Archive:Town Origins, Worcester County
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Worcester County - 1731 from Middlesex
| Ashburnham | was | Dorch._Canada | 1765 |
| Ashburnham | part as | Ashby | 1767 |
| Ashburnham | part to | Gardner | 1785 |
| Ashburnham | part to | Ashby | 1792 |
| Ashburnham | part fr | Gardner | 1815 |
| Ashburnham | part fr | Westminster | 1824 |
| Athol | was | Payquage | 1762 |
| Athol | part to | Orange | 1783 |
| Athol | part to | Gerry | 1786 |
| Athol | part to | Royalston | 1799 |
| Athol | part to | Royalston | 1803 |
| Athol | part fr | Gerry | 1806 |
| Athol | part fr | Orange | 1816 |
| Athol | part fr | New_Salem | 1830 |
| Athol | part fr | New_Salem | 1837 |
| Auburn | was | Ward | 1837 |
| Auburn | part to | Millbury | 1851 |
| Barre | was | Hutchinson | 1776 |
| Berlin | came fr | Bolton | 1784 |
| Berlin | part fr | Marlborough | 1784 |
| Berlin | part fr | Lancaster | 1791 |
| Berlin | bound | Northborough | 1806 |
| Blackstone | came fr | Mendon | 1845 |
| Blackstone | part as | Millville | 1916 |
| Bolton | came fr | Lancaster | 1738 |
| Bolton | part as | Berlin | 1784 |
| Bolton | part fr | Marlborough | 1829 |
| Bolton | part to | Hudson | 1868 |
| Boylston | came fr | Shrewsbury | 1742 (North Precinct) |
| Boylston | part fr | Lancaster | 1742 |
| Boylston | part fr | Lancaster | 1762 |
| Boylston | part fr | Lancaster | 1780 |
| Boylston | part as | W_Boylston | 1808 (2nd Precinct) |
| Boylston | part to | W_Boylston | 1820 |
| Braintree_Farms | became | New_Braintree | 1751 |
| Brookfield | was | Quobauge | 1673 |
| Brookfield | part as | Western | 1742 |
| Brookfield | bound | New_Braintree | 1791 |
| Brookfield | part as | N_Brookfield | 1812 |
| Brookfield | part to | Ware | 1823 |
| Brookfield | part as | W_Brookfield | 1848 |
| Brookfield | part fr | N_Brookfield | 1854 |
| Brookfield | part as | E_Brookfield | ? >1920 |
| Charlton | came fr | Oxford | 1754 |
| Charlton | part to | Oxford | 1789 |
| Charlton | part to | Sturbridge | 1792 |
| Charlton | part to | Oxford | 1809 |
| Charlton | part to | Southbridge | 1816 |
| Clinton | came fr | Lancaster | 1850 |
| Dana | came fr | Hardwick | 1801 |
| Dana | part fr | Greenwich | 1801 |
| Dana | part fr | Petersham | 1801 |
| Dana | part fr | Hardwick | 1842 |
| Dana | part fr | Petersham | 1842 |
| Dana | gone | 1938 | |
| Dorch._Canada | became | Ashburnham | 1765 |
| Douglas | was | New_Sherburne | 1746 |
| Dudley | came fr | Oxford | 1732 |
| Dudley | annexed | Middlesex_Gore | 1794 |
| Dudley | part to | Southbridge | 1816 |
| Dudley | part to | Southbridge | 1822 |
| Dudley | part as | Webster | 1832 |
| E_Brookfield | came fr | Brookfield | ? >1920 |
| Fitchburg | came fr | Lunenburg | 1764 (Turkey Hill) |
| Fitchburg | part to | Ashby | 1767 |
| Fitchburg | part to | Westminster | 1796 |
| Fitchburg | part to | Westminster | 1813 |
| Fitchburg | part to | Ashby | 1829 |
| Gardner | came fr | Templeton | 1785 |
| Gardner | part fr | Ashburnham | 1785 |
| Gardner | part fr | Westminster | 1785 |
| Gardner | part fr | Winchendon | 1785 |
| Gardner | part to | Winchendon | 1787 |
| Gardner | part fr | Winchendon | 1794 |
| Gardner | part to | Ashburnham | 1815 |
| Gardner | part fr | Winchendon | 1851 |
| Gerry | came fr | Templeton | 1786 |
| Gerry | part fr | Athol | 1786 |
| Gerry | part to | Royalston | 1799 |
| Gerry | part to | Athol | 1806 |
| Gerry | became | Phillipston | 1814 |
| Grafton | was | Hassanamisco | 1735 |
| Grafton | part fr | Sutton | 1737 |
| Grafton | part fr | Shrewsbury | 1742 |
| Grafton | part fr | Sutton | 1742 |
| Grafton | part fr | Shrewsbury | 1826 |
| Grafton | part fr | Sutton | 1842 |
| Hardwick | was | Lambstown | 1739 |
| Hardwick | part to | New_Braintree | 1751 |
| Hardwick | part to | Greenwich | 1765 |
| Hardwick | part as | Dana | 1801 |
| Hardwick | part fr | New_Braintree | 1814 |
| Hardwick | part to | Dana | 1842 |
| Harvard | came fr | Lancaster | 1732 |
| Harvard | part fr | Groton | 1732 |
| Harvard | part fr | Stow | 1732 |
| Harvard | part to | Boxborough | 1783 |
| Hassanamisco | became | Grafton | 1735 |
| Holden | came fr | Worcester | 1741 (N Worcester) |
| Holden | part to | Paxton | 1804 |
| Holden | part to | W_Boylston | 1808 |
| Holden | bound | Paxton | 1831 |
| Holden | bound | Paxton | 1838 |
| Hopedale | came fr | Milford | 1886 |
| Hubbardston | came fr | Rutland | 1767 |
| Hubbardston | part to | Princeton | 1810 |
| Hutchinson | was | Rutland_Dist. | 1774 |
| Hutchinson | became | Barre | 1776 |
| Ipswich_Canada | became | Winchendon | 1764 |
| Lambstown | became | Hardwick | 1739 |
| Lancaster | was | Nashaway | 1653 |
| Lancaster | part as | Harvard | 1732 |
| Lancaster | part as | Bolton | 1738 |
| Lancaster | part as | Leominster | 1740 |
| Lancaster | part to | Boylston | 1742 |
| Lancaster | part to | Boylston | 1762 |
| Lancaster | part fr | Shrewsbury | 1768 |
| Lancaster | part to | Boylston | 1780 |
| Lancaster | part as | Sterling | 1781 (Chocksett) |
| Lancaster | part to | Berlin | 1791 |
| Lancaster | part as | Clinton | 1850 |
| Leicester | was | Towtaid | 1713 |
| Leicester | part as | Spencer | 1753 |
| Leicester | part to | Worcester | 1758 |
| Leicester | part to | Paxton | 1765 |
| Leicester | part to | Ward | 1778 |
| Leominster | came fr | Lancaster | 1740 |
| Leominster | part fr | no_town | 1838 |
| Lunenburg | was | Turkey_Hill | 1728 |
| Lunenburg | part as | Townsend | 1732 (Turkey Hill) |
| Lunenburg | part as | Fitchburg | 1764 (Turkey Hill) |
| Mendon | was | Qunshapage | 1667 |
| Mendon | part to | Bellingham | 1719 |
| Mendon | part as | Uxbridge | 1727 |
| Mendon | part as | Upton | 1735 |
| Mendon | part fr | Uxbridge | 1770 |
| Mendon | part as | Milford | 1780 |
| Mendon | part as | Blackstone | 1845 |
| Middlesex_Gore | joined | Dudley | 1794 |
| Middlesex_Gore | part to | Sturbridge | 1794 |
| Milford | came fr | Mendon | 1780 |
| Milford | bound | Hopkinton | 1835 |
| Milford | bound | Holliston | 1835 |
| Milford | part fr | Holliston | 1859 |
| Milford | part as | Hopedale | 1886 |
| Millbury | came fr | Sutton | 1813 |
| Millbury | part fr | Auburn | 1851 |
| Millville | came fr | Blackstone | 1916 |
| N_Brookfield | came fr | Brookfield | 1812 |
| N_Brookfield | part to | Brookfield | 1854 |
| Naquag | became | Rutland | 1713 |
| Narragansett#2 | became | Westminster | 1759 |
| Narragansett#6 | became | Templeton | 1762 |
| Nashaway | became | Lancaster | 1653 |
| New_Braintree | part fr | Hardwick | 1751 |
| New_Braintree | was | Braintree_Farms | 1751 |
| New_Braintree | bound | Brookfield | 1791 |
| New_Braintree | part to | Hardwick | 1814 |
| New_Medfield | became | Sturbridge | 1738 |
| New_Sherburne | was | --- | 1745 |
| New_Sherburne | became | Douglas | 1746 |
| New_Sherburne | part to | Uxbridge | 1746 |
| Nichewaug | was | --- | 1732 |
| Nichewaug | became | Petersham | 1754 |
| Northborough | came fr | Westborough | 1766 (2nd precinct) |
| Northborough | bound | Berlin | 1806 |
| Northborough | bound | Marlborough | 1807 |
| Northbridge | came fr | Uxbridge | 1772 |
| Northbridge | part fr | Sutton | 1780 |
| Northbridge | part fr | Sutton | 1801 |
| Northbridge | part to | Sutton | 1831 |
| Northbridge | part fr | Sutton | 1844 |
| Northbridge | bound | Uxbridge | 1856 |
| Oakham | came fr | Rutland | 1762 (West Wing) |
| Oxford | was | --- | 1693 |
| Oxford | part as | Dudley | 1732 |
| Oxford | part as | Charlton | 1754 |
| Oxford | part to | Ward | 1778 |
| Oxford | part fr | Charlton | 1789 |
| Oxford | part fr | Sutton | 1793 |
| Oxford | part fr | Charlton | 1809 |
| Oxford | part to | Webster | 1832 |
| Paxton | came fr | Rutland | 1765 |
| Paxton | part fr | Leicester | 1765 |
| Paxton | part fr | Holden | 1804 |
| Paxton | bound | Rutland | 1829 |
| Paxton | bound | Holden | 1831 |
| Paxton | bound | Holden | 1838 |
| Paxton | part fr | Rutland | 1851 |
| Payquage | became | Athol | 1762 |
| Petersham | was | Nichewaug | 1754 |
| Petersham | part to | Dana | 1801 |
| Petersham | part to | Dana | 1842 |
| Phillipston | was | Gerry | 1814 |
| Phillipston | part to | Templeton | 1892 |
| Princeton | came fr | Rutland | 1759 |
| Princeton | part fr | Hubbardston | 1810 |
| Princeton | part fr | Westminster | 1870 |
| Quansigamond | became | Worcester | 1684 |
| Qunshapage | became | Mendon | 1667 |
| Quobauge | became | Brookfield | 1673 |
| Royalston | was | --- | 1765 |
| Royalston | part to | Winchendon | 1780 |
| Royalston | part to | Orange | 1783 |
| Royalston | part fr | Athol | 1799 |
| Royalston | part fr | Gerry | 1799 |
| Royalston | part fr | Athol | 1803 |
| Rutland | was | Naquag | 1713 |
| Rutland | part as | Rutland_Dist. | 1749 |
| Rutland | part as | Princeton | 1759 |
| Rutland | part as | Oakham | 1762 (West Wing) |
| Rutland | part as | Paxton | 1765 |
| Rutland | part as | Hubbardston | 1767 |
| Rutland | bound | Paxton | 1829 |
| Rutland | part to | Paxton | 1851 |
| Rutland_Dist. | came fr | Rutland | 1749 |
| Rutland_Dist. | became | Hutchinson | 1774 |
| Shrewsbury | was | --- | 1717 |
| Shrewsbury | part as | Boylston | 1742 (North Precinct) |
| Shrewsbury | part to | Grafton | 1742 |
| Shrewsbury | part to | Westborough | 1762 |
| Shrewsbury | part to | Lancaster | 1768 |
| Shrewsbury | part to | Westborough | 1793 |
| Shrewsbury | part to | Grafton | 1826 |
| Southborough | came fr | Marlborough | 1727 |
| Southborough | part fr | Framingham | 1786 |
| Southborough | part to | Marlborough | 1843 |
| Southbridge | came fr | Sturbridge | 1816 |
| Southbridge | part fr | Charlton | 1816 |
| Southbridge | part fr | Dudley | 1816 |
| Southbridge | part fr | Dudley | 1822 |
| Southbridge | part fr | Sturbridge | 1839 |
| Spencer | came fr | Leicester | 1753 |
| Sterling | came fr | Lancaster | 1781 (Chocksett) |
| Sterling | part to | W_Boylston | 1808 |
| Sturbridge | was | New_Medfield | 1738 |
| Sturbridge | part fr | Charlton | 1792 |
| Sturbridge | part fr | Middlesex_Gore | 1794 |
| Sturbridge | part as | Southbridge | 1816 |
| Sturbridge | part to | Southbridge | 1839 |
| Sutton | was | --- | 1714 |
| Sutton | part to | Westborough | 1728 |
| Sutton | part to | Upton | 1735 |
| Sutton | part to | Grafton | 1737 |
| Sutton | part to | Grafton | 1742 |
| Sutton | bound | Uxbridge | 1769 |
| Sutton | part to | Ward | 1778 |
| Sutton | part to | Northbridge | 1780 |
| Sutton | part to | Oxford | 1793 |
| Sutton | part to | Northbridge | 1801 |
| Sutton | part as | Millbury | 1813 |
| Sutton | part fr | Northbridge | 1831 |
| Sutton | part to | Grafton | 1842 |
| Sutton | part to | Northbridge | 1844 |
| Templeton | was | Narragansett#6 | 1762 |
| Templeton | part as | Gardner | 1785 |
| Templeton | part as | Gerry | 1786 |
| Templeton | part fr | Phillipston | 1892 |
| Towtaid | became | Leicester | 1713 |
| Turkey_Hill | became | Lunenburg | 1728 |
| Upton | came fr | Mendon | 1735 |
| Upton | part fr | Hopkinton | 1735 |
| Upton | part fr | Sutton | 1735 |
| Upton | part fr | Uxbridge | 1735 |
| Upton | part to | Westborough | 1763 |
| Upton | part fr | Hopkinton | 1808 |
| Uxbridge | came fr | Mendon | 1727 |
| Uxbridge | part to | Upton | 1735 |
| Uxbridge | part fr | New_Sherburne | 1746 |
| Uxbridge | bound | Sutton | 1769 |
| Uxbridge | part to | Mendon | 1770 |
| Uxbridge | part as | Northbridge | 1772 |
| Uxbridge | bound | Northbridge | 1856 |
| W_Boylston | came fr | Boylston | 1808 (2nd Precinct) |
| W_Boylston | part fr | Holden | 1808 |
| W_Boylston | part fr | Sterling | 1808 |
| W_Boylston | part fr | Boylston | 1820 |
| W_Brookfield | came fr | Brookfield | 1848 |
| Ward | came fr | Worcester | 1778 |
| Ward | part fr | Leicester | 1778 |
| Ward | part fr | Oxford | 1778 |
| Ward | part fr | Sutton | 1778 |
| Ward | became | Auburn | 1837 |
| Warren | was | Western | 1834 |
| Webster | came fr | Dudley | 1832 |
| Webster | part fr | Oxford | 1832 |
| Westborough | came fr | Marlborough | 1717 (Chauncy) |
| Westborough | part fr | Sutton | 1728 |
| Westborough | part fr | Shrewsbury | 1762 |
| Westborough | part fr | Upton | 1763 |
| Westborough | part as | Northborough | 1766 (2nd precinct) |
| Westborough | part fr | Shrewsbury | 1793 |
| Western | came fr | Brookfield | 1742 |
| Western | part fr | Brimfield | 1742 |
| Western | part fr | Kingsfield | 1742 |
| Western | part to | Ware | 1822 |
| Western | part to | Palmer | 1831 |
| Western | became | Warren | 1834 |
| Westminster | was | Narragansett#2 | 1759 |
| Westminster | part to | Gardner | 1785 |
| Westminster | part fr | Fitchburg | 1796 |
| Westminster | part fr | Fitchburg | 1813 |
| Westminster | part to | Ashburnham | 1824 |
| Westminster | part fr | no_town | 1838 |
| Westminster | part to | Princeton | 1870 |
| Winchendon | was | Ipswich_Canada | 1764 |
| Winchendon | part fr | Royalston | 1780 |
| Winchendon | part to | Gardner | 1785 |
| Winchendon | part fr | Gardner | 1787 |
| Winchendon | part to | Gardner | 1794 |
| Winchendon | part to | Gardner | 1851 |
| Worcester | was | Quansigamond | 1684 |
| Worcester | part as | Holden | 1741 (N Worcester) |
| Worcester | part fr | Leicester | 1758 |
| Worcester | part as | Ward | 1778 |
| no_town | part to | Leominster | 1838 |
| no_town | part to | Westminster | 1838 |
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