Identifier: townsofnewenglan00sta (find matches)
Title: Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland ... connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland;
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: (State street trust company, Boston) (from old catalog) Forbes, Allan, 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Cities and towns Cities and towns Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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From a photograph STRAND STREET, SANDWICH,ENGLAND Most of the streets in Sandwich are narrowand winding. WAREHAM, MASSACHUSETTS THE only official correspondence between the Warehams of old Englandand New England took place in 1879 at the time of the bi-centennial ofRochester, now part of our Wareham, when Hon. Thomas Lean Skewesof the English town wrote to our town. There is no question but that the CapeCod town, Uke many others nearby, was named after the old town in DorsetCounty, England, which is a quaint, sleepy village of about two thousand inhabit-ants, dating back to the time when the Romans held possession of England. Itis occasionally enlivened, however, at the time of the election for the local memberof Parliament, when the respective candidates address their constituents from thehustings, as they are called, where many a battle royal has been fought and many
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From li pliolograph Kni-m ... ., . , ST. MARTINS CHURCH, \VAREH.\M, ENGLAXDA rare example of a Sa.xon building, having remained practically intact for over twelve hundred years. WAREHAM, MASSACHUSETTS 203 a head has been broken. The town is very tranquil, as another picture on thefollowing page shows, and all that remains of the ancient days are the huge earth-works of Roman construction which almost surround the town. There is alsoevidence that the place was a British camp even before the Romans landed onEnglish soil and fortified the place. The eastern part of Wareham, on Cape Cod, was known to the Indians as Aga-wam and was sold to the Plymouth colony in 1655, which some years later resoldit to Joseph Warren, WilUam Clark, Joseph Bartlett, Josiah Morton, Isaac Littleand Seth Pope. The western part belonged to Rochester, and in the year 1739both tracts of land were incorporated under the name of Wareham. The earliestpermanent settlers, however, came from Hingham, Massachusetts, chie

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