Genealogies of Westborough Families – LH.008 – The Westborough Archive Catalog

Photocopies, photographs, periodicals, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, documents. Miscellaneous collection of information and primary sources relating to Westborough families, organized by family last name.

Official collection name: Genealogies of Westborough Families

Location: Shelving

Local identifier: LH.008

Creator: Westborough Public Library

Date: Undetermined

Extent: 4 linear feet

Subject: Genealogy–Westborough (Mass.)

Finding aid: LH008 – Genealogies of Westborough Families

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Genealogies of Westborough Families Finding Aid

Last Revised: March 11, 2019

Collection Summary

Collection number: LH.008

Collection title: Genealogies of Westborough Families

Dates: Undetermined

Size: 4 linear feet (4 boxes)

Creator/Collector: Westborough Public Library

Custodial history: This collection was created and collected by local history librarians at the Westborough Public Library. The work and collection of Dr. Charles Reed most likely served as the seed for the collection (see the Historical Papers of Dr. Charles H. Reed, [a.k.a., the Reed Collection], LH.013).

Language(s): English

Repository: The Westborough Public Library

Processed by: Paul Bebchick, 2019

Rights and Access

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Physical access restrictions: None.

Publication rights: Copyright status not evaluated. No known restrictions on use.

Scope and Content Note

The records in this collection cover every aspect family life in Westborough, from meager beginnings of the town to future innovative ideas and developments. The town contributed to the lifeblood of growth of our country. Individual people and families contributed to every aspect of research, industry, and commerce that helped make the United States great in the eyes of the world.

One figure standing out is Horace Abbott, who accepted the contract to build the Monitor, the first iron clad ship that played a significant part in winning the American Civil War for the Union. Another person was Eli Whitney, who invented the Cotton Gin. This machine created a major cotton economy in the south.

Collection Inventory

Box 1 of 4

A – Fay

Abbott

Adair

Adams

Ainsworth

Allen

Amsden

Andrews

Arkwell

Arnold

Baker, Barlett,

Ball

Barns (Barnes) Richard

Barton

Bates

Bathrick

Beamen (Beemen)

Beede

Beaton (Beeton)

Belknap

Bellows

Bent

Bernard H.D. (National Straw Works)

Bigelow

Black (Mrs. Rob’t)

Blake

Blois

Bond

Bowman

Bradish, James (“Pirate Joe”)

Brigham

Brigham, George Bickford

Broaders

Brown History of Houses #27, 29, and 30 Ruggles Street

Frank Atwood Browne Designed the Machinery for the Locks of the Panama Canal

The Panama Canal

Collection Text and Photograph

Bruce Family Records, indicate family settled in area around 1691

Bryant

Bullard

Burhoe

Burke (Mrs. A.H.)

Burnap

Carver

Chamberlain

Chapin

Chase

Chauncy, Rev. Charles

Childs

Clark (E)

Cobb (History of House also)

Cook “Tom the Leveler”

Cook, Tom

Coolidge

Corbett

Corey

Cummings, Lena

Curtis

Cutler/ Cutter

Darling

Davenport

Davis

Davis, Charles

DeForest

Demond

Dearing

Dearing, Rachel (Reed)

Denfeld

Denfield, Admiral Louis

Denham

Dodge

Dunne

Eaton

Eddy

Emery

Estabrook

Chamberlain, Staples, Gibbs, etc.

Fales, Miss Annie E.

Fales, Annie

Fales, Annie (correspondence)

Fay Family (Elizabeth, John, Samuel)

Fay

Fayer Weather

Box 2 of 4

Fes – O

Fisher

Forbes, Esther

Forbes

Forbes (Deacon Jonathan) and Forbush (Abigail, Ddorcas)

Forbes & Forbush Genealogy

Forbush

Forbush, Asa

Forbush, Edward Howe

Fosgate

Gates

Gilmore

Gleason

Goddard

Goodell

Goodnow, Goodenow, Goodanow

Green (E)

Griggs

Grout

Hard

Harrington

Harvey, Dr. Edwin B.

Haskell

Hawes

Hennessy

Hero

Hicks

Hill

Holmes

Hovey, Lt. Col. (Flag)

Howe

Howe, Hezekiah

Humes

Hunt

Hutchinson

Jackson

Jackstraw

Joslin

Judd

Kearns

Kelley

Kemp

Lawton, Rev. Jack and Nancy

LeBlanc

Leonard/ Ward

Longley

Mac Donald

Macker (Automobile)

Mallen/Mellen

Mason, Lowell

Matthews, Dr. Increase (Adams)

Maynard

Maynard, David

McCulloueh

McVay

Mead

Mellen

Miller

Morse

Nash

Nason

Nelpi

Newton

Newton, Joshiah and Thomas

Nichols

Nourse (Nurse)

Oakes

Oldham

Otis

Box 3 of 4

P – Ric

Parker

Parker Brothers (Reed and Roy) WW II

Parker, Gardner Clock Maker (Fully)

Parkman Diaries (Years & Location)

Parkman: Genealogies

Parkman, Rev. Ebenezer (Diaries Edited)

Parkman, Rev. Ebenezer

Courtship, Children, Household, Nursing and Weaning,

Literacy and Reading, Farm Hands, Marriages, Great Awakening,

Opera “Bathsheba Spooner”

Parkman, Ebenezer

Facing the Torrents of Liberty (A Massachusetts Minister, His Town, and the Coming of the American Revolution

Parkman House

Peters

Phillips

Pierce

Pond, Lucy

Porter

Poskitt

Potter, Rev. John D

Pratt

Rabouin

Raymond

Reed, Charles H. Dr

Dearing Rachel (Reed)

Rice, Marlborough, Sudbury, Wayland

Rice House (Demolished)

Also known as the Fay House

Rice, Charles, Edmond, Thomas and Rice Boys

Rice: Story of Rice Boys Capture 1704

Rice (Timothy/ Silas captives)

Rice

Rice: Newsletters

Rice: Newsletters/ Rice Reunions donated by D.R. Beal

Box 4 of 4

Ris – Z

Rising, Henry H. (Doctor)

Robbins, Frederick G. (Artist)

Robinson, Rev. John (Minister)

Rogers

Ruggles

Sanford

Shattuck

Sherman

Sibley

Slattery

Snow

Stearns, Austin C.

Stone, Nikki, Olympic Gold Medalist

Stone

Tainter (Traintor, Tantor)

Taylor

Tidd

Tobey

Tomlin

Townsend

Tufts

Wadworth

Walker, Rev John J

Ward

Warren, Daniel

Warren/ Thatcher Line before 1585 – 1999

Weld

Wesson

Wheeler

Wheelock

Whipple

Whitney, Christopher

Whitney, Eli

Whitney’s Cotton Engine

Whitney’s Cotton Gin

Whitney, Eli

Whitney Genealogy

Whitney, Eli Museum and Factories

Whitney Thomas

Williams

Williamson, Hubbard Letters to Family

Wilson

Winslow

Wood/ Woods

Wright (Fund)