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Bristol like many other communities in the New England area took its name from a sister city in England. Bristol was part of a much larger portion of land what was called the Bristol County which encompassed parts of Massachusetts. Bristol was chartered in 1680 as a small town in the Mount Hope and Narragansett Bays, surrounded in three sides by water. Because of its accessibility to the bay, Bristol played a major role on the maritime trade, being one …