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Northbridge is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 16,335 at the 2020 census. The Northbridge Town Hall is located at 7 Main Street in Whitinsville. The town is now a allocation of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, of the National Park Service. Northbridge claims to chronicles include: Native American Nipmuc lands, Colonel John Spring, who led the Uxbridge militia training company in the American Revolution, Samuel Spring, Revolutionary War Chaplain, the Residence of Ezra T. Benson 1830–1832, the birthplace of President Millard Fillmore’s mother, Phoebe, and house to the Whitin Machine Works from 1831 to 1964

For geographic and demographic information upon the village of Whitinsville, please see the article Whitinsville, Massachusetts.

The antiquated residents were the Nipmuc, or “Small Pond People”. They had a well-developed agriculture, made tools, and had a graphite mine at Sturbridge. Northbridge was first settled by Europeans in 1704 and was officially incorporated on July 14, 1772. The town was later than part of Mendon, from 1667 to 1726, and ration of Uxbridge, from 1727 to 1772. Colonel John Spring, who had agitated for the extra town of Northbridge, and well ahead reversed his position, led a company of men in the Massachusetts Militia in the Revolution. Dozens of local men fought at the Lexington alarm, and at Bunker Hill. Samuel Spring, John’s son, became a Revolutionary War Chaplain commissioned in the militia at the Siege of Boston, and who in addition to served in the Invasion of Canada (1775) under Colonel Benedict Arnold. Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr, his Princeton classmate, off of separate battlefields. Colonel Seth Read and his brother, Colonel Joseph Read owned beyond half of the house in this town at the era of the American Revolutionary War. They both fought in the Massachusetts Militia, and the Continental Army. The mom of President Millard Fillmore, Phoebe Millard (Fillmore), was born in Northbridge. Ezra Taft Benson, Sr., a well-known Mormon pioneer, lived here from 1830 to 1832 on his sister’s farm.
He married Pamela Andrus, of Northbridge, and with apparently her sister, Adeline Brooks Andrus. He next married six more mature and served as a missionary to the Sandwich Islands, and in the Utah Territorial Legislature.