Westborough Massachusetts was a center for a number of shoe, boot, and sleigh manufacturers. This database is a collection of census records of town residents in 1870.
Information provided includes the age, sex, race, occupation, and birthplace of resident.
Taken from microfilm copies in the national archives, this can be a helpful collection for researchers seeking ancestors from Massachusetts. The town was also home to shoe and boot factories, a straw factory and sleigh manufacturing. As with other manufacturing towns, there were many Canadians, Irish, and also quite a few German families. Inc. All Rights Reserved.