128 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



NAMING OF GROTON. 



The following extract from the Reverend William Hub- 

 bard's " General History of New England, from the Dis- 

 covery to MDCLXX" (second edition, Boston, 1848), refers 

 to the naming of the town of Groton. 



Two more Plantations or townships were this year [1655] granted, 

 the one at Shashin, upon a river falling into the Merrimack, called 

 Billerica ; the other higher above Concord, called Groton. 



Thus did the inhabitants of New England, that it might not be 

 forgotten whence they had their original, imprint some remembrance 

 of their former habitations in England upon their new dwellings in 

 America (p. 545). 



REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS. 



In the year 1841, " A Census of Pensioners for Revolution- 

 ary or Military Services " was published under the direction 

 of the United States government, which gave the names, ages, 

 and places of residence of all pensioners then living, as well as 

 the names of heads of families with whom they were residing. 

 The list includes presumably all the surviving Revolutionary 

 soldiers at that period ; and among them are the names of ten 

 Groton men, as follows : — 



Names. Ages. With whom living. 



Abel Prescott. 80 Abel Prescolt. 



William Prescott. 72 Merrick Lewis. 



Joshua Parker. 76 Joshua Parker. 



William Tarbell. 76 William Tarbell. 



Jacob Nutting. 93 Jacob Nutting. 



Isaac Patch. 78 Isaac Patch. 



Joseph Sawtell, 2d. 76 Joseph Sawtell, 2nd. 



David Lakin. 89 David Lakin. 



Amos Farnsworth. 86 Amos Farnsworth. 



Stephen Pingrey. 82 John Pingrey. 



