History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. I, Part 144

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1576

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The incorporation of the second precinct was granted by the General Conrt in response to a petition signed by Thomas Hale and fifty-six others, reciting the grievances under which the inhabitants of the north part of the town labored and the advantages of a separate precinct. The order of the court, passed by the House of Representatives March 28, 1750, passed in concurrence by the Council March 29 and consented to hy Spencer Phipps, Governor, was " that the prayer of the petition be so far granted as that the petitioners, with their families and estates, to- gether with such persons and their estates who shall, within three months from this time, signify their de- sire therefor under their hands to the clerk of the town of Brookfield, be and they hereby are set off a distinct Parish, and are endowed with all the privi- leges and subjected to all the duties which the other inhabitants of Parishes are by the laws of this Prov- ince endowed with or subjected to-Provided, their possessions do not exceed one-third part of the said town of Brookfield for quantity and quality."

On the 21st of May, 1750, a meeting of the pre- cinct was held at the house of Jabez Ayres, in ac- cordance with a warrant issned by John Chandler, Jr., Esq., at which William Ayres acted as Moderator. At this meeting the following officers were chosen : Wm. Ayres, Precinct Clerk; Wm. Ayres, Ebenezer Witt, Samuel Gould, Noah Harris and Benjamin Adams, Precinct Committee; Joseph Stone, Col- lector, and Win. Ayres, Samuel Gould, Wm. Witt, Jason Bigelow and Moses Ayres, Assessors. On the 21st of September, 1750, it was voted by the precinct to raise by asses ment on the polls and estates £13,

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68. 8d. to supply the precinct with preaching, and in 1751 forty pounds were raised for the same purpose. In 1752 Rev. Eli Forbes was invited te settle with the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds as a settle- nient, and £53. 6s. 8d as an annual salary. The final salary agreed on was after 1767 to be £66. 138. 4d, and thirty cords of wood a year. The church was organized May 28, 1752, and on June 3d, Mr. Forbes was ordained.

The covenant was signed by twenty-six males and twenty-two females, as follows : Eli Forbes, John Watson, Jabez Ayres, Ebenezer Witt, Noah Barns, John Cutler, Benjamin Adams, Abram How, Am- miel Weeks, Ichabod How, Abner Taylor, Thomas Hale, Uriah Gilbert, Joseph Stone, Moses Ayres, Charles Adams, Moses Barnes, Jason Biglow, Nathan Stevens, Thomas Taylor, Ephraim Cutler, Daniel Newell, Jonathan Gilbert, Aaron Barns, Isaac Cutler, John Witt, Esther Watson, Mary Tucker, Martha How, Sarah Stone, Abigail Cutler, Rebecca Witt, Mary Witt, Abigail Gilbert, Hannah Barns, Re- becca Ayres, Esther Gilbert, Elizabeth Gilbert, Miriam Newell, Sarah Ayres, Rebecca Adams, Persis Adams, Naomi Taylor, Annah Barns, Phebe How, Mary Hale, Mary Stevens, Hannah Bartlett.

The ministry of Mr. Forbes continued until March 1, 1775, and June 5, 1776, he was installed over the first church in Gloucester, where he died December 15, 1804. His dismission, given at his own urgent request, was the result of indignities shown him in consequence of his suspected disloyalty. It is un- doubtedly true that he was not by nature an enthu- siast and did not enter into the revolutionary spirit with extreme ardor, but his immediate settlement and satisfactory ministry in Gloucester precludes the belief that he entertained other than patriotic senti- ments during his residence in Brookfield. Mr. Forbes entered Harvard College in 1744 and during his freshman year enlisted in the Provincial army during the first French and Indian War. After his discharge he returned to college and gradnated in 1751 in the class with Judge William Cushing, Rev. Mather Byles and Rev. John Willard, receiving the degree of S. T. D. from his Alma Mater in 1804, the year of his death.

On the 23d of May, 1776, a call was given to the Rev. Joseph Appleton, of Ipswich, a graduate at Brown University in 1772, to succeed Mr. Forbes in the ministry, with the offer of one hundred and thirty- three pounds, sixteen shillings and eight pence as a settlement, and of seventy pounds as an annual salary for two years and eighty pounds afterward. Mr. Ap- pleten was ordained October 3, 1776, and died in his pasterate July 25, 1794.

Rev. Thomas Snell succeeded Mr. Appleton and was ordained June 27, 1798, and continued in his pastorate until his death, May 4, 1862, with a salary never exceeding five hundred dollars a year. He was born in Cummington November 21, 1774, and gradu-

ated at Dartmouth College in 1795. Until September 21, 1851, for fifty-three years he was the sole pastor and senior pastor, with a colleague from that date until his death closed a ministry of sixty-four years. At this point the sketch of the Second Precinct will be closed in this narrative. as that precinct was incor- porated as the town of North Brookfield in 1812 and will be found further referred to in the history of that town in another part of this County History.

After the incorporation of the Second Precinct a movement was initiated in the First Precinct to build a new meeting-house. The question of location be- came a serious one and three localities were proposed -the site of the old house on the hill, the plain and Mr. Seth Banister's lawn. The plain was in what is now West Brookfield, Mr. Banister's lawn was in what is now Brookfield and the hill was between the two. The people of the west village, though prefer- ring the plain, were willing to compromise on the old site on the hill but the people of the south village would consent to nothing but the lawu within their own special territory. The people of the south part formed a majority of the First Parish and at a meeting held November 20, 1753, it was voted to build a meet- ing house on the height near Seth Banister's house. On the 4th of December Jedediah Foster, Abner Brown, John Goss and forty others living in the west part asked to have the parish divided into two, equal as to quantity and quality of lands and number of in- habitants. The majority objected to the terms and conditions of the petition, but were willing that the petitioners themselves might be set off as another parish. In the meantime the erection of the meeting- house went on and the petitioners in the west part applied to the General Court for an injunction. Without, however, going further into the details of the controversy it is sufficient to state that on the 8th of November, 1754, an act was passed by the General Court incorporating a third precinct and making an addition to the Second Precinct, which was incorpor- ated in March, 1750. The following is the text of the Act :

WHEREAS, it is made evident to this court that the annexing some of the inhabitants of the first precinct in the towo of Brookfield, with their laods, to the second precinct io said towu, and the dividing the re- maioder of said first precinct into two preciocts would serve very much to remove many difficulties and ioconvenieocies which divers of the in- habitants of said first precinct at present labour uuder, and also very inuch to accommodate the greatest part of the inhabitants of said first precinct,-

Be it enacted hy the Governor, Council and House of Representa- tives,

SECT. 1. That all the lands in the present first precinct iu said town, lying northward of a linebegioning at the northeast corner of George Harrington's lands, upoo Spencer line, and running westward by his, the said George's lands, to Five Mile River Bridge at the country road ; from thence westerly on the most southerly parts and lines of the lands of Thomas Slayton, Captain Nathaniel Woolcet, Thomas Moor, Ebene- zer Jenoings, John Jennings, Ohadiah Rice, Ww. Parks, Josiah Con_ verse, Francis Dodge, Peul Deland, the heirs of John Greeo, deceased, Stephen Green and Joseph Ranger, Juo. ; and from said Ranger's soutli- west coraer to the southwest corner of Wm. Ayres' meadow, on Coy's Brook, so-called, near the place where the old school-house stood ; end from thence northward on the most eastward parts and lines of the

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lands of John Tuff and Josiah Gilbert, and on the most westward parts and lines of the land of Jeremiah Woodbury and John Hill to Abner Tyler's land ; aod from thence on the most eastward part and lines of the lands of Jacob Abbot and Joshua Dodge aod Joshua Dodge, Jun., to the center line of said town ; and from theoce all the lands eastward of that part of said center line, which is northward of the place where the above described line meets with the said center line to New Braintree District be and hereby are annexed to the second precinct in said town of Brookfield; aod that all those persons that now are or hereafter may be inhabitants oo said lands, he aod hereby are iacorporated with the second precinct, and shall be always hereafter obliged to do all precinct duties, and shall receive all precinct privileges io the said second pre- ciact.

And be it further enacted,

SEPT. 2. That the remainder of the lands in the said first precinct in Faid town of Brookfield be divided into two precincts io manner follow- ing, viz. : the dividing line shall begio at the southeast corner of Paul Deland's laod, and shall rua from thence to the country road in said Brookfield, so as to take in and include all Joho Rich's land where he dwells, into the West Precinct or division ; and from said country road said dividing live shall run in the midst of the town road that leads southward from said conotry road to the river called Quahang River, to the southeast corner of Ephraim Bartlet's laod ; and from thence west- ward, southward of all Ephraim Bartlet's and Obadiah Wright's land, to Quaboag River ; and from theoce the said river shall be the dividing line down said river to the mouth of Salmon Brook; and from thence the dividing line shall run straight to a large white oak tree standing in the northeast corner of a tract of land called the Mile Square ; said tree being a boundary between the towoships of Brookfield and Western ; and that the lauds lying in the said towo of Brookfield (and not io- eluded in the second precinct) westward of the above dividing lioe be and hereby are made a precinct by the name of the First Precinct in the Town of Brookfield ; and that the inhabitants of said land westward of the said dividing line above described be aod hereby are invested with all the powers aud privileges and subjected to all the duties that precincts in this province by law are invested with and subjected to ; and that the lands lying in the said town of Brookfield (and not in- cluded in the second preciact), eastward of the above dividing line be and hereby are made n separate precinct by the name of the Third Pre- cinct in the Town of Brookfield ; and that the inhabitants of the said lunds eastward of the said dividing lioe above described be and hereby are invested with all the powers aod privileges and subjected to all the duties that precincte in this province by law are iovested with and sub- jected to, and be it further enacted,

SECT. 3. That all the inhabitants of the lands which by this act are made the first precinct and all the iohabitants of those laads which by this act are annexed to the said second precinct be and hereby are and shall forever hereafter be exempted from paying or contributing any part towards the charges and dehts that have already arisen or may hereafter arise by reason of the building the new meeting honse which has lately been erected in said towo on the lands by this act made the third precinct io said town, any of the votes of the late first precinct notwithstanding ; and that all the materials of the old meeting-bouse which was lately standing in said town was taken down by equally di- vided between the said three preciocts; aod that all the ministerial reveones arising from all and any lands lying in any part of the said town of Brookfield heretofore sequestered to the use of the ministry in said town shall he always hereafter equally divided between the said three precincts ; and that the charge of the committee who were ap- poioted by this court in April, one thousand seven hundred and fifty- four, to view the said towo he borne and paid by the inhabitants of said town.

On the 22d of January, 1755, the people of the first precinct voted to build a meeting-house "at the turn- ing of the county rode, near the northeast corner of a plow-field belonging to John Barns, being on the plain in said first precinct." It was to be forty-five feet long and thirty- five feet wide, and so far as can be learned it was finished without serions delay. The question now arose as to which church the Rev. Mr. Harding belonged. The General Court had provided that the estates of the first parish should be held for the payment of his salary up to the time of the divi-

sion, but did not determine his future relation. Owing to the embarrassments attending this question he was at his own request dismissed May 8, 1755. Two years later, February 1, 1757, Rev. Nehemiah Strong, of Hadley, was chosen pastor to succeed Mr. Harding, but declined on account of the insufficiency of the proposed salary. Rev. Joseph Parsons, of Bradford, a graduate at Harvard, in 1752, was then called and was ordained November 23, 1757. Mr. Parsons served until his death, in 1771, when he was followed by Rev. Ephraim Ward, a graduate at Harvard iu 1763. Mr. Ward was ordained October 23, 1771, and served until his death, in 1818. Rev. Eliakim Phelps was settled as his colleague October 23, 1816, and after a service of ten years and two days, two years as colleague aud eight years as pastor, he resigned October, 1826 and assumed the preceptorship of the Brookfield "Classical Female School." On the day of the dis- mission of Mr. Phelps Rev. Joseph I. Foote was in- stalled, and after six years' service retired, and died on the day before his proposed inauguration as Presi- dent of Washington College, in the State of Tennessee. Mr. Foote was succeeded by Rev. Francis Horton, a Harvard graduate of 1826. His ministry began Au- gust 15, 1832, and continued to September 15, 1841. Rev. Moses Chase was settled January 12, 1842, and was followed by Rev. Leonard S. Parker, a graduate of Oberlin Collegiate Institute, December 19, 1844. During his pastorate the first precinct was incorpor- ated as West Brookfield in 1848, and for a continued sketch of the parish refereuce must be had to the history of that town in these volumes.

On the 15th of April, 1756, the third precinct, which is now the town of Brookfield, was organized with a membership of twenty-five males and fourteen females. The Rev. Nathan Fiske, a graduate of Harvard, in the class of 1754, was ordained May 24, 1758. He was in the class with John Hancock, Daniel Tread- well and Samuel West, and received the degree of S. T.D., in 1792. His pastorate continued until his death, May 24, 1799, when he was succeeded by Rev. Michael Stone, who was ordained March 11, 1801.

In 1827 the society became Unitarian, and settled Rev. George R. Noyes October 30, 1827, who remained six years, and afterwards became professor of sacred literature in Harvard University. Mr. Noyes was a graduate of Harvard in 1818. Rev. Seth Alden fol- lowed, remaining ten years, and was followed Novem- ber 8, 1845, by William B. Greene, a graduate of West Point, who, in the war of 1861, commanded a regi- ment of Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. Rev. S. S. Hunting succeeded October 5, 1852; Rev. R. D. Burr November 18, 1858; Rev. Edward I. Galvin April 15, 1863; Rev. A. Judson Rich October 31, 1870, and later by Rev. Henry W. Woude and Rev. Samuel Hamlet. The society is at present without a pastor.

On the retirement of Mr. Stone from the society, at the time of its change of theological belief, a new society was organized called the Evangelical Society

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of Brookfield, and he became its pastor. Rev. Richard Woodruff was selected as his colleague February 5, 1838, and dismissed September 12 in the same year. On the day of his dismissal Rev. Washington A. Nichols was ordained as colleague, and remained until January 11, 1843. Rev. Lyman Whiting was ordained on the day of the dismissal of Mr. Nichols, and remained four years. Mr. Stone died in Septem- ber, 1852. He was followed by Rev. Jesse R. Bragg, who remained eight years; Rev. Josiah Coit, who re- mained seven years; Rev. Joel M. Seymour, who officiated from 1873 to 1876, and afterwards by Rev. Charles E. Stebbins. The Revs. Charles P. Blanch- ard, A. F. Schaufflin and Charles F. Moore have at various times supplied the pulpit, but at present the society is without a pastor.

About the time of the incorporation of the Third Precinct, a Baptist congregation held meetings in that part of the town, and without any further organiza- tion continued at intervals to hold services for forty years. It had no settled minister, nor any special place of worship. In 1788 Rev. Jeremiah Haskell was engaged to preach, and served several years. In 1795 a meeting-house was built, and in 1800 a formal society was organized. Varions ministers officiated until 1818, including Rev. Nathaniel Price, Rev. Laban Thurber, and Rev. John Chase. On the 10th of June in that year a church was formed with thirty- seven members, and Mr. Chase was ordained as its pastor. He died July 28, 1833, and has been followed in the pastorate by Rev. Benjamin B. Manning, Rev. Winthrop Morse, Rev. J. H. Rickett, Rev. Job Boomer and Rev. Andrew Dunn.

During the Revolution Brookfield assumed and faithfully performed its full share. At a town-meet- ing held May 17, 1773, at which Jedediah Foster pre- sided, a committee was appointed consisting of Joseph Gilbert, Benjamin Adams, Benjamin Babbet, Samuel Hinckley and Joshua Dodge, whose report was ac- cepted and sent by copy to the Committee of Cor- respondence at Boston. The report declared that :

Tbs town will hs sver ready to assist, and in every legal and pro per way maintain those rights and liberties for our children, which with so much labor, blood and tressurs wers purchased by our ances- tors, whose memory is and ought to be esteemed by ns ; and we hope, notwithstanding the attempts of the enemies of our constitution, to depriva us of those rights, yet by a steady, firm and constant exer- tion we shall not finally he deprived of them.

At a meeting held on the 3d of the following De- cember, another committee was chosen, of which Jedediah Foster, Jeduthun Baldwin, Joseph Gilbert, Benjamin Rice and Phinehas Upham were members, whose report, which was accepted by the town, stated that :

We think it our indispensable duty, in the most public manner, to let the world know our utter abhorrence of the last and most detesta- ble schema in the introduction of tea from Great Britain, to be ped- dled out amongst us, hy which means we were to he made to swal- low a poison more fatal in its effects to the national and political Rights and Privileges of the People of this country than ratsbane would bs to the natural body.

Therefore Resolved that we will not, by any way or means, know- ingly encourage or promote the sale or consumption of Tea, whatever, subject to s' duty, payable in America, but all persons, whoever they may be, who shall be concerned in a transaction so dangerous, shall he held by us in the utmost contempt, and be deemed enumies to the country.

On the 12th of September, 1774, Jedediah Foster, Joshua Dodge, John Phipps, Jeduthun Baldwin, Jo- seph Gilbert, John Lyscam, Rufus Putnam, Phinehas Upham, John Hobbs, Asa Biglow and Jonathan King were chosen a Committee of Correspondence. On the 19th of April, 1775, the following company of minute-men, attached to the regiment commanded by Col. Jonathan Warren, marched for Boston in con- sequence of the commencement of hostilities at Lex- ington.

Jonathan Barnes, captain.

Jolın Bell.

Peter Harwood, lieutenant.

Edmood Bridges.

Obadiah Bartlett, lieutenant. Hugh Cunningham.

Jonas Brigham, sergeant.

Isaac Freeman.

Aaron Matthews, sergeant.

Robert Graham.

Benj. Willington, sergeant.

Reuben Gilbert.

James Washburn, sergeant.

Josiah Hincken.

Solomon Barns, corporal.

Timothy Hall.

George Townsend, corporal.

Joseph Hatfield. Squier Hill.

John Bartlett, corporal.

Daniel Barris, corporal.

David Chamberlain, drummer.

Charles Knowlton.

Benj. Gilbert, fifer.

Jonathan Marbel.

Hosea Edson, fifer.

Alexander Oliver.

Abner Bartlett.

Ezra Richmond.

Jonas Biglow.

Joseph Stevens.

Nathan Baros.

Ezra Tucker.

Wyman Bartlett.

Moses Tyler.

Jonathan Bond.

Peter Washburn.

Edward Marden.

W'nı. Watson.

John Smith.

Samuel Watson.

Joseph Wait.

David Watson.

Jabez Warren.

Abner Witt.

Charles Wetherbee.

Eloazer Woods.

John Winter.

The following company of minute-men marched for Boston on the same day :

Ithamar Wright, captain.

Theophilus Waterman.

John Packard, lieutenant.

Thomas Wood.

Nathan Hamilton, lieutenant.

John Wood.

Asa Danforth, sergeant.

Solomon Walker.

Daniel Bullard, sergeant.

Wm. Warner.

Nathan Allen, sergeant.

Joseph Stone.

Joseph Richardson, sergeant.

Ahner Cutler,

Benj. Pollard.

Aaron Willard, corporal. Beth Banister, Jr., corporal.

Elihn Blake.

Joseph Newton, corporal.

Wm. Gill. Daniel Keyes.

Benj. Walker, corporal. Nathan Richardson, corporal.

Daniel Ross.

Peter llill, fifer.

Levi Parker.

Samuel Marsb, drummer.

Jolin Stevenson.

Benj. Wood.

Jonathan Arms.

Asa White.

Aza Willis.

Benj. Richardson.

Jesse Banister.

Moses Barnes.

Reuben Gilbert.

Benj. Jennings, Jr.

Aaron Gilbert.

Silas Olds.

Samuel Kimball.

Meazer Adams.

Nath, Hayward.

Jude Adams.

Timothy Wolcott.

Erastus Hamilton.

John Gilbert.

Jonas Newton.

Ebenezer Voree.

Theophilus Foster.

Samuel Pike.

Benj. Bachelder. John Lyndes.

Jonas Swetter.

Joseph Dudley.

Simcon Rockwood.

Thomas Jones.

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There were other Brookfield men who marched for Boston on the 19th of April, 1775, under Capt. John Woolcott, but, as it is difficult to distinguish them from the Spencer men in the same company, they are omitted.

In Col. Larned's regiment there were enlisted from Brookfield, for eight months, in 1775, the following men :

Peter Harwood, captain.

Henry Gilbert.

Asa Danforth, lieutenant.

Samuel Green.

Benjamin Pollard, ensign.

Jesse Hamilton.

George Townsend, sergeant.

Wm. Hincken.

Wm. Watson, sergeant.

Peter Hill.

Isaac Barron, sergeant.

Joseph Hamilton.

Daniel Barns, sergeant.

Amos Hodgman.

Eli Wood.

John Wood.

James Wood.

Joseph Wood.

Moses Dodge.

Thomas Wood.

Reuben Dodge.

In 1776 the enlistments were as follows for various

terms of short service :

David Watson, sergeant.

Samuel Barns.

Charles Bruce, sergeant.

Solomon Wilden.

Wm. Smith, corporal.

Samuel McClure.

John Barns. Jonathan Moore.

Barnabas Brigham.

John Burk.

Antipas Bruce.

John Sabin.

Hosea Edson.

Nathan Davis.

Ebenezer Field.

Ammiel Weeks.

Abner Cutler.

Solomon Wilder.

Joseph Dudley.

Eleazer Woods.

Jolın Danforth.

Joseph Wait. -

Jonathan Danforth.

Abner Witt.

Charles Doroughty.

Jeduthun Wait.

Wm. Gill.

Wm. Wait.

Robert Graham.

Wm. White.

Comfort Goss.

John Winter.

Asa Gilbert.

In Captain Joel Green's Company for same term :

John Granger, captain.

Nathan Whitney.

Jonathan Stone, sergeant.

Timothy Woolcott.

Elijah Cumming, sergeant.

Solomon Woolcott.

Reuben Slayton, ensign.

David Chamberlain, drummer.

Jacob Harrington.

Ebenezer Harrington, corporal.

In Colonel Brewer's Regiment for the same term :

John Packard, captain.

Renhen Gilbert.

Nathan Allen, sergeant.

Joseph Gilbert.

James Washhorn, sergeant.

Barzillai Hayward.

Josiah Newton, sergeant.

John Hubard.

Jareb Bacon, corporal.

Elisha Holton.

Barnabas Potter, corporal.

Robert Hopkins.

Levi Packard, corporal.

Elias Parkman.

Abner Cutler.

Nicholas Mcclure, sergeant.

Cornelius Gilbert.

John Gilbert, sergeant.

Robert Hall.

Phillip Allen.

Reuben Hamilton.

John Ayres.

Barzillai Hayward.

Joshua Barns.

Daniel Keyes.

Wm. Barns.

Jonathan Lampson.

Benjamin Batchelder.

John Lydley.

Josiah Blanchard.

Alexander Oliver.

David Clark.

Elijah Pollock.

Reuben Dodge.

Jeduthun Wait. Wm. Wait.

Zadock Gilbert.

Nehemiah Ward.

Peter Hill. Silas How.

Joshua Winter. Wm. Adams.

Asa Humphrey.

Sylvester Bishop.

James Hill, fifer.

Jason Allen.

Daniel Newell.

Benjamin Batcheller.

Bartholomew Hill, fifer.

Joel Babbitt.

Comfort Old.

Peter Cushing.

Berry Boweu.

Samuel Babbitt.

Abner Perry.

Joseph Chadwick.

Moses Bowen.

Peter Bowen.

John Warren, drummer.

Stoddard Bowen.

Elijah Barnes.

Jonathan Ralplı.

Jabez Crosby.

Pomp Lorum.

Moses Hastings.

Benjamin Hill.

John Marble.

John Lynde, ensign.

Daniel Moore. Abner Old.

Thomas Gilbert.

Jonas Streeter.

David Hamilton.

John Hayward.

Solomon Walker, sergeant.

John Woolcott.

Samuel Pike, sergeant.

Moses Woods, corporal.

Ebenezer How, corporal. Oliver Hinds.

Simeon Rockwell, corporal.

Phinehas Slayton.

Nathan Whitney.

Elihn Blake.

Joseph Olmstead.

Samnel Bunn.

Jonas Newton.

Ebenezer Miller.

Charles Rice, corporal.

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History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. I, Part 144

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1576

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1576