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NATICK , a township of S.E. See also:Middlesex See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the S.E. end of Cochituate See also:Lake. Pop. (1890) 9118; (1900) 9488, of whom 1788 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 9866. The See also:area of the township is 12.375 sq. m. The township's largest See also:village, also named Natick, lying 18 m. W.S.W. of See also:Boston, is served by the Boston & See also:Albany railroad; it has the See also:Walnut See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill preparatory school, the Leonard See also:Morse See also:hospital, and a public library, the Morse See also:institute, which was given by See also:Mary See also:Ann Morse (1825–1862) and was built in 1873. In the village of See also:South Natick is the See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon See also:Free Library (188o), in which is housed the See also:Historical, Natural See also:History and Library Society. In 1905 the factory product was valued at $3,453,094; the boots and shoes manufactured in 1905 were valued at $2,896,110 or 83.g% of the See also:town's See also:total, the output of brogans being especially important. Other distinctive manufactures are shirts and See also:base-balls. Natick is the See also:Indian name, signifying " our See also:land," or " hilly land," of the site (originally See also:part of See also:Dedham) granted in 165o to See also:John See also:Eliot, for the " praying " See also:Indians. There was an Indian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church in Natick, at what is now called South Natick or " Oldtown," from 166o to 1716; and for some years the community was governed, in accordance with the eighteenth See also:chapter of See also:Exodus, by " rulers of tens," " rulers of fifties," and " rulers of hundreds." Until 1719 the Indians held the land in See also:common. In 1735 the few Indians remaining were put under guardianship. The township owns a copy of Eliot's Indian See also:Bible. An Eliot See also:monument was erected in 1847 on the Indian burying-ground near the site of the Indian church, now occupied by a Unitarian church. Of the Eliot oaks, made famous by See also:Longfellow's See also:sonnet, one was cut down in 1842, the other still stands. See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson learned to make shoes here, and in the presidential See also:campaign in 184o gained the See also:sobriquet of the " Natick cobbler." By the colonial authorities Natick was considered as a " See also:plantation " until the See also:establishment of the church; in 1762 the See also:parish (erected in 1745) became a See also:district, and in 1781 this was incorporated as a town.
See " Natick," by S. D. See also:Hosmer, See also:Daniel See also:Wight and See also:Austin Bacon, in vol. 2 of S. A. See also:Drake's History of Middlesex County (Boston, 188o) ; and See also:Oliver N. Bacon, History of the Town of Natick (Boston, 1856).
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