Archive:Town Origins, Middlesex County
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Middlesex County - 1643
| Acton | came fr | Concord | 1735 (New Grant) |
| Acton | part to | Carlisle | 1780 |
| Acton | part to | Boxborough | 1783 |
| Agaganquamasset | joined | Marlborough | 1716 |
| Arlington | was | W_Cambridge | 1867 |
| Arlington | bound | Cambridge | 1911 |
| Ashby | came fr | Ashburnham | 1767 |
| Ashby | part fr | Fitchburg | 1767 |
| Ashby | part fr | Townsend | 1767 |
| Ashby | part fr | Ashburnham | 1792 |
| Ashby | part fr | Fitchburg | 1829 |
| Ashland | came fr | Hopkinton | 1846 (Unionville) |
| Ashland | part fr | Framingham | 1846 |
| Ashland | part fr | Holliston | 1846 |
| Ashland | part to | Hopkinton | 1853 |
| Ayer | came fr | Groton | 1871 (Groton Junction) |
| Ayer | part fr | Shirley | 1871 |
| Bedford | came fr | Concord | 1729 |
| Bedford | part fr | Billerica | 1729 |
| Bedford | part fr | Billerica | 1767 |
| Bedford | part fr | Lexington | 1768 |
| Belmont | came fr | W_Cambridge | 1859 |
| Belmont | part fr | Waltham | 1859 |
| Belmont | part fr | Watertown | 1859 |
| Belmont | part fr | Cambridge | 1862 |
| Belmont | part to | Cambridge | 1880 |
| Belmont | bound | Cambridge | 1891 |
| Billerica | was | Shawshine | 1655 |
| Billerica | bound | Woburn | 1666 |
| Billerica | bound | Woburn | 1669 |
| Billerica | bound | Chelmsford | 1701 |
| Billerica | bound | Concord | 1701 |
| Billerica | part to | Bedford | 1729 |
| Billerica | part to | Wilmington | 1733 |
| Billerica | part as | Tewksbury | 1734 |
| Billerica | bound | Woburn | 1741 |
| Billerica | part to | Bedford | 1767 |
| Billerica | part to | Carlisle | 1780 |
| Boxborough | came fr | Littleton | 1783 |
| Boxborough | part fr | Acton | 1783 |
| Boxborough | part fr | Harvard | 1783 |
| Boxborough | part fr | Stow | 1783 |
| Boxborough | bound | Littleton | 1890 |
| Brighton | came fr | Cambridge | 1807 (Little Cambridge) |
| Brighton | part fr | Cambridge | 1815 |
| Brighton | joined | Boston | 1873 |
| Burlington | came fr | Woburn | 1799 |
| Burlington | part to | Lexington | 1800 |
| Cambridge | was | Newtowne | 1638 |
| Cambridge | bound | Boston | 1641 |
| Cambridge | part as | Newton | 1691 (Cambridge Village) |
| Cambridge | part as | Lexington | 1712 (Cambridge Farms) |
| Cambridge | part to | Waltham | 1755 |
| Cambridge | part fr | Charlestown | 1761 |
| Cambridge | part fr | Charlestown | 1802 |
| Cambridge | part as | Brighton | 1807 (Little Cambridge) |
| Cambridge | part as | W_Cambridge | 1807 |
| Cambridge | part to | Brighton | 1815 |
| Cambridge | part fr | Charlestown | 1818 |
| Cambridge | part fr | Charlestown | 1820 |
| Cambridge | part fr | Watertown | 1855 |
| Cambridge | bound | Somerville | 1856 |
| Cambridge | part fr | W_Cambridge | 1862 |
| Cambridge | part to | Belmont | 1862 |
| Cambridge | part fr | Belmont | 1880 |
| Cambridge | part fr | Watertown | 1885 |
| Cambridge | bound | Belmont | 1891 |
| Cambridge | part fr | Watertown | 1898 |
| Cambridge | bound | Arlington | 1911 |
| Carlisle | came fr | Concord | 1780 |
| Carlisle | part fr | Acton | 1780 |
| Carlisle | part fr | Billerica | 1780 |
| Carlisle | part fr | Chelmsford | 1780 |
| Carlisle | part to | Chelmsford | 1783 |
| Carlisle | part fr | Chelmsford | 1865 |
| Carlisle | bound | Concord | 1903 |
| Charlestown | was | Mishawum | 1629 |
| Charlestown | part as | Woburn | 1642 (Charlestown Village) |
| Charlestown | part as | Malden | 1649 (Mystic Side) |
| Charlestown | part as | Stoneham | 1725 |
| Charlestown | part to | Malden | 1726 |
| Charlestown | part to | Medford | 1754 |
| Charlestown | part to | Cambridge | 1761 |
| Charlestown | part to | Cambridge | 1802 |
| Charlestown | part fr | Medford | 1811 |
| Charlestown | part to | Cambridge | 1818 |
| Charlestown | part to | Cambridge | 1820 |
| Charlestown | part as | Somerville | 1842 |
| Charlestown | part to | W_Cambridge | 1842 |
| Charlestown | joined | Boston | 1873 |
| Chelmsford | was | --- | 1655 |
| Chelmsford | bound | Patucket | 1660 |
| Chelmsford | bound | Billerica | 1701 |
| Chelmsford | part to | Littleton | 1725 |
| Chelmsford | annexed | Wameset | 1726 |
| Chelmsford | part as | Westford | 1729 (West Precinct) |
| Chelmsford | part to | Dunstable | 1755 |
| Chelmsford | part to | Carlisle | 1780 |
| Chelmsford | part fr | Carlisle | 1783 |
| Chelmsford | part as | Lowell | 1826 |
| Chelmsford | part to | Carlisle | 1865 |
| Chelmsford | part to | Lowell | 1874 |
| Concord | was | Musketaquid | 1635 |
| Concord | bound | Billerica | 1701 |
| Concord | bound | Stow | 1717 |
| Concord | part to | Littleton | 1725 |
| Concord | part as | Bedford | 1729 |
| Concord | part as | Acton | 1735 (New Grant) |
| Concord | part to | Lincoln | 1754 |
| Concord | part as | Carlisle | 1780 |
| Concord | bound | Carlisle | 1903 |
| Dracut | was | --- | 1701 |
| Dracut | part to | Lowell | 1851 |
| Dracut | part to | Lowell | 1874 |
| Dracut | part to | Lowell | 1879 |
| Dunstable | was | --- | 1673 |
| Dunstable | part as | Nottingham,NH | 1733 |
| Dunstable | part to | Litchfield,NH | 1735 |
| Dunstable | part fr | Groton | 1747 |
| Dunstable | part fr | Nottingham,NH | 1747 |
| Dunstable | part to | Groton | 1752 |
| Dunstable | part fr | Groton | 1753 |
| Dunstable | part fr | Nottingham,NH | 1754 |
| Dunstable | part fr | Chelmsford | 1755 |
| Dunstable | part as | Tyngsborough | 1789 |
| Dunstable | part to | Tyngsborough | 1792 |
| Dunstable | part fr | Groton | 1793 |
| Dunstable | part fr | Groton | 1796 |
| Dunstable | part to | Tyngsborough | 1798 |
| Dunstable | part fr | Groton | 1803 |
| Dunstable | bound | Groton | 1820 |
| E_Sudbury | came fr | Sudbury | 1780 |
| E_Sudbury | became | Wayland | 1835 |
| Everett | came fr | Malden | 1870 |
| Everett | part to | Medford | 1875 |
| Framingham | was | --- | 1675 |
| Framingham | part fr | Sherborne | 1700 |
| Framingham | bound | Sudbury | 1701 |
| Framingham | part to | Southborough | 1786 |
| Framingham | part to | Marlborough | 1791 |
| Framingham | part fr | Natick | 1822 |
| Framingham | part fr | Holliston | 1833 |
| Framingham | part to | Ashland | 1846 |
| Framingham | part fr | Natick | 1871 |
| Framingham | part fr | Natick | 1871 |
| Groton | was | Petapawag | 1655 |
| Groton | bound | Nashoba | 1715 |
| Groton | part to | Westford | 1730 |
| Groton | part to | Harvard | 1732 |
| Groton | part to | Dunstable | 1747 |
| Groton | part fr | Dunstable | 1752 |
| Groton | part as | Pepperell | 1753 (2nd precinct) |
| Groton | part as | Shirley | 1753 |
| Groton | part to | Dunstable | 1753 |
| Groton | part to | Dunstable | 1793 |
| Groton | part to | Dunstable | 1796 |
| Groton | part to | Shirley | 1798 |
| Groton | part fr | Pepperell | 1803 |
| Groton | part to | Dunstable | 1803 |
| Groton | bound | Dunstable | 1820 |
| Groton | part to | Pepperell | 1857 |
| Groton | part as | Ayer | 1871 (Groton Junction) |
| Holliston | came fr | Sherborne | 1724 |
| Holliston | part fr | Hopkinton | 1781 |
| Holliston | bound | Medway | 1829 |
| Holliston | part to | Framingham | 1833 |
| Holliston | bound | Milford | 1835 |
| Holliston | bound | Hopkinton | 1835 |
| Holliston | part to | Ashland | 1846 |
| Holliston | part to | Milford | 1859 |
| Hopkinton | was | --- | 1715 |
| Hopkinton | part to | Upton | 1735 |
| Hopkinton | part to | Holliston | 1781 |
| Hopkinton | part to | Upton | 1808 |
| Hopkinton | bound | Holliston | 1835 |
| Hopkinton | bound | Milford | 1835 |
| Hopkinton | part as | Ashland | 1846 (Unionville) |
| Hopkinton | part fr | Ashland | 1853 |
| Hudson | came fr | Marlborough | 1866 |
| Hudson | part fr | Stow | 1866 |
| Hudson | part fr | Bolton | 1868 |
| Lexington | came fr | Cambridge | 1712 (Cambridge Farms) |
| Lexington | part as | Lincoln | 1754 |
| Lexington | part to | Bedford | 1768 |
| Lexington | part fr | Burlington | 1800 |
| Lincoln | came fr | Lexington | 1754 |
| Lincoln | part fr | Concord | 1754 |
| Lincoln | part fr | Weston | 1754 |
| Littleton | was | Nashoba | 1715 |
| Littleton | part fr | Concord | 1725 |
| Littleton | part fr | Chelmsford | 1725 |
| Littleton | part as | Boxborough | 1783 |
| Littleton | bound | Boxborough | 1890 |
| Lowell | came fr | Chelmsford | 1826 |
| Lowell | part fr | Tewksbury | 1834 |
| Lowell | part fr | Dracut | 1851 |
| Lowell | part fr | Chelmsford | 1874 |
| Lowell | part fr | Dracut | 1874 |
| Lowell | part fr | Tewksbury | 1874 |
| Lowell | part fr | Dracut | 1879 |
| Lowell | part fr | Tewksbury | 1888 |
| Lowell | part fr | Tewksbury | 1906 |
| Malden | came fr | Charlestown | 1649 (Mystic Side) |
| Malden | part fr | Charlestown | 1726 |
| Malden | part to | Reading | 1727 |
| Malden | part to | Stoneham | 1734 |
| Malden | part to | Medford | 1817 |
| Malden | part as | Melrose | 1850 |
| Malden | part as | Everett | 1870 |
| Malden | part fr | Medford | 1877 |
| Malden | part fr | Medford | 1910 |
| Marlborough | was | --- | 1660 |
| Marlborough | annexed | Agaganquamasset | 1716 |
| Marlborough | part as | Westborough | 1717 (Chauncy) |
| Marlborough | part as | Southborough | 1727 |
| Marlborough | bound | Stow | 1783 |
| Marlborough | part to | Berlin | 1784 |
| Marlborough | part fr | Framingham | 1791 |
| Marlborough | bound | Northborough | 1807 |
| Marlborough | part to | Bolton | 1829 |
| Marlborough | part fr | Southborough | 1843 |
| Marlborough | part as | Hudson | 1866 |
| Maynard | came fr | Stow | 1871 (Assabet) |
| Maynard | part fr | Sudbury | 1871 |
| Medford | was | --- | 1630 |
| Medford | part fr | Charlestown | 1754 |
| Medford | part to | Charlestown | 1811 |
| Medford | part fr | Malden | 1817 |
| Medford | part to | Winchester | 1850 |
| Medford | part fr | Everett | 1875 |
| Medford | part to | Malden | 1877 |
| Medford | part to | Malden | 1910 |
| Melrose | came fr | Malden | 1850 |
| Melrose | part fr | Stoneham | 1853 |
| Mishawum | became | Charlestown | 1629 |
| Musketaquid | became | Concord | 1635 |
| N_Reading | came fr | Reading | 1853 |
| N_Reading | bound | Lynnfield | 1857 |
| Nashoba | became | Littleton | 1715 |
| Nashoba | bound | Groton | 1715 |
| Natick | bound | Sherborne | 1679 |
| Natick | part fr | Needham | 1744 |
| Natick | bound | Needham | 1797 |
| Natick | part fr | Sherborne | 1820 |
| Natick | part to | Framingham | 1822 |
| Natick | bound | Wayland | 1850 |
| Natick | part to | Framingham | 1871 |
| Natick | part to | Framingham | 1871 |
| New_Plantation | became | Sudbury | 1639 |
| Newton | came fr | Cambridge | 1691 (Cambridge Village) |
| Newton | part to | Roxbury | 1838 |
| Newton | part to | Waltham | 1849 |
| Newton | part fr | Boston | 1875 |
| Newtowne | was | --- | 1631 |
| Newtowne | bound | Roxbury | 1635 |
| Newtowne | became | Cambridge | 1638 |
| Patucket | bound | Chelmsford | 1660 |
| Pepperell | came fr | Groton | 1753 (2nd precinct) |
| Pepperell | part to | Groton | 1803 |
| Pepperell | part fr | Groton | 1857 |
| Petapawag | became | Groton | 1655 |
| Pigsgusset | became | Watertown | 1630 |
| Pompositticut | became | Stow | 1683 |
| Reading | came fr | Lynn | 1644 (Lynn Village) |
| Reading | part fr | Malden | 1727 |
| Reading | part as | Wilmington | 1730 |
| Reading | part to | Stoneham | 1734 |
| Reading | part to | Stoneham | 1751 |
| Reading | part as | S_Reading | 1812 (1st parish) |
| Reading | part fr | S_Reading | 1813 |
| Reading | part as | N_Reading | 1853 |
| S_Reading | came fr | Reading | 1812 (1st parish) |
| S_Reading | part to | Reading | 1813 |
| S_Reading | part fr | Stoneham | 1856 |
| S_Reading | became | Wakefield | 1868 |
| Shawshine | became | Billerica | 1655 |
| Sherborn | was | Sherborne | 1852 |
| Sherborne | was | --- | 1674 |
| Sherborne | bound | Natick | 1679 |
| Sherborne | part to | Framingham | 1700 |
| Sherborne | part as | Holliston | 1724 |
| Sherborne | part to | Natick | 1820 |
| Sherborne | became | Sherborn | 1852 |
| Shirley | came fr | Groton | 1753 |
| Shirley | part fr | Groton | 1798 |
| Shirley | part to | Ayer | 1871 |
| Somerville | came fr | Charlestown | 1842 |
| Somerville | bound | Cambridge | 1856 |
| Stoneham | came fr | Charlestown | 1725 |
| Stoneham | part fr | Malden | 1734 |
| Stoneham | part fr | Reading | 1734 |
| Stoneham | part fr | Reading | 1751 |
| Stoneham | part to | Melrose | 1853 |
| Stoneham | part to | S_Reading | 1856 |
| Stoneham | part to | Wakefield | 1889 |
| Stoneham | part fr | Woburn | 1895 |
| Stow | was | Pompositticut | 1683 |
| Stow | bound | Concord | 1717 |
| Stow | part fr | Sudbury | 1730 |
| Stow | part to | Harvard | 1732 |
| Stow | bound | Marlborough | 1783 |
| Stow | part to | Boxborough | 1783 |
| Stow | part to | Hudson | 1866 |
| Stow | part as | Maynard | 1871 (Assabet) |
| Sudbury | was | New_Plantation | 1639 |
| Sudbury | bound | Watertown | 1651 |
| Sudbury | bound | Framingham | 1701 |
| Sudbury | part to | Stow | 1730 |
| Sudbury | part as | E_Sudbury | 1780 |
| Sudbury | part to | Maynard | 1871 |
| Tewksbury | came fr | Billerica | 1734 |
| Tewksbury | part to | Lowell | 1834 |
| Tewksbury | part to | Lowell | 1874 |
| Tewksbury | part to | Lowell | 1888 |
| Tewksbury | bound | Andover | 1903 |
| Tewksbury | part to | Lowell | 1906 |
| Townsend | came fr | Lunenburg | 1732 (Turkey Hill) |
| Townsend | part to | Ashby | 1767 |
| Tyngsborough | came fr | Dunstable | 1789 |
| Tyngsborough | part fr | Dunstable | 1792 |
| Tyngsborough | part fr | Dunstable | 1798 |
| W_Cambridge | came fr | Cambridge | 1807 |
| W_Cambridge | part fr | Charlestown | 1842 |
| W_Cambridge | part to | Winchester | 1850 |
| W_Cambridge | part as | Belmont | 1859 |
| W_Cambridge | part to | Cambridge | 1862 |
| W_Cambridge | became | Arlington | 1867 |
| Wakefield | was | S_Reading | 1868 |
| Wakefield | part fr | Stoneham | 1889 |
| Waltham | came fr | Watertown | 1738 |
| Waltham | part fr | Cambridge | 1755 |
| Waltham | part fr | Newton | 1849 |
| Waltham | part to | Belmont | 1859 |
| Wameset | joined | Chelmsford | 1726 |
| Watertown | was | Pigsgusset | 1630 |
| Watertown | bound | Sudbury | 1651 |
| Watertown | part as | Weston | 1712 |
| Watertown | part as | Waltham | 1738 |
| Watertown | part to | Cambridge | 1855 |
| Watertown | part to | Belmont | 1859 |
| Watertown | part to | Cambridge | 1885 |
| Watertown | part to | Cambridge | 1898 |
| Wayland | was | E_Sudbury | 1835 |
| Wayland | bound | Natick | 1850 |
| Westford | came fr | Chelmsford | 1729 (West Precinct) |
| Westford | part fr | Groton | 1730 |
| Weston | came fr | Watertown | 1712 |
| Weston | part to | Lincoln | 1754 |
| Wilmington | came fr | Reading | 1730 |
| Wilmington | part fr | Woburn | 1730 |
| Wilmington | part fr | Billerica | 1733 |
| Winchester | came fr | Woburn | 1850 |
| Winchester | part fr | Medford | 1850 |
| Winchester | part fr | W_Cambridge | 1850 |
| Woburn | came fr | Charlestown | 1642 (Charlestown Village) |
| Woburn | bound | Billerica | 1666 |
| Woburn | bound | Billerica | 1669 |
| Woburn | part to | Wilmington | 1730 |
| Woburn | bound | Billerica | 1741 |
| Woburn | part as | Burlington | 1799 |
| Woburn | part as | Winchester | 1850 |
| Woburn | part to | Stoneham | 1895 |
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