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Rakeville was the name given to the neighborhood of the shop of Mr. Wilcox where rakes and other agri- cultural implements were made, about a mile east of Crooks' Corner on Wrentham Street.
Crooks' Corner, where five streets meet, is a half mile from Woonsocket and the Rhode Island line, at the southwest corner of the town. There seems to have been no tavern here in 1797, when the place for posting town warrants was undecided, but Wright Curtis kept one later till 1834, and then Jeremiah Crooks for thirty years. Close by is the south schoolhouse, which has had to be enlarged to keep up with the growth of the Woonsocket families whose homes are constantly coming farther and farther across the State line. Seven tracts of land have been divided into house lots and streets, and a few new street signs have been put up:
Social Park in 1900, on Centre Street and Peter's River.
Fairview Park in 1902, on Centre Street and Park Street.
Social Terrace in 1909, on Centre Street.
Social Villa in 1910, from Centre Street to Blackstone.
Franco Villa in 1913, on Paine Street and Peter's River.
Vallier Farm in 1913, on Paine Street and Wrentham Street.
Central Manor in 1916, on Centre Street and Peter's River.
The village store has been kept here lately by Hadley D. Perkins, but it has now been sold to Peter Duquette, who came from Connecticut.
The majority of our people from Crooks' Corner to Woonsocket are French, who belong to that city in many ways. There the first ones came as farmers, a
CROOKS' TAVERN, KEPT BY JEREMIAH CROOKS 1834-1860
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BELLINGHAM IN 1919
few as early as 1814, and then went to work in the mills, which had just started. It is said that in 1841 there were only four French families in Woonsocket, but they came after that very fast, and the French population was fifteen hundred in 1847. Woonsocket was made a town in 1867; now it is a city of about forty-six thousand.
There are now about fifty-five French families in the south part of the town, and a few others elsewhere. Mr. Pascal Millet, who has lived close to the State line fif- teen years, is eighty-six years old; he came to Woonsocket forty years ago. Mr. Edward Valliere has divided his land into house lots and streets near Crooks' Corner. Mr. William Rattier is perhaps the oldest French citizen; he has been here twenty-five or thirty years.
There are about fifteen Polish families here; the first comer was Lyon Kopinki, nine years. At North Bell- ingham and Caryville there are about as many more. At that end of the town are a few Armenian families.
We have two lines of electric cars; the longer one connects at Caryville with cars to Milford and Medway, and runs south to North Bellingham, Four Corners, Hoag Lake, Crooks' Corner and Woonsocket; the other comes from Franklin to Four Corners, then to Belling- ham Center and South Milford to Milford. Both these lines meet at Four Corners every hour.
The town is crossed by three steam railroads. The first petition for a road from Boston to Woonsocket came before the Legislature in 1845. In 1861 trains ran from Brookline to Medway Village, and since 1863 they have run through to Woonsocket. There are now six passenger trains a day each way on this road, and three stations in town, Caryville, North Bellingham and Bellingham Junction, where it is crossed by the small
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road from Franklin to Milford. This road has another station at South Milford. It has been running since 1882. Our third railroad is the one from Boston to Willimantic, Conn., by Franklin and Blackstone. It has a flag station at Centre Street near Railroad Street named South Bellingham. This was called Rand's Crossing in 1853, and there was then another station near the Blackstone line, called Mill River, now aban- doned. From its position the oldest railroad in town has almost no local business here.
In telephones, as in other ways, our people are con- nected with different towns; two of our telephones belong to the Franklin exchange, five to Medway, sixteen to Milford, and thirty-seven to Woonsocket.
There are five cemeteries in the town. The one at North Bellingham was in use in 1718, for it is men- tioned in a deed as "the burying place." At least four stones can now be read there, which are earlier than the formation of the town. These are some of the noticeable ones:
. . Johnson departed in the . . . year of his age April 5 1715.
HER LISE THE BODY OF BENONNI TOMSON DESEED THE 14 DAY APRIL 1719 DR JOHN CORBETT 1726 PELATIAH SMITH 1727
1775 Come my friends behold & see the place where once I us'd to be But now I'm in Eternity prepare for Death & follow me
1811 As I pass by with grief I see My loving mate was took from me Tho took by him who has a right To call for me when he sees fit
THE NORTH BELLINGHAM CEMETERY, OLDER THAN THE TOWN ITSELF
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BELLINGHAM IN 1919
1787 Depart my friends Wipe off your tears Here I must lie Till Christ appears
Mrs Mary Relict of Mr. Eleazer Hayward Mar. 15 1814 in the hundred & second year of her age I have waited for thy salvation O Lord
The South Bellingham cemetery is on Centre Street near where it is crossed by both the steam and the electric railroads. In 1717 at the third meeting of the pro- prietors of the common land between Wrentham and Dedham and the second meeting here, at the house of Nicholas Cook, "two or three acres" were voted for a burying place. His gravestone is here now. The yard was accepted by the town in 1756, and its bounds set up. Many of the stones have the phrase "which deceased"; which is sometimes used for who in the Bible, translated in 1611. Indians were buried in this same place.
Land for the Center Cemetery was given in 1778 by Jonathan Thompson and David Jones, and it was laid out by Elisha Burr. He wondered who would be buried here first, and it was his own young daughter Rebekah. "She died 1781 Aged 14 The first here buried." Mr. Alden's stone reads: "Sacred to the memory of Elder Noah Alden of Bellingham who Deceased from this Life May 5 1797 in the 72 year of his Age and 48 Year of his Public Ministry 31 of which he spent in this place."
The Scammel cemetery is on Grove Street at South Milford. It has only eighteen stones, the earliest dated 1839. Here is a monument to the Scammel family and especially to "Alexander Scammel Adjutant General of the American Armies and Colonel of the First Reg- iment of New Hampshire. While he commanded a
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chosen corps of light infantry at the successful siege of York Town Va. in the gallant performance of his duty, a field officer of the day, he was unfortunately captured and afterwards insidiously wounded, of which wound he expired at Williamsburg Oct 1781 37 anno ætatis."
The Rakeville cemetery dates from about 1830. It is a neat yard with many beautiful stones.
Of the oldest persons in town, Mrs. Amanda Adams is ninety-four years old, and Mrs. Joanna Leahy ninety; above eighty-five are William E. Coombs, George C. McMaster, Pascal Millet, C. C. Willis and Mrs. Mary S. Pickering; above eighty are Joseph F. Hoar, Oliver Miette, Orlando S. Stetson, Alonzo N. Whitney and Mrs. Elizabeth Burke, Mrs. Olive Cook, and Mrs. Elizabeth Robelard.
The town's population during its second century has been:
1820
1034
1850
1281
1880
1223
1910
1696
1830
1102
1860
1313
1890
1334
1915
1953
1840
1055
1870
1282
1900
1682
The gain for ten years, 1905 to 1915, was about sixteen per cent, while the whole State gained twenty-three per cent.
In 1915 thirty-one per cent of the people of Massa- chusetts were foreign born, and five hundred and thirty persons here were born in foreign countries, twenty-seven per cent of the whole; in 1905 it was four hundred and thirty-one, or twenty-five per cent of the whole. In 1915 two hundred and forty persons here were born in Canada, ninety in Ireland, fifty-five in Poland, forty-nine in England, thirty-one in Sweden, thirty in Russia, nineteen in Italy, eighteen in Scotland, and seventeen in France. The names of seventy children born in town in the last two years seem to show thirty-three of American or
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T
English origin, twenty-five French, seven Polish, four Italian, and one Swedish.
In 1915 six hundred and forty-six men and two hundred and nineteen women were reported at work:
In manufacturing and mechanical industry 327 men 147 women Farming 180 men 68 men 7 women Trade
Domestic and personal service
11 men 31 women
Transportation
33 men 2 women
Professional service
12 men 18 women
Clerical work
14 men 16 women
The three hundred and forty-seven voters in 1919 had thirty-one different occupations:
Mill,
104
Chauffeur,
2
Teamster, 7
Farmer,
87
Chef
2
Mason,
2
Machinist,
34
Electrician, 2
Blacksmith, 4
Laborer,
28
Merchant, 10
Janitor,
4
Clerk,
10
Carpenter,
9
Manufacturer,
4
Fireman,
3
Railroad,
9
Straw Worker, 4
Baker,
2
Painter,
7
Butcher,
3
One each:
Accountant,
Drummer
Peddler
Barber,
Mail Carrier
Molder
Dyer,
Plumber
Telephone
Watchmaker
The town is not directly represented as a town in either the government of the United States or of the State; in all their elections it chooses its Representatives as a part of some district defined for that purpose. In early years every town was required to send its own Representative to the General Court, but Bellingham was often excused from that duty. Its Representatives have been:
1776 Stephen Metcalf
1792
Aaron Holbrook
1781-1782 Stephen Metcalf
1794 Joseph Holbrook
1783 Stephen Metcalf
1797 Joseph Holbrook
1785 1787 and two other years.
1800 Laban Bates
1804 Laban Bates
1788 Aaron Holbrook
1806 Daniel Thurber
1791 Aaron Holbrook
1807 Daniel Thurber
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1808-16 John Bates
1853 Fenner Cook
1819 Benjamin Hall
1854
John Cook, 2d
1823 Amos Hill
1855
John Cook, 2d
1824 Elias Cook
1856 Martin Rockwood
1827 John C. Scammel
1858 Horace Rockwood
1829
Joseph Rockwood
1861 Daniel J. Pickering
1831 John C. Scammel
1863 George H. Townsend
1832
Stephen Metcalf, Jr.
1866
William Fairbanks
1834
Stephen Metcalf. . Jr.
1872
Seneca Burr
1838
Asa Pickering
1875
Joseph T. Massey
1841
Dwight Colburn
1879
Hiram Whiting
1842
Edward C. Craig
1882
Nathan A. Cook
1843
Jeremiah Crooks
1888
Elijah B. Stowe
1844
James M. Freeman
1900
Warren E. Fairbanks
1846
James M. Freeman
1904 Henry N. Whitney
1851
Martin Rockwood
1918
Clarence A. Crooks
Under the careful and detailed laws of the State Legislature each town governs its own affairs, and makes an annual report. By our two hundredth report of 1919 every citizen can understand the process.
The first business at the annual town meeting in March is to choose a moderator for that meeting, and W. E. Fairbanks was chosen this year; he has filled that position thirty-three times in March, and at twenty-three special town meetings.
The first two officers to be chosen for the year are the clerk and the treasurer; in the past they have been:
TOWN CLERKS
1720
Pelatiah Smith
1754-60 Joseph Chilson
1721, 2 John Marsh
1761 Eliphalet Holbrook
1723 Eleazer Partridge
1762, 3
Joseph Chilson
1724-7 John Marsh
1764-70
Seth Hall
1728, 9
James Smith
1771-7
Aaron Holbrook
1730-37 John Holbrook
1778-80
Laban Bates
1738 Eliphalet Holbrook
1781
Aaron Holbrook
1739 John Metcalf
1782-6
Amos Ellis
1740-43 Jonathan Thompson
1787-9 Elisha Burr
1744-9
Joseph Chilson
1790
Amos Ellis
1750-53
Eliphalet Holbrook
1791
Cyrus Thompson
1847
John Cook, 2d
1906 Addison E. Bullard
1852
Edwin Fairbanks
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1792, 3
Eliab Wight
1845
James M. Freeman
1794, 5 Joseph Holbrook
1846, 7
Amos H. Holbrook
1796-1802 Eliab Wight
1848
Francis D. Bates
1803-18
John Bates
1849-54
Amos H. Holbrook
1819, 20
Dr. Samuel L. Scammel
1855, 6
Eliab Holbrook
1821-3
Elias Cook
1857-69 Ruel F. Thayer
1824
Joseph Rockwood
1870-79
Joseph T. Massey
1825, 6
John C. Scammel
1880-2
Dr. Roland Hammond
1827-37
John Cook, 2d
1883
Arthur N. Whitney
1838-41
Edward C. Craig
1883-1915 Henry A. Whitney
1842-4
Francis C. Bates
1915-19
Percy C. Burr
TOWN TREASURERS
1720-7
John Holbrook
1770
Samuel Scott
1728
John Thompson, Sr.
1771-5
Eliphalet Holbrook
1729-33
John Thompson, Jr.
1776-86
Joseph Thompson
1734
Jonathan Thayer
1787-1801 Aaron Holbrook
1735, 6
Eliphalet Holbrook
1802-8
John Cook
1737
David Corbet
1809-18
Elias Thayer
1738
John Metcalf
1819-29
Asa Hall
1739
Dr. John Corbet
1830-39
Stephen Lewett
1740
Eliphalet Holbrook
1840, 41
Eliab Holbrook
1741
Dr. John Corbet
1842-7
William Paine
1742
Eliphalet Holbrook
1848
Ellery Thayer
1743
Joseph Holbrook
1849
Francis D. Bates
1744
Jonathan Thompson
1850
John Smith
1745
John Jones
1851, 2
Francis D. Bates
1746, 7
Jonathan Thompson
1853, 4
Valentine W. Holbrook
1748, 9
Joseph Chilson
1855
William Paine
1750-52 Joseph Thompson
1856, 7
Horatio Thayer
1753
Joseph Wight, Jr.
1858
Manning Thayer
1754-6
Eliphalet Holbrook Cornelius Thayer Joseph Chilson
1870-79
Joseph T. Massey
1759-63
Benjamin Partridge
1880-1901 Ruel F. Thayer
1764
Dr. John Corbet
1902-9
L. Francis Thayer
1765-9
Caleb Phillips
1909-19
Walter H. Thayer
PRESENT TOWN OFFICERS
Clerk, Percy C. Burr.
Treasurer, Walter H. Thayer. Selectmen, Harold M. Bullard, Cornelius J. Foley, Hadley D. Perkins. Assessors, Carroll E. White, John F. McCarthy, Timothy E. Foley. Overseers of the Poor, Otto L. Bullard, Emery B. Whiting, Percy C. Burr. School Committee, Joseph A. Palmer, Henry A. McCarthy, John R. Kennelly. Auditor, Michael J. Smith.
Tax Collector, Walter H. Thayer. Tree Warden, Lewis E. Whitney.
1859-68
Joseph T. Massey
1757
1869
Nathan A. Cook
1758
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HISTORY OF BELLINGHAM
Constables, Moise Champagne, Eli E. Cook, John H. Foley. Cemetery Committee, Lewis E. Whitney, Eldred J. Wentzel.
Library Trustees, Bertha Franklin, Warren E. Whiting, A. Evelyn Sackett, Waldo I. Cook, Susan C. Fairbanks, Lawrence Mason.
The town clerk reported seventy births in 1918, fifteen marriages and thirty-nine deaths. One hundred and thirty-eight dogs were licensed and ninety-two hunt- ers' licenses issued.
The expenses were:
Schools, Income and
$8500
Poor, Income and
$1600
Streets
10645
Town Officers
1589
Mothers' Aid
1800
Interest
604
Street Lights
1643
Miscellaneous
578
Insurance
469
Tree Warden
200
Forest Fires
316 Board of Health
180
Printing
311
Cemeteries
138
Tree Moths
244
Memorial Day
60
There were five citizens at the town farm.
The Assessors reported three hundred and one per- sons who pay only a poll tax, and three hundred and ninety-two residents with three hundred and eighteen non-residents who pay a property tax, on $297,365 per- sonal and $959,705 real estate, $19 for each $1000. There are eleven thousand two hundred and ten acres of land, four hundred and forty-six houses, two hundred and six horses, three hundred and eighty-five cows, one hundred and eleven other cattle, fifty sheep, forty-three swine and four thousand three hundred and fifteen fowls.
In the last published tax book, for 1916, there were twenty-four persons in town who paid $100 or more each and five non-residents:
A. A. Aldrich, $112 Proctor P. Cook, $149 James Riley, $132
O. L. Bullard, 183 Ferdinand DeJony, 231 Edgar M. Scott, 148
A. E. Bullard, 337 Hubert Guerin, 120 George A. Staples, 109
Bellingham Woolen Co., 2200 Asahel W. Mann, 115 Joseph A. Trottier, 376
Clarence A. Crooks, 116 Patrick O'Neil, 104 Taft Woolen Co., 1886
Judson E. Camp,
367 Henry W. Pickering, 176 L. Francis Thayer, 679
Alfred Carrier,
251 Wilfred Pelletier, 101 Marion A. White, 118
William A. Coombs,
127 Eldridge A. Rhodes, 133 Julia A. White, 105
THE SOUTH SCHOOLHOUSE AT CROOKS' CORNER
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BELLINGHAM IN 1919
Non-Residents: Joseph B. Cook, Cumberland, $100; Joseph G. Ray, Franklin, $245; M. A. & W. Street Railway, Hoag Lake, etc., $422; Western Union Telegraph Company, N. Y., $128; Winnesuket Golf Club, Woonsocket, $105. These residents paid $8375, and these non-residents $1000, of the whole amount, $22,600.
The town reduced its debt by $1000 last year, leaving only $3000 of schoolhouse notes due, and its temporary debt is offset by its cash balance, kept for this year's needs.
The tax rate in 1919 is $21 on a thousand.
The cemetery trust fund amounts to $2972, for the care of forty-six lots.
The town library was started in 1884 and kept for ten years in the house of Martin Rockwood. In 1895 it was moved to the Massey School. The annual appropriation was at first $50; it is now $400. Miss Bertha Franklin was the librarian from 1907 to 1919; her successor is Mrs. A. Evelyn Sackett. The home circulation in 1918 was: Center, two thousand nine hundred and twenty-one; Caryville, nine hundred and eighty-four; Crooks' Corner, five hundred and twenty-six; South Bellingham, two hundred; Schools, two hundred and seventy; total, four thousand nine hundred. The whole number of volumes is about three thousand.
The schools are managed by a superintendent, Mr. F. G. Atwell, hired by the three towns, Mendon, Hope- dale and Bellingham, whose salary was $2250, of which Bellingham paid $810. We had twelve teachers, who received $5491. Of three hundred and fifty-seven per- sons in town between five and sixteen years old, three hundred and sixteen were in our schools, which were in session one hundred and sixty-nine days. In 1915 forty- nine persons over ten years old could not read. The cost of general control was $679, books $123, supplies $334, janitors $900, fuel $616, transportation of pupils within
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the town $217, of twenty-three pupils to other towns $535, and tuition of those pupils $928; but the State repaid $800 of it. The whole cost of the schools was about $11,000.
A COMPARATIVE TABLE
Source of supply
Whole amount
Per pupil
Rank in the State
Town valuation
$1,152,860
$35.93
No. 322
State aid
1,963
6.80
141
Town school tax
8,768
7.61 per $1000
104
Town school tax
8,768
30.00 per pupil
279
All sources
10,853
37.04
293
This table shows that Bellingham is comparatively a poor town; the valuation of the State amounts to $8294 for every pupil in it; in Bellingham it is only $3593, making its rank in ability to support its schools among the three hundred and fifty-four cities and towns No. 322. But it receives in aid from the State $6.80 for each pupil, ranking No. 141, and it taxes itself $7.61 per $1000 for schools, with the high rank of No. 104. The pupils receive of its own money $30 each, in which respect it ranks No. 273, and from all sources $37.04, giving the town the rank of No. 293.
The last subject of this chapter and of this book is the schools. Upon them, with the churches and the homes, depends chiefly what kind of people will live here in the future; and these three institutions themselves depend on what the people of Bellingham do now.
SCHOOLHOUSE AT THE CENTER AND AT NORTH BELLINGHAM
INDEX
Only the more important subjects are mentioned here. All the lists of names of persons are in alphabetical order.
Adams family, 140
Adams, Gen. Eliakim, 187
Adams, Capt. Laban, 187
Adams, William T., 188 Albee, John, 188-190
Alden, Rev. Noah, 107-113, 132-136 Appropriations, 184, 216 Arnold, Seth, 145
Ballon, Adin, 162-164 Ballon Meeting House, 42
Baptist meetinghouse, first, 101
Baptist persecution, 105
Baptists, 31,100 Barber, George, 151
Barber, Hamlet, 190
Bartlett, Jacob, 30, 38-40, 78
Bates & Arnold, 146, 147
Bellingham Center, 206
Bellingham, Gov. Richard, 1-13 Bellingham, Washington, 1 Bills of credit, 49
Blackstone, William, 37 Blood, Richard, 44 Boots and shoes, 142, 158
Bosworth, Rev. G. W., 190
Boundary lines, 91, 97, 172
Brown, Horace A., 191
Bullard, Addison E., Preface and 147, 153 Burch, Thomas, 45
Capron, Banfield, 45 Caryville, 204
Cemeteries, 210-212 Charles River, 124, 201-203, 140 Chilson family, 46, 157
Civil War, 181-183 Colburn, Dwight, 146, 154, 109
Congregational Church, 73-83, 161, 162, 164 Constitution of Massachusetts, 126- 128, 132-135 Constitution of United States, 110, 136 Cook, David, 78
Cook, Josiah, 78
Cook, Nathan A., 190
Cook, Nicholas, 30, 40-42
Cook family, 140
Corbet, Elder Daniel, 49
Corbet, Dr. John, 47-51, 154, 155
Corbet family, 47
Cotton and woolen manufacture, 141- 158 Crimpville, 206
Crooks' Corner, 208
Crooks, Jeremiah, 191, 208
Cuddihy, Rev. Patrick, 168
Cutler, C. H., 152
Darling family, 51, 140 Dean, Dr. Oliver, 151
Dedham, 29
Dorr Rebellion, 174-179
Drury, Rev. Lucian, 167
Electric lights, 185 Electric railroads, 184, 185, 209
Fairbanks, Joseph, 148, 149 Fairbanks, Rufus G., 191 Fairbanks, W. E., 214 Fisher, Rev. Abial, 117, 160-165 Four Corners, 207 French citizens, 208, 209, 212 Frost, Joseph, war service, 129
219
220
INDEX
Gammel, Rev. William, 116 Government of the town, 213-218 Grange, 184
Hall, Zuriel, 52 Hammond, Dr. Roland, 199 Hartford Turnpike, 48, 203 Hastings, Seth, 144 Hayward family, 52-54 Oliver, 93 Hill family, 140 Holbrook, Dr. Amos, 199
Holbrook family, 54, 55, 140
Holliston, 118, 120
Incorporation, 73-76 Indians, Chapter II, 29, 202
Ingalls family, 56
Jillson family, 56 Jones, Rev. Cornelius, 192
Kendrick, Rev. Nathaniel, 116 King Philips War, 14-21 In Dedham, 15 In Medfield, 16
In Mendon, 14, 16 In Millis, 18 In Wrentham, 17
Lee, Rev. M. J., 169
Leland, Rev. Aaron, 112
Leland, Rev. John, 110, 111
Library, 184, 217 Lowney, Rev. T. B., 169
Marsh, John, 57 Massachusetts religious laws, 30-34
Massey, Rev. Joseph T., 165, 166
McKean, W. A., 153, 157 Meetinghouse, first, 90, 125 three, 123 Mendon, 29, 91, 95
Metcalf, John, 18, 80, 88, 125, 192- 195 Metcalf, Stephen, 148, 149, 195
Military affairs, 118, 119, 122 Mills, Rev. Jonathan, 78-80, 82
Nelson, Rev. S. S., 117 Newton, Rev. Calvin, 165 North Bellingham, 205
Occupations, 183, 213 Oldest citizens, 212 Orne, Caroline F., 196 Overseers of the Poor, 137, 173
Partridge, Benjamin, 121
Partridge, George F., 58
Partridge family, 58
Penniman family, 144
Peter's River, 201, 202
Phillips, Caleb, 58
Polish citizens, 209, 212 Population, 140, 212
Quakers, 9, 32-35
Rand's Crossing, 207 Rathbun, Rev. V. W., 113, 117
Rawson, Secretary Edward, 22, 23, 27,28 Rawson, Grindal, 24-27
Rawson, Rebecca, 23, 24
Ray family, 143, 144, 147, 150, 152, 155 Reardon, Rev. Joseph, 169
Representative at the General Court, 90, 119, 125, 136, 213
Revolution, 125-131 Rhode Island's toleration, 35
Rich, Samuel, 59 Rockwood, Rev. J. M., 196
Sanford, Thomas, 41, 59-61 Scammel, Gen. Alexander, 196,197, 211 Scammel, Dr. Samuel L., 50
Schools, 95, 97, 98, 118, 120, 131, 137, 138, 173, 174, 181, 183, 184, 217, 218 Scott, Joseph, 46, 78, 94 Rila, 145 Scott family, 61-67, 140 Scott Hill, 207 Slaves, 51, 118, 202
Smallpox, 128, 137, 173
Smith, Rev. Thomas, 76 Smith family, 68, 69, 172
South Bellingham, 207
South Cemetery, 41 South Milford, 206
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Steam railroads, 180, 209 Stowe, Elijah B., 198 Straw manufacture, 142 Streets, 203, 204 Sturgeon, Rev. Robert, 77 Swansea Baptist Church, 81
Taft, Moses, 152, 153, 156 Taxes, petition about, 123 Telephones, 210 Thayer, Gen. John M., 198, 199
Thayer family, 69, 140 Thompson family, 70, 119, 120, 140
Thomson war letters, 119, 120
Thurber, Dr. Samuel, 200 Town Clerks, 214 Town house, 114, 115, 162
Town meeting dispute in 1739, 91, In 1765, 121 Town officers in 1919, 215 Town records, 89 Town Treasurers, 215
Universalists, 123, 161-164
Valuations in 1787, 137, 138 Villages, 204-209
Wakeman, Rev. W. W., 167
War of 1812, 139
Weatherby, Nathaniel, 72
West Parish, 83-87, 99
Whiting, Hiram, 147, 167
Whitney, Henry A., 199
Wight, Rev. Elnathan, 101-107
Wight family, 71 Wilcox, Jerald O., 159
Williams, Roger, 35-37
Winchester, Rev. Elhanan, 109
Witchcraft delusion, 10
Woonsocket, 207-209
World War, 186
Wrentham, 29
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