. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . ed to said town by Building theNew Workhouse in Bedford in Dartmouth. The story of the naming of New Bedford is a most interesting one. RalphRussell, who came from England, was one of the earliest settlers in the town, beingengaged in the iron business. He was a progenitor of the Russell families of NewBedford and was the ancestor of Joseph Russell from whom New Bedford reallyreceived its name. In 1765 Joseph Rotch, father of William Rotch, moved fromNantucket to Dartmouth to pursue the whale fishery and here he met this JosephRuss
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . ed to said town by Building theNew Workhouse in Bedford in Dartmouth. The story of the naming of New Bedford is a most interesting one. RalphRussell, who came from England, was one of the earliest settlers in the town, beingengaged in the iron business. He was a progenitor of the Russell families of NewBedford and was the ancestor of Joseph Russell from whom New Bedford reallyreceived its name. In 1765 Joseph Rotch, father of William Rotch, moved fromNantucket to Dartmouth to pursue the whale fishery and here he met this JosephRussell. These two men met again on some public occasion in 1787, and in talk-ing about a possible name for the town, Rotch suggested that the place shouldbe called Bedford in honour of a distinguished member of the Russell family, theDuke of Bedford. This suggestion was promptly adopted by the rest of the in-habitants and from that time on Russell was always referred to as the was discovered, however, that there was another Bedford in the state, so that. From a painting by William A. Wall NEW BEDFORD FIFTY YEARS AGO (in 1808)The last building shown on the left of the picture was the mansion of William Rotch, Sr., who is repre-sented in the chaise, the only private carriage then in the village. He was the son of Joseph Rotch whowas one of the founders of the whaling industry which has made the city known throughout the large man in the center of the street, called Water Street, is William Rotch, Jr., the leading merchantof the place, and the man in conversation with him is supposed to be Abraham Russell, grandson of theJoseph Russell, who, with Joseph Rotch, gave the town its name. The two men shaking hands are CaptainR. R. Crocker and Samuel Rodman, Sr. One of the bo>s harnessed to the small cart is George Rowland, Jr.
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