. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . made an examinationof the records of St. Marys Parish and discovered that there were in the old Englishtown, between the years 1538 and the time of the settlement of our town, a numberof people of the same name as in our town, or its offshoots, the most prominentnames being Adams, Butterfield, Spaldyng, Chamberlyne, Fletcher, Parker, Warrenand Purkis. Edwin H. Warren, Esq., formerly Town Treasurer of our Chelms-ford, also visited the town of the same name in England some time in the 70s, andlikewise Six. Shurtlett, the Unitarian mi
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . made an examinationof the records of St. Marys Parish and discovered that there were in the old Englishtown, between the years 1538 and the time of the settlement of our town, a numberof people of the same name as in our town, or its offshoots, the most prominentnames being Adams, Butterfield, Spaldyng, Chamberlyne, Fletcher, Parker, Warrenand Purkis. Edwin H. Warren, Esq., formerly Town Treasurer of our Chelms-ford, also visited the town of the same name in England some time in the 70s, andlikewise Six. Shurtlett, the Unitarian minister, made a similar visit only a few yearsago. The Rev. Wilson Waters of our Chelmsford, who gave us this mformation,also mentions that E. Percy Boulter, a resident of the town, and gunner in theCanadian Heavy Artillery, made several visits there during the Great War, andmet the officials of the town. Mr. Waters also speaks of having sent to CanonLake several books relating to our town, receiving from him in return a number of go CHELMSFORD, MASSACHUSETTS. From a p,ml Kindness Rev. Wilson Waters ALL SAINTS CHURCH, CHELMSFORD, MASSACHUSETTS In this church are pictures of St. Marys Parish Church in Chelmsford, England, and other relics from English towns. photographs and other objects of interest that are now in the Sacristy of All SaintsChurch. During the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary one of the speakers claimedthat he had a right to be present, as he had an ancestor named Chamberlain whowas bom in Chelmsford but who moved to Billerica, which was also named afterthe English town of Billericay. He is sorry for it now, said the speaker, buthe partly made up for it by going to Concord. A few families settled in our Chehnsford as early as 1650, but the first recordedmovement occurred two years later, when a number of people went there fromWoburn and Concord. The town was actually settled in 1653. The originalgrant included what is now the large city of Lowell. Our Chelmsfo
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