Every date mentioned across the 69 transcribed leaves (Westerly_Precinct_001.txt – 069.txt). Dates marked uncertain (not given as an explicit numeral in the manuscript, but calculated from the text) appear twice: once as read, and once again with 2000 added to the year.
| Date | Leaf | HTML | XCRIPT | Event |
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| 1714 Oct 28 | 005 | HTML | XCRIPT | General Court orders a distinct precinct on the west side of the Sudbury River (referenced in the 1721 warrant). |
| 1721 Jun 9 | 005 | HTML | XCRIPT | General Court grants the precinct power to call and settle its own minister. |
| 1721 Nov 27 | 005 | HTML | XCRIPT | Justice Francis Fullam, at Weston, issues the warrant to Constable Josiah Haydon. |
| 1721 Dec 11 | 006 | HTML | XCRIPT | Constable Haydon returns that he has warned the inhabitants. |
| 1721 Dec 18 | 006 | HTML | XCRIPT | First precinct meeting, at Deacon John Clap's house. John Balcom chosen moderator and clerk; committee chosen; Mr. Minott engaged to preach six weeks. |
| 1721/22 Jan 23 | 007 | HTML | XCRIPT | Committee orders Clerk Balcom to warn a meeting for 5 February. |
| 1721/22 Feb 5 | 007 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: John Brigham chosen moderator; voted to have a minister preach; George Pitts's house made the meeting place. |
| 1721/22 Mar 19 | 008 | HTML | XCRIPT | Committee warns a meeting for 29 March to choose precinct officers. |
| 1722 Mar 29 | 008 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting on Rocky Plain: Peter Hayns moderator. Committee, Clerk, assessors, Treasurer, Collector chosen; committee named to invite Rev. Israel Loring. |
| 1722 Apr 6 | 009 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 12 April. |
| 1722 Apr 12 | 009 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: committee named to meet the General Court's committee over the meetinghouse site; Noah Clap keeps the key. |
| 1722 May 21 | 011 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 6 June, to invite Rev. Israel Loring. |
| 1722 Jun 6 | 011 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: David Hayns moderator. Voted to invite Loring and offer £100 settlement; adjourned to 18 June. |
| 1722 Jun 18 | 011 | HTML | XCRIPT | Adjourned meeting: voted to cut and cart Loring's firewood; adjourned to 10 July. |
| 1722 Jul 10 | 012 | HTML | XCRIPT | Adjourned meeting: Loring accepts the call in writing; granted six acres at Pony Meadow. |
| Date | Leaf | HTML | XCRIPT | Event |
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| 1722 Aug 24 | 014 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 31 August. |
| 1722 Aug 31 | 014 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: £10 granted for Loring's wood; £100 settlement ordered rated; voted to build a new meetinghouse, 40 x 30 x 20 ft. |
| 1722 Oct 22 | 016 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 31 October. |
| 1722 Oct 31 | 015 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: committee named to petition the General Court over the East Side's refusal to help build; burying ground settled near Pine Hill. |
| 1722 Nov 30 | 017 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 7 December. |
| 1722 Dec 7 | 017 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: motion to contract out building of the meetinghouse fails. |
| 1722 Dec 14 | 018 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 19 December. |
| 1722 Dec 19 | 018 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: dimensions fixed at 46 x 38 x 21 ft; committee sent to price the building; adjourned to 28 December. |
| 1722 Dec 28 | 019 | HTML | XCRIPT | Adjourned meeting: committee empowered to let the building out to a workman; adjourned to 11 January. |
| 1722/23 Jan 11 | 019 | HTML | XCRIPT | Adjourned meeting: committee reports the cost at £410; prices agreed for timber and boards. |
| 1722/23 Feb 4 | 021 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: timber prices raised; Abraham Wood undertakes to build and finish the house for £400. |
| 1722/23 Feb 18 | 022 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: committee empowered to covenant and bond with Abraham Wood. |
| 1722/23 Mar 22 | 023 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 25 March, to choose the year's officers. |
| 1722/23 Mar 25 | 023 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Hopestill Brown moderator. Committee, Clerk, assessors, Treasurer, Collector (Zachariah Maynard) chosen and sworn; voted to raise the frame by free contribution. |
| 1723 Apr 10 | 024 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 24 April. |
| 1723 Apr 24 | 024 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: raising site confirmed; voted against hiring a "gin" to raise the frame. |
| 1723 Jun 24 | 025 | HTML | XCRIPT | Proprietors of the Common Land grant the precinct three acres (referenced at the 15 July meeting). |
| 1723 Jul 4 | 025 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 15 July. |
| 1723 Jul 15 | 026 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: accepts the 24 June land grant; Loring surrenders a strip of land for a highway. |
| 1723 Aug 9 | 027 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 12 August. |
| 1723 Aug 12 | 027 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: committee named to petition that the East Side farmers remain part of Sudbury rather than be laid to Natick. |
| 1723 Jan 21 | 028 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 3 February, on pews, the pulpit cushion, and the baptizing basin. |
| 1723/24 Feb 3 | 029 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: motion to build pews in the vacant room fails; Deacon Clap to buy a cushion and basin; Richard Graves to dig graves. |
| 1723/24 Feb 20 | 039 | HTML | XCRIPT | Receipt: Israel Loring acknowledges £100 settlement money from Treasurer John Clap. |
| 1723/24 Mar 16 | 030 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for the last Monday of March. |
| 1724 Mar 30 | 030 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Peter Hayns moderator. Committee, Clerk, Treasurer, Collector (Benjamin Parmenter) chosen. |
| 1724 Jul 8 | 032 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 13 July. |
| 1724 Jul 13 | 032 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: £20 granted for Loring's firewood and clearing ministerial land. Second order same day calls a meeting for 24 July. |
| 1724 Jul 24 | 033 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: votes to surrender old East Side meetinghouse materials (except the bell), seeking full separation from the East Precinct. |
| Date | Leaf | HTML | XCRIPT | Event |
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| 1724/25 Mar 12 | 035 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 22 March. |
| 1724/25 Mar 22 | 035 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: David Hayns moderator; Clerk, assessors, Treasurer, Collector (Joseph Gibbs) chosen and sworn. |
| 1725 Apr 6 | 036 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 16 April. |
| 1725 Apr 16 | 037 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Nathaniel Gibbs contracts to supply Loring's firewood for £8; committee named to run the ministerial land's bounds. |
| 1725 May 31 | 038 | HTML | XCRIPT | Receipt: Abraham Wood and Joseph Dakin acknowledge final payment, completing £400 in full for the meetinghouse. |
| 1725 Nov 24 | 039 | HTML | XCRIPT | Notification of a meeting warned for 10 December. |
| 1725 Dec 10 | 039 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Noah Clap moderator; land-clearing funds released to Loring; burying place ordered cleared of timber. |
| 1725 Dec 27 | 040 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 17 January. |
| 1725/26 Jan 17 | 040 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Loring agrees to give up his firewood allowance for £20 a year; committee named to seat the meetinghouse; adjourned to 31 January. |
| 1725/26 Jan 31 | 041 | HTML | XCRIPT | Adjourned meeting: building pews at precinct expense voted down; seating to follow the three building-rate invoices. |
| 1725/26 Mar 11 | 043 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 21 March. |
| 1725/26 Mar 21 | 043 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Noah Clap moderator; Clerk and Treasurer Josiah Brown Jr. chosen and sworn. |
| 1726 Jul 15 | 044 | HTML | XCRIPT | Under a General Court resolve, order to warn a meeting for 19 July to elect officers not yet chosen. |
| 1726 Jul 19 | 044 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: John Rice moderator; committee and Clerk chosen; second order issued same day for a 29 July meeting. |
| 1726 Jul 29 | 045 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Noah Clap moderator; allowances paid for sweeping, grave-digging, and clearing the burying ground. |
| 1726 Jan 10 | 047 | HTML | XCRIPT | Receipt: Israel Loring acknowledges £8 11s 8d, the remainder of the £20 land-clearing rate. |
| 1726/27 Jan 13 | 047 | HTML | XCRIPT | Receipt: Treasurer John Clap acknowledges £6 from Collector Joseph Gibbs for 1725. |
| 1726/27 Mar 7 | 047 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 15 March. |
| 1726/27 Mar 15 | 048 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: William Walker moderator; Collector Thomas Walker chosen; voted to build a schoolhouse. |
| 1727 Apr 3 | 049 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 17 April. |
| 1727 Apr 17 | 049 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Peter Hayns moderator; Loring's £20 and precinct debts combined into one rate; bounds of ministerial land and meadow to be run. |
| 1727 Mar 28 | 050 | HTML | XCRIPT | Receipt: Israel Loring acknowledges £20 in full from Collector Josiah Brown. |
| 1727/28 Mar 4 | 051 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 19 March. |
| 1728 Mar 19 | 051 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Peter Hayns moderator; separate Collectors set for the north and south sides of Lancaster Road. |
| 1728 Apr 29 | 052 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: John Clap moderator; allowances settled; Loring's £20 and precinct debts ordered rated. |
| 1728 May 25 | 052 | HTML | XCRIPT | Two orders warn a meeting for 10 June, to build a schoolhouse and buy Loring a horse. |
| 1728 Jun 10 | 053 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: David Haynes moderator; votes to build a schoolhouse on Rocky Plain, 22 x 18 ft; Thomas Brintnall granted a pew. |
| 1729 Mar 10 | 054 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: John Clap moderator; committee, Clerk and assessors chosen for the year. |
| 1729 Apr 28 | 055 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: allowances paid; Loring's £20 and debts ordered into one rate. |
| 1729/30 Mar 9 | 055 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: John Clap moderator; Treasurer Ensign John Haynes and separate north/south Collectors chosen and sworn. |
| 1730 Mar 13 | 056 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 10 April. |
| 1730 Apr 10 | 056 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Peter Hayns moderator; Loring's £20 and debts rated; Thomas Smith chosen Collector. |
| 1729/30 Feb 4 | 057 | HTML | XCRIPT | Receipt: Treasurer John Clap acknowledges £12 2s 1d from Collector Josiah Hayden. |
| 1729/30 Feb 24 | 057 | HTML | XCRIPT | Receipt: Treasurer John Clap acknowledges £8 15s 5d from Collector David Parmenter. |
| 1730 Nov 13 | 057 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 23 November, on further support for Rev. Loring. |
| 1730 Nov 23 | 058 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: John Hayns moderator; votes a quarterly free contribution for Loring, beginning the first Sabbath in December. |
| 1730/31 Mar 18 | 058 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 29 March. |
| 1730/31 Mar 29 | 059 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: John Clap moderator; committee and Clerk chosen for the year. |
| 1731/32 Mar 17 | 059 | HTML | XCRIPT | Order to warn a meeting for 27 March, including a petition to the General Court to raise money by rate for the minister's support. |
| 1732 Mar 27 | 060 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: John Haynes moderator; committee and Clerk chosen; adjourned to 25 May. |
| Date | Leaf | HTML | XCRIPT | Event |
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| 1772 Mar 24 | 062 | HTML | XCRIPT | The Deacons of the Church order a meeting warned for 7 April, the parish now "destitute of a Gospel Minister." |
| 1772 Apr 7 | 062 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Thomas Plympton moderator, John Maynard clerk. Concurs with the Church on a day of fasting and prayer; four ministers named to assist. |
| 1772 May 18 | 063 | HTML | XCRIPT | Adjourned meeting: votes to hear Mr. Biglow four Sabbaths more; adjourns four weeks. |
| 1772 Jun 15 | 064 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: concurs with the Church in engaging Mr. Biglow six further Sabbaths on probation; adjourned to 28 July. |
| 1772 Jul 28 | 064 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: concurs with the Church's choice of Mr. Jacob Biglow as minister; committee named to present the offer. |
| 1772 Sep 16 | 067 | HTML | XCRIPT | Jacob Biglow writes from Waltham, accepting the call. |
| 1772 Sep 21 | 065 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting: Biglow invited in; parish votes to appoint an ordination date. |
| 1772 Nov 11 | 066 | HTML | XCRIPT | Ordination of Mr. Biglow appointed for "the Second Wednewday of Nov'r next" — date calculated from the phrase, not given as a numeral in the manuscript. |
| 3772 Nov 11 | 066 | HTML | XCRIPT | (Second copy — uncertain date, +2000 years.) Ordination of Mr. Biglow appointed for "the Second Wednewday of Nov'r next" — date calculated from the phrase, not given as a numeral in the manuscript. |
| 1772 Nov 9 | 066 | HTML | XCRIPT | Meeting adjourned to this date, to prepare the meetinghouse for the ordination. |