Taunton, Massachusetts
city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
6 dated entries naming Taunton, Massachusetts, drawn from 6 separate years between 1637 CE and 1786 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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17th century
- 1637Elizabeth Poole becomes the first female founder of a town (Taunton, Massachusetts) in the Americas.source
- 1639March 3 – The early settlement of Taunton, Massachusetts, is incorporated as a town.source
- 1675June 26 – The Wampanoag warriors begin a three-day assault on English colonial towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in North America, with an assault on the villages of Rehoboth and Taunton. At the same time, Massachusetts troops march to Swansea, to join the Plymouth Colony troops. The warriors elude colonial troops and leave Mount Hope for Pocasset, Massachusetts. The Mohegan tribe travels to Boston, in order to assist the English colonists against the Wampanoags.source
- 1676July 11 – The Wampanoags attack Taunton, Massachusetts, but are repelled by colonists.source
18th century
- 1774October 21 – The word Liberty is first displayed on a flag raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts, in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.source
- 1786October 24 – General David Cobb of the Massachusetts militia defeats a body of rebel insurgents at Taunton, Massachusetts in one of the battles of Shays' Rebellion.source
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