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Clark, Lyman, 465, 475, 478. C'laflin, Aaron, 1285 (III.), 1286. Claflin, Horace B, 1284 (111.). Claflin, John, 1284 (111.). Claflin, Wm., 1280. Clay, Henry, 1117. Coes, Loriog, 1625 (111 ), 1672. Coes, Frank Loring R., 1707 (111.). Colburn, George S., 882 (Ill.). Colvin, J. A., 1619 (Ill.), 1737.
Comey, Perley P., 90 (1)] ). Conaty, Thomas J., 1479. Converse, Morton E., 1077 (III.).
Conant, Jacob, 4910. Conant, Edwin, Ixiv. (Ill.) Conant, 11., 1368 (111.). Coolidge, A. H., 686, 703, 714, 726, 733, 734. 735, 737, 739, 741, 742, 743.
Corcoran, John W., 81. Corbett, Elijah, 921. Cotton, Jobn Thomas, 100. County, incorporation of, i. County officers, xi. County organizations, xvi. Conrts, ii. Cox, S. S., Ivii. Crafts, Ebenezer, 702. Crafts, Sanınel C, 705. Crane, John C., 1092. Crompton, George, 1613 (III.).
1752
INDEX.
Crocker, Alvah, 310 (1)I.). Clioton. 46. Prescott's mills, 46.
Destruction of the settlement by Indiatis, 48. The first highways, 19. The garrison census, 49. The first families, 49. The Revolution, 50. The Six Nations, 50. Immigration, 50. The comb-makers, 5l. Poignand & Plant, 52. Coming of the Bigelows, 53.
The Clinton Company, 53. The Lancaster Quilt Company, 53. The Bigelow Carpet Company, 54. The Lancaster Mills, 55. Clintonville, its Imilders and its euter- prises, 55. The incorporation, 57. Farming auspices, 58. New enterprises and changes in the old, 58. Clinton in the Rebellion, 61. Soldiers' roster, 63. Horatio N. Bigelow, 67. Banke, 69. Town-hall, 69. Bigelow Free Library, 69. Soldiers' Monument, 69.
Annals of manufacturing corporations, 70.
The " Washout " of 1876, 72.
Franklin Forbes, 73.
Erastus B. Bigelow, 73. Schools, 74. Churches, 76. Newspapers, 77. Water supply, 78. Statistics, etc., 79. Masonic history, 82. Curtis, George, 1162 (111.). Curtis, Nelson, 1163 (11).). Curtis, Albert, 1608 (111 ), 1701. "'ulley, Eli, 323 (1)1.). Cutter, Calvin, 1196 (111.). Cutter, J. C., 1197. Cutter, Mrs. E. P., 1196.
D.
Damon, Samuel C., 1389. Damon Memorial, 1748 (III.). Dana, 1322. Incorporation, 1322. Natural features, 1322. The Revolution, 1322. Early votes, 1322. First town-meeting, 1322. Early owners of land, 1333. Early customs, 1323. Schools, 1323. Early mills, 1323. The first wagon, 1323. Early manufacturers, 1324. First meeting-house, 1325. The town poor, 1325. Industries, 1326. Prominent residents, 1327. Church history, 1330. Representatives, 1330. Towa clerks, 1331. Conclusion, 1331. Daniels, Geo. F., 1318. Davis, John, xxxiv, XXXV. Davis, W. T .. Ix, 362, 510, 540, 902, 921, 1054. 1185, 1261, 130G, 1370.
Davis, John, 715.
Davis, leaac, x1 (11).).
Davis, Edward L., Ixi (III.), Itu,
Day, ('aleb W., 1379.
Day, Gilman, 153 (1)1.). Dewitt, Alexander, 1316. Devens, Charles, Iv (111.), 1587.
Denny, Nathaniel 1'., 730.
Denny, C. C., 733. Denny, Daniel, 729.
Denny, J. Waldo, 715.
Denny, Thomas, 731.
Denny, Joseph A , 716, 733, 735 (III ).
Derby, Philander, 876 (H11.).
De Forest, HI. P., 1355.
Dewey, Francis H1., xlix (III.), 1550.
Dewey, Charles A., 1xv (III.).
Dickinson, William, 1681 (111.).
Dodge, Thomas H., 1xvi (III.), 1531. Dodge, Rufus B., 745.
Doe, Charlee H., 1539.
Douglas, 1395.
Territorial, 1395.
Early grants, 1395.
Boundaries, 1397.
Topography, 1397. Geology, 1397.
Early settlements, 1398-1410.
Ecclesiastical, 1410.
First Congregational, 1410. Second Congregational, 1410. Reformed Methodist, 1410. Methodist Episcopal, 1410. Catholic, 1410.
Manufactures, 1410.
Educational, 1410.
The Willis Fund, 1411.
Masonic, 1411. G. A. R., 1411.
The l'ress, 1411.
The Revolution, 1411. The Rebellion, 1411.
Doyle, James J., 1540.
Draper, Ebenezer D., 410, 411, 412, 419.
Draper, George, 410 (II].). 411, 412, 417, 418, 422, 423. Draper, William F., 412, 417, 418, 420, 421, 422, (11].) 423.
Draper, George A., 412.
Draper, Eben S., 412. Draper, William F, Jr., 412, 1280. Draper, James, 652 (III.).
Dresser, Chester A., 1017 (III.).
Drew, Thomas, 915, 1539.
Dudley, Paul W., 450, 451 (III.). Dudley, 1360. Indian deeds, 1360.
l'etition for township, 1360. Incorporation, 1360. First town-meeting, 1360. First minister, 1360.
The Revolution, 1361.
List of soldiers, 13ti2. From 1810 to 1820, 1363. Educational, 1363. Public schools, 1363. The Nichols Academy, 1363.
Conant Library and Observatory, 1364. Ecclesiastical, 1364. Congregational, 1364. Baptist, 1365. L'universalist, 1365. Methodist, 1365. Roman Catholic, 1366. Industrial pursuits, 1366. Biographical, 1367.
Dntcher, Warren W., 41] (IH.) 423. Dutcher, F. J., 412, 417, 422. Dwight, Joseph, xviii.
E.
Eames, Charles, 684 (Ill.).
Earle, Edward, 1610 (HL.). 1692 Earle, John Milton, 1538 (111.) 1685.
Earle, T. K., 1610 (111.) 1694. Earle, Pliny, 715, 739 (III.). Eatou, Joshua, xix. Edgell, John, 883, 884 (111.). Edwards, John, 1018 (III.). Eliot, John, the Indian apostle, 424 Estabrook, James E., Ixii. (111.).
Estabrook, Joseph, 1377.
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F
Falee, Joho M., 566 (111.). Faroum, Daniel, 183 (III.). Fay, Francis B., 38. Fay, Jonas, 102. Fay, Peter, 100 (III.). Fay, Sylvester C., 102.
Fessenden, Clayton, xix. Field, Charles, 1046, 1047, 1053.
Field, Zihcon C., 1286 ([1].).
Fisher, Erastus, 948 (III.).
Fisher, Francis, 102.
Fisher, Jahez, 322, 323 (111.). Fitchburg, 208. Descriptive, 208. Early history, 212. Act of incorporation, 212. Origin of name, 213. First town-meeting. 213. Capt. Thos. Cowdin, 213. Early land-owners, 213. Gold and silver mines, 214.
Revolutionary War, 215. Shays' Insurrection, 218.
Appearance of Fitchburg about a century ago, 218. Dean Hill controversy, 218.
The town in 1793, 219. Sale of a pauper, 220. First cotton factory, 221. War of 1812, 221. Population in 1820, 221.
New roads, 221. Early engine company, 221.
Early map of town, 222. Other events up to 1872, 222.
Incorporation of city, 227. Events from 1873 to 1888, 228.
War of the Rebellion, 231. Fitchburg Fusiliers, 232. Washington Guards, 232. First war meeting, 233. Company D, 2d Regiment, 234
Company B, 15th Regiment, 234. Company D, 21st Regiment, 335. Company F, 25th Regiment, 236. Company A, 36th Regiment, 237.
Companies A and B, 53d Regiment, 238. Company F, 57th Regiment, 239. Company H, 4th Heavy Artillery, 239. A call for three months' troope, 23 !. The Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society, 240, - The Soldiers Relief Committee, 241. Soldier funerals, 242.
The soldiers' monument, 244. Ecclesiastical history, 246. Early preacher, 246. First eburch formed, 247. The Lord's Barn, 248.
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INDEX.
Meeting-honse controversy, 248. First Church edifice, 250. First Parish (Unitarian), 252. Calvinietic Congregational, 252. Rollstone Congregational, 253. Trinitarian Congregational, 253. Baptiet, 253. Methodist Episcopal, 254. West Fitchburg Methodist Episcopal, 255. Universalist, 255. Episcopal (Christ Church), 256. St. Bernard's (Roman Catholic), 256. West Fitchburg Roman Catholic (Church of the Sacred Heart), 256. Educational history, 256. Library Association, -263. The Fitchburg Atheneum, 264. The Wallace Library and Art Building, 267.
Manufacturing, 269. Cotton manufacturing, 270. Woolen manufacture, 271. Chair manufacturing, 273. Furniture manufacturing, 274. Shoe manufacturing, 274. Paper manufacturing, 275. The Putnam Machino Company, 277. The Fitchburg Steam Engine Co., 278. C. H. Brown & Co., 278. The Fitchburg Machine Works, 279. The Simonds Manufacturing Co., 279. The Simonds Rolling-Machine Co., 280. The Union Machine Co., 280. The Rollstone Machine Co., 280. The Burleigh Rock Drill Co., 281. Boiler manufacturing, 281. The Fitchburg Foundry, 281. The Rollstone Foundry, 282. Scythe manufacturing, 282. The Whitman & Miles Manufacturing Company, 283. The American Rattan Co., 283. The Buckeye Mowing-Machine Com_ pany, 283. The grain business, 284. The lumber business, 284. The Fitchburg Railroad car shops, 285. Brick manufacturing, 285. Bakeries, 285, 286. Granite quarrying, 286. Gae company, 286. The Wachusett Electric Light Co., 286. Commercial history, 287. Transportation facilities, 287. Street railway company, 287. Banke, 287.
The Fitchburg National, 287. The Rollstone National, 287. The Safety Fund National, 288. The Wachusett National, 288. The Fitchburg Savings Bank, 288. Worcester North Savings Institution, 288.
The Fitchburg Co-operative Bank, 288. The Fidelity Co-operative Bauk, 288. Post-Office, 289. Board of Trade, 289. Merchants' Association, 289. Telephone Exchange, 290. The Fitchburg Mutual Fire Ineurance Company, 290.
The Massachusetts Mutual Aid Society, 290. The United Statee Masonic Accident Aseo- ciation, 290. Hull'e Commercial Business College, 290. 1103
Gentlemen'e furnishings, 290. Dry goods, 291. Groceries, 291. Mests and provisions, 291. Hardware, 292.
Other business firms, etc., 292. Hotele, public buildings and businees blocks, 292. City departments, 293. Water works, 293. Fire Department, 295. Police Department, 296. Highway Department, 297. Poor Department, 297.
Organizations aud societies, 297. The Fitchburg Military Band, 297. Edwin V. Sumner Post, G. A. R., 298.
Taylor Union, No. 1, Army and Navy Veterans, 298.
The Worcester North Agricultural Society, 299. Park Company, 299.
Agassiz Association, 299.
Young Men'e Christian Union, 299.
Benevolent Union, 299.
Home for Old Ladies, 299. Union Aid Hospital, 299.
Firemen's Relief Association, 299.
Womeu's Christian Temperance Uuiou, 299. Reform Club, 299.
Young Women'e Christian Union, 299. Secret societies, 300.
Professional: Dentists, 300.
Lawyers, 301. Physicians, 302.
Medical societies, 304. Literary and artistic, 304, 306.
Journalism in Fitchburg, 806, 309.
Cemeteries, 309.
Conclusion, 310. Biographical, 310.
Flint, Anetin, M.D., LL.D., 482, 730. Flint, Edward, 733 (III.).
Fobes, Hiram, 1718 (III.). Forbes, Franklin, 72, 73.
Forbee, William T., 1331.
Forbush, Jonathan C., 951 (III.).
Foster, Alfred D., xl.
Foster, Calvin, 1551, 1713 (III.).
Foster, Dwight, li., lii., 534, 535, 715.
Foster, Jedediah, xxi., 531.
French, Asa, 715.
Fuller, Timothy, 991.
G.
Gage, Thomas H., 1505, 1569. Gale Cyrus, 459, 460, 462 (III.). Gale, Leonard D., 1118, 522, 1746. Gale, S. C., 1747.
Gardiner, 810. Situation, 810. Hille, 811. Lakes and ponds, 812. Streams, 813. Soil, 814. Climate, 814. Flora and fauna, 815. Early hietory, 815. Town and county roads, 820.
The fifth Massachusetts turnpike, 821. Railwaye, 822.
Industrial interests, 822.
Coopering, 825. Potash-making, 826.
Tanneries, 826. Nail-making, 826. Manufacture of cloth, 826. Fulling and carding-mille, 826. Card-board making, 827. Pine furniture, 827. Tubs and pails, 827. The manufacture of chairs, 827.
The rattan business, 830.
Present manufactures, 835.
Heywood Broe. & Co., 835. Philander Derby & Co., 836. S. K. Pierce & Co., 837.
John A. Duon, 837. Samuel Bent, Bros. & Co., 838. Conant & Bush, 838. Conant, Ball & Co., 839.
L. H. Sawin & Co., 839.
A. and H. C. Knowlton & Co., 840.
Ephraim Wright & Co, 840. Wright & Read, 840. C. S. Green wood's Sons, 841.
Greenwood Broe. & Co., 841. James Sawyer, 842. Lumber manufacture, 842.
Children'e charriages, chairs and toys 842.
Eave troughe, pumps, ladders, etc. 843.
Chair-machinery, 843.
Irou castings, 843.
Oil-stoves, lamps, etc., 843.
Tinware, 844.
Harness-making, 844.
Photo-mechanical printing, 844.
Lithotype publishing, 844. Silverware, 845.
Brick-making, 845.
Carriages sod sleighs, 845. Grain and flouring-mills, 845.
Ready-made clothing, 846.
Marble-cutting, 846.
Contractors and builders, 846. Printing and publishing, 846.
Mercantile interests, 847.
The South Gardner reservoir, 848.
Education, 848, 849.
High School, 850. South Gardner Social Library, 850, 851.
The Levi Heywood Memorial_Library Association, 851, 852. Library building, 852.
Ecclesiastical history, 852. First church, 852.
Evangelical congregational, 856.
Baptist, 857. Church of the Sacred Heart, 857. Universalist, 858.
Methodist, 859. St. Paul's Episcopal, 860.
Unitarian, 860, 861. French Catholics, 861.
Relatione to the State and Union, 862. Miscellaneous, 865. Water-works, 865. Fire Department, 866. Street lighting, 866. Public buildinge and halla, 866. Hotels, 867. Elegant resideuces, 867.
Centennial celebration, 868.
Soldiers' monument, 869. Military affairs, 869.
Town poor, 869.
Philanthropy and reform, 870.
Social and benevolent organizations, 870.
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Banks, 871. Post-offices, 871. Cemeteries, 871. Police, 871. Physicians, 871. Attorneys, 872. Population, 872. Biographical, 872.
Gaskill, Francis A., Ixiii. (111.), 1432. Gill, Morris, xxi. Gill, MIosea, 990. Gillia, J. J., 1360. Glasgow, Edward B., 1509. Gleason, Josiah P., 684 (II1.).
Goddard, Delano, xlv. Goodnow, E. A., 1562, 1708 (III.). Gookin, Daniel, 1417, 1418, 1576, 1420.
Goodrich, Henry .A., 329 (111.). Goodwin, Isaac, xxxiii. Goulding, Frank P., 1x. (III.), 921, 935. Gough, John B., 901, 902, 1509. Grafton, 921.
Territorial, 921.
Indian history, 921.
Hassanamiaco, 921.
Elijalı Corbett, tha schoolmaster, 921.
Early purchases, 921.
Indian deed, 922. Proprietors' meeting, 923.
Votea, 923.
Locating meeting-house, 924. Incorporation of town, 921. Firat town-meeting, 925. Representatives, 926.
Ecclesiaatical, 926.
First Congregational (Unitarian), 926.
Evangelical Congregational, 927. First Baptist, 928.
Second Baptist, 928. Free Will Baptist, 928. St. I'hilip's (R. C.), 928. Congregational, Saundersville, 928. Methodist Episcopal, 928.
French and Indian War, 929. War of the Revolution, 929. The Rebellion, 929. List of soldiers, 930.
Annexation to original limits, 933. Schools, 933. Free Library, 933.
Indnatriea, 933. Grafton National Bank, 934.
First National Bank, 934. Savinga Bank, 934. Prominent men, 934.
Historical address by Hon. Frank P. Goulding, 935, 936. Biographical, 936. Grafton, Duke of, 925. Greene, J. Evarts, xl, Ivi, Ixi, 1539, 1576. Greene, Levi, 89 (Ill.). Green, John, 1557. Green, John, 1562. Green, Josiah, 657 (I11.), 658. Green, Samuel S., 1412, 1491, 1499 (TI1.), 1677. Green, Samuel F., 1566. Green, William N., xliii. Gregory, Franklin E., 1379 (Il1.). Greenwood, Calvin S., 879 (III.). Greenwood, T. T., 154 (I11.). Griggs, Joseph, 1127 (I11.).
H.
Hale, Edward Everett, 1530. Hamilton, Benjamin F, 683 (TI1.).
Hammond, George W., 950 (111.). llancock, Ozro, 1076 (111.). Hardwick, 1129.
Location, 1129. Deed of town, 1129, 1130.
Title confirmed, 1129. l'roprietors' meetings, 1130. District incorporated, 1130.
Incorporation of town, 1130.
First town-meeting, 1130.
Officers elected, 1130.
Ecclesiastical history, 1130. First Church, 1130. Calvinistic, 1131.
Universalist, 1131.
Baptist, 1132.
Methodist, 1132. Congregational at Gilbertsville, 1132. Roman Catholic, 1132.
Territorial changea, 1132.
Military history, 1132. French and Indian War, 1132.
The Revolution, 1133. Shaya' Rebellion, 1135. War of the Rebellion, 1135.
Industrial pursuits, 1135.
Educational, 1136.
Town officers, 1136.
Representatives, 1138. Biographical, 1140.
Harris, Chas. MI., 606 (111.).
Harria, Linus M., 605 (III.).
Harris, Edwin A., 87 (III.).
Harris, Sidney, 8G (III.).
Ilarlow, William T., 780.
llarvard, 1164. Location, 1164.
Early settlera, 1164.
Ecclesiastical, 1164. Public Library, 1164. Military, 1164, 1165.
Harwood, M. Peter, 361 (III.).
Harwood, Nahum, 1258 (I11.).
Hastiogs, Solon S., 991 (II].).
Haven, Samuel F., xliii.
Hawa, Manaon D., 1256 (111.).
Henshaw, Joseph, 729. Henshaw, David, 715.
Heywood, Samuel R., 1647 (II).), 1726. Heywood, Benj., xxiv.
Heywood, William H., 1695 (I11.).
Heywood, W. S, 411, 493, 810, 1142.
Heywood, Seth, 875 (II1.).
Heywood, Chas., 874 (TI1.).
Heywood, Levi, 872 (III.). Hill, Thomas, 715.
Hill, Henry C., 876 (T11.). Hill, William R., 979 (III.).
Hill, Mosea, 1054 (TI1.).
Hill, Isaac, 206. Hill, E. K., 1644.
Highlands, The, 1072 (III.). Hitchcock, Charles F., 1140 (III.).
Hitchcock, Joseph F., 1198 (I11.).
Hoar, Georga F., Ivi. (111.), 715, 1445, 1449, 1530, 1534.
Hobba, Georga W., 156, 178.
Hogg, William James, 1618 (III.), 1728.
Hogg, William, 1618 (III.), 1728. Holmea, Oliver Wendell, 935.
Holland, Park, 479, 480.
Holbrook, Eli W., 592, 59G (Il) ). Holden, 1381. Location, 1381. Original grant, 1381. Indian deed, 1381. Division of lota, 1381.
Settlement, 1382.
'The lique lot, 1382. Firat survey, 1382. Incorporation, 1382. Petition, 1382. Act of incorporation, 1382. Military, 1383. French and Indian War, 1383. The Revolution, 1383. Shaya' Rebellion, 1385. The Civil War, 1385. Ecclesiastical, 1385. First Congregational, 1385.
First Baptist, 138G. Roman Catholic, 1387.
Educational, 1387. Early schools, 1387.
Statistica of 1840, 1387. The achoola of 1888, 1388. School Committee, 1388. The Damon Memorial, 1388, 1748 (III.). Library Association, 1388.
Physiciana, 1389.
Maaonic, 1389.
Centennial celebration, 1389.
Town-honse, 1389.
Distinguished natives, 1389.
Population, 1389.
Valuation, 1390. Manufactures, 1390.
First town-meeting, 1390. Officers elected, 1390.
Town officers, 1390. Representatives, 1390. Biographical, 1393.
Hopedale, 406.
Territorial situation, 406.
Early history, 406. The Hopedale Community, 4,7.
Progress towards township, 410. Separation from Milford and incorpora- tion of town, 413.
First town-meeting, 417.
Officers elected, 417.
The Town-hall, 417.
Statistica, 419.
Condition of Town Departmenta, 419.
Library and reading-room, 420.
Military, 421. Civil and secular, 421.
Ecclesiastical, 422. Cemeteries, 422.
Hopkins, Edward, 903. Horr, Warren, Jr., 1048.
Horr, George W., 1046, 1322.
Hosmer, S. D., 184.
Houghton, W. A., 387, 404 (III.).
lloughton, John, 388. llonghton, Horatio, 585. Howe, Francia, 537, 538 (III.). Howe, A. J., 583 (III.). Howe, William, 1394 (III.).
Howe, Elias, Jr, 657. Howarth, Andrew, 1321 (Ill.). Hubbardaton, 1170. Settlement, 1170. The pioneers, 1170. Familiea in 1800, 1171.
Petition for incorporation, 1172.
Act of incorporation, 1173.
First towo-meeting, 1173. Officers elected, 1173. Early votes, 1173. Military history, 1173. The Revolution, 1173. Responac to circular from Boston, 1174. Committee of Correspondence, 1174.
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Votes, 1174. Bunker Hill, 1174. Bounties, 1174. Depreciation of Currency, 1176. Names of soldiers, 1177. Shays' Rebellion, 1177. War of 1812, 1177. War of the Rebellion, 1177. Amount expended by town, 1177. Number of men, 1180. Names of soldiers, 1178.
Ecclesiastical history, 1180.
First Congregational, 1180, 1181. Evangelical Congregational, 1181. Methodist, 1181. Williamsville Society, 1181. .
Schools, 1181, 1182. Libraries, 1182. Fire company, 1182. Prominent persoos, 1182. Centennial, 1182. Copperas mine, 1182. Physicians, 1182. The militia, 1182. G. A. R., 1183. Soldiers' monument, 1183.
Post-office, 1183. Manufacturing, 1183. Grange P. of H., 1183. Civil history, 1183. Town officers, 1183. Representatives, 1184. Population, 1185 .. Valnation, 1185. Hudson, Edmuod, 145.
J.
1 Jefferson, Martin V. B. 1702 (III.). Jewett, Joseph, 204. Jewett, George, 319, 320 (Il1.). Jewett, Nathaniel, 207 (III.). Jewett, Joho H. Ixii., lxiii. Johnsou, Theodore S., 1328. Johnson, Iver, 1639 (III.), 1740. Johnson, Theodore S., Ixx. (Ill.). Jones, Erastus, 662 (III.). Joslin, Charles L., 1255 (III.). Judges, vii. Judson, Willard, 177. Jourdon, William H., 1729 (III.). "Jumel, Madam," 1302.
K.
Kendall, Warren H. 1053. Kilburn, Eli, 509 (III.). Kimball, Aaron, 535 (Ill.). Kimball, E. P., 1540. Kinnicutt, Thomas, xl. Knight, Hiram, 737 (III.). Knowles, Francie B., 1465, 1613 (III.), 1704. Knowles, Lucins J., 1196, 1613 (III.), 1703. Knowlton, William, 911, 912, 913, 916 (III.).
L.
Lancaster, 1.
, The Nashaways and their home, 1, 2. King's purchase, 2. The Nashaway planters, 2, 3. The town grant, 5. The covenant, 5. Land allotments, 6. Death of Showanon, 7. The first minister, 8. Arbitratiou, 8. Commissioners appointed to direct town affairs, 9.
The first high ways, 9. Noyes' survey, 11. Disaffection of the Indiana, 13. Monoco's raid, 13. James Quinapang's fidelity, 14. The destruction of Lancaster, 15. The resettlement, 16.
French and Indian raids, 17. The garrisons, 17.
New meeting-house, 19. The additional grant, 20. Early schoolmasters, 19. Lovewell's War, 20.
Worcester County formed, 20.
Birth of Harvard Bolton aod Leominster, 21. Sieges of Carthagena and Lonisbourg, 22. Conquest of Canada, 23.
The first census, 25.
Organization for revolutioo, 26.
Lexington aların, 27.
Bunker Hill and the siege of Boston, 28. War andale, 29. Separation of Chocksett, 30.
Shays' Rebellion, 30. Bridge lotteries, 3t, Hou. John Spragne, 31.
Cotton and woolso-mills, 32.
The Academy, 32.
War of 1812, 32. The Whitings, 32. The brick meeting-house, 32.
Lafayette, 33.
The printing enterprise, 34. Dr. Nathaniel Thayer, 35.
New churches, 35. Cliatou set off, 37. Bi-centennial, 37.
Schools, 37. Libraries, 37, 38.
Cemeteries, 39.
The Rebellion, 40.
Roster of soldiers, 40. Town history printed, 43. The town poor, 44. Death of Nathaniel Thayer, 44. General statistics, 45.
Lane, H. F., 145. Lapham, Mowry A., 1126 (III.). Lasell, Josiah, 443, 451 (III.). Lee, Artemas, 153 (111.). Leicester, 686. Location, 686.
Indian deed, 686.
Proprietors, 687. Incorporation, 687. Settlement, 688.
Hardships-snow-storm, 688. Thomas Green, 688.
Struggles, rural life, homes, mills, 688, 689. Lovell's War, 689. Fortified houses, 690.
Discouragements, 690. Cyclone, 690.
Spencer "set off," also parts of Paxton and Auburn, 691. French War, 691, 692.
The Revolutionary War, 692. Leading patriots, 692. Town-meetings, 692.
" Instructions, " 693. Committee of Correspondence, 693. Minute-men, proposed, 694.
Tea, 694. Courts, 694. Provincial Congress, 695.
Ammunition stored, 695. 19th of April, 696. Col. Wm. Henshaw's orderly books 696, 697.
Bunker Hill, 697. Peter Salem, 697. Snepected persons, 697. War expenses, 698. Soldiers, 698, 699. State Constitution, slavery, etc., 699. Ecclesiastical, 701. First Church, 701. Friends' Meeting, 704. Greenville Baptist, 705. Second Congregational, 706.
Christ Church, Rochdale, 706. Methodist Episcopal, 707. Wesleyan Methodist, 708. Roman Catholic, 708.
Educational, 709. First town action, 709. School-masters, 709. School houses, 709. Town fined, 709.
District system, 709.
Amount raised for schools, 709. Districts abolished, 709.
High School, 709. Leicester Academy, 709.
Business, 715. Card business, 715. Woolen manufacture, 718.
Boots and shoes, 721. Tanning and currying, 721.
National and saving banks, 722.
Miscellaneous industries, 722.
The Civil War, 723. Sixth Regiment, 723. War-meetings, 723. Twenty-fifth Regiment, 723. Fifteenth, 724.
Twenty-first, 724
Thirty-fourth, 725.
Forty-second, 725.
Action of the town, 725.
Other soldiers, 727.
Expenditures, 728.
Casualties, 728. Close of the war, 728.
Miscellaneous, 728. Individuals and residences, 728. Physicians, 730. Lawyers, 730. Items of interest, 730.
Burying-grounds, 731.
Post-offices, 731. Fire Department, 731.
Tavern8, 731. Libraries, 731, 732. Cherry Valley flood, 732. Histories, 732, 733. Celebrations, 733. Biographical, 733.
Leighton, Lyman, 91 (III.). Leland, Phineas W., 934. Leonard, Manuing, 1014 (III.). Leomioster, 1200. Early history, 1200. Indian deed, 1201. Principal proprietors, 1201. No towa, 1202.
Ecclesiastical, 1203. The First Parish (Unitarian), 1203. Congregational, 1207. Central Baptist, 1210. Methodist, 1211.
1756
INDEX.
St. Len's (Roman Catholic), 1212. Congregational North 1212
Leominster,
Educational, 1213. The public schools, 1213. The High School, 1218. Public Library, 1222. The Museum, 1223. Industrial, 1224. Agriculture, 1225. Manufactures, 122G. Military, 1236.
French and Indian War, 1236. The Revolution, 1237. Shaya' Rebellion, 1239. War of 1812, 1239. Civil War, 1239.
Civil and miscellaneous, 1246. Public Park, 1247. Public buildinga, 1248. Representatives, 1249. Town officers, 1249. Fire Department, 1252. Railroads, 1252. Banks, 1252. The press, 1252. Gas Light Company, 1252. Biographical, 1253.
Lincoln, William, xliii. Lincoln, Levi, xxiv, xxv, xxxi, xxxii, xliii Lincoln, W. H., 1128 (III.).
Lincoln, D. Waldo, 1445. Lincoln, Levi, 1437, 1445, 1446. Livermore, Salen, 743, 744 (111.). Lockwood, W. F., 1540. Lord, William G., 1053. Lord, Gardner, 1050. Lovell, John D., 1691 (III.). Lynde, James P., 1045, 1053. Lynde, Ebenezer B., 567 (III.). Lunenburg, 760. Location, 760. Ponda and drainage, 761. Original granta, 761. Settlements, 761. Incorporation, 762.
First town-meeting, 764. Officers elected, 764. Roads, 764. Division of farm, 765. Personal noticea, 765. Indian alarms, 767. The French and Indian Wars, 768.
Capture of John Fitch, 769. The Revolution, 770. The War of the Rebellion, 773. Ecclesiastical history, 774. Schools, 779. The Cunningham papers, 780.
M.
Mann, Billinga, 742 (I11.). Marvin, A. P., 1063, 1064. Marcy, William L., 715. Mason, Chas., 301, 305. Mason, Caroline Atherton, 305. Mason, Orlando, 1067, 1073 (III.). Mason, Atherton P., 208, 304, 305. Mayo, Hamilton,. 1253 (II1.). May, Samnel, 715, 733, 736, 728. Mayhew, Aaron C., 1280, 1286 (III.). Maynard, llorace, 1354. McCafferty, Matthew J., liii. MeClellan, Geo. R., 1467. McCrate, John D., 967, 977.
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