history thing

  • Period: to

    Plymoth Rock to Westford

  • Pilgrims Land at Plymouth Rock

  • Settlement of Cape Anne/ Salem

  • Establishment of MBC and Boston

  • Settlement of Concord

  • Settlement of Woburn

  • Incorporation of Woburn as a town

  • Incorporation of the town of Chelmsford

  • Establishment of the plantation of Chelmsford

  • Settlement of Groton

  • Indians sign treaty with Chelmsford and Mass General Court giving up their claim/ right to use the land of Westford as their hunting grounds

  • First Known Permanent Settler of Westford, Solomon Keyes, Built house of Frances Hill

  • First Mill in Westford in erected on Saw Mill Meadow Brook

  • King Philip's War begins

  • Groton Abandoned after an Indian attack

  • King Philip's War ends

  • First Mill in Forge Village is erected

  • First known petition for the establishment of the West Precinct of Chelmsford

  • Mass General Court gives the people of the west part of chelmsford permission to form a separate religious society by the name of the west precinct of chelmsford

  • Incorporation of the town of Littleton

  • Members of the West Part of Chelmsford petition the Mass General Court to become a distinct parish/precinct

  • Surveying pf the site for Westford's first meeting house

  • Chelmsford withdraws all opposition and officially recognizes the West Precinct

  • Establishment of the First Parish Church of Westford

  • First Known Allotments of land within westfords borders are established

  • Incorporation of Westford

  • End of Indian Wars in Mass