History Remembered – “In 1661, at the June session of the Colony Court, Thomas Prence, the Governor, residing at Eastham, was allowed permission to purchase land of the Indians at Sauquatucket for his mill there.” And so The History of Harwich signals the first taking of land by the Plymouth Colony in what is today Brewster. In 1663 Gov. Prence acquired roughly 50 acres from Sachemas, chief of the resident Sauquatucket Indians. The history describes the boundaries: “Bounded upon the west by the Mill Brook (Stony Brook); on the
south by the Great Pond (Lower Mill Pond); on the easterly side with the Indian fence running from said Great Pond to a little pond called Poquagoo (Smith Pond); and from said little pond through a small valley and swamp to Stoney Brook River.”