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Historical Markers in Grafton, Massachusetts

 
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1 ► Massachusetts, Worcester County, Grafton — Hassanamesit — 1630 - 1930 —
On Grafton Town Common.
John Eliot established here in 1651 a village of Christian Indians called Hassanamesit - "at a place of small stones." It was the home of James the Printer who helped Eliot to print the Indian Bible. — — Map (db m93037) HM
2 ► Massachusetts, Worcester County, Grafton — Indian Reservation — 1630 - 1930 —
On Brigham Hill Road, 0.6 miles west of Providence Road (U.S. 122), on the right when traveling west.
These four and one-half acres have never belonged to the white man, having been set aside in 1728 as an Indian Reservation by the forty proprietors who purchased the Praying Indian town of Hassanamesit. — — Map (db m93038) HM
3 ► Massachusetts, Worcester County, Grafton — Thomas Hooker Trail — 1630 - 1930 —
On Providence Road (U.S. 122) at Pullard Road, on the right when traveling north on Providence Road.
Crossing the highway at this point is the Indian trail followed by the Reverend Thomas Hooker in 1636 when, with his invalid wife borne on a litter, he led a company of Massachusetts settlers to found Hartford, Connecticut. — — Map (db m93035) HM
 
 
  
  
 
 
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