1705 The first mill on Market Street built and operated by the French '. Stephen.. French was: one of the lot owners of the Hatherly Grant in the western section. See the foot notes in Aaron Hobart's Sketches, page 13 

1706 July 4th. Petition presented to the Central Court for the incorporation of the Town of Abington.

  1706 August 9th. The first survey and map Abington by Samuel Thaxter. See .front piece in booklet 150th Celebration of Abington June 1862.

  1712 June l0th. Petition presented by the General Court and the Town of Abington incorporated.

  1726 The First Census. See Aaron Hobart's Sketches, page 86. ? , 

1727 Loss of territory upon the incorporation of the Town 'of Hanover .

  1735 Peleg Stetson built the first frame house on Market Street at the Junction of old Market Street. The Stetsons remained here for. some generations are very active in farming arid civil affairs

  1740 Abram Shaw gave to the early settlers living between the Weymouth Line and the brook that crosses Liberty Street near the Thomas Lane place, an acre of land on the south side of North Liberty; Street for a burial place those outside the prescribed bounds not to have sepulcher there. In this cemetery is the grave of Caleb Chard. who served in the Colonial Army during the French and Indian Wars and later fought under Washington in the Revolutionary War. Many other soldiers of Revolution. some of whom followed the flag from Bunker Hill to Yorktown, rest here .. well as some of the patriots of the War of 1812.

  1740 Maplewood burial grounds were first . used for burials at this time. When the road known as Webster was straightened and widened we seem to have more knowledge of the burials which follow in line from 1754.

  1743.1745 The opening up of the roadway now known as Center A venue. It derives its name Center because of the link from the Center of the old town to the eastern section and was one of the. first highways of our town. 

1746-1754 A precinct including a small portion of land in the southeast corner of Abington was annexed to the Town of Pembroke, now the

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1755-1783 Doctor David Jones was the to first regular physician settled here. He and his son, Doctor David JoDe8, Jr. were c very prominent in the town affairs for a number of years. His son was a leader among the patriots of the Revolution and served as a surgeon in Colonel Gerrish's Regiment He studied. With Dr. Joseph Warren and was: with him at Bunker Hill. The original hour is located at the junction of Arlington and Plain Street and is still standing, bearing a bronze tablet marked by the. D. A. R.

  1756-1763 Participation in the Old French War. . See Aaron Hobart's Sketches, pages 103-106. 

1762 The first school 8essiona of Eat Abington were held in the southwest room of the J. cob Smith place on Liberty Street. The site now is occupied by the H. H. Arnold Machine Co. 

1765 The building of the tint school house in- East Abington on Liberty Street near the site of the H. H. Arnold Machine Co. "At a legal town meeting held on May 2Oth. 1765 relative to schooling the town made the Fourth Division as follows: The Fourth Division near Jacob Smith's house where a school now stands and those of the (inhabitant) that are near this school than any other (that we have appointed for a school house) we call the Fourth Division." Extract found in the Abington Town Meeting Records. page 41. 

1775 A school hour was built on Market Street near the Amiel Thompson place, now owned and occupied by Mrs. Walter Bryant This was: probably the third school house of our town and was later purchased by Josiah Torrey in 1847 and converted into a part of the soap establishment owned and operated by him. This was known as: school district No.10, which extended from John Wi1kes, corner of Summer Street down Mill Hill to Market Street on to the Hanover Line. 

1776-1783 Participation in the Revolutionary War. See Aaron Hobart's Sketches, pages 107-124. 

1770 The Second Census. 

1793 The shoe business was introduced by Thomas Hunt. It was located in the Hath District on Union Street. It progressed from the home work bench with the crude hand tools to the neighborhood shops. The shoe. business has steadily grown from these early beginnings to the spacious factories and the modern machinery of today being the largest shoe manufacturing district together with its allied products m the country.

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