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Rh June, 1663. "It was ordered that these that sett downe att Sowamsett be accounted to belong to the town of Rehoboth." Sowamsett alias Barrington lay adjacent to Rehoboth on the south.

1664. Sept. "It was ordered by the Court that the town of Rehoboth and the naighborhood of Sowamsett, in all levies for publick rates, shalbee considered as one entire township until such time that the said naighborhood shalbee in a capassitie and desire to bee a township of themselves."

In 1665. "It is enacted by the Court that the naighborhood of Sowamsett bee accounted to be within the township of Rehoboth and within that constablerick, and the constable to performe his office within the said naighborhood for the gathering of rates &e. as in any other parte of his liberties."