Pannaway Plantation was the first

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settlement in what is now currently the state of

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. By 1630, the plantation was abandoned, and the settlers moved to

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in what is now

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. Pannaway Plantation was settled on land that is now in

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in the town of

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History

Pannaway is an

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word likely to mean "place where the water spreads out". When John Mason was granted a colony to start in

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, he was granted the land from south on up to where the

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flows into the

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, while

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claimed the land north of the river, in what is now

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. The first settler to go into Pannaway Plantation was David Thompson. He had his family come to the plantation. He was granted of land in the

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when he arrived. Ten other men went with him to settle the land. Thompson gave the name "Pannaway" to the plantation after hearing it from an Indian who guided him. In his first year here, he was greeted by Captain

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of the

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who was looking for aid at the time.

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in his 1623 ''Voyage to New England'' states that he spent a month here. In July 1623, Thomas Weston of the Weymouth Colony was shipwrecked off today's North Hampton, a few miles south of Pannaway. He was tortured by the Natives, who stripped him of his clothing, and he ran away barely escaping death. He ended up making it to Pannaway to shelter. In 1626, Thompson left the settlement and for an island in

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. Thompson died within the next couple years, and his wife later married

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, one of the first slave traders in the colony. By 1630,

was proven to be more secure of a location from the Indians, and the settler

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invited them to come in. Pannaway Plantation was later abandoned. Today the location of the plantation is in

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