pilgrums

By donovan.lee

  • Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock

  • Establishment of the MBC and Boston

  • Settlement of Concord

  • Settlement of Woburn

  • Incorporation of Woburn as a town

  • First Known allotments of land within Westford's borders are established

  • Settlement of Groton

  • Establishment of the Plantation of Chelmsford

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

  • First known permenent settler of Westford, Solomon Keys, Builds a house on Frances Hill

  • First mill in Westford is erected on Saw-Mill Meadow Brook

  • Incorporation of town of Chelmsford

  • King Philip's War begins

  • King Philip's war ends

  • Groto abandoned after an Indian attack that burns much of the town

  • First mill in Forge Village is errected

  • For 1st time, Chlmsford withdraws all opposition and officially recognizes the West Precinct

  • Incorporation of the town of Littleton

  • MGC gives the people of the western part of the town of Chelmsford permission to form a separate religious society by the mane of the "West Precincint of Chelmsford"

  • First known petition asking for establishment of a West Precinct of Chelmsford submitted

  • Memberts of the West part of Chelmsford petition the Mass General Court to become a distinct parish

  • Establishment of the First Parish Church of Westford

  • Incorporation of Westford

  • End of Indian Wars' in Massachusetts

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