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Title: New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: New Bedford (Mass.). Board of Trade Pease, Zeph. W. (Zephaniah Walter), b. 1861 Hough, George A Sayer, William L. (William Lawton), 1848-1914
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Publisher: (New Bedford) Mercury publishing company, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t to posterity to pay, on the ground that futuregenerations would reap the benefit and must therefore foot the bills.The selectmen refused to assess the tax which had been ordered bythe assembly. They were imprisoned in Bristol jail for eighteenmonths, but the appeal to the king resulted in their release and theorder that the obnoxious taxes be remitted. Thus ended a strugglefor religious liberty the importance of which can hardly be over-estimated. On both sides it was waged by patriotic and conscien-tious men, but it must ever be occasion for honest pride to thedwellers in Dartmouth and her daughter municipalities that thepioneers within her borders stood firmly and successfully for theprinciple of complete independence of the Christian church from thedomination or guidance of the state. King Philips war was the occasion of much distress to the inhab-itants of this region. This is not the place to enter into an extendedaccount of that last struggle of the Indians of southeastern New
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^^^^4^ PAGES OF HISTORY 17 England to retain possession of their hunting grounds. While itlasted, it was bitter and relentless. It extended over a considerablepart of eastern Massachusetts, but it is recorded that no other por-tion of the territory was so devastated as that on which New Bedfordstands. One historian of the time wrote that Dartmouths distressesrequired succour, great part of the town being laid desolate and manyof the inhabitants killed ; the most of Plymouth forces were orderedthither. Tradition says that the dwelling of every white personwithin the limits of the town was destroyed. However, after thedeath of Philip and the dispersion of his followers, the town appearsto have quickly recovered. After the close of King Philips war, the settlers b)- the Appone-gansett turned their attention to the shores of the Acushnet. Sometime prior to 1711, Joseph Russell, son of the John Russell whoestablished the iron Ibr^e at Russells Mills, came here and residedat what is now the

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