. Keene and vicinity, its points of interest, and its representative business men, embracing Keene, Hinsdale, Winchester, Marlboro, Walpole, Swanzey and Charlestown. ching, and to further that result it was also voted To make window frames and casements, yeBash fashion for ye lower tier of windows in ye meeting House, with ye common sort of DiamondGlass before winter, provided timber may be had suitable for sd work. A saw mill had beei* HISTORICAL SKETCH OF WINCHESTER. 73 erected by Josiah Willard near the mouth of Roaring Brook, about 173 1, so that only a few of the-earliest built houses wer
. Keene and vicinity, its points of interest, and its representative business men, embracing Keene, Hinsdale, Winchester, Marlboro, Walpole, Swanzey and Charlestown. ching, and to further that result it was also voted To make window frames and casements, yeBash fashion for ye lower tier of windows in ye meeting House, with ye common sort of DiamondGlass before winter, provided timber may be had suitable for sd work. A saw mill had beei* HISTORICAL SKETCH OF WINCHESTER. 73 erected by Josiah Willard near the mouth of Roaring Brook, about 173 1, so that only a few of the-earliest built houses were of the log cabin type, an abundant supply of siwed timber being availablealmost from the first. The improvement of the territory proceeded steadily and quite rapidly forBome years, for the majority of the grantees were actual settlers instead of mere speculators, as wa»the case with many town^, and they labored intelligently and diligently to secure their holdings bymaking the necessary improvements within the time specified in the charter. Large areas of heavytimber growth were cleared, many buildings erected, considerable live stock obtained, and variou*. Univkrsalist Church and Town Hall. roads and bridges built, so that by the time four years had passed Arlington had the appearance of Skprosperous settlement,—rude and wild of course, as were all frontier towns, but still homelike in com-parison to what it was during the first few months. Thus far it had been oflicially regarded as a plantation rather than a town, but June 22, 1739j-the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted that Colonel Josiah Willard be allowed andempoweied to notify and warn the inhabitants of the new township called Winchester to assembleand convene in some convenient publick place in said town to make choice of a clerk and other TowttOfficers. In accordance with this vote the necessary notice was given and the first town meeting ofWinchester was held August 20, 1739, at the meeting house, whe
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