The first dwelling in what would become Foxborough was erected in 1669 west of the nearby Wading River on a farm laid out for Captain William Hudson, a Boston tavern keeper who never lived there but leased the property first to Richard George and then to John Daniell. Hudson sold the farm in 1676 to Thomas Platt, who leased it to Thomas Brintnall of Chelsea, and in 1689 Brintnall's grandson Samuel Brintnall Jr. became the first white child born in the future Foxborough. The old Hudson Farm was later leased to Jacob Shepard of Mystic (Medford), who bought the tract outright in 1704. In 1691 Thomas Brintnall purchased nearby land to build a home in what he believed was the Taunton North Purchase, but a later survey showed he was still on this side of the line, making him the first settler to actually build and occupy his own home in what would become Foxborough; after his death, his son moved the house across the line to where Thomas had thought he had built it. This settlement lay in the area set off to Wrentham in 1753 and became part of the new town of Foxborough when it was incorporated in 1778. An old Indian trail running southwest from Dedham to Bristol, now Rhode Island, later became the road to Bristol and followed the general lines of present Mechanic, South, and Cedar streets; at various times it was known as the Road to Secunke, road to Bristol, Old country road, and Old Post road. In 1645 John Winthrop Jr. returned this way on foot from New London and rested near this spot, and in 1728 the newly appointed Governor William Burnett passed here with his entourage. The boundary between the Massachusetts-Bay and New-Plymouth Colonies was laid out in 1664, with the section from the Angle tree in Plainville to Accord Pond in Hingham lying to the southwest and roughly parallel to part of Cedar Street. On July 13, 1670, Chief Squamaug of the Ponkapoags and Metacom, King Philip of the Wampanoags, met in Captain William Hudson's house to discuss the limits of their jurisdictions and agreed on a line that follows the present boundary between Norfolk and Bristol counties and the towns of Foxborough and Mansfield.