On May 25, the Battle of Freetown takes place in Fall River during the Revolutionary War.The William Reed House, a two-story house, is built on North Main Street.General Marquis de Lafayette stays at the Lafayette – Durfee House on North Main Street while on an expedition to Newport.The population of the Fall River Indian Reservation is about 59 people.Westgate House, an Italianate-style house, is built on Pine Street. The Nathaniel Biffin House, a small Colonial-style one-story cottage, is built on North Main Street.It was later owned by members of the Horace French family in the mid 19 th century. The Valentine-French House, a Georgian-style house, is built for William Valentine on North Main Street.The Ashley House, a Federal-style house, is built on Main Street.The Church-Tory House, a small 3-bay gambrel cottage, is built at 96 French Street.The Lafayette – Durfee House, a Georgian-style farmhouse, is built by Thomas Durfee III on North Main Street.The Borden-Winslow House, a Georgian-style house, is built on North Main Street.The Pocasset tribe takes up residence on their lot of land at North Watuppa Pond, which later comes to be known as the Fall River Indian Reservation.The reason for this exchange is in dispute but some sources say the natives wanted to live together on one large lot of land while other sources say they did not get along with their white neighbors near South Pond. The Massachusetts Legislature passes an act exchanging the native’s two lots of land near South Pond for one large lot of land near North Watuppa Pond.The natives settle on the two lots of land near South Pond in what is now modern Fall River. The Massachusetts Legislature passes an act reserving three lots of land for the use of the local Pocasset tribe to accommodate them after being displaced and to thank them for their service in King Philip’s War.As a result, the members of the Pocasset tribe living on those lots of land are displaced. The colony accepts this offer and takes title to those lands that year. Wilcox offers to settle the fine by deeding the colony three separate lots of lands, a 140 acre lot and a 25 acre lot that border the South Watuppa Pond in Tiverton, RI and a 40 acre lot located on the easterly shore of the North Watuppa Pond in what is now modern day Fall River.Colonist Daniel Wilcox is fined 150 pounds sterling for either illegally selling rum to the local natives or illegally buying land from them, the exact offense is unclear, and Wilcox flees to Rhode Island to avoid paying the large fine.Benjamin Church builds a sawmill on his lot of land, near the falls on Quequechan River, and a settlement soon sprouts up around it.Freetown is incorporated as a town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.Joseph Turner sells his lot of land to Israel Hubbard who later sells it to Benjamin Church.On April 2, the town of Freetown is settled, which is a large settlement that includes what is now modern day Fall River.The lot of land later passes down to his son Joseph Turner. One of the 26 colonists, Humprey Turner, purchases a lot that includes modern day Fall River.The land extends from the Quequechan River on the south to the present northern border of Freeport, Mass. 26 colonists from Plymouth colony purchase 26 lots of land, called the Freeman’s purchase, from two Wampanoag Indians, Wamsitti and his squaw Tattapanum.Prior to being settled by the English, the area is inhabited by the Pocasset who are members of the Wampanoag tribe.The following is a timeline of the history of Fall River: Settled in the 17 th century, it eventually became a booming mill town in the 19 th century and is most famous for being the scene of the unsolved Borden murders in 1892. Fall River is a historic town in Massachusetts.
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