History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

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1824. Aet. 90. Nantucket gave him birth, Warren death, and
Swansey a grave."
On visiting Christ Church cemetery we find the graves of
Col. Peleg Shearman of Revolutionary time and Richard
Altham, who was a member of the 26 Mass. Regt. Co. C, during
the Civil War. On the Wood monument is the name of
Capt. Levi S. Wood, 10th 111. Cavalry, 1861-1863, who was
buried at Iron Mt., Mo. In a small cemetery at the rear of
Royal Fisk's house on the Hortonville road, is a stone.
Sacred
to the Memory of
Col. Peleg Slade,
who was a kind Husband,
and tender Parent, and a
warm friend to his Country,
he was called upon to
fill many Important
Offices of Town and State,
then died in peace,
Dec. 28th, 1813. Aged 84
Near the Baptist Church at North Swansea is an old
cemetery said to contain some of the victims of King Philip*3
war. A stone here has the inscription: "Here lies ye son of
Jerimiah and Submit Pearse died June 20, 1731 in ye 14 year of
his age and ye first buried in this burying place.
Near the Rhode Island and Massachusetts line on the
Warren road was the boyhood home of Hezekiah Butterworth.
Here in later years he built a Queen Anne cottage. The poet
and author was a lover of Swansea.
A party of Fall River boys who with Orrin A. Gardner
made the trip to Washington in April 1915, held a reunion tramp
Saturday afternoon, June, 1916, starting from Touisset. They
first went to " Riverby, " where they were told about the beginning
of King Philip's war. The house at "Riverby" now
stands on the spot where the first house burned by the Indians
in that war then stood. According to traditions, the house
stood on an old Indian cemetery, and the Indians had become
very much incensed about it. Hugh Cole, the owner, was a
friend of King Philip, who had held them back from injuring
him. FinaUy he told Mr. Cole that he could hold them back
no longer, and advised him to flee. Mr. Cole and his family
started down Cole's River on a raft, and when they were about
opposite the present home of Jefferson Borden, they looked
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