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GENEALOGY COLLecTI •* KHI^
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History of Middlesex County, MASSAC
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1131986 CONTENTS.
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west ; HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
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of Lexington, near the line of Walt
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and convert a goodly portion of the
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ever paid a sacred attention to thi
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Such a pledge given in religious tr
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probably Concord was the place of t
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" Disperse, ye rebels ; lay down yo
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sacrifice to the lawless oppression
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uiuuled from tlie voacl iuid with a
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town. After the close of the Revolu
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Revolution, such as swords, guus, p
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the spot where tlie first organized
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ciliatory character ; and -(vhile w
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others, inhabitants of the easterly
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1747 and 1748, without receiving an
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over, with a noise resembling the d
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thirty-first day of August, 1774, u
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Wheeler were chosen a committee to
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the neighboring towns, especially G
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above-mentioned families, among who
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of our Eights and Privileges when c
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with an occasional lecture precedin
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0\VELL, ill Middlesex County, State
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In 1813 Mr. John Goulding invented
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until he had arrived at the age of
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Pawtucket Falls ; but John Worthen
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the Merrimack Company, a quit-claim
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called upon to participate in the m
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Dr. Israel Hildreth delivered the o
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sidered a great improvement. These,
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The hour of the third meeting arriv
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for distribution. At the meeting, F
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is recorded a? one of the iucor])or
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you. It represents my whole command
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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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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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