Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland .. connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland; containing narratives, descriptions, and many views, some done from old prints; also much matter pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic; . te to John Russell, who was created Earl of Bedford. The latters successors,up to the year 1892, had included four Earls and ten Dukes. The famous WoburnAbbey is now the seat of the Duke of Bedford. Previous to t
Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland .. connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland; containing narratives, descriptions, and many views, some done from old prints; also much matter pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic; . te to John Russell, who was created Earl of Bedford. The latters successors,up to the year 1892, had included four Earls and ten Dukes. The famous WoburnAbbey is now the seat of the Duke of Bedford. Previous to the introduction of railways, Woburn, Bedfordshire, was a greatcenter for stages and was a larger and busier town than it is at the present its nearest railway station is known as Woburn Sands, which is some threemiles distant from the town itself and about forty miles from London. There are three places in England from which it was thought for some timethat the Massachusetts W^oburn might have derived its name: Woburn in Bed-fordshire, Woo-burn in Bucks County and 0-burn in Dorset, all three spellingshaving been used by the earliest settlers of the Massachusetts town. It is ratherremarkable, as Mr. Porter says, that not one of the first sixty towns in the colonyreceived an Indian name, and only one or two were honored with Scripture names, 2l6 WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS. From Viezcs of JVohurn, Fisher ^ So}is, JVohurn, Kiiuhi^^sj Judge Edward F, Johnson TOWN HALL AND GEORGE STREET, WOBURN, ENGLAND although the Puritan element was then so strong. It is also an interesting factthat no other town in America bears the name of Woburn, so far as we can is no contemporary record which explains the naming of our Woburn,but it is now known definitely that it derived its name from Woburn, Bedfordshire,and was so named by Captain Edward Johnson, the father of the town, in honourof his friend, Major-Gen. Robert Sedgwick, who was born in the Bedfordshiretown. Se
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