Misquamicut. 16690.
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bout 1660 six Newport men were granted a “patentroyal” to a certain fertile valley on the western border ofthe Colony. This tract first bore the name Misquamicut.This later was changed to Westerly. The tract of land covered by the grant was ten mileswide by twenty miles long. It was divided into eighteenshares of which Edward Larkin purchased one quarter ofone share. This made him proprietor of approximatelyeighteen hundred acres of land. The first settlers seem to have taken possession in 166T. The old Misquamicut boundaries include the presenttownships of Westerly, Charlestown, Richmond and Hop- kinton.For two and a half centuries this spot has been the home of the Larkin family.
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