![]() We begin our history with the coming of the first white man, Captain Miles Standish, who with John Brown and others, came, June 19, 1640, to survey the land bought by a company of men from the Massachusetts Bay Colony three years before, a track of land called the to Titiquet Purchase, which contained about sixty-four square miles. Thus, on March 23, 1786, the following Act declared all places incorporated by the name of districts before the first day of January, 1777, to be towns, to every intent and purpose whatever. Consequently when Massachusetts had a constitution and duly organized legislature, it reaffirmed certain previous acts. The Congress was considered by the British and Tories as act of treason, and all its enactments illegal. This Provincial Congress, a body of men, headed by John Hancock, had stepped into office to replace the General Court which had met for the last time under British authority on September 17, 1774. Five years before, 1770, it had been, by an act of the General Court, incorporated as a separate district, and received its name in honor of William Murray, Earl of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The twenty-third of August, 1925, marks one hundred and fifty years since, by a General Act of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, Mansfield became incorporated as a town. Jennie Copeland is the author of "Every Day but Sunday," The Romantic Age of New England Industry, a History of Mansfield. Copeland for and published in the Mansfield 150th Anniversary Program for August 23 through 26, 1925. The following article was written by Jennie F. Mansfield offers an outstanding school system, and great environment. The Town of Mansfield was established in 1775 as part of the rich history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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