The man who gave the town of Framingham its name, never lived here. Thomas Danforth (baptized 1623-1699) had a vision of establishing his own township. His dream began when the General Court gave him two hundred fifty acres of land in the central part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s wilderness as payment for services to the colony. Over time, Thomas received other land grants and purchased additional tracts of land in the area he came to call Framingham after his hometown of Framlin...
