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Brookfield, Worcester, MA
Brookfield was first settled in 1660 and was officially incorporated in 1718. The town was settled by men from Ipswich as part of the Quaboag Plantation lands. kids.kiddle.co
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- 1664 - Brookfield is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates - 1718 - Brookfield is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates - General Henry Knox and his troops passed through here in the winter of 1775-76 with a load of 59 cannons pulled by teams of oxen.
The cannons were captured from the British at Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. They were transported from Lake Champlain to Dorchester Heights,...Read MORE... - 1778 - Bathsheba Spooner
In March 1778, Joshua Spooner, a wealthy farmer in Brookfield, was beaten to death and his body stuffed down a well. Four people were hanged for the...Read MORE... - 1845 - BROOKFIELD. [Pop. 2,472. Inc. 1673.]
Brookfield was originally granted to persons from Ipswich, in Essex county, and it was long a connecting link between the eastern towns and those on...Read MORE... - 1848 - Brookfield
This town was granted to a number of the inhabitants of Ispwich, in the county of Essex, by the general court, (upon their petition,) in May, 1660....Read MORE... - 1854 - Brookfield
Brookfield, a post-township of Worcester county, Massachusetts, 55 miles W. by S. from Boston. Population, 1674.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854. - 1859
BROOKFIELD, a township of Worcester co., in the state of Massachusetts, 60 m. W of Boston. It is generally well-cultivated. On its first settlement...Read MORE... 
1888 - The wife, daughter and two grandchildren of W. B. Jones were drowned by the upsetting of a boat on the 21st on a pond at Brookfield, Mass.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 28, 1888- Brookfield Massachusetts, 1890
Brookfield lies in the southwestern part of Worcester, 55 miles from Boston by the Boston and Albany Railroad, whose stations are at Brookfield and...Read MORE... - 1895 - Brookfield
Brookfield, a post-village of Worcester co., Mass., in Brookfield township, and on the Boston & Albany Railroad, 23 miles W. by S. from Worcester,...Read MORE... 
Brookfield Cemetery
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Congregational Church
Postcard- 1904 - ARCHBISHOP IN WRECK.
Special Train Strikes an Engine, but No One Is Injured.
East Brookfield, Mass., Sept 23. - The special train conveying the Archbishop of...Read MORE... 
Brookfield Inn
Postcard- 1916
Brookfield , a banking post-village of Worcester co., Mass., in Brookfield township (town), on the Boston and Albany R.. 23 miles W. by S. of...Read MORE...
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Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
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Brookfield Cemetery
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Brookfield Inn
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1664 - Brookfield is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1718 - Brookfield is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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General Henry Knox and his troops passed through here in the winter of 1775-76 with a load of 59 cannons pulled by teams of oxen.
The cannons were captured from the British at Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. They were transported from Lake Champlain to Dorchester Heights,... Read MORE...
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1778 - Bathsheba Spooner
In March 1778, Joshua Spooner, a wealthy farmer in Brookfield, was beaten to death and his body stuffed down a well. Four people were hanged for the... Read MORE...
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1845 - BROOKFIELD. [Pop. 2,472. Inc. 1673.]
Brookfield was originally granted to persons from Ipswich, in Essex county, and it was long a connecting link between the eastern towns and those on... Read MORE...
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1848 - Brookfield
This town was granted to a number of the inhabitants of Ispwich, in the county of Essex, by the general court, (upon their petition,) in May, 1660.... Read MORE...
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1854 - Brookfield
Brookfield, a post-township of Worcester county, Massachusetts, 55 miles W. by S. from Boston. Population, 1674.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
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1859
BROOKFIELD, a township of Worcester co., in the state of Massachusetts, 60 m. W of Boston. It is generally well-cultivated. On its first settlement... Read MORE...
1888 - The wife, daughter and two grandchildren of W. B. Jones were drowned by the upsetting of a boat on the 21st on a pond at Brookfield, Mass.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 28, 1888
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Brookfield Massachusetts, 1890
Brookfield lies in the southwestern part of Worcester, 55 miles from Boston by the Boston and Albany Railroad, whose stations are at Brookfield and... Read MORE...
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1895 - Brookfield
Brookfield, a post-village of Worcester co., Mass., in Brookfield township, and on the Boston & Albany Railroad, 23 miles W. by S. from Worcester,... Read MORE...
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1904 - ARCHBISHOP IN WRECK.
Special Train Strikes an Engine, but No One Is Injured.
East Brookfield, Mass., Sept 23. - The special train conveying the Archbishop of... Read MORE...
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1916
Brookfield , a banking post-village of Worcester co., Mass., in Brookfield township (town), on the Boston and Albany R.. 23 miles W. by S. of... Read MORE...
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