History of the town of Westford, in the county of Middlesex, Massachusetts, 1659-1883, Part 43

Author: Hodgman, Edwin R. (Edwin Ruthven). 4n; Westford Town History Association. 4n
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Lowell, Mass. : Morning Mail Co.
Number of Pages: 595


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List of Seamen .


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136


122


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Conclusion of Mr. Hall's Ministry®


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265


First Committee of Correspondence


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Council Fail to Ordain Mr. Read . 270


240


315


Dismission of Mr. Randall


288


489


INDEX OF TOPICS.


Land in Plymouth, N. H.


147


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Loss of Military Stores


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155


Land of Samuel Craft


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155


List of Paupers


155


Losses by Fire


155


List of Soldiers in the War of 1812


177


List of Persons Drafted .


208


Ladies of Westford; Their Work for


the Soldiers


212-215


Localities


235


Lime-Burning


242


Lineage and Family of Mr. Scribner


277


List of Teachers in Academy


319


List of Trustees of Academy


327


Lawyers


332


Library, Social


347


364


Ministry Lot


11


Millstone Hill


11


Manufacture of Tar and Turpentine 14


Meeting-House Bell .


74


Mending the Bell


80


New Burying Ground


180


Nashoba


235


New " Profession and Covenant," 1830.


289


Names of Original Members of the


Union Church


297


Names of Early Teachers


307


Numbering of School-Houses


329


Nashua & Acton Railroad


. 347


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Once Part of Chelmsford


2


Old Roads .


33-52


Objections to the Third Article of the


Bill of Rights


141


Occupation of Water-Power at Forge


Village


243


Owners of the Cameron Place for 120


Years


248


Organization of First Church and Ordi- nation of Mr. Hall 254 Original Members of First Church 256 Ordination of Mr. Blake 282 Ordination of Rev. George H. Young . 294 Organization of Union Church 296 Organization of Proprietors of Acad- emy, Zaccheus Wright, President . 313


Providence 7


Providence Meadow


Precinct Established


16


Plan for a New County


67


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Powder and Bullets .


87


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Personal Testimony to Col. Robinson. 109


Prescott's Testimony


113


Pay of Soldiers


120


" Picking up the Tools "


123


Griev-


Petition Respecting Public


ances


147-8


Painting the Meeting-House . . 151


Plan of the Town


153


Poor-Farm .


178


Project for a New County


180


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181


Printing Town Report 182


Ponds and Brooks


232


Parkerville


Post Offices


235


Ministry Meadow


258


Pottery


242


Ministry of Rev. Mr. Scribner


271


Potash


243


Ministry of Rev. Caleb Blake 281 Members of Baptist Society; South Chelmsford 285 Preparing to Settle Another Minister . Proposals to Mr. Hall 264 Pastorate of Rev. Herman Snow . 291


Members of Universalist Society 285 Rev. W. A. Cram and Rev. Joseph S. Moulton 294


Members of Baptist Society in Little- ton 286


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Ministry of Rev. Stillman Clark . .


293 Medallion of Charles G. Sargent . 305 Ministry of Rev. James F. Mears and Rev. Alfred Woods 305


Ministers Born in Westford . ·


331


Military Companies .


355


Marriage Intentions 404-413


Marriage of Parties from Westford Reported by


Clerks


of


other


Towns


398-404


Nonesuch


7


Names of Snow-Shoe Men


53


New County Road


68


No Supper .


71


North Burying Ground :


84


Nothing Short of Independence 114


New Form of Government Sanctioned,


Provided .


139


New Meeting-House


151


Number of Men Sent into the War


201


Minot's Company


108


Marshall's Regiment


131


Massachusetts, The Part of, in the Rev- olution 145


Minot's History of Insurrections . 147


Military Review 155


Muster 156


Migration from Westford to Other Towns 156


Migration to Towns in New Hampshire, Litchfield


157


Hollis, Wilton, Mason and New Ipswichı 158


Temple, Ackworth, Deering, Am- herst, Nashua, Pelham, Warner, Rochester, Swanzey, Keene, Hillsboro', Westinoreland 162


Marlboro', Jaffrey, Fitzwilliam, Stoddard, Rindge, Peterboro', Nelson, Hopkinton, Washington, Littleton, Plymouth


Migration to Vermont


163


Cavendish


Ludlow


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164


Mount Holly


167


Plymouth, "Londonderry, Weath- ersfield, Reading, Putney 168


Brattleboro', Bennington 169


Migration to Maine .


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169


Portland, Sanford, Farmington, Anson, Wilton, Winthrop


169


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Pittston and other Places


170


Migration to Towns in Massachusetts, Templeton, Littleton 170


Groton, Dunstable, Tyngsboro', Pepperell, Townsend, Aslıby, Ashburnham, Shirley, Harvard, 171 Lunenburg and other Towns . To other States . 173


172


Map of the Town


184


Monument Proposed


226


Poor House


Massachusetts; Her Part in the Civil War. 218 Prosperity . 221-2


Memorial Day 230


Mackrill Cove . 235


Paradise


234


235


Moraines . 238


Ministry Lot


247


263


Ministry of Rev. Luther Wilson :


290


292


Ministry of Rev. George M. Rice.


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Rev. Thomas Wilson, Rev. D. O. Allen and Rev. John Whitney . 300


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List of Town Officers, 1730-1882


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490


HISTORY OF WESTFORD.


Pastorates of Rev. E. R. Hodgman,


Rev. James Fletcher, Rev. Edwin A. Spence, Rev. Henry D. Wood- worth, Rev. Nathan R. Nichols, Rev. Henry H. Hamilton and Rev. Rufus C. Flagg 301


Preceptors, Notice of Levi Hedge, Amos Crosby, Benjamin Burge and Nahum H. Groce? 321


John Wright, Esq., Rev. Ephraim Abbot, Hon. John D. Long and William E. Frost 322-5


Pliysicialis .


331


Population, 1776-1880 356


Part Second of History .


435


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Remonstrance Against the Stamp Act. 87


Robinson, Col., in Concord Fight .


104


Personal Recollections of 109


Testimony to His Bravery at Bun- ker Hill 113


Regulation Act .


117


Restitution


117


Response to Circular from the Town of Concord 148


Revising the Constitution


154


Raising the Flag-Staff on the Com- mon, Speeches, etc 188


Regiment, The Sixteenth; Its Work 201 Roll of Honor 210


Renmodelling Town House 228


Rededication of Town House 229


Reading the Bible in the Pulpit 283


Repairing of Meeting-House and Re- dedication 291


Rules for the Academy 314


Resident Graduates 330


Representatives to General Court, 1739-1881 356-7


Record of Marriages, 1728, seq.


372-404


Record of Deaths 413-18


Record of Deaths, by Deacon Leigh- ton 418-24


Record of Deaths, by Rev. L. Luce 424-34


Struggle for a Precinct 14


Soldiers in Lovewell's Expedition 52 Soldiers at Louisburg in 1745 55


Soldiers in the French and Indian Wars 61


Singing Ruleable


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Salt


114


Soldiers' Families


118


Allowance to


119


Soldiers on the Rolls of Different Com- panies 123


Six Months' Levies 134


Soldiers at Valley Forge and York-


town


136


" Sincere Protestation " 'in Regard to Religious Liberty . 142


Sliay's Rebellion 148


Shire-Town 150


Selectmen, to be Three in Number


154


Singers


154


Stove


154


Spruce and Pine Trees on the Common, Set Out by Eliakim Hutchins, Jr. 183 Sale of Land in Plymouth, N. H. 183


Subscribers to the Fund for a Flag- Staff . 187


Sixth and Sixteenth Regiments 186 Soldiers, Alphabetical List of 193-200 Sixth Regiment Reorganized ; Its Achievements and Men in it from Westford 202-3


Statement of John W. P. Abbot . 209


Sketch of Sarah E. Keyes 215 Sketch of Edward Keyes 217


Summary of the Town's Contribution to the War 218


Sequel to the Rebellion


220


Sackatere


235


Soil


239


Stone-Quarrying


246


Stores and Store-Keepers 248-51


Salary of Mr. Hall, Difficulties About. 260 Selectmen to Provide Preaching 262 Sons and Daughters of Mr. Hall 267 Sketch of Rev. Joseph Thaxter (note). 268


Sketch of Mr. Randall . 288


Salary of Mr. Scribner 272


Sketch of Rev. John B. Willard 292


Sketch of Rev. George M. Rice


293


. Second Congregational Society 285 Sketch of Rev. George H. Young 294 . Sketch of Rev. Leonard Luce 299


School-Houses Built, 1787 311


Sketches of Zaccheus


Wright and


James Prescott, Jr. 316


Sketches of John Abbot and John W. P. Abbot 318


Sketches of Margaret Foley and Har- riet B. Rogers 326 Stony Brook Railroad 346 Social and Public Library, Subscribers to 348


Social Library Merged in Town Li- brary 350


Statistical and Official


356


Tadmuck


2


Tar and Turpentine .


14


Tar-Kiln Hill


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Territory Annexed from Groton .


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Training Field .


71


24


Tony's Island


72


Three Companies in Concord Figlit, Bates', Underwood's, and Minot's .


106


Thanks for a Donation


116


Three Months' Levies


135


Twenty-Sixtlı Regiment ; The First Loyal Volunteer Regiment to Reach the Department of the Gulf 204


Thirtieth Regiment .


205


Thirty-Third Regiment; Its Valor and Heroism, Made the Greatest Charge of the War 205


Thirty-Fifth Regiment


206


Teaclier of Freedmen


217


Tyngsboro' Bridge


223


Town History


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227


Topography


231


" Texas "


235


Vote to Abide by the Advice of the Boston Committee of Correspond-


ence .


Villages


233


Vote of Esteem to Rev. George M.


Rice .


293


Votes for Governor, 1781-1881


359


Warning Out Strangers .


73


West Burying-Ground


85


Warned Out


85


Wyman's Company .


112


Watch Appointed


115


War of 1812


175


War of the Rebellion


185


Westford Well Represented in


All


Branchies of Military Service


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207


Westford Corner


236


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104


Second Meeting-House 96


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INDEX OF NAMES.


The following index of surnames in Part First is designed to furnish the means of easy reference to any name that may be desired. Where lists occur, these are not cited, but the reader is referred to the lists themselves, which may be found on pages 26, 27, 28, 33, 53, 54, 63, 65, 75, 76, 107-9, 111, 112, 124-37, 139, 138, 182, 187, 194-200, 201, 203-8, 210-212, 256, 285, 297, 298, 309, 310, 319, 320, 325, 326, 327, 329-32, 348, 357-434.


No name is given from any page more than once, although it may appear several times on the page.


In Part Second the names of families are arranged in alphabetical order.


Abbot, 35, 53, 58, 60, 74, 75, 76, 79, 83, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 103, 115, 116, 139, 148, 152, 154, 155, 166, 177, 178, 182, 183, 188, 208, 209, 223, 242, 244, 245, 247, 249, 250, 272, 273, 274, 278, 282, 283, 287, 290, 291, 292, 295, 312, 313, 314, 315.


Abercrombie, 63.


Adams, 4, 7, 16, 25, 37, 45, 46, 113, 164, 166, 229, 235, 249, 251, 273, 298, 313, 314, 315, 348, 353.


Allen, 5, 6, 16, 288, 289, 300.


Allston, 340.


Ames, 73, 293. Amherst, 63. Appleton, 263.


Armstrong, 218.


Atwood, 10,170, 239.


Avery, 74, 85. Babbidge, 292. Bacheller, 262. Bailey, 85, 354. Balch, 38, 40. Baldwin, 144, 162. Bancroft, 63, 105, 250. Barrister, 42, 236.


Barnard, 271.


Barrett, 5, 15, 16, 34, 44, 46, 50, 86, 87, 105, 155, 158, 170. Barron, 40, 160. Barry, 289. Bartlett, 323. Bartol, 292. Bascom, 288. Bason, 112, 113.


Bates, 5, 11, 42, 43, 77, 85, 98, 103, 107, 108, 110, 160, 171, 308, 343.


Baxter, 281. Bayard, 341. Beal, 86, 87. Bean, 258. Belcher, 34. Bemis, 251. Bennett, 87, 161. . Bicknell, 34, 38, 187. Bigelow, 62, 73, 120, 161. Bixby, 10, 16, 35, 37, 44, 158, 167, 168, 172, 177. Blake, 34, 38, 156, 172, 250, 274, 281, 282, 284, 313, 317, 348.


Blanchard, 73, 105, 300.


Blodget, 7, 9, 34, 37, 38, 39, 44, 46, 48, 62, 64, 79,


85, 112, 162, 171, 249, 251, 259, 343, 344, 345, 352.


Blood, 64, 228, 243, 351.


Bond, 247.


Boutwell, 10, 13, 35, 37, 38, 44, 46, 233, 238.


Bowdoin, 144.


Bowen, 47, 307.


Boynton, 34, 38, 43, 44, 47, 58, 59, 60, 61, 75,


76, 78, 79, 80, 91, 96, 97, 99, 101, 104, 139, 143, 151, 153, 158, 161, 163, 164, 166, 168, 170, 171, 172, 178, 242, 249, 273, 274, 282, 295, 312, 314, 354.


Bradford, 290.


Bradstreet, 64.


Bridge, 264, 313.


Brooks, 62, 82, 83, 84, 86, 144.


Brown, 24, 73, 148, 162, 177, 250, 323.


Buck, 352.


Buckingham, 290.


Buckley, 304.


Bunce, 9, 210, 239.


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Burbeck, 239, 242.


Burge, 10, 39, 54, 81, 98, 158, 159, 162, 171, 232, 258, 261, 281, 307, 321.


Burgoyne, 160. Burke, 42, 43.


Burnap, 339.


Burns, or Burne, 16, 34, 40, 53, 113, 242.


Burr, 288.


Burt, 184.


Butler, 243. Butterfield, 5, 8, 10, 11, 16, 18, 35, 38, 41, 57, 62, 63, 86, 100, 158, 162, 169, 171, 172, 184, 250, 350. Buttrick, 105, 106. Byam, 165.


Caldwell, 167, 292.


Calvert, 244.


Cameron, 229, 244, 245, 249.


Campbell, 171.


Capen, 291. Carkin, 246. Carpenter, 284. Carter, 250. Carver, 77, 78, 154, 162, 171, 278, 311, 313, 315, 338 Caryl, 244.


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492


HISTORY OF WESTFORD.


Chamberlin, 5, 8, 12, 15, 16, 17. 18, 33, 35, 37, 38, 40, 49, 67, 85, 103, 118, 154, 158, 159, 162, 166, 167, 225, 226, 236, 251, 261, 272, 336, 350.


Chandler, 12, 35, 46, 61, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 168, 169, 171, 292. Channing, 340. Chaplin, 273, 333. Chase, 78, 87. Child, 300.


Choate, 262. Clark, 16, 292, 300, 352. Cleaveland, 56, 57, 72. Coggin, 281.


Cogswell, 351.


Colburn, 43, 155, 246.


Comings or Cummings, 10, 16, 22, 35, 39, 44, 45, 46, 48, 62, 68, 78, 83, 84, 90, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 113, 118, 120, 154, 159, 162, 166, 171, 250, 252, 253, 278, 295, 314, 338, 355.


Conant, 9, 37, 39.


Cookson, Cuckson, 45, 239.


Coolidge, 3, 38, 61, 163, 290.


Corey, 62, 86, 161.


Cotton, 257, 267.


Cowdry, 48, 85, 153, 232, 247, 251. Craft, 155, 172.


Cram, 226, 294.


Crosby, 155, 159, 321.


Crouch, 9, 11, 37, 41, 42.


Curtis, 87, 106.


Cushing. 95.


Cutler, 300. Cutter, 10, 183, 243, 284, 295, 298, 301.


Dakin, 62. Dalton, 288. Daly, 244. Dana, 340.


Dane, 43.


Danforth, 60, 261.


Daniels, 287. Davis, 57, 62, 105, 106, 172, 184, 273.


Day. 10, 13, 44, 155, 188, 190, 225, 226, 227, 235, 250, 283. Decatur, 36. Dennis, 87, 161.


Derby, 116. Desmond, 338. Ditson, 178, 250.


Dix, 73, 272.


Dodge, 74, 85, 225, 300.


Downs, 298. Drake, 113.


Drew, 3, 9, 38, 44, 45, 222, 250, 258. Dudley, 15, 73, 177. Dummer, 22, 61. Dupee, 10, 39, 346, 354.


Durant, 351.


Dutton, 48, 59, 78, 153, 155, 162, 163 164, 165, 171.


Edes, 262. Edwards, 47. Eliot, 5, 242, 292. Ellery, 257. Ely, 263. Emerson, 37, 38, 95, 106, 281, 340. Emmons, 273. Endicott, 215. Esterbrooks, 86.


Evans, 228, 246, 303, 304, 305.


Falls, 210.


Farmer, 49, 86, 158. Farnsworth, 74.


Farr, 86, 161, 290. Farwell, 41, 86, 153, 239. Fassett, 22, 23, 48, 51, 63, 111. Faxon, 310. Fay, 298, 299. Ferguson, 349.


Fish, 73, 74.


Fisher, 225, 227, 298, 299. Fiske, 4, 50, 305.


Fitch, 34.


Flagg, 34, 156, 171, 260, 301.


Fletcher, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 57, 59, 62, 68, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 81, 82, 83. 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 98, 100, 103, 113, 114, 116, 120, 122, 139, 140, 144, 147, 148, 149, 153, 154, 158, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173, 177, 181, 183, 184, 188, 190, 214, 222, 225, 226, 227, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 258, 259, 267, 272, 273, 283, 286, 287, 295, 299, 301, 303, 313, 314, 351, 353, 354, 355.


Flint, 169, 187. Foley, 326.


Foster, 5, 15, 16, 22, 33, 39, 41, 86, 87, 153, 155, 315.


Foye, 71.


French, 74.


Frost, 225, 227, 228, 324.


Fuller, 144.


Gardner, 91, 94, 96, 249.


Gay, 268.


Gibson, 354.


Gilbert, 292.


Gill, 107, 108, 262.


Gilson, 85, 251.


Glenny, 25.


Good, 8.


Goodliue, 87, 100, 103, 108, 121, 140, 151, 269, 287,295, 298.


Gorham, 144.


Gould, 51, 337.


Grant, 8.


Graves, 303.


Gray, 96.


Green, 153, 163, 166, 351.


Griffin, 251.


Groce, 69, 250, 287, 321, 338.


Gunning, 237.


Hadley, 51, 112, 163, 167, 168, 169.


Hall, 45, 47, 72, 95, 100, 101, 102, 110, 117, 154, 166, 169, 171, 249, 252, 253, 254, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 273, 311, 339, 341, 342, 243.


Hamblin, 184, 222, 225, 239, 242, 314.


Hamilton, 226, 301.


Hancock, 92, 144.


Hapgood, 236.


Hardy, 85.


Harris, 166, 187.


Hartford, 10, 43.


Hartwell, 4, 10, 40, 62, 181, 296, 298, 299, 306, 354.


Harwood, 74, 301.


Haskins, 244.


Hayward, 354.


Haywood, 179.


Hazen, 52.


Heald, 37, 48, 166.


Hedge. 153, 315, 321, 340.


Henchman, 4, 5, 11.


Heywood, 8, 9, 35, 37, 42, 49, 181, 225, 239, 283, 284, 295, 298, 352.


Hill, 13, 298, 299, 302.


Hildreth, 5, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 22, 23, 34, 38, 40, 42, 45, 49, 56, 62, 64, 74, 78, 98, 99, 106, 114, 115, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 161, 162, 164, 166, 171, 190, 237, 250, 258, 295, 306, 307, 314, 328. Hinckley, 250. Hitchcock, 237, 238. Hittinger, 346. Hobbs, 345. Hodgman, 188, 217, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229.


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INDEX OF NAMES.


Holden, 161, 168. Hollis, 246. Holmes, 13, 54, 56, 58, 112. Holt, 73, 267. Hooker, 50, 62, 172, 230. Horan, 36, 39. Horsley, 171, 210. Hosmer, 179. How, 87. Howard, 10, 12, 37, 153, 295. Howarth, 302. Howitt, 326. Hudson, 106. Hull, 289. Hunt, 13, 41, 47, 57, 62, 87, 172, 307. Huntington, 323. Huston, 64. Hutchins, 10, 49, 178, 225, 242, 247, 260. Hutchinson, 251. Ingalls, 210. Jacobs, 120.


Jewett, 163, 172, 173, 314. Johnson, 120, 163. Jones, 86, 136, 269. Keep, 59, 68, 69, 75, 78, 95, 115, 148, 150, 163, 171, 260, 267. Keller, 228. Kemp, 73, 86, 177. Kent, 23,51, 73, 78, 351, 352.


Keyes, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 22, 35, 36, 39, 41, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 86, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 162, 163, 171, 172, 173. 177, 215, 216, 217, 232, 236, 249, 250, 252, 278, 295, 306, 311, 313, 314, 350. Kneeland, 152, 156, 249, 250, 268, 348.


Kidder, 10, 42, 57, 62, 77, 80, 98, 99, 101, 118, 122, 158, 159, 170, 171, 273, 274, 308.


Kimball, 250, 298. King, 62, 118, 140, 156, 161, 186, 188, 251. Kittredge, 237, 355. Lafayette, 318.


Lancy, 354. Langley, 10, 36. Lanktree, 239, 258. Lane, 87. Larkin, 86.


Lawrence, 64, 73, 74, 86, 246, 251, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355. Lee, 220, 352. Leighton, 33, 34, 40, 42, 52, 62, 115, 122, 139, 177, 249, 250, 278, 284, 295, 298, 301, 313, 328, 348, 350. Leland, 9, 41. Lincoln, 172, 216, 220. Long, 229, 323, 324. Longley, 12. Love, 73. Lovewell, 52, 53. Luce, 188, 226, 298, 300, 302, 351. Lyon, 11, 43. Mace, 230. Manning, 161, 314. Mansfield, 74. Marble, 73. Marden, 229. Marsh, 262. Mason, 304. Maynard, 292. McGuire, 177. Mead, 64, 163, 171, 302, 304. Mears, 305. Mellen, 263. Merriam, 172. Merrill, 246. Millard, 10. Miner, 34, 44, 51. Minot, 9, 34, 38, 42, 91, 96, 97, 108, 110, 112, 116, 140, 147, 162, 168, 242, 268, 272, 273, 274, 286, 287. Monckton, 57.


Monroe, 341. Montcalm, 62, 63. Moor, 281. Morgan, 87. Morrison, 42, 50, 190. Morse, 292. Mosely, 282, 319. Moulton, 228, 294. Murphy, 34, 52. Naylor, 302. Needham, 170. Newell. 291. Newhall, 249.


Nichols, 87, 153, 181, 295, 301.


Nutting. 5, 11, 86, 153, 163, 181, 311. Oliver, 94, 170, 293.


Osgood, 5, 61, 153, 154, 179, 222, 241, 242, 250, 251, 281, 287, 295, 301, 314, 328, 337.


Packard, 281, 289, 315. Paine, 261. Page, 177. Palmer, 230, 246, 247, 248. Park, 73.


Parker, 5, 9, 13, 14, 22, 38, 39, 40, 53, 74, 85, 87, 100, 101, 106, 111, 112, 116, 120, 121, 150, 153, 158, 160, 162, 164, $165, 166, 170, 171, 172, 173, 177, 181, 242, 243, 250, 254, 257, 261, 306, 314, 317, 351.


Parkhurst. 41. Patch, 62, 73, 120, 166.


Patten, 10, 34, 44, 165, 172, 173, 238, 249.


Payson, 266, 296.


Pearson, 177.


Perham, 38, 46, 86, 172.


Perkins, 85, 144.


Perley, 337.


Pepperell, 55, 56, 62. Perry, 57, 74, 85, 86, 162. Phelps, 86.


Pike, 153. Pollard, 64, 71, 81, 82, 97, 99, 160, 249. Polley, 47.


Poole, 339.


Porter, 277. Powers, 15.


Pownal, 59.


Pratt, 10.


Prescott, 12, 16, 23, 34, 35, 44, 45, 46, 48, 54, 56, 57. 59, 60, 63, 67, 68. 69, 71, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 81, 82, 83, 88, 90, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 113, 117, 120, 139, 140, 148, 151, 153, 154, 158, 163, 169, 171, 172, 178, 181, 184, 188, 225, 228, 237, 243, 247, 250, 251, 260, 278, 280, 287, 295, 298, 302, 306, 313, 314, 315, 317, 322, 328, 348, 352, 353, 355. Procter, 4, 9, 16, 33, 40, 44, 45, 46, 53, 56, 62, 85, 120, 121, 140, 148, 153, 158, 162, 164, 167, 171, 257, 271, 303, 304, 313, 338, 348.


Pushee, 352. Putnam, 291, 298, 299. Raiter, 51.


Rand, 210. Randall, 287, 288, 290. Raymond, 49, 98, 110, 122, 153, 354.


Read, 7, 8, 11, 15, 16, 25, 33, 35, 36, 40, 49, 50, 51, 54, 59, 67, 68, 69, 71, 81, 82, 95, 98, 100, 103, 104, 110, 113, 121, 122, 139, 140, 154, 155, 158, 162, 163, 165, 167, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173, 178, 179, 190, 223, 225, 228, 249, 259, 260, 269, 270, 271, 278, 280, 307, 310, 311, 313, 314, 328, 338, 339, 353, 355, 356, 357.


Reed, 22, 23, 34, 38, 110, 173, 225, 236, 247, 248, 250, 251, 345, 351, 353, 354. Reynolds, 106. Rice, 188, 293, 303. Richards, 187. Richardson, 9, 11, 40, 41, 47, 48, 53, 69, 149, 153, 162, 170, 171, 179, 183, 239. 242, 287, 311, 350.


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HISTORY OF WESTFORD.


Richmond, 288. Ridgely, 341. Ripley, 105, 313.


Robbins, 10, 15, 16, 20, 23, 34, 45, 49, 50, 53, 56,57, 69, 101, 162, 177, 257.


Robinson, 80, 85, 98, 105, 106, 110, 113, 119, 120, 148, 171, 225, 226, 269, 288, 336, 337.


Robisheau, 58, 59, 61.


Roby, 164, 165. Rogers, 111, 293, 326.


Rollins, 86.


Rowley, 301.


Ruhard, 59.


Ruggles, 10, 354.


Rumrill, 11, 54,.161, 171.


Runels, 248.


Russell, 60, 62, 73, 86, 163, 250, 261.


Salstonstall, 257.


Sanford, 273.


Sargent, 223, 244, 245, 303, 304, 305, 354, 355. Sartell, 87.


Sawtelle, 188.


Savage, 261.


Scribner, 151, 171, 271, 272, 274, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 314.


Searls, 74.


Shattuck, 15, 54, 85, 148, 177, 254.


Shaw, 340. Shays, 148, 149.


Sheahan, 8, 187.


Sherburne, 46, 51.


Sherman, 307.


Shirley, 55, 355.


Simpkins, 281.


Skinner, 54, 57, 262, 269, 292, 304, 354.


Smith, 13, 51, 57.


Smylie, 74. Snow, 40, 41, 158, 291.


Southmayd, 298, 299.


Southwick, 215, 217.


Spalding, 9, 10, 11, 13, 18, 23, 35, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51, 53, 54, 120, 158, 160,


161, 162, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 232, 295, 308, 338.


Sparks, 40.


Spence, 217, 301.


Sprague, 64, 352.


Spring, 273.


Squier, 158, 346.


Stanley, 85. Stanton, 301.


Stevens, 222, 250, 251, 316, 328.


Stoddard, 17, 254, 257.


Stone, 75, 77, 78, 79, 87, 90, 144, 166, 170, 171, 172, 345. Story, 340. Stratton, 73.


Strong, 176. Swallow, 177.


Sweetser, 13, 251.


Swett, 113. Symonds, 150. Symmes, 9, 184, 223, 248, 249, 250, 267. Taggart, 86. Tarbell, 153, 177. Taylor, 34, 36, 41, 47, 50, 51, 61, 73, 162, 163.


Temple, 46, 86, 155, 169, 261. Thaxter, 106, 263, 268, 269.


Thomas, 152.


Thurston, 281. Tidd, 249, 250.


Tilton, 258. Tinker, 113.


Todd, 298, 299.


Tony, 72.


Tower, 3, 12, 41, 190.


Townsend, 23, 158.


Trowbridge, 172, 322.


Tucker, 163.


Turner, 74. Tuttle, 313.


Tyler, 86, 281.


Tyng, 21, 23, 24, 53.


Underwood, 9, 16, 20, 22, 34, 44, 54, 67, 71, 72, 78, 106, 107, 111, 157, 158, 168, 170, 261, 306, 307, 352.


Varnum, 313.


Vose, 49, 51.


Waldo, 5.


Warren, 60, 298.


Washington, 155, 216.


Wayne, 50.


Webb, 8.


Webster, 163, 225.


Weeks, 215.


Wentworth, 208.


Wetherbee, 298.


Wheat, 86, 87, 161.


Wheaton, 269.


Wheeler, 49, 64, 73, 74, 172. 258.


White, 62, 115, 123, 140, 162, 163, 164, 166, 288, 291.


Whiting, 268.


Whitman, 269.


Whitney, 13, 15, 16, 37, 50, 51, 242, 257, 300.


Wight, 178, 181, 295, 298, 301.


Willard, 21, 53, 250, 292, 321.


Williams, 57.


Wiley, 222, 242, 250, 258.


Willis, 62.


Wilson, 38, 153, 155, 168, 242, 290, 300.


Winslow, 57, 61.


Wood, 156, 173, 249, 288, 348.


Woodbury, 184.


Woodcock, 304.


Woods, 86, 113, 162, 225, 226, 247, 305, 354. Woodward, 173, 178.


Woodwortlı, 301.


Worcester, 281.


Wright, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 18, 23, 24, 34, 42, 43, 48, 49, 50, 51, 57, 64, 71, 73, 79, 81, 82, 84, 85, 92, 94, 95, 98, 100, 101, 103, 114, 115, 116, 118, 120, 122, 140, 151, 152, 153, 158, 161, 162, 163, 166, 167, 170, 172, 173, 177, 180, 181, 184, 210, 226, 236, 241, 246, 249, 250, 251, 252, 258, 272, 278, 279, 280, 283, 295, 299, 302, 303, 304, 311, 312, 313, 314, 316, 322, 323, 328, 333, 348, 350, 352, 354, 355.


Wyer, 64. Wyman, 78, 86, 112, 248. Yapp, 243, 354. Young, 223, 228, 294, 299.


CORRECTIONS.


Page 6. In the note, read 1715 instead of "1714."


Page 10. Last line at the bottom. - The residence of Josiah Burge was near the house of Daniel W. Sherman (1882).


Page 14. Sixth line from the bottom, read 1715 instead of "1714."


Page 157. Line 10, for "rightousness " read righteousness.


Page 201. In the fifth line, after the word "by," insert the words ties of, so it shall read, "by ties of greater or less strength."


Page 224. In sixth line, read 1875 instead of "1872."


Page 337. Rev. Jonathan Osgood. Later information shows that he was born in Andover. He probably came to Westford when quite young, and lived in the family of Col. Osgood. Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit give authority for saying he was born in Westford.


Page 445. Line 14. - Mary Elizabeth was born in 1841, and married Jonathan T. Colburn, 1874. John Day married Hannah Wright, 1834. Line 17. - Sarah Ann, born in 1849, and married Warren S. Jones, 1874.


Page 452. Near the middle. - "See p. -. " Supply 9.


Page 459. Line 4, read 1716 instead of "1816."


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