. The story of Anthony Coombs and his descendants . of Gutch was dated May 29, 1660. A few pioneers had preceded them. Near the headof New Meadows River one Thomas Purchas had settledin 1628. He was a fur trader and had associated withhim one Richard Collicutt, and had a grant of land fromKing Charles I. Just where he lived no one seems toknow certainly, but it must have been near the head ofNew Meadows River. His title was so far recognizedthat in the final settlement of titles, some seventy-fiveor eighty years later, a tract of 300 acres was set offfor his heirs. I am inclined to
. The story of Anthony Coombs and his descendants . of Gutch was dated May 29, 1660. A few pioneers had preceded them. Near the headof New Meadows River one Thomas Purchas had settledin 1628. He was a fur trader and had associated withhim one Richard Collicutt, and had a grant of land fromKing Charles I. Just where he lived no one seems toknow certainly, but it must have been near the head ofNew Meadows River. His title was so far recognizedthat in the final settlement of titles, some seventy-fiveor eighty years later, a tract of 300 acres was set offfor his heirs. I am inclined to beheve that his grantwas for a strip around the head of New Meadows River,and included the site of New Meadows Inn of Stevens is said to have bought a piece of landfrom him, which might have been on the west side of thehead of the river, thus giving him an outlet. Stevenscertainly owned land there, for in describing his secondpurchase from the Indians he bounds it on the east byhis own land, and New Meadows River is not mentioned. 24. M M (11 TIIK \k\\ MkADoUS TIIK. ITKl II \SKS OT SKT1 \\ I I II 1111 IK rKuliMill Iti HM> \ K I KS. Tlioinas Jurclias came in i^>jS: liad a uraiil troiii the kint^. Alexander Thwait laine about the saiiu tiiiu-. hut got an Iiuiian iked ini6f)o. Rev. Robert Gutcli : Iiuiian deeii. i^^k). •• Alester Coonilis and Thomas Stephens eame togetlier: probablv witliGutch in 1660. Stepiiens first purchase was from the Indians; second, fromThos. Purchas ; tliirii, from • Rolibin llooil. { See copv of deed. ) Lawson came in i>67. : i. Howard Point, j. Woodward Point, v Fo>-ter Coombs Island. Purchass was not a man of vci y agiccaltlf (lisjtosition,for ho qiiarrtl*vl inucli with his nci^hhois, th!»7. Ilr left three chil-dren: Thomas, Jane, and Kli/ahcth. Thtii tlicrc wasone Thwait, who owned land adjoiniii}^ that of Itcstoryofanthonyco00coom
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