The Old Dartmouth historical sketches . h*^ Jtm* ^//ij W0P THE BRIDGE AT ACUSHNET. with rough stones gray with moss andlichen, and now seven in is definitely known about it;most probably it was the burying placeof Indians working for the white set-tlers, but it is undoubtedly of muchantiquity. m About here, also, lay some of thosefair fields and meadows hedged withstately groves, spoken of by Gosnold,where the Indians grew their from the bounds of the oldsurvey, there must have been many from the Indians in 1652 for thirtyyards of cloth, eight moose skins, fif-teen
The Old Dartmouth historical sketches . h*^ Jtm* ^//ij W0P THE BRIDGE AT ACUSHNET. with rough stones gray with moss andlichen, and now seven in is definitely known about it;most probably it was the burying placeof Indians working for the white set-tlers, but it is undoubtedly of muchantiquity. m About here, also, lay some of thosefair fields and meadows hedged withstately groves, spoken of by Gosnold,where the Indians grew their from the bounds of the oldsurvey, there must have been many from the Indians in 1652 for thirtyyards of cloth, eight moose skins, fif-teen axes, fifteen hoes, fifteen pairs ofbreeches, eight blankets, two kettles,one cloth. £22 in wampum, eight pairsstockings, eight pairs of shoes, one ironpot, and ten shillings in another com-moditie. We know that at first theIndians and the new comers dwelt atpeace, but gradually, as was to be ex-pected, dissensions arose, culminatingin King Philips War. On the horrorsof that contest we need not dwell; yet 10 no historian of Acushnet s
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