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Plymouth Rock to Westford
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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 Concord
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Settlement of Woburn
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Incorporation of Woburn as a town
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Establishment of the Plantation of Chelmsford
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Settlement of Groton
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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 claims/ rights to use the land of Westford as their hunting grounds
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First Settler in Westford, Solomon Keyes, Builds a House on Frances Hill
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Incorporation of the town of Chelmsford
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First mill in Westford (then west Chelmsford) is erected on Saw-Mill Meadow Brook Road (links Nab Lake to Stoney Brook)
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King Philip's War Begins
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Groton abandoned (settlers flee to Concord) after an Indian attack that burns most of the town
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King Philip's War Ends
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End of Indian Wars in Massachusetts
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First Mill in Forge Village is Erected
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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 precinct of Chelmsford is submitted
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Incorporation of the town of Littleton (Seven 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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Mass General Court gives the people of the western part of the Town of Chelmsford permission to form a seperate religious society by the name of the "West Precinct of Chelmsford"
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For first time, Chelmsford withdraws all opposition and officially recognizes the West Precinct (three years after the general court did and 14 years after the original petition)
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Establishment of First Parish Church of Westford
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Incoporation of Westford
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