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Title: Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955
Subjects: Cities and towns -- New England Cities and towns -- Great Britain Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Anniversaries, etc New England -- History
Publisher: New York G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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n 1794. The First Church of Yarmouth was foundedin 1639, the early ministers in their order being Rev. Marmaduke Matthews, Rev.John Miller, Rev. Thomas Thornton and Rev. John Cotton, a grandson of JohnCotton. It is particularly interesting to learn that one hundred and ninety-oneIndians attended this little church during the pastorates of Miller and Thornton.The names of those to whom the first grant was made were Antony Thacher(usually spelled Anthony), Thomas Howes and John Crow, who proceeded at onceto organize the town, erecting a fort at Fort Hill near the old cemetery. AnthonyThacher was the oldest settler of the town and the most helpful man in the colony,his descendants being among the leading citizens of Yarmouth and Boston at thepresent day. The farm now owned by a member of the family, Hon. Thomas C.Thacher, belonged to his ancestor, and in his memory in 1905 he and others of hisfamily placed a stone on the supposed site of the old house; the inscription readsas follows:—
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Pmlo(rapk by F. Frith ir Co., England Kindness Inn Forbes-Robertson, Esq. GREY FRIARS ROW, YARilOUTH, ENGLAXDThese ver>- narrow Rows, or alleys, are characteristic of the town. YARMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS 221 Near this Site Lived and Was Buried Antony Thacher He came to America in 1655 from Somersetshire England. Shipwrecked on Thachers Island 1635. Settled in Yarmouth 1639. Three years later the Thacher family gave to the town a road called the Thacher Shore Road, built over what is supposed to be the location of the old Colonial road laid out by the early settlers of Yarmouth. ^Much of it runs through the Anthony Thacher farm. There is an inscription on a tablet placed at its eastern end, worded as follows:— Thacher Shore Road Given to the Town of Yarmouth in memorj of Henry C. Thacher by his wife and children igo8 Thomas Howes later went to North Dennis, where a memorial shaft was set up in 1834 to his memory in the old Howes burial ground and, as it was one of the earliest monume

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