History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America : genealogical and biographical, embracing twelve generations of the first-named family from to 1908, with their marriages and descendants in the female lines as far as ascertained . z contraction ov Taun Town, Townby the River. t The necessity for being armd and redy at any moment for self protec-tion in the wilderness waz evident to the Colonists from the time ov their firstsetlment; but ther waz no generaly prescribd cors for unity ov action untilthe confederation ov the Coloniz ov New England, effected at Boston 29 May,1643.
History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America : genealogical and biographical, embracing twelve generations of the first-named family from to 1908, with their marriages and descendants in the female lines as far as ascertained . z contraction ov Taun Town, Townby the River. t The necessity for being armd and redy at any moment for self protec-tion in the wilderness waz evident to the Colonists from the time ov their firstsetlment; but ther waz no generaly prescribd cors for unity ov action untilthe confederation ov the Coloniz ov New England, effected at Boston 29 May,1643. Therin the several General Courts wer advizd to attend particularlyto the arms and equipments ov the citizens ov their Coloniz, their ammunition,stors, etc., and to report anyualy to the Commissioners. Six anual trainings,at least, wer orderd to be givn thruout the Coloniz. The proportion ov mento be raisd in the diferent Coloniz in case ov war or iminent danjer, waz fixtby the Commissioners at the abuv date as folos: Massachusetts Bay 150;Plymoth 30; Connecticut 30; New Haven 25. Rhode Island and ProvidencePlantations wer not included in the confederation at this time, being alienatedon account ov the diferent religius belief held ANCHOR FORGE, THE ORIGINAL IRON WORKS, 1652Taunton, Mass. From the book Taunton 1639-1889 11*1 * j •?jf&* ^j^4* _7ij Idtl If* Jkft I 1 TAUNTON GREEN IN 1786 From an Oil Painting on a Wood Panel. In the Collection of The Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, Mass.
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