Leading business men of Marlboro, Hudson, SoFramingham, Natick, and vicinity; embracing also Saxonville and Cochituate . rty being assessed in the town to the meeting houseof which it was the nearest. The first action in the direction of securing incorpora-tion as a town was taken in 1693, when a petition was piesented setting forth thatits framers had lived on certain remote lands for nearly forty years, that the?community was increasing steadily in numbers, that no meeting house was near, and HISTORICAL SKETCH OF FRAMING HAM. 45 that consequently the people were put to great inconvenience. T
Leading business men of Marlboro, Hudson, SoFramingham, Natick, and vicinity; embracing also Saxonville and Cochituate . rty being assessed in the town to the meeting houseof which it was the nearest. The first action in the direction of securing incorpora-tion as a town was taken in 1693, when a petition was piesented setting forth thatits framers had lived on certain remote lands for nearly forty years, that the?community was increasing steadily in numbers, that no meeting house was near, and HISTORICAL SKETCH OF FRAMING HAM. 45 that consequently the people were put to great inconvenience. This petition was notgranted owing to the opposition of Sudbury and Sherborn, and another petitionpresented two years later was also refused, but the settlers were determined andpersevering and finally secured the necessary act in 1700, seven years after theirfirst attempt. Sherborn secured the insertion of a clause reserving to her certainrights, and this clause caused nine years of litigation ; brought about the double taxa-tion of several families, and finally resulted in Sherborn being given 4000 acres of wild. Looking South from Concord Street, So. Framingham. land by the legislature. The first church was organized and a pastor ordained in?1701 ; the first meeting house being located on the west bank of the Sudbury River,,in the old cemetery. It was two stories high, 30 X 40 feet in dimensions and un-painted. With the exception of those on the front or south side, the windows werevaried in size and position to suit individual pew owners, and doors were cut in theends and rear of the building on the same accommodating plan. Much of interest might be written concerning Framinghams conduct in theRevolution, for the town was patriotic and active throughout the war and liersoldiers took a leading part in the Battle of Bunker Ilill. Twenty-five Framinghammen were killed in the war, and the total number of pensioners was sixty-five,fifteen of whom, or their widows, were living in
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