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Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
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Settlement of Cape Anne/Salem
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Establishment of the MBC and Boston
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Settlement of Woburn
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Incorporation of Woburn as a town
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Indians sign treaty with Chelmsford and the Mass General Court giving up their claim/ right to use the land of Westford as their hunting grounds
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Establishment of the Plantation of Chelmsford
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Settlement of Groton
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Incorporation of the town of Chelmsford
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First known allotments of land within Westford's borders are established
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First known permanent settler of Westford, Solomon Keyes, builds a house on Frances Hill
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First mill in Westford [then West Chelsmford] is erected on Saw-mill Meadow Brook [links Nab lake to Stony Brook]
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Settlement of Concord
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King Philip's War begins
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King Philip's War ends
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End of Indian Wars' in Massachusetts
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Groton abandoned (settlers flee to Concord) after an indian attack that burns much of the town
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First mill in FORGE village is erected [ then part of the town of Groton]
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First known petition asking for the establsihment of a West precinct of Chelmsford submitted
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Incorporation of the town of Littleton
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Mass General Court gives the people of the western part of town of Chelmsford persmission to form a separate religious society by the name of the "West Precinct of Chelmsford"
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Members of the West part of Chelmsford petition of Mass. General Court tp become a distinct parish/ precinct
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Surveying of the site for Westford's first meeting house (near present site of First Parish Church)
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For 1st time, Chelmsford withdraws all opposition and officially recognizes the West Precinct (3 years after the General Court did and 14 years after the original peitition
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Incorporation of Westford
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Establishment of the first Parish Church of Westford