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Orchard Smith Homestead From 1678 Is the Week s Oldest Listing Orchard Smith Homestead From 1678 Is the Week s Oldest Listing A home from 1678? Located about 30 miles west of Boston, this historic retreat in Massachusetts offers plenty of nods to the home s past glory. Becky Bracken, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail If you re yearning for a bucolic country retreat surrounded by natural beauty, we have just the tonic. Join us on a journey back through the centuries to a simpler time. This list of the oldest properties to hit the market this week is filled with showstoppers. For example, take the Orchard Smith Homestead. The oldest of this week s crop dates all the way to 1678, nearly a century before the United States was formed. Located about 30 miles west of Boston, this historic retreat in Massachusetts offers plenty of nods to the home s past glory. ....
To the Editor: My South Kingstown family held the last person officially enslaved here. The history of our town is sometimes uncomfortable, but it must be publicly told. My familyâs involvement began when William Reynolds, my 9-times great grandfather, came to Providence in 1637 and soon began making his money in Bermuda, where after the Pequot War, New England settlers traded goods and local Indigenous People into slavery. In the mid-1600s, Williamâs son James Reynolds and wife Deborah Potter moved south to Narragansett Country, also called Kingâs Country. Their oldest son died during Metacometâs War (King Phillipâs War). Even so, my family thrived at the end of the war by establishing slave plantations. Like other colonists, my ancestors acquired large landholdings after the 1675 Great Swamp Massacre (West Kingston), as the Narragansetts were severely weakened through widespread death and enslavement in the Caribbean. ....