Archives Box #1030
Container
Contains 26 Results:
Report of the Committee on the Form of Government, 1778
File — Container: Archives Box #1030, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
Abstract: "Although the [constitution] is, in general in our opinion unexceptionable, yet being under disagreeable necessity to accept or reject the whole, we are constrained to the latter for the following reasons: First, the constitution is not preceded by a bill of rights whereby the power of the assembly is not circumscribed, and they are left at liberty to alter or repeal at pleasure those very laws which are a principal part of the constitution and thereby sap it's very foundation....
Dates:
1778
Provincial Congress Action Against General Gage, 1775
File — Container: Archives Box #1030, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Abstract: "His excellency General Gage, since his arrival in this Colony hath conducted as an instrument in the hands of an arbitrary ministry to enslave this people; and a detachment of the troops under his command has of late been by him ordered to the Town of Concord to destroy the public stores deposited in that place for use of the Colony: and whereas by this clandestine, without any provocation given by them, have been illegally, wantonly, and inhumanely slaughtered by his troops. It...
Dates:
1775
An Act for Dividing the Town of Marlborough, and Erecting a New Town There by the Name of Southborough (1727 Chapter 13), 1727-07
File — Multiple Containers
Abstract
Acts and Resolves of Legislature
Commonwealth of Massachusetts1727, Chapter 13An Act For Dividing the Town of Marlborough, and Erecting
A New Town There by the Name of Southborough
Whereas the southerly part of the town of Marlborough, within the county of Middlesex, is competently filled with inhabitants, who labour under great difficulties by their remoteness from the place of publick worship, &c. and have thereupon made their application to the said...
Dates:
1727-07
Founding of Southborough
Collection — Container: Archives Box #1030
Identifier: TC005
Scope and Contents
The town of Southborough separated from Marlborough in July 1727 after local residents petitioned the legislature to form a new town because it was too far a distance for them to travel to church. Prior to its incorporation the area had been named ‘Stoney Brook’ after a local stream.This collection includes the original citizen’s petition that brought about the formation of Southborough, and the Act of Settling and Town Line Records which formalized the boundaries between...
Dates:
1727, 1878
Agreement between the City of Boston Water Board and the Town of Southborough, 1894
File — Container: Archives Box #1030, Folder: 08
Scope and Contents
Dated 2/14/1894. The agreement was confirmed by an act of Legislature, and approved 3/14/1894.
Dates:
1894
Town Utilities
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: TC027
Scope and Contents
This collection contains information on early utility services in the Town of Southborough. It is primarily composed of contracts between the Town of Southborough and gas, water, and electric companies.
The Marlborough Electric Company was founded in 1886, and extended its services to Southborough about 1900. It continued to expand in subsequent years, bringing electricity to Northborough in 1908, Berlin in 1909, Westborough in 1910, and Bolton in 1912.
The Boston Water Board was created in...
Dates:
1890 - 1950