Hello, I was just telling some people about the 2 "apple orchards" near my home, and I went to find out if they had web sites. One of them is the "LUPIEN apple orchard," when I searched for that, I discovered that a member of that family in past decades was a professional baseball player, and he played for the Red Sox, etc. http://www.historicbaseball.com/players/l/lupien_tony.html http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=8523&bid=713 http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Obits_L/Lupien.Tony.Obit.html The Lupien Farm Stand is only open in the fall and only open on weekends. The older couple had decided to retire and not open the stand again. But, I drove by this week and discovered they had changed their mind. (Good apple pies) :o) The HILL family owned the Apple Orchard in Westford for a long time. But, I haven't found out who the original land owners were yet. http://www.monadnockberries.com/hillorchards/hillorch.htm .. I just checked census pages, and the first time I see the LUPIEN name is 1880 and a family is in Wayland, MA, and a family in Lawrence, MA, and both couples had come down from Canada. This seems to be the man who started the family in Chelmsford, or the 2nd man: LUPIEN, CHARLES (1910 U.S. Census) MASSACHUSETTS , MIDDLESEX, 6-WD LOWELL Age: 33, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: CANA Series: T624 Roll: 600 Page: 62 LUPIEN, ULYSSES A (1920 U.S. Census) MASSACHUSETTS , MIDDLESEX, CHELMSFORD Age: 36, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: MA Series: T625 Roll: 706 Page: 193 Whoa ! HILL is a very popular surname. Over 3000 HILL people in the 1880 census in MA, with almost 800 of them in Middlesex County. By 1900 there were only half as many people in the state. Oh, here is another case where the Index has Arthur HILL in Westford, when the actual page says he's in Westford. And in 1920, there is a HILL in Westford in the Index but on the actual page I can't even read the name of the town. Just an FYI for you. Betty (near Lowell, MA) P.S. I had mentioned maybe last fall that the PARLEE and LOISELLE name is present in Chelmsford, and those families seem to have come down from Canada right around 1900. P.S.2 I had written to the New Ipswich, NH, Historical Society during the summer to ask if they could tell me a brief history of the "Reuben KIDDER Apple Orchard" in that town during most of the 1700's. But they didn't respond. The "town history" states that Reuben's "apple cider" was famous throughout northern New England. And, I have a suspicion that Reuben's father had an "apple orchard" or some type of orchard in Chelmsford. Thomas KIDDER had a large property in the section of Chelmsford which annexed off to become Westford; unfortunately he died suddenly that day. I think I found out where the "homestead" was, way over near the Littleton line, and there look to be some type of fruit trees in the area.