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The Town of Becket Massachusetts
is an upland town that was established in 1765, having begun as Plantation
Number 4. The town was originally laid out in 1735 along with three other
towns along the wilderness trail that connected the lower Housatonic Valley
with the Connecticut Valley and Boston.
The intention was to develop the wilderness that bordered the trail and therefore to make the trail safer to travel. Sixty-three home lots were laid out in the first settlement effort, "in a compact and defensible form" as the documents of the time said. Population growth, though slow, has been steady in the rural community. In 1776, there were 414 residents; in 1900 there were 994 residents; the modern town boasts about 1700 residents. In 1798, Becket tried a noble experiment, which foreshadowed the future in America and which was unique among the frontier towns of the 18th century. The people of Becket could see the problems they and their neighboring communities were having supporting a church and minister using mandated tax monies. There were splits in the congregations, secessions of church members, and interminable battles and quarrels as a religiously diverse population opposed being forced to pay for the support of a minister with whose doctrines they disagreed. In response to this problem the Congregational residents of Becket formed a Congregational Church Society which relied solely on the voluntary contributions of its members to support its church, a church funding structure which is now in use everywhere in the United States. Becket Massachusetts is located in Western Massachusetts, bordered by Washington and Middlefield on the north, Chester and Blandford on the east, Otis on the south, and Tyringham and Lee on the west. Becket is 19 miles southeast of Pittsfield, 39 miles northwest of Springfield, 120 miles west of Boston. |
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