State of Massachusetts Bay. Council Chamber July 23. 1777

Artemas Ward Prep.

OF THE

TOWN OF SHREWSBURY,

MASSACHUSETTS,

FROM ITS SETTLEMENT IN 1717 TO 1829,

WITH OTHER MATTER RELATING THERETO NOT BEFORE PUBLISHED,

INCLUDING AN EXTENSIVE

FAMILY REGISTER.

BY ANDREW H. WARD,
Member of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society.

"He, who forgets not the place of his birth, and the trees whose fruit he plucked,
and under whose shade he gamboled in the days of his youth, is not a stranger to
the sweetest impressions of the human heart."

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL G. DRAKE, 56 CORNHILL.

J. HOWE, PRINTER, 39 MERCHANTS ROW.

1847.