HISTORY OF COXET, AND THE RICHMOND FAMILY
By Henry Worth

   In tracing the ownership of the larger tracts in Coxet, it will be convenient to consider it in four strips:

1. Barker's Neck between Devoll Pond, and it's Brook, and the Westport River.
2. Between this Pond and Brook, and the road by Asa Howland's.
3. Between this Road, and Simon Brook.
4. West to Quicksand Pond.

BARKER'S NECK

   It has already been explained that in 1694 Mamanewa, Indian, conveyed to William Paybodie, Joseph Church and Edward Richmond, the south part of Curaest (Coxet) Neck, adjoining the West arm called the Harbor's Mouth, and extending north to an old ditch that runs across the neck, and bounded by a small pond. These men were the leading citizens, and proprietors of Little Compton. Having already procured the England title in 1692, they divided Barker's Neck into upland lots of ten acres each, and meadows lots of three acres, and same were sold to different individuals. Those in the south end of the Neck were owned in the Palmer family, and their lands in 1831 were purchased by Philip Grinnell, and comprised 60 acres. Westport Harbor Village is within this tract of land which extended to the Westward between Devoll's Pond, and the Ocean.

   That part of Barker's Neck north of the Grinnell farm about 1800 was purchased from various owners by Major Sylvester Brownell, and in 1852 his grandson, Richard Brownell, sold the same to Gideon B. Peckham.

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