. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . rown, among others that of Farmer of the Excise forRhode Island. There is a memorial building erectedto him in Bristol, not far from St. Michaels Point Pleasant farm, purchased by Judge Hub-bard, was part of Byfields estate, and its subsequenthistory has a peculiar interest as it touches the lines ofseveral of Rhode Islands most prominent citizens. Old Judge Hubbard had ten children, and one ofthese, Margaret, married one William Vassel, who intime became proprietor of the Point Pleasant was
. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . rown, among others that of Farmer of the Excise forRhode Island. There is a memorial building erectedto him in Bristol, not far from St. Michaels Point Pleasant farm, purchased by Judge Hub-bard, was part of Byfields estate, and its subsequenthistory has a peculiar interest as it touches the lines ofseveral of Rhode Islands most prominent citizens. Old Judge Hubbard had ten children, and one ofthese, Margaret, married one William Vassel, who intime became proprietor of the Point Pleasant was, to use the language of an old Bristol resident,a man of parts. Cultured, agreeable in manners, rich, The Charm of Old Bristol 95 a man of affairs, he seems to have won for himself anenviable place in the esteem of his neighbours. Hewas the son of a wealthy Jamaican planter, and in-herited in that island estates which gave him an incomethat was considerable for that time. Bristol was by that time no longer a part of Massa-chusetts. The change in colonial affiliation had occurred. PAPPOOSESQUAW NECK in 1747 and now the dark days of the Revolution wereapproaching. It was not enough in times when menstaked their fortunes upon their political opinions, thatone should be possessed of wealth, or should be pleasantand neighbourly. The day arrived when it becamenecessary for every citizen to choose which side hewould espouse ; whether he would stand with the Crownor the colonies. 96 Narragansett Bay It might be written of William Vassel as it was ofanother pleasant gentleman eighteen centuries earlier : He was very sorrowful, for he was rich. To decidefor the colonies meant to give up his Jamaica estates;to choose the side of the Crown would be the abandon-ment of his Point Pleasant farm and other Bristol inter-ests. Vassel thought that he might escape a decisionby moving away. The demand that he should comeout openly in support of the new cause was answeredby flight. When the war was
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