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In 1752, Primus married again to Rose Canterbury and bought a farm on the west side of the Nashua River in the Pepperell section of Groton, Massachusetts and they had two children. Primus and Margret Lew's oldest son Barzillai (pronounced BAR-zeal-ya) often called "Zeal" or "Zelah," was born a free black in Groton, Massachusetts November 5 ...
Charles Lewis Blood was born 1835 in Groton, Massachusetts; [3] he claimed to be the son of Dr. Louis Blood, a physician, though this was correctly believed at the time to be a fabrication. [4] His father was actually Lewis Blood (1805–1887), a successful farmer, timber dealer, contractor and prominent citizen in Ayer (formerly Groton ...
Groton, Massachusetts is located 32 mi (51 km)s north-west of Boston. [1] During the time of Elizabeth Knapp's possession it was located in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.In 1676, just four years after the Knapp case, the town was attacked by 400 Native Americans, and all but a few of the homes were destroyed in the attack. [3]
Due to non-settlement the land was regranted in 1766, then renewed in 1772. In 1796, one of the later grantees, Samuel Blood, succeeded in renaming the town after his hometown, Groton, Massachusetts. [3] [4] Groton's surface is uneven, although farmers found the soil arable for growing corn and potatoes.
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Apr. 28—GROTON — When Pfizer was developing and testing the COVID-19 antiviral pill Paxlovid, the first molecule was analyzed in Groton. The initial studies to determine the potency were done ...
In 1693, James Avery made preparation for having a comfortable elderly age. He deeded his land to each of his sons, but he made a final provision as his deed shows: "that I the said James Avery senior, do reserve the north end of the dwelling house during my life and the life of my wife Johanna Avery and also the full moitey or one half part of the neat product or increase of all the land ...
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