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History of Marlborough
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The Beginning
This article was written in 1960 by Edward Bridges for the City Of Marlborough’s Tercentenary Celebration.
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The Lords of Whipsuppenike
A half-century before the Pilgrims came to America, it is estimated by some historians, as many as 100,000 Indians inhabited the New England region, and then some lethal plague struck killing one in ten.
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Wee have found a place which lieth westward...
A petition was presented to the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in May 1656 for the right to start a new plantation by thirteen men then residents of the Town of Sudbury.
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Of Books & Birch Rods
The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed an Act in 1647 requiring each town having as many as 50 families to maintain a school for teaching reading and writing.
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Wee thanke thee, Lorde...
The plantation that became Marlborough was settled by English “Puritans”.
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Wee meete the enemie in dire combat...
Marlborough was caught up early in the fever for independence which eventually culminated in the American Revolution.
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Commerce, Industry & Transportation
Today the shoe industry still employs a large segment of the local population, but since the turn of the century newer industries here and in the surrounding communities have made gradually increasing demands of the labor supply.
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Lest fire strike or panic ensue...
The early settlers of Marlborough were a law-abiding citizenry; the existence of the stocks beneath the stairs of the meetinghouse where good people on their way to Sunday worship could view the miscreant paying the penalty for his crime.
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The Story of the John Brown Bell
In the early days of the Civil War, company I, composed of Marlborough men, was assigned to duty in Maryland near Harper’s Ferry to guard against any Confederate attempt to cross the Potomac River and seize the Washington Capitol.