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The people from Scotland and Ireland, were many of them jBsh- 

 ermen, who have by their descendants continued the business to 

 the present day ; but the first emigrants knew what good cattle 

 were and where they were to be found, and availed themselves of 

 their knowledge and experience when they emigrated to New 

 England. 



The first settlements at Taunton, Massachusetts, were from the 

 old town of Taunton, in the county of Somersetsliire, England, 

 and also from Devonshire, and the country around the Bristol 

 channel. The towns of Pembroke and Swanzey, in Massachu- 

 setts, were named from places of embarkation in Wales ; so was 

 Newport, and other towns in Rhode Island. The old North De- 

 vons, the Long-horns of Wiltshire and Somersetshire, the Ilere- 

 fords, the red Glamorgans, the Pembrokes, the Anglesey cattle, 

 were introduced here at an early period. 



The Welsh people, from the earliest history, have followed the 

 business of breeding and exporting cattle, and the early Pilgrims 

 when they came to New England, procured a large portion of 

 their cattle from Wales, and the country around the Bristol chan- 

 nel. But the Puritans came from Scotland, Wales, England and 

 the North of Ireland to New England, united in one sentiment of 

 religious freedom and hostility to the arbitrary and tyrannical go- 

 vernment of the House of Stuart, which then sat on the British 

 throne. 



The east end of Long Island, including the county of Suffolk 

 to Hempstead, was first settled by people from Boston, in Massa- 

 chusetts; they brought in the New England cattle with them. 

 The town of East Hampton was first settled in 1649, by about 

 thirty families from Lynn, Massachusetts. The town of Hunting- 

 ton was settled by a colony from New Haven, in 1646. Smith town 

 was first settled in 1641; the people first came to Boston, and 

 were originally from Gloucestershire, in the south of England. 

 Southampton was settled in 1640, by about forty families, 

 from Lynn, Massachusetts; these people originally came from 

 Southampton, in England. Fisher's Island and Plum Island were 

 settled with people originally from Hingham, Norfolk county, 

 England. They came in by the way of New Haven. This colony 



