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HISTORY OF COH ASSET. 



pictures, puny flickering candles, no wagons for the 

 streets, no streets for wagons except rutty cartways wind- 

 ing among stumps and stones, — these and a thousand 

 other privations were the lot of the first home-builders. 



Wild animals beset them, increasing their trials. 

 Wolves were so plentiful and so deadly to sheep and 

 calves that a bounty of several shillings was paid many 

 years* upon their heads. Enoch Whiton, in South 



Photo, Mrs. E. K. Ellms. 



Curved Settle with Candle Shelf, Pewter Tankard, Porringer, Flax 

 Wheel, Foot Stove, Candle Snuffer and Pan. 



Hingham, killed as many as eight wolves one year (1687), 

 for which he was rewarded twenty dollars. 



There are at least two wolf pits within our own town 



* In 1648 the town ordered, as the General Court at Boston had required, " that 

 if any man either EngUsh or Indian shall kill a Wolf within the bounds of this 

 town, he to bring the head of the wolf and nail it up at the meeting house, he shall 

 have for every wolf so killed twenty shillings." 



January 1,1664: " It is ordered by the town that any person who shall kill a 

 wolf or wolves within the bounds of the town shall have twenty shillings allowed 

 him for each wolf." 



