Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-14
THE MARLBORO BI-oENTENNIAL-

he citizens
town of Marlboro celebrated, on Wednesday,
the two hundradth anniversary of the incor-
poration Of the town with appropriate and in
teresting ceremonies. They were favored
with one of the brightest days of the summer,
and the sons and daughters of the old town
took the color of their festivities from the
suspicious skies.
The Borough Towns.
The first English settlement on the ancient
territory of Marlboro was made in the year
1854 The Indian name of the territory was
Okommakamesit, and Onomog was the last
distinguished leader of the tribe, whose name
is perpetuated by one of the charitable and
reformatory orders of the town. In 1866,
tract six miles square was granted to peti-
TONERS from Sudbury, and on the 3lst of May,
1860, old style, was incorporated under the
name which it now bears. The early
records of the town are very much detaced,
and some of them are lost. The leading ev-
ents in her history, however, are preserved
with tolerable detail and accuracy. The
progress of the infant town was checked by
the French and Indian wars, in the course of
which many instances Of heroic daring occur
red worthy of place in the history of any
people. Rev. VIM. Brmsmead was the first
pastor, a jealous man of God but with many
eccentricities, one of which was a persistent
refusal during his half century Of pastoral
service to baptze children born on the Sab
bath. Rev. Robert Breck was the second pas
tor, whose grave stone, visible at recent pc.
riod, bore an ominous memento mo1 in Latin,
closing with the axiom of mortaty-"P Pro
phetae ipsi in secuium ViUum;" even proph-
cts do not live forever WestLoro' was
set off from Marlboro and Incorporated
as a town on the 18th of November, 1717
The first church was established in October
1924, with Rev. Ebenezer Parkman for its
first PASTOR "who, having obtained help OF
God continued to minister to the people in
holy things until within six weeks Of his
DEATH on the 9th Of December, 1882, in the
eightieth year OF his age, and the fitty-nnth Of
his ministry" The second parish of West
boro' was set off in 1744, and incorporated as
town in 1866 under the name of Northboro.
The heads of families resident here before it
became separate parish were :
John Brigham, Samuel Goodenow. Samuel Good
enow, Jr., David Goodenow, Nathaniel Cakes. Sim
con Howard, Sr., Gershom Fay, Sr., Thomas Ward,
Oliver Ward, Dea. Isaac Tomblin, Hezekiah Tom
bin, Ephraim Beeman, Joseph Wheeler, Simon
Rice, and Daniel Bartlett.
Rev. Peter Whitney, the historian of Wor.
cester county, was one of its early pastors.
Here, too, resided Mr.. Monis, an Italian, the
first Hebrew instructor at Cambridge, who left
Of
church, and very fragrant memory among
the poor. His grateful friends placed upon his
tombstone the following epitaph:-
Here lie buried the remains of
RABBI JUDAH MONS, NJ. A,
Late Hebrew Instructor
At Harvard College in Cambridge
In which Office he continued 40 years
He was by birth and religion jew,
But embraced the Christian Faith,
And was publickly baptized
AT Cambridge, A. ID. l122,
And departed this life
April 25th, 1854,
Aged eghty-one years two months,
and twenty-one days.
native branch of Jacob see
Which once from off its olive broke;
e-gratted from the living tree,
OF the revying sap partook.
From teeming Zions fertile womb,
AS dewy drops in early morn,
OF rising bodies from the tomb,
AT once be Israel's nation born.
The town of Southboro was set off from
Marlboro, and incorporated on the 9th of Ju-
ly, 1927, and soon after some three hundred
acres were taken from birmingham and an
nexed to the town. The first church was
established on the oath Of October, 1870, with
Rev Nathan Stone as pastor, who twas con-
tinued serving God in the Gospel of his Son,
to the great satisfaction of his people, for up
wards of half century.
The Morning of the Celebration.
The four Borough towns united in the cele-
bration of the second centennial anniversary of
the incorporation of the ancient mother Of
them all. The dawn of the fairest of June
mornings was saluted by the firing of cannon
and the peeling Of joyful bells. Those who
had already assembled were abroad at sunrise,
and the gaily decorated streets presented
most lively and picturesque appearance. Some
of the young men, organized in an ertempore
corps of Antiques and Horribles, made an ear
ly and formidable display, caricaturng some
of the peculiarties of fashion, with good effect,
and affording much amusement to the people
on the line of the route. There were twenty or
thirty people on foot and nearly as many vehi-
Giles. The decorations were profuse and in
good taste. The familiar coors of Colonel
Beals, the prince of decorators, were dis
played in all the principal Streets and all
the public buildings, with many private
residences were handsomely adorned. The
entrance of the road to Boyd's Hill was span.
ned by handsome arch bearing the name
"Fairmount," by which the hill is hereafter
to be known. Flags, streamers, and the EN-.
blems of public jubilee were everywhere visi.
BILE, and contributed very much to the mani
fest satisfaction and pleasure with which the
visitors generally entered upon the festivities.
Bands of music also paraded the streets, fill
ing the air with their lively strains. Soon
after ten o'clock, the procession commenced
forming, under the direction of the appointed
marshals, of whom Col. VIM. II. Wood was
chief The procession was led by the MARI
boro' Rife Company, under the command of
Capt Henry Whitcomb, with Gilmore's drum
corps as escort. The committee of arrange
ments, consisting of the following gentlemen,
came next with a silk banner -
Horauo Alger, S. J. Bucklin, o. w. Albee, Ste
Phen Morse, Edward wilkins, Jabez S. Witherbee,
Eber Howe, Hollis Loring, Elbridge Howe, Charles
brigham VIM. Wilson, b. Il. Underhl, George h.
Manson Lambert Bigeow. I'd, Samuel Boyd q NJ
ger. $3.50 " - ~
he officers of the day and invited guests
loiio"ea IN carriages, one of which contained
messs' Willard Newton, Jedediah Wood