Month: December 2022

A History of the Wainer Farm Property in Westport, Massachusetts

By David Cole

Robert Cox, Chief Two Running Elk

A History of the Wainer Farm Property in Westport, Massachusetts

 The Wainer Farm on Drift Road in Westport is included on the

Paul Cuffe Heritage Trail because it played an important role

in Paul Cuffe’s story. As described in this note, Paul Cuffe

purchased this property for his business partner and brother-

in-law Michael Wainer and sister, Mary Wainer in 1799. This

was an operating farm throughout the 19th and most of the 20th

century and owned by descendants of Michael and Mary Wainer.

 

Currently a new group of descendants is in the process of restoring

the 46 remaining acres of the property and transforming it into a

historical and educational site emphasizing its Native American

Heritage as personified by Michael Wainer, a Wampanoag, and

Mary Cuffe Wainer, who’s Mother was a Wampanoag. This brief

history of the property will be included in the proposal to re-

store this historic site.

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