1722- John Sisson is jailed in Bristol for protesting taxes.
(John Sisson is my eighth great grandfather.)
Bristol was settled in 1680 as part of the Plymouth Colony. It was presumably named after Bristol, England.
Bristol was the "shire town" (county seat) of Bristol County, Plymouth Colony, when the county was created in 1685. (It was later split into Bristol County, Rhode Island and Bristol County, Massachusetts.) It remained a part of Massachusetts until the Crown transferred it to the Rhode Island Colony in 1747.
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