Paxton, Massachusetts (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Paxton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,386 at the 2000 census.The Town of Paxton was originally taken from the towns of Leicester and Rutland, in nearly equal parts, and was incorporated February 12, 1765. It then received its name from Charles Paxton, a "Commissioner of the Customs." The inhabitants soon commenced their plan for building a meeting house, and on the first day of April, 1765, the town voted to build it. It was raised on the 18th day of June, 1766, and this is the frame of the present meeting house.