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1786 - Homestead o: Edwin Goodnow built, afterwards "Good- now Inn."
1786 - Ebenezer Parker was paid for "making the stocks."
1786 - Stove put up in the first Meeting house.
1787 - First church choir in First Meeting house.
1787 - Silent Wilde of Shutesbury, a news carrier, settled in town.
1787 - Wed. Feb. I. Capt Henry Gale arrested while attend- ing town meeting and imprisoned for participation in the Shays Rebellion.
1787 - May II. Capt Henry Gale convicted of high treason and sentenced to death, later reprieved and finally pardoned. 1788 - Thomas Gleason advertises for his servant boy who has run away, in the 17th year of his age, one shilling reward.
1790 - Abel Willard was paid a bounty for "a full grown wolf and wolf's whelp."
1792 - Sept. 18. The town refused "to give Liberty to Doctor Wilson to Inoculate such persons as are disposed to take the small Pox in this town." Sept. 29, also refused Dr. W. liberty to "erect a Hospital in any part of the Town, and to Innoculate such persons as shall be disposed to take the small pox." Town records.
1793 - March 4. "Voted Six pounds to be assessed and expended in a Singing School." Town records.
1793 - July 18. Notice in Spy of murder of Capt. Elisha Allen by Samuel Frost Frost described as "5 ft 4 in high, rather slenderly built and very strong. He had a peculiar way of tossing or twitching his head and his countinance was very unpleasant."
1793- Aug. 18. Robbery of silver plate at the Moses Gill Mansion.
1793 - Oct. 31. Samuel Frost was executed in Worcester for murder of Elisha Allen. - just ten years since he Killed his father - then acquitted on ground of insanity - A sermon preached and he was present. He was ready to go "as he was to go it had better be soon over." 2000 spectators. A Sermon preached on Saml. Frost 1792 by A. Bancroft and poem with dying words and confession. (Spy Broadside Am Ant Soc.)
1795 - Second Meeting-house built.
1795 - Survey of Town. Paid John Watson £1.10 David Rice carrying chain 372 days 0-14-0 John Dana 4 days measur- ing and surveying 0-16-0.
1796 - A plan of town made by John Roper.
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1796 - Charges for cartage from Boston to Princeton were 2º 6d per cwt.
1797- May 15. The town directed the Treasurer "to pay to such Inhabitants as shall kill and bring in the whole bodys of Crows & Hen Hawks within one year from this day one shilling each, provided they are killed within the town." Town records.
The Treasurers books show many payments under this order. 1798 - First stove for heating schools placed in North District schoolhouse.
1799 - Dog tax was in force.
1799 - Joshua Everett and others petitioned the General Court to be sat off to Westminster, and were unsuccessful.
1800- Jan. 21. "Voted that the Desk and such parts of the meeting house as shall be thought proper be put into mourn- ing" and Authorized the purchase of black velvet for that purpose. Rev. Mr. Russell to be requested "to deliver a discourse suitable to the occasion" on the 22nd February next. In honor of Pres. Washington who died Dec. 14, I799.
1800- April 7. It was voted that the "Velvet purchased by the Committee to dress the Pulpit on the 22nd of February last" - "be made into a Burying Cloth."
1800- May 20. Lieut. Gov. Moses Gill, native of Charles- town, and long time resident in Princeton, died in Boston, aged 67.
1801 - March 2. Annual town meeting "the town made choice of Deacon Hobbs to wait upon the reverend Mr. Russell requesting him to give his Attendance and open the meeting with prayer, which he did accordingly, after prayers the Clerk read the Laws against Profane Swearing for the due observance of the Sabbath, and sundry other Laws, the town then proceeded to the choice of town officers."
1801 - Trustees of Grafton Indians gave to Hannah Brown wife of Thomas Brown, daughter of Mary Thomas from Aaron Ball 9 acres in Princeton N.E. side Quinnepoxit. (trails there now and a cellar hole.)
1802-$30. for Singing School.
1805 - Painted meeting house and provided curtains and trimming for pulpit.
1805 - Wood bought for ministerial purposes $8. per cord.
1805 - Rev. Timothy Fuller First Minister in Princeton died at Merrimac, N. H. aged 67.
1808- Nov. 8. Samuel Woods First Schoolmaster in Prince- ton Native of Chelmsford, Mass. died aged 86.
1808 - Allowed Nath. Reed $100. for failure of Crops.
1812 - Thompson Lodge F. & A. M. named in honor of Rev. James Thompson of Barre, at that time D. D. Grand Master, located in Rutland. Jurisdiction over Princeton, Sterling,
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Holden, and Hubbardston, constituted in 1812 and closed labor 1826.
1812 - West Burying Ground established.
1812 - First Post Office established, Samuel Stevenson first appointed Postmaster.
1813 - Dec. 21. David Everett Native of Princeton, Teacher and Journalist, died at Marietta Ohio, aged 43.
1813-The "Washington Benevolent Society of Westminster and Princeton" was formed. The object appears to have been to encourage benevolence and to stimulate its members to a study and cultivation of the virtues of George Wash- ington.
Along the provisions of its by-laws was the following, "Any member of the Society essentially departing from the moral or political character of Washington, shall be reprimanded, suspended or expelled." Town files.
1817- July 6. Edward Savage, native of Princeton, celebrated Painter and Engraver died aged 56.
1818 - Clark Mirick contributed $30. for singing school.
1819-Stove first placed in the 2d Congregational Church, the gift of Ward N. Boylston, Esq.
1820 - Presbyterian church formed and small house of Worship built. The approximate size was 40 × 50 feet, it had no steeple and no galleries.
1820 - First stage Route established.
1822 - Joseph Mason gave $35. for singing and town allowed $25. more.
1822 - July 31. Baptist church organized.
1823. - Residence of Edward Goodnow opened as an Inn.
1823 - A petition to General Court December 1823 about a toll gate near John Davis's (just beyond Slab City mill, on the turnpike).
1825 - Mrs. John P. Rice the first person to reach the top of Mt. Wachusett on horseback. Previous to that time Phineas Gregory had been to the summit with an ox team.
1825 - Voted that a Singing School be set up to keep afternoon and evening for the space of one fortnight and at expiration of that time an evening school Kept till the money is ex- pended" $25. appropriated.
1825 - March 4, Mt. Adams celebration. Attempt to change Name of Wachusetts Mountain to Mount Adams.
1826- North burying ground established.
1827 - Voted "as the sense of this meeting that the town Resolve as individuals that they will use all reasonable and prudent means to suppress the evil of Intemperance and other injurious practices."
1828 - English and classical school (The Academy) established. 1828 - The First Baptist Church built of brick.
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1829 - Mrs. Alicia Boylston gave the town a fire engine. (Kept between Blake's store and Thomas Gill's.) It was sold in 1839.
1829 - Could not get interest & harmony in Singing School. Voted to indefinitely postpone subject & distribute money appropriated among the three religious societies for singing purposes.
1829 - "We will use all proper means to suppress the immorder- ate use of ardent spirits." Town vote.
1830 - Princeton Declaiming Society, and The Wachusett Moral Society for Mutual Improvement formed, both organ- izations connected with the English and Classical School.
1830 - Amos Merriam, Surveyor, made a map of Princeton for the State.
1831 - Town appropriated $30. for singing school.
1831 - Dr. Brooks and Dr. Smith allowed $36. for vaccinating inhabitants of Princeton.
1831 - East Burying ground established.
1833- Jan. 20. Store and tenement building owned by Capt. Edward Goodnow, burned. The store was occupied by his son, Erasmus D. Goodnow whose stock of goods was con- sumed. The tenements were occupied by E. D. Goodnow and family, Mr. C. Meriam and Mr. Bigelow mechanics, with their families and several boarders. The thermometer was 9 degrees below zero, and many were frost bitten. Capt. Goodnow's loss on building, was $1531, E. D. Good- now's stock and furniture $1025.61, Asa K. Meriam, tools, furniture etc. $416.86. Gilbert Bigelow tools, furniture, etc. $101.91, Miss. Hunt, clothing $20, Rufus Fessenden $10, Edward A. Goodnow $40. J. W. Watson $30, Eunice Bagg $50, Moses Bullard and one of his daughters living with Mr. E. D. Goodnow's family $50
1833 - Universalist Society formed.
1835-36 - County road from A. B. Wetherbee's to Roper's mill, built.
1835 - Muster in field " opposite Boylston's."
1836 - Voted to oppose annexation of No town.
1836 - The second Baptist church building built.
1837 - Committee appointed to buy poor farm & bought in 1838 & "work house" established.
1838 - Ebenezer Parker, Jr. sold To inhabitants of the Town of Princeton farm of 138 acres, with buildings thereon for a poor farm. Consideration, $3,350.00 Reg. Deeds. Vol. 331,- p. 418.
1838 - Annexation of a portion of Notown.
1838 - Union Congregational Church built at the head of the Common.
1840 - Methodist Church was formed. Church edifice dedi- cated Feb. 13, 1840.
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1841 - Feb. 18. The anti slavery society of Worcester county, north division held its annual meeting at Princeton at ten o'clock A. M. Mr. W. L. Garrison was present and delivered an Anti-slavery lecture.
1841 - First chair shop in Princeton operated by Benjamin & Joseph Stuart.
1842 - Boylston Hall built. The Town House on the hill was used until the new Hall was completed.
1842 - Sept. 28th. Quarterly Meeting Worcester County South Division, Anti-Slavery Society held in Worcester. Joshua T. Everett of Princeton and William B. Earle of Lancaster committee to request of Gov. Davis permission to publish a letter to him from Hon. W. C. Preston, dated Dec. 1839, respecting alleged threat to hang any abolitionist found in the state of South Carolina.
1843 - Not much excitement in Princeton in times of Millerism. 1846 -" Joseph Ballister, Charles Russell, Newton Carpenter, Charles T. Russell and their successors " incorporated as Wachusett House Co. for the purpose of erecting and main- taining a Hotel and the buildings and improvements con- nected therewith on some convenient site in the town of Princeton provided that said Co. should not carry on the business of Hotel keeping and that they "shall not permit the sale of intoxicating drinks in their house."
1848-South Burying Ground, near Brooks Station estab- lished.
1850 - May 29. Mr. John Brooks, son of Enoch late of Boston and formerly of Princeton, Mass., was drowned in attempt- ing to swim across the Chagres River. He was on his way to California.
1852 - Woodlawn cemetery established.
1858- Feb. 3. Mr. Charles Chandler of Princeton, swindled by a Fertilizer agent, who sold him a town right and took his signature with blank paper above which he filled in, so as to make a promisory note for $16.00 which he sold at a neighboring store.
1859 - First published Report of the Princeton School Com- mittee, April 1. 1859-April 1. 1860.
1860-Capt. Boyles and John Brooks, W. B. Goodnow and others, organized about 1860 an Agricultural Club.
1860 - The annexation of a strip of land from Westminster formerly a portion of Notown.
1860-Oct. 18. Luther Crawford the first person to reach the top of Mt Wachusett with a horse and carriage.
1860- Wachusett made a Coast Survey station.
1860 - Baptist Church was sold and soon after converted into a hotel. The Prospect House, now the Princeton Inn.
1861- Mar. 13. The town had been accustomed to give the
office of treasurer and collector to the lowest bidder who
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could give the requisite bonds. Usually the town had paid upwards of fifty dollars to the person who has held the office, but this year, owing to some local feelings and prejudices, the bids were still lower and now the gentleman holding the office (Mr. John Brooks Jr.) paid ten dollars and a half for the privilege.
1861 - July 4. Big bonfire on summit of Mt. Wachusett.
1861 - Chair shop of James and William H. Brown burned.
1862- July 3. William Ward Merriam, missionary to European Turkey shot and killed by robbers near Constantinople.
1862- Oct. I. Lieut Samuel Brooks Beaman presented with
a sword, belt, sash and pistol, by citizens of Princeton at Boylston Hall.
1864- Jan. 20. The chair shop in East Princeton owned by Wm. H. Brown, together with his grocery store adjoining it, was consumed by fire about three o'clock Saturday morning. The conflagration was distinctly seen from Fitchburg.
1865- Feb. 13. The dwelling house of Jacob Sawin of East Princeton took fire in the ell part on the night of the 13th. House and furniture destroyed, corn, wheat, rye, potatoes, etc. Ins. $700.
1865- July - Carpenter shop of Silas Harthan opposite the parsonage struck by lightning and burned.
1866 - Good Templars organized continued but a short time.
1869 - Aug. 4. John Dana Mirick Post G. A. R. instituted.
1869-Sept. Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, recently Secretary of War, spent a few weeks at the Wachusett House, Princeton, for the benefit of his health.
1870 - First stone Summit House built by Wm. G. Morse.
1871 - Road from T. H. Skinner's to East Princeton built.
1873 - House of John Brooks burned Feb. 24.
1874 - Wachusett Mountain Co., incorporated.
Wm. H. Brown - Levi Goss - Joseph Collins.
for the purpose of purchasing, improving, and disposing of land upon and near Wachusett Mountain in the town of Princeton, restricted to not more than 800 acres. Authorized to build hotels, roads &c. Capital not to exceed $300,000. The company that year built a road to the summit
1875 - First Summit House and barn were built by the Wachu- sett Mountain Company.
1877 - Chair shop of William H. Brown burned.
1879 - Summit House enlarged and bowling alley built.
1883-Sept. 9. -- The Town Hall, better known as Boylston
Hall and a small wooden building near by, owned and occupied by William H. Felton of Clinton, as a variety store, were totally destroyed by fire about one o'clock this morning. The fire, supposed to be of incendiary origin started in Felton's store, and spread to the town house.
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The loss to the town is $5000.00 and no insurance. Mr. Felton had a small insurance on his property. The site of the fire is nearly opposite the new Goodnow Memorial building, but owing to the direction of the wind, that was not threatened. The fire was distinctly seen from Worcester, and the sight when the building fell was grand.
A reward of $300 was offered by the selectmen for the detection of the parties who set the fire.
The Princeton Cornet Band lost, by the burning of Boylston Hall, property to the amount of $250, including drums, music, cymbals, uniforms, etc. The farmers of Princeton decided not to hold their fair this fall; their equipments were all destroyed at the fire.
The burning of Boylston Hall afforded Mr. E. A. Goodnow the opportunity of making the following proposi- tion, which was accepted by the town; viz .: If the town would have the church and horse-sheds moved over to the site of the old town-house, and purchase the lot on the hill adjoining the library, for a town-house and hall, he would give $5000.00 towards the building. (Massachusetts Spy, Sept. 14, 1883.)
1883 - Goodnow Memorial Building given by E. A. Goodnow, built of Milford pink granite with brown stone trimmings by Norcross Brothers of Worcester at a cost of $25000, contains Library, Reading Room and two school rooms.
1883 - Chair shops of Thurston & Eugene R. Buck burned.
1884 - Congregational Church moved from common to former site of Boylston Hall.
1884- County road from Mountain House to Wachusett Lake built.
1884- Dec. 20th. Voted to accept gift of Records of Proprie- tors of Rutland, received from Hon. C. T. Russell and Mrs. Woods, which places in their possession these original records of the township of which this town (Princeton) originally formed a part. Deposited with our town records in a fire-proof safe.
1884-5, Three story "Summit House" built by P. A. Beaman & Son.
1885 - First publication of Princeton Town Clerk's Report was for the year ending Feb. 13, 1886.
1886. - March 8. $300.00 appropriated for tablets in Bagg Hall in memory of our soldiers.
1887- July 7. Cong'l Chapel, East Princeton dedicated.
1887 -Sept. 6. Dedication of Goodnow Memorial Building and Bagg Hall.
1891 - High School established.
1892 - June 14. Methodist Church struck by lightning and burned.
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1892 - Sept. - Howe Pump and Engine Co. exhibited chemical and water engines for extinguishing fires.
1892 - Nov. 8. Town voted to purchase two Howe chemical and water engines, one for East Princeton and the other for the center of the town, also two sets of hooks and ladders, trucks buckets etc.
1892- Dec. 24. Town accepted E. A. Goodnow's gift of a lot of land for a park and $1000, in money to keep it in repair 1892 - Dec. 24. Town accepted gift of a Chickering Upright Piano for use of the High School, from Mrs. Lois R. Hastings. 1892 - Town received by will of the late Eli Kilburn of Sterling $1000 the income to be expended annually on books of a good moral character, such as Histories, Biographies and Scientific works.
1899 - Chair shop of John H. Temple burned.
1899 - September. "Grand View House" burned.
1900- Wachusett Mountain taken over by the state as a reservation.
1905 - Forestry work begun and carried on to the present time 1915, at the State Reservation, quite extensively, about 150 acres planted to white pine and spruce.
1908 - Present Summit House designed and built by J. C. F. Mirick. As the state would not appropriate money for this purpose it was done from the county funds, requiring the greater part of three years appropriations to complete the building.
1908 - Nov. 4. The Davis and the Heywood houses destroyed by fire.
1910 - A fire watch established at the Summit House observa- tory, Mt. Wachusett, a big factor in the reduction of forest fires.
1910 - Summit House Annex built.
1910 - July 26 The "Temple Stuart" chair shop burned.
1910 - Nov. 28. "Wachusett House" burned.
1912 - Summer Prison Camp on Wachusett reservation es- tablished by the County.
1913 - First woman chosen to serve on the school board; Miss Ethel R. Mirick.
1914 - A macadam road completed from the county road at the base of Wachusett to the summit.
1914 - July II. Mountain house burned.
INDEX
ABBOT, Joseph, 203. ABBOTT, Isaac, 81, 203, 228. ADAMS, Rev. Daniel, 158, 159. Edwin N., 261. John, 283. John of Princeton, 360. John Quincy, 279. Rev. S. W., 177.
AGRICULTURAL products, 3. ALDEN, John, 41. ALDRICH, Fred R., 199. ALLEN, Rev. Benjamin, 60. Daniel, 87. Ebenezer, 28. Elisha, 85, 196, 205, 212. Ephraim, 76-78, 94, 97, 100, 180, 185, 218. Rev. George, 296. John, 42. Jonas, B., 358. Lucy, 321. Dr. Nathan, 279.
Obadiah, 225.
Simeon, 232. Willard, 173. William, 27, 29, 203.
AMMUNITION chest, 244. ANCIENT Order of
United Workmen,
377. ANDERSON, Theodore N., 261. ANDREWS, Rev. Elisha, 174. Nathaniel, 86, 258. ANDROS, Gov., 15, 16. ANIMAL products, 3.
APPLETON, Dorothy,
283.
APPROPRIATIONS, 6; for schools, 21I.
ARCH, James, 242, 243. AREA of town, I.
ARNOLD, James A., 363. ASSETS, 7.
ASSOCIATES' names, 18, 19. ATKINSON, Rev. Kins- man, 177. W. H., 177. AYERS, Charles, 261.
BABCOCK, Amos, 232, 236.
BABCOCK brook, 2.
BAGG, Harriet, 300.
BAGG Hall, 403.
BAILEY, Jonathan, 172. Joseph, 240. Rev. S. R., 177. BAKER, Frederick M., 193. James, 144. Joseph, 87, 213. Luke, 213.
BAKER's meadow, 2.
BALL, Aaron, 86, 225. Daniel, 81. Rev. Mason, 175.
Martin V., 191.
Micah R., 198.
Moses, 225. Nathan, 228.
Samuel, 228, 241. William F., 198. BANGS, Josiah, 86. BAPTISTS, 171-176. BAPTIST church sold,
176. BARBER, Andrew, 225, 228. BARBOUR, Albert L., 217. BARKER, Andrew, 228. John, 81, 196, 202, 225, 228.
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BARNARD, George, 81, 141, 142. Sarah, 141-143. BARNES, Silas, 172. William, 213. BARTLETT, Charles A., 364. John, 76, 85, 86, 244. Mary, 139, 141. Samuel, 144, 235, 258. BARRE, 23, 30.
BASSETT, , 360.
BAY Path, 12.
BAXTER, Charles, 261. Joseph, 87. Moses, 204. Richard, 81, 87, 225.
BAXTER'S Quarter, 212. BEAMAN, Alfred, 190. A. T., 191, 192, 350, 351. Ephraim, 142.
Gamaliel, 172, 173, 190. Henry C., 191, 192, 351. Jonas, 85, 91, 190, 196, 212, 228, 235, 241. Nabby, 177. Phineas, 81, 85, 90, 204, 225. Phineas A., 191-193, 326, 350-352, 354, 368. Samuel B., 261. Silas, 87. BELL made by Paul Revere, 165.
BELLOWS, Elijah, 85. BEMIS, Jonathan, 36. Timothy, 96. BERNARD, Francis, 56, 78. Nathaniel, 225. BIBLE, 148. BIBLIOGRAPHY of Prince- ton, 396-402.
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BIGELOW, Abraham G., 261. Elizabeth, 143. G. A., 199, 364. Rev. Increase B., 177. Samuel, 81, 232. BILL, Richard, 26, 27, 30. BILLINGS, Nathan, 57, 81. Silas, 228. Timothy, 201, 204. BIRD list, 392-395. BIXBY, Hannah, 39, 143. Samuel, 81, 130, 138. BLACKSMITH'S shop, 90. BLAGROVE, Nathaniel,
41,44. BLAGROVE's farm, 41. BLAKE, Pynson, 167, 358, 359. BLAKE & Allen, 359.
BLANCHARD, C. A., 199.
BLISS, George L., 198, 351, 357. BLOOD, Robert, 27, 30. BORDMAN, William, 228, 258. BOSTON Rock, 10. BOUNDARIES, 106.
BOUNTY, 221, 222, 237.
BOWEN, John, 31, 41, 51, 81, 204, 228, 238. BOWKER, Martin, 327. Micah, 81, 232.
BOWMAN, Solomon, 232. Thaddeus, 81, 202, 232. BOYD, F. A., 354.
BOYDEN, Jabez, 232.
BOYER, John K., 364. BOYLES, Charles E., 261. Frederick W., 261. Henry, 192, 193, 379. Henry C., 261. BOYNS, Philip, 204. BOYLSTON, John Lane, 171, 174, 190, 197. Nicholas, 272. Rebecca, 272. Thomas, 272.
Ward Nicholas, 190, 192, 193, 278-280, 326, 358.
BRAGG, H., 213.
BRAMAN, H. C., 357.
BRATTLE, Rev. William, 45. BREWER, Joseph and Ed- ward, 353. BRIANT, Isaac, 232.
BRIDGE, Rev. H. M., 177. Robert, 43. BRIGGS, Rev. W. T., 171. BRIGHAM, Abner, 14, 212. Asa, 244, 258. Betty, 139, 141. John, 225, 228. Joseph D., 191.
Moses, 228.
Stephen, 76, 86, 94, 97, 100, 130, 138, 140, 141, 196, 201, 212. BRIGHAM & Derby, 354. BRINLEY, Francis, 26, 27. BRINTNAL, Thomas, 28, 67. BROOKS, Aaron, 203.
Dr. Alpheus, 193, 214, 364.
Alphonso, 191, 192, 194. Charles, 81, 86, 88, 190, 192, 203, 204, 212, 219, 224, 228, 235. David, 86, 89, 163.
Enoch, 81, 86, 90, 159, 192, 193, 196, 202, 213. Hannah, 336. Job, 202.
John, 170, 182, 192,
194, 197, 198, 211, 214, 244, 267, 350, 358. John Jr., 198. John H., 190.
Jonas, 88, 177, 190, 196, 212, 228.
Jonas Jr.,, 190. Mary, 88., Orville C., 261.
Reuben, 197, 358.
Samuel, 177, 190. Thomas J., .
Wendell A., 193. William S., 191.
BROOKS Station P. O. 364. BROWN, Benjamin, 30, 36.
James, 85, 89, 212, 213, 244, 373. Jesse, 89, 218. William H., 191, 193, 373.
-, 47. BRYANT, George, 262. John, 193. William H., 191. BUCK, Eugene R., 19, 198, 199. BUCKMINSTER, Rev. Mr., 140, 142. BULKLEY, John, 27, 30. Peter, 19, 27, 30.
BULLARD, John, 36. Jonathan, 96, 202, 205.
Moses, 190. Moses H., 191, 351. Samuel C., 351. BURGOYNE captives, 242, 243. BURRIEL, Ebenezer, 47. BULLOCK, Calvin, 190, 359. BURIAL Ground, first, 369. BURKE, Thomas J., 262. BUSH, Abial, 81, 201. Buss, Fortunatus, 359.
BUTLER, Mary, 335.
CADWILL, Rev. John W., 177. CALAMINT Hill, 205. CALDWELL, Catharine B., 301. CALLAHAN, William, 262. CANDIDATES for preach- ing, 145. CARE of meeting house, 133. CARY, Ezra, of Sterling, 326. CEMETERIES, 369-372. CENTRE District, 206, 207. CHAIR manufacturing, 373, 374.
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CHAMBERLAIN, Ebene- zer, Jr., 81. Eustis, 82, 225. CHANDLER, Gardner, 38. John, 85, 224, 233. Leonard, 193. CHAPMAN, Adam, 172. CHASE, Abel, 251. C. H., 191. Josiah, 86, 258.
CHEEVER, Bartholomew,
86, 167, 213, 225, 229, 235. Daniel, 86, 233, 244, 258. Jacob, 229. Moses D., 192-194, 364.
Richard, 76, 96, 190, 203.
William D., 192, 197, 203. CHENY, Tristram, 96, IOI. CHILDS, Benjamin, 81. CHITTENDEN, Isaac, 86, 88. L., 213. CHOATE, John, 47, 54. CHOIR, 134. CHURCH organization, 4, 135. CIVIL War, 260. CLAP, Daniel, 81. CLARK, Anthony, 81,
204 Norman, 87, 196, 213, 224, 228, 229. Willis H., 361. CLARKE, Francis, 94. Rev. Samuel, 169, 174, 214. CLASSICAL Schools, 21I. CLIMATE, 2. COBB, Samuel, 213. COBB brook, 2. COLBURN, Ebenezer, 81, 203, 225. COLE, Rev. John W., 177. COLTON, Micah, 262. Thomas, 262. CONANT, Samuel, 81. CONGRESSES, revolution- ary, 227.
CONNECTICUT Path, II. COOK, Rev. Albert A., 177 Cyrus, 209. COOLIDGE, 36. COPELAND, Asa, 225. Eliphalet, 87, 172, 173. Moses, 359. COPLIN, Eliphaz, 244. CORBETT, Michael, 262.
COVENANT, 137, 147. COWDIN, Elizabeth, 88. John, 81. Robert, 76, 94, 97, 100, 130, 180, 183, 190, 192, 196, 203, 204, 218, 229, 235, 239, 356, 357. COWLES, Rev. John P., 170. CRAFTS, Thomas, 85, 160, 235. CRAWFORD, Luther, 192. CROSBY, Harry D., 378. CUNNINGHAM, Rev. Or- lando, 175. CURTIS, James, 192, 225, 228, 229. Mary, 85. CUSHING, Rev. Stephen, 177. Thomas, 47. CUSHMAN, Levi, 191, 198. CUTTER, Benjamin, 229. Josiah, 229. Nathaniel, 81, 225. Nathaniel, Jr., 229. CUTTING, Josiah, 86, 89, 190, 197.
DADMAN, Samuel, 85, 89, 190, 212.
DAIRY, 3. DANA, Caleb, 107, 192, 197, 214. John, 89, 190-192. DANFORTH, Theodore
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