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History of Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS, CONTAINING CAREFULLY PREPARED HISTORIES OF EVERY CITY AND TOWN IN THE COUNTY, BY WELL-KNOWN WRITERS; AND A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, FROM THE EARLIEST TO THE PRESENT TIME. LY SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE, AUTHOR OF "OLD LANDMARKS OF BOSTON," "NOOKS AND CORNERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST," ETC. Vol. II. ILLUSTRATED. BOSTON: ESTES AND LAURIAT, PUBLISHERS, 301 Washington Street
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interest was felt in the matter, it
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ing a day at Nahant, in company wit
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M. Whiijple, which could be had for
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February 20, the city council instr
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seventy horses, seventy-two oxen, a
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July ij Samuel Appleton died in Bos
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serve the Union. As early as Januar
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were much excited, and missiles wer
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Cleveland; anthem, St. Anne's Choir
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Brevet-Major Solon A. Perkins, of t
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ments in the New England states. He
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time numbered eighty -five. At the
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SCHOOL HISTORY. In 18£2 the territ
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assistants, and E. D. Sanborn was w
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The directors appointed Patrick T.
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1827, the corner-stone for a buildi
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One hundred and fifty members were
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ganized in 1854; Pastors, Eev. Will
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appointed assistant to Father McDer
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seems probable that Ealph Sprague e
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ut it was too late, and thenceforth
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grant of one thousand acres had jus
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uot desirable ueiglibor, also compl
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who had known it in its latter year
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in 1710. About the same time James
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During the afternoon and evening of
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States brig General Gates, and sail
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above it, which were formerly oblig
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stroyed it. Tlie class whicli was n
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whicli should need it came again. A
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MAllLBOROUGH. 137 MARLBOROUGH, BY R
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as to the custody of the torni reco
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prietors, April 8, 1706, "it was or
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ullets were fired into his houses w
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said, to the honor of the town, tha
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in the war, all but the last two be
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111 1845, 182 persons were employed
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"Within thirty years the two villag
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westward with the land of Thomas We
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The works now constituting the Assa
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Mr. Nathaniel Wade and Peter Tuffts
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James of Lynn, and Sagamore George
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large. It stood about five hundred
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'Now while the Eartli's with beaute
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settlement. Every settler was of ne
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. 1828, when the first church was b
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at S536,400 on an invested capital
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fELEOSE was incorporated May 3, 1 "
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The various families of Greens desc
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Street, comer of Upham, where it wa
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" Know all men by these present tha
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Foxcroft Cole, the eminent landscap
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They next built a foot-bridge eight
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The church fairly planted, Natick b
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and naming the day. In the spring t
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Our Indian pastor must have been a
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Weston, 1716, who married Hannah Mo
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old resident has heard a now distin
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ministry. In 184-0 it had about one
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tick we know not, but the Natick Ob
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' Baye Psalme Book/ prepared by Kev
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churches, with Nobscott's Height an
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He bought a dwelling-house and eigh
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far greater mimber of descendants t
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diaiis, in Swauzey, William Hammond
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aged eighty-two. His wife, Hannah,
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eral Court in 1700 and 1703. He had
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The following is a copy of this pet
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tied to all the privileges of an in
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in the Nonantum dialect, the same w
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searches, herself an ornament to Ge
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July 23, 1700, M. 63. Capt. Noah, o
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ordained Mar 22, 175S,— after an
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of the town. In January, 1772, the
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and under the pressure of toil and
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twenty-five were males and eleven f
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support of tlie clergymen of the to
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than one third was given by Elder W
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eighty, having galleries at each en
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Rev. M. G. Wheeler. The church edif
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and used by the people as a village
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The next pastor was Rev. S. W. Frce
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was organized in 1861, and tlie cha
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for filling was still spun, and the
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early days of the Newton Tlieologic
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Street, near ^Yoodland Avenue. Land
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of §7,000 was raised by subscripti
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a leading patriot^ aud one of the s
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patriot, and member of several comm
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PEPPERELL. 261 PEPPERELL. BY LORENZ
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for the regaining of sucli privileg
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the house should liave a steeple, w
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Tarbell's tavern and store building
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on the farm now owned by Colonel S.
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y individual effort rather than at
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King Philip's War began in 1675, an
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after a pastorate of twenty years.
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public meeting held in response to
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The selectmen petitioned the court
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cessful, that the separation was co
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larged the business, and had a stor
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that at Adams, still continues to f
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ward till 1867. Rev. E. B. Fairchik
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Holbrooke took possessiou and comme
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for some near kindred, and nothing
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greatj and the route of the enemy s
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new books, and great satisfaction h
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town. The occasion was the two-hund
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Until some years after Sliirley bec
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penury. Tliey are neither ricli nor
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A. D. 1775. Resolved and voted that
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soil has been tlieir life business.
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he conferred the rite of baptism up
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eaten black and blue from his shoul
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fact that nearly all the residents
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Hill, having passed over the Cambri
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concerning the matter at issue. Sub
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society, which held its meetings in
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February, 1854. For the first five
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E. Franklin Hannaford was believed
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and Broadway, and during the follow
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Although the ten years previous to
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free expenditure of money for a sin
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season to be enrolled in Captain Pa
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The dismemberment caused a heavy lo
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ments among the people, although on
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— : vre the uiidersigiied agree t
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the carriage-makers, whose business
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A LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THE HISTOR
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ACTON. Rev. franklin P. WOOD. W. E.
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JOSIAH D. WHITNEY. ASA GRAY. CHARLE
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FREDERIC K. LOVEJOY. J. ¥. HASKELL
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N. S. CHAMBERLAIN, M. D. C. F. MORS
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