”Wrentham began her revolutionary history at an adjourned town meeting on November 1, 1765, when a protest against the Stamp Act was placed on the records of the town and a copy forwarded to the General Court. It was drawn up by John Goldsberry, Jabez Fisher and Lemuel Kollock. The House of Representatives had under consideration a bill to grant compensation to the sufferers from the Stamp Act riots in Boston and free and general pardon to the offenders, and the town instructed its representative, Jabez Fisher, to support the measure.

A company of minute men was organized in January, 1775, and it was soon followed by another. The first was commanded by Capt. Oliver Pond; Wigglesworth Messinger, first lieutenant; Hezekiah Ware, second lieutenant. … Altogether Wrentham has no cause to be ashamed of her Revolutionary record.”

Reference Data:

History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1622-1918, Vol. 1, by Louis Atwood Cook, 1918, page 326