Category: Original 6 Purchasers of Assonet Neck

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Original 6 Purchasers of Assonet Neck
Assonnet Neck is the peninsula between the Great River and its Assonet Branch, about two miles long and less than one across. The natives had refused to sell this land to the white people, even if they were permitted to buy. However, the land was seized by the colony to pay for the expenses of the Indian Wars in 1675. On November, 12, 1677, the land was sold by the Colony to the original six purchasers. On May 23, 1680, the land was divided among the six according to Mr. Baylies.

In July, 1682, the Assonet Neck land was annexed by Taunton by order of the General Court at Plymouth.

When Dighton was incorporated in 1712, the Assonet Neck territory was included within its boundaries.

In 1799, probably owing to the inaccessibility of Assonet Neck from Dighton, the area became part of Berkley.

See:

• Emery, Samuel Hopkins. "History of Taunton Massachusetts", Syracuse, NY, D. Mason & Co., 1893, Page 122. On Googlebooks

Walter Deane abt 13 May 1612 Chard, Somerset, England - aft 25 Aug 1693

William Harvey 1645 Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts - abt 1712

George Shove bef 20 May 1634 Lincolnshire, England - 21 Apr 1687

James Tisdale 1644 Duxbury, Plymouth Colony - 15 Jan 1715

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