Big dig in Chatham finds 17th century settlement
By Ryan Fitzgerald
Posted Aug 24, 2018 at 3:01 AM
CHATHAM -- A team of archeologists is taking a big step backward, to 1656, with a big dig in Chatham on land that was once home to English setters William and Anne Nickerson, and their children.
That was the year William Nickerson bargained with the Monnomoyick tribe to acquire a parcel of land at Monomoit (now Chatham).
The Nickersons were the first settlers in what would be incorporated as the town of Chatham in 1712. The dig at the site of their original homestead is located adjacent to the 1829 Caleb Nickerson Homestead, at the Nickerson Family Association campus, 1107 Orleans Road.
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