History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . et off and annexed to Leverett. Voted John Montague Dr. Church and Sergt Hubbard a Com-mittee to send to General Court declaring the reasons why we areunwilling Capt Crocker should be set off. Voted to direct the aforesaid committee to employ Elisha Rootto measure the road from Sunderland and Leverett Meeting Houseto the Dwelling House of Capt. Crocker. He evidently wished to be annexed to Leverett, havingbecome disgusted at being warned out of town. In those days
History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . et off and annexed to Leverett. Voted John Montague Dr. Church and Sergt Hubbard a Com-mittee to send to General Court declaring the reasons why we areunwilling Capt Crocker should be set off. Voted to direct the aforesaid committee to employ Elisha Rootto measure the road from Sunderland and Leverett Meeting Houseto the Dwelling House of Capt. Crocker. He evidently wished to be annexed to Leverett, havingbecome disgusted at being warned out of town. In those days the right to locate in a town was onlygranted by a vote of the dwellers already settled there, andCapt. Crocker, although choosing his residence three milesfrom the village, had violated or neglected this local law andthereupon received an official town document warning himout of the towns domains. This violation of the towns right to grant citizenship is byno means an unusual incident. The town records containmany names of respectable families, who had received likenotices. Subsequent action did not follow, unless in course. ^PiST niLLAT NO. Sunderland. HISTORY OF SUNDERLAND, 165 of time, the interloping settler had shown himself unworthyor incapable in neighborhood relations. But the worthy captain resented his warning as a down-right insult. In 1796 or 1797 the two brothers, John and Ebenezer Wiley,came from South Reading, Massachusetts, to Sunderland andlocated at Plumtrees. The elder brother, John, lived intown only at intervals and mingled but little in town middle age in life, or later, he married Anna Cooley,widow of vSimon Cooley; she died August 21, 1818. JohnWiley died at South Reading in 1834. They left no Wiley, who married Catharine Dunn of Framing-ham, lived awhile at Sudbury, Massachusetts, after his mar-riaofe foUowinof his trade as a tanner. He had tweU^e chil-dren, six of whom died in infancy. He built the house, in1811, where his so
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