Edward Johnson, Lieut. Joshua Fisher, and Lieut. Thomas Noyes,
shall, and are herby appointed and empowered to lay out the same,
and to be payd by such persons as shall appear within the terme above
expressed. The Deputies have passed this with reference to the consent
of our honored Magistrates hereto.
WILLIAM TORREY _clerk_
The Magistrates consent to a survey of the place petitioned for, and
that Capt. Gookin doe joine with those mentioned of our brethren the
deputies, and make return of their survey to the next General Court of
Elections, who may take order therein as they shall see meete, their
brethren the deputies hereto consenting.
EDWARD RAWSON _Sect'y._
WILLIAM TORREY _Cleric._ Consented to by the deputies.
[Illustration: FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.]
[Illustration: FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH.]
[Illustration: PLAN OF WORCESTER 1673 TO 1675.]
At that time several persons occupied lands that had been granted them,
and built houses. This infant settlement was strangled almost at its
birth by the outbreak of King Philip's War, which spread in that year
throughout Massachusetts. The colonists, few in number, and without
adequate means of protection against the hostile savages, soon abandoned
their buildings, which were burned by the Indians, December 2, 1675.
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