BILLERICA, MIDDLESEX, MASSACHUSETTS

incorporated 1655

In 1652 families from Cambridge and what was later Woburn occupied land that the local Indians called Shawshin. The town was resulting town was incorporated as Billerica after Billericay, Essex, England.

FAMILIES:

Chamberlain, Kinsley, Stearns

LINKS:

Wikipedia article

Internet Archive: Farmer, John, An Historical Memoir of Billerica, Amherst, NH, R. Bolyston, 1816.

 

 

Old Talbott Mills, Billerica
Source: Wikimedia Commons, by John Phelan


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