​In the year 1717, November 2nd, a grant was made to certain persons, chiefly of Marlborough, who petitioned therefore, of all the lands lying between the original grant of Lancaster on the north, Marlborough on the east, Sutton on the south, and Worcester on the west.  Most of the first settlers were from Marlborough.

 

The tract of land was very long (about fifteen miles north and south) but not very wide (from three and a half to four and five miles.) The whole was called, by the proprietors, Shrewsbury from the beginning.

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In about ten years from the date of the grant, it was so stocked with inhabitants, as that the General Court incorporated it as a town, by an act which bears date December 19, 1727, and gave it the name whereby it had all along been distinguished.

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Printed in Worcester Massachusetts by Isaiah Thomas, 1793