Notes for: Robert Durfee

"Robert Durfee settled in Freetown, Mass., on a tract of land which his father purchased .... He was the first settler by the name of Durfee in Freetown, Mass. (later Fall River)."
"On November 1, 1700, Mr. Durfee was chosen, with other persons, to settle the question of a boundary line between Freetown and Tiverton.
"In the early records of Freetown he is often mentioned.
"On page 222 of Vol. 20, N. E. Historical and Genealogical Register of 1866, is the following statement:
'Robert Durfee was a lieutentant of militia, a Selectman of Freetown 4 years, assessor 4 years. Town clerk 1 year. Representative to General Court 1716. He was buried on a hill near Taunton River, at a place called 'Gages Banks,' and when the Fall River Rail Road was built (136 years after) his remains were disinterred and removed to the easterly side of the highway leading from Freetown to Fall River.'"