At the April 1857 town meeting of Wayland, formally East Sudbury, voted to take measures to secure a copy of the ancient records of the town of Sudbury up to the year 1780, as it is the heritage of the town of More
Volume one of East Sudbury/Wayland has on the inside cover "East Sudbury Book of Records, a gift of Capt. Richard Heard, 1780": inside - “State of the Massachusetts Bay in the year of our Lord one thousand seve More