Editor’s note: Allison Milne is a senior at Westborough High School and a volunteer in the Local History department of the Westborough Public Library.   Ebenezer Parkman was not one of the original members of the town of Westborough, but without this man as its first minister who knows what would have become of our

John Maynard Sr. 1612-1672, of Sudbury Meadows, signer of the Marlborough Petition in 1656 and a founding member of Marlborough in 1660. John II, 1630-1711, immigrated with his father in 1638 and settled in Marlborough. Ensign John Maynard, 1661-1731, Captain John Maynard, Westborough, 1690-1757, Stephen B. Maynard, Westborough, 1720-1796. Captain John Maynard Captain John Maynard

Introduction to Chauncy Village When Chauncy Village was established as Westborough, the 100th town of Colonial Massachusetts in 1717 there were fewer than 100 residents living in the area west of Marlborough which included the north precinct (now Northborough). In 1720 the first meetinghouse was built on Powder Hill and in 1724 Reverend Ebenezer Parkman