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About Hudson, MA

Indigenous people lived in what became central Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European settlement. Indigenous oral histories, archeological evidence, and European settler documents attest to historic settlements of the Nipmuc people in present-day Hudson and the surrounding area. In 1650, the area that would become Hudson and Marlborough was part of the Ockookangansett Indian Plantation for the Praying Indians. During King Philip's War, English settlers forcibly evicted the Indians from their plantation, imprisoning and killing many of them; most survivors did not return after the conflict. The first recorded European settlement of the Hudson area occurred in 1698 when settler John Barnes was granted 1 acre (0.40 ha) of the Indian plantation.