Dartmouth Water Division

Dartmouth Water Division Drinking Water Report Info
In 1620, the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth. The positions of the pioneers were enlarged by colonists arriving from the "Fortune" in 1620, and the "Ann" in 1623, and a few different boats of later date. Meanwhile licenses had been conceded by the lord for different states, called the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the land called New England turned out to be generally settled. These were the hard and stern occasions and stringent laws were made by the Plymouth province with regards to the love of God and the general lead of the colonists. Bit by bit a specific gathering defiance to the universal religion of the state looked to split away from Plymouth, and expand by the positions of the individuals from the Society of Friends, ordinarily called the Quakers, settled in the present town of Dartmouth. Dartmouth was settled about November, 1652, however the buy had obviously been made somewhere in the range of a half year before on the grounds that on March 7, 1652, a gathering was held at Plymouth of the owners, thirty-four in number, each offer including around 3,200 sections of land. This deed is marked by Wamsutta, and for the colonists by John Winslow and John Cooke. The deed to a limited extent peruses as pursues: "Massasoit and Wamsutta offered to William Bradford, Captain Myles Standish, Thomas Southworth, John Winslow, John Cooke, and their partners, for thirty yards of material, eight moose skins, fifteen tomahawks, fifteen scrapers, fifteen sets of breeches, eight covers, two pots, one clock, two English Pounds in Wampum, eight sets of shoes, one iron pot, and ten shillings, that land called Dartmouth" The first settlements were in Russells Mills, Slocum Neck, and Smith Neck, called Nomquid by the Indians. Not long after, be that as it may, the colonists ran from the mother settlement and established in Smith Mills, Fairhaven and lastly New Bedford. On March 20, 1661, John Russell obtained from Myles Standish his full portion of Dartmouth. Standish appears to have made a sensible profit on his property, as his offer in the first buy was about $5 to $10, which in the wake of holding for a long time, he sold for about $210. This offer involved what is presently called Padanaram, that is from Bush Street northerly to Russell's Mills Road, and taking in Bliss Corner and region. In all it involved around 3,200 sections of land. In 1664, King Philip, Sagamore of Pokannockett, often called Metacomet, who was the child of Massasoit, unquestionably fixed the limits of the township and the sanction peruses as pursues: "Dartmouth made a towne" At the General Court of Election holden at Plymouth eighth of June, 1664. "At this court, all that tracte of land regularly called and knowne by the name Acushena, Ponagansett, Coaksett is permitted by the court to honey bee a townshipe, and the occupants thereof haue libertie to make such requests as may conduce to theire basic goode in towne concernments and that the said towne honey bee consequently called knowne by the name of Dartmouth.".