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John Wing of Rochester

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John Wing (c1683 – 1717)

After the close of the King Philip war in 1677, new impetus was given to the settlement of the lands on the west shore of Buzzard’s Bay…. Freeman in his “History of Cape Cod” says that between the years 1684 and 1689 … John Wing … became actual settlers (of Sippican, now Rochester). We have it on record however, that John Wing owned land at Mettapoisett which he sold to William Randall as early as April 17, 1683. In this deed (book 4, folio 47, Plymouth Records) he is styled “John Wing of Sippican, cooper.”

John Wing took the oath of fidelity at Sandwich and was admitted a townsman in 1681. His marriage to a daughter of the house of Spooner occurred soon after, and we imagine that he made his settlement at Sippican about the year 1682.

His home was at Great Hill upon the extreme point of a neck of land extending far out into Buzzzard’s Bay from the west shore, known for many years as “Wing’s Neck.” Directly across the bay a few miles, his cousin, Nathaniel Wing, had made a settlement about the same time as his own. Nothing but the ever lasting sands of Cape Cod could ever have induced young John Wing to establish himself at Great Hill. The soil is stony, sandy, and poor. The settlement at Sippican was first made along the Sippican River, and it was not until 1686 that it was incorporated under the title of “Rochester in the County of Barnstable,” but it was soon set off to Plymouth County and has since been divided into several towns…..

The site of the home of John Wing at Great Hill is now an extensive park enclosed in a high stone wall, handsomely laid out and with buildings, erected by a New York merchant named Searles, who planned here a magnificent estate. The place was probably selected by Mr. Wing because of its proximity to the water, which then must have been the principal highway for travel. (Owl

Joseph, a son of John and Martha (Spooner) Wing… resided as a farmer on the paternal estate in Rochester, and died December 2, 1715, aged 29 years. (CPW2 p. 68)

Samuel Wing (1717 – 1773)

Samuel, son of John, inherited his father’s estate in the latter’s will,