History of Seekonk, Massachusetts, USA

Seekonk, Massachusetts
Bristol county. This town is watered by Seekonk, or Pawtucket river, also by Ten mile river, a good mill stream. It lies 41 miles S. from Boston, 4 E. by N. from Providence, R.I., and 14 S.W. from Taunton. It was taken from Rehoboth in 1812. Population, 1837, 2,016. There are three cotton mills in the town, which constitute the principal manufactures; the annual value of which is about $80,000.

Seekonk is one of the few towns that retain their Indian name. Seekonk is said to mean ' a wild goose.'

This town was the most ancient part of Rehoboth, and was reduced to ashes in Philip's War. Captain Pierce, of Scituate, and his company of sixty-three men, had been surprised and slain in the vicinity two days before.

The chief article of manufacture is cotton, but to no great amount.

Distance from Taunton, 14 miles; from Boston, 41.

Seekoxk, a post-village in Bristol co., Massachusetts, near Blackstone river, on the Boston and Providence railroad, 6 miles E.by N. from Providence. Pop. of the township, 2243.

Seekonk is a long and narrow farming town in the northwesterly part of Bristol County, about 40 miles southwest of Boston. The Boston and Providence Division of the Old Colony Railroad passes through its northwestern corner. The post-office is Seekonk, located in the southwestern part. East Providence post-office is used for the northern part of the town. The villages are Central Village, Lebanon, North Seekonk and South Seekonk. Its boundaries are Attleborough on the north, Rehoboth on the east, Swansey on the south, and East Providence and Pawtucket, in R. I., on the west. The form of the town is like the blade of a case-knife, having the point at the southeast, being about 8 miles in length and 2 in width. The assessed area is 11,016 acres; the wood-land comprising upwards of 4,000.

The geological formation is carboniferous, in which some iron-ore has been found. There is a fine pond of about 25 acres on the line at the extreme northwest, whose outlet is Ten-mile River; which...

See’konk, a post-office of Bristol co, Mass., in Seekonk township, 4 miles E.S.E. of Providence, R.I. The township contains a church. Pop. of township, 1317.

Seekonk. - This was the eighteenth town formed in Bristol county and was set off from old Rehoboth on February 26, 1812. there was no territorial change in the town until April 10, 1861, when a part of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and certain lands over which Seekonk claimed jurisdiction, lying east of a line to be determined by the Supreme Court of the United States, was annexed. This was created a municipal district on January 29, 1862, which district passed out of existence when the town officers of Seekonk were elected and qualified.

Seekonk is on the west border of the county, north of the center, and is bounded on the north by Attleborough, on the east by Rehoboth, on the south by Swansea, and on the west by Rhode Island. It constitutes a part of the Twelfth Congressional District, and with Attleborough, North Attleborough, Norton, and Rehoboth, forms the First Representative District, with 4,663 legal voters, entitling the district to two representatives. The population...