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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 536 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WESTBORO , a township of See also:

Worcester See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., about 12 M. E. of Worcester. Pop. (189o) 5195; (1900) 5400 (1127 being See also:foreign-See also:born); (1905, See also:state See also:census) 5378; (1910) 5446. Westboro is served by the See also:Boston & See also:Albany railway and by interurban electric lines. See also:Area, about 22 sq. m. It has a public library, which has belonged to the township since 1857; and here are the Lyman School for Boys, a state See also:industrial institution (opened in 1886 and succeeding a state reform school opened in 1846), and the Westboro Insane See also:Hospital (homoeopathic, 1884), which is under the See also:general supervision of the State See also:Board of See also:Insanity. There are manufactures of boots and shoes, See also:straw and See also:leather goods, carpets, &c. Westboro was the birthplace of See also:Eli See also:Whitney, inventor of the See also:cotton See also:gin. The first See also:settlement here was made about 1659 in a See also:part of Marlboro called See also:Chauncy (because of a See also:grant of 500 acres here to See also:Charles Chauncy, See also:president of Harvard See also:College, made in 1659 and revoked in 166o by the General See also:Court of Massachusetts). In 1717 this part of Marlboro, with other lands, was erected into the township of Westboro, to which parts of See also:Sutton (1728), See also:Shrewsbury (1762 and 1793) and Upton (1763) were subsequently annexed, and from which Northboro was separated in 1766.

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