Leading business men of Marlboro, Hudson, SoFramingham, Natick, and vicinity; embracing also Saxonville and Cochituate . ter-power before it wascontrolled by the city of Boston, and had much to do with the early building up ofFraminghams industries. The old Connecticut Path passed through what wasto become Framingham, and was first travelled in 1633 by a party of explorersjourneying from Massachusetts Bay to the Connecticut Valley. Various Lidianvillages were located hereabouts, and the early history of the territory containa 44 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF FRAMINQHAM. thrilling accounts of fights, ma
Leading business men of Marlboro, Hudson, SoFramingham, Natick, and vicinity; embracing also Saxonville and Cochituate . ter-power before it wascontrolled by the city of Boston, and had much to do with the early building up ofFraminghams industries. The old Connecticut Path passed through what wasto become Framingham, and was first travelled in 1633 by a party of explorersjourneying from Massachusetts Bay to the Connecticut Valley. Various Lidianvillages were located hereabouts, and the early history of the territory containa 44 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF FRAMINQHAM. thrilling accounts of fights, massacres and other stirring events which characterizedthe relations of the white with the red men. The earliest records pertaining to thisterritory speak of it as Wilderness Land lying north of the path from Sudbury toNipnox ; this being afterward changed to Waste Lands belonging to ThomasDanforth, Esq., lying between Marlbury and the old Connecticut Path. Finally bygrant and by purchase Mr. Danforth became possessed of some two-thirds of thetownship, which was oificially known as Mr. Danforths Farms for many Waverly Block and Irving Sv^uake, kSo. Framingham. He was born in Framlingham, England, and there is no doubt but that Framinghamtook its name from the English town, the 1 being dropped. Some have assertedthat the original name was Framlingham, but there is no evidence to support thisposition other than that afforded by the insertion of the 1 in two instances in the-county records. Mr. Danforth always omitted the 1 and certainly he should be•deemed competent authority. The first dwelling house was built in 1646, its site being near the river bank,half a mile north of the falls ; the next one being erected in 1654, and severalothers within a few years from the latter date. King Philips war put an end tosettlement for a time but after the close of that struggle it was resumed on a com-paxatively large scale. The residents were connected with the church at Sudburyup
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