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Title: New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Pease, Zeph. W. (Zephaniah Walter), b. 1861 New Bedford Board of Trade Hough, George A Sayer, William L. (William Lawton), 1848-1914
Subjects: Industries -- Massachusetts New Bedford New Bedford (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: (New Bedford, Mass.) : Published by order of the Board of Trade
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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gre, but they are believed to betrustworthv and to warrant the conclusion that the coastwise explora-tions of the Northmen, although seemingly unproductive of lasting orvaluable results, were thorough. Of all the deductions from theserecords, it is impossible to speak so confidently. Ditfering widely asthey do, some of them must be imaginary, and all are undoubtedlyto a great extent fanciful. Yet we do not greatly stretch the imag-ination if we conjecture that the bold northern sailors navigated thewaters of the Acushnet and explored the tbrests on its shores. Twenty years after the arrival of the Mayflower at Phmouth,the dwellers in that colony began to look with covetous eyes on thepleasant land wdiich had delighted Gosnold and his companions.The general court of March, 1639, passed an order that the pur-chasers or old-comers should make choice of two or threeplantations for themselves and their heirs by the December court.The selections were duly made, and one of them, known as the
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12 NKW HEDFORT). sccoiul place, included tiie locality which is now the city of NewI^edford. Hittnot until 1652 was the right acquired by purchasejioin tin- Indians. On the 29th of November, 1652, a conveyancewas made by Wasamequin, an Indian chief, and Wamsutta, his son,of the territory now included in the city of New Bedford and theneighboring towns of Fairhaven, Acushnet, Dartmouth, and West-port. For this large tract of land, the consideration was as follows :Thirty yards of cloth, eight moose-skins, fifteen axes, fifteen hoes,fifteen pair of breeches, eight blankets, two kettles, one cloak, £2 inwampan, eight pair stockings, eight pair of shoes, one iron pot, andten shillings in another commoditie. It has been supposed thatthis other commoditie meant rum and tobacco. On the con-trary, it is urged that the purchasers of this land were not afraid tosay rum when they meant rum, and that the consideration is as likelyto have been something else as liquor. But this aside, the buyers

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