Founders' Park

Mendon, known as “the old mother town,” was settled in 1663 and incorporated in 1667, and eight towns are now located on its original territory. Near this spot, Mendon’s first three meeting houses were built. The founders named in order of settlement include the 1668 founders Ferdinando Thayer, George Aldrich, Daniel Lovett, John Moore, John Woodland, John Barber, Matthias Puffer, Joseph White, John Thompson, Walter Cook, Abraham Staples, John Gurney, and John Rockwood; the 1680 founders Col. William Crown, John Jepson, Rev. Joseph Emerson, Samuel Hayward, Benjamin Albee, William Holbrook, Job Tyler, Joseph Stevens, John Warfield, Angel Torrey, John Parish, Timothy Winter, and John Sprague; and the 1690 founders Rev. Grindall Rawson, George Sumner, Robert Taft, Benjamin Wheelock, Josiah Chapin, James Keith, John Farnum, Joshua Lazell, Samuel Read, Joseph Plumly, John Post, Eleazer Daniels, and John Jones. John Bartlett was omitted as a founder on the monument but was here by 1672 before many others named among the founders. The above names are given in the order of their settlement from 1663 to 1770.

Mendon, Massachusetts · United States