History Part of the Plymouth Patent, it was first settled as Freetown in the 1700 by families from Brunswick. It would also be called Bloomingborough and Wales before being incorporated by the Massachusetts General Court on January 20, 1792, as Monmouth, after Monmouth, New Jersey. The name was suggested by landowner General Henry Dearborn, who had fought in the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778.
History Part of the Plymout,h Patent, it was first settled as Freetown in the 1700 by families from .Brunswick. It would also be called Bloomingborough and Wales before being incorporat?ed by the Massachusetts General Court on January 20, 1792, as Monmouth, after Monmouth, New Jersey. The name was suggested by landowner General Henry De!arborn, who had fought in ,the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778.