I just added the last of the Massachusetts Historical Collections for Worcester County to my website. I do not know when Worcester was incorporated as a city but it was a town when these were published on 1849. These vary a lot from short one paragraph articals to longer ones with much info about the towns with things about industries, wars, monument inscriptions, Ect. In some places these are written to sound as people would in the 1700's and keep that way, includeing the spelling if differant than what we use now. Links to all the towns and other counties may be found on the Worchester County page at: http://history.rays-place.com/ma/worcester/index.htm Other completed counties for these files are Franklin and Hampshire. Counties that have part online are Hapmden, Middlesex and Norfolk. If you explore the rest of my web site I am sure that you will also find other things of interest. According to Google I now have a little over 6,000 pages online. Many of those are small biographies but you may find the histories of other places of interest and the census pages usefull. Cheers Ray http://www.rays-place.com