose. 
 
 Tenors — Earl F. Pearce, Charles W. Payne, Gilbert M. 
 Nichols, Eugene E. Ray and Arthur E. Newhall. 
 
 Basses — Ralph H. Francis, Joseph S. Taylor, Abram T. 
 Haskell and Alfred M. Davis. 
 
It is no more than justice to the Committees named, 
 to sav that from that time forward they devoted them- 
 selves with persistent eners^^y. often to the sacrifice of per- 
 sonal convenience and interest, to securing the success of 
 their patriotic enterprise. 
 
 Under date of April 7th. a Preliminary Announce- 
 ment was sent out by the (.Tcneral E.xecutive Committee, 
 giving a rough sketch of the Festival plans, and inviting 
 suggestions from all tiuarters. Among the items of this 
 .\nn()uncement was the following foreshadowing of the 
 present publication : 
 
 The hours of a single day are not enough tt) include 
 an ample Historical Discourse, treating in full of the pe- 
 cidiarlv interesting annals of the town. Accordinglv our 
 Historical Committee are preparing for the press an Illus- 
 trated History of Freetown — its events and conflicts, its 
 notable citizens and families, its industries and schools and 
 churches. .Such a \-olume cherished in the old homesteads 
 of the town, and taken to their widely scattered homes by 
 our returning guests, will be valued as a souvenir of the 
 Old Home and of the present celebration. 
 
 Among the preparations that deserve to be commem- 
 orated are the organization and training of The Festival 
 Chorus, of about thii-ty voices, all of them volunteers 
 from the two choirs of As.sonet. The Chorus was en- 
 couraged by the generous a.ssistance of the accomplished 
 quartet of the First Church in Fall River, directed by 
 Ciilbert H. Belcher. E.sq.. to give a Concert at the Old 
 North Church on the l;'.th of June, the proceeds of which 
 were devoted to the expenses of the Old Home Festival. 
 The program of this concert, in which the Chorus had 
 the further assistance of Mr. Hawkins of Fall River, 
 "cellist, and of Miss Purrington of Mattapoisett, violinist, 
 is entitled to a place here as part of the rrs ^t^cstcc of the 
 
 Old Home Festival. 
 
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CONCEPT 
 
 OF SACRED AND SECULAR MUSIC 
 
 TKe 7l55onet Fe5liYc\I CI^oru5, 
 
 ■\VnH TUF (;ENKK(irS ASSISTANTE ilF IHE 
 
 FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH CHOIR, 
 
 OF rA.LL E-IA^ER,. 
 
 MRS. J. H. FRANKLIN, MISS F. H. LEARNED, 
 
 Soprano. Contralto. 
 
 MR. ELLIS L. ROWLAND, MR. R. M. HAWKINS, 
 
 Tenor. Basso. 
 
 MR. GILBERT H. BELCHER, 
 Organist and Director. 
 
 MISS F. F. PURRINGTON, MR. C. S. HAWKINS, 
 
 Violinist, 'Cellist. 
 
 AT THE 
 
 OLD NORTH CHURCH, ASSONET, 
 
 Friday EA^oiiiiTo-,,T line 18tli, 1902, 
 
 AT HALF-PAST SEVEN (7 30) O'CLOCK. 
 
 TICICETS, - 25 CEHSTTS E^^CH:. 
 
 FOR SALE AT THE STORES 
 
 The proceeds of the Concert are for the benefit of the 
 •■ ( )ld Home Festival" Fund. 
 
 f*r" Particular attention is requested to ttie early hour ref|uired for the conven- 
 ience of our friends from out of town 
 
PART I. 
 
 Chorus — "Hail to Thee Liberty," (from Seniiramide) Rossini 
 
 Hail to thee, Liberty I hail to thee. Freedom, 
 
 On this great day. 
 Let sounds of melody, let notes of pleasure, 
 Re.sound triumphantly this festal day. 
 Rejoice in freedom this sacred day. 
 
 Yeoman from valley, hunter from mountain, 
 Crowd from gay capital, hermit from fountain ; 
 Arouse thee, great nation, this happy day, 
 Sacred to freedom, this holy day. 
 
 Qu.ARTETTF — "My Faith looks up to Thee," . Scluiecker 
 
 With Violin Obligate. 
 
 Glek — "Swiftly from the Mountain's Brow," . SAVcbbe 
 
 Swiftly from the mountain's brow 
 
 Shadows nursed by night's retire, 
 And the peeping sunbeams now 
 
 Paint with gold the village spire. 
 
 Sweet, oh sweet the warbling throng 
 On the white emblossomed, spray 1 
 
 Nature's universal song 
 Echoes to the rising day. 
 
 Qu.-iRTETTF. — "Stars of the Summer Night," . Hattoii 
 
 Contralto Solo — "Springtide," . . . Berivtck 
 
 With 'cello Obligate. 
 
 TuK Tra.mp Chorus, . . Sir Henry R. Jiisiiop 
 
 Chori s — Now tramp, now tramp, o'er moss and fell 
 The battered ground returns the sound. 
 While breathing chanters proudly swell: 
 Clan Alpine's cry is "Win or die!" 
 
 Solo — (iuardian spirits of the brave. 
 Victory o'er my hero wave. 
 
 DuETi— "Tarry with me," . . . Nicolli 
 
 Soprano and Tenor. 
 
PART II. 
 
 The Soldier's Chorus, (from Faust) . . Gounod 
 
 Glor}- and love to the men ( if old ' 
 Their suns may copy their virtues liold — 
 Courage in heart and a sword in hand. 
 Ready to fight or ready to die for fatherland! 
 Who needs bidding to dare by a trumpet blown? 
 Who lacks pity to spare, when the field is won? 
 W' ho would fly from a foe, if alone or last, 
 And boast he was true, as cowards might do. 
 
 When peril is pa-it? 
 
 Now home again we come, 
 The long and fiery strife of battle over. 
 
 Kest is pleasant after toil 
 As hard as ours beneath a stranger sun. 
 Many a maiden fair is waiting here 
 To greet her truant lover: 
 
 And many a heart will fail and brow grow pale. 
 To hear the tale of cruel peril he has run. 
 
 We are at home ' 
 
 "For All ETERNnv" . . . j\/(7si/nri>//i 
 
 Tenor Solo and Obligate. 
 
 Violin Solo — Selected .... 
 
 Quartette — "The Day is iMidcd," 
 
 With Oblioato. 
 
 /. C. Bartlitt 
 
 Glee — "Hark, Apollo strikes the Lyre," Sir lliiivy K. His/top 
 
 Hark, Apollo stiikes the lyre. 
 And loudly sounds the golden wire. 
 To bid of heaven the tuneful choir 
 Their art divine employ. 
 
 Whose song harmonious shall rebound 
 In echoes from the vast profound. 
 And earth shall catch the charming sound 
 With wide diffusmg joy. 
 
 To "The ( )r(.ler of tlie I )a\-" as ])laeed in the hands of 
 tlie oiiests of tlif town on Wednesday, Jnh' '■'>^K I'.MCJ, em- 
 bellished \\'ith a phot(ioTa\'tire of "The Profile on Josluta's 
 Motintain," were prefixed the followino-; 
 
 •rid 
 
GENERAL NOTICES. 
 
 RENDEZVOUS for Visitors at the Village School-House. 
 
 A Committee of Reception will be in attendance during 
 the day. 
 
 A Register will be provided for Recording Names and 
 Addresses. 
 
 Subscriptions will be received for the Memorial Volume. 
 
 BAND CONCERTS by the Swansea Brass Band at 10.00, l-.>.:iO 
 and 4.00. 
 
 EXERCISES IN THE CHURCH at U).30, •> :!o and T.30. 
 
 BANQUET at l.Oo. 
 
 FIREWORKS at 8.3o. 
 
 ANTIOUARIUM at the Vestry of the South Church, Tuesday 
 evening, Wednesday and Thursday. Admission Ten Cents. 
 
 The Program of Exercises for the three parts of the 
 day was this : 
 
 FORENOON. 
 
 Reception and Responses. 
 
 At half past ten, at the Church. 
 
 FESTIVAL OVERTURE on the Organ, by Mr. Alton B. 
 Paull, a Grandson of Freetown. Processional in D, 
 
 Ginltiiant 
 
 INVOCATION AND THANKSGIVING, in which the devo- 
 tions of the assembly will be lead by the Rev. Bexj.\min 
 S. B.\tchei,or, for seventeen years a Minister of the Gospel 
 in the Town. 
 
 ADDRESS OF W^ELCOME in behalf of the Residents of the 
 Town, by Major John M. Deane, President of the Day. 
 
 RESPONSE in behalf of the Daughter City, by His Honor, 
 George Grime, Mayor of Fall River. 
 
 CHORUS, "Swiftly from the Mountain' Brow,"' .S'. IVrbhc 
 
 Sung bv the Assonet Festival Chorus. 
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LETTERS AND SPEECHES from sons and grandsons of the 
 
 old town, and other visitors and guests. 
 THE SOLDIERS' CHORUS from "Faust," Goiiiiod 
 
 ORGAN VOLUNTARY. Marche Militaire, Gounod 
 
 Mr. Paull. 
 
 AFTERNOON. 
 Banquet. 
 
 In the Town Hall, at one o'clock, during which there will be 
 music in the open air, b}' the Swansea Brass Band. 
 
 The After Dinner Speaking 
 
 At the Church, at -l.'M). 
 Admittance to the church is reserved until -IrlQ exclusively 
 for holders of tickets to the Banquet. 
 
 ORGAN VOLUNTARY, Offertoire in A, Batii/c 
 
 Mr. Paull. 
 ORATION by Mr. Curtis Guild, Jr., of Boston. 
 
 CHORUS, "Hail to thee. Liberty," from "Semiramide," Rossini 
 
 Sung f.y the Assonet Festival Chorus. 
 DUO: Violin and C)rgan. Largo, Handel 
 
 Miss Florence F. Purrington and Miss Mabel G. Bacon. 
 POEM, "The Old Home — a Freetown Ballad," 
 
 By Miss M. E. N. Hathaway. 
 SONG, "Home, Sweet Home," Bishop 
 
 Miss Elizabeth R. Bacon. 
 ODE for the Old Home Festival, by Herbert E. Hathaway. 
 An' — Dif U'ac/U am Rhiiii. 
 How shall we best the work complete 
 
 Begun of old by them that sleep; 
 Who bore the burden and the heat 
 
 And planted that their sons might reap; 
 Who wrought with faith and strength and zeal, 
 
 Nor life nor fortune did withhold, 
 To found secure the Commonweal 
 For us, in peace, to have and hold ? 
 
 Toil did not daunt nor hardship stay ; 
 
 They drew not back, though dear the cost, 
 Looked forward to a better day, 
 
 And lost not hope, whate'er they lost. 
 While steadfast to the truth they saw, 
 
 In duty's narrow path they trod. 
 The Word of God their highest law, 
 
 Their only fear, the fear of God. 
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In conscious right they dared withstand, 
 
 The weight of England's armaments, 
 When Liberty, throughout the land, 
 
 Aroused her sons to her defense. 
 They knew defeat and sharp distress. 
 
 Yet persevered until the hour 
 That brought at last well-won success. 
 
 And gave the world a freeborn power. 
 
 When discord kindled into strife, 
 
 And kinsmen's hands prepared the blow, 
 The Union, hard beset for life. 
 
 Called to her aid the men we know. 
 They answered — not with idle breath — 
 
 They died fur her on land and sea. 
 Preserved her from a living death, 
 
 And kept her one, united, free. 
 
 O honored fathers of the town. 
 
 Who joyed and sorrowed in your day, 
 To us your children handing down 
 
 The light that led you on your way — 
 The constant will to do the right. 
 
 The courage not to do the wrong. 
 And unbound justice, to requite 
 
 With equal hand the weak and strong — 
 
 The heritage that we partake 
 
 Was won by you with toil and pain; 
 Sons of your sons, shall we forsake 
 
 Your ways, and make your labor vain? 
 Be ours the task, with wider view 
 
 The ancient promise to fulfill ; 
 With richer gifts to build anew, 
 
 And leave your fame unsullied still. 
 
 RECESSIONAL, Romance in D, l.cinare 
 
 Mr. Paull. 
 
 EVENING. 
 
 Music 
 
 At the Chtirch, at half past seven o'clock. 
 
 ORGAN VOLUNTARY, 
 
 Miss Bacon. 
 
 GLEE, "Hark, Apollo strikes the Lyre," JUsIiop 
 
 Sung bv The Festival Chorus. 
 
 SONG, "The Old Oaken Bucket," 
 
 Mr. Ellis L. Howland. 
 
 VIOLIN SOLO. Adagio, J/,7/v/ 
 
 Miss Purrfnoton. 
 
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SONG, "The Rosary," Ncvin 
 
 Miss Eliza be ih R. Bacon. 
 
 SONG, with Violin Obligate, Bisliop 
 
 Mr. Ellis L. Howlanu and Miss Purrington. 
 
 THE TRAMP CHORUS, Bishop 
 
 Xow tramp, now tramp, (I'er moss and fell 
 The battered ground returns the sound. 
 
 Sung bv The Festival Chorus 
 
 Soprano Solo by Miss Elizabeth R. Bacon. 
 
 THE PILGRIM HYMN. The people are invited to stand and 
 join in singing this hymn (No. -tOii in the Church Book) to 
 the Old Hundredth Psalm Tune. 
 
 (.) Gud, beneath tliy guiding hand 
 
 ( )ur exiled fathers crossed the sea ; 
 And when they trod the wintry strand. 
 
 With prayer and psalm they worshipt Thee. 
 
 Thou heard'st well pleased the song, the prayer; 
 
 Thy blessing came ; and still its power 
 Shall onward through all ages bear 
 
 The memory of that holy hour. 
 
 Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God 
 
 Came with those exiles o'er the waves; 
 And where their pilgrim feet have trod. 
 
 The ( iod they trusted guards their graves. 
 
 And here thy name, O God of love, 
 
 Their children's children shall adore. 
 Till these eternal hills remove. 
 
 And spring adorns the earth no more. Amen. 
 
 ORCiAN RECESSIONAL 
 
 Miss Baco.m. 
 
 Fireworks about 8:?o. 
 
 Tile weather of tlif auspicious ;'>nth of jalv was just 
 what Freetown and itsguests would h;i\-e desired. Under 
 a sky slightly overcast so as to mitigate the summer heat, 
 from all quarters and bv all convevances the people gath- 
 ered at the Four Corners, where all public buildings and 
 manv private ones were gay with bunting. The intervals 
 of preliminary business were enlivened by the stirring 
 nittsie of the Swansea Band ; and the interest of the various 
 
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parties that stmllcd tlmnigh the village streets was quick- 
 ened bv the inseriptions posted at points of historic in- 
 terest. 
 
 With military punctuality (such as marked all the 
 proceedings of the day, to a degree unusual on like occa- 
 sions) the President of the Day, Major John M. Deane, 
 took the chair at the appointed hour, and after a brilliant 
 organ overture and a prayer of Invocation and Thanks- 
 giving, welcomed the guests of the town in these terms: 
 
 THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 
 
 TTS PRESIDENT of the Old Home Festival organization of 
 /J. the ancient town of Freetown, I extend the most cordial 
 greeting of the town to all of you and through you to all the 
 absent members of your families, wherever they may be to-day. 
 Freetown makes this a very cordial and whole-souled greeting 
 
 and hopes that it will 
 kindle in all your hearts 
 as warm a place for her 
 as she cherishes in her 
 heart for all of her be- 
 loved children, wher- 
 ever fate has placed 
 them. She is joyous at 
 your return today and 
 she will do all in her 
 power to make your 
 visit a memorable one. 
 Her latch strings are 
 ijut. The town is yours. 
 Ransack the old dom- 
 icile to your hearts' con- 
 tent; frolic in the old 
 qarn, the crib and work- 
 shop; wade in brook and 
 river, and romp through 
 meadow, field and forest, 
 as you did of yore. She will respond to your merry laugh, as 
 in the now seldom visited and dusty attic you unearth some of 
 
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 PRESIDENT JOHN M DEANE 
 
the treasures of your childhood, or useful articles of bygone 
 days; notably the old rag doll that grandmother herself made 
 you and upon which your auntie painted mouth and nose and 
 eyebrows, the home-made rocking-horse on which you rode to 
 Banbury Cross, the carts and sleds that always ran into the 
 gutter or fence when you tried to coast, the warming pan, the 
 foot-stove, the bellows, the candle-mould, the candle stick and 
 snuffers, old lanterns and old chests with all their old-time 
 associations and tender recollections. Looms and spinning 
 frames not made by the Masons' or the Drapers', costumes not 
 tailor-made, bonnets not from a man-milliner of Paris, and not 
 the least of all, the old red cradle in which mother and grand- 
 mother rocked you to sleep while they sang lullabys; and the 
 trundle-bed in which you and brother or sister had pillow fights 
 until frightened into silence by grandmother's solemn and awful 
 story of Elisha and the two she-bears. Let the absent ones, 
 whether children, grand-children, great or greater grand- 
 children whom fate keeps from us today, even though they have 
 journeyed to the uttermost parts of the earth, be assured that 
 Freetown takes this special season to think of them and to pray 
 for them. Write to them ; send them souvenirs of this occasion ; 
 say to them that our prayer is that God's richest blessings may 
 be showered upon them, that health, prosperity and happiness 
 may attend them always. We all have reason to be proud of 
 our ancestral home. From it have gone forth many eminent 
 men and women, eminent in all the varied walks of life, from 
 the humble tiller of the soil to governor of our honored com- 
 monwealth ; statesmen, lawyers, doctors and divines, merchants, 
 miners, manufacturers and mechanics, agriculturists, inventors, 
 authors and teachers, captains of industry, mariners and noted 
 captains in the merchant marine both on land and on lake. We 
 had hoped to greet on this occasion that grandson of our town 
 and village whose influence in the world to-day is second to that 
 of no living man — the Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State. 
 (Loud applause.) Her children have always performed their 
 part well, no less in war than in peace. In all the wars in 
 which our country has been involved her sons and daughters 
 have done their full duty. In that greatest of all wars, the 
 War of the Rebellion, she more than filled her quota. An 
 Irishman telling of his services in that war said that he was in 
 
it from Alpha to Omega; that he took part in all the great 
 battles fought by the army of the Potomac; that he was always 
 the last to take the field and the first to leave it. Not so with 
 the youth of Freetown. They were among the first to take the 
 field and the last to leave it. On their banner they can inscribe 
 at the top, April 15th, 1801, and follow with Bull Run, An- 
 tietam, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, 
 Cold Harbor, Petersburg and every other prominent battle of 
 the war and write at the bottom "Appomatox." We are not 
 envious because our daughter — City of Fall River, has so far 
 outstripped us in the battle of life; we rejoice at her phenomenal 
 increase in population and in her great industrial prosperity. 
 Many of our children are living within her borders today, have 
 shared in her increase and have had a part in her upbuilding. 
 She has bestowed upon them a goodly share of her riches and 
 her honors. But it is not my province to go into historical 
 matters: that is left for others; otherwise I might have looked 
 up our kinship in the territory taken from this town in 1S1.> 
 and annexed to Fairhaven. In closing let me emphasize anew 
 the fact that Freetown extends to all her visitors to-day a most 
 cordial welcome. (Applause.) 
 
 The Mayor of Fall River, the Honorable George 
 Grime, being- called upon by the Chair, responded as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 MAYOR GRIME'S RESPONSE. 
 
 Mr. President, Sons and Daughters of Freetown: It af- 
 fords me great pleasure, as the chief executive of the City of 
 Fall River, to be present and participate with you in the joys 
 of this occasion. As has been very fittingly said by your pres- 
 ident. Fall River is the daughter-city of Freetown; not merely 
 in territory, through the setting off of a certain portion of your 
 town in 18u3, but because of the men and women you have 
 given to us making possible whatever Fall River has achieved. 
 I am very sure that every thoughtful citizen when he looks 
 back, either in reading or by thinking, must take pride that 
 Fall River has sprung from such a noble town as Freetown. 
 We look back with pride that Plymouth Rock was the place 
 where the people from Europe, from England and the high- 
 lands of Scotland came and settled; not because it was any- 
 
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thing compared to what has been done since, but because it 
 showed the indomitable spirit of equality and freedom, which 
 (we should thank (lod for it) exists in all true Americans. 
 There is no place on the American continent that exibits that 
 spirit more than this ancient town of Freetown. In the very 
 name of the town was that idea incorporated which lies at the 
 basis of American liberty. The free men who made their pur- 
 chases of this territory were the incorporators of Freetown: and 
 we citizens of Fall River, knowing these facts, look with pride 
 to the old town and say, "From this people we sprung." Per- 
 haps we might say that we have an advantage over the town of 
 Freetown. From whence sprung you ? Who is your mother 
 and father ? We have a mother whom we can point to with 
 pride but where is yours ? So we take pleasure in participating 
 with you in the honors of this occasion. 
 
 I want to say a few words of Fall River. We have a city 
 which is fast assuming proportions which place her in the front 
 rank among the cities of the world. We were only born in 
 180;5. When we get to your age, we hope to have as much to 
 be proud of as you have. When we celebrate our 10()th anni- 
 versary next year, we want you to share with us in our joys. 
 We have been working hard, as you know, in Fall River. When 
 it was started from you, it was not rich nor powerful; but by 
 zeal, industry and toil we have achieved what we have achieved. 
 Notwithstanding people may sometimes say we have no history, 
 we are makers of history: and we will make a history for which 
 no son or daughter of Freetown will ever blush. Mills are be- 
 ing erected to-day costing nearly one million of dollars; and 
 we have achieved this prosperity during the years when some 
 people said that Fall River was not prospering. To-day there 
 is not a working man in the City of Fall River, but can find a 
 place. Never in the history of the City of Fall River has it 
 been more prosperous than today. I say this not to glorify 
 Fall River, but to show you that the daughter-city of Freetown 
 is true to the traditions you have given us, and that we are try- 
 ing to prove ourselves the worthy daughter of this ancient 
 town. 
 
 In conclusi<jn, let nie say, as the chief executive of the 
 City of Fall River, that I thank you, and thank those from 
 whom you sprung, for the noble men and women you have 
 
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given us, and who, as your president has said, are part and 
 parcel of the life of our cil}-. 
 
 The Honorable Henry K. Braley of Fall River was 
 felicitously introduced by the Chairman's reading, from a 
 recent paper, of a high appreciation of Judge Braley 's 
 public services in his judicial office. He spoke as follows: 
 
 JUDGE BRALEY'S ADDRESS. 
 
 Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen — It was not my 
 good fortune to first see the light of day within the limits of 
 this ancient and historic town; but my ancestors hive been from 
 early times connected with its history and my surname is in its 
 records and its every-daj' life. I notice in your program that 
 you have said that the speakers propose to indulge in a fund of 
 anecdote. Unfortunately by my limitations I cannot be remi- 
 niscential and I recognize that my stock of anecdotes is e.x- 
 tremely limited. But as I look about from this platform I see 
 those who will undoubtedly supply what is necessary in this 
 line. It is a very great pleasure and privilege to come here and 
 join with you in recognizing the quiet, forceful lives of those 
 who preceded us. We are here to enjoy the present and to 
 look forward with hopeful anticipation to the future. It is part 
 of the sociological capital of the community and it is felt among 
 all the people of the world. None realize that more, and strive 
 to live it, than those who founded this town and those who 
 founded this nation. The significance of this week would be 
 lost if it were not for the associations of environment in every 
 New England town. We have not lost the racial quality and it 
 must be included in right living and thinking as well as in the 
 suggestions that must arise because of the facts that have made 
 today possible. Some men may be distinguished above their 
 fellows. There are a few people in every generation who walk 
 upon the stage of national affairs and connect their names with 
 legislation or diplomacy which will give them immortality; but 
 the world's work has got to be done by the average man. 
 Whatever may be said of the few who rise, it is true that the 
 plain people go on forever. It is they who govern things. The}' 
 make possible what we are pleased to term the progress of hu- 
 
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manity. It is they who established this township and in the 
 succession of generations we enter into their labors, you and I 
 and every one of us. Lately a different line of thought has 
 been advanced, that by infusion of new blood the political ma- 
 chine is repaired as it wears out. I confess that I am not wise 
 enough to solve that problem but looking in here upon this 
 gathering is it not a just comment to say that the youth of this 
 town has not passed? It is to-day distinctively an Old Colony 
 town, (jo to the Eastern Four Corners and call the name of 
 the Rounsevilles and there would be a response from a living 
 man of like name. While this is true, it is equally true that the 
 future must bring great changes here as elsewhere. The com- 
 posite American will be made up of the blood of all the nations 
 of the earth; but will be none the less distinctively American. 
 He will be a son of self-government, as is this the free man's 
 land and the free man's purchase. 
 
 The men who founded this town and this nation always 
 associated the practical with a high ideal, and always with the 
 hard life on this soil they had the dream of days to come. Toil- 
 ing awav, fearful on the one hand of the forays of King Philip, 
 and upon the (jther getting but a bare subsistence, still they 
 followed that ancient dream of freedom, freedom for their 
 morning star. We judge of the future by the past; and if we 
 and those who succeed us are true to the principles laid down 
 and practiced by the fathers, then future generations shall come 
 here again to an Old Home Week and not only enjoy the work 
 of those who have preceded us, but what we ourselves have 
 done in securing the great blessings which they enjoy under 
 this form of government. 
 
 The Honorable Andrew J. Jennings, being called up- 
 on by the Chair, responded in a speech full of pleasant 
 anecdote and reminiscence. 
 
 HON. A. J. JENNINGS' ADDRESS. 
 
 Mr. President: I hope Judge Braley has given you a war- 
 rant for this call, for I always submit when the court speaks. 
 
 Friends of Freetown, I had not expected to address you but 
 I am pleased to do so. I always had an affection for this town. 
 
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My grand-parents on my mother's side were both born here, I 
 believe, or at any rate lived here. Their bodies now lie buried 
 in your soil. My mother was born here and I was just think- 
 ing whether I was born here or not. I was born in the old 
 town of Freetown which went to the Ouequechan River. I 
 was born on the north side of the river and I have lived on the 
 north side ever since. So I take a pride in claiming to be a son 
 of Freetown. 
 
 I have been looking about, as I sat here, to see the people 
 I knew when I was a boy. Some of the pleasantest associa- 
 tions of my life are associated with this town. I think it is the 
 first place I ever emigrated to from Fall River. They gave me 
 an old fashioned carpet-bag, (it was made of carpet) and I 
 started out for my grand-mothers in Assonet. It seemed to 
 me as if it was a thousand miles from the station to where she 
 lived. I think by the time I was fifteen years old I knew every 
 huckle-berry bush around here from Jael's Bank north. They 
 tell me that my grand-father (who was a sailor and went to sea 
 as captain for Edmund Hathaway, the great business man of your 
 town) sailed for many years and twenty-eight or twenty-nine voy- 
 ages to the West Indies and never lost a sail or a spar. I came up 
 here once in a sail-boat and went clamming. There was a big 
 thunderstorm when we came back and the result was that the boat 
 capsized and we went into the river. It tore the sail and split the 
 jib in two places and I was sitting astride the rudder of a boat 
 full of water. Some disagreeable men told my uncle about it 
 and made comparisons between me and my grand-father, the 
 old captain who made twenty-nine voyages to the West Indies 
 and the grandson who could not go clamming in Assonet River 
 without getting shipwrecked. 
 
 I rejoice with you in this cheerful reunion. I think it is a 
 good thing to have people come back here and get acquainted 
 with one another again. They are men who have gone forth 
 and made their names and done their part in the building up of 
 this great country and in the development of the national lite, 
 and they come back to this soil from which they sprang to give 
 you something of the impulse animating them, that impulse 
 which is always the best and tenderest of the home associations 
 which are connected with the soil from which these men sprung. 
 
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They remind me of the story of Antaeus the giant that was slain 
 by Hercules. The story runs that the earth was his mother. 
 Of the men who wrestled with Antjcus some threw but he 
 would not stay thrown; and the secret of his strength by which 
 he overcame all who came was this: Whenever he was thrown 
 to the earth, this mother of his infused new courage into him 
 and he arose with twice the strength he had when he fell. 
 Then Hercules came along — the embodiment of physical 
 power, labor and courage. Nothing could withstand him. He 
 threw the giant repeatedly, who every time sprang up stronger 
 and stronger; till finally Hercules raised him in his arms off the 
 earth and strangled him in the air. There is a great secret 
 in that story. The man comes back to mother earth and re- 
 ceives new strength and life from her. Occasions like this 
 bring back men from the bustle of life, causing them to think 
 of what their fathers here were, and what they did. Free men 
 came here and bought this wilderness when it was untravelled 
 save by the Indians. They came here into the howling wilder- 
 ness, cut down the trees, and tore the rocks from the soil, and 
 built these stone fences. What incredible labor those fences 
 represent. I had a friend here from California and no matter 
 how much I directed his attention to the scenery along the 
 Taunton River I could not divert his attention from the stone 
 walls. It was to him the most astonishing thing. That men 
 should tear rocks from the soil so that it should be cultivated 
 and build those walls seemed to him unspeakable. That is 
 what those men did. They listened to the yell of the savage as 
 they built this village, and they developed its industries until 
 in 1803 or 1804 you tore it off a few miles north of the Queque- 
 chan River and it became a part of Fall River with a population 
 of 108,000 people. Now in place of the war-whoop of the 
 savage we have the whistle of the locomotive and what is almost 
 as bad, the noise of the automobile. Now we give you the hum 
 of thousands of millions of spindles. Some one dared to ac- 
 complish that. Now the appeal is to the sons and descendants: 
 "What are you doing up here?" Are you doing anything? My 
 ancestors came here and did something to make the place better 
 than they found it. My word to you is, let every man, woman 
 and child try to emulate those ancestors and do something for 
 the spot where we stand whether Assonet or Freetown. 
 
The Reverend John Xiehols of Seattle, Washingon, re- 
 turned on a brief furlough from his Home Missionary work 
 on the Pacific coast, answered the call of the Chairman. 
 
 Mr. President: We have heard a good deal of the lawyers 
 who have come from Freetown, but not much of the divines. 
 They are not very numerous: just how many I do not know. 
 We remember that in early times the sons of Freetown have 
 not always manifested a kindly disposition toward the clerical 
 profession. Looking up the records, I find not so much of 
 opposition to Christianit}' and the church, as of impatience of 
 the interference of the Bay Colony with Freetown affairs. The 
 principles of our ancestors have not been forgotten. 
 
 I did not come to speak as a minister. I want to lay off 
 my black coat and white tie and be a boy again. I am more 
 than pleased, I am honored, to meet again these grandsons and 
 more distant descendants of the town. We are all honored. It 
 is a real home festival to us to see the faces which we have so 
 often seen in the past. This old soil is all familiar to us. I 
 believe I could find my way around even now with my eyes 
 blindfolded. Here we learned to use the oar and here we sailed 
 the pond. In this old school-yard we learned to play ball and 
 threw snow-balls; and we cut our names on the desks in that 
 lower roim. Here we heard the blue-bird sing. We used to 
 have a blue-bird in a basket which we let out occasionally and 
 we heard it sing. All these associations make this place dear, 
 and especially, Mr. President, this opportunity of seeing old 
 faces and grasping the hands we have grasped in the years 
 past. In behalf of these loyal sons and daughters of Freetown 
 who have come back, we want, Mr. President, to thank you for 
 the welcome you have given usand for this opportunity of look- 
 ing around and seeing again these familiar places and the old 
 folks sitting here and the wanderers who have come back again. 
 It has been no small labor, and in behalf of the returning sons 
 we wish to thank you for what you have done. I do not know 
 what more I can say. The New England disposition is very 
 reticent. 
 
 We love this old place because it is our own. It is the 
 place where we belong; and I love it because it has not gone 
 backward and has not forgotten the past. As I have come back 
 
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here in years past I have seen the improvement in this place, I 
 have seen the old Four Corners changed and I have seen the 
 sidewalk put in front of the door; I have seen the old houses 
 painted and a public spirit that was not here when I was a boy. 
 I love this town because of the men who stayed here and lived 
 here and have given life to this town as boys and girls who have 
 grown up here. Mr. Grime told us that Fall River was in- 
 debted to us not only for the land but for the men we have sent 
 to it. In this age we say that the city is the center of all things 
 and is the holder of the key to the future; but the town some- 
 times holds the destiny of the cities. What has made Fall River, 
 Boston and New York ? What has made the professors, preach- 
 ers and lawyers ? It is the country boy. We have had men 
 and women who have gone forth and become powers in the 
 cities of the world. We wish to express our affection for this 
 old town and hope as we come from time to time we shall see 
 the influence of this ()ld Home Week, producing still more 
 power than we have seen produced in the past. 
 
 ISefort' the concluding music, the folli iwing' letter from 
 the Honorable John Hay, Secretary of State, wa.s listened 
 to by the assembly with mingled feelings of pride in the 
 town's illustrious grandson, and regret at his absence. 
 
 Dei'.xrtment of State, 
 Df.ar Sir: — Washington, April Ki, 1902. 
 
 I have received ) our letter of the 14th of April, enclosing 
 a programme of the Old Home Festival of Freetown, and am 
 greatly touched and flattered by your kind invitation. 
 
 It would be a great pleasure to me to be with you during 
 the coming summer, but, as I have already explained to Senator 
 Hoar, who kindly reinforced your invitation with his own 
 authoritative and influential words, it is entirely beyond my 
 power to make any such engagements. My time is fully oc- 
 cupied, and what little strength I have is subject to greater 
 drafts than I can honor. I can, therefore, only thank you most 
 sincerely for your kindness, and express my profound regret 
 that I cannot this year make the pious pilgrimage to which you 
 invited me. 
 
 I am, with very many thanks, 
 
 Sincerely yours. 
 
 Rev. Leonard W. Bacon, (Signed) JOHN HAY. 
 
 Assonet, Mass. 
 
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Promptlv after the conclusion of the Banejiiet in the 
 Town Hall, served by Caterer Victor Gelb of Providence, 
 R. I., and partaken of by 4i»ii people, the Chair was again 
 taken in the North Church by the President of the day. 
 In a few apt words he introduced the Orator, Curtis (iuild. 
 junior, of Boston, who was greeted with an enthusiastic 
 welcome bv the thronged assembly. 
 
 THE ORATION BY CURTIS GUILD, JR,. OF BOSTON. 
 
 The Puritan's Contribution to American Citizenship, 
 
 Like most strong nations, the United States is of mixed 
 stock. Latin and Kelt and Teuton built up the Roman Em- 
 pire; Phitnician and Roman and Gaul and Frank mingle in the 
 Frenchman: Briton and Dane and Saxon bred the Englishman, 
 
 To which of these can it 
 be said that the Amer- 
 ican owes nothing ? 
 
 Washington, Adams, 
 
 Lafayette, Carroll, 
 
 Schuyler, Pulaski, Von 
 
 Steuben, Paul Jones; 
 
 it needs but to name the 
 
 men of the Revolution 
 
 to remind us that the 
 
 blood not of England, 
 
 Scotland, and Ireland 
 
 only, but of well-nigh 
 
 every nation of Europe, 
 
 flowed from the first 
 
 in the veins of the young 
 
 republic. The roots of 
 
 the tree spread far 
 
 asunder, the trunk is 
 
 CURTIS GUILD, JR Upright and one. 
 
 Romance has gilded the settlement of Florida and Canada. 
 
 The glittering coiiqiicstador with [morion and arcjuebus, the 
 
 brave coiirciir de bois in blanket and buskin, are romantic 
 
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figures beside whom the settler of New England, the serious 
 Puritan in sombre brown and gray, cuts an inconspicuous and 
 perhaps unpleasing figure. Polite literature has been none too 
 kind to him. 
 
 Shakespeare caricatured the Puritans in Malvolio; old 
 Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy could find no better terms 
 for them than "rude, illiterate, capricious, base fellows." The 
 one quotation by which Lord Macauley is best known is the 
 smart sentence in which he declares that the Puritans "did not 
 believe in bear-baiting; not because it gave pain to the bear but 
 because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Even Charles 
 Dickens speaks of them as "an uncomfortable people, who 
 thought it highly meritorious to dress in a hideous manner." 
 
 Though the Puritans and the memory of them thus for 
 generations afforded material for those who pander to the 
 thoughtless with caricature, lampoon and idle jest, yet their 
 work and their fame is safe, secured in that consciousness of 
 right that the Latin proverb-maker declared to be a brazen wall 
 against the shafts of slander. Song and play and ballad may 
 chant the praises of the Cavalier, but history belongs to his 
 conqueror. 
 
 The cavaliers who rode so bravely behind Prince Rupert 
 and King Charles have left us a world of romance, but it was 
 the stern faced followers of John Knox and John Hampden, the 
 Scottish Covenanter and the English Puritan, who overthrew 
 the tyranny of kings and left us no legacy, indeed, in the realm 
 of fancy but sound, hard facts in the shape of the rights of the 
 people, the very foundatii.m of the structure of this Republic. 
 
 The gentlemen who sought a Western Golconda at James- 
 town called themselves Adventurers. The plain people who 
 first sought the shores of bleak New England we know as Pil- 
 grims. The Adventurers came to the New World to seek their 
 fortune; the Pilgrims and Puritans to earn it. No weak-hearted 
 wail went up from bleak New England at her early sufferings. 
 Hunger, cold and savages could not turn these brave hearts 
 from their purpose. When the biting New England Winter 
 found them without further supply of food, they gathered the 
 acorns from the woods, the clams and mussels from the beaches, 
 and glorified Ciod, to use the old words, "who had given them 
 
to suck of the abundance of the seas and of treasure hid in the 
 sands." 
 
 To understand the Puritan it is necessary to understand 
 the times that gave him birth. He was not merely the follower 
 of a religious creed that differed from the one originally accepted 
 in Europe. Indeed, though the first few shiploads of New 
 England settlers were agreed, the English Puritans as a body 
 differed widely among themselves, both as to creed and church 
 government. Some were Independents, or Congregationalists, 
 some were Presbyterians, and John Milton was a Socinian or 
 what would now be called a Unitarian. The bond that held 
 these Englishmen most firmly together, indeed, was union in 
 a rebellion, not so much against the religious creed of the Es- 
 tablished Church of England as against the social and moral 
 conditions of the day. The Hundred Years' War and the Wars 
 of the Roses had utterly demoralized the English people. The 
 rise of Parliament and popular government, which had grown 
 to such a height under Richard II., had been not only checked 
 but cut down. England was less free in the sixteenth century 
 than she had been in the fourteenth. The Tudors were despots 
 almost as truly as the Romanoff's. France had become a mere 
 field for plunder and murder by Englishmen and their allies. 
 When Shakespeare, even in his day, speaks of "infants quar- 
 tered by the hands of war," he is not using his imagination. 
 He is describing what ordinarily occurred at the sack of a city. 
 The France that Joan of Arc freed from English rule was in- 
 finitely more wretched than Cuba under Spanish rule. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth was personally a patron of bull-baiting 
 and bear-baiting. So, in her day, were most people. The 
 Maypole, a relic of the most depraved worship of all paganism, 
 was no mere excuse for an innocent dance, but the centre of the 
 vilest debauchery. The Merry Mount and its Maypole at Wol- 
 lastcn was as vile as the so-called Merry Monarch who ruled 
 England under the name of Charles II., and the world was 
 the better when both were removed. 
 
 The Puritans turned to the Bible, not only because they 
 loved its teachings, but because under Henry VIII., it was 
 almost the only book a decent man could read. The foulest 
 tales of debauchery, universally circulated, formed the only 
 
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popular literature, and aided to debase popular morality. The 
 Lord's Day was invaded not by sports alone, but by the wildest 
 license. The laborer, moreover, could not legally enjoy even 
 that day of rest unless his master chose. Public office went by 
 favor; an ex-highwayman was made chief justice, and kings 
 and queens fitted out the ships of pirates and shared their bootv- 
 
 This was the social structure which the Puritan faced and 
 to which he struck the first shattering blow. His faults were 
 patent. He was intolerant m an intolerant age. He was, 
 however, something more than a bigoted sectary who hanged 
 witches and persecuted Quakers. He was a citizen, to whom 
 the duty of citizenship was a second religion. The citizen who 
 came late to the early New England town meetings, the citizen 
 who neglected to attend, was regarded not only morally but 
 legally as a criminal and was fined as such. The Puritan ac- 
 cepted the privilege of liberty only as a responsibility, appre- 
 ciating, as his descendants too often fail to appreciate, how 
 hardly those privileges were won. 
 
 His was the cause of the plain man against the tvrant, the 
 honest man against the rogue, the virtuous man against the 
 rake, the patriot against the plunderer. Faults he had in com- 
 mon with poor humanity of all ages, luit it may at least be said 
 that he was simple in an age of extravagance, austere in the 
 midst of debauchery, honest though ruled by corruption, and 
 sincere thougli subject to a succession of sovereigns constant 
 in nothing but the pursuit of their own selfish desires. 
 
 Such were the makers of New England; such the men to 
 whom we of New England owe more than our country. The 
 greatest heritage they have left us is not the territory they took 
 from the Indians, as the Indians had taken it from the Skrael- 
 ings. They left us their greatest gifts, the New England town 
 meeting and the New England conscience: popular government 
 and the control of self that makes it possible. 
 
 The following is the Festival Poem, read, at the 
 author's request, by the Secretary: 
 
OUR OLD HOME, 
 
 A FKF.K'n i\\ X I'.AI.LAli. 
 
 When this new world was wild and strange 
 
 Beyond our skill in showing, 
 To Puritan and Pilgrim bands 
 
 It furnished room for growing. 
 Their proper sphere they found amid 
 
 Its rude, ungoverned places. 
 With freedom's air on every side 
 
 And earth in ample spaces. 
 One trait in common they displayed — 
 
 These sensible crusaders ; 
 Soldiers and scholars, scribes, divines, 
 
 All, were a race of traders. 
 A continent at market price 
 
 Was here about them lying. 
 And well their talents they employed 
 
 In bartering and buymg. 
 A few of them were hither sent, 
 
 To make reports to others 
 Concerning certain lands this way 
 
 Possessed by Indian brothers. 
 They came and made their errand known. 
 
 Debating long upon it 
 With Weetamoe, a native queen. 
 
 And sachems 'round Assonet. 
 At length the parties came to terms; 
 
 And then our bargain-makers 
 Gave "broadcloth, kettles, rugs and hoes" 
 
 And took exchange in acres. 
 And thus "ye ancient freemen's lots" 
 
 Were duly bought and granted. 
 And soon the settlers of the soil 
 
 Their fields had cleared and planted. 
 And while beneath the sun and showers 
 
 Their crops of grain were growing. 
 They caught and trained the running brooks 
 
 To set their mill-wheels going. 
 Their homes they scattered up and down 
 
 These hills and winding waters. 
 Where they abode with thrifty wives 
 
 And troops of sons and daughters. 
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They venerated gospel rule, 
 
 And young and old together 
 Attended church each Sunday through 
 
 In every phase of weather. 
 The laws they held in high esteem, 
 
 And kept the statutes truly, 
 With stocks and whipping-post at hand 
 
 To punish the unruly. 
 The schools were taught by men of zeal 
 
 Their business well discerning. 
 Who freely scourged the pupils up 
 
 The rugged heights of learning. 
 And so the early people wrought — 
 
 The men of common station 
 Who helped to launch this ship of state 
 
 And found a mighty nation. 
 And from our stalwart pioneers 
 
 The hardy sons descending 
 Through passing centuries here have dwelt. 
 
 Their qniet fortunes tending. 
 And if at n)orn they followed forth 
 
 Ambition's eager calling, 
 They longed to turn their footsteps back, 
 
 As evening's shades were falling. 
 And thus the village grew, and kept 
 
 Its homes of love and dutv. 
 Where Nature with a liberal hand 
 
 Dispensed her gifts of beauty. 
 As fair a spot it seems, to those 
 
 With all its charms acquainted. 
 As that "sweet Auburn," known to fame, 
 
 That English Goldsmith painted. 
 And. touched by years, its gentle scenes 
 
 Are grown historic places. 
 Where children of the age have come 
 
 To seek the fathers' traces. 
 Then let the modern stage withdraw 
 
 Til hnUI its court hereafter. 
 While old-time memories blend with all 
 
 Our speech and song and laughter. 
 And one in spirit, faith and works 
 
 With those who went before us, 
 A kindred clan, we hail the clay. 
 
 And join in heartfelt chorus. 
 
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After the spirited singing of the Ode written bv Mr. 
 Herbert E. Hathaway, a grandson of Freetown, a brief 
 time remained before the appointed hour of adjournment, 
 which, it was felt by all, could not be better occtipied than 
 in listening to our representatives in the national Congress 
 and in the Senate of Massachusetts. The first to be called 
 on bv the Chairman was the Honorable W. S. Greene, 
 M. C, of Fall River. 
 
 ADDRESS OF HON. W. S, GREENE. 
 
 Ladies and (jentlemen: I cannot come to you as a citizen 
 belonging to Freetown but I have lived so long with a daughter 
 of Freetown that I must be acclimated. A few months ago I was 
 called upon to speak at a meeting of the Loyal Legion held in 
 Washington, and was called as a son of Rhode Island. I was 
 a descendant of General Nathaniel Greene and was consequently 
 at home with many members of the Loyal Legion. I could 
 respond here as well as there but not as a son of Rhode Island. 
 My father was a native of Rhode Island, my mother a native 
 of Ohio. They were married in Minnesota, and I was born in 
 Illinois. But I have lived in Fall River since lS-t4 and I claim 
 to be very near to the citizens of Fall River and this common- 
 wealth. 
 
 Consider this country as it was at the time of my earliest 
 recollections. I remember the first train of steam cars that 
 went out of Fall River in 184o, the visit of James K. Polk on 
 July .5th, IsiT, and the men who went from this section in 18-10 
 to California. I was calling upon a daughter of Freetown a few 
 days ago, and she showed me a photograph of some of the men 
 who went to California in 1S40. I recognized three of them 
 men — whom I knew very well, William C. Strobridge, James 
 M. Strobridge and Dr. Hathaway. That old photograph 
 brought back some very pleasant recollections. All my early 
 associations were thtjse who came from Freetown, I thought 
 to myself as I rode through this beautiful town a few days 
 ago what beautiful things surrounded it and how quiet it all 
 was. I strolled by the shore and I found there the hum of in- 
 dustry. I had never been interested in the gun-shop before, 
 but it showed that you had the idea which has permeated all 
 
this section, ^ — the creating- of industry and the providing of em- 
 ployment for the people. So I found this gun-shop where they 
 make the implements not of warfare, but of peaceful sport. 
 
 In (General Guild's remarks he told us of cases of heroism 
 and my attention was called recently to such a case. You all 
 recall the 17th of March when the great disaster occurred on 
 Cape Cod, when the men of the Monomoy life-saving crew 
 started to rescue men from the wreck of a vessel. Eight of 
 them went out to rescue five, and took their lives in their hands. 
 These duties come to men ever}* day and they came to those 
 eight men who went out to save five others. One daring in- 
 trepid man saw another clinging to the boat in those treach- 
 erous waters. He found a dory and threw it into the water but 
 it had no oars. He improvised oars and found that there were 
 no oar-locks. He improvised oar-locks and started out into the 
 waters. Someone said to him, "Don't put that boat into the 
 water; don't get into that boat. If you get in you will lose 
 your life. It is dangerous for you to go; you will never come 
 back." The answer came back, "I can go:" and go he did, and 
 rescued the sole survivor of that terrible disaster. So heroes 
 live today, even while we move about in our usual vocations. 
 Heroes come and heroes take up the battle of life and when 
 these duties come to them they do not hesitate. We speak 
 scjmetimes, as our friend did of the work of the Pilgrims. We 
 today are following out the lines which they followed. They 
 came to this shore that they might find freedom; and when 
 they founl it they were not contented; they wanted someone 
 else to enji^y what they possessed. Today we welcome to our 
 shores people from all the world. We establish our public 
 schools and we provide for their education. We teach them 
 that they can coine from other shores and enjo)' the blessings 
 of liberty under the laws and constitution of the United States. 
 So our duty is to-day to hold up higher the privileges and op- 
 portunities of an American citizen. We find today men in all 
 walks of life who might make great successes in any line of 
 business; many of whom sacrifice time, abilities and give up 
 great incomes which they might enjoy, that they may serve you 
 and me and all their fellow citizens. Look at the vast number 
 in public life and in the cabinet of our country. And all around 
 us we find those who have made the sacrifice and deprived 
 
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themselves of enjoyment with their famiUes that they may build 
 up this great country and nation and strengthen the institutions 
 for which the great sacrifice was made one hundred years ago. 
 The sacrifices of that time are not the sacrifices of to-day. But 
 the sacrifices of those who gave up their health, their strength 
 and perhaps their lives, mean for us great blessings, great priv- 
 ileges and great enjoyment. (Applause.) 
 
 The few mintites remaining before the appointed hour 
 of closing were gladly conceded to the Honorable Rufus 
 A. Sotile, of Xew Bedford, President of the Mas.saclittsctts 
 Senate. 
 
 ADDRESS OF HON. RUFUS A. SOULE. 
 
 Mr. President: I heard you say a few minutes ago that 
 you wanted to close at i o'clock. I feel somewhat as an orator 
 on a certain occasion might have felt. When he arose to speak 
 he asked, "What shall I speak about ?" "About two minutes," 
 came the answer from the audience. 
 
 I am glad to be here toda\\ It has been an enjoyable day 
 because I have met many friends and have learned (what I knew 
 before) that Freetown is one of the grandest towns in this com- 
 monwealth of otirs. I knew that it was a beautiful village and 
 had done wonderful things, but I never realized that the neigh- 
 boring city owed its entire being to its being built up by the 
 good people of Freetown. Every one here today is proud of 
 this grand old town. We are told sometimes that when dis- 
 tinguished men visit our cities the mayor or the chairman of 
 the day rises and says, "We e.Ktend to you the freedom of the 
 city." In this case the very name of the town extends it 
 without any mayor or board of selectmen. It is a grand good 
 name. For the last seven years men have come down from 
 this town to my city, men sent by the party to which I have the 
 honor to belong and have voted for me as a candidate for 
 senator. If this is such a grand town, how proud the men 
 should be whom the citizens have selected to represent them in 
 the general court. I am proud of the fact that men of this town 
 went into the voting places and voted for me without regard to 
 their political affiliations. In my army days I followed the 
 colonel of the regiment who rode a black horse, but I went on 
 
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foot aad carried a musket. I remember good men in that 
 regiment from Freetown. I remember Captain Marble and his 
 stirring words, and I am glad to remember him and to come to 
 his town and join with you in this celebration. 
 
 My friends, my time is up. I am going to stop. Hut I 
 will tell you what my text would be if I were to talk longer. 
 It would be the first four lines of the ode which has been sung 
 and which commences 'How shall we best the work complete?' 
 To you much has been given and of you much shall be required. 
 See to it that the generations which are to come have the same 
 reason to look back and point with pride to their ancestors as 
 we have to ours. 
 
 At the brief Concert in the evening", the old church 
 was, if po.ssible, even more den.sely thronged than during 
 the day. Sustained by the organ, the Festival Chorus was 
 in excellent voice and heart in the two choruses from 
 Bishop. And it is safe ti_> say that few who heard Mr. 
 Rowland's charming sympathetic singing of that "nld- 
 home" song, The Old Oaken Bucket, and the brilliant 
 violin })]aying of Miss Purrington, will easily forget the 
 performance, or will remember it otherwise than with 
 delight. The generous assistance of these accomplished 
 musicians filled up the debt of obligation which they had 
 alreadv laid upon our town bv their former kindness. 
 
 At the close of this hotir of music, the sky was already 
 dark enough for the display of fireworks. The hill-top in 
 the rear of the church was an excellent point of \-antage 
 from which lhc\' cnuld be seen in almost everv part of the 
 village; and for an hour, in rapid succession, without in- 
 terruption or accident uv delay, a brilliant suite of pieces 
 was fired. 
 
 Altogether, a more completely successful popular 
 celebratiiin than this it is diflicult to imagine. And in no 
 part of it had the town better reason to be proud, than in 
 the perfect orderliness and dignity of the great concourse 
 in attendance through the entire day. Not a single in- 
 cident occurred in the whole of it, to be remembered with 
 
 ■-'so 
 
regret. Xot long after nine o'elock in the evening, the 
 last rocket had burst in the sky, and the last Catherine- 
 wheel had fizzed and sputtered and exploded ; and except 
 for the happy gatherings in many a home, the village had 
 settled down into its ctistomary quiet. 
 
 At a meeting of the Freetown Old Home Festival 
 Exectitive Committee, held at Assonet A'illage, Tuesday 
 evening Augtist 12, l!'ii-_', the following preamble and 
 resolutions were unanimously adopted : 
 
 Whereas, The Freetown Old Home Festival held at As- 
 sonet Village July :!0, lOO'-i proved to be an enjoyable occasion; 
 and one that will be long and very pleasantly remembered by 
 all who attended the same; and 
 
 VV/iereas, Much of the pleasure of the day centered in the 
 afternoon exercises at the Old North Church where Mr. Curtis 
 (hiild, Jr. of Boston delivered the oration; and 
 
 Whereas, His ready flow of instructive and highly enter- 
 taining language contributed so largely to the happiness of the 
 occasion; therefore be it 
 
 Resohed, That the Committee for itself, for the Town of 
 Freetown, and in behalf of all in attendance most heartily 
 thanks Mr. Gttild for his valued assistance. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to Mr. 
 
 Guild, and that they be published in the Historical Souvenir 
 
 Volume. 
 
 JOHN M. DEANE, 
 
 Chairman. 
 Leonard \V. Bacijx, 
 Secretary. 
 
 Also at this meeting, it was unanimously voted that 
 the thanks of the Committee be extended to each person 
 who rendered valuable services in connection with the Old 
 Home Day, July :!o, llt(i2. 
 
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INDEX. 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Address — Maj. John M. Deane 
 
 261 
 
 Hon. George Grime 
 
 20y 
 
 Hon. Henry K. Braley 
 
 26.5 
 
 Hon. A. J. Jennings 
 
 266 
 
 Rev. John Nichols 
 
 269 
 
 Hon. W. S. Greene 
 
 277 
 
 Hon. Rufus A. Soule 
 
 27!» 
 
 Ashley, Capt. Albert B. 
 
 82 
 
 Assessors, List of . 
 
 144 
 
 ASSOXET RIVER 
 
 200 
 
 Assonet River, Map of . 
 
 204 
 
 Bacon, Rufus 
 
 118 
 
 Battelle, Hezekiah 
 
 118 
 
 Battle of Freetown 
 
 216 
 
 Bosworth, Lieut. Charles G. 
 
 8:i 
 
 Braley, Dr. Bradford 
 
 12!) 
 
 Braley, Judge Henry K. 
 
 121 
 
 Briggs, Ur. Charles A. 
 
 181 
 
 Briggs, Capt. Chester \V. 
 
 84 
 
 Bristol County 
 
 218 
 
 Bullock, Dr. Jesse 
 
 124 
 
 Bump, Dr. Thomas 
 
 126 
 
 Burbank, Rev. John 
 
 244 
 
 Burr, Capt. James \V. 
 
 8,5 
 
 Carpenter, Dr. William 
 
 124 
 
 CHURCH HISTORY 
 
 29 
 
 Church, Christian 
 
 243 
 
 Congregational 
 
 245 
 
 CLAilBAKE, THE ASSOXET 
 
 50 
 
 Clerks, List of Town 
 
 135 
 
 Cudworth, Capt. Darius A. 
 
 86 
 
 Cushraan, Hercules 
 
 US 
 
 Deane, Major John il. 
 
 88 
 
 Deane, Mary Gray 
 
 96 
 
 Deed of Freemen's Purchase 
 
 212 
 
 Duffee, Lieut. George 
 
 113 
 
 East Freetown 
 
 221 
 
 282 
 
Eddy, William H. 
 
 119 
 
 Fairs, Assonet 
 
 •331 
 
 Fire Department 
 
 228 
 
 Francis, Lieut. Hurapbrey A. 
 
 97 
 
 FREEMEN'S PURCHASE Ye 
 
 3 
 
 Freemen's Purchase, Deed of 
 
 212 
 
 Freetown, Battle of 
 
 21G 
 
 Freetown, Population 
 
 219 
 
 Valuation, isai 
 
 219 
 
 1861 
 
 220 
 
 1902 
 
 220 
 
 FREETOWN, MASS , KiSS-lTSO 
 
 11 
 
 General Notes 
 
 243 
 
 Gilbert's Letter, Col, Thomas 
 
 21.5 
 
 Gold Fever 
 
 237 
 
 Governor 
 
 l.-j-i 
 
 Governor's Council, List of Members 
 
 1.5,5 
 
 Gun Manufactory 
 
 Ifio 
 
 Haskins, Sergeant Charles R. 
 
 97 
 
 Haskins, Lieut. Urial M. 
 
 99 
 
 Haskins, Lieut. Ephraim 11. 
 
 113 
 
 Hathaway. Washington 
 
 117 
 
 Hathaway. Joseph 
 
 119 
 
 Hatheway, Elnathan P. 
 
 120 
 
 Ha the way, Nicholas 
 
 120 
 
 Hatheway, Dr. Nicholas 
 
 125 
 
 Hatheway, Dr. Edmund V. 
 
 129 
 
 Hatheway, Dr. Joseph C. 
 
 129 
 
 Holmes George B. N. 
 
 117 
 
 INDENTURE, AN . 
 
 27 
 
 INDUSTRIES 
 
 158 
 
 Lawton, Chief Enginttr Elbridge 
 
 100 
 
 Lawton, Chief Engineer Andrew 
 
 101 
 
 LAWYERS 
 
 117 
 
 Leonard, William A 
 
 117 
 
 LIBRARY, GUILFORD H. HATHAWAY 
 
 69 
 
 Livermore, Harriet 
 
 28 
 
 Map of Assonet River 
 
 2 14 
 
 Marble, Capt. John W. 
 
 102 
 
 Mariners 
 
 196 
 
 Masters of Vessels 
 
 202 
 
 Mathewson, Capt. James R. 
 
 113 
 
 MILITARY HISTORY 
 
 72 
 
 Ministers, List of 
 
 
 Town Churi.h 
 
 46 
 
 Assocet Baptist Church 
 
 46 
 
 Assonet Christian Church 
 
 46 
 
 Assonet North Church 
 
 48 
 
 283 
 
Morton, Judge James JI. 
 Morton, Governor Marcus 
 Morton, Rev. Albert G. 
 Muster Ground 
 
 Ode, by Herbert E. Hathaway 
 OLD HOME FESTIVAL 
 Oration, — Curtis Guild, Jr. 
 Pastimes 
 
 Pickens, George W. 
 Pierce, Gen. Ebenezer W. 
 Poem, — "Our Old Home" 
 PHYSICIANS 
 Postmasters, List of 
 Railroad Accidents 
 Read, Capt. William 
 Representatives, List of 
 Resolutions of the E.xecutive Committee 
 Richmond. Col. Silas P. 
 RECORD AND TRADITION 
 Roads, Good 
 Sayles. Lieut. John A. 
 SCHOOL HISTORY 
 School Committee, List of 
 Selectmen, List of 
 Senators, List of 
 SHIPPING INDUSTRY 
 Shipping and Commerce 
 SLAVE TRADE IN FREETOWN 
 Soldiers' Graves, List of 
 Sproat, Dr. Henry H 
 Store, Old Corner 
 Temperance Societies 
 Tinkham, Ensign H. Elbridge 
 Town Records, From the 
 Transportation, Early 
 Later 
 Treasurers, List of 
 Turner, Dr. John 
 
 Vessels Hailing from Freetown, List of 
 War Movement of Revolution, First 
 Wetherell, Capt. Hiram B. 
 Wilkinson, Ezra 
 Williams, Capt George D. 
 Wmslow, Lieut. George H. 
 
 384 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Barnaby Homestead 
 
 Barnabv. Residence of Mrs. Samuel S. 
 
 Briggs, Residence of Dr. C. A. 
 
 Burt, Residence of Dea. Benj. . 
 
 Christian Church, E. Freetown 
 
 Christian Church and Parsonage 
 
 Clambake Grove 
 
 Congregational Church 
 
 Congregational Parsonage 
 
 Dean, Residence of William 
 
 Deane, Residence of Maj. John M. 
 
 East Bridge 
 
 Four Corners, Looking North 
 
 Four Corners, Looking South 
 
 Francis, Residence of Ralph H. 
 
 Freetown Records, Facsimile 
 
 (iillert. Home of Col. Thomas 
 
 Grist Mill at Tisdale's Dam 
 
 Gun Manufactory 
 
 Hathaway, Homestead of Capt. Welcome 
 
 Library 
 
 Morton, Birthplace of Governor 
 
 Old Man of Joshua's Mountain 
 
 Pierce, Residence of Gen. E. W. 
 
 PORTR.AITS — 
 
 Aiken, B. F. . 
 
 Allen, Capt. Granville S. 
 
 Ashley, Capt. Albert B. 
 
 Bacon, Rev. L. W. 
 
 Bjlchelor, Rev. Benjamin 
 
 Bosworth, Lieut. Chas. G. 
 
 Boynton, Rev. Francis H. 
 
 Braley, Charles 
 
 Briggs, Dr. Charles A. 
 
 Briggs. Lieut. Chester W. 
 
 Bump, Dr. Thomas 
 
 Burns, Paul M. 
 
 Burr, Capt. James W. 
 
 Burt, Dea. Benjamin 
 
 Burbank, Rev. John 
 
 28.5 
 
 4!) 
 
 132 
 
 37 
 
 43 
 
 41 
 
 50 
 
 44 
 
 41 
 
 68 
 
 93, 94, 95 
 
 158 
 
 169 
 
 169 
 
 199 
 
 222 
 
 15 
 
 161 
 
 165 
 
 191 
 
 69 
 
 156 
 
 9 
 
 104 
 
 51 
 
 151 
 
 82 
 
 29 
 
 33 
 
 83 
 
 48 
 
 143 
 
 131 
 
 84 
 
 126 
 
 164 
 
 85 
 
 37 
 
 244 
 
PORTRAITS — Conlinued 
 Canada, Rev. P. A. 
 Crowell, Mrs. J. F. 
 Ciidworlh, Capt. liarius A. 
 Cudwoitb, (George P. 
 Davis, N. R. . 
 
 Davis N. \V. 
 Davi.s, \V. A . 
 
 Deane, John .M. 
 Deane, Lieut. John M. 
 Deane, Major Ji)}in M. 
 Deane, Mary Grav 
 Duncan, Rev. A. G. 
 Evans, John H. . 
 Evans, Philip H. 
 Francis, Lieut. Huiiiphrev A. 
 Francis, Ral])h H, 
 Guild, Curtis, Jr. 
 Hall, George W. 
 Haskins, Lieut. Urial M. 
 Hathaway, Capt. Welcome 
 Hathaway, Alden, Jr. 
 Hathaway, Guilford PL 
 King, Sinia W. 
 
 Lawton, Chief Engineer Elbridge 
 Leeburn, Thomas 
 Marble, Capt. John \V. 
 Morton, Rev. Albert (L 
 Morton, Gov. Marcus 
 Nichols, Dr. Thomas G. 
 Nichols, Gilbert M. 
 Pickens, George W, 
 Pierce, Gen. Ebenezer W. 
 Pierce, Palo Alto 
 Piummer, Rev. Frederic 
 Plummer, Rachael H. 
 Poller, Nathaniel. 
 Read, Capt. Washington, 
 Read, Capt. William 
 Richmond, Col. Silas P. 
 Sproat, Dr. Henry H. 
 Taylor Rev, James 
 Taylor. Joseph S. 
 Tinkhani, linsign 11 Elbridge, 
 Washburn, Reuel, 
 Wilson. John D. 
 Williams, Capt George D. 
 Winslow, Lieut. George H. 
 
 2N(I 
 
Read. Residt-nce of Capt. Washington . 19!) 
 
 Richmond Residence . . 108 
 
 Richmond Landing . . . 10!) 
 
 Saw Mill at Tisdale's Dam . lOO 
 
 South Main Street ... :i 
 
 South School House, Old . . (M 
 
 Taylor, Residence of J. S. . . . 134 
 
 Town House, Old . . .61 
 
 Town Hall .... i:!:i 
 
 Winslow House . . .19 
 
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