Marlborough, Middlesex Co., MA Formation petition List of original land owners History of Marlborough Marriages from Marlborough, MA to 1729 To place/post a Middlesex county query Middlesex County Queries Middlesex County Published Resources and Lookup Volunteers Listing of Middlesex county cemeteries To sign up for a maillist about Middlesex county send a message to MAMIDDLE-L-request@rootsweb.com with the word subscribe as the only thing in the body of the message for single mail delivery or MAMIDDLE-D-request@rootsweb.com and to send a message to the list send it to MAMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com. Forming of Marlborough, Middlesex County, MA In 1656 a number of the leading citizens of Sudbury presented the following petition to the General Court: "To the Hon. Governor, Dep. Governor, Magistrates, and Deputies of the General Court now assembled in Boston. "The Humble Petition of several of the inhabitants of Sudbury, whose names are here underwritten, showeth: That whereas your Petitioners have lived divers years in Sudbury, and God hath been pleased to increase our children, which are now diverse of them grown to man's estate; and wee, many of us, grown into years, so that wee should bee glad to see them settled before the Lord take us away from hence, as also God having given us some considerable quantity of cattle, so that wee are so streightened that we cannot so comfortably subsist as could be desired; and some of us having taken some pains to view the country; wee have found a place which lyeth westward about eight miles from Sudbury, which wee conceive might be comfortable for our subsistence. "It is therefore the humble request of your Petitioners to this Hon'd Court, that you would bee pleased to grant unto us eight miles square, or so much land as may containe to eight miles square, for to make a Plantation. "If it shall please this Hon'd Court to grant our Petition, it is further then the request of your Petitioners to this Hon'd Court, that you will be pleased to appoint Mr Thomas Danforth, or Liesten Fisher to lay out the bounds of the Plantation; and wee shall satisfy those whom this Hon'd Court shall please to employ in it. So apprehending this weighty occasion, wee shall no further trouble this Hon'd court, but shall ever pray for your happiness. "Edmund Rice, John Howe, William Ward, John Bent Sen'r, Thomas King, John Maynard, John Woods, Richard Newton, Thomas Goodnow, Peter Bent, John Ruddocke, Edward Rice. Henry Rice, Submitted by and and our gracious thanks to Sandy Dulaney List of owners of house-lots 1660 Edmund Rice, William Ward, John Ruddocks, Thomas Goodnow Joseph Rice, Samuel Rice, Christopher Banister, Thomas King William Kerly, Solomon Jhonson, John Johnson, Richard Newton, John Howe, Sr., John Howe, Jr., Henry Kerly, Richard Barnes, Thomas Rice, Joseph Holmes, Samuel Howe, Andrew Belcher, Obadiah Ward, Edward Rice, Richard Ward, John Wooks, Sr., John Maynard, Peter King, Benjamin Rice, a minister, Peter Bent, John Ballows, Abraham Howes, Thomas Goodnow, Jr., John Rutter, John Barrett, John Rediat, a blacksmith, Henry Axtell, John Newton. The first white settler of Marlborough was John Howe in 1657. Other early settlers were Edmund Rice, William Ward, John Woods, Sr., John Maynard, Jonathan Johnson, John Ruddocke, Christopher Banister, John Barrett, Abraham Howe, Edward Rice, Thomas Rice, William Kerly, Richard Ward, Samuel Brigham, Thomas Brigham, John Bent, Richard Barnes, Abraham Williams, and Thomas Goodnow. Captain Howe's Company marched to Cambridge April 19 1775 Cyprian Howe, captain Amasa Cranston, lieutenant, Uriah Eager, ensign Solomon Bowers, sergeant, Robert Hunter, sergeant Ebenezer Hager, sergeant William Hager Matthias Moseman Josiah Winkins John Baker Abner Goodale Jabez Bush Asa Barnes Hiram Stow Aaron Eager Fortunatus Wheeler Joel Brigham Francis James William Speakman Ephraim Maynard Peter Howe Silas Barnes Davis Hunter Jospeh Miller Simon Maynard Luke Hager Amos Walt Adonijah Newton Jacob Priest James Bruce Joel Barnard Timothy Bruce James Priest Nathaniel Bruce Thomas Goodale William Brown Ebenezer Eames Alpheus Morse Jabez Rice Jonathan Temple Jeduthun Alexander Joseph Baker Nehemiah Howe Thaddeus Shattuck Abner Dunton Fredrich Walcutt Timothy Darling Abraham Whitney Submitted by and and our gracious thanks to Sandy Dulaney About the Massachusetts GenWeb Project On June 22, 1996, the Massachusetts USGenWeb homepage was created as part of the USGenWeb Project. The purpose is to provide a single entry point for all counties and towns in Massachusetts, where collected data will be stored. At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page. The person responsible for this county is John Slaughter. Middlesex County Databases This page is still under development... Please excuse the mess during construction... I would like this to be an area that would include useful genealogical information on Middlesex County, it's cities and towns. Some possible suggestions would be: History stories or connections to pages that tell the whole story, GEDCOM files of persons who lived in Middlesex County, Information about genealogy and Middlesex city and town historical society links, Middlesex family reunions, County records, cemetery listings, or any information that would help with family research. Please attach all information to an e-mail message and send it to me. This Massachusetts Genealogy Page is in need of a town coordinator. For information write to malewis AT calcentral DOT com Michael Lewis, Last updated --February 27, 2011 Copyright 2008