Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . p piety. He had the honorof entertaining General Washington while passing through Sher-born. Like the Baldwin, the Porter apple was indigenous ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 31 to the soil of ancient Middlesex, although it originated at the op-posite end of the county. As a favorite autumn fruit, it hasmaintained a commanding position for more than one hundredand fifty years, and honored the pomological standing of thetown and county which gave it birth. Sherborn is an ancient settle
Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . p piety. He had the honorof entertaining General Washington while passing through Sher-born. Like the Baldwin, the Porter apple was indigenous ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. 31 to the soil of ancient Middlesex, although it originated at the op-posite end of the county. As a favorite autumn fruit, it hasmaintained a commanding position for more than one hundredand fifty years, and honored the pomological standing of thetown and county which gave it birth. Sherborn is an ancient settlement, to which was called as thefirst minister in 1679 Daniel Gookin, Jr., a graduate of Harvard,and son of Major-General Daniel Gookin, Superintendent of thePraying Indians of the Apostle Eliot. The town was settled in1()52 and incorporated in 1674. It is said that the first cider-millin the colony was established here, and it is also claimed that themost extensive one in America is in operation there to-day. Among the many who have broadened the avenues ofscience, we may point to Benjamin Thompson, Count of Rumford*. A Middlesex boy of the Colonial period, born March 26,1753, in a Woburn farmhouse now standing. A descendant inthe fifth generation from Lieutenant James Tompson, who cameover with Winthrop in 1630, was a member of the first Board of *Benjamin Thompson, Count of Rumford, Knight of the illustriousorders of the White Eagle and of St. Stanislaus, Lieutenant-General inthe service of His Majesty the King of Bavaria. ^ Note.—The foregoing titles were attached to Rumfords will, whereinHarvard College was made his residuary legatee, and otit of which wasestablished the Rumford Professorship. The signature is a fac-simileof the one attached to a gift of $5,000 to the American Academy of Artsand Sciences. It has been truly said that to the country of his birth hebequeathed his fortune and his fame.—[Ed. 32 ANCIENT MIDDLESEX. Selectmen of Woburn in 1644, and died Septem
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