A briefe discription of New England and the severall townes therein: together with the present government thereofMaverick, Samuel
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A briefe discription of New England and the severall townes therein: together with the present government thereof
Maverick, Samuel
New England -- Description and travel; New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
_Cochequo._--On the Sowth side of that Branch is a Creeke Cochequo,
whereon at the head are 2 Saw Mills, and affoord good Masts, & Mutch
Tarr hath been made on that Creeke side.
_Dover._--Belowe where the River parteth stands on a Tongue of Land the
Towne of Dover, for which place and the land adjacent some gentlemen of
or about Shrewsbury have a Patent.
_Oyster Creeke._--On the Northside of the South Arme is Oyster Creeke on
which place are many people setled some Saw Mills and affoords yow Good
Masts, and further up is another Saw Mill on Lamperell Creeke.
_Exeter._--Above this at the fall of this River Pascatoway is the Towne
of Exceter, where are more Saw Mills, doune the Southside of this River
are Farmes and other Stragling Families.
_Strawberry Bank. The Great House & Isle of Shooles._--Within 2 Myles of
the Mouth is Strawberry Banke where are many Families, and a Minister &
a Meeting House, and to the meeting Houses of Dower & Exceter, most of
the people resort. This Strawberry Banke is part of 6000 acres granted
by Patent about y^{e} yeare 1620 or 1621, to M^{r} David Thompson, who
with the assistance of M^{r} Nicholas Sherwill, M^{r} Leonard Pomery and
M^{r} Abraham Colmer of Plymouth Merchants, went ower with a
Considerable Company of Servants and built a Strong and Large House,
enclosed it with a large and high Palizado and mounted Gunns, and being
stored extraordinarly with shot and Ammunition was a Terror to the
Indians, who at that time were insulting over the poor weake and
unfurnished Planters of Plymouth. This house and ffort he built on a
Point of Land at the very entrance of Pascatoway River, And haveing
granted by Patent all the Island bordering on this land to the Midle of
the River, he tooke possession of an Island co[=m]only called the great
Island and for the bounds of this land he went up the River to a point
called Bloudy Point, and by the sea side about 4 milles he had also
power of Goverment within his owne bounds, Notwithstanding all this, all
is at this day in the power and at the disposall of the Massachusitts.
Two Leagues of lyes the Isle of Shooles one of the best places for
ffishing in the land, they have built a Church here and maintaine a
Minister.
_Hampton._--Eight Miles to the Southward of Pascatoway is a small River
called Monoconock, on which River is a large Town called Hampton, The
inhabitants living weell by Corne and Cattle, of which they have great
store, Ther was a Patent granted for this very place to Cap^{t} Mason
neare 40 yeares agoe & this was the first land the Massachusits stretcht
there line over beyond there true bounds: For about 3 miles South of
this place, at there first coming over they sett up a house and named it
the bound House as finding it three miles from Meromack, the North bound
of there Patent, and with this they rested contented for about 10
yeares.
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