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Facts and Events
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John Crossman |
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Male |
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to Unknown |
1638. Vol.III, page 13 LR, Plymouth: Here is recorded the Taunton purchase from Ousamequin, that is, Massasoit, "the year one thousand six hundred and thirty-eight". The purchase comprised a plot eight miles square, sometimes called the Tetiquet purchase. A document presented to a town meeting in Taunton in 1680 recites some of the circumstances of the town's beginning. It begins:
Whereas, by the Providence of God, in the year 1638 and the year 1639, it pleased God to bring the most part of the first purchasers of Taunton over the great ocean into this wilderness from our dear and native land and after some small time here we found this place called by the natives the land Cohannet....The Taunton History (1893) says that John Crossman came from Somerset County, England, when he was about 50 or 51 years old and settled in Taunton, Massachusetts, where he was one of the original 46 purchasers of land from the Indians. Later the author says that the name in the original list of purchasers is John Greenman, not John Crossman. John Crossman residence is proved, however, by the following order of 1661 found amoung the papers of the Ancient Iron Works. It proves tha the had residence in Taunton prior to his removal to Providence and probably it was prior to the following 1651 records when he was banished f rom Massachusetts for running amuck in bad language; though his offense perhaps was not so much against God as against the Government for its harsh treatment of the Quakers, whom he later joined in Rhode Island. In the meantime he may have been, and probably was, about the business as a mariner upon the high seas.
Cause of Death:<CAUS> around 100 years of age
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