By the 1890s, Wilbour’s farm became the first large-scale poultry business in the world, exporting 150,000 dozen (1.8 million) eggs per year. Wilbour bought a few of Tripp’s marvelous hens and cross-bred them with local roosters, resulting in healthy, meaty hens with a prodigious egg-laying capacity. This early form of the famous chicken developed a reputation among local farmers, and Isaac Wilbour, of Prospect Hill Farm, stopped by to see what all the fuss was about. These Asian chickens had the brilliant feathers and reliable egg laying for which the Rhode Island Red would become famous. Local farmer William Tripp bought Chittagong chickens from a New Bedford sailor to breed with his own stock. The story begins far from Little Compton in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Their success was the result of effective crossbreeding and innovations in hen-raising. Little Compton farmers bred the Rhode Island Red in response to a need for a meatier bird with more reliable egg laying capacities. The qualities that made this bird so popular didn’t occur by accident. This image is close to the reality in Little Compton today, but for a few decades the town was the center of an international poultry industry built upon a local chicken known as the Rhode Island Red. Two thirds of house good to go to six daughters.Imagine a stereotypical small farm with a few chickens pecking around the yard, the sun shining on their bright red feathers.

To daughter Deborah Padduck 20 shillings. To daughter Elizabeth Nennerson 20 shillings. To daughter Innocent Sallsbury 20 shillings. To son Benjamin Head all my real estate and buildings except the room my wife shall chose in my dwelling house also my chest where I keep my wrightings. To wife Elizabeth one room in my dwelling house and one third of income of all real estate. Henry Head of Little Compton Yeoman July 22 1754. Little Compton, Rhode Island, Wills, 1747-1875 , )Īmey HEAD (b., Little Compton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. , )ĭeborah HEAD (b.16 January 1725, Little Compton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. William HEAD (b.12 July 1721, Little Compton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d.

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, )īenjamin HEAD (b.17 September 1718, Little Compton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. , )Įlizabeth HEAD (b.21 March 1716, Little Compton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. Lovett HEAD (b.27 September 1714, Little Compton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. Joseph SALISBURY 22 January 1732 in Little Compton, Rhode Island, USA (Adamsville) Innocent HEAD (b., Little Compton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. Mary HEAD (b.16 April 1711, Little Compton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. John SALISBURY 6 March 1727 in Little Compton, Rhode Island, USA (Adamsville) , )Ībigail HEAD (b.24 December 1710, Little Compton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. Henry HEAD (b.7 November 1709, Little Compton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d.

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