History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts, with genealogies and notes on persons and estates . >y the reservoir known as Kobinsous rond. Bondet Meadoir is alieautiful spot of a few acres, situated in the southerly part of thetown, and iiaiiied for tlie ftjiiiur owner, the Huguenot VS 1674 INDIANS. 3 Cedar Swamps. These swamps were valued as furnishing fenc-ing stuff, clapboards, shingles and coopers materials. Great CedarSioamp was located in what is now Auburn and was allotted tosettlers in the same manner as were the meadows. Little CedarSwamp lies westerly of Towns Pond, be
History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts, with genealogies and notes on persons and estates . >y the reservoir known as Kobinsous rond. Bondet Meadoir is alieautiful spot of a few acres, situated in the southerly part of thetown, and iiaiiied for tlie ftjiiiur owner, the Huguenot VS 1674 INDIANS. 3 Cedar Swamps. These swamps were valued as furnishing fenc-ing stuff, clapboards, shingles and coopers materials. Great CedarSioamp was located in what is now Auburn and was allotted tosettlers in the same manner as were the meadows. Little CedarSwamp lies westerly of Towns Pond, between that and the river. Products. The soil of the town is moderately productive, thehill lands are good for hay, grazing and fruit-growing, and the plainsbeing a warm alluvial soil are easily cultivated, and yield the commonfarm products, and garden vegetables, grapes, strawberries and thesmall fruits, especially, flourish. Nipmucks. The site of the town is near the middle of a^erritorymainly in the southern central part of Massachusetts, known at thetime of the settlement of Boston, 1630, as the Nipmuck of this tract was then wild hunting ground, but portions werethinly inhabited by the natives whose numbers had been muchreduced by wars with western tribes and fatal disease
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