Page:A Brief Record of the Lives and Writings of Dr. Rufus Wyman and His Son Dr. Morrill Wyman (IA briefrecordofliv00wyma).djvu/17

 My grandfather, Rufus Wyman, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, July 16, 1778, and died in Roxbury, Massachusetts, June 22, 1842, in his sixty-fifth year. He was descended from Francis Wyman, son of Francis and Elizabeth (Richardson) Wyman, of West Mill, Hertfordshire County, England, a hamlet about a mile south of Buntingford. With his brother John, Francis emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in or about 1640, and in December of that year signed at Charlestown the first Town Orders for the town of Woburn, set off from Charlestown, the brothers' names appearing under those of their uncles Richardson. They established a small tanning business in Woburn, and their homes were in or about what in after years was called Wyman Lane. Both were first proprietors of extensive lands, and in 1665 the brothers bought the Coytmore Grant. In about 1666 Francis built a house on his portion of the land in that part of Woburn which a century later became Burlington (1799), and this house is yet standing,