“THE FIRST MEETING-HOUSE

“On December 18, 1711, the town chose Benjamin Mills, Richard Moore, Sergeant John Fisher, John Smith, Sr., Jeremiah Woodcock, Robert Cook, Ephraim Ware, Andrew Dewing and Timothy Kingsbery a committee to decide where to build a meeting-house. The sites proposed were a little plain upon the hill against Matthias Ockinton’s field, and a similar elevation on the south end of North Hill.”

Reference Data:
History of Needham, Massachusetts,1711-1911, In cluding West Needham, by George Kuhn Clarke, 1912, page194