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1679 is the year in which a group of investors, the Proprietors, received permission from the Old Colony Court to purchase land for a new town. The land deeded to the original 29 Proprietors was incorporated on June 4, 1686 as “Rochester-Towne in new England”. This was a large tract of land reaching from Middleboro […] Read more »