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Billerica, MA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Billerica a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Billerica Home page. The Billerica Home page provides as much information as possible on Billerica. Knowing Billerica’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Billerica’s Home page, you will also find Billerica’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Billerica has a population of 43274. 50.5% of Billerica’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.5 are female. 50.6% of Billerica is married and 77.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $418,848, and the average rent is $1,674. Household median income in Billerica is $113,239, and the individual median income is $47,452. Billerica’s Ethnic is the following: White(81.7%), Asian(7.2%), Hispanic(5.3%), Black(5%), Other(3.1%), Multiple(2.8%), Pacific(0.1%).
In the early 1630s, a Praying Indian village named Shawshin was at the current site of Billerica, commonly spelled Shawsheen today, as in the Shawsheen River. In 1638, Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop and Lt. Governor Thomas Dudley were granted land along the Concord River in the area, and roughly a dozen families from Cambridge and Charlestown Village had begun to occupy Shawshin by 1652.
The settlers chose the name Billerica because some of the families originally came from the town of Billericay in Essex, England. The town was incorporated as Billerica in 1655, on the same day as neighboring Chelmsford and nearby Groton. The original plantation of Billerica was divided during the colonial period into the towns of Billerica, Bedford, Wilmington, and Tewksbury. The oldest remaining homestead in the town is the Manning Manse built in 1696, which was also the residence of William Manning (1747–1814), the author of The Key of Liberty, a critique of Federalist policies.
Other notable Revolutionary War era residents included Asa Pollard (1735–1775), the first soldier killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Thomas Ditson, who was tarred and feathered in 1775 while on a visit to Boston after attempting to illegally purchase a musket from a British soldier. The song "Yankee Doodle" supposedly became a term of national pride instead of an insult because of this event.
The town now celebrates "Yankee Doodle Weekend" every September.
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