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Ordered that there shall be a plantation settled at Winicumet & that Mr. Dummer & Mr. John Spencer shall have power to press men to build a house forthwith in some convenient place, & what money they lay out about it shall be repaid them again out of the Treasury or by those that come to inhabit there. MGC
Richard Dummer and John Spencer were wealthy Newbury landowners; in 1637 they were disarmed as
supporters of Anne Hutchinson. Dummer was early associated with Stephen Bachiler in the Company of the
Plough, a failed colonizing venture. Spencer returned to England; part of his estate has been preserved as the
Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm in Newbury. The Bound House, as the building they erected was called, was used to
mark possession of the surrounding land. It is believed to have been located in present day Seabrook, New Hampshire. In 1637 Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop wrote of a 'Winicowett house' which stood north of
the Merrimack River on the way to Pascataquack (settlements within the Pascataqua River region).
