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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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