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- He arrived with his brother Robert to the Plymouth colony in about 1628-30. According to Barker, he and his brother "set out from Plymouth colony to make homes for themselves, going by boat along the coast until they came to the North River (near Cape Cod) sailing down this, they reached what is now part of Pembroke, Mass. known as Herringbrook.
Here they camped for the winter and the following spring ground was broken and the house built.
John lived in that part of Plymouth which was set off in 1637 as Duxbury. He was a brickmason and agreed to teach Wm. Barden the trade of a bricklayer, as the end of his time giving him (Wm) ‘20 bushels of corn, 2 suits of apparel and an ewe goat's lamb.'
In 1628 he moved to Marshfield, Mass. and bought a ferry at the Jones River, where he covenanted to keep it ‘at two pence a person until a bridge is built.' In 1643 he was a member of the Marshfield Military Co. under Lt. Nathaniel Thomas; in 1648, he had some disagreement with a neighbor about a buildary line. The court requested John Alden and Miles Standish to ‘set at rights such differences as are betwixt them'" (231).
According to Deane, "He was drowned, 1652. [He had purchased the ferry (now [1850] Little's Bridge] of John Brewster, son of Elder Brewster, 1641, and was there drowned]." [1, 3]
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