Quaboag Plantation Section
Sketches from "Quaboag Plantation Alias Brookefeild"
350th Anniversary of Quaboag Plantation
Site Map for Quaboag Plantation
The Stories: The Planters, The Planters' Families, The Indians, King Philip, The Settlement, The Siege, The Village
Our new section is a "Story" about the "Original Planters " as told by Dr. Louis E. Roy, who wrote the book "Quaboag Plantation Alias Brookefeild" published in 1965. Dr. Roy lived and practiced medicine in West Brookfield. Our new section is the story as told by him and is a remembrance of Dr. Roy. WBHC
We hope you enjoy our story.
Step back to a time when America was new, follow in the footsteps of history and join us in a journey into the historical roots of the Quaboag Plantation.
The story of the planters and their way of life, plus a reasonably accurate description of the village that arose from the wilderness of the Nipmuck country to become Quaboag Plantation, is the drama of 12 families clustered atop a knoll surrounded by Indian villages.
In August of 1675, during King Philip's War, the Siege of Brookfield took place on what was Prichard's Hill in Quaboag Plantation. Today this is Foster Hill, West Brookfield.
Who were the residents in the village at the time of the Indian assault? The Indians who had inhabited this land before the settlers arrived were the Quaboag, a part of the Nipmuck.
The Quaboag Plantation today is made up of 6 towns: Brookfield, North Brookfield, West Brookfield, East Brookfield, New Braintree, and Warren. The Town which is now West Brookfield encompasses the site of the first settlement on Quaboag Plantation.
This section, Quaboag Plantation, is a work in progress, new pages will continue to be added.
Source: "Quaboag Plantation Alias Brookefeild" by Louis E. Roy, M. D., 1965, West Brookfield, MA., The Heffernan Press, Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts.
The WBHC is using Dr. Roy's book as the main source of information in our new section.
For any page not from Dr. Roy's Book, the Source will be at the bottom of that page.