Seth Spooner

SPOONER, SETH, son of Samuel was born in 1695 at the Spooner home near Parting Ways. He learned the weaver's trade and lived on his father's farm which he inherited but lost by endorsing the note of a snbsequent bankrupt. In 1741 he purchased a farm of Joseph Taber, Jr., in Avhich was only one acre of cleared land, situated north of Long Plain, where he lived for many years in a log cabin. This place has been owned by his descendants to the present time. Here he was a farmer and trader ; a man of usefulness and highly esteemed in the town, where he held many offices. He was the only son of his parents, thereby preserving this branch of the name from extermination. Seth m. in 1719 Rose Clark and had Walter and two daughters. He died 1787 and is said to have been the first laid in the Friends' burying ground at Long Plain.

Seth Spooner was born in Dartmouth, that part of the township, now Acushnet, and died in the same town, being the first person laid in the Long Plain grave yard. He learned the weaver's trade, and lived on his father's place, which he inherited, until by standing surety for his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Sheperd, he lost his homestead. He then, by deed dated June 25, 1741, purchased a farm at the Long Plain (in Acushnet) from Joseph Taber, Jr., with one acre only of cleared land. Here he lived in a log house until late in life, when he was taken into the family of his grandson, Hon. Alden Spooner, who built on the same site. He was, during his later years, insane and sometimes violently so. According to tradition, he was of an enterprising and adventurous disposition, very fond of trading and often losing property by this propensity. He was a man of usefulness and highly esteemed by his townsmen. He served many years in various Town Offices.

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