In his history Wm. Davis states that this outlet for South Pond was not alluded to in the early records, thus confirming the tradition that it was an artificial brook dug under the direction of Elder Thomas Faunce in 1701. Elder Faunce was the son of John, who came on the _Ann_, 1623, and was born in 1647. From 1685 to 1723, Thomas Faunce, the worthy elder of the church, held the office of town clerk and kept the town records. In the 1780’s there was a town effort made to get alewives to come from the ocean up into the Watercourse and into South Pond for spawning. Some sections of the stream were dug and deepened, but I could find no evidence that the project ultimately succeeded.[18] The first Belcher Manter, 1736-1825, came from neighboring Wareham to the south. By his second marriage to Rebecca Palmer he had a son, the second Belcher, 1776-1857. This second Belcher married Sarah Wright in 1799, probably the daughter of Joshua Wright who had a homestead in the vicinity. Their family is close to the John and Phineas Burgess families, since Phineas was one of the administrators of the second Belcher’s estate. The daughter of Phineas Burgess, Ruth Anna, married Benjamin B. Manter. She was the girl who planted the maple tree now thriving in front of the barn here and lived for 105 years, until 1956. The Belcher Manter house also provided the north ell on the front of the Burgess dwelling. This ell had been moved here and attached at an early date. Its foundation stones at its original site match the dimensions of the ell here. This account was given me by Susan Burgess. The event we consider so important, the American Revolution, has little concerning it recorded about the South Pond community except for some names of members of families we are familiar with and their relation to it. Henry Richmond was the owner of the homestead during that time until 1783 when the crisis had passed. Perhaps the proximity of the events that aroused the Boston area were, in the geography of the time, a little remote for close involvement by the rural area of Plymouth. There are the names of a few men associated with the South Pond community who served in the war of the American Revolution recorded in the Veterans Administration files in the Plymouth Town Office Building. Nathaniel Carver, who bought a piece of land on the west shore of the pond from Samuel Wright enlisted on June 6, 1776 and served until August 26, 1779. He served in both the army and navy and was on the sloop _Reprisal_ as well as in the Plymouth Fifth Company Regiment. John Churchill, 1745-1779, was lost at sea. He enlisted on May 28, 1776. Col. Theophilus Cotton, 1716-1782, was a colonel of the First Plymouth Company. He enlisted on June 5, 1775, and was discharged March 31, 1781. Joshua Cotton, son of the third John, 1753-1829, enlisted in the colonel’s regiment and served for three and one half months.