Front:
Day House, 1752. Oldest House in Winchendon, Mass.
Back:
Richard Day was a permanent settler and
built the Day house in 1752. He was the
first deacon of the church and was killed by
the falling of a tree on May 3, 1774. He was
รก useful man and his
and his decease
decease was much
lamented.
On October 24, 1753, the first
Proprietors' Meeting was held within the
township at the house of Richard Day.
Voted: That the sum of three hundred
pounds old tenor be raised in order to for-
tify the township against Indian raids.
Marvin's History of Winchendon, 1868.
Plate 2144
GREAT BRITAIN
Photographed and published by Mrs. A. E. Folsom, Winchendon, Mass.
