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Pilgrims land on 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 Concord
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Settlement of Woburn
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Incorporation of Woburn as a town
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Incorporation of the town of Chelmsford
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Settlement of Groton
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Establishment of the plantation of Chelmsford
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First known allotments of land within Westford's borders are established
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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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First known permanent settler of westford, Solomon Keyes, builds a house on Frances Hill
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first mill in westford ( then west chelmsford) is erected on saw-mill meadow brook (links nab lake to stony brook)
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King Philips War begins
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King philip's war ends
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Groton abandoned (settlers flee to concord) after an indian attack that burns much of the town
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End of Indian Wars' in Massachusetts
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First mill in Forge Village is erected (then part of the town of groton)
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Members of the west part of Chelmsford petition the Mass. General Court to become a distinct parish/precinct
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First known petition asking for the establishment of a West Precint of Chelmsford submitted
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incorporation of the town of littleton ( 7 westford families "annexed" to littleton, but return after westford's incorp.)
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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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Establishment of the First Parish Church of Westford
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for 1st time, Chelmsford withdraws all oppositiong and officially recognizes the west precinct (3 years after the general court did and 14 years after the original petition)
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mass general court gives people of the western part of town of chelmsford permission to form a seperate religious society by the name of the "west precinct of chelmsford"
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incorporation of westford
