History of Worcester County, Massachusetts

Front matter

I

HISTORY

MASSACHUSETTS,

Chapter I. -i4ckstek Countv

I CHAPTER 11. i The Rknch and Bar

TOWN HISTORIES.

CHAPTER I.

,.\N CASTER .

The Niisliawiiys anil tlieir Home — Kind's Purcliiwe — The Nashaway IMantere— The Town Grant— The Covenant — Lantl Allutnients — Death of Sliowauon.

CHAPTER II. , iNCASTER — (Continued)

The First Minister — Arbitration— ('ornniissiunei-s Appointed to iJirect Town Affairs — The First Highways — Nuyes" Survey — Disaffection of the Imlijuis — MonocoV Raid — James Quanapaiig's Fidelity — Tlie Destniction of Lancaster.

CHAPTER III. , \NCASTER — (Continued)

The Resettlement — Frencti and Indian Raids — The GarrisoQs — New Meeting-Htmse — The Additiomil Grant — Early ;?chool masters — Lovewell's War — Worcester Ooniity Formed — Birth of Harvard, Bullon and Leominster — Siet,'es of Carthagena and Lonisbourg — Tlio Conquest of <'anada.

CHAPTER IX.

I I Ci.iNTON — (Continued)

j Tlie Iricori)oration — Favoring Ausiiices — New Enter-

prises and Oiangos in tlie Old.

I CHAPTER X.

I Ci^iNTON — (Contiuued)

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CHAPTER

-(Continued) . .

IV.

. .NCASTER-

The Firat Census — Organization for Revolution — Lexington Al;irni — Bunker Hill :in(l the Siege of Boston — War Annals — Separation of OUocksett — Shays' Itehellion — Bridge Lotteries.

CHAPTER V. , \NCA,STER — (Continued)

Hon. John Sprague — Cotton and Woolen-Mills— The Academy— War of 1812— The Whitings— The Brick Meeting-Honse— Lafayette — The Printing Enterprise — Dr. Nathaniel Thayer— New Churches— Clinton Set Off — Bi -Centennial — Schools — Libraries— Cemeteries.

CHAPTER

-(Continued) . .

VI.

, ^ .VCASTER-

The Rebellion — The Town's History Printed— The

Town's Poor— Death of Nathaniel 'Thayer- General Statistics, Etc.

CHAPTER VII. Ll.-*TON

Prcscott's Mills— Destruction of the Settlement by Indians—The First Highways— The Garrison Census— The Firet Families.

CHAPTER VIII. C i.i >}TON— (Continued)

The Revolution— The "Six Nations" — Immigmtion— The Comb-makers— Poignand and Plant— Coining of the Bigelows- The Clinton Company— The Lancaster (iuilt Company— The Bigelow Carpet Company— The Lancaster Mills— Clintonville, its Builders atid its Kntorpriaes.

Clinton in the Rebellion — Soldiers' Rrister.

CHAPTER XI.

Clinton — (Continued)

Horatio Nelson Bigelow — Banks— 'I'own Hall — Bigelow Free Libniry — Soldiers' Mununiont — Annals of Manufacturing Corporations — Tho "Wash-out" of ISTO — Franklin Forbes — Erastus B. Bigelow.

CH.APTER XII.

Clinton — (Continued)

Schools — Churches —Newspapers — Water Supply — .Statistics, Etc.

CHAPTER XIII.

Clinton — (Continued)

Masonic History.

CHAPTER XIV.

Location and Incorporation — Soil and Surface — Waters — Productions — Agriculture — Manufactures and Mechanical Industries.

CHAPTER XV. .SOUTHBOROUGH — (Continued)

CHAPTER XVI.

CHAPTER XVII.

Templeton

Location — Boundary — Elevation — Streams — Ponds — Soil — Productions — Population — Valuation — Business Affairs of the Present Time.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Templeton — (Contiuued)

Grant to the Township — The Proprietors — Kaily Settlements — Old Houses — Incorporation: Templeton, Phillipston — County Relatione — State Relations — Political Parties.

CHAPTER XIX.

Templeton — (Continued)

MilUarif Affairs: The Revolution — The Currency — ■ Second War with England — .\ Militio IMnster — 'I'he Civil War— The Sanitary Comniission.

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Contents

CHAPTER XX.

Tkmi'I.ETOn — (Continued)

BuxineBs Affiui-8: iMamifactiirfH— Early Mills— At Baltlwinville — l)n Trout Bruok — Al Partridgeville and East Tonipleton — At otter River— Hutfls — Stores— Savii>gs Bank — Roads — "Rail roads.