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Marshfield was designated part of Plymouth County. Marshfield did not become part of Massachusetts until 1692, when the English Crown forced the Pilgrim's Plymouth Colony to merge with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was seated to the north in Boston. The 1692 charter created the Province of Massachusetts.
Marshfield is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on Massachusetts's South Shore. The population was 25,825 at the 2020 census. [2] It includes the census-designated places (CDPs) of Marshfield, Marshfield Hills, Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, and Cedar Crest, and shares the Green Harbor CDP with the town of Duxbury.
1839 - Marshfield Marshfield, Massachusetts Plymouth county. A pleasant town on Massachusetts bay, 25 miles S.E. from Boston and 15 N. by W. from Plymouth. It is watered by North and South rivers, and has a tolerable harbor, and some navigation. Ship building is an important branch of business in the town.
- Native Tribes
- Pilgrim Settlement
- Pilgrim Peregrine White
- Land Tenure
- Colonial Government
- American Revolution
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Native Americans lived in Marshfield for thousands of years before the white settlers came. These people included members of the WampanoagTribe of the Algonquin nation and members of the Massachusetts Tribe. Evidence of Native American habitation extending back to 9,000 to 10,000 B.C. has been found extensively in the area. Native American roads we...
Marshfield is an early Pilgrim town, originally part of the "New Colony of New Plimoth in New England," which was established in 1620. Marshfield retains some of its historic character throughout its several quaint villages. Marshfield was first established as a separate settlement in 1632 by Edward Winslow, a Mayflower Pilgrim who became a governo...
An early resident of the town was Peregrine White, the first English child born in New England. Peregrine was born on November 20, 1620 on the Mayflower, while the ship was anchored near Provincetown on Cape Cod. This is where the Pilgrims moored for several weeks prior to selecting a location in Plymouth for permanent settlement. Peregrine was bor...
For purposes of settling in the area peacefully, Josiah Winslow secured a deed to the town from the Chief of the WampanoagTribe, Chickatawbut. Chief Chickatawbut granted land rights to the English settlers from Plymouth on the condition that members of the Wampanoag Tribe could continue to hunt and fish in the area in perpetuity. In the earliest ye...
Plymouth Colony was governed by a Governor and a General Court, composed of freemen of the Colony. The term "freemen" included white males, and excluded all women, Native Americans, blacks, indentured servants, Quakers and other religious minorities. In 1685, Plymouth Colony was divided into counties. Marshfield was designated part of Plymouth Coun...
Pilgrim loyalty
In the days of the American Revolution, Marshfield was considered a main hotbed of Tory activity, the most Loyalist town in New England. Although not everyone in the town was a Loyalist, Marshfield was unique in Massachusetts in that for a long while the Loyalists dominated and controlled the town, rather than existing merely as a minority faction. At the time, the Town had a population of about 1,200 residents, some of whom were considered to be very wealthy. The population was still largely...
Associated Loyalists of Marshfield
In December 1774, Marshfield residents formed a Loyalist militia named the "Associated Loyalists of Marshfield." The membership has been described as numbering about 300, comprising the majority of adult males in the town. However, other sources indicate that there were hundreds more affiliated with the group and that "all but six" of the Marshfield men were members of the group. The formation of the group brought hope to the royal government that more Massachusetts towns would follow the Mar...
British occupation
To aid the Associated Loyalists, on January 23, 1775 General Gagesent Captain Nesbitt Balfour and numerous officers leading 114 troops of the regiment known as the "King's Own." They arrived on two armed schooners, the Dianna and the Britannia, of the fleet of Admiral Samuel Graves. General Gage also sent 300 stands of arms and two cannons. After the ships landed at White's Ferry, the troops marched south into the center of the town without meeting resistance. The troops were quartered on the...
Early industry in the town included farming, cattle, fishingand salt marsh haying. Tragically, a number of the town's early families held people as slaves, including the Winslow family at Green Harbor, as well as the Winslow and Kent families at Rexhame beach. Some of the ancient and beautiful stone walls along the fields and roads in Marshfield we...
This constituted the beginning of the town of Marshfield; which, although it contained a very fair proportion of the intelligent members of the colony, was not incorporated until sometime afterwards. List of Freemen of 1643, the earliest settlers: Rev Edw Buckley. Mr Thomas Burne. John Dingley. Mr Nathaniell Thomas. Mr. Wm Thomas.
Welcome to Marshfield. The Town of Marshfield is located in Southeastern Massachusetts in Plymouth County. A coastal community 30 miles from Boston, Marshfield has a yearly population of about 25,000 people which grows to about 40,000 in the summer months. The town’s rich history of over 350 years dates back to the pre-revolutionary war era ...
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The Portland Gale. The "Portland Gale" is the popular name of a major storm which brought much loss of life and property to coastal Massachusetts in late November, 1898. In Marshfield, it is most notable for having changed the mouth of the North and South Rivers, so that they meet and empty into the sea at the north end of the Humarock ...
