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ANNALS OF SUDBURY WAYLAND AND MAYNARD
THE WAYSTOETSING
MIDDLESEX COUNTY MASS.
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The Library . will be open daily (excepting Sundays and holidays) from 2 to 6, and from 7 to 9 o'clock.
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THE
ANNALS
OF
SUDBURY, WAYLAND, AND MAYNARD,
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
MASSACHUSETTS.
BY
ALFRED SERENO HUDSON,
AUTHOR OF
"HISTORY OF SUDBURY," "HISTORY OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHI, AYER," "FIRESIDE HYMNS," "HOME MELODIES," ETC.
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COPYRIGHT BY ALFRED S. HUDSON, 1891.
TO
WHO HAS BEEN AN EFFICIENT AND FAITHFUL, CO-WORKER WITH ME IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS, THIS VOLUME, DESIGNED TO PERPETUATE THE NOBLE AND HEROIC ACTIONS OF THE PRESENT AND PAST GENERATIONS OF HER TOWN AND MINE, IS AFFEC- TIONATELY AND GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED.
PREFACE.
It is important for the reader of these pages to remember that the towns, whose annals are here presented, with the exception of a part of Maynard. constituted the original township of Sudbury ; and that, therefore, while this volume contains three distinct town histories, it contains, at the same time, the history of one township.
Wayland and Maynard were not colonies of Sudbury, but had a common origin with it. Their inhabitants assisted in laying out the Plantation, and in making its early laws; they shared in common the privations of the infant settlement, worshipped in the same church, and were buried in the same church-yard. It is plain. then, that the history of either of these towns would be incomplete without the histories of the others ; and. therefore, that it is appropriate to issue them all in one volume, and thus furnish the public with a complete outline history of the ancient township of Sudbury, in all its parts. down to the present time.
The above facts, moreover, will explain any repetition that may occur, and also show the necessity of reading the whole book consecutively in order to get a complete history of either town.
A large part of the annals contained in this volume was prepared by the writer for the History of Middlesex County, published by Lewis & Co., Philadelphia, and, to an extent, was originally written for the " History of Sudbury." which was published by that town in 1889. This statement will account for the size, shape. and general plan of the book. The Annals of Wayland have been supplemented by a lengthy Appendix, because that town has had no comprehensive history published like that of Sudbury, and the space allowed by the publishers of the County History was insufficient to admit of more than a brief outline. Maynard is comparatively a new town, so that a complete history of it could be given in the space allowed for the historic narrative as prepared for the work of Lewis & Co., hence no appen- dix is needed.
MARCH 20, 1891.
A. S. H.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
The author would hereby express his thanks to all persons who have in any way aided in the publication of this volume.
Especial thanks are due to Mr. James S. Draper for his effort in soliciting pictures, and for taking entire charge of all those which were made by the Autoglyph process ; also for his valuable literary contributions, credit for which is given in this work ; and for valu- able information relative to Wayland.
Thanks are due to Mr. A. W. Cutting for taking photographs of several places and otherwise aiding in the work of illustration.
Thanks are due to Mr. Atherton W. Rogers, who, as one of the Goodnow Library Trustees, kindly furnished several plates from which pictures were made.
We would also recognize the services of those who have furnished pictures of persons and places in which the community are interested.
We would also express our gratitude for information relative to the history of Maynard which was received from the late Asahel Balcom, Esq.
CONTENTS.
PART I.
SUDBURY.
Date of Settlement .- Territorial Limits .- Indian Name .- Indians .- Origin of Settlement .- By whom Settled .- Names of Settlers .- Passenger List of the Ship "Confidence."-Character of the Settlers .- Land Grants .- Indian Deeds .- Incorporation of the Town. -Name .- Locality first Settled .- Town Meetings .- Town Officers .- Their Work .- Highways .- Bridges. -Causeway .- Formation of Church .- Settlement of Minister .- Erection of Meeting House .- Land Divi- sions .- Cow Common .- Laying out of New Lands .- The Thirty-Rod Highway .- Old Lancaster Road .- The Hop-Brook Mill .- New Road .- New Meeting House .- Cow Common Controversy .- King Philip's War .- Garrison Houses .- Attack on the Town .- Date of Attack .- Number of the Indians .- General Assault .- The Wadsworth Fight .- Forest Fire .- The Retreat .- Loss of the English .- The Captured .- The Survivors .- Burial of the Dead .- Place of Burial .- Erection of Saw-Mill .- Death of Rev. Edmund Brown. -New Meeting-House .- Military Matters .- Schools. -Division of the Town into two Parochial Precincts.
New Meeting-Houses .- French and Indian Wars .- Work-House .- Sketch of Dr. Israel Loring .- Revo- lutionary War .- Military Preparations .- Sudbury Sol- diers at the Battle of Bunker Hill .- Government Storehouses at Sand Hill .- Casualties .- Sketch of Gen. John Nixon .- Division of the Town .- New Meeting-House .- Formation of Methodist Church .- Organization of Orthodox Congregational Church .- Dismission and Settlement of Ministers. The Wads- worth Monument .- Schools .- Wadsworth Academy. -The Goodnow Library .- Railroads .- Civil War .- List of Casualties .- Summary of Service .- Bi-Cen- tennial .- George Goodnow Bequest .- Town Action relative to the Publication of The History of Sud- bury .- The 250th Anniversary Celebration .- Burying Grounds .- Wayside Inn .- Sudbury River .- Incorpo- ration of the Union Evangelical Church .- Erection of Meeting-House at South Sudbury .- Building of New School-House at Sudbury Centre. Village Im- provement Society .- Board of Trade.
PART II. WAYLAND.
Date of the Separation of Wayland Territory from Sudbury .- Situation and Description of Territory .- Special Land Grants .- Indian Owner .- Early Condi- tion of the Country .- Indians .- " Connecticut Path." -Location of Early Homesteads .- Highways .-- Bridg- es .- Grist Mill .- Organization of Church .- Settle- ment of Minister .- Erection of Meeting-House .- Division of Meadow Land .- Principle of Division .- Early Laws and Usages .- Common Planting Fields .- Fences .- Staple Crops .- Climate .- Care of the Poor. Encouragements to Industry .- Education .- Philip's War .- Services of Ephraim Curtis, the Scout .- Com- mencement of Indian Hostilities .- The Attack .- The Repulse .- Retreat of Enemy over the Town Bridge .- Death of Rev. Edmund Brown .- Settlement of Rev. James Sherman .- Purchase of Parsonage .- New Meeting-House .- Expedition of Sir William Phipps.
-Education .- Rev. Samuel Parris .- Ecclesiastical Matters .- French and Indian Wars .- Death of Rev. William Cook .- Settlement of Rev. Josiah Bridge .- Revolutionary War .- Services of East Sudbury Sol- diers at Concord and Bunker Hill .- Number of Men Engaged in the War .- Incorporation of East Sud- bury .- Soldiers of 1812 .- New Meeting-House .- Change of Name from East Sudbury to Wayland .-- Formation of the Evangelical Trinitarian Church .- Civil War -Activity of the Town in Military Mat- ters .- Number of Men Furnished for the U. S. Ser- vice. - Casualties. - Railroads. - Public Libraries .- New Town Hall .- Burying-Grounds .- Burial Customs. -Taverns .- Old Roads .- Places of Interest .- Physi- cians .- Sketches of Prominent Persons .- The River Meadows .- Cochituate.
PART III. MAYNARD.
Date of Incorporation .- Territorial Extent .- Situ- ation .- Assabet River .- Indian Name .- Facts rela- tive to Sudbury and Stow .- Early Purchase of Terri- tory .- Indian Deed .- Two Hundred-Acre Grant to Wm. Brown .~ Laying out and Apportionment of Land. -Division of Land into Squadrons .- The Tantamous Transfer. - Thirty-Rod Highway. - Pompasiticut .- Indian Occupants .- Relics .- Tantamous .- Peter Je- thro .- Tribal Relations of Indians .- Their Charac- teristics .- Early Condition of the Country .- Early English Occupants .- Philip's War .- Indian Attack on Sudbury .- Location of Early Homesteads .- Sketch of Early Settlers and their Families .- Religious and Educational Advantages .- First Places of Public Worship at Sudbury .- At Stow -- Schools .- Customs. -Laws .- Early Highways .- Bridges .- Grist-Mills .- Character of the Settlers .- Military Spirit .- Military Services in the French and Indian Wars .- Service in the Revolutionary War .- Sudbury Service in the Civil War .- Stow Service in the Civil War .- Influence of the Northwest District of Sudbury in the Settlement
of Grafton, Mass .- Proprietors' Meetings at the Rice Tavern .- Influence of the Northwest District in the Division of Sudbury into two Parochial Precincts .- Names of Petitioners .- Ways of Living in the " Old- en Times."-Commencement of Business Activity at Assabet .- Formation of Village .- Improvement of Water Power .- Purchase of Mill Privilege by Amory Maynard .- Erection of Factories .- Development of the Woolen Business .- Miscellaneous Industries .- Formation of Congregational Church .- Erection of Meeting-House .- Organization of Methodist Church. -Roman Catholic Church .- Incorporation of May- nard .- Name .- Reasons for Separation from the Towns of Sudbury and Stow .- Statistics .- Celebra- tion Expenses .- Educational Matters .- High School. -School Accommodations .- Report of Committees. -Public Library .- Cemeteries .- Railroads .- Secret Societies .- Biographical Sketch of Amory Maynard. -Funeral of Amory Maynard .- Natural Features of the Town .- The Assabet River .- Pompasiticut Hill.
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PART IV.
APPENDIX TO THE ANNALS OF WAYLAND.
Indian Occupation .- "The Old Indian Burying Ground."-" Connecticut Path."-The O'd Burying Ground .- The Grave of Rev. Edmund Brown .- Location of First Meeting-House .- Succession of Meeting-Houses .- Industries .- Slaves and Colored Servants. - Work-house. - Small Pox Hospitals. - Town Area, etc .- Irregularity of the Town Bounda- ry line at Sandy Hill .- First Official Board of East Sudbury, 1780 .- Changes in the Occupants of Old Homesteads .- Schools .- The Public Library .- Indian Relics .- College Graduates .- Wayland Centre, 1890. -Order of Exercises at the Town Hall Dedication .- Semi-Centennial Services of the Evangelical Trinita- rian Church .- Repairs and Rededication of the Meet- ing-House of the Evangelical Trinitarian Church .- Remodelling of the Unitarian Meeting-House .- Sol- diers' Memorial .- Permanent Funds of Wayland .- The Shoe Business and its Growth at Cochituate .- Location of Homesteads along the Wayland High- ways .- Sudbury in the Settlement of other Towns : Framingham, Marlboro, Worcester, and Rutland .- Philip's War, 1675-6. Historical Papers ; Petition ; Account of Losses; Facts and Incidents .- Stage Coaches .- Private Conveyances .- Railroads .- Tav- erns .- The "Corner Tavern."-The "Pequod House." -The "Street Tavern."-The "Baldwin Tavern."- The "Reeves Tavern."-Temperance .- Causeways. " Old Town Bridge."-The "New Bridge."-"Sher- man's Bridge."-"Canal Bridge."-" Farm Bridge."-
Dry Bridges -" Hay Bridge."-" Whale's Bridge."- Animals and Birds of the River Meadows .- Haymak- ing on the River Meadows .- Cranberry Picking .- Natural Features. - Hills. - Ponds. - Mill-Dams. - Streams .- Roll of Honor .- East Side Militia of the French and Indian War Period; Active Militia Com- pany, 1757; Alarm List; East Side Soldiers in the Revolutionary War ; Militia Company, April 19, 1775 ; South Militia Company, April 19, 1775; Minute Com- pany, April 19, 1775; Troop of Horse, April 19, 1775 ; Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775 ; Muster Rolls ; Capt. May- nard's Muster Roll; Capt. Cutting's Muster Roll; Wayland Soldiers in the Civil War; Biographical Sketch of Dr. Joseph R. Draper .- Poetical Selec- tions. Edmund H. Sears. Christmas Song ;- Christ- mas Carol: Song for the Coming Crisis .- Abby B. Hyde. Prayer for the Children of the Church ; Ark ; Psalm cxiv. 10 .- Richard Fuller. Our Crane; Reeves' Hill .- Lucy A. Lee. Unveiled Angels, or Afflictions ; My Veil .- Thomas W. Parsons. Birthplace of Rob- ert Burns ; My Sudbury Mistletoe ; Paradisi Gloria .- Emma Lucilla [Reeves] Fuller. Nature's Anthems ; My Country's Harp ; Peace .- James S. Draper. The Change Called Death ; Going to Sleep; Growing Old. -Samuel D. Robbins. Waiting; Faith and Science ; Euthanasia .- Lydia Maria Child. To the Trailing Arbutus ; The World that I am Passing Through .- Alfred S. Hudson. The Home of Lydia Maria Child ; Mystery ; The Broken Household.
PART V. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND HISTORIES OF' HOUSES.
Former or Present Residents of Sudbury. Pages 177-181 .- Josiah Ballard, Charles L. Goodnow, Alfred S. Hudson, Samuel B. Rogers, Homer Rogers, Thom- as Stearns.
Former or Present Residents of Wayland. Pages 181-198 .- Anna M. Bent, James M. Bent, Joseph Bullard, Lydia M. Child, Thomas J. Damon, James Draper, James S. Draper, Nabby A. Draper, William R. Dudley, Lucilla [Reeves] Fuller, Richard Fuller, Abel Gleason, Newell Heard, Richard Heard, Horace Heard, Abby B. Hyde, Lucy A. Lee, Edward Mellen, Thomas W. Parsons, Samuel D. Robbins, Edmund H. Sears, John N. Sherman, John B. Wight.
Early Grantees. Pages 199-204 .- John Bent, Ed- mund Brown, Thomas Cakebread, Henry Curtis, Hugh Drury, John Grout, Hugh Griffin, Solomon Johnson, Henry Loker, John Loker, John Maynard, John Moore, Peter King, Thomas King, Peter Noyes, Thomas Noyes, John Parmenter, Sr., John Parmenter, Jr., Edmund Rice, Henry Rice, John Rutter, John Smith, John Stone, William Wood, Philemon Whale, John Woodward, Thomas White, Anthony Whyte.
Histories of Houses, and Statements relating to the Pictures of them. Sudbury Houses .- Wayside Inn. -George Pitts House .- Mill Village Tavern, South Sudbury .- Sudbury Centre Tavern .- Haynes Garri- son House .- Brown Garrison House .- Walker Gar- rison House .- Parmenter Garrison House .- Loring Parsonage .- Bigelow Parsonage .- Hurlbut Parson- age .- Congregational Parsonage .- Richardson's Saw and Grist Mill .- Government Store-House .- Lanham District School-House .- Gardiner and Luther Hunt's Grocery Store .- Dr. Thomas Stearns' House .- Dr. Moses Taft House .- Unitarian Meeting-House .- Town House .-- Methodist Meeting-House .- Orthodox Meeting-House .- Memorial Church .- Residence of Samuel B. Rogers.
Wayland Houses .- Old Grist Mill .- Bridge Par- sonage .- Dr. Roby House .- Residence of Willard Bullard (Old Green Store). - Unitarian Meeting- House .- Orthodox Church .- Child Cottage .- Old Red Store (Newell Heard's) .- Ira Draper Homestead. Miscellaneous Records.
PART VI.
Quarter-Millennial Anniversary Exercises at Sud- bury and Wayland, September 4th, 1889.
Index of Persons' Names. Errata.
.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Wayside Inn,
Frontispiece.
Joseph Bullard,
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Goodnow Library,
Preliminary pages.
Dr. Roby House, . Richard Heard,
66
56
Township Map, .
Rev. A. S. Hudson,
Frontispiece to Part I.
Nobscot Hill,
Frontispiece to Part III.
Mill Village, Opp. page 2
66
4
Walker Garrison House, Sudbury Centre, .
. Opp. page 68 66 72
Sudbury Centre Tavern,
Wayland Town Hall,
Frontispiece to Part IV. Opp. page 90 66
Charles Goodenow,
8 The Ira Draper Homestead,
96
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Mrs. Nabby A. Draper,
102
The Parmenter Garrison House.
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James M. Bent,
66 104
The Haynes Garrison House,
66
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Richardson Saw and Grist Mill, .
66
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Before page 131 66 I39
The George Pitts Tavern, The Loring Parsonage,
66
22 Dr. E. H. Sears, .
157
Government Store-House,
66
24
James S. Draper,
. Opp. page 167 66 I73
Residence of Hon. C. F. Gerry, . Rev. Josiah Ballard,
66
32
Mrs. Anna M. Bent,
Lydia Maria Child, 184 James Draper, After page 186
. Opp. page 188
. Frontispiece to Part II.
Opp. page 38
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66 196
Abel Glezen,
66
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66 205
Residence of Abel Glezen, . 66 Newell Heard, 66
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. Frontispiece to Part VI. Opp. page 32 of Part VI.
"Old Red Store," Wayland Centre, 66 Residence of Willard Bullard, . 66
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Orthodox Church, Wayland Centre, 66
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The Hurlbut Parsonage,
66
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Home of Lydia Maria Child,
Wadsworth Academy, .
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Memorial Church, South Sudbury, Orthodox Church, Sudbury Centre, Unitarian Meeting-House, Wayland Centre. .
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William Dudley,
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Map of House Lots,
6. 192
Old Grist-Mill, Wayland,
Horace Heard, John N. Sherman, Hon. Edward Mellen, . Dr. Moses Taft House, Landham School-House, Hon. Homer Roger3, . Wadsworth Monument, Summer Residence of Hon.
66 210
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Dr. Thomas Stearns' House.
66
The Wadsworth Grave,
18
The Old Town Bridge,
66 58
Mill Village Tavern,
4 6 Rev. J. B. Wight, .
20 Baldwin's Pond, .
34
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REV. ALFRED S. HUDSON,
THE ANNALS
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SUDBURY, MASS.
Thy hills and vales we love them well, And full our feelings rise and swell, And thrill with joy, to speak and tell Of thy past history.
Loved history that thy sons revere, Fair record that they hold most dear, Break forth, and fill our hearts with cheer, By thy sweet minstrelsy.
THE AUTHOR.
SUDBURY.
1639.
THE town of Sudbury was settled in 1638, and by Indians, but at the time of the town's settlement received its name in 1639. It was the nineteenth town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the second situated beyond the flow of the tide. Orig- inally it was bounded on the east by that part of Watertown which is now Weston, on the north by Concord, and southerly and westerly by the wilder- ness, or the unclaimed lands of the Colony.
The Indian name of the river and country adja- cent on the north was Musketaquid, or Musketah- quid, and it is presumable that the same name was applied to this region. Musketahquid is supposed to be made up of two Indian words - muskeht, mean- ing "grass," and ahkeit, which signifies " ground ;" and if applied to the river, "grassy brook," or "meadow brook." The name formed by these words, it is stated, as nearly resembles Musketah- quid as the Indian dialect will allow. (Shattuck.) As the same stream runs through Concord and Sud- bury, and the meadows in these places are equally green and broad, it is not by any means unlikely that the same term was applied to each place and the river, as it runs through them both. This is rendered still more probable by the fact that Karto, the Indian owner of the land first granted at Sud- bury, was also an owner, with others, of the terri- tory at Concord ; as the Colony records inform us that Karto, with Tahattawan, the sachem of that place, with some others, consented to the sale of territory to the English in 1637. As Karto lived in the territory that is now Sudbury, and his wig- wam was not far from the river, it is presumable that he would call the stream, as it flowed near his home, by the same name that it was known by as north.
probably but few lived there. The names of Karto. Nataous, Peter Jethro, Old Jethro or Tantamous, belonged to prominent natives, and of these some few facts are preserved. Karto was the Indian owner of that part of Sudbury which was first granted to the English. His home was at a hill a little southeast of Sudbury Centre, called Good- man's Hill. The name Goodman was given him by the English. It is said he was an attendant on the preaching of Rev. Edmund Brown, the first minis- ter of Sudbury, and that by his preaching he was converted to Christianity. Nataous, also called Netus, and sometimes William of Sudbury, was prominently connected with the events of King Philip's War. In the destruction of the Eames homestead at Framingham, and the capture of the inmates, he took a conspicuous part by acting as leader. He was also present at the midnight en- counter between the English and Indians near Sud- bury, on the night of March 27, 1676, on which occasion he was slain. He was associated with the Nipnet Indians, who inhabited the interior of Mass- achusetts, and was sometimes called the Nipmuck Captain.
Tantamous, who was also called Jethro, and more commonly Old Jethro, to distinguish him from his son, Peter Jethro, or Jethro the Younger, lived at Nobscot during a portion of his later life. In his earlier years it is supposed he lived at Isabaeth, the country about the Assabet River, now Maynard. He was a prominent personage among the Indians. and known as a powwow, or medicine-man. Gookin says of him : "This man and his relations were not Sudbury, Nobscot Hill, and never submitted to the Christian profession (except his son, Peter), but
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