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opened to the sea. Around Copaum were built the 

 first houses. At Sesachacha have been caught a great 

 many perch. The Wannacomet Water Company now 

 get their supply from the old Washing Pond. Near 

 the Reed Pond Thomas Macy's " modest mansion 

 rose." At Miacomet were washed the sheep. 



In Macy's History is mentioned a mill that was built 

 on Wesco Pond. None of the older people seem able 

 to locate this pond. Some of them, however, agree 

 with the compiler in the belief that the present Lily 

 Pond is all that remains of the Wesco of our fathers » 

 from the fact that when the houses were moved from 

 the site of the first town they were placed in the near vi- 

 cinity of this pond, which at that time must have been a 

 very large one, as is evidenced by the following tradi- 

 tion, related to the compiler by Mr. Albert Easton. He 

 says that his father, George Easton, who was ninety 

 years old at the time of his death, told him that in the 

 early days the Lily Pond was a large lake surrounding 

 what is now known as Gull Island, and extending as 

 far south as the present Egypt Road ; and people used 

 to sit on a rock which was near what is known as the 

 George Brown house, and catch fish. At the east end 

 of the lake, near the residence of J. B. Swain, was a 

 dam and fulling-mill. It so happened that on a certain 

 day a little girl on her way home from school stopped 

 at the dam to play, and commenced making little 

 ditches on the top of the embankment. The dam was 

 full to overflowing; her little ditches soon became big 

 ditches, and the water got the mastery of the little girl. 

 She ran home terribly frightened, telling no one, how- 

 ever, of the accident. The water, left to itself, forced 



