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Town’s oldest home needs a new home

Modest structure was built in Pilgrim days; plan now is to move and preserve it

By Meg Murphy

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 01, 2012

A Norwell family has been waiting for more than three years for preservationists to cart off a home built in 1678 by the son of the town’s first Pilgrim settler. The seemingly endless wait is a source of comic frustration for the Spataro family, now grudgingly accustomed to modern life lived within feet of the empty Colonial relic.

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