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Vol. 4, No.7 - 1 January 2003. Circulation: 100 and growing!
(C) 1999 Boylston Historical Society and Museum
7 Central St., PO Box 459, Boylston, MA 01505
boyhisoc@rcn.com 508-869-2720
Editors: Betty L. Thomas and Judith Haynes
Boylston Historical Society and Museum Web Page:
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CONTENTS. Welcome; "The History of Boylston 1642-1741";
From Our Readers; Tidbits; BHS News; On The Web; Humor

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Welcome to our Email newsletter! For those of you who are not
members of BHS and don't receive the snailmail newsletter, it is called
The Potpourri. Sooooo, we thought the appropriate name for this version
would be PotpourrEMAIL. This Email version is not meant to repeat or
copy the snailmail version, but to complement it, with the addition of
topics of interest to those with computer and web capabilities. If you
have a story to tell, information to impart, a good joke, computer
or web genealogy info, a Boylston genealogy query, or anything that would
be of interest to our readers--please Email us at:
boyhisoc@rcn.com

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"The History of Boylston 1642-1741"

The following is from Vol.II of the Historical Series.
This book is no longer available for sale, but there are bound
copies of all the Historical Series books in the Museum's Fuller
Research Library, the Boylston Public Library, and the
Allen County Public Library [Fort Wayne, IN.] There are drawings,
sketches and photos in the book that we cannot include
in this Email.

"The History of Boylston 1642-1741"
A Critical Edition of the Papers of George L. Wright
by William O. Dupuis
Volume II in the Boylston Historical Series
Revised edition 1978

Chapter 3
"The Mother Town of Lancaster"
by George L. Wright

The order of the General Court says, "Considering that there is already at Nashaway about nine families and that several, both freemen and others, intend to settle there and somewhere are named in the petition, the Court does grant them the liberty of a township and orders that henceforward it should be called Lancaster." The order also set forth the bounds of the township according to the deed of the Indian, Sagamore, that is, " Nashaway River at the passing over to be the centre [sic] five miles north, five miles south, five miles east and three miles west." The also provided that Sudbury and Lancaster lay out highways for the county's use, and that Lancaster should be within the county of Middlesex, and that the town should make provision for the settlement of a Godly minister among them. Rev. Dr. Marvin, in his History of Lancaster, writes concerning this order: "It has been somewhat loosely styled that the act of incorporation took place on the 18th of May and this has been considered as the anniversary of the town's legal birth. As a matter of fact the date of the convening of the General Court was May 18, 1653 and had the orders relative to Lancaster and its name been considered it was probably later than the 18th of May when this final order was passed." Mr. Willard, in his earlier History of Lancaster says: " At this early period there were no formal acts of incorporation. The General Court had a custom of granting to a settlement the privileges of a town upon the fulfillment of certain conditions."
The year following the incorporation of the town, Rev. Joseph Rolandson became the Minister, and remained with them until the Indian massacre of 1676. He was afterwards settled in Wethersfield, Conn., where he died in 1680. He was a graduate of Harvard College in 1652. At the time of the Indian raid of 1676, there were upwards of fifty families living in the town.[13]

13. The Historic Commission of Lancaster has published a very interesting map showing all the historic sites mentioned in this Chapter.

[to be continued next month]
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From Our Readers

From Peter Holloran, New England Historical Association
The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA) will hold its 26th annual conference in Worcester, MA on October 31-November 1, 2003. Proposed papers, panels or presentations on any pop culture or American culture topics may be submitted (one page abstract & brief CV) to the program chair by June 1, 2003. Proposals on Canadian studies topics are especially welcomed. Contact Peter Holloran
Worcester State College, Department of History, Worcester, MA 01602; pch@world.std.com or see the NEPCA web site: www.wpi.edu/~jphanlan/NEPCA.html

The Journal of Popular Culture, a quarterly published by the Popular Culture Association since 1965, invites publishers and authors to submit new books for scholarly review. Book reviewers are also invited to apply. Contact the JPC Book Review Editor, Peter Holloran, Worcester State College, Department of History, Worcester, MA 01602; pch@world.std.com
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From Ed Schofield at Tower Hill - edschofield@towerhillbg.org

PEOPLE, PLACES, AND PLANTS LECTURE SERIES
Sunday afternoons at 2:30 in the Theatre at
Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, MA
Admission per individual lecture:
$8.00 for members of Tower Hill or Boylston Historical Society and Museum
$10.00 for nonmembers.
Admission for all seven lectures in the series:
$50.00 for members of Tower Hill or Boylston Historical Society and Museum
$55.00 for nonmembers

Why not make an afternoon of it at Tower Hill! Take a free guided tour or have a lunch at Twigs Caf� before the lecture. Or do some shopping in The Shop at Tower Hill! Then settle in for an informative lecture on people, places, and plants by a well-known speaker or author.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2003
�A Person. A Place. A Plant� - James Dempsey (Former columnist, Worcester Telegram & Gazette; instructor in journalism, Clark University)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2003
�From Formalism to Nature Unadorned� - Dr. George E. McCully (Trustee, Ellis L. Phillips Foundation, Boston; Editor, Catalogue for Philanthropy; Trustee, New England Wild Flower Society; etc.)

SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2003
�Meshing Nature and People through Landscape Ecology� - Prof. Richard T. T. Forman (Professor of Landscape Ecology, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University)

SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2003
�Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness� - John Hanson Mitchell (Editor and author, Massachusetts Audubon Society)

SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2003
�Walden Woods: Reconciling Forest Protection and Use in Thoreau Country� - Prof. Brian Donahue (American Studies Department and chair, Environmental Studies Program, Brandeis University)

SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2003
�The Future of Nature in America, from Baffin Island to Tierra del Fuego� - Peter Alden (Author, naturalist, tour and safari leader; Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2003
�Villa, Cottage, and Log House: Changing Ideas of Landscape Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850� - Dr. W. Barksdale Maynard (University of Delaware and Johns Hopkins University; author of Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850)

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Tidbits
From the 1938 Town Report
Deaths - whole number 46 including still births
Date - Name - age[yrs., mos., days] - Residence - Cause of Death

February
10 - Sylvia Agnes Brandow - 27, 1, 16 - Baldwinsville - Pulmonary Tuberculosis

March
6 - George Walter Doyle - 49,6,25 - Leominster - Pulmonary Tuberculosis

April
12 - Henry Edward Dunbar - 52, 11, 14 - Mendon - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
20 - Walter Lawson - 53, 0, 7 - So. Ashburnham - Pulmonary Tuberculosis

May
13 - Alexander Di Profio - 66, 8,0 - Westboro - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
18 - William Francis Delaney - 60, 3, 7 - Dudley - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
31 - Charles Edward McGreev - 35,2, 19 - Boylston - Suffocation
31 - Samuel C. Butterfield - 82, 8, 6 - Boylston - Bronch. Peneumonia

June
1 - Theodore Francis Martin - 26, 5, 19 - No. Grafton - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
8 - Gerald Ambrose Fitzgerald - 55,3, 12 - Blackstone - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
11 - Delia Theresa Keane - 60,5,21 - Clinton - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
11 - Robert B. Andrews - 57, 8, 15 - Boylston - Lobar Pnuemonia
15 - Kate [Hillard] Smith - 55,6, 15 - Boylston - Mediastintis, Hyperstatic pneumonia [collapse of left lung]
18 - Rose Mary St. Jean - 21, 11, 25 - Southbridge - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
25 - Maude Ina [Newell] Earle - 57, 6, 17 - Westminster - Carcinoma of Liver
27 - Marino Emberto D'Alessio - 17, 6, 19 - Milford - Pulmonary Tuberculosis

July
5 - Josephine Pauline Kozub - 26, 5, 21 - Webster - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
11 - Sara B. [Parmelee] Drury - 79, 11, 1 - Boylston - Arterio Seleroisis
12 - Bruce Jedetski - 50, 7, 5 - Barre - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
17 - Edward A. Bragg - 79, 0, 23 - Boylston - Uremia
20 - Jessie Rose Lenkiewicz - 28, 11, 25 - Webster - Post-operative Acute Cardiac dilation and failure
28 - Thehna [Chesna] Chiras - 49, 0, 28 - Northbridge - Pulmonary Tuberculosis

August
3 - Ruth Zeh [Smith] Noonan - 36, 10, 10 - Holden - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
6 - Victoria [Gilute] Clements [Kilmas] - 48,0,0 - Boylston - Suspension
12 - John August Swenson - 75, 2, 7 - Holden - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
28 - Niles John Carlstrom - 74, 2, 29 - Mendon - Pulmonary Tuberculosis

September
1 - James Mitchell Manthue - 68,0,0 - Southbridge - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
2 - Loretta Marie Anne Girouard - 33, 11, 2 - Grafton - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
5 - Harietta Belle [Felker] Oxton - 82, 11, 2 - Boylston - Arterio Scelerosis
10 - Fred Warren Warner - 48, 6, 22 - Gardner - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
14 - Alice C. [Gilman] Brigham - 72, 1, 9 - Boylston - Cerebral hemorrhage
18 - Janet Helen Brown - 48, 10, 17 - W. Chelmsford - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
21 - Cecelia Elizabeth Ahearn, 62, 6, 29 - Leicester - Pulmonary Tuberculosis

October
24 - Anastasia Apostolis - 27, 5, 13 - Gardner - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
25 - Dorothy May [Blackwell] Christianson - 39, 7, 14 - Boylston - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
28 - Eugene Louis Jubin - 31, 3, 7 - Dudley - Pulmonary Tuberculosis

November
3 - Henry A. Smith - 58,0,0 - Boylston - Drowning
10 - Joseph Calabrese - 74, 7, 8, - Milford - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
16 - Anne Reardon - 75,0,0 - Boylston - Broncha Pneumonia
30 - Bernard Ruhan Frome - 42, 1, 16 - Dudley - Pulmonary Tuberculosis

December
4 - Delia A. [Donohue] Howley - 65,0,0 - Boylston - Coronary Ecclusion
4 - Stella Ann Rymasz - 23, 4, 6 - N. Brookfield - Pulmonary Tuberculosis
6 - Lenora Annie [Myers] Moore - 84, 7, 9 - Boylston - Valvular Heart Disease - Intestinal Cancer
15 - William H. Hastings - 78, 10, 18 - Boylston - Hemorrhage
27 - Elizabeth May Sweet - 27, 11, 14 - Hopedale - Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Death returns of residents of Boylston dying elsewhere returned too late for the 1937 town report:
1937
May 13 - Judith [Beber] McQueeney - Boylston - Arterio Scelerosis
August 4 - Mary L. [Brousseau] Flagg - Boylston - Inoperable Carcinoma

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BHS News

"Be Our Valentine" Exhibit -
Extended by Popular Demand !!
This is a display of Victorian Valentines,
Lace from our collection, and wedding dresses
circa 1950 and 1930.

Open during normal open hours and at regular
museum admission.
Members - free Non-Members - $3
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NEW HOURS
We are open Tuesday and Thursday - 9 am to noon
AND
The FIRST TUESDAY of each month [year round]- 6-8 pm
Please stop by and visit on Tuesday, Jan 7
As always ...we are open by appointment for those who can not make any of our open hours.

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COMING UP THIS WINTER
2002 - 2003 PROGRAMS and EVENTS
All Programs open to the public and
held at the Society (unless otherwise noted).
7 Central St., Boylston
Donations at the door are gratefully accepted!
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Beginner's Genealogy Workshop - Learn how to get started in the exciting hobby of genealogy. This workshop will include non-computer methods as well as internet genealogy.
A packet of instructional materials is included.
instructor: Betty Thomas
Class size limited. Sign up early!
Saturday, Feb. 15, 2003 from 1 to 4 pm
BHSM Members: $20
Non-Members - $30

Eat Your Way Through History - at BHSM, Clinton Historical Society, and West Boylston Historical Society
Participants will enjoy food [breakfast, lunch, desserts] and a historical program at each Historical Society.
Food, Historical Societies, Historical Programs - all for - $15/person
Saturday, March 29, 2003 from 10 am to 4 pm
Seating limited....get your tickets early!

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Visit the gift shop
http://www.ultranet.com/~boyhisoc/gift.htm

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On the Web
Boylston Maps
http://www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org/Biodiversity_Plan/Contents.html

Nicholas Boylston - 1767
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/copley/boylston.jpg.html

Town of Boylston
http://www.wachusettchamber.com/boylston.html

Picturesque Boston
http://www.haleysteele.com/exhibition/p_boston/pg_boylston.html

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Humor -
WISDOM, IN SHORT SENTENCES
1. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
2. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
3. A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
4. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
5. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
6. Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?
7. I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
8. When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
9. Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
10. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
11. I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
12. He's not dead, he's electroencephalographically challenged.
13. She's always late. Her ancestors arrived on the Juneflower.
14. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
15. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
16. Honk if you love peace and quiet.
17. Pardon my driving, I am reloading.
18. Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
19. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

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