The Old Dartmouth historical sketches . 9 The Old Dartmouth Historical so- Peleg Sloeum1654-1733 eiety held its twenty-sixth quarterly An Honest Publick Friend meeting on Wednesday evening. Two \ h^u interesting papers were read before »A Daughter of. Xopher Holder a gathering of the members, one , being by Job C. Tripp on The He%i^?^n6 Old Men of . Fairhaven, and the An Original Purchaser other a Bourne prize essay by Miss _ , ,,~ ,-, . Stephen Will cox Irene Belanger on Some Events in Died 173G the History of New Bedford as Re- His Wife Susannah Briggs1672-1719 \ealed in the Collection
The Old Dartmouth historical sketches . 9 The Old Dartmouth Historical so- Peleg Sloeum1654-1733 eiety held its twenty-sixth quarterly An Honest Publick Friend meeting on Wednesday evening. Two \ h^u interesting papers were read before »A Daughter of. Xopher Holder a gathering of the members, one , being by Job C. Tripp on The He%i^?^n6 Old Men of . Fairhaven, and the An Original Purchaser other a Bourne prize essay by Miss _ , ,,~ ,-, . Stephen Will cox Irene Belanger on Some Events in Died 173G the History of New Bedford as Re- His Wife Susannah Briggs1672-1719 \ealed in the Collection of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society. Miss Eelangers paper had been awarded Eliezer Slocum a prize in the competition. \^. „.. His Wite President Edmund Wood, in open- Elephel Fitz Gerald ing the meeting, called attention to Dud li-IS some recent valuable accessions to Benjamin Crane the societys collection. The following Surveyor memorial tablets have been placed in Dartmouth Proprietors position by the entrance door: 1710-1 71i. The Old Men of Fairhaven BY Job C. Tripp Twenty years after 16 20 and withinthe life time of the Pilgrim Fathersthe township of Dartmouth wasmarked out as a most desirable placefor settlement, and a deed was ob-tained from the two sachems Massa-soit and Wamsutta for all the land in-cluded now in the city of New Bed-ford, and the towns of Dartmouth,Westport, Fairhaven, and consideration of which there waspaid to the Indians thirty yards ofcloth, eight moose skins, fifteen axes,fifteen hoes, fifteen pairs of breeches,eight blankets, two kettles, one cloak,eight pairs stockings, eight pair ofshoes, one iron pot and two Englishpounds in wampum. It must havebeen over 250 years ago, when JohnCooke, the last surviving Pilgrim onthe Mayflower and the first white manto settle in our town, came to whatis now the locality of Oxford, in Fair-haven. He was undoubtedly our firstold man; a man of great ability,strictly honest and trustworthy, anda
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