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Author: John Raymond Hall

from the back cover: "During his thirty years of residency in Swansea, John Raymond Hall developed a keen interest in the town's 17th century establishment and in it's early encounters with the Wampanoag Indians. At the outbreak of King Philip's War in 1675, Swansea was the frontier of Plymouth Colony.

"John Raymond Hall pursued this interest during his years as a history teacher in Swansea, his later career in the United States government, and his studies for a master's degree in economic history at the American University in Washington, D.C. His accounts of Swansea's colonial experiences have appeared in several publications. This book contains many of these essays as well as other hitherto unpublished material about Captain Thomas Willet who fouded the town while serving as the first English mayor of New York City."