Chief "Great John" The Native American Nipmuc chief who among other natives, and in meetings at Marlboro and Natick, agreed to a settlement for the purchase of Squinshepauk Plantation by Braintree and Weymouth Colonists in 1662.
The Taft family in America One of the first known European settlers in Uxbridge, was Robert Taft, Sr., in 1680, in the western part of Mendon, Massachusetts, which later became known as Uxbridge [REF].