[1] Though a large area, stretching as far west as Concord and as far south as Walpole, it is estimated there were fewer than 300 Catholics.
[10] For the next three years Slattery's 17-year-old brother-in-law, John Doggett, would bring Strain from Waltham and back to minister to the needs of the small congregation.
[4][12] During the Revolution, the Worthington Street land was the site of an encampment for French troops under the command of Count Rochambeau.
[10][1] The home's original location was first owned by Daniel Morse and then became the homestead of John Hunting, the first ruling elder of the First Church and Parish in Dedham in 1638.
[10][13][1] He was well educated, had a practical knowledge of agriculture and arbor culture, and set out many of the trees in Dedham.