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Trinity Parish, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was organized in April, 1864, and was duly incorpo- rated in the following May. Its services were held in Washington Hall until the erection of its church, which was consecrated March 21, 1871. At the con- secration a sermon was preached by Bishop Manton Eastburn. The officiating clergymen of this church have been Rev. Henry Adams, 1864; Rev. George G. Jones, 1865-68; Rev. E. B. Alleu, 1869-70; Rev. Reginald H. Howe, 1871-72; Rev. John M. Bene- dict, 1873-74; Rev. William F. Lloyd, 1876-77; Rev. George R. Wheelock, 1878-79; Rev. William James Alger, 1881, and the present pastor, Rev. John B. Wicks.
Roman Catholicism in Milford dates its birth at a visit of Rev. James Fitton, of Boston, who solemnized Mass at the house of Edward McGovern in 1836. In 1847 Rev. John Boyd began to gather a society and to hold regular Sabbath services. In 1848 a church edifice was built iu what was formerly the pasture of Noah Wiswall, and consecrated as "St. Mary's Church " in that year by Right Rev. Bishop Fitzpat- rick, on which occasion Father Mathew preached a sermon. Rev. George A. Hamilton began his ser- vices as the first regular pastor March 1, 1850, and was succeeded by Rev. Michael Carohen in 1853 and Rev. Edward Farrelly in 1854. Rev. Patrick Cuddihy succeeded Mr. Farrelly in 1857, during whose pastor- ate the present church of the society was built and opened for public worship December 25, 1870. The church contains the organ of the Old South Church of Boston, which was bought in 1878. The old church was in some way disposed of and removed.
For a sketch of the Hopedale Community and the Hopedale Church, since April 7, 1886, the date of the incorporation of the town of Hopedale, beyond
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the limits of Milford, the reader is referred to the history of Hopedale in these volumes.
The educational interests of the town may with pro- priety be considered as next in importance to those of a religious character. In 1784 the town was divided into eight districts. In 1799 these districts were readjusted, and in 1802 reduced in number to six. In 1829 the number was increased to seven. In IS36 an eighth district was formed in the northeasterly part of the town, and in 1841 another adjustment was made, and the town divided into eleven districts. In 1847 a twelfth was formed. In 1850 a High School was established, and a graded system of schools adopted as far as was practicable, thus necessitating further changes in the districts, Finally on the 25th of May, 1853, a committee, consisting of Leander Holbrook, J. T. Woodbury, C. F. Chapin, Henry Chapin, A. J. Sumner, Nelson Parkhurst and Adin Ballou was ap- pointed to consider and report on the expediency of abolishing the district system, and in accordance with their report the system was abolished.
Before the incorporation of the town such schools as there were within the territory of Milford were probably kept in private houses. On the Ist of March, 179I, the town voted "to raise £240 to build and repair school-houses in the Town of Milford, and each District to pay their own cost." At this date, therefore, it seems to be certain that there were school-houses in the town, which had probably been built not long after the creation of districts, in 1784. It is not proposed to recite the successive steps taken by the town and districts in building houses and de- veloping the system of education.
At the time of the abandonment of the district sys- tem there was no school-house in Hopedale District, No. 12.
The school-houses in the other eleven districts were valued by the selectmen as follows :
Old No. 1, near Widow (Amasa) Parkhurst's .. $450
No. 2, near brick church. 1500
No. 3, old academy. 1500
No. 4, near Obed Daniels' 375
No. 5, Bear Hill 375
No. 6, South Milford. 150
No. 7, city 400
No. 8, Silver Hill. 516
No. 9, North Purchase 550
No. 10, (Fountain Street) near Croshy'e. 500
No. 11, (Deer Brook) Wild Cat 275
According to the last annual report of the School Committee, there were seventeen schools in the town, supported at an expense of $21,227.01. The number of children in the town, between five and fifteen years of age, at the date of the report, February 13, 1888, was 1529, and the average number of children belonging to the schools in the year 1887 was 1267. Besides the day-schools, there was an evening-school, with an enrollment of fifty-five scholars.
$1650, divided into thirty-three shares of fifty dollars each. It was in operation from 1828 to 1841, when it was sold to District No. 3, and became the property of the town on the abandonment of the district sys- tem. Its preceptors at various times were Ira Cleve- land, Jr., Henry Mellen Chamberlain, Charles Thur- ber, Mr. Moore, Mr. Gorman, Mr. Wilmarth, Daniel Perry, Miss Clark and Charles R. Train.
The Town Library, re-enforcing as it does the edu- cational system of the town, should be referred to at this point in our narrative. At a meeting held on the 30th of August, 1858, the following resolutions, offered by Mr. Edwin Battles, were adopted by the town :
Ist, That the town do establish and maintain a public library under the statute of 1851, chapter 305.
2d, Tbat the town do appropriate the full sum of money which it is by law authorized to grant, to establish a public library ; to wit, as many dollars as there were ratable polls in Milford in the enumeration of 1857.
3d, That the town proceed to choose a board of thirteen trustees, who shall have full authority to do all legal and necessary acte, to purchase a town library, to make by-laws, and appoint officere for the same, with power to fill all vacancies in their own body ; and this board shall con- tinue in office till the next annual March meeting, and until others are chosen in their stead.
4th, That all by-laws proposed by said trustees shall be submitted to the town for its ratification.
5tb, The following named persons were chosen said trustees : Andrew J. Sumuer, Elias Whitney, John G. Gilbert, H. B. Staples, B. Wood, George W. Stacy, Francis Leland, Edwin Battles, H. H. Bowers, Daniel S. Chapin, J. R. Davis, Charles C. Johnson and Dwight Russell.
6th, That the treasurer of the town be authorized to borrow the sum of one thousand dollars for the purchase of booke and for fitting up a room or roome for the town library, and bold the same subject to the or- der of the selection.
7th, That the selectmen draw the money for the town library at the request or order of the trustees of the same.
The trustees proceeded with the necessary steps of organization, and reported to the town a code of by-laws, rules and regulations, which were ratified at a legal meeting, November 8, 1858. The library receives an annual appropriation from the town for its support, and, according to the last annual report, contained seventy-six hundred and thirty-five vol- umes.
Among the educators of the people, the newspapers of the town must not be overlooked. There are three weekly newspapers,-the Milford Gazette, conducted by G. M. Billings; the Milford Journal, conducted by Cook & Sons, and the Times, conducted by J. P. Gallagher. There are also two daily papers,-the Journal, conducted by Cook & Sons, and the News, conducted by Mann & Leahy.
CHAPTER CLXI.
MILFORD-(Continued.)
BOUNDARIES-THE REVOLUTION.
In connection with the public schools mention should be made of the Milford Academy. It was THE boundary lines of Milford have at different incorporated February 11, 1828, with a capital of times been changed, sometimes by adjustments of old
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lines and sometimes by absolute alterations provided for by law. In 1794 a readjustment of the line be- tween Milford and Mendon became desirable, and for that purpose committees were chosen by the two towns. The report of the joint committees, made on the 29th of November in that year, was accepted by the town March 3, 1795. The committee reported that they "met and settled the line between the town of Mendon and Milford (over the North Hill, so called) ; beginning at a heap of stones, being the southeast corner of Paul Nelson's land; thence North 37 rds ; East 40 Rods to a Walnut Tree with a heap of stones round it; thence South, 263 Ds. East, 196 Rods to a White Oak Tree, being the Northeast Cor- ner of Seth Davenport's land, on the south side of the Road leading from the widow Tyler's to Milford. Philip Ammidon, Seth Chapin, Luke Aldrich, Com- mittee of Mendon. Ephm. Chapin, Ichabod Thayer, Jr., Committee of Milford."
At the same meeting the town accepted the report of a committee concerning the Upton line, which involved an exchange of certain small parcels of land. In 1835 an act of the General Court altered the line between Milford and Hopkinton and Hollis- ton, and annexed some territory, with the families living on the same, to Milford. The act provided,-
That the dividing lines between the towns of Milford, Holliston and Hopkinton shall be altered, and shall hereafter be established as fol- lowe, to wit: beginning at a heap of stones on the line between the towne of Milford and Hopkinton, at the road near the dwelling-house of Samuel McFarland ; thence easterly abont one and three-fourths miles to a stone monument by the side of Deer Brook, so-called ; thence north, sixty and a half degrees east, twenty-five rods on the line be- tween Hopkinton and Holliston ; thence due south until it comes to the line between Ilolliston and Milford; and that part of said Milford which lies north of the first-mentioned line, shall hereafter belong to Hopkinton, fin the county of Middlesex ; and that part of Hopkinton, which lies south of said first-mentioned line, shall hereafter belong to Milford, in the county of Worcester ; and that part of said Holliston, which lies west of the last-mentioned line, shall hereafter belong to said Milford.
Still another alteration was made by an act of the General Court passed April 1, 1859, which provided that-
The dividing line between the towns of Milford and Holliston shall be altered, and shall hereafter be established as follows, to wit: begin- ning at a point on the lines between the towns of Holliston and Hop- kinton, sixty-four rods easterly from the northwest corner of Holliston, and running southerly uutil it comes to a point on the line between the towns of Holliston and Milford, 132 rods and 15 links easterly from the southwest corner bonnd of Holliston ; and that part of Holliston, which lies west of the above described line, shall hereafter be annexed to and belong to the town of Milford.
The last alteration was made by the act of the General Court passed April 7, 1886, incorporating the town of Hopedale. The first section of that act describes the new town as-
All that territory now within the town of Milford comprised within the following limits, that is to say beginning at a point in the westerly part of Milford, a short distance north of West Street, where the Up- ton line leaves Mill River ; thence following the centre of said River to and across West Street to a stone monument, half way between the arch of the eulvert over said river; thence south thirty-nine degrees five minutes East about eight thousand four hundred eighty-five feet to a etone monument in a wall dividing the land of Delano Patrick and
Frank Kilcline ; thence along said wall south fifty-eight degrees forty- five minutes East about three hundred thirty six feet to a stone monu- ment in the northwesterly line of Freedom Street ; thence south thirty- five degrees fifteen minutes East about three thousand six hundred twenty-six feet to a stone monument at the corner of Main and Aden Streets ; thence south thirty three degrees five minutes East about one thousand two hundred and twelve feet to Green Street ; thence continu- ing on said course about two thousand four hundred fifty-six feet to a stone monument ; thence south seventy-six degrees thirty minutes East about eight hundred twenty-five feet to the southeast corner of lloward and South Main Streets; thence continuing in the same course about one thousand six hundred forty-two feet to the centre of Charles River ; thence following the centre of said River in a southerly direction to the town line between Milford and Bellingham ; thence following said town line in a southerly direction to the junction of the towns of Mil- ford, Mendon and Bellingham ; thence following said Mendon line to its junction with Upton ; thence following the Upton line to the point of beginning.
By the incorporation of Hopedale, the town of Milford lost about thirteen hundred of its population.
With regard to the part performed by the town of Milford in the Revolutionary War it is difficult to make any precise statement. At the time of its in- corporation, in 1780, the war was in its fifth year, and many of its people were already in the service to the credit of the mother town. At the beginning of the war there were companies of minute-men in the town of Mendon, two of which were largely consti- tuted of men from the Second or Easterly Precinct. The rolls of these companies,-the second and fourth companies of Mendon,-a large number of whom were Second Precinct men, are as follows :
Second Company.
Dr. Wm. Jennison, capt.
Samnel Cobb, lieut.
Caleb Cheney, lient.
Adams Chapin, sergt.
- - Jones, sergt.
W'm. Jennison, Jr., Bergt.
Josiah Brown, corp.
John Gibbs, sergt.
Samuel Bowditch.
Sheffield Partridge, corp.
Joseph Gibbs.
Asa Albee, corp.
John Hayward.
Wm. Lesure, corp.
Jesse Hayward.
Samuel French, drummer.
Jona. Hayward.
David French, fifer.
Jacob Hayward.
Edmund Bowker.
Joshua Hayward.
Samuel Davis.
Warfield Hayward.
Ebenī. Davis.
Joseph Jones, Jr.
Aaron Davis.
John Jones.
Wm. Cheney.
Abraham Jones, Jr.
Benjamin Norcross.
Eli Partridge.
Henry Nelson.
Seth Thayer.
Amos Shepherdson.
Josiah Wheelock.
Abraham Stearns.
Wm. Ward.
Eli Whitney, Jr.
Daniel White.
Samuel Warren.
Benjamin Vickery.
The other Mill River company, numbered "the Fourth Company of Mendon," consisting of the follow- ing-named officers and men :
Gershom Nelson, capt. James Albee.
Jesse Whitney, lieut. Ephraim Chapin.
Josiah Nelson, lieut. Enoch Perry.
Moses Chapin, sergt. Darius Sumner.
Simeon Wiswall, sergt. Levi Hayward.
Joseph Cody, sergt.
Nathan Beal.
Nath1. Parkhurst, corp.
Gershom Twitchell.
Ephraim Parkhurst, corp. Levi Legg.
Levi Thayer, corp.
Samuel Jones.
Daniel Legg, corp. Daniel Chapin.
Ichahod Nelson, corp.
Isaac Littlefield.
Gershom Legg.
Moses Gage.
Robert Corbett.
Isaac Chapin.
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Ebenezer Read.
David Chapin.
Jonas Parkhurst.
Samuel Thayer.
Elisha White.
David Legg, Jr.
John Robinson.
Alexander Wheelock.
Aaron Merrifield.
James Sprague
Stephen Chapin.
Jonas Twitchell.
Daniel Wedge.
Darius Holbrook.
Ichabod Corbett
Silas Brooks.
Daniel Hayward.
Josiah Kilburn.
'These Mendon companies marched to Cambridge after the battle of Lexington. Of these, many en- listed as three months' men into the regular army, and among them appear the following Mill River names :
Samuel French, sergt.
Isaac Chapin.
Amos Shepherdson.
Josiah Chapin.
David French.
.Tpo. Dewing.
James Sprague.
Wm. Brown.
Benjamin Vickery.
Aaron Davis.
Asa Albee.
Samual Davis.
Edmund Bowker
Robert Mingo (a negro man).
Samuel Cobb, capt.
Henry Nelson. . Daniel Norcross.
Wni. Cheney.
Benjamin Norcross.
Wm. Legg.
Sheffield Partridge.
Wm. Lesure.
Joseph Passmore.
Jonas Twitchell.
Aquilla Ramsdell.
Samuel Thayer.
Daniel White.
Joel Thayer.
Jona. Whitney.
Joseph Cody, lieut.
Elias Whitney.
Adams Chapin, sergt.
Samuel Warren, capt.
Upon the incorporation of Milford the two towns made equitable division of their arms, ammunition, and military responsibilities then existing. The action taken by Milford after its incorporation is in- dicated by the following votes :
1780, June 26th .- It was voted that the town assume payment of all fines imposed on its officers for delinquencies in filling the draft.
Sept. 11th .- Voted to give each soldier that marched to R. I., upon the late alarm, twelve days, a thousand dollars.
Oct. 2d .- It was voted that the selectmen pay out of the town's money " for the clothing called for by the State, if it cannot be got from the State before the creditors want their money."
Oct. 16th .- " Voted that Capt. Saml. Warren, Jno. Robinson and Obadiah Wood be a Committee to pro- cure the beef called for by the State, and deliver it to Jacob Davis, Esq., agent for that purpose in Charlton,"
Oct. 16th .- " Voted that Ebenr. Holbrook, Capt. Gershom Nelson and Capt. Ichabod Thayer be a Committee, in conjunction with the Selectmen) to procure the articles for the soldiers that the Selectmen have given security for."
Dec. 25th .- Voted that Capt. Saml. Warren, Ebenr. Holbrook and Lt. Joseph Cody be a com. to procure beef, or money in lieu of beef, at the town's cost, agreeable to a resolve of Gen. Ct., passed Dec. 4, 1780.
Dec. 25th .- Voted to raise $15,000 to procure beef. 1781, Jan. Sth .- Voted to raise 1,000 hard or silver
dollars for the purpose of hiring ten soldiers for 3 years, or during the war.
May 14th .- Voted that Dea. Gideon Albee, Josiah Wheelock, Lt. Seth Thayer, Obadiah Wood and Lt. Joseph Gibbs be a com. to hire soldiers the ensuing year.
Aug. 20th .- Voted to risk, as a Town, the fine for the 2 Continental men said Town is delinquent in raising.
Dec. 5th .- Voted that Seth Nelson and Daniel Wedge, Constables, be the men to hire the remain- ing part of the Continental men. Voted £160 to hire said men.
1782, March 18th .- Voted to raise £150 forthwith for the purpose of hiring 4 Continental soldiers for 3 yrs., and that no town order "should answer this Rate."
During the War of 1812, when it was thought that Boston was in danger, the State militia was called into service, including the Milford Artillery Company, which continued in service two months. The follow- ing is the roll of the company in camp at South Bos- ton, September 12, 1814 :
Rufus Thayer, capt.
Lewis Hayward, corp.
Ezra Nelson, lieut. Calvin Johnson, corp.
Henry Nelson, lieut. Clark Sumner, corp.
Levi Rockwood, sergt. Levi Saunders, mons.
Clark Ellis, sergt. Moses Littlefield, mus.
Samuel Nelson, Jr., sergt.
Ethan Weston, mus.
Leonard Chapin, sergt.
James Bowker, mus.
Isaac Davenport, corp.
Privates.
William Andrews.
Jones Pond.
Silas Baker.
Preston Pond.
James Barber.
Josiah Perry.
Jonathan Bathrick.
Peter Rockwood.
Hartwell Bills.
Alexander Parkhurst.
Stacy Bosworth.
Emory Sumner.
Eli Chapin.
Leonard Taft.
Lovell Clark.
Ellis Taft.
Ira Cleveland.
Amasa Taft.
Elijah Farrington.
Benjamin Woodward.
Isaac Kebbe.
Drivers.
Lebbeus Daniels.
Samuel Crooks.
Silas Gould.
John Stearns.
John Corbett.
Chester Clark.
Amos Madden.
Daniel Thurber.
When the War of the Rebellion broke out the first meeting to consider matters in relation to the war was held on the 13th of May, 1861, at which Aarou C. Mayhew, Obed Daniels, Winslow Battles, J. C. Scammell, A. C. Withington, F. A. Johnson and A. W. Walcott were appointed to consider and report a "plan of procedure in relation to the course the Town should adopt in respect to the war." This committee, reported that the town appropriate three thousand dollars to equip the soldiers of Milford who have enlisted, and for incidental expenses ; two thou- sand dollars for a contingent war fund; and ten thousand dollars to pay State aid to soldiers' families, and for other purposes. One dollar a day was al- lowed to each person "belonging to Company A," while engaged in drilling. The report was accepted;
Peter Corbett, corp.
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and James R. Claflin, Elias Whitney, John Morris, Edwin Battles and Freeman Walcott were chosen " to carry out the recommendations contained in the report." On the 11th of June provision was made for the payment of State aid to the families of sol- diers, and to parents, brothers and sisters dependent upon them; the whole, for both, not to exceed twenty dollars a month to each family and dependents of a soldier. December 9th six thousand dollars were ap- propriated for State aid to soldiers' families.
On the 31st of March, 1862, twenty thousand dol- lars were appropriated for aid, during the year, to the families and dependents of volunteers belonging to Milford, and the following resolutions were unani- mously adopted :
Resolved, By the inhabitants of the town of Milford, in legal town- meeting assembled, that we have heard with pride of the heroic con- duct of the officers and soldiers of Company B, Twenty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and our other fellow-citizens of Milford en- gaged in the battles of Roanoke and Newbern.
Resolved, That our thanks are due to an overruling Providence, and our congratulations to our fellow-citizens in the fields aforesaid ; that amid perils by sea, in the camp and in the shock of hattle, so few have paid for their patriotism with their lives ; that the patient endurance of these, our fellow-citizens, their unflinching courage and their glorions victories, will live forever in the history of the town of Milford.
Resolved, That we tender them our congratulations, that, as members of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, and bearers of the flag, they were the first to raise the flag of our old Commonwealth over the batteries of the enemy at Newbern.
Resolved, That we tender to the friends of those who have fallen in the service our heartfelt sympathies, with the assurance that the names of the fallen will ever be held in honored memory.
Resolved, That these resolutions be recorded in the town records, and a copy of the same he sent to Capt. Willard Clark, commanding said company.
On the 20th of July the selectmen were authorized to pay a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dol- lars for each 'volunteer who shall enlist for three years, and be credited to the quota of the town and to open a recruiting-office in the town. A bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars was also directed to be paid to volunteers for nine months' service.
On the 9th of June, 1864, the bounty to persons en- listing for three years was fixed at one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and twelve thousand dollars were appropriated to pay the same. Provision was also made to give the returning soldiers belonging to the town a public reception by thecitizens.
Milford furnished one thousand one hundred and forty-two men for the war, which was a surplus of one hundred and thirty-two over and above all de- mands. Twenty-five were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and ex- pended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was sixty-two thousand six hundred dol- lars ($62,600).
The amount of money paid by the town during the war for State aid to soldiers' families, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $6,- 419.86; in 1862, $20,500 ; in 1863, $22,715.76 ; in 1864, $28,000 ; in 1865, $18,500. Total amount $96,135.62.
The following is a list of soldiers furnished by Milford during the war :
Charles O. Adams, wagoner, enl. in Co. F, 36th Regt., for three years. Orrick HI. Adams, corporal, enl. in Co. F, 36th Regt., for three years. George S. Adams, private, enl. in Co. B, 25th Regt., for three years.
Asa F. Adams, private, enl. in Co. G, 40th Regt., New York, for three years.
Wm. P. Adams, private, enl. in Co. G, 40th Regt., New York, for three years.
Asa Roscoe Adams, private, enl. in Co. D, 5th Regt., Excelsior Brigade, New York, for three years.
John Q. Adams, private, enl. in Co. G, 40th Regt., New York, for three years.
Horace Adams, private, enl. in Co. - , - Regt, for one year.
George W. Adams, private, enl. in Co. C, 42d Regt., for 100 days.
Hiram R. Adams, private, enl. in Co. L, 3d Regt. Cavalry, for three years.
John Ahern, Ist lieutenant, eal. in Co. K, 28th Regt., for three years. Albert Albee, private, enl. in Co. B, 42d Regt., for nine months.
Seth Albee, private, enl. in Co. E, 42d Regt., for 100 days.
George N. Alden, private, enl. in Unattached Co., 19th Regt., for one year.
Henry K. Aldrich, private, enl. in Co. F, 36th Regt., for three years. Aaron Aldrich, private, enl. in Co. B, 25th Regt., for three years.
Wm. II. Aldrich, private, enl. in Co. 1, 25th Regt., for three years. Frank E. Allen, private, enl. in Co. F, 36th Regt., for three years.
Mowry A. Allen, private, enl. ; in Unattached Co., 19th Regt., for one year.
Charles R. Angell, private, enl. in Co. G, 40th Regt., New York, for three years.
Ezekiel W. Anson, private, eal. in Co. F, 36th Regt., for three years.
Wm. H. Armstrong, wagoner, enl. in Co. G, 9th Regt., for three years. James A. Armstrong, private, enl. in Unattached Co., Regt. not given. Charles A. Arnold, private, enl. in Co. G, 40th Regt., New York, for
three years.
Richard Aylwood, corporal, enl. in Co. II, Ist Regt., for three years ; cavalry recruit.
Lawrence Bael, recrnit, no Co. named, 19th Regt., for three years. Andrew Bagley, private, enl. in Co. B, 25th Regt., for three years. lIenry J. Bailey, private, enl. in Co. 1, 45th Regt., for nine months. Isaac D. Baker, private, enl. in 19th Unattached Co. for one year. Edwin Balcome, private, enl. in Co. B, 25th Regt., for three years. Eli G. Ball, private, enl. in Co. B, 25th Regt., for three years.
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