DUXBURY, a town of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, on Plymouth bay, 36m. S.S.E. of Boston; served by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. The population in 193o was 1,696. Duxbury was settled in 1631 by Miles Standish, William Brewster, John Alden and a few others, and named after the Lancashire seat of the Standish family. A church was organized in 1632 and the town was incorporated in 1637. The house built in 1666 by Alexander Standish, son of Miles, is still standing. The cod, mackerel and clam fisheries were formerly important, and in the i8th century and the first half of the 19th there were large shipyards here.