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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Bay path. (search)
ev. John Eliot selected, on the old Connecticut path, as he called it, a location for the establishment of his seventh village of praying Indians. Still bearing southwestward, to Hopkinton, the track there swung round the north end of Whitehall pond and through southern Westboro into Grafton, crossing the Nipnet (Blackstone) river at a ford now within the village of Millbury. Dropping still more sharply southward, the path descended Federal hill into Oxford, and thence ran westward into Charlton, and by a rather circuitous way over Fisk hill into Sturbridge. There it led through what has been called Tantaskwee pass, exactly where the Worcester-Southbridge-Springfield trolley line passes to Fiskdale. Between Fiskdale and Brimfield (being still in Sturbridge) it touches the southern edge of the thousand acre tract which John Eliot had from the Indians in 1655. In Brimfield the path passed Quabaug Old Fort, of which I shall speak again. Thence westward into Monson, the path stri