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===Early history=== The earliest residents were the [[Nipmuc]], or "Small Pond People". They had a well-developed agriculture, made tools, and had a graphite mine at Sturbridge. Northbridge was first settled by Europeans in 1704 and was officially incorporated on July 14, 1772. The town was once part of [[Mendon, Massachusetts|Mendon]], from 1667 to 1726, and part of [[Uxbridge, Massachusetts|Uxbridge]], from 1727 to 1772. Colonel John Spring, who had agitated for the new town of Northbridge, and later reversed his position, led a company of men in the [[Massachusetts Militia]] in the Revolution. Dozens of local men fought at the [[Lexington Alarm]], and at [[Battle of Bunker Hill|Bunker Hill]]. [[Samuel Spring]], John's son, became a Revolutionary War Chaplain commissioned in the militia at the [[Siege of Boston]], and who also served in the [[Invasion of Canada (1775)]] under Colonel [[Benedict Arnold]].[http://www.blackstonevalleytribune.com/pdf/BLA.2008.12.05.pdf] Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and [[Aaron Burr]], his [[Princeton University|Princeton]] classmate, off of separate battlefields. Colonel [[Seth Read]] and his brother, Colonel [[Joseph Read]] owned more than half of the land in this town at the time of the [[American Revolutionary War]].<ref name="seth">{{cite book|last= Buford|first= Mary Hunter|title= Seth Read, Lieut.-Col.Continental Army; Pioneer at Geneva, New York, 1787, and at Erie, Penn., June, 1795. His Ancestors and Descendants.|year= 1895|location=Boston, Mass.|pages= 167 Pages on CD in PDF Format}}</ref> They both fought in the Massachusetts Militia, and the [[Continental Army]].<ref name="seth"/> The mother of President [[Millard Fillmore]], Phoebe Millard (Fillmore), was born in Northbridge. [[Ezra T. Benson|Ezra Taft Benson, Sr.]], a famous [[Mormon pioneer]], lived here from 1830 to 1832 on his sister's farm.<ref name="Ezra">{{cite web|title=Ezra T. Benson|publisher=gapages.com|url=http://gapages.com/bensoet1.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070913121246/http://www.gapages.com/bensoet1.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 13, 2007|access-date=November 20, 2007}}</ref> He married Pamela Andrus, of Northbridge, and also apparently her sister, Adeline Brooks Andrus.<ref name="Ezra"/> He then married six more times and served as a missionary to the [[Hawaii|Sandwich Islands]], and in the [[Utah Territory|Utah Territorial Legislature]].<ref name="Ezra"/>
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