John Mellen, H. C. 1741, Congregational clergyman, Edward Stone, B. U. 1835, Unitarian clergyman, NorSterling, Mass.

died 1834,- severally held commissions as justice | practised at Portland, Me., and at Boston; opened of the peace, and did a large business in drawing an office in Framingham, 1858.

up official papers. In 1782 Mr. Stone was appointed
special judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
Eli Bullard, Esq. (son of Henry, of Medway), |
Y. C. 1787, opened an office in Framingham in
1791, and was in practice till his death, May 20,
1824.

Josiah Adams, Esq. (son of Rev. Moses, of Acton, born November 3, 1781), H. C. 1801, was admitted to the bar, June, 1807, and immediately settled in this town. He died February 8, 1854.

Williain Buckminster, Esq. (son of Lawson, of Framingham, born January 22, 1784), graduated at Harvard, studied law with Esquire Bullard, and opened an office at Machias, Me., where he was in practice till 1820, when he returned to Framingham. He engaged largely in farining; was editor and publisher of the Massachusetts Ploughman; died June 9, 1865.

Lawson Kingsbury, Esq. (son of Asa, of Walpole, Mass.), D. C. 1808; cadet at West Point; received a commission as lieutenant in the United States army, July 7, 1812, and was assigned to the recruiting service; discharged, April 1, 1813; studied law, and opened an office in Framingham, where he resided till his death, October 28, 1857, aged sixty-seven.

Omen S. Keith, Esq., H. C. 1826, was teacher in the academy at Framingham, and at Northfield; studied law with Rufus Hosmer, Esq., of Stow; became associated with Esquire Adams in this town, where he remained till 1838, when he removed to Boston.

Charles R. Train, Esq. (son of Rev. Charles, of Framingham), B. U. 1837, studied law with Esquire Adams; opened an office in Framingham, 1840; M. C. 1859-1863; removed to Boston, 1863.

C. C. Esty, Esq. (son of Dexter, of Framingham), Y. C. 1845; commenced practice, 1848; M. C. 1872-1873; appointed judge of the District Court, 1874.

Robert Gordon, Esq. (son of Robert, of Charlestown), H. C. 1843, practised law in South Boston, 1856-1862, when he opened an office in Framingham.

F. F. Heard, Esq., H. C. 1848, was in practice in this town, 1851-1856.

Coleman S. Adams, Esq. (son of Joseph S., of Hebron, N. H.), studied law at Baltimore, Md.;

Theodore C. Hurd, Esq., graduated at Union College, New York; commenced practice in Framinghamn, 1860; clerk of the courts of Middlesex County.

E. W. Washburn had a law office in Framingham, 1870-1877.

Those who have recently entered the profession here are Sidney A. Phillips, Esq., D. C. 1869; Walter Adams, Esq., H. C. 1870; George C. Travis, Esq., H. C. 1869; Ira B. Forbes, Esq.; Charles S. Barker, Esq.

Physicians in Framingham. - Dr. John Page was in practice here from 1712 to 1723.

Dr. Bezaleel Rice commenced practice here as early as 1720, and continued till 1743. Dr. Joseph Nichols lived in town from 1730 to 1752.

Dr. John Mellen is named in the town records in 1747.

Dr. Ebenezer Hemenway was in practice in this town from 1750 to 1784. He lived on what is known as the Loring-Manson farm, and had a grist-mill on the premises.

Jeremiah Pike, a noted bone-setter, was contemporary with Dr. Hemenway.

Dr. John Sparhawk was in Framingham, 1757. Dr. Richard Perkins, H. C. 1748, son of Rev. Daniel, of West Bridgewater, was in practice here in 1758.

Dr. Elijah Stone was a leading physician here from 1765 to 1804. He built and lived for many years in the house now owned by Joseph Brown, when he bought the Pepper place, on Pratt's plain, now occupied as the State Arsenal.

Dr. Daniel Perkins was here in 1785, then living in a small house standing where Esty's Block now stands. He afterwards lived in the Colonel Timothy Eames house. In February, 1792, he "moved to the Mohawk.”

Dr. John B. Kittridge, son of Benjamin, of Tewksbury, established himself in Framingham in 1791, and had a large and successful practice till his death, February 29, 1848.

Dr. Timothy Merriam, born in Concord, Mass., came to Framingham in 1791, and located near Park's Corner, where he died, September 17, 1835, aged seventy-six.

Dr. Simon Whitney, born at Watertown, H. C. 1818, set up practice in the centre of the town in 1822, and enjoyed in a high degree the confidence

Dr. Allston W. Whitney, son of Dr. Simon, graduated at the Harvard Medical School, 1852; was associated for a time with his father; surgeon in the army, 1861-1865; now living, and in prac-aid to families of volunteers, $20,456.87. The tice at West Newton.

and job printing, $8,368; shoes manufactured, $50,000; straw goods manufactured, $850,000; lumber, value of, $14,000; total number of persons employed in different manufacturing establishments, 1,199; amount of wages received, $703,833; total value of goods and labor, $1,778,360. Occupations: males,-teachers, 2; civil engineers, 5; clergymen, 13; lawyers, 10; physicians, 8; barbers, 8; saloon-keepers, 7; butchers, 5; clerks, 30; merchants and traders, 75; railroad employees, 59; salesmen, 19; teamsters, 18; farmers, 257; farmlaborers, 49; florists, 7; gardeners, 20; stablekeepers, 6; factory operatives, 174; laborers, 194; watchmen, 6; females, factory operatives, 186; teachers, 54; domestic servants, 159; housekeepers, 61; housewives, 969; housework, 8; cooks, 6; dressmakers, 24; milliners, 8; straw-workers, 28.

of horses 317, value $17,203; neat cattle 1,383, | of agricultural products, $191,285; value of carvalue $27,700; sheep 13, value $50; swine 450, riage-wheels manufactured $28,000; newspaper value $3,200; bushels of Indian corn raised 15,448, value $11,586; bushels of wheat raised 25, value $25; bushels of rye raised 1,241, value | $993; bushels of barley raised 408, value $306; bushels of oats raised 3,710, value $2,741; bushels of potatoes raised 34,584, value $8,648; other esculent roots 968 bushels, value $502; tons of hay 3,212, value $40,378; bushels of fruit 22,381, value $5,013; pounds of butter made 66,690, value $11,337; pounds of cheese 2,950, value $177; value of milk sold, $1,090; axe manufactory 1, hands employed 1, income $700; cutlery 1, hands employed 1, income $200; papermills 2, hands employed 33, stock used 225 tons, paper manufactured 360,000 pounds, value $52,500; saddler's shops 2, hands employed 4, income $1,200; hat manufactory 1, hands employed 4, income $2,500; cabinet shops 3, hands employed 3, income $1,200; tin shop 1, hands employed 4, income $ 4,000; tannery 1, hands employed 1, income $736; boots manufactured 35,000 pairs, shoes 44,000 pairs, value $49,450, hands employed, males 60, females 25; bakery 1, hands employed 4, value of bread baked $8,000; bookbinding 1, hands employed, males 3, females 2, income $2,500; millinery shops 3, females employed 10, income $2,000; wheelwright shops 6, hands employed 6, income $3,000; fire-wood prepared, 2,020 cords, value $7,070.

For 1875.- Number of ratable polls, 1,319; number of dwelling-houses, 1,010; number of families, 1,117; barns, 205; value of houses and barns, $689,000; number of farms, 195; total acreage of farms, 11,028; acreage of cultivated land, 3,823; value of farms with buildings, $1,409,380; number of acres of unimproved land, 4,840; acres of woodland, 2,354. Number of horses 684, value $70,645; cows, 831, value $38,365; oxen 50, value $4,545; sheep 92, value $500; swine 557, value $8,607; bushels of Indian corn raised 7,511, value $7,511; wheat 3 bushels, value $3; rye 318 bushels, value $321.; barley 2,789 bushels, value $2,269; oats 1810 bushels, value $1,301; potatoes 14,254 bushels, value $10,210; tons of English hay 2,653, value $55,047; tons of meadow hay 440, value $5,675; bushels of apples 35,075, value $12,297; gallons of chler made 79,776, value $15,925; pounds of butter made 22,203, value $11,706; gallons of milk sold 121,295, value $22,817; total value

Town Statistics for 1878.- Town officers: selectmen, Samuel B. Bird, Joseph C. Cloyes, Eleazer Goulding, James R. Entwistle, Elbert Hemenway; town-clerk, Frank E. Hemenway; town treasurer, Cyrus Bean; collector, Charles J. Frost; assessors, S. B. Bird, F. C. Stearns, Charles W. Coolidge; school committee, J. H. Temple, George D. Puffer, Charles W. Coolidge, Charles F. Cutler, Sidney A. Phillips, James R. Entwistle, Joseph B. Johnson, Edwin R. Warren, S. B. Bird, George E. Leeson, Frank Deming, Elbert Hemenway; trustees of Edgell Grove Cemetery, James W. Clark, David Fisk, F. A. Billings, John Clark, Alexander R. Esty; trustees of Town Library, Charles Upham, H. O. Stone, C. C. Esty, L. F. Fuller, R. W. Whiting, E. L. Sturtevant, B. T. Manson, W. F. Hurd, L. R. Eastman, Jr., J. H. Temple, Charles E. Humphreys. Town grants: schools, $16,150; highways and bridges, $7,500; new iron bridges, $8,000; support of poor, $2,000; town library, $1,200; fire department, $2,600; street lamps, $1,200; police, $3,000; care of cemeteries, $110; decoration day, $150; enforcement of liquor law, $600; interest, $2,000; contingencies, etc., $4,100; salaries, $1,375. Total, $48,385.

The town has no debt except the amount due its several permanent funds, as follows: Phipps Poor Fund, $15,000; Stone Fund, $9,506; Academy Fund, $1,258; Phipps Cemetery Fund, $500; Eaton Library Fund, $500; Edgell Grove Cemetery Fund, $160; Centre Common Fund, $450. Total, $27,675.

GROTON.

BY SAMUEL A. GREEN, M. D.

was a complaint of improper management on the part of the proprietors, and the General Court appointed a committee to look into the subject. This committee visited the place, and reported on "the Intanglements that haue obstructed the planting thereof," giving at the same time their opinion that there was land enough here to furnish subsistence by husbandry to sixty families.

N the month of May, 1655, the General Court, then in session at Boston, returned an answer to "a pet. p'ferd by Mr Dean Winthrop Mr Tho: Hinkley & diuers others for a plantation vpon the riuer that Runs from Nashaway into Merimacke called petapawage & an other from some of the Inhabitants of Concord for a plantation in the same place," granting a township eight miles square in the place desired, to make a plantation to be called "Groaten." This name was given by Mr. Deane Winthrop, a son of Governor John Winthrop, in honor of his birthplace, Groton, Suffolk County, England. The new plantation was situated on the frontiers, fourteen miles from the nearest settlement; and at that time there were but nine other towns in Middlesex County. The General Court appointed as select-court, May 22, 1661, clearing up the entanglemen "for the said Towne of Groaten for one two yeares from the time it is lay'd out," Mr. Deane Winthrop, Mr. John Tinker, Mr. Thomas Hinckley, Dolor Davis, William Martin, Mathew Farrington, John Witt, and Timothy Cooper.

A religious temper pervades the whole petition, which in its language has the flavor of the Old Testament. It speaks of their having been brought over" by a providence of God," and of their living long in the wilderness. In answer to it the court grants a tract of land to make "a comfortable plantation," and provides for its survey and prompt location, ordering "that none shall enjoy any part or porcon of that land by guift from the selectmen of that place but such who shall build howses on theire Lotts so given them once whin eighteene months from the time of the said Tounes laying out or Tounes graunt to such persons"; and naming as the chief end the "speedy procuring of a speedy procuring of a godly minister amongst them."

Very soon after the settlement of the town there 1 of the first of the two petitions referred to, no copy or record has been preserved: of the second, a copy was printed in the Historical Address delivered at Groton, July 4, 1876.

A singular illustration of how erroneous even deliberate and disinterested opinion may be in matters pertaining to the future is here seen when it is considered that there are now nearly 10,000 persons in the territory of the original Groton Plantation, living mainly by the products of the land. Owing to the death of Ensign Noyes, the survey of the town ordered in 1665 was not completed until 1668, when Jonathan Danforth finished the work and made a plat of the plantation. The committee referred to made a report to the

ments, and were theinselves ordered and empowered to see its provisions carried into effect" until meet men" could be found "amongst such as shall inhabit there, and be approved of by a county court." The records of the town show that "meet men were found amongst the inhabitants in December, 1662, when Deacon James Parker, John Lawrence, William Martin, Richard Blood, and James Fiske were chosen selectmen. The record is in the handwriting of Richard Sawtell, who was townclerk for several years.

The original grant, as laid out by Danforth, included the whole of what are now Groton and Ayer, nearly the whole of Pepperell and Shirley, large portions of Littleton and Dunstable, and smaller portions of Harvard and Westford, and of Nashua, N. H.

After the adjustment of the "Intanglements" referred to above the settlement grew and prospered. The earliest town records bear the date of June 23, 1662, and votes are recorded on this date and on December 24, of the same year, in reference to building a meeting-house, and a house for the