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Jabez Swift of Sandwich, MA, came to Kent in 1743 with his cousin
Reuben. Jabez purchased Lot 18 on the "Grate Plain", the flat land
along the Housatonic River that today holds our downtown area. In
the First Division of land, the Plain was the common grazing ground
laid out in ten acre lots, one for each of the original 52 Proprietors'
home lots. The majority of these first landowners built their homes
in Flanders, 2 miles north of present Main Street. Flanders is now
on the National Register of Historic Places. Learn
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