NATICK MA HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL History & Genealogy Diary Haven Family 1734-1858

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NATICK MA HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL History & Genealogy Diary Haven Family 1734-1858:
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FANTASTIC, EARLY ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF FAMILIES FROM THE TOWN OF NATICK, MASSACHUSETTS. This extraordinary early volume dates from 1734-1858 and contains detailed handwritten information pertaining to a number of old Natick families. Included are various birth, marriage, and death dates for several Natick families. Many of the family names found here were among the town\'s earliest settlers. (Scroll down for more pictures.)
Earliest recorded date here is the birth of David Haven to parents Nathaniel and Hepzibah Haven on May 22nd, 1734 at Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Majority of dates range from the late 18th through the early 19th century, and we suspect work commenced on this manuscript \"Record Book\" sometime in the late 18th century. Painstakingly detailed volume is organized largely in sequential order, from the earlier to the later dates. Book was likely compiled over the course of a few years by a member of one of the prominently named families, probably a Haven family member. Although Natick is the dominant town throughout and book is devoted to families who resided there, a few other Massachusetts communities are also mentioned such as Hopkinton, Framingham, Sherborn, Hingham, and Boston. A few places outside Massachusetts can also be found here such as Sullivan, Portsmouth, and Dublin, New Hampshire, along with Jerusalem, Brownville, and Watertown, New York.
Among the many names found here include Abigail Bacon, David Bacon, Lydia Bacon, Rebecca Bacon, Sarah Bacon, Abigail Coolidge, Hannah Coolidge, Isaac Coolidge, Polly Coolidge, Asa Drury, Dolly Drury, Keziah Drury, Augustus Eames, Henry Eames, Jane Eames, Lucy Eames, Abigail Haven, Anna Haven, Asenath Haven, Calvin Haven, Eben Haven, David Haven, Dexter Haven, Hannah Haven, Hepsibeth Haven, Hepzibah Haven, James Haven, Luther Haven, Lydia Haven, Mahala Haven, Mary Haven, Nathaniel Haven, Noyse Haven, Orasa Haven, Polly Haven, Abigail Leland, Batty Leland, Jeremiah Leland, Martin Leland, Walter Leland, Elizabeth Lincoln, Herman Lincoln, Sarah Lincoln, Betsy Mason, Ebenezer Mason, John Mason, Lorry Mason, Mary Mason, Oran Mason, Adam Morse, Betsy Morse, Lydia Morse, Hepsibeth Morse,Jesse Morse, Melvin Morse, Mitta Morse, Samuel Morse, Sibbel Morse, Abel Perry, Asa Perry, Asenath Perry, Charles Perry, Edwin Perry, Emerline Perry, Hannah Perry, Harriot Perry, Ire Perry, Keziah Perry, Mary Perry, Otis Perry, William Perry, Abilgail Printes, Anna Rider, Calvin Rider, Elizabeth Rider, Hannah Rider, Isaac Rider, Luther Rider, Sally Rider, Thomas Rider, Walter Sawyer, Sarah Waterman, etc.
Natickis located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The town is situated near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, and according to recent census figures is home to a population of about 34,230. Just 10 miles west of Boston, Natick is considered part of the Greater Boston area. It is also one of the fastest growing towns in the Boston area. The name Natick comes from the language of the Massachusett Native American tribe and is commonly considered to mean \"Place of Hills\". A more accurate translation however, may be \"place of (our) searching\", named to commemorate John Eliot\'s successful search for a location for his Praying Indian settlement.

Natick was first settled in 1652 by John Eliot, a Puritan missionary born in Widford, Hertfordshire, England who received a commission and funds from England\'s Long Parliament to settle the Massachusett Indians on both sides of the Charles River, on land deeded from the settlement at Dedham. They were called Praying Indians - Natick was the first and for a long time served as the center of Eliot\'s network of praying towns. While the towns were largely self-governing under Indian leaders, the praying Indians were subject to rules governing conformity to English Puritan culture (in practice Natick, like the other praying towns, evidenced a combination of traditional and English culture and practices). Eliot and Praying Indian translators printed America\'s first written Bible in the Algonquian language.

The colonial government placed such settlements in a ring of villages around Boston as a defensive strategy. Natick was the first and best documented of such settlements. The land was granted by the General Court, part of the Dedham Grant. A school was set up, a government established, and the Indians were encouraged to convert to Christianity. In November 1675, during King Philip\'s War, the Natick Indians were sent to Deer Island. Many died of disease and cold, and the Indians who survived found their homes destroyed. The Indian village did not fully recover, and the land held in common by the Indian community was slowly sold off to white settlers to cover debts, and, by 1785, most of the Natick Indians had drifted away.

In 1775, both English and Praying Indian citizens of Natick participated in the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, as well as serving in the Continental Army. The names of the Praying Indian soldiers from Natick are memorialized on a stone marker, along with all of Natick\'s Revolutionary War veterans, on a stone marker on Pond St near downtown Natick. The town was officially incorporated in 1781. Henry Wilson, a U.S. senator born in 1812 who became 18th Vice President of the United States (1873-1875), and who lived most of his life in Natick as a shoemaker and schoolteacher and was known as the \"Natick Cobbler\", is buried there. He is the namesake of one of Natick\'s middle schools.

Though Natick was primarily a farming town, the invention of the sewing machine in 1858 led to the growth of several shoe factories. The business flourished and peaked by 1880, when Natick, with twenty-three operating factories, was third in the nation in the quantity of shoes produced. The shoes made in Natick were primarily heavy work shoes with only one or two companies adding lighter dress shoes to their line. Natick was famous for its brogan (shoes), a heavy ankle-high boot worn by soldiers in the Civil War. The wound core for a more resilient baseball was developed by John W. Walcott and combined with the figure-eight stitching devised by Col. William A. Cutler. It was manufactured by the firm of H. Harwood & Sons in their factory built in 1858 - the first plant in the world for the manufacture of baseballs. In 1988 the H. Harwood & Sons factory was converted into baseball factory condominiums.

In 1874, a great fire in downtown Natick demolished 18 business blocks, two shoe factories, the Town Hall, Natick\'s only fire engine house and the Congregational Church, as well as many private homes. Though no lives were lost, the loss of property was greater in proportion to the town\'s wealth than the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. In 1875, Natick\'s new Central Fire Station was completed on Summer Street and opened with grand ceremony on the same city block where the great fire was first discovered. The Central Fire Station is now the home of a private non-profit community performing arts center called The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN). Miles 8 through 12 of the Boston Marathon run through Natick on Patriots Day every year along Route 135/Central St., and thousands of residents and visitors line the road to watch the race.

Natick is a small town, and thus, the various sections of tract development homes are considered neighborhoods. Natick Center, which is also known as Downtown Natick, is located at the intersection of Central Street and Main Street and serves as the civic and cultural hub of the town. South Natick, known for its scenic nature, is where the Native American settlers first arrived and began the town on the shores of the Charles River. West Natick is a large section of Natick that borders the town of Framingham. Sherwood is one of the earliest post World War II developments in West Natick, the homes here are colonial in style with street names reminiscent of the Robin Hood legend. Walnut Hill is a neighborhood located north of downtown and is known for the private boarding school, Walnut Hill School, as well as many Victorian era houses. The Wethersfield area of Natick is a residential neighborhood North of Route 9. Oak Street which is south of Rte 9, began as a summer vacation area, with tiny cottages surrounding Jennings Pond. Just south of the Natick Common, Cottage Street begins what is commonly called Little South, named so because of its proximity to South Natick.
Along with the town of Natick, Middlesex County today also comprises the cities of Cambridge (traditional county seat), Everett, Framingham, Lowell (traditional county seat), Malden, Marlborough, Medford, Melrose, Newton, Somerville, Waltham, Watertown, and Woburn; the towns of Acton, Arlington, Ashby, Ashland, Ayer, Bedford, Belmont, Billerica, Boxborough, Burlington, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Maynard, North Reading, Pepperell, Reading, Sherborn, Shirley, Stoneham, Stow, Sudbury, Tewksbury, Townsend, Tyngsborough, Wakefield, Wayland, Westford, Weston, Wilmington, and Winchester; the census-designated places of Ayer, Cochituate,, Devens, East Pepperell, Groton, Hopkinton, Hudson, Littleton Common, Pepperell, Pinehurst, Shirley, Townsend, and West Concord; and the villages and neighborhoods of Auburndale, Chestnut Hill, East Lexington, Felchville, Forge Village, Gleasondale, Graniteville, Melrose Highlands, Nabnasset, Newton Centre, Newton Highlands, Newton Lower Falls, Newton Upper Falls, Newtonville, Nonantum, North Billerica, North Chelmsford, Pingryville, Saxonville, Thompsonville, Waban, and West Newton.

Condition:Rare book remains in good overall condition (see pictures). Volume bound in original stiff marbled wraps; cover worn with spine well rubbed, mild toning, scattered minor staining and ink smudging, generally clean internally. Volume contains about 30 pp. of manuscript entries with some additional blank pages; and measures approx 7.5\" tall x 6\" wide. Quite a find and a very worthy acquisition indeed.
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