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ground for five years, on condition that he erect the fallen grave stones, clear out all cobble stones, mow all bushes, keep the wall and gates in good repair, for the same term, and suffer no cattle to depasture thereon, said Maynard to pay $5, being the sum for which the privilege was sold at auction, in town meeting." In 1827, voted to provide a hearse and burying cloth for the South burying ground. The condition of the centre burying ground, though doubtless in- tended to be carefully provided for by the town, is far from what it ought to be. The neglect of the more an- cient monuments, is particularly to be regretted, and is unworthy the re- spect due to the dead ; most of all, to the founders of the town.
The author seriously regrets to have mislaid papers, from which an exhibit could be prepared, of the ac- tual mortality of the town, during the last 20 years. It may be worthy of remark, that of the whole number of deaths which occurred under his per- sonal cognizance, within the space of ten years, viz: 73, 16 were of chil- dren in very early infancy ; 8, from 1 to 10 years of age ; 2, from 10 to 20; 7, from 20 to 30; 4, from 30 to 40 ; 6 from 40 to 50; 3, from 50 to 60; 4, from 60 to 70; 12, from 70 to 80; 8, from 80 to 90, and 3, over 90.
TABLE OF LONGEVITY.
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The following comprise the names, as far as known, of persons who have deceased in this town, at the age of 85 years, or upwards. The figures at the right denote the years, and when known, the additional months, if any .*
Names.
Date of death.
Age.
Mrs. Margery Darling,
June 9, 1819, .
- 85
Miss Lois Wright,
1813,
85
John Stone, Esq.,
Aug. 1, 1827,
- 85
Thomas Pratt,
Feb. 6, 1741,
85
William Ballord,
Oct. 8, 1777,
- 85,6
John Kendall,
Nov. 16, 1840,
85,6
Isaac Fisk,
- Dec. 22, 1799,
- 85,8
Nathaniel Kendall,
Aug. 21, 1844,
85,10
Capt. Daniel Stone,
- April 3, 1813,
ab. 86
Widow Mary Bennet, -
April 9, 1838,
86
Mrs. Ruth Rice,
May, 1822,
- 86
Miss Abigail Pratt,
Jan. 18, 1837, 1799,
86,9
Widow Hannah Eaton,
March 8, 1795,
87
Job Darling,
March 26, 1814,
87
Capt. Simon Edgell,
Oct. 3, 1820,
87
Rev. David Kellogg, D. D.,
Aug. 13, 1843, 1846,
87
Mrs. Lucy Rider,
March, 1807,
- 87,6
Jonathan Edmunds,
Jan. 8, 1816,
87,8
Mrs. Sarah Clark,
- May 17, 1761,
- 88
Mrs. Zebiah Fisk,
Jan. 25, 1837,
88
Mrs. Ruth Haven, -
- Sept. 21, 1814,
- 88
Mrs. Deborah Hemenway,
July 7, 1846, 1838,
- 88
Mrs. Saralı Pike, -
Jan. 28, 1823,
88
John Bent,
Sept. 16, 1818,
· 88,4
Timothy Stearns, (unm.)
Jan. 3, 1820,
88,4
John Eames, -
March 13, 1832,
- 88,5
Mrs. Bathsheba Hemenway, -
July 19, 1828,
88,10
Mrs. Beulah Patterson,
May, 1829,
- 88,10
Phinehas Gibbs,
1846,
89
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone,
- July 24, 1830,
· 89
Mrs. Mary Trowbridge, -
1844,
- ab. 89
Mrs. Abigail Bent,
Nov. 1814,
- 89,9
Maj. Lawson Buckminster, - Feb. 26, 1832,
89,10
* The author has also memoran- da, containing the names of 4 who died at the age of 80; 8 aged 81; 8, aged 82 ; 7, aged 83; and 6 aged 84. Of the total number of these (33), 25 are males. Of the above list of 68 per-
sons æ. above 85 years, 30 are males, and 38 females. Of the 36 under 90, 17 are males; of the 32 over 90, 13 are males. Six of the above were unmarried - 1 male and 5 females. Colored persons, 1.
12
87
Dea. Matthias Bent,
. 87
Mrs. Catharine Hill,
88
Mrs. Mary Littlefield,
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TOPOGRAPHY OF FRAMINGHAM.
Mrs. Mary Hunt,
Jan, 1843,
- 90
Miss Elizabeth How,
about 1813,
90
Miss Sarah Stone,
Nov. 24. 1829,
- 90
Silas Winch,
Sept. 19, 1834,
90,2
Amos Parmenter,
Feb. 26, 1785,
- 90,11
Mrs. Auna Manson,
June, 1843,
91
Mrs. Mehetabel Edgell,
- Feb. 5, 1835,
- 91,4
Mrs. Elizabeth Winch,
April, 1833,
91,6
Ebenezer Hemenway,
Dec. 11, 1831,
- 91,7
Ezekiel How,
- March 26, 1847,
91,10
Ebenezer Eaton,
Aug. 23, 1842,
92
Mrs. Lydia Gallot,
Nov. 1821,
92
Widow Mary Morse,
Dec. 7, 1842,
ab. 92
Mrs. Mary Buckminster,
Sept. 17, 1842,
92,3
Henry Rice, -
Feb. 10, 1710-11,
ab. 93
Mrs. Olive Eaton,
Sept. 20, 1842,
93
Mrs. Hannah Haven,
- Jan. 8, 1842,
- 94
Widow Patience Rice, -
Jan. 2, 1796,
94
Mrs. Anne Stone,
May 20, 1819,
· 94,1
Joshua Parmenter,
Oct. 19, 1822,
94,7
Mrs. Hannah Kendall,
1822,
95
Widow Mary Rice,
Dec. 16, 1785,
95
Mrs. Mary Shattuck,
June 14, 1822,
95
Miss Sarah Stearns,
Feb. 8, 1825,
95,2
William Walkup,
May 1836,
.
95,8
Dea. Gideon Haven,
- Dec. 1829,
95,9
Dea. Jonathan Morse,
March 5, 1801,
96
Mrs. Susanna Morse,*
Feb. 1, 1847,
96
Abraham Pike,
Jan. 1810,
· 97,11
Widow Sarah Walkup,
1792,
98
Prince Yongey, (colored),
Dec. 21, 1797,
- 99,4
Capt. Isaac Clark,
May 26, 1768,
102
TOPOGRAPHY OF FRAMINGHAM.
THE territory of Framingham embraces several localities refer- red to in its Records. "STONE'S END," is the name formerly given to the present village of Saxonville, whose soil was, to a considerable extent, in the possession of the Stone family.
* The longevity of this lady, (who deceased while this work was in pre- paration for the press), with that of her ancestors, is particularly remark- able. Her grand-father was born in
1665, who had a brother, her great uncle, born in 1641 ; i.e., three gen- erations of the family cover the term of 206 years.
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THE COMMON.
" RICE'S END," refers to that part of the town, which is in the neighborhood of the house of Mr. Uriah Rice. "SALEM END," has already been noticed, as situated about one mile west from the centre. "GUINEA END," was the ancient name of the tract of land at the S. part of the town, near the Railroad station. It derived its name from the neighboring meadows, called the " Guinea meadows."*
THE COMMON.
The history of the Common lands in Framingham is lost, with the Records of the proprietors ; of which only mutilated frag- ments remain .; By a reference to Mr. Danforth's lease to Col. Buckminster, on a former page, the reader will discover in what terms the original reservation of the common lands was made. Intimations are given in Dr. Ballard's sketch of Framingham, (p. 27), that owing to the fertility of the tract reserved, it was "by mutual consent of the proprietor and town exchanged, for a differently situated tract." The Records of the proprietors, (to which Dr. Ballard may have had access, though he does not refer to them), might throw light upon this transaction, of which no notice is to be found on the Records of the town .¿ The tract designated in later years as the Common, lies in the S.W. part of the town ; a considerable part of which has been recently set off to the town of Ashland. The organization of the proprietors was dissolved about the year 1785 ; when the last of the lands, (about 40 acres), were sold, near Wild Cat Hill, to Mr. John Parker. The proceeds of this sale were suitably appropriated to the pur- chase of a public library.
* This name is said to have origin- ated from the circumstance, that the meadows were first purchased for a guinea. Besides the localities above named, were " Pike Row," a name given from the Pike family, who lived on the road running E. from the house of L. Belknap, Esq .; and " Sherburn Row," the range of houses connected with Sherburn, before the incorporation of this town.
t The loss of these Records is seri- ously to be regretted; and affords proof of the extreme hazard of leav- ing records of historical and public interest, in private and irresponsible hands.
# The fragments of the Proprie- tors' Records preserved, demonstrate, that two of the bounds of the com- mon lands, were the Southborough line and Sudbury river.
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TOPOGRAPHY OF FRAMINGHAM.
THE CENTRE COMMON.
This tract, which, since its enclosure, and the improvements made upon it, has been rendered an attractive ornament to the village, was originally known, (from its resemblance, in shape, to a flat iron), as the heater. The first improvements on Record took place in 1785 ; when a committee was chosen " to set the bounds of the corner of the meeting house land, proper to be sub- dued ; " and the town voted, that " Lawson Buckminster may subdue and improve the same three years, if he will lay it down even and smooth." In 1796, a committee was chosen to effect an exchange of land with Deac. Tho. Buckminster, " in order to straighten the line across the Common, and make it more conven- ient." May 6, 1800, the town passed a vote, prohibiting all per- sons tying horses to the trees upon the common field, around the public meeting house, or in any way damaging said trees, under the penalty of one dollar. Aug. 9, 1808, Capt. Richard Fisk, Eli Bullard, and Abner Wheeler, were chosen to dispose of as many of the trees now standing on the public Common, as they may think proper ; and also the manure where the old meeting house stood ; and expend the proceeds, in setting out ornamental trees, in such places, as said Committee may think proper. In May, 1809, a committee reported, that the whole sum expended for levelling the Common around the meeting house, was $232.61, which sum the town allowed. In 1810, it was voted, that the meeting house agents superintend the setting out of trees around the new meeting house ; said trees, so set out, to stand during the town's pleasure. Nov. 2, 1818, Josiah Adams, Solomon Fay, and Rufus Brewer, were chosen to purchase a piece of land adjoin- ing the meeting house Common ; and the sum of $50 was granted to level said land ; liberty was at the same time granted to set out trees, to ornament the Common, without expense to the town. In 1819, a committee was appointed to take legal measures for laying out roads, on the E. and W. sides of the Common, and for discontinuing all other roads already laid out across said Common. In 1819, the committee for levelling the Common, were author- ised to draw $75 from the town Treasury. In 1820, John Bal- lard, 2d, was agreed with to subdue bushes on the E. side of the
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BRINLEY'S FARM.
Common. April 4, 1825, the town authorized the selectmen " to appoint a committee to get the Common fenced." Since the last named date, a private subscription, amounting to near $700, has been raised in the town, for the farther improvement of the Com- mon, and of the entire village in the centre, by planting additional ornamental trees. The judicious liberality, which for so many years has been directed to beautify the town, has not been disap- pointed, and is destined to meet new returns, as time shall perfect the original design. Few of our inland villages are more attrac- tive to the eye of the stranger .*
THE BRINLEY FARM.
The traditionary interest connected with this locality, justifies a brief notice of it in these sketches of the town's history. The tract so called, was the same originally settled and occupied by the first Colonel Buckminster .; It was by him, and his sons Joseph and Thomas, conveyed to Francis Brinley, Esq., of Rox- bury, Feb. 1, 1742, for the sum of £8,600 in bills of public credit. It contained about 860 acres, of which it was estimated that 400 acres were improved. The general bounds of the tract, whose configuration was too irregular to be now described in detail, were, on the N., the lands of Eben. Winchester and John Trowbridge ; E., the highway from J. Trowbridge's house to the meeting house ; S., the lands of John Hemenway, Jona. Morse, Col. Buckminster, and Edward Wright; W., the lands of Tim. Stearns, Moses Pike, Wm. Dunn, Jos. Angier, and John Bruce. The tract contained a mill privilege, W. of N. from Col. Buck- minster's house, not many rods distant.
Oct. 20, 1746, the town granted " £23.3.4, old tenor, to
* It would be impossible to afford an adequate idea of the labor requir- ed for the improvements above re- ferred to, by reason of the great ine- qualities of the surface to be over- come. The public spirit in which the inhabitants of the town generally co-operated in the enterprise, forbids particular notice of individual zeal and liberality.
t Col. B. (according to a survey of the above tract, made by John Jones, Surveyor, of Hopkinton, Jan. 26, 1741-2), lived near, or upon, the spot now occupied by Mr. Vose, who con- ducts the " Wheeler farm ; " and his son, (then Capt. Buckminster), lived about 250 rods E. of S. from his father's house, probably at or near Dea. Belknap's.
12*
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TOPOGRAPHY OF FRAMINGHAM.
make up the deficiency of Col. Brinley's rate, for the settlement and ordination of our Rev. Pastor."
The history of the occupation of this tract is too imperfectly preserved, to allow exactness of dates in all cases. By whom it was cultivated the first 18 years, after Mr. Brinley's purchase, does not appear. Col. Brinley became surety for Geo. Cradock, to Sir Peter Warren, Admiral of the British Navy, to whom he mortgaged the farm, and possession was afterwards obtained under the mortgage .* Mr. Nathaniel Brinley, son of Francis, hired the farm for several years of Oliver De Lancey, attorney of the pro- prietor, at a rent of £30 sterling per annum. Mr. N. Brinley first occupied the premises about the year 1760 ; and employed, it is said, some 15 or 20 negroes in its cultivation. Daniel Shays, who gave a name to the rebellion of 1786, at one time worked in Mr. Brinley's employ .; At the commencement of the revolution, Mr. Brinley, whose political principles ranked him with the tories, left the town; and an unsuccessful attempt was made in town meeting to confiscate the estate, of which we extract the follow- ing from the Record :
March 4, 1776. " To see if the town will, in answer to a petition from several of the inhabitants, take any order concerning the farm lately occupied by Nathl. Brinley, or the utensils thereto belonging ; and act thereon as the town shall judge proper."
In Nov. 1778, it was again proposed " to give such direction to the selectmen, respecting the farm in this town, belonging to the heirs of Sir Peter Warren, as the town shall judge proper." But no action upon the same is recorded. At this period, the farm was exposed to serious depredation and waste by unscrupulous trespassers, who entered upon the land and removed its timber.
In -, Edward Brinley, Esq., of Weston, brother of Na- thaniel, leased and took possession of the farm. After occupying it one year, John Eames, John Taylor and others, claimed to have purchased the estate, and to hold a bond for a deed of the same ; upon which Mr. Brinley removed, and Eames and others took possession. In 1785, Levi Thayer, of Milford, Mass., alleged his
* Sir Peter Warren married Susan- na, sister of Oliver De Lancey, of New York, who acted as attorney to
the widow of Sir Peter, in the recov- ery of the estate.
+ Worcester Magazine.
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purchase of the same tract, for £4,500 sterling, by a deed claimed to have been executed in London by Oliver De Lancey, and placed on record ; the genuineness of which was disputed by the rela- tives of the supposed grantor. He, however, entered upon the possession of the estate. Mr. E. Brinley, Jan. 21, 1793, obtained a power of attorney from John Watts, in behalf of the proprie- tors, with full powers to superintend the farm, and bring all tres- passers to justice ; and a civil process was commenced against Thayer, then in the occupation of it .* By the decease of the original proprietors, the right of property in the farm had now fallen to the Earl of Abington, Viscount Gage, and Lord South- ampton, heirs of Sir Peter Warren .; In 1795, Col. McGregor and John Rogers, Esq., purchased for £400, one third of the farm from the attorney of Lords Gage and Abington ; and by their agent at London, the remaining third. In 1802, William Maxwell, of New York, a merchant, purchased of the widow of John Rogers, and of the Trustees of Col. McGregor, their rights in the estate, and the same year disposed of the same to the Hon. John Lowell.
The proprietors of this farm holding under Mr. Lowell, have enjoyed peaceable possession of a tract, so long disputed among contending claimants. A considerable part was purchased by Maj. Benjamin Wheeler, from whom it has derived the name of
* Various portions of the farm had, from time to time, been conveyed and reconveyed ; and about the date last referred to, " one part was occupied and claimed by Jos. Roberts, and an- other by one Bannister." Mr. Brin- ley wrote, in 1795, " that a Mr. John Gardner has been here twice, from N. York state, in order to sell the farm at auction, under Levi Thayer's title. The people of Framingham wish to purchase, as he will sell on very low terms." He also writes, " I have combated a great deal of ill- treatment, to prevent the entire des- truction of the estate." Mr. Brinley had endeavored to purchase the es- tate from the English heirs, for which he offered £1200. But the negotia- tion met with no success. He ap- pears to have taken a laudable partin the preservation of the property,
which, at this period, he described, perhaps with some exaggeration, as " without a rod of fence, and the build- ings good for nothing." Forty acres of the land had, some years before, been sold for taxes.
t Lord Abington married a daugh- ter, the two others, grand-daughters, of Sır P. Warren. John Watts and Peter Kemble, of N. York, were at- tornies for Lord Gage.
# In a memorandum in our posses- sion, it is stated that Mr. Lowell gave $2000 for the rights purchased of McGregor, and £900 for a quit-claim from the heirs in England. Some apology is, perhaps, needed, for the particularity of the above notice of these various transactions. We have inserted it as matter of history, and to clear up the obscurity in which the title to this estate was long involved.
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the " Wheeler Farm," which has undergone valuable improve- ments, under the liberal and judicious management of himself and his son, Mr. I. S. Wheeler, the present possessor of the farm. The mill privilege on this farm long since fell into disuse .*
The township of Framingham possesses in general a fine soil, well furnished with water, and capable of easy cultivation ; it also contains numerous meadows, from which abundant materials have been derived for the improvement of the uplands .; The town is well wooded, affording excellent timber of hard wood ; though the forests have of late years sensibly diminished.# Great at- tention has been devoted to orcharding, in which the inhabitants have manifested much liberality and foresight. The finest vari- eties of the apple, pear, peach, plum, &c., have been introduced, and are under successful cultivation ; and nurseries have been at- tempted by various individuals. The fruit production of the town, must in a few years be a large source of emolument to the com- munity. A marked and intelligent spirit of improvement has of late been exhibited, among the agricultural population of the town.§
The surface of the town is generally level, or rising by easy swells. Its mineral productions demand no particular notice. Good granite is found in considerable quantities, of which some is hammered for mill stones and house building.|| Indications of the
About 1806, Luther Belknap, Esq , bought 112 acres of Mr. Low- ell. Jona. Maynard was also a pur- chaser in 1803.
t Since the valuable properties of peat muck have become known, the farms in this town have been greatly improved. Of the practicability of reclaiming swamp land, a striking ex- ample was furnished, near the centre of the village, about 20 years since, by Maj. Benj. Wheeler. A stranger would, with difficulty, believe that the beautiful and fertile meadow to the west of the centre common, was once covered with water and brush, and altogether valueless.
# Good wood now sells at about $5 the cord in this town. It is to be feared, that in not a few instances, a permanent loss is likely to accrue to the town, by clearing lands far more valuable for timber, than for cultiva- tion or pasturage. It may be here observed, that there are several white
oak trees of remarkable size in this town; two, near the house late of Dea. Matthias Bent, one of which is supposed to be more than 200 years old. The "T. D." tree, on the farm of Mr. John Eaton, is of such gigantic size, that seven persons are said to have found a shelter in the hollow of it, during a shower of rain. Mr. Ea- ton cut off a large part of the top, a few years since, as it shaded his mow- ing.
§ Meetings for the advancement of agricultural science have, of late years, been held, with a good degree of regularity, in the town; and a newspaper, entitled the Massachu- setts Ploughman, has been conducted by William Buckminster, Esq., and published at Boston and Framingham. By its extensive circulation, it has contributed largely to diffuse valua- ble information.
|| A tradition exists, that the Indi- ans of Maguncook came to Wild Cat
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HILLS, RIVERS, ETC.
presence of lime stone have been discovered in the N. part of the town. Large bowlders are to be seen widely spread upon the tract, E. of Nobscot Hill, indications of early Geological changes in that region .*
HILLS.
NOBSCOT, OR DOESKIN HILL, lies upon the N. bounds of Fram- ingham, and has a conspicuous elevation, which renders it visible at a great distance.}
GIBBS' MOUNTAIN, lies near the N. W. corner of the town, N. W. from the house of the late Mr. Micah Gibbs.
WILD CAT HILL, late in the S.W. part of the town, at the " Common," is now included in Ashland.
BALLARD'S HILL, late in the S. part of the town, W. from the house of J. Ballard, Esq., is now chiefly in Ashland.
MERRIAM's HILL, lies N. of Ballard's Hill.
MOUNT WAIT, is the name given to a beautiful conical hill, S. of Sudbury river, and about one mile S. from the centre village.
BEAR, OR BARE HILL, is an elevation contiguous to the centre village, on the S.
INDIAN HEAD HILL, lies S. of the late Dea. Bent's.
CAPT. TOM'S HILL, is on the bounds of Framingham and Na- tick, and lies E., a little S. from the house of the widow Eaton.
LT. GLEASON'S HILL, is on the S.E. corner of the town, near the Railroad.
WALNUT HILL, probably near Ezekiel How's.
RIVERS AND STREAMS.
1. CONCORD, or SUDBURY RIVER. - This river is found on Wood's map of New England, in 1635, by the Indian name of
Hill, in the neighborhood of which they professed to have found lead. We give the tradition as it has been repeated to ns.
A rocking bowlder, in the W. part of Framingham, is referred to in Hitchcock's Geol. of Mass., p. 376, and Silliman's Journal, VII.
t In ancient deeds and surveys the name of Doeskin is sometimes given to Nobscot Hill The late Mr. John Eaton informed the author, that the hill N. of his old house had been called Doeskin Hill.
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TOPOGRAPHY OF FRAMINGHAM.
Musquitaquid. It is first formed by the confluence of two streams originating in Westborough, one a little S. of Wessonville, the other N. of Fay's mountain ; after their junction it unites with Whitehall brook, whose source is Whitehall pond, in the S.W. part of Hopkinton. These two streams unite about 100 rods N. of the N.W. line of Hopkinton, and form what was formerly cal- led the Hopkinton river. The river then follows a nearly Easter- ly course about four miles, to a point near Bigelow's paper mills, where it receives from the S. as a tributary, the Indian brook. About a mile farther E., it receives from the S. the Cold Spring brook, near Shepard's paper mill. Its course here turns north- erly into Framingham, about one and a half miles, where it re- ceives the waters of Stoney brook, coming from the N.W., from Southborough. From this point it is called Sudbury river, and flows about three miles, in a course nearly N.E., to the village of Saxonville, where the Cochituate brook discharges the water of Cochituate or Long Pond. The river then turns northerly, en- tering Sudbury, and is finally lost, after receiving various tributa- ries, at its confluence with the Merrimack at Lowell. This stream is generally sluggish, and from the vegetable substances it receives in its passage through extensive meadows, its water bears a dark color. There are now but two mill sites in this town on the Concord river ; Brown's mills, and the mills at Saxonville.
STONEY BROOK rises in the N. W. corner of Southborough, flows in an irregular course S.E., receiving the waters of Angle brook, which rises in the S. part of Marlborough, and flows S.E., uniting with Stoney brook W. of Framingham bounds. It enters Framingham about 100 rods N. of the turnpike, flows S.E. to its junction with Hopkinton river, about one fourth of a mile S.E. from Mr. Bullard's machine shop ; which derives from Stoney brook a water privilege of some value.
COCHITUATE BROOK, (sometimes written Wachetuwot and Co- chitawick), rises at a point on the W. side of Cochituate Pond, in Framingham, and running about one third of a mile to the S.W., receives the waters of Course brook; it then flows in a course generally to the N.W., furnishes a supply of water to the large carpet Factory of Mr. W. H. Knight, and soon after discharges into the Sudbury river, near Saxonville.
HOP BROOK, rises in the N. part of the town, and flows E. and
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STREAMS, MEADOWS, ETC.
northerly, crossing the bounds of Sudbury and Framingham, E. of the old house of Mr. John Eaton.
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