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THE HISTORY OF BARRINGTON.
tween the towns of Bristol and Warren, and was the basis of it. These several fences prevented the cattle, horses and hogs, which were allowed to run at large on the common lands, from makin depredations upon the lands of the Indians, which were not fenced, and also aided in preserving friendly relations between them and their more civilized neighbors.
NAMES OF PROPRIETORS AT SOWAMS, PRIOR TO 1680.
| William Bradford, | John Winslow, |
| Thomas Prince, | Experience Mitchell, |
| Edward Winslow, | Knelm Winslow, |
| Thomas Cushman, | Resolved White, |
| Thomas Clark, | Peregrine White, |
| John Adams, | Myles Standish, Sen., |
| Josiah Winslow, | James Brown, |
| Thomas Willett, | John Saffin, |
| John Brown, | Nathaniel Paine, |
| Stephen Paine, | Stephen Paine, Jr., |
| Joseph Peck, | Israel Peck, |
| John Allen, | Jona Bosworth, |
| Peter Hunt, | Joseph Chaffee, |
| Henry Smith, | Abraham Perrin, |
| Philip Walker, | James Brown, Jr., |
| Thomas Chaffee, | John Vial, |
| Samuel Newman, | Nicholas Tanner, |
| Noah Floyd, | Samuel Luther, |
| Hugh Cole, | John Myles, Jr., |
| John Myles, | William Ingraham, |
| Sampson Mason, | Jno. Butterworth, |
| Obadiah Brown, Sen., | Benjamin Albee, |
| Job Winslow, | John Martin, |
| Richard Sharp, | Gideon Allen, |
| John Paddock, | Nathaniel Toogood, |
| John West, | John Cole, |
| John Thurber, | Joseph Carpenter, |
| Thomas Estabrook, | Anthony Low, |
