The Winter of 1718-19 in Worcester
December 13, 2018
The following is a chapter excerpt from Charles Knowles Bolton’s Scotch Irish Pioneers: Cotton Mather had in mind very early that the emigrants from Ulster would be useful settlers on the frontier. In 1718 the village of Worcester could claim a position on the Massachusetts frontier, although it lay only forty miles from Boston. First settled … More The Winter of 1718-19 in Worcester