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HISTORY OF CO H ASSET. 



There were twenty-two houses that might send their 

 occupants to a meeting-house if they only had one near. 

 Besides the taxes upon their lands and houses they paid 

 taxes that year upon forty-eight oxen, seventy-eight cows, 

 thirty-one horses, two hundred and thirteen sheep, and 

 fourteen swine. 



The total payment into the town coffers for property 

 assessment was about one hundred and eighty dollars ; 

 and the thirty-six polls, at ten shillings each, made about 

 ninety dollars more. 



This was only one year's experience at the disagreeable 

 business of paying for what they could not -get. 



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Where the Sea lashes the Rock. 



Moreover, these settlers were developing a solid nucleus 

 of a business community. At their harbor or ship cove, 

 as they called it, the enterprise of "shipbuilding" had 

 already begun. 



One George Wilson* had obtained the privilege to 

 build a vessel at the Cove as early as 1708 (May 6). 



* Solomon Lincoln's History of Hingham says that " Wm. Pitts had liberty from 

 the selectmen to build ships and other vessels at Konohasset in 1675," p. 8, note. 



