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Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA



 


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Wikipedia 2020:

Sudbury is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2010 census, it had a population of 17,659. The town, located in Boston's MetroWest, has a colonial history.

History:

The town was incorporated in 1639. At that time, the boundaries of Sudbury included (by 1653) all what is now of Wayland (which split off in 1780), and parts of Framingham, Marlborough, Stow and Maynard (the latter town having split off 1871). Nipmuc Indians lived in what is now Sudbury, including Tantamous, a medicine man, and his son Peter Jethro, who deeded a large parcel of land to Sudbury for settlement in 1684.

The original town center and meetinghouse were located near the Sudbury River at what is now known as Wayland’s North Cemetery. For the residents on the west side of the river, it was a treacherous passage in the winter and attendance at both worship services and Town Meetings was compulsory. In 1723 when the West Parish meetinghouse, served as a place for both worship and Town Meetings, was built in the current Town Center. After the split with Wayland, the new location grew to have houses, a school, and in 1846, a new Town House. Since then, the Sudbury Center Historic District has changed little.

Sudbury also contributed the most militia during King Philip's War and was the site of the well-known attack on Sudbury. Ephraim Curtis was a successful leader of the militia of West Sudbury and would lend his name to the town's junior high school. Sudbury militia participated in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, in 1775, where Sudbury members sniped on British Red Coats returning to Boston.

One of Sudbury's historic landmarks, the Wayside Inn, claims to be the country's oldest operating inn, built and run by the Howe family for many generations. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote Tales of a Wayside Inn, a book of poems published in 1863. In the book, the poem The Landlord's Tale was the source of the immortal phrase "listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere." Henry Ford bought the inn in 1923, restored it and donated it to a charitable foundation which continues to run it as an operating inn to this day. Ford also built a boys' school on the property, as well as a grist mill, and the Martha–Mary Chapel. He brought in the Redstone Schoolhouse from Sterling, which was reputed to be the school in Sarah Josepha Hale's nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb. However, Giuseppi Cavicchio's refusal to sell his water rights scuttled Henry Ford's plans to build an auto parts factory at the site of Charles O. Parmenter's mill in South Sudbury.

In August 1925, a Sudbury farm was the scene of a riot between local members of the Ku Klux Klan and Irish-American youths from the area. Five people were wounded by gunshots, and the State Police arrested over 100 Klansmen. Massachusetts officials cracked down on the group's meetings thereafter, and the Klan died out in the area.

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Geburt

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Geburt    Personen-Kennung 
1 How, Isaac  8 Jun 1648Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA I238572
2 Rice, Mary  4 Sep 1656Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA I215497
3 Walker, Olive  7 Feb 1763Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA I74153
4 Walker, Thomas  15 Aug 1699Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA I74158
5 Walker, Thomas  13 Okt 1736Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA I74156
6 Woods, Frances  10 Mai 1645Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA I238573

Tod

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Tod    Personen-Kennung 
1 King, Mary  22 Mrz 1715Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA I215499
2 King, Thomas  1676Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA I215500
3 Rice, Thomas  16 Nov 1681Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA I215498
4 Tice, Anne  24 Dez 1642Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA I215501
5 Walker, Thomas  1792Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA I74158