History of Milford, Massachusetts, part 2, Part 81

Author: Ballou, Adin, 1803-1890
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Boston: Rand Avery and Company
Number of Pages: 742


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CORN-MILL, the first on our territory and in all these parts .


35


CRIMINAL STATUS of Milford since incorporation comparatively tolerable 381-382


CRIMINAL RECORD for the year 1879 382, 383


CROWS AND THEIR EGGS; a bounty offered for their destruction


403


DEACONS of our Cong. ch., earlier and later . . 54, 76, 81, 238


DEEDS of real estate to and from the town, table of 400-402


DELEGATES to consultive and constitutional conventions


· 420-421


DEPRECIATION of paper money . 66, 97, 98


DENTISTS, physicians, etc., ever located in town 427-429


DESCENT of land to natural heirs rare; frequency of sale .


. 397-399


DESPEAUX, EDWARD, family records of himself and descendants The Lord sends him wood " by the hand of the Devil "


716


DEWNER, ANDREW, Josiah Ball's black slave baby ; the story . His character and gencalogy . 717, 718


549, 550


DOG, Lovell Clark's remarkable one ; very devout


658


DRAPER families, genealogy, records, and biographical sketches


719-723


EDUCATION AND KINDRED MATTERS, Chap. IX. 189-229


School districts and their changes


189-200


Schoolhouses and their cost .


200-209


School moneys and management


. 209-217


High school established in 1850


207


84


COMMITTEE appointed by Gen. Court to govern Quinshipaug plantation


4, 5,31


74


COME-OUTERS, that troubled our Cong. ch .; their peculiar notions


715-716


1148


INDEX.


PAGE


EDUCATION AND KINDRED MATTERS. Succession of its principals and assistants . 214, 215


General school committee since 1795 . . 215-217


Improvements in educational management . . 218, 219


Select seminaries, Milford academy, and private schools 219-221


College graduates, etc., natives of Milford .


. 223, 224


The town library, its history and operations 225-227


Our local press and literature 227-229


ELDERS, RULING, who were first chosen by our Cong. ch. . 54 Dissension about them in the council that ordained Mr. Frost . 53


Names of all chosen down to 1780, and later 81, 238


ESTABROOK, WIRES, & Co.'s famous clinching-screw establishment 364


EXCHANGE STREET and EXCHANGE BLOCK 325, 364


EVENTS worthy of notice under head "Interesting Chronicles "


403-405


FARM PROPERTY in 1879 . 353


FARMS, how few long inherited ; nearly all often sold .


397-399


FARMERS' CLUB, when formed, when incorporated


385


FINANCIAL affairs, operations, and exhibits of the town


338-348


FIRE-DEPARTMENT, its history and statistics


294-304


Its rules and regulations


. 296-299


Its succession of officers


· 301-303


FIRES in town, the principal, since incorporation


. 303, 304


FREEMAN'S OATH and BALLOT in early times


XVII, XVIII


FROST, Rev. AMARIAH, his settlement, salary, support, etc. His death, funeral expenses, etc. .


66,67 95


His genealogy, family record, character, etc. 755-758


FUNDS with which Milford started at incorporation 339-341


Raised by annual appropriation during a century 342-348


"FUNERAL CLOTH" ordered to be purchased 72


GAGE families, genealogy, and records . 758-761


GASLIGHT COMPANY, incorporated 1854, capital, extent of pipes, etc.


384


Its lamp-posts first set up in our strects 1856 405


GEOLOGY of Milford, peculiarities of it, etc. 20,23


GODFREY families, genealogy, records, and sketches .


769-772


GRADUATES from colleges, etc., natives of Milford 223, 224


120


GRASSES of our ancient meadows excellent and nutritious


24, 25


GRAVEYARDS. (See burying-grounds and cemeteries.)


364


GREENE STREET, its history and contents


327


GUARDS, LAFAYETTE, organized 1826, disbanded 1846; captains DAVIS, mostly Irish-Americans


114


MAYHEW, Co. F, organized 1866; its captains 121


GUNS, etc., not to be discharged in any public place


369


HALLS, public and private, in town 388


HAYWARDS, oldest settlers of the name on our territory and HOWARDS, derivation of these names, etc. . Whence their patriarchs came into these parts


43


790


791


Early settlement at Howardtown .


43


Their genealogy, family records, etc. 792-815


HEALTH, BOARD OF, its history, statistics, reports, etc.


290-294


HEARSE AND HEARSE-HOUSE, crection of tombs, etc.


. 307, 311


HILLS, Silver Hill, Tunnel Hill; their heights


17


Neck Hill, North Hill, Bear, and Magomiscock . . 18-20, 29


HoGs, if rung and yoked, ran at large till 1799


403


HOG-REEVE, the complimentary office of newly-married husbands


403


HOME-SITES, ABANDONED, 37 of them, carefully described


359-397


·


HOPEDALE, origin and derivation of the name 260


GRAND ARMY of the Republic, Post 22


GREEN BROTHERS' hecl-factory, a notable establishment


112, 113


1149


INDEX.


PAGE


HOPEDALE COMMUNITY, brief history of its eareer


260


Its objeets, principles, and peculiarities 261-263


Explanation of my reasons, as its founder . 264, 270 . 271-273


Its submergenee in the Hopedale parish


HOPEDALE PARISH, its origin, organization, offieers, etc.


271-276


273-275


My pastorate and its peculiarities ; my suceessor HOPEDALE manufacturing establishments and tlirift . HORSE-THIEF DETECTING SOCIETY, its history and standing


385


HOVEY, SAMUEL, a lay preaeher, and leader of tlie Come-outers


77,829


HUNT, genealogy, family records, biographieal sketehes 832-841 PEARLEY, Esq., family reeord, biographieal sketeh, etc. 883, 884


MOSES, Esq., and Hon. EZRA, biographical sketches, etc. . 836, 837 HYMNS sung at our municipal eentenary 463, 464, 499, 500


INCORPORATION of Mendon as a town, 1667 .


10


Of the Easterly Preeinet, 1741, the Act


56


Of this town, 1780, the Act 85-87


2


Tribes on and adjacent to this region


2


Christians, the eonverts of Rev. John Eliot .


2,3


Territory first purchased, eight miles square


7


Deed given by the saehems to Moses Payne and Peter Brackett Reserved rights to hunt and fish .


7, 8


Great war of King Philip and its desolations


11


More territory bought; the North Purehase, and deed 12, 13


Murders on Bear Hill, a doubtful tradition . 403


Names ; J. H. Trumbull on Wapowage, Quinshipaug


14


Maspenoek, Magomiseock, Nipmuck; signifieation


29,30


Relics; comparatively few found and preserved . 27, 28, 451


INNS, INNHOLDERS, lieensed, and retailers of spirituous liquors 405-408


INOCULATION for small-pox, and pest-houses opened, 1799 . 404


For kine-pox, first authorized by the town . 404


Urgently recommended by the Board of Health . 291-294


INTERESTING CHRONICLES of Milford for 100 years, 45 in number 403-405


JENNISON, Dr. WILLIAM, presented a Bible to Cong. pulpit; its disposal 80


His family record and biographieal sketeh . . 843, 844


JOHNSON, Col. LEWIS, his biographieal sketeh, family reeord, ete. . 846, 847


Hon. GEORGE WILLOUGHBY, sketch and genealogy . 847, 848


JONES, Elder JOHN, an early settler, sketches of his career, family reeord, ete. 39, 40, 848-850


Family records, genealogy, and sketehes . 848, 859


JUDGES of Milford poliee eourt, ete. 425


JUSTICE, Chief, of Suffolk Superior Court, 1855, a native of Milford . . 421, 422


JUSTICES OF THE PEACE in Milford sinee ineorporation 422-424


KILBURN family, genealogy, and reeords 865-867


KINDERGARTEN seminary, instituted by Mrs. Henry E. Morgan . 221, 909


KNIGHTS, TEMPLAR, of PYTHIAS, of HONOR; organizations 385, 387


KNIGHTS and KNIGHT; family records, ete. . . 870, 871


LADDER, Excelsior Hook-and-Ladder Company . . 300, 301


LAFAYETTE GUARDS, light infantry company, its organization, captains, etc. . 112, 113


LAND, early layings-out of, ete. 31, 34, 36


Onee all our Milford territory held in common by proprietors . 34


Divisions and allotments of; the rules . 5, 6, 31


Earliest settlers on, down to 1710 . 37-45


Oldest lot on our territory assigned 35


Deseent of, to heirs very little, nearly all frequently sold . 397-399


Deeded to and from the town 400-402


LATITUDE and LONGITUDE of Milford . 15


.


365-367


INDIAN country, whereof Milford is a seetion


8


1150


INDEX.


PAGE


LAWS-BY, general, relating to truants, and to fire-department 298, 372, 373


LAWSUITS of the town, compiled by Thomas G. Kent, Esq. 374-381


Milford vs. Worcester, the Temple pauper case . 375


Milford vs. Bellingham, Bess Corbett pauper case . 375, 376


Milford vs. Godfrey and others, old meeting-house case . 376, 377 Thayer vs. Stearns, old town-house tax 377, 388


Henry Nelson vs. Milford, to recover loss as assessor 378 Worcester vs. Milford, the Russell Cheney case 378, 379


Medway vs. Milford, the Asia Madden case . 379


Cornelius T. Day vs. Milford, the awning case 379, 380


Milford vs. Holbrook, about the samc awning 379, 380


Wareham vs. Milford, the Dunbar pauper case .


380


Allen C. Fay and others vs. Milford, the Vernon-grove cemetery case 380 First Parish vs. Milford, the old burying-ground case 381


LAWYERS, that have ever practised in town . 427


LEATHER BOOT AND SHOE BUSINESS ; its rise and progress 357-364


LEVEL of Milford above the ocean, at numerous points 17,18


LEXINGTON, battle of; Mill-river militia hastened thither 101


LIBRARY of the town, its history, contents, and operations 325-327


LICENSES granted to our liquor-sellers from 1734 to 1830 405-408


LIQUOR-SELLING, attempts to restrict and suppress 404


LITERATURE issued from our local press 227-229


LOCK-UP in the old town-house, authorized 1849


405


MCDEVITT, DOMINIC, one of our early Irish-Americans; sketch and record 884


MCFARLAND, Dca. EBENEZER, genealogy, record, and sketch


885


MADDEN families, their genealogy and brief sketches . 358


887-889


MAGOMISCOCK Hill, situation, signification of the Indian name, etc. . 20,29


MANUFACTURING AND MECHANICAL INDUSTRIES of Milford 358-367


MAPS of the town, surveys and measurements 403, 705, 16-18


MASONIC FRATERNITY, its organizations in town, etc. . . 385, 386


29


MASSACHUSETTS, an Indian tribe once inhabiting the vicinity of Boston 19


The aboriginal name of Charles River towards Boston 19


MAYHEW, Hon. A. C., his genealogy, biography, family record, and funeral . 894-897


MAYNARD, Rev. LYMAN, his genealogy, sketch, and family record . 897-898


MEADOWS, the " Great Meadow " and others; remarks on them 17, 20, 25, 40


MEASUREMENT of our Milford altitude above the ocean 16-18


. 899, 900


Genealogy of himself and descendants 899-903


MEETING-HOUSE, the bitter contention about one in Mendon, 1727 to 1731 48-50


The first one built by our Precinct; its history . 58, 59, 67-71


The rival claims to that house by town and parish 230, 231


Dismantled and removed by the parish 234


The new one erected by the parish, with pious ceremonies 234-236 Those erceted by our several religious societies. (See each in place, Chap. X.)


MENDON, our mother town ; its settlement, incorporation, desolation, etc. 3-13


METCALF, Dr. JOHN G., historian of Mendon, credited for extracts, ctc. . 3-13 Our few in Milford; origin of the name 906


MILFORD, a favorite name with English-speaking peoples


1


Its area in square miles and acres 1, 15


Its situation, length, breadth, and boundaries 15


Its topography, rivers, hills, plains, and heights


19, 20


Its geology, vegetation, and animality .


23-25


Its incorporation as a precinct


54-58


Struggles of its inhabitants to become a town 82-84


Its incorporation, organization, and early status 89-98


MILITARY COMPANIES of the town; old infantry, artillery, light infantry, etc . 100-114 MILITIA LAWS of the State, changed variously 114


MACHINERY in town operated by steam and water power .


MASPENOCK, the Indian name for North Pond; signification


MELLEN, Col. JAMES, a distinguished Revolutionary officer, sketch, etc.


INDEX.


1151


MINISTERS of our several religious societies. (See under each, Chap. X.) MINISTRY MONEY, inherited from mother Mendon


66, 85, 86, 95


MODERATORS of the Precinct down to 1780 . 73, 74


Of the town for one hundred years 411-414


MONTAGUE, FRANCIS D., and BENJAMIN H .; their genealogy, etc. . 908, 909


MONUMENTS, good stone ones ordered on Mendon line


404


MONUMENT to commemorate our fallen soldiers 310


MORGAN, HENRY E., family record; Mrs. Morgan's kindergarten 909, 910


MORSE, NATHANIEL, an early settler; his record, etc. . 910


Genealogy, family records, etc. . 910, 911


MOWRY and MOREY, genealogy, and brief sketches . 911-913


MULLIKEN and MUNYAN, family records and sketches . . 913, 914


MUSIC HALL, our spacious and elegant new one, and others 388


MUTUAL BENEFIT associations ; several of them . . 386, 387


NAMES, INDIAN, treated of and explained 14, 29, 30


Given by town authority to all our streets 321


NAME of our town, thought to have been suggested by Mill-river fords


19


NECK, reserved common, between Muddy Brook and Mill River . 313, 849 Name of the hill between Mendon and Milford . 19, 849


NEGROES, once slaves, but later emancipated, several 549, 600, 683, 806


NELSON, genealogy, family records, and sketches


914-931


Thomas, the immigrant ancestor; sketch


914


Col. Samuel, one of the Revolutionaries 919


926


NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, and other literature of Milford NIPMUCK INDIANS, country, and first purchase of territory River and pond, so named; signification 30


2-8


NORTH HILL, the northerly adjunct of Neck Hill


· 19, 87, 88, 313


NORTH POND, Indian name Maspenock ; signification 29


NORTH PURCHASE, tract of land bought of the Indians, 1691-92


12, 13


OATH AND BALLOT, ancient of freemen


XVII, XVIII


OBITUARY of Adin Augustus Ballou, brief


556


Of Lovett H. Bowker, brief .


591


Of Col. Arial Bragg, brief


597


Of James H. Clement, brief .


661


Of Rev. and Hon. Albert A. Cooke, full


680-682


Of Penuel Corbett, A.M., brief


686


Of Rev. John Dale, wife and son .


693, 694


Of Warren W. Dutcher, brief


725


Of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Fales, brief


738


Of Dr. Allen C. Fay, brief


742


Of Capt. Otis W. Holmes, full


927-929


Of Moses Hunt, Esq., and Hon. Ezra .


936, 937


Of Dr. Gustavus D. Peck, full


955


Of Dr. Daniel Thurber, full .


1066


Of Dr. Phila O. Wilmarth, moderate length


386


ODD FELLOWS, their organizations in town, etc. . OFFICERS, civil, etc., in Chap. XVI.


409-427


Military, previous to the Rebellion


112, 114


In the army during the Rebellion


119, 120


In the volunteer militia, later


. 120, 121


Of the Precinct down to 1780


73-75


Of the several religious societies, in their order


. 230-275


Of the fire-department .


301, 302


ORATION, Gen. A. B. Underwood's, at our municipal centennial


464-488


ORDINATION of Rev. Amariah Frost, proceedings Of Rev. David Long, proceedings 233


63, 64


ORGANIZATION of the Precinct, Dec. 31, 1741


58


1129


227-229


Newell, Esq. (see the other sketches in their places)


PAGE


1152


INDEX.


PAGE ORGANIZATION of the Town, April 25, 1780 . 89, 90 OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, from 1825 downward . 418, 419


PAINE, NATHAN, his family record and sketch 956


PARK, the town, fifteen acres bought of Emmons Twitchell 334


PARKER families, genealogy, records, and sketches 936-938


PARKHURST families, genealogy, records, and sketches


938-948


PARKMAN families, genealogy, record, and sketches . . 949-951


PARTIES, town and parish, their rise and issues 234, 245, 374


PARTRIDGE families, their genealogy and records,


. 951-953


PATRICK DELANO, genealogy and family record .


953


PAUPERPHOBIA and PAUPER STATISTICS, some interesting facts


96, 278-290


PAYNE, MOSES, and Peter Brackett, agents to purchase the eight miles square Indian deed made to them, and assigned to the town PECK families, genealogy, records, and sketches .


954-957


PEGS for boot and shoe soles, invented by Joseph Walker . 1088 Manufactured in town by George Howe · 348, 349, 830


PENNIMAN families, genealogy, records, and sketches 957-959 PENSIONERS, REVOLUTIONARY, surviving in 1840; names 106


961-965


PEST-HOUSES, provided for small-pox inoculation, 1799


404


PETITION of Mill-river people to be set off from Mendon 54, 55 For clemency to the Shays insurrectionists . 91,92


427-429


PICKEREL POND, the Indian meaning of Quinshipaug


14


PLAIN, " Mill Plain " and " Second Plain" in South Milford


317


PLAINS lying eastward of Charles-river mill-pond · 208, 257


PLANS OF THE TOWN ordered and made in 1794 and 1830 403


PLANTATION, Quinshipaug, incipient Mendon 3, 9


488-499


POLICE COURT, its history, officers, and outcome


425


POND families, genealogy, records, and sketches


972-978


PONDS OF WATER, natural and artificial


16, 17


POPULATION, number of voters, etc., at different periods; tables


410, 411


POST-OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS, history and particulars


425-427


POUND, first built in 1781; removed and rebuilt, 1811 .


. 403, 404


PREACHERS AND PASTORS. (See under Religious Societies, each, Chap. X.)


PRECINCT, our easterly, its origin, history in detail, etc.


47-81


PRINTING ESTABLISHMENTS, publications, and literature .


. 227-229


PRODUCTIONS, natural, industrial, etc. . 23, 348-367 PROGRESS, a generation of, down to the Precinct 47-58


PROPRIETORS of Quinshipaug Plantation, names of the first


6


QUAKERS and others exempted from ministerial rates 232


QUARRIES, granite, treated of somewhat 23, 357, 358


QUINSHEPANG, misspelling of Quinshipaug, the name of our lower hotel . 536, etc.


Also the misspelled name of our Odd Fellows' encampment 386


QUINSHIPAUG PLANTATION, incipient Mendon; its origin


3, 4


Its organization, rules, and regulations


5, 6


Its settlement and incorporation into a township


9,10


Its literal Indian signification, as above


14


RAILROADS, our three, their description, when opened, etc. . 336, 337 RAWSON families, genealogy, records, and sketches 982-987


RATTLESNAKES once numerous in Rocky Woods; my hunt 26, 27


How one of them frightened Lieut. Gibbs's guests in 1801 766 READ families, genealogy, records, and sketches . . 987, 988


REFLECTIONS on the experiences, trials, and joys of our early settlers 45, 46


RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES in town, the cardinal facts of their respective histories 230-277


7


7,8


PERRY families, genealogy, records, and sketches


PHYSICIANS of the various schools in and near town .


POEM at our municipal centennial, by Hon. Charles Thurber In connection with the same centennial, by Rev. M. S. Howard 501-507


1153


INDEX.


PAGE


REPORTS, ANNUAL, of our town authorities began to be printed 404 REPRESENTATIVES to Gencral Court during the century . 419, 420 REVENUE, SURPLUS, of the United States received by town treasurer 404


RICHARDSON, Rev. MERRILL, D.D., his biographical memoir 991-994


RIVERS, MILL and CHARLES, alias " Second Bridge," their falls and mill-scats 16-19 ROADS, WAYS, STREETS, COMMONS, full history and description of them 312-337


Extent and contents of them all totalized 337


ROBINSON, ICHABOD, deeds the site of Precinct meeting-house .


69


ROBINSON families, their genealogy, records, and sketches 994, 995


ROCKWOOD familics, gencalogy, records, and sketches . 996-1000


RULES for the allotment and division of proprietary lands .


5, 6, 31


SAUNDERS families, their genealogy, records, etc. 1001-1003


SCAMMELL families, genealogy, records, and sketches .


1004-1010


Gen. Alexander especially noticed . 106, 201, 202, 1006-1007


1006


His ardent love-letter to Miss Bishop in 1777 SCHOOL DISTRICTS, cvery thing relating to them .


109, 189-199


SCHOOLHOUSES, not one in town at its incorporation Schools kept in private dwellings, instances


201


200


Every thing of consequence concerning them 200-209


. 209-217


Its succession of principals and assistants . 214, 215


215, 217


SCHOOL COMMITTEE and terms of service, full list SCHOOLS, SELECT, seminaries, etc., of a private nature SELECTMEN of the town since its incorporation


414-416


SENATORS from Milford to General Court


421


SETTLERS on our territory, the earliest


31, 37, 45


SETTLEMENTS of Milford with mother Mendon


91, 339-341


SEWERS, a few good ones .


336


. 308, 986


91


58-60


69


1022


276


1023-1024


1025-1027


1028-1029


1029-1031 SUMNER families, ancient, genealogy, records, sketches 1035-1046 SUPERINTENDENTS AND MATRONS of our town asylum


. 289, 290


TABLES, one showing school-moneys annually raised . One showing the list of our college graduates, etc. 223, 224


211


One showing the development, etc., of our town library One showing important pauper statistics 288


227


One giving statistics of our fire-department 300


Two showing our annual financial expenditures


342-345


Two showing our taxable resources, valuations, etc. Several census exhibits, etc. . 352-357


347


Two on conveyances of real estate to and from the town . One on the population and voters of the town 411


200-204


TAFT families, genealogy, records, etc. 1047-1049


. 367, 405


TELEGRAPH and TELEPHONE communication established THAYER families, genealogy, records, and sketches 1051-1063


Our first Ichabod's courtship and marriage, romantic


. 1056


THOMPSON familics, genealogy, records, and sketches 1063-1065


1065-1068


THURBER, Dr. DANIEL, and Hon. CHARLES, records and sketches THWING families, genealogy, records, etc. 1068-1071


219-222


SCHOOL MONEYS, cvery thing of consequence relating to them SCHOOL, HIGH, established in 1850, etc. . 198, 206, 207


SHADE-TREES set out by Jared Rawson for the public SHAYS'S INSURRECTION, and matters thereto relating SITE of the Precinct meeting-house : difficulties and delays Ichabod Robinson's deed of .


SPINDEL, Rev. NATHANIEL, family record and sketch SPIRITUALISTS of Milford, numerous, but not organized SPRAGUE families, ancient settlers, their genealogy, etc. STACY, Rev. GEORGE W., genealogy, record, and sketch STAPLES families, genealogy, Hon. Hamilton B.'s sketch STEARNS families, genealogy, records, and sketches .


1154


INDEX.


PAGE


THWING, Almon's, topographical report of Milford TITHINGMEN cease to be chosen in 1841 .


16-18


TOASTS at our national centennial celebration, 1876 At our municipal centennial celebration, 1880 . 500, 501


444-446


TOWN ACTION on army supplies during the last half of the Revolution · 104-106


On supplies of men, money, etc., during the Rebellion · 115-117


TREASURERS of the Precinct down to 1780


75


Of the town since its incorporation 414


TRUMBULL, J. HAMMOND, Esq., on Indian names


14


TURNPIKE, Ninth Massachusetts, on our southern border .


312


TURNPIKE SLIP, some curious facts


334


TWITCHELL families, genealogy, records, and sketches


1076-1077


UNDERWOOD families, Gen. Orison, etc., records and sketches . 1078-1081


Gen. Adin B.'s services and sufferings in the great war


117


His family record and biographical sketch . 1080 His Centennial Oration, 1880 . . 464-488


" UNIVERSALERS " permitted sometimes to occupy the town's meeting-house . 244


UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY, church, etc., history of . . 241-247


UNITARIAN SOCIETY in Milford Centre, now defunct .


276


VANT families, genealogy, records, and sketches . 1082-1083


VENDUING THE TOWN'S POOR abolished, 1806 . 280, 597


WAKEFIELD, Rev. LEONARD's genealogy, record, and sketch 1083-1084


WALKER families, genealogy, records, and sketches . 1086-1095


WARFIELD families, genealogy, records, and sketches


1096-1100


WAR, King Philip's, 1675-76, in which Mendon was devastated .


11


French and Indian, 1744-48, a few soldiers furnished .


99


French, 1755-63, names of our officers and soldiers .


100


Revolutionary, 1775-83, companies, officers, and soldiers .


101-104


. 104-106


Revolutionary soldiers, etc., furnished after our incorporation With England, 1812-14; our artillery company ordered to Boston Of the great Rebellion; Milford's contributions . 114-117


109-111


WAR RECORD of the Rebellion, Chap. VIII .; all our soldiers


122-188


WARNINGS of recent comers out of town to prevent pauperism


96, 278


WARRANTS FOR TOWN-MEETINGS ordered published in " Milford Journal " WATER WORKS COMPANY, its organization, etc. .


. 384, 385


WEIGHTS AND MEASURES procured in 1782 .


403


WHEELOCK families, genealogy, records, and sketches


1105-1108


WHITE families, genealogy, records, sketches


1110-1112


WHITNEY families, genealogy, records, sketches . 1112-1121


WILMARTH, Drs. BUTLER, PHILA O., and JEROME, full sketches 1128-1130 WISWALL families, genealogy, records, and sketches 1130-1133


NOAH, his record ; sent with a load of wood to a saint 1131


WOOD and WooDs families, genealogy, records, and sketches 1136-1143


WORSHIP, PUBLIC, first held in private houses 61


How afterwards supported


66, 67,95


403


405


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