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Stephen Sawyer, native of Berlin, has his record in this work among the business men of Worcester.
NEW BRAINTREE.
A partial list of the soldiers in the French War (1755-60), in the regular army for one or more cam- paigns, contains the names of Edward Blair and Thomas Barnes, corporals ; Oliver Cobleigh, Joseph Gilbert and Pelatiah Ware, privates.
The following enlisted for a shorter term of service : Samuel Steele and Joseph Higgins, corporals ; Eli- phalet Ayers, David Barr, Edward Blair, Solomon Gilbert, Samuel Harrington, Sylvanns Howe, Aaron Forbush, Thomas Weeks, Asa Whitcomb, privates. John Peacock was adjutant in Col. Timothy Ruggles' regiment in the same war.
The following is a muster-roll of Capt. Grainger's company of minute-men that left New Braintree for Boston on the afternoon of April 19, 1775: John
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Grainger, captain ; Joseph Barnes, lieutenant ; Joseph Bowman, ensign; Samuel Warner, Jonathan Nye, Samuel Joslyn, Jesse Ware, sergeants ; John Adams, Joseph Johnson, Solomon Goodail, Jonathan Weth- erell, corporals; Elias Hall, Jonathan Stone, Wyman Hoit, William Shaw, Edward Hunter, Mathew Fen- ton, Cornelius Cannon, John Hunter, James Weston, Hue McCally, Robert Hoit, Robert Rickey, William Steele, Joseph Thurston, William Diekey, David Woods, John Ears, George Woods, Samuel Woods, John Nye, William Holmes, John Woods, Joshua Bowman, Francis Stone, Robert Hunter, Parkman Bradshaw, Moses Hambleton, Thomas Man, Heze- kiah Hancock, Oliver Ware, Joseph Rogers, Joseph Ayrs, Daniel Corthel, privates.
A muster-roll of the company under command of Captain Grainger, in Colonel Learned's regiment, August 1, 1775, contains the following from New Braintree : John Grainger, captain ; Elias Hall, en- sign ; Jonathan Stone and Jonathan Wetherell, ser- geants; Wyman Hoit, corporal ; David Hunter, fifer; Benson Dunbar, drummer, and the following privates: Jonathan Loud, Daniel Corthell, Oliver Ware, Lovel Lincoln, Joslin Munroe, Samuel Shaw, James Weston, Robert Rickey, David Wood, Joseph Steele, William Shaw, Nathaniel Vinton, Pelatiah Hawes, Joseph Hale, Cornelius Cannon, Hugh Mc- Cally, William Steele, John Eyres, Isaac Amsden, Edward Hunter, William Johnson, John Sprague, Timothy Howe, John Hunter, Robert Hoit, William Dickey, Darius Barr. Average term of service, three months, one week and six days.
The following is a list of the soldiers in the Revo- Intionary War in Captain Dexter's company of Colonel Learned's regiment (term of service, six months) : David Bennet, lientenant; Jacob Gilbert, corporal ; Phinehas Warner, Samuel Shaw, Oliver Woolcott, Joseph Swinerton, Jacob Nichols, Sala- thael Washburn, Philip Delano, Oliver Stone, Aaron Hall, James Stine, Jr., Alexander Dun, James Rich- mond, Elijah Weston and Joseph Barnes, privates.
Those in Captain Cntler's company of Colonel Drury's regiment (term of service, nine months ) were : Simeon Howard, sergeant ; Jonathan Woods, Jonas Woods, Alpheus Warner, Caleb Sturtevant, Levi Swift, Silas Stone, L. Holyard, Jonathan Warner Cushman Edson, James Richmond and Joshna Whit- comb, privates.
Those belonging to the Fourth Regiment (enlisted for three years or the war) were : John Woods, cor- poral; Elias Hall, ensign; Elijah Stone, Fred. Nichols, Jonathan Waite, Caleb Willis, Timothy Stone, Jesse Willis, William Waite, Thomas Dodge, John Dean, Benjamin Lynde, Nehemiah Ward, Ebenezer Ross, Barzillai Thompson, Thomas Gault, Cornelius Cannon, Stephen Witt, Daniel Hunter, Joseph Nye, Fred. M. Callahem, Cornelius Dillins, Henry Gilbert, Elias Parkman, Robert Hoit, James Forbes, Jesse Hoit, Benjamin Chamberlain, Joseph
Blair, Abner Old, Ebenezer Parkinan, Arthur Fur- bush, Joseph Blair, Elijah Commins and Peletiah Hawes, privates.
Those belonging to General Warner's brigade (en- listed for three years or the war) were : John Crosset, Humphrey Willard, Reuben Hoit, Levi Winter, Joseph Hale, J. Ayers, Jr., Jacob Nichols, Timothy Howe, James Weston, Aaron Hall, Zebulon Bassett, Benjamin Witt, Peter Whitcomb, Joseph Shaw, Joseph Willis, Jonathan Weston, John Woods, Josiah Willard, John Ayres, James Bell, Edward Hunter and John Dane, privates.
Other soldiers who enlisted for three years or the war were: Elijah Barnes, John Mathews, Isaiah Bacon, Paul Stewart, Robert Washburn, Peter Adams, Samuel Grainger, John Glass and Elijah Weston, pri- vates ; Francis Stone, captain in Gen. Warner's bri- gade ; Wm. Tufts, lieutenant in Captain Knowlton's company in Colonel Dike's regiment ; Percy IIall, surgeon's mate in Colonel Learned's reginient ; Ephraim Willard, fifer. In the artillery-Daniel Mathews, bombardier; Thomas Mann, gunner. Two others (Firmie Woods and Joseph Pepper) en- listed for eight months in the infantry.
MILLBURY.
LEONARD DUNNELL GALE.
It is well known that on a return voyage from Havre, in 1832, Professor S. F. B. Morse fell into the company of Dr. Jackson, of Boston, who had been in Europe investigating electro-magnetism and had an electric battery on board.
From conversations at that time Morse claimed that he received a sort of inspiration that instanta- neous communication could be made by this means to distant points. Arrived in New York, he pro- ceeded to carry out his inspiration. I will quote his account :
"My means were limited. My first instrument was made up of an old picture or canvas frame, fast- ened to a table-the wheels of an old wooden clock, three wooden drums, a battery of one cup," and other details.
" I obtained forty feet of wire and found my bat- tery would not work the instrument." This was in 1836.
In the same University of the City of New York, where Morse was professor of art, was a professor of natural sciences, named Gale.
During the three years and more that Morse had been laboring to bring out his inspiration he had kept it a profound secret, but now he felt compelled to seek aid, and knowing that Gale was well informed in electro-magnetism batteries, etc., he invited him to his studio, revealed to him his secret, showed him
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the machine that failed to operate, and sought to know the reason.
Gale, who had lately built one for his own use on a newly-invented plan of Professor Henry, of which Morse had never heard, saw at a glance where the defect was. He had it removed to his laboratory, attached to his own battery and proceeded to operate on Morse's forty feet of wire. The electric transit was instantaneous. Additions continned until Gale had ten miles of wire strung up around his labora- tory, and the transit seemed as instantaneous as in forty feet.
After the experiments of Gale Morse felt full assur- ance of success. He petitioned Congress for aid to build a line from Washington to Baltimore.
On March 3, 1843, a bill was carried through ap- propriating thirty thousand dollars for an experi- mental line. Gale was employed as electrician and chief engineer to construct the line. He ran it direct from the halls of Congress to the railway station in Baltimore.
Professor Morse fully admitted his obligations to Professor Gale. In a letter to Dr. Jackson, denying any obligation to him, he says : " I have acknowledg- ments to make to Professor Silliman, but I am most of all indebted to Professor Gale for substantial and effective aid. If any one has a claim to be mutual in- ventor it is Professor Gale."
He conveyed to Gale a portion of the patent, but purchased it back for fifteen thousand dollars. Pro- fessor Gale was through life a devotee to science, and in all the telegraphic experiments, lasting several years, he was more ambitious for its triumph than for fame or fortune. Modest and retiring, he made no effort to bring his name before the public, but was content to remain through life the true friend of Morse, aiding him not only in science, but as an ever reliable witness in court in infringement cases. Morse, in a letter of November 13, 1837, says: "I arrived just in time to see the experiments Gale was making on ten miles of wire, and the result has sur- prised us all, and I conceive, settles the whole mat- ter." Morse, when reminded of his obligations to Gale, replied : " I might have obtained the informa- tion from some one else."
Leonard Dunnell Gale was born in that part of Sutton which is now Millbury, July 25, 1800. He received his primary education from our schools, went hence first to Brown University, then to Union College, where he was graduated in 1825. He re- ceived the degree of M.D. from the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons in New York in 1830. He was professor in the New York College of Pharmacy, professor in Jefferson College, Mississippi, and for a year or two was chemist in the Smithsonian Insti- tute, Washington. He published a work on chemis- try and made a survey of Manhattan Island.
The construction of the telegraph brought Gale into prominence and he was called to Washington as
assistant examiner in the Patent Office, and was appointed chief examiner in October, 1846. Wash- ington, in those days, was intensely pro-slavery in sentiment. Professor Gale, being opposed to slavery, brought upon himself the ire of that sentiment. He was plied with threats from high official sources. His reply was worthy the heroic Roman consul Reg- ulus : " I can surrender my office, but not my princi- ples." He was accordingly removed from office October 1, 1857, by order of President James Bu- chanan, who, as Secretary of State in 1846, had con- firmed him in his position. He opened his office as counselor of inventors and patents, and received an extensive and lucrative practice.
He died in Washington, October 22, 1883, leaving a wife and a married daughter. His father, Jonas Gale, lived on the farm which was afterwards sold to Elder Elias Forbes. Three generations of Gales lived on that farm.
HOLDEN.
THE DAMON MEMORIAL.1 -- In 1886 it became ap- parent that a new school-honse must be provided to meet the increasing needs of the Centre District, and although the good people have ever manifested a very liberal spirit in educational affairs, like all New Eng- landers, each citizen had his own peculiar way as to how to meet that need, and a committee was chosen to investigate and report at a future meeting.
Early in their investigations it was rumored that S. C. Gale, Esq., had purchased a building site adjoining the "Common " for a library building, and upon communicating with him his plans were so far outlined as to assure them that it was the intention of himself and wife, a native of Holden, to erect and present to the town a suitable structure to answer for library and high school purposes, to be known as the "Damon Memorial," in memory of Mrs. Gale's brother, the late Rev. Samnel C. Damon, of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands.
The committee's report, with a letter from Mr. Gale, declaring his purposes more minntely, was read in town-meeting and a vote of thanks passed, and from June of 1887 to August, 1888, the beautiful structure arose from foundation to final completion and com- pleteness. In July a committee was chosen to arrange for and have charge of acceptance and dedication of the building, to whom Mr. Gale made known his in- tention of adding to his already princely gift the sum of three thousand dollars for the purchase of books for a free public library, with instructions to have the books upon the shelves on the day of dedication.
Mr. John Wadsworth, of Chicago, III., sent a check for one hundred dollars as a slight recompense to Holden for having furnished him a wife, and the
1 By W. E. Austin.
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Holden Library Association, seeing its great desire of a " Free Public Library " likely to be gratified, voted to close up its affairs and present to the town its library of fourteen hundred volumes and other property.
In September a town-meeting was called for the purpose of formally accepting these various donations and choosing a board of trustees and appropriating necessary funds for current expenses : Trustees, A. K. Learned, W. E. Austin (three years) ; H. W. Warren, Rev. D. F. Estes (two years) ; Emory Rogers, Charles E. Parker (one year). The trustees, in grateful recog-
DOUGLAS.
(List of soldiers, continued from page 1411.)
Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery .- Joseph Bygoine, Charles Baner, ' Thomas Fitzgerald, William L. Church, Jolin llartwell, Miletus Luther, James Clarke (corporal), John Manning, Alfred Snow, Joseph Quinn.
Sixteenth ( Unattached) Company Heavy Artillery .- Thomas W. Nelson, Byron Richardson, Osborn Richardson,
First Rhode Island Volunteers,-George R. Buffuns.
Second Rhode Island Volunteers .- Leonard C. Belding, Charles W Stearns.
Fourth Rhode Island Volunteers .- Sabine Angell, Windsor Ballon, Wil- liam W. Caswell, Simeon Smith.
Seventh Rhode Island Volunteers,-Elisha E. Thompson (corporal).
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nition of the generosity of the donor, voted that the library should ever be known as the "Gale Free Public Library."
The reading-room was opened to the public No- vember 30th, and one week later the library of forty- five hundred carefully selected volumes was ready for the giving out of books-a noble monument to the donors and a potent factor in the future development of our town and the enlightenment aud intelligence of our citizens.
" Damonville," page 1390, should read "Dawson- ville."
First Rhode Island Cavalry,-George Aldrich, Simeon A. Brown, Syl- vester Chase, H. C. Fitts (captain), Charles E. Gould, Albert A. Groene, Munroe W. Ide, M. Leech, James Lee, Charles 11. Legg, M. M. Lnther, William Lyon, Alfred P. Palmer, George Snow, Leander Thompson, Al- bert J. Watkins, Ira Wakefield, Thomas .J. Wood. .
Third Rhode Island Cavalry .- Charles A. Andrews (quartermaster-ser- geant), Edwin F. Andrews (commissary-sergeant), W. D. Balcome, Samuel Cragin, Henry G. Fitts (captain), Daniel E. Gould, Eugene H .. Gould, Joseph Hough, Nelson Jepherson (farrier), Thomas Magee (cor- poral), Myron Simpson, Bennett W. Thomas, Wni. II. Wilcox.
Seventh Rhode Island Cavalry .- W. Deforest Balcome, Cyrus Jepherson,. George Jepherson, James Jepherson.
Thirteenth Connecticut Volunteers .- Newell J. Lee (sergeant).
Eighteenth Connecticut Volunteers .- Walter Ward,
Twenty-sixth Connecticut Volunteers .- Myron Starrett.
Engineer Corps United States Army .- Francis S. Phillips, Napoleon Ritchie.
Fourth Vermont Volunteers .- George H. Amidon (captain).
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Signal Corps United States Army .- Thomas L. Bovey, George Ballou, Addison Hawkey, Henry E. Hawkey, Charles S. Holmes, Michael Mar- tin, Joho T. Shaw, Ilorace L. Tilton, Eliot Travis.
United States Navy .- Edgar P. Barton, John Norton, James Wilson. Veteran Reserve Corps .- Charles H. Beers, Oscar L. Brown, August Chrome, Edmund Coggshall, Joho Goodnow, Dennis M. Hennessey, Munro W. Ide, William F. Krantz, Nathaniel Palmer, James Tubbs, David H. Selgham), Thomas Stratton, Madison Sanborn, Martin H. Schollay.
ROLL OF HONOR .- Captain George H. Amidon,1 .Joseph Albee,1 Cap- taio Simeon Brown,1 Nathan Bartlett,1 Daniel A. Burton,1 Orlando Carpenter,1 Leonard A. Chapman,1 Lorin R. Chase,1 David B. Curtis,1 Beojamio R. Elliott,1 Harlan Fairbanks, Captain Henry C. Fitts.1 Jolin N. Gaskell,1 Perley U. Germe (missing), George A. Gleason, Henry Glover,1 Daniel E. Gould,1 Eugene E. Gould,1 Charles E. Gould, Albert A. Greene, Allen R. Hough,1 Joseph Hongh, Matthew Hudson,1 Dr.
Franklio Hunt, 1 George Jepherson,1 Newell J. Lee (?), M. Leach (mis- sing), Jerrie E. Luther,1 Abner A. Leland,1 William Lyon (missing), Timothy Magary, 1 Thomas M. Magee,1 Mark Mitchell,' Daniel Mix, Francis L. Moore,1 Sylvester Oakes,1 William Oakes, Nathaniel C. Put- aam,1 Joseph Quinn, Saomel Sibley,1 George Snow, Myron Starrett,1 David L. Thomas, Elisha E. Thompson, Leander Thompson, 1 Luther White,1 William H. Wilcox.1
BENCH AND BAR. HON. JOHN D. WASHBURN.
Since the body of this work was printed, Hon. John D. Washburn has been appointed by President Har- rison, Minister to Switzerland.
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INDEX.
A.
Adams, Benj., xviii. Adams, Charles, Jr., 552, 553 (111.). Adams, Edwin G., 148 ( 11).). Adams, Luke, 358 (111.). Agusaiz, Alexander, 111x. Aldrich, P. Emory, Iviii. (111.), 1412, 1445, 1447
Aldrich, S. N., 913. Aldrich, Charles F., xvii., 1534 Allen, Nathan, 720. Allen, Charles, 715. Allen, Thomas P., 458.
Allen, Edward A. II., 458. Allen, Nathan, M.D. LL. D., 993 (III.) Allen, Charles, xxxv. (III.), 1442, 1411 Allen, Annie Louise, 981, 914, 995.
Allen, Joseph, 458. Allen, Jesse, 1079, 1086. Allen, Joseph 11., 453, 458. Ames, Oliver 715. Ammidowo family, 1019, 1020, 1021. Ammidown, Holmes, 1020 (1!] ). Ammidown, Edward Holmes, 1021. Ammidown, Eben D., 1020. Ammidown, Albert, 1021. Appleton, Wru., 541. Atherton, Joshua, xx. Ashburnham, 193. Location, 193. Early roads and mills, 194. Early settlers, 194. Dorchester Canada, 195. First town-meeting, 19 .. Ecclesiastical, 195. Military history, 197. Educational, 202. Mechanical industries, 203. Boundaries, 203. Post-office, 204. First National Bank, 204.
Athol, 1021. Location, 1021. Boundaries, 1021. Face of the country, 1021. Productions, 1021. Ponde and streams, 1022. Wild animals, etc., 1022. Pequong, 1022. Loss of proprietors' records, 1022. Efforts to re establish their anthority, 1023. Grant of townships, 1023. Drawing for house lots, 1123. First settlers, 1024. Perils from Indians, 1024. Firat meeting-house, 1026. Second meeting-house, 1026. Call of Mr. James Humphrey to the PAS. torate, 1026. 1750
Ordinations, 1027. Pastor's house, 1027.
Second and other divisions of land, 1028. Acts of the proprietors, 1028. Iocorporation, 1028.
Name, 1029. Organization, 1029. Civil history, 1030. Provision for schools and religions privi- leges, 1030.
Revolution, 1031, 1032. Service in the war, 1083. Condition at close of the century, 1031. Condition of the town before the (vil War, 1034. Excitement in 1881, 1034.
Acts of the town to encourage enlistments of soldiers, 1035.
Enlistments, 1035. Bounties offered, 1036. Milltary companies organized, 1036. Private munificence to obtain recruits, 1036.
Aid to soldiers' families, 1037. Number of soldiers, 1037. Expense, 1037. Elncational, 1038. Public schools, 1038. Early provision for them, 1088.
Interest in them, 1039. Early School Committees, 108 !. Branches taught, 1039. High School, 1038.
Masters, schools, appropriations, 1039. Town library, 1039. Ecclesiastical, 1040. Firat church, 1040. Evangelical, 1041. Baptist, 1041, 1042. Methodist, 1049. Second Advent, 1042. Second Unitarian, 1042, 1043. Roman Catholic, 1043. St. John's, Episcopal, 1043. Miscellaneous, 1043. Banks, 1043. Miller's River National, 1043. Athol Savings, 1043. Athol National, 1043, 1044.
Post-offices, 1044. Agricultural and Mechanical Society, 1044, 1045. Physicians, 1045. Lawyers, 1045, 1046. Treders, 1046. Cemeteries, 1047. Hotels, 1048, Masonic, 1048.
Water-works, 104x, 1049. Gaa company, 1049. Newspapers, 1049. Fire Department, 1040. College graduates, 1050. Grand Army of the Republic, 1050. Deputy sheriffs, 1050.
Manufacturing establishments, 1050, 1051, 1052. Biographical, 1053.
Anburn, 184.
Topographical, 184 Civil history, 185. Ecclesiastical, 186. Educational, 187. Manufactures, 1x8. Agriculture, 189. Military affairs, 190. Cemeteries, 190. The Old Tavern, 191. Parsonal sketches, 191. Conclusion, 193. Austin, Waldo E., 1385.
B.
Bacon, Peter C., xliv, xIv. Baker, Samuel, 389. Baldwin, Christopher A., xliii.
Baldwin, John D., 1539.
Ball, P'hineas, 1716 (III.). Ball, Stephen, 462 (111.). Ball, George S., 920 (1I].).
Ballon, Adin, 406, 411, 428, (111.) 1280. Bancroft, George, 39. Bancroft, Joseph B., 413, (II1.) 423. Bancroft, Amasa, 881 (111.). Bancroft, George, 1495, 1526. Bangs, Edward D, xxxiii.
Banister, William A., 538 (III.). Bartlett, O. R., 1297, 1303. Bartlett, Edwin, 1320 (III.). Bartol, Geo. M., 36 (III.). Barton, George S., 1649, (111.) 1890. Barton, Edmund M., 1496, 1526. Barton, Ira M., xl. Barre, Isaac, 345. Barre, 330.
Topography, 331. Geological, 331. Indiao purchase, 331. Original proprietors, 332. Early settlers, 332. Petition for incorporation of town, 334. First Church, 334. The Evangelical Congregational Church, 339.
The First Universalist Church, 340.
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The Methodist Episcopal Church, 340. Roman Catholic Church, 340. Free or Independent Church, 310. Baptist Church, 341. Revolutionary War, 341.
Shays' Rebellion, 340. War of 1812, 350. The Rebellion, 351. The Barre slave case, 351. Educational, 352. Industries, 356. Stage routes and railroads, 358. The press, 359. Library Association, 359. Woods Memorial Library Building, 360. Worcester West Agricultural Society, 360. National Bank, 360. Population, 36. Societies, 360. Longevity, 360. Bassett, J. M., 1739 (Til.). Batcheller, Tyler, 549 (11].). Batcheller, Ezra, 543, 550 (111.). Bates, Edward C., 1353. Beavens, Thomas D., 638 (111.). Bench aud Bar, xvii. Berlin, 387.
Location, 387. Early history, 387. The early families, 387. Otber family names, 390. Water-ways, 393.
Roads, 394. The stage-coach, 394. The market-man, 395. Industries, 395. Ecclesiastical, 396. Educational, 400. Town history, In1. Military, 402, 403. The Centennial, 403. Town officers, 403. Biographical, 404.
Bigelow, Horatio N., 67, 68, 69. Bigelow, Erastus B., 73, 74. Bigelow, Andrew, 8 !! (Ili.). Bill, Ledyard, 568, 584. Bisco, Dwight, 736 (111.). Blackmer, Francis T., liv. Blaine, James G., 1016. Blackstone, 607.
Purchase of the territory, 607. Bounds and area, 607. Topography aud geology, 607. Flora and Fauna, 608. The earliest settlers, 608. First post-office, 609. The first church in Millville, 603. Methodist reform, 609. Methodist Episcopal, 609. Presbyterians, 609. Blackstone Manufacturing Company, 610. Blackstone Village in 1820, 610. Waterford, 610. Blackstone Clinrch, 611. Free Will Baptist Church, GLI. Congregational Church, 611. Division of the town of Mendon, 612, 613. Incorporation, 614. Towu annals, 614. Biographical, 630. Blanchard, Thomas, 975, 1113. Blake, Francis, xxix, xxxiv. Bliss, Daniel, xx. Blodgett, Percival, 155 (111.).
Blood, Il. A., 328 (III.), 329. Blood, Chas. H., 302. Bolton, 1165.
Location, 1165. Incorporation, 1165. First town-meeting, 1165. Early settlers, 1165. Ecclesiastical, 1165. Educational, 1167. Military, 1167. The Revolution, 1167. The Rebellion, 1167, 1168. Public Library, 1168. Statistics, 1168.
Booth, Benjamin, 1727 (111.). Brigham, Elijah, 1354. Brimhall, Elisha, 90 (111.). Brown, A. F., 1895.
Brown, William, 1079 (III ). Brown, Luther J., 317, 318 (III.).
Brown, Frederick D., 374 (Ill.). Browne, Chas. II., 321, 322 (11).).
Brooks, Francis A., 485, 486 (111.). Brooks, John, 992 (III.), 993.
Brookfield, 510. Indian occupancy, 510. Grantees, 511. Indian deed, 512, 513.
Petition for grant, 513.
Incorporation of town, 514.
Town destroyed by King Philip, 514.
Resettlement, 515. Queen Anne's War, 516. Termination of hostilities, 517. First church, 517. First town-meeting, 519.
French and Indian Wars, 520.
Early ecclesiastical history, 522. The Revolution, 525. The Rebellion, 531. Miscellaneous, 533. Public Library, 534. Distinguished men, 534. Biographical, 535.
Bourn, Isaac, 155 (111.).
Boylston, Ward N., 991. Boylston, 885.
Territory and surfare, 885. Situation, 885. Geology, 886. Population, 887. Statistics, 887. Public Library, 887.
Town officers, 888. Early families and settlements, 888.
Civil and political, 891.
Ecclesiastical, 895. The first church, 895. Prominent persons, 899.
Ministers, 900. Lawyers, 901. Precinct clerks, 902. Town clerks, 902. Representatives, 902.
Delegates to Constitutional Convention, 902.
Buck, Wm. H., 102. Buffum, Moses, 1319 (III.). Bulfinch, Charles, 33.
Bullock, Alex. II. , xlvii (111.), 1377, 1445, 1447.
Bullock, Augustus G., Ixviii (111.), 1552. Bullock, Rufus 1376. Burnett, Joseph, 97. Burleigh, Chas., 318, (I11.), 319. Buroside, Samuel M., xxxiii. Burns, Anthony, 1449.
Burns, Wm. H., 1741 (III.). Burr, Aaron, 1302. Burbank, Gardner S., 314, 315 (111.). Burritt, Elihu, 1539. Burnett, Dr. Joseph, 97. Burpee, Edward, 509, 510 (III.).
C.
Carlton, E. G., 719 (111.). Carter, Chandler, 405 (111.). Charlton, 745. Location, 745. Early grant and survey, 746. First petitions for town, 746. Charlton incorporated as a district, 746. First towu-meeting, 747.
Othicers elected, 747. Money for support of Gospel, 747. Tax-list of 1756, 748. Meeting-house erected, 749 Ecclesiastical, 750.
Schools, 747. Library, 753. The Revolutioo, 754. Shays' Rebellion, 755. War of 1812, 755. War of the Rebellion, 756.
Industries, 756. Representatives, 758. Prominent natives, 759. District and town clerks, 760. Physiciaos, 760. Lawyers, 760. Population and valnation, 760.
Chapin, Henry, xlvi. (I11.), 1445, 1446. Chamberlain, Daniel, 565. Chandler, George, 1563 (I11.), 1682. Chandler, John, xviii. Chase, Charles A., 1549 (III.), 1679. Chase, Levi B., 102, 995. Child, Linus, 1019 (111.). Child, Robert, 2. Choate, Chas. F., 100. Clarke, James Freeman, 234. Clark, W. P., 1075 (III.). Clark, Jonas G., 1518.
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