Hatfield Town (part 15 of 16)

The phvsicians of Europe for about two centuries were divided into two sects, denominated Galenists and chemists, the former prescribing chiefly vegetable preparations, and the latter employing mineral preparations and a few of the most active vegetable substances. If the accusations they brought against each other are founded in truth, their patients could not have been much benefited by them. They seem to have united in the 17th century, and the use of chemical medicines became much more common. The physicians of New England in the 17th century seem to have used medicines from the vegetable, mineral and animal kingdoms. Little is known respecting their practice. Doct. William Douglas from Scotland, who practiced in Boston in the first half of the i8th century, or from 17 16 to 1752, says the practice was so bad in the British colonies, that excepting surgery and som.e acute diseases, it was better to let nature take her course; that frequently there was more danger from the physician than from the disease. The practitioners generally fell into the same routine, such as repeated bleedings, opiates, emetics, cathartics, mercurials and peruvian bark. They practiced from European authorities, and too much neglected experience and observation. Doct. D. accused them of quackery, and was himself charged

*John Dunton, in 1686, alludes to these garden medicines. He says of Doct. BuUivant, an English physician in Boston; - "he does not direct his patients to the East Indies to look for drugs, when they may have far better out of their gardens."

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with conceitedness, prejudice and unfairness. He was violent in his opposition to the introduction of inoculation of small pox into Boston in 1721, and his conduct on that occasion was mean and despicable.

Drugs and medicines were imported from England into Boston, and kept for sale, soon after the beginning of that town. The demand gradually increased, but could not have been very extensive in the 1 7th century, except in the Indian wars. Where a professed physician was not employed, imported medicines were not much used. Soon after 1700, and perhaps before, country traders began to purchase medicines in Boston, from ten to twenty kinds. Traders in Westfield, Springfield, Hadley and Northampton kept them, and undoubtedly those in some other towns. They were saffron, mithridate, diascordium, hierapicra, rhubarb, aloes, senna, aniseseed, licorice, blistering salve, pills, jalap, turmeric, &c. After domestic prescriptions became less common and those of physicians were more relied on, the sale of foreign drugs and medicines was greatly increased. They were now sold, not by the trader, but by the physician, at an enormous profit, and were the principal source of his income. The wholesale demand being vastly enlarged, Doct. Sylvester Gardiner of Boston, a sagacious man, began to import drugs in such quantities as would have astonished, if not frightened the people a few years before. His first advertisement of "all sorts of Drugs and Medicines, both chemical and Galenical" appears in the Boston Gazette in June, 1744. Many still used plants which grew in New England, and "dried herbs of all sorts" were advertised in Boston. In May, 1757, Doct. Gardiner, in company with Doct. William Jepson, established a drug store in Hartford, which was the first or second* establishment of this kind in Connecticut. They also kept groceries. The copartnership continued seven years and eight months and in this time, the net profits, according to a statement of Doct. Gardiner, were 5175 pounds, or 2250 dollars a year.

Levi Shepherd from Hartford, opened an apothecary's shop in Northampton in November, 1765, the first in this part of the country. In July, 1769, he formed a partnership with Doct. Ebenezer Hunt. They imported their drugs and medicines with some spices, paints, surgical instruments, &c. from London, and some things from Bristol. They sold great quantities of drugs to physicians far and near, their trade extending westward and northwestward to Great Barrington, Pittsfield, Williamstown, Bennington and Rupert, northward to Keene, Charlestown and Hanover, and eastward to Ware and Hardwick. They had a drug store in Worcester also, established in 1769, (or perhaps previously commenced by L. Shepherd) and in 1773, Doct. William Paine became a partner. He was afterwards a tory and left the country, and the partnership was dissolved in 1776. The amount of medicines sold at Worcester was nearly as large as at Northampton.

Hunt & Shepherd sold their medicines by the quantity to physicians, on an average, at about two and a half for one, or two and a half New England shillings for what cost one shilling sterling. All the charges of importation were about 17 per cent. Their nominal profit was therefore equal to 60 per cent, on the cost and charges. Ebenezer Hunt's prices in 1784, '85 and '86, still averaged about two and a half for one, but the charges were a little higher. In 1802, E. Hunt and Son sold to physicians, drugs and medicines bought in this country at from 50 to 75 per cent, advance. It may be as well to omit the prices at which medicines were dealt out to patients.

The early planters of New England had as much wisdom and perhaps as much folly, in regard to the art of healing, as those they had left in the mother country. Among them were physicians and surgeons of ability and learning, but imbued with the hypotheses and errors of the age. I do not find in that part of the country to which my inquiries have extended, any evidence that the people of agricultural villages felt the need of the services of mere physicians, or held them in estimation. Like some in England, who

*Miss Cautkins says Dr. Daniel Lathrop's druggist's shop in Norwich was the first in Connecticut. He imported largely and made a fortune. Lathrop & Smith had a druggist store in Hartford, 1765.

have been referred to, they usually seem to have been satisfied with domestic prescriptions, and the advice of experienced persons in the neighborhood. They highly valued the services of a chirurgeon, or bonesetter, and some towns in Hampshire County voted pecuniary rewards to induce one to settle among or near them.

The first chirurgeon and physician on Connecticut river was. Bray Rosseter of Windsor, a capable man. He removed to Guilford. In 1652, the General Court gave Thomas Lord of Hartford 15 pounds to use his skill "for setting of bones and otherwise" in the river towns one year, and his price was fixed. He was to have one shilling for visiting any house in Hartford, and this manifestly included the setting of a bone or other performance. In 1655, and many years after, they paid Daniel Porter of Farmington, 6 pounds a year, "to exercise his art of chirurgerie." In 1670, they raised the salary of Daniel Porter, "Bonesetter," to 12 pounds, and advised him to instruct some person in his art. Lord and Porter were probably physicians, but it was not on this account that they were encouraged by the colony.

At the Hampshire March Court, 1665, George Filer of Northampton, "being presented as one reasonably well fitted and qualified for a chirurgeon, was allowed" by the Court. He removed to Westfield in 1667, and left the colony a few years after. From 1667 to 1730, a space of 63 years, no phj^sician nor surgeon resided in Northampton, the most wealthy and populous town in the county, except Springfield, (which included West Springfield.) They had made some attempts to obtain a bonesetter, but apparently had not sought for a physician.

Lieut. Thomas Cooper of Springfield was a bonesetter, but was not licensed , and received but little for his labor. In March, 1675, he petitioned the court that he might be paid for setting bones, as he often had to go to and fro on this business. His request was referred to the next court, and in the mean time, he was slain. In January, 1677, Mr. Daniel Denton, on application, was allowed in the employment of chirurgery at Springfield. He remained there but a few years. I observe no indications of a resident physician in Springfield for forty years after the place was settled.

In April, 1679, Thomas Hastings of Hatfield, petitioned for license to practice physic and chirurgery. The subject was referred to the next court. No license is recorded , bvit he was subsequently without doubt allowed to practice. For many years he was the physician and surgeon for Hadley, Northampton, Hatfield and Deerfield, was sometimes called to Springfield and Suffield, and probably to Westfield, Enfield, and Brookfield. Yet his time was but partially occupied with his professional business, his bills were small, and his income could not have been great. He kept the town school several years. After his death, which took place in 171 2, the amount due to the estate was only 39 pounds, and his whole estate was valued at only 235 pounds. His son, Thomas Hastings, succeeded him, and practiced in Hatfield, Deerfield and Northampton and sometimes in other places, yet he kept the Hatfield school many years. He died in 1728.

For half a century after the settlement of Hadley, the average annual expense to the inhabitants of four towns, Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield and Deerfield, for physicians and surgeons, cannot be fairly estimated at more than 200 dollars, excluding charges for those who were wovmded by Indians. The professed physician was rarely sent for. The domestic practice continued, though perhaps it was gradually yielding, in the early part of the i8th century. During these fifty years, when the people of these towns, amidst their toils and hardships, had so little aid from the physician, they suffered less from disease than their descendants, and a larger portion of them attained to advanced age. But they had vigorous constitvitions, lived on plain food, and almost all were temperate. Intoxicating liquors, though productive of mischief in that age, had not then become the general curse and scourge.

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Some of the clergyman that came to this colony, having studied medicine in England, sometimes performed the duties of a physician as well as those of a religious teacher. Those who were educated in this country, and settled in the Hampshire towns, in the 17th century, do not appear to have given much attention to physic or surgery. They may have read some medical books, and perhaps they occasionally prescribed for their families, and gave advice to their neighbors. Rev. Edward Taylor, of Westfield, who came from England, had in his library a book on Chirurgery and a Dispensatory, but I find no trace of him as a practising ph3'sician. Rev. Benjamin Doolittle, who settled in Northfield in 17 18, was a regular physician and surgeon, and was furnished with books, instruments and medicines.

Some women in New England possessed skill in physic and surgery. The wife of Rev. John Eliot was one of these, and attended to the sick and maimed withovit reward. At the close of Philip's war, the Council of Connecticut allowed Mrs. Allyn 20 pounds for attending and curing sick and wounded soldiers. Other women are mentioned who made salves and healed wounds and bruises. The wife of William Miller of Northampton sometimes acted as a surgeon, and perhaps as a physician. Clayton, in his account of Virginia, 1688, mentions "a gentlewoman, a noted female doctress," who cured those bitten by mad dogs.

John Westcarr came to Hadley in 1666. The record of the March court 1673 contains the following: - "Mr. John Westcarr of Hadley, having made use of his skill for some years past in physic and chirurgery with good success, through the good hand of God upon his endeavors, he is by this court allowed to go on in his practice of physic and chirurgery." He died in 1675, and the town remained without a physician, for a period of thirty two years, or vmtil 1707.

In January, 1727, a few months after the death of Doct. Barnard, the town voted to give 50 pounds towards the settling of a good bonesetter in Hadley or one of the adjacent towns, if other towns would join with them. Doct. Hastings of Hatfield may have been infirm.

William Squire, called a chirurgeon, settled in Hadley after 1727. It is believed that he was an Englishman or Scotchman. He died in 1731. He had a gold headed cane like the physicians of England, a gold watch, a silver hilted sword, and a plaid gown.

Richard Crouch, from Great Britain, settled in Hadley in 1731 or before. He administered on the estate of Doct. Squire. He was a physician and not a surgeon, and was often in public business. He died childless in 1761, and gave most of his estate to a nephew of his wife, Giles Crouch Kellogg. He had two brothers in the Isle of Wight, England.

In 1738, Hadley voted to give Mr. Hezekiah Porter of Farmington, bonesetter, 62 pounds, if he would settle in Hadley, and 52 pounds, if he would settle in Northampton or Hatfield. He settled in Northampton.

Giles Crouch Kellogg graduated at Harvard College i 75 1 , began to practice medicine in Hadley before the death of his uncle Crouch, and^continued the same until his death, Aug. 28, 1793.

William Porter, born 1763, devoted much of his time to mercantile pursviits, traded in the same store for sixty 3'ears, and died in 1847. Seth H. Rogers came in 1796, practiced about ten years, and died in Connecticut about 1808. Reuben Bell, a native of Warren, came to Hadley about 1804, accumulated a large estate in the practice of his profession, and died Feb. 1851, ae. 72. Josiah Goodhue, a native of Dunstable, practiced until somewhat advanced in life in Vermont, was eminent in his profession, especially as a surgeon, and was at one time President of the Pittsfield Medical Institution. Edward Dickinson was for a time in partnership with Dr. Goodhue, but about 1833 left town and is believed to have died in Peoria, 111. Watson Loud came about 1833, practiced five or six years, and then removed to the West. Philemon Stacy practiced about nine years. William C. Bailey, Warren McCray, Moses Porter, William Huntington, Stephen G. Hubbard, and Addison Peck practiced for a time. Elam C. Knight came in 1849, ^^^ practiced about a year. William Lester came in 1846, and practiced about three years. Benjamin F. Smith, a native of East Lyme, Ct., practiced from 1843-5, when he removed to Amherst. Franklin Bonney, son of Oliver, studied medicine at Dartmouth Medical College, com:nenced practice in 1847, and is the only practicing physician now in town.

I know not what the charges of physicians were one hundred or one hundred and fifty years ago. I have seen bills from many physicians in Connecticut from 1768 to 1776, and the charge for a visit in Hartford, New Haven, and some other large villages was one shilling. In other towns, the charge was generally eight or nine pence for each visit; and if they rode two, three or four miles, they charged for a visit eight or nine pence for each mile. Commonly more was charged for medicines than for the visit, often two or three times as much.

Doct. Ebenezer Hunt began to practice in Northampton in April, 1768, and until 1776, charged for a visit in the village, eight pence; in other towns, at the rate of eight pence for each mile. A cathartic, an emetic, bleeding, pulling a tooth, and dressing a wound were eight pence each. In 1776, the price of a visit in the village was advanced to one shilling; and afterwards was raised still higher, as money depreciated. After a specie currency was restored, the charge for a visit was one shilling until 1794, when it was advanced to one shilling and sixpence; in 1803, it was two shillings, and in 1814, forty cents. The charge for visits in other towns was nearl}^ as mvich per mile as that for a visit in the village; the former being raised with the latter, except in 18 14. His charges were higher than those of most physicians in the county. For accouchments, which he commenced about 1796, he charged at first eighteen shillings; in 1807, twenty-four shillings; in 18 13, thirty shillings. He gave much medicine, though less than some others. Until the price of a visit was raised to one shilling and six pence, the charge for the medicine left at the house of the patient (exclusive of much delivered at the shop) exceeded that of the visit. When the visit was one shilling and six pence, the medicine which he carried with him, averaged about the same sum, making three shillings for a visit and medicine. The result was the same, if ten or twenty visits were made to one patient in as many days.

Doct. Giles C. Kellogg of Hadley bought of Shepherd and Hunt in 14 years, from 1769 to 1783, drugs and medicines to the amount of 473 pounds or 1576 dollars, most of them, the first eight years, before there was much rise in such articles. These were distributed among the people of Hadley, and cost them some thousands of dollars. The doctor's profit on the medicines must have amounted to a larger sum than all his charges for visits.

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*The town records prior to 1800 seldom giving the name of the Deputy or Representative, this imperfect record obtained from the State records at Boston is in.serted.

fFrom the date of Amherst becoming a District, 1759, up to 1774, the towns of Hadley, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby united in the choice of Representatives.

Bringing The Record Of Important Events Down To 1905

North Hadley. From 1850 to 1875 there was scarcely a home in this part of the town that did not have one or more broom machines at work on the premises during the winter months. The largest individual manufacturers were Thaddeus Smith and his successor G. Myron Smith, who made a specialty of brooms for export. An allied business was the manufacturing of broom tools. This industry was originated by C. D. Dickinson, and conducted by J. C. and A. C. Howe. Even to this day the name of C. D. Dickinson & Sons is a standard for a well-made broom, needle or knife to the uttermost parts of the United States.

The financial stress of 1873 caught the northern section of the town unprepared, and the failure of some of the leading men dealt a blow which transformed a prosperous people into a disheartened community. Only one or two persons continued to make brooms, and most families turned to tilling the soil. Tobacco raising has since been the principal industry, and has proved a lottery, enriching some and impoverishing others.

Early in 1891 a train on the Massachusetts Central ran into a sleighing party at Flaherty's Crossing and two young people of Florence were killed - Dr. Learned's son and Rev. Mr. Hinckley's daughter.

In the fall of 1894 a section of state road was built in the town. Additions were made in the years following until in 1904 the entire distance from Northampton to Amherst had been macadamized.

In 1899 the electric road was built from Northampton to Amherst. For a time passengers crossed the long bridge on a barge; but the following year a bridge for the electric road was completed.

Late in 1902 an acetylene gas plant was established by citizens of the town at a cost of about ^1000, and from this source the Library, Town Hall and First Church are now lighted.

In 1905 a reservoir was made at Hartsbrook and pipes were laid to supply the center of the town. The investment of this enterprise was about 1^40,000.

Mt. Holyoke. In 1 85 1 Mr. J. W. French built a two-story "Prospect House" on the summit of the mountain, and in 1854 constructed a rude railway up the last steep ridge. A horse in the basement of the house furnished the motive power. Two years later a small steam engine was substituted for the horse. In 1 86 1 the house was much enlarged, and in 1867 the railway track was covered as it is now. A rival house was started in 1869 by Loren Pease, an old-fashioned Hockanum farmer who was not on the best of terms with Mr. French. His house stood on a spur of the mountain a little south of Mr. French's place; but it was never finished. Mr. Pease's money gave out and his farm was saddled with a mortgage he never was able to pay. His mountain house grew brown and weatherworn and shabby, and about 1880 was pulled to pieces. "Lord John," as Mr. French was sometimes called by local residents, had no other rivals. His house was again very much enlarged in 1894.

Just after the war Mr. French had a steamer built to ply back and forth on the river and connect with the railroad at the Mt. Tom Station. It was a square-ended side-wheeler, called the "Wawhillowa," a name formerly borne by an Indian chief of the vicinity. Till 1876 it made its seven trips a day during the summer season. Then, for two years there was no boat, but in 1878, the "Mt. Holyoke," a trim stern-wheeler, with a pointed bow, went into service and continued to run back and forth till 1882.

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The Civil War. The number of men who went from Hadley to the Civil War was 214. There was hardly a family but had representatives on the distant battlefields. From Virginia to Louisiana they marched and fought, and many found graves under a southern sun. The most notable of Hadley's soldiers was "Fighting Joe" Hooker, born in an old hip-roofed mansion on West street, in 1814. He died at Garden City, Long Island, in 1879. In 1895 the Third Army Corps Union held their Annual Meeting in Hadley and did honor to the memory of their old leader. This was one of the town's great days. The Hooker house was burned April 6th, 1898, by a fire started on an adjoining estate.

Floods. The greatest flood on record was that of April, 1862. It was caused entirely by melting snow. The weather was very warm for several days, touching at the highest point 82 in the shade. The water rose very fast and the meadows and West street were almost entirely covered. Not half a dozen houses in the old street escaped with dry cellars, and at the south end the lower floors were invaded. There were lively times night and day rescuing furniture, and wading and swimming the stock from the barns to certain knolls that were not submerged. It was feared the current would tear a channel through the street, and an attempt was made to shut out the water by filling a hollow at the north end with dirt, but this was ineffectual. At the postoffice the water just missed coming in on the floor, and boats were rowed from there along the highway clear to Northampton.

In October, 1869, there was another serious flood. For thirtysix hours the rain fell in sheets and streamed down the windowpanes so that one could hardly see out. The storm cleared about noon, and by night the river was over the meadows. The husking had begun, but much of the corn was still in the fields and great quantities were swept away. The river was full of stalks and pumpkins and wreckage of all sorts. Farther north, buildings and manufactories had been overwhelmed, including the Esty Organ Works at Brattleboro. A good deal of wreckage lodged on the banks and low grounds, and the meadows between the town and Hockanum were covered. There were many black walnut boards from the organ works and boxes of boots and shoes, barrels of flour and no end of corn and pumpkins. More or less of value was rescued. Some of the corn, even, was taken home, but it was too wet to keep.

in 1817 on what was then known as Middle Lane, now Russell street. It was of brick, and its height of three stories made it seem to the country boys of that day the biggest and most imposing structure they had ever seen. Rev. Dan Huntington was the first principal at a salary of $500 a year. In the early morning of February 18, i860, the building was destroyed by fire which started in some ashes in the basement. There was no insurance. For a few months the school was continued in two rooms of Lucius Crane's house, but by autumn a room for the purpose was made ready in the lower part of the First Church. A new building was not erected until 1865. It replaced the Blake and Stebbins houses on the southwest corner of Middle and Russell streets. Though a rather plain and unpretending twostory wooden structure, it cost with furnishings at that time of high prices nearly ^16,000. This building burned about noon December 14, 1893, the fire starting in the heating pipes, and the school was again transferred to the First Church. The year following, the present handsome building was put up. The cost when the plans were accepted was estimated to be ^12,000, but it exceeded $18,000.

The Academy funds, after various vicissitudes, have increased to a total of about $100,000 and yield an income which will do much for the town's future.

A Railroad Investment. In 1872, Hadley borrowed $70,- 000 and invested it in Massachusetts Central Railroad stock. Many other towns along the line also bought stock in order that the railroad might be built, and with the idea that they would realize manifold benefits. But in spite of all this public fostering the enterprise went to pieces, and all Hadley had to show for its dream of railway connection with the rest of the world were some weedy embankments and cuts, a half-completed bridge across the Connecticut and a debt on which the people were paying six per cent, seven per cent and even more, interest. Years passed and the railroad that looked so dead came to life and was completed. Trains began to run in 1887 and the stock was worth something. Its value was, however, only a small fraction of par and the prospect of income from it was remote. The towns were heartily sick of railroading, and within a few years they all sold out, some for less than ten per cent, a few for nearly thirty. For two or three years the Hadley station was in an old house on West street, because the two sections of the town were squabbling as to where the permanent station should be. But at last

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The Bridge Disaster. On the afternoon of June 14, 1876, a cyclone struck the region. It laid low various tobacco barns and many trees, and it lifted from its piers the great covered toll bridge connecting Hadley with Northampton and dropped it into the river beside them. Eleven persons and seven teams went down with the bridge. Mrs. Catharine Sullivan of Hadley was instantly killed and Sheriff Enos Cook of Hadley was struck on the head by a heavy timber and seriously injured. Some of the travelers would probably have been drowned had it not been that the water was very low at the time and the wreckage lay on the sandbars and in the shallows like a stranded raft. Most of those in the bridge soon either crawled out or were helped out. When the gale began Charles Cook of Hadley and his little son Fred sought shelter in the bridge, and then, fearful of danger, left it. No sooner had they stepped outside than the wind caught the boy and blew him into the top of a tree, whence he had to be taken down. The present iron bridge replaced the old one at a cost of ^20,000 and was ready for travel in November, 1877.

The Poor. In 1878, the town bought a farm at the upper end of East street, enlarged the house on it, and since then the place has been run as a poor farm. Before that the helpless poor were as a rule boarded out. There was, however, on the lane which runs east from the present Bardwell place, a low, long, shanty of a house known as "the poor house." It belonged to the town with an acre or so of land, and was occupied by "Dud" Till, a colored man, and his numerous progeny. One or two shiftless whites were included among the inmates, but the other color was so predominant that the byway was usually spoken of as "Nigger Lane." The pauper dwellers at the present poor farm are reasonably comfortable, and yet the place serves as a wholesome sort of a bugbear. The stigma of being an inmate there is not agreeable, liberty is curtailed, one is cut off from the life and surroundings to which he is accustomed, and most persons will contrive to do something for themselves and get along with a very slender dole of outside aid before they will go to the town farm.

The Great Blizzard. This occurred in March, 1888. It began rather mildly early one morning, bur presently thickened into a blinding storm. A fierce gale blew and by afternoon travel was almost impossible. The schools closed early. Many children from the outlying districts had their teams at the Center and most of them attempted to go home. From Hockanum there were three sleighs, but the children after leaving the last house behind soon got off the road, one horse fell and could not be got on its feet. They unhitched the other two horses and laying hold of their tails struggled back to the town. The abandoned horse was found the next day, but was so far gone with exposure it had to be killed. The North Hadley children fared much the same as those from Hockanum. On the outskirts of the central village they concluded it was a hopeless task to proceed with their teams and left them at one of the homes. They attempted to continue on foot, but a half-mile farther they, too, sought shelter for the night.

There were many narrow escapes from death in the storm, and travel was almost suspended for several days. Three feet of snow had fallen and ten-foot drifts were common. Often windows and doorways were covered out of sight.

The Threatening River. In 1888 the state appropriated $15,000 to protect the river bank north of the town. The current had been continually encroaching here until it threatened the homes. The bank was graded and completely covered, both above and below the water line, with mats of willow brush over which there was placed rubblestone and riprap. In each of the years 1889, 1900 and 1901 appropriations the same as the first were made, and a total of ^60,000 has been expended projecting a length of about a mile.

The Library. Somewhat before the middle of the last century there was organized "The Hadley Young Men's Library Association." This began a semi-public library and for many years the town turned over to this association two-thirds of the dog fund, the balance being paid to a similar organization in North Hadley. There was presently not much left to the Association in Hadley but the name, and Dr. Franklin Bonney took entire charge of the books and kept them in his house until his dwelling burned about 1878. Most of the books were rescued and they were thenceforth kept for a number of years at the home of Miss Julia Lawrence, and later at Mr. Dwight Marsh's. The fee for drawing books was twenty-five cents for three months, and the number of patrons in the later years was only about ten a week. In 1900 the library was made free and transferred to a basement

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In March, 1901, the suggestion was made by Mr. Clifton Johnson to Bishop Huntington that there was a possibility Mr. John Dwight of New York, a summer resident of the vicinity and a wealthy descendant of the town, might be willing to supply the community with a library building. The suggestion appealed to Bishop Huntington as worthy to be acted on, and his personal interest in the matter had much to do with the final result. Mr. Dwight contributed a total of ^5,050, and citizens and friends of the town raised about $4,300 more. The Goodwin Memorial building was erected the following year, replacing the old Kellogg house just north of the town hall. The library was dedicated on August 19, 1903. The day was warm, the sky clouded and threatening, but the town hall, where the exercises were held, was crowded. This was Bishop Huntington's last public appearance in the town. At the close of the exercises the library was thrown open, and the building itself and the collection of rare historical relics gathered for the occasion in the assembly room of the upper story were viewed with general interest and satisfaction.

Bishop Huntington. Gen. Hooker and Bishop Frederic Dan Huntington are the two most famous men Hadley has produced. The latter was born in 18 19 in the fine old colonial mansion that was built by his ancestor Captain Moses Porter in 1752. J[n early life he was a Unitarian pastor in Boston, later professor of morals in Harvard College, and still later he connected himself with the Episcopal church and became the Bishop of Central Nev/ York. He was always a man of liberal thought, high ideals and the w^idest sympathy. As a speaker his good sense and sincerity, his simplicity and humor and eloquence made him one of the great preachers of his time. He was the author of a number of books and of many articles in periodicals. His summers were spent at the family home in Hadley and his interest in the old farm and his delight in the region were unfailing. He died in the house where he was born, July 11, 1904. By a strange coincidence, his son. Rev. George P. Huntington, died the same day, and both were buried on the beautiful and gentle summer afternoon of July 14, in the Hadley cemetery.

Hadley in Literature. The most famous book for which the town has furnished inspiration is J. Fenimore Cooper's "The Wept of Wish-ton-wish." This deals with the early life

Another notable book closely concerned with the town is J. G. Holland's "Kathrina," one of the most widely circulated volumes of verse that has been published in this country.

Holland was born in Belchertown, in 1819. The family was poor and moved several times, and the boy was soon thrown on his own resources. When he was about eighteen he worked for a time on a Hockanum farm, the owner of which was the local ferryman. One of Holland's tasks was to pull the rude ferryboat back and forth across his

It is remembered that when working in the meadow with some of the other village lads they got to talking of their future, and Holland said, "I tell you, boys, I'm going to be something when I grow up."

The mother had a woman friend in the village and with her spent the afternoon. Many years passed and the hero was now a young man. One summer Sunday he wandered across the long covered bridge and through the meadows to Hadley. The doors of the church on the common were open and he heard the congregation singing. A woman's voice rising above the others attracted him and he went in, and the owner of the voice proved to be Kathrina. This maiden, it happened, was living with her aunt in Hockanum, and the aunt was the friend of the hero's mother. The girl had so charmed him that he henceforth began to go over the river pretty constantly to Hockanum to see her. His first visit was on a Thursday and that evening he escorted her to the weekly social worship at

The room. Battered and black by wantonest abuse Of the rude youth, w'as lit by feeble lamps, Brought by the villagers; and scattered round Upon the high, hacked benches, hardly less Rude and rough-worn than they, the worshippers In silence sat."

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Autumn came and on one of their field walks, sitting near the foot of the mountain, the young man proposed, and in a few weeks the wedding followed.

Mary P. Wells Smith has given great pleasure to a multitude of readers by her "Young Puritans of Old Hadley" and other books in the same series, dealing with incidents of the town's colonial period.

The following of Clifton Johnson's books are concerned more or less closely with the town life past and present - "Old Time Schools and Schoolbooks," "The Farmer's Boy," "What They Say in New England," "Country Clouds and Sunshine" and "The Country School."

Rev. Rowland Ayres wrote a detailed "History of Hopkins Academy;" Miss Aria Huntington tells the story of the beautiful old Huntington homestead in "Under a Colonial Rooftree"; and Mrs. Julia Taft Bayne has given us a little volume of "Hadley Ballads," which starts with a beautiful poem on "The Hadley Weathercock." The first verse is this:

John Howard Jewett, poet and writer of children's book, is a Hadley boy, and Clarence Hawkes, the blind poet, makes the town his home, as does also George C. Marsh, author of several novels.

The Feud of the Streets. For a long time West street was practically the whole town; but at length houses began to grow up along Middle street, and outlying villages developed. Thus it in time came about that Middle street was a more convenient center for public buildings than the older street. The town meeting-house stood on the common just north of the Northampton road, and along the street walks on either side were lines of rails to which the worshippers hitched their teams. The residents in other parts of the town finally concluded the church ought to be moved to a more generally convenient location, and in 1840 they outvoted the old street, and the church started on its journey. The old street vs^as no longer supreme, but it still had all the "crankiness and aristocracy and its residents felt warranted in putting on airs over everybody outside." A family on Middle street might be "rich as mud" and yet not hold a candle to the ancient families on the other street. Hockanum, Hartsbrook and North Hadley were "of no account anyw^ay." Nevertheless, such men as Gen. Parsons West and Maj. 'Vester Smith had to be reckoned w^ith. The former especially had the reputation of being "a bulldog of a fellow^," and he was always put in front when there was a fight. There is a legend that it had been agreed the church should stand half way between the two streets; but that when it had progressed that far. Gen. West got enthusiastic and swung his hat, shouting, "Come on, let's move it to Middle street. They'll all follow." He was backed up by his party and the building was hustled along to its present site; and to this day the West family are said to be proud of this episode in the life of their ancestor.

The incident is probably exaggerated. The facts seem to be that the old street was willing to agree to the removal of the church halfway to Middle street, but their opponents would not compromise. The process of moving was very slow and services were held in the church for several Sundays while the church was on its travels. It is said that the West street people attended the services till the church passed the half-way point and then promptly seceded. For a time they held their religious meetings in the assembly hall in the third story of the Academy building, but in 1842 they erected a church on the east side of the broad street, a little north of Russell street. Here worship was continued until about 1890. Meanwhile the old families had dwindled, and the wealth of the street was depleted, and finally the church was closed. Most of the attendants joined forces with the First Church on the other street. Their church property reverted to the heirs of the original owner of the land, and the basement of the edifice was for a time used as a grain store, but now the building is empty and shows melancholy marks of time and weather.

One chief reason for the removal of the old church is reputed to have been the lack of shelter for the worshippers' horses. West street objected to having horse sheds erected there, and the other party took the church where they could put them up. But though they built a long triple line of them, not all the teams could find shelter in those good church-going days. Many were hitched to a convenient quarter-board fence that separated the church property from the Pierce homestead next to the south. Mr. Pierce was a rather silent and peculiar individual, commonly known as "Kapas." He objected to having his fence chewed up by the church-goers' horses, and he nursed his wrath until one day he took his hammer and some tenpenny nails and nailed every halter to his fence. Kapas did not take much stock in religion, and yet at long intervals he would attend service. On such an occasion his most noteworthy article of clothing was a pair of silk pants made out of an old dress of his wife's. He was commonly believed to be a miser. He certainly lived shabbily enough, and he would pick up old cigar stubs and smoke them. When he died, about 1890, it was rumored that the nearest of kin tore up floors and opened walls and ransacked the antiquated dwelling pretty thoroughly in a hunt for the miser's treasure.

The two sections of the town never have established wholly amicable relations since those old days when the church traveled a quarter of a mile east from its ancient site. There is still bitterness. The two streets, West and Middle, are popularly known as Front and Back streets, and the boys of the former used to shame those of the latter by saying

The elders were accustomed to battle for what they thought were their rights in tov/n-meeting, and the wrath and vehemence were sometimes very spectacular.

Contrasts. At the time Sylvester Judd died, Hadley was a substantial and wealthy town. It contained many important families which were considered rich. Those were the old broomcorn and cattle-raising days, and the business of the residents was steady and methodical. Nearly all persons of mature years were "pretty strong on religion." Indeed, religion was their recreation and a vital topic of social conversation. They would not have gone to a theater. In the first place, there was none to go to, and in the second place it was an amusement of the devil's own contriving. What the old deacons and elders of the church didn't know about sanctification and predestination and such like things wasn't worth knowing. They would talk over these topics soberly and profoundly as if they understood all about them, while the children listened in awed silence to the incomprehensible discussions. Times and seasons were observed with care and everybody went to church. A man would hardly have dared outrage the public sentiment of the town by staying away from divine service. The Sabbath began at sunset on Saturday, and the minute the sun was gone the ordinary week-day work stopped. "I can remember," says one of the older Hadley men, "that if I was husking on the meadow, the minute the sun was out of sight I'd drop the ear I had in my hand and start for home. After a while I got a position as a printer's apprentice in Northampton, and there I had to work right along without regard to the Saturday sundown. I felt wicked enough." At sunset on Sunday the sacred period ended, the children could play and the men might whet their scythes and go out and mow, and the women would sew or knit, or perhaps do their weekly washing.

The strictness of the elders and their rather colorless sobriety did not always have a salutary effect on the young people. The latter were inclined to resent so much theological constraint and to kick over the traces. Some of them were "raising Cain" all the time. Firstly, they probably learned to smoke. Often of an evening they would drive off "lickity cut" to Northampton, and you could hear their team rattling with an ominous celerity across the old covered bridge. After indulging in some more or less mild dissipation they would return. Again, they would attend some rowdy dance and be out all night, and come home and blow about what they had done as if it was the greatest performance ever heard of and reflected vast credit on them - "got the best of the old man that time."

An immense amount of broom-corn was raised on the town meadows, and occasional lots were planted to it as late as 1875; but since then broom-corn has been a rarity. There are still a few broomshops left; but the material is imported from the West. Just before the war tobacco began to take the place of the former staple. Hitherto the people had been conservative and frugal, and perhaps rather given to squeezing the dollar. The people all owned their homes and most of them had money laid away. Tobacco for the first few years was a bonanza. The profits were large and people thought they were now going to get rich in a year or two. It was a kind of intoxication. They were bewitched with the new crop, and with the money flowing in built big barns and bought recklessly many things they never thought of needing before. The children, too, imbibed extravagant notions and the yearly cost of living greatly increased. Then the high prices of tobacco took a drop and entanglements and a dismal aftermath of mortgages followed. The town has never recovered.

Of course some citizens fought shy of tobacco. They thought the use of it was vicious and the raising of it scarcely less so. The business was like liquor selling - morally wrong. Besides it was nasty work handling the crop - picking off those big green worms and getting your hands covered with that gummy, bitter juice. So they staunchly held to their accustomed ways and when the smash came their view was that it served the tobacco raisers right.

Most of the old families are gone now, and the spot which is the most eloquent of the past is the meadow cemetery. On the western side are the moss-grown stones of the early settlers, and on the eastern side the more modern marble and granite. Within a stone's throw the shriek of the locomotive is heard every day, and the railroad cuts the wide street in twain. If the first settlers should return to view the town, no doubt they would be frightened back to their graves by the monster engines which rush along the iron rails. If the ancestral citizens were to venture through the town that once was theirs, they would find few of their descendants in the village homes; and yet the change in population has been comparatively recent. Fifty years ago the Irish were beginning to acquire some of the little farms on the outskirts. Now they are an important part of the life of the town and are large property owners. In recent years many Poles have been buying land in the town. They spend little, they all work, men, women and children, and soon pay for their places; and they arebecoming more and more an important element in the community.

In appearance the town has improved decidedly. The older people tell how the broad street, now the pride of all the citizens, was broken with hillocks and with shallow pools where great flocks of geese paddled in the mire. The home-lots between West street and Middle street were each fenced off from those adjoining, and thickets of wild cherry and ditch brush grew along the fences, and in the season became the haunts of armies of caterpillars. The cowsheds were often conspicuously near the streets and the manure heaps in full view. Frequently the farm wagons and litter took up pretty much all the premises about the front door. There was no effort to have an attractive yard - no aspiration to keep things looking nice. If the women wanted a few flowers they could tuck them in somewhere, but their doing so was likely to be regarded as nonsense.

Most of the fences that used to tightly hem in the home premises have gone; lawns are kept mowed and there is constant care to have all the surroundings of the house neat and presentable. But the chief glory of the town is its trees, and nothing quite so adequate has ever been said of them as is found in Mrs. Bayne's poem.

Historical Index

householders of before 1763, 416; largest estates in (1770), 417; slaves in, 418; rejects U. S. Constitution, 4 1 8 ; annexations to, 418; militia company, 418; incorporation of, 418; population (1753- 8), 418; representatives in Congress, 444; state counsellors, 444; state senators, 444; presidential elector, 445 ; delegates and representatives, 445; college graduates resident in, 454- Amidoun, Ithamar, 340,

Historical Index

Clawson, Elizabeth, 227 Cleaveland, Aaron, 340 ^-Clergymen. See Ministers. Clerk, of the market, 70; of the writs, 70; town, 70. Clesson, Jos., 269

Conkey, Ithamar, *454 Connecticut (Quenecticut) ; aids other colonies, 181; share of cost of Philip's War, 181; loss in war, 181 note; troops in Hampshire, 168-9; ^^d Hampshire Co., 262; northern boundary, 291; troops in Hampshire (1723- S), 331 note, 338. Connecticut river (Quenicticot, Quonicticot, etc.), early settlements on, i ;

HADLEY, (See also A M - HERST, East Side, West Side, nonotuck, norwoTTucK, etc., and under separate headings; as,BiCENtennial. Lists and Tables, Meet- ING-HOUSE, etc., etc.), settled, 3; first settlers apply to Mass. for land, 10; proceedings of first settlers, 143- namcs of, see Lists ; boundaries, 14, 185, 186, 287; named, i7;gov't 17; first commsrs., 17, 1 8 ; church organized, 86; first ministers, see Ministers; first meetinghouse, see Meeting-house; first deacons, 47, first religious society, 43s; proprietors (1663), 24; changes in, 26, (1681), 203; plan of village, see Plans; gov't of E. and W. sides, 78; fire ( 1 706) , 99 ; deed of, 106; deed of W. side, 107, cost of lands, 113; traditional attack on state senators, 444; deputies and representatives, 445 ; townsmen and selectmen, 446; recorders or town clerks, 452; recent history of, 457; in Civil War, 459; old families, 46^; present inhabitants, 469. Hadley Farm above Sunderland, 187

Hampshire county (comprising up to p. 353 the present Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin. See p. 353), 8sff; towns in when incorporated, 85; courts, 86; officials, 87; court expenses, 93; first prison in, 95; towns and plantations in (1675), 130; in Indian wars, see Wars, Indian; persons slain in

Horse stealing, 368 note Hospitals, in French and Indian war, 342; rum used in, 342. Housatonnuc, various spellings, 173 Hovey, Dan'l, 90, 185,

Lists and Tables. - Names of engagers to remove from Conn, to Mass., ii; Property owners of Hadley in 1663, 24; Plan of Hadley in 1663 , 24; Hadley proprietors in 1663, 26; Teachers of Hadley Grammar school, 58; Town officers, 69; Petitioners against customs (1669), 76; Hadley court cases, 88; Men slain in Hampshire Co. (167s). 150; Persons slain in Hampshire Co. (1676-7), 180; petitioners for additions to Hadley, 185; Land grants next to river (1672), 189; Record of lots on Pine Plain, 191; Hadley Ratepayers (1681), 203; Ratepayers (1686-7), 204; officers of Hadley company before 1700, 219; officers o f Hampshire cavalry before 1700, 220; Christian names of Hadley children (1660-1700), 244; Province taxes of Hampshire towns (1692, 1696, 1700), 260; Assignment of Hadley woodlots (1703). 2 75 -.Assignment of lands on south side of Mt. Holyoke, 278, Real estate of each inhabitant of Hadley (1731), 283; summary of land grants and distributions, 287; Men from Hadley, So. Hadley, Amherst and Granby in the 6th Indian war, 340;

Statistics of Hadley , South Hadley, Amherst and Granby (1771). 385; Settlers and Heads of Families in S. Hadley and Granby before 1763, 402; members of ist church, E. Hadley, 407; ist town officers of Amherst, 409; Planters and householders of Amherst, before 1763, and additions 416; Inhabitants of Hadley in 1770, 423 ; Hadley bi-centennial committees, 436; Order of the day, Hadley bi-centennial, 437; Medicines and physicians, 438; Hadley counsellors, 444; State senators, 444, Deputies and representatives, 445; Townsmen or selectmen, 446; Recorders or town clerks, 452; Amherst representatives in Congress, 452; state counsellors, 452, Presidential elector, 452; Delegates and Representatives , 453; College graduates, natives of Amherst,

Massachusetts, colony, I ; share of cost of Philip's war and Maine war, 181 ; expense of government (1650-75), 198; change of government in (1692), 262; aid received from Conn., 263; first Episcopal church in, 263 note; expenses in Queen Anne's war, 270; south and north boundaries, 290, 335; expenses in 4th Indian war, ^^ I ; cost of soldiers against Canada (1746), 336; cost Louisburg expedition, 336; expenses 1744-49). 336 note; general and war expenses (1755-63). province taxes (1755-63); monies reed. fr. Gt. Britain (1756-66), 341 note; poll tax, 341 note; garrisons in 5th Indian war, 335; men supplied for Canada expeditions, 337 ; in Fr. and Indian war, 338.

Meadow

42, 419. - , second, 3ioff; belfry and spire, 310; pulpit and sounding board, 311; seats and pews, 311, 317; "swallow's nest," 312; seating in, 3 1 2 ; christening basin, 313; communion service, 313; benches for children, 313; negroes, seats for, 313; repaired and colored , 314; steeple, clock and weathercock, 314; bell, 315; curtains, 315; heating, 315; not dedicated, 316; used for civil purposes, 316; sweeping and bell-ringing, 316; plan of, 317. Meeting-houses, not dedicated in New Eng., 316 with, 123; allies of Eng., 124; presents to, 124, 249; Conn, requests Andros to stirupagnst. Philip, 153; attack Hadley Indians, 171; reports of prowess of, 174; in Hampshire towns, 251; entertained by Mass., 272; employed by Mass., 333.

Money, comparative values of, 95; colonial, values of, 195, 303-4; at interest in Hadley (1771), 386; metallic, see Coins; paper (see also Bills). 3oiff.

Officers, town. See under Town; colonial, style of living, 182 note; of Hadley militia before 1700, 219; of Hampshire troop before 1700, 220; regimental, in Mass. and Conn., 220; arms of, 223; wages, 258. Old and new style.

War, 4Th

Remedies. See Medicines and Drugs. Removals, means of, 94 Representatives, union of Hadley, S. Hadley, Amherst and Granby, in choice of, 445 note; Amherst, Granby and Pelham united, 454 note.

Saw-mills, 41; first in Spfd., 41 ; first in New Eng., 42 ; 10 1. Sawyer. See Sawier. Saybrook platform, 10 Scales, Matthew, 134 Scalps, bounty for, 335 Scalping parties, 335,338 Scanunganunk, 35, 36 Scarecrows, 346 note School, grant of land for, 48 ; trvistees, 49 ; controversy, 5 iff; committee, 51, 60; laws, early, 55; houses, 58; books, 81; lands, see Meadows, School. School masters, first, 57; in Revolution, 397; second parish formed, 393, 399; list of settlers, 402; 404 note. South Hadley canal, 398 South Hadley mills, 277 South Precinct of Hadley = South Hadley. Spectacle pond, 248 in Revolution, 397; second parish formed, 393. 399; list of settlers, 402; 404 note. South Hadley canal, 398 South Hadley mills, 277 South Precinct of Hadley = South Hadley. Spectacle pond, 248

Warriner, Jos., 76. 165, 185, 189, 203, 204, 205 Wars: Pequot, 2; King Philip's War (1675), 40, 122, i2 7ff; beginning, 129; events of, 133; Hadley in, 145; cost of, 181, 199; headqrtrs in, 182. - , Second Indian (1688-99) = King William's war 248!?; beginning, 248 ; massacre at Northfield, 249; war between Fr. and Eng., 249; French unite with Indians against British colonists, 249; expedition under Pynchon to Albany, 249; Indians attack Schenectady, 250; expedition of Mass. troops against Quebec, 250; war in Hampshire county, 25off; new troubles with Indians (1691), 251; garrison at Deerfield, 250, 251; massacre at Deerfield (1693), 252; massacre at Brookfield, 252; pursuit of Indians, 253; conference with Indians at Albany, 253; attack on Deerfield (1694), 253; attack on Deerfield men, 254; murder of Richard Church, 255; trial and execution of Indians, 256; treaty of peace between England and France, 257; massacre at Hatfield, 257; end of war, 258; losses of Hampshire county in war, 258; war taxes, 259; contributions of colonies to the distressed, 260. - , Third Indian (i7o3-i7i3)=Queen Anne's war, 264- 272; war begins between Eng. and Fr., 264; in Hampshire, 264; French and Indians attack Deerfield (1704), 264; Deerfield re-inforced, 266; Indians attack Pascommuck, 266; Northampton re-inforced, 266; French and Indians attack Lancaster, 267; activity in Hampshire county, 267; attack on Cowasset, 267; events in Hampshire (1705-7), 268; loss of lives in Hampshire (1708), 268; excursions to Lake Champlain, etc., 268; failure of England to send troops promised, 269 ; lives lost near Deerfield, 269; at Brookfield, 269; at Northampton, 269; failure of expedition against Quebec, 269; Deerfield re-inforced, 2 70 ; attack on Pemigewasset, 270; suspension of arms, 270; peace of Utrecht, 270; cost of war, in Mass., 270; in Hampshire, 270; war taxes in Hampshire, 271; number of Hampshire persons killed in war, 271; captives from New England in Canada, 271; reward for Indian scalps given by Mass. in war, 271.

- , Fourth Indian =:Father Rasles 'war (1722-6), 331-334; beginning, 331; war charges in Hampshire, 331; garrisons, 331 ; Ft. Dummer built, 332; war in Hampshire, 332; pay of officers and men in, 332 note; attacks on Northfield, 332; on Hatfield, Greenfield, Deerfield, Northampton, Easthampton. Westfield, 333; Hadley in, 333; Mohawks in, 333; treaty of peace, 334

Historical Index

Wars, - 335; capture of Louisburg, 335; project for reducing Canada, 336; end of war, 336; list of killed from near Hadley, 337; list of Hadley men at fort No. 4, 337. - , Sixth Indian =French and Indian war(i754-63),337ff; begun, 337; exped. against Crown Point, 337; Mass. in Canada expeditions, 337; attacks on Mass. frontiers, 338; soldiers furnished from Mass., 338; men from Hadley and vicinity in, 338-340; bounties offered for enlistment, 341; surrender of Fort William Henry, 341; Hadley militia, 342; disease in, 342. - , Indian, losses of property in, 181; war taxes in Hampshire, 182; effect on men, 338 note. Washburn, Wm. Parsons, 455 Watches, military, 223 Waters, Peregrine, 446 Watson, Caleb, 57, 58,

Introduction

The material for the following pages has been drawn from every available source. Town, county, probate, church, and family records have been examined with the utmost care, and the moss-grown and crumbling tomb-stones of all the old burying yards within the limits of ancient Hadley, have been carefully deciphered. I may safely say, that prior to 1 700, the records of but few towns were more carefully kept than those of Hadley, and although since that time, until within about twenty years, the records are less complete, it is thought that in few works of this character are so many of the families traced back to the first settlers of the town, as in this.

The plan adopted in the arrangement of the families, is so simple as to be readily understood by all familiar with genealogical tables. For the information of others, it is only necessar\' to explain, that the figures which precede the names of individuals denote their place in the series, and those which follow point back to the place in the series where the paternal ancestor is to be found. For example, in the family of Barnard, we read, "5. John, s. of Joseph, (4.J" The figure 5 denotes that this is the fifth family described; and the figure (4J refers back to the fourth family, on examining which we find that John was born Nov. ig, 1696. By observing this rule, it will be easy to trace any family back to the first ancestor in the town.

In justice to myself, and as an apology for the delay in putting these genealogies to press, I ought to remark, that Mr. Judd left his minutes of Hadley settlers in quite a confused state, not having taken the first step towards preparing them for the printer, and hence the labor of arranging them has been four-fold what I had anticipated. Having however, at length compared with the original records every date in regard to which I was at all in doubt, and arranged the same with care, I have the satisfaction of submitting the work to the public, with the feeling that it will be found, in the main, accurate and reliable.

Arnold Baldwin

BACON, Andrew, was in Hartford, 1639, where he was a highly useful citizen, assistant of the Gen. Ct., 1637-8, and several times deputy of the Gen. Ct. A first settler of Had., he was there freeman in 1661, and d. s. p., Oct. 4, 1669. He m. Elizabeth, wid. of Timothy Stanley, of Hartford. Slie came in 1634 from England. The court gave her all Mr. Bacon's lands and buildings in Hadley. She rem. to Hartford, and d. abt. 1679.

I. BALDWIN, Joseph, Milford, 1639, rem. abt. 1663 to Had., was freeman 1666, and d. Dec. 8, 1676. M. (i) Hannah; m. (2) wid. Isabel Northam, who as widow Catlin, had come with s. John from Newark, N. J.; m. (3) Elizabeth, wid. of William Warriner. She had before been the wife of Luke

Barnard Bartlett

BARNARD, John, rem. from Cambridge to Hartford, was a first settler of Had., where he was buried May 23, 1664. He left much of his property to the children of his kinsman Henry Hayward of Wcthersfield, and the children of his sister, Mary Bedient. M. Mary, who d. Feb. or Mch. 1665.

BEDIENT, Mary, widow of Morgan, of Staynes, England, with her two sons came to New England to receive estate devised by her brother, John Barnard. Children b. in England - Morgan, b. June 25, 1651; TJiomas, b. July 22, 1654, rem. to Fairfield, Ct., and d. abt. 1698.

Belding Bell Billings Boltwood

13. Lucius, son of William, (9) Amherst, commenced his studies preparatory for college in the town school of Amh., under the instruction of William D. Williamson, afterwards Governor of Me., and completed the same at Had.

College in 18 10, and graduated with distinguished honor in 18 14, in the same class with Rev. Orville Dewey, D. D. of Boston, Hon. Samuel Farley Vinton of Gallipolis, O., and Washington, D. C, and Hon. Austin E. Wing of Detroit, Mich., pursued his legal studies with Hon. Samuel Fowler Dickinson of Amh., was admitted to the bar of Hampshire County, in Aug. 181 7, and entered immediately into practice with his instructor. In 1820, his partnership with Mr. Dickinson having been dissolved, he opened an ofifice of his own, and continued practice until 1836, when he retired from business. In 1828 he was appointed Secretary of Amh. College, an office which he still retains. In politics originally a Whig, he was subsequently a member of the Liberty party and in 1841 their candidate for Governor. He m. Aug. 30, 1824, Fanny Haskins, dau. of Rev. Mase Shepard, of Little Compton, R. I. Children - Lucius Manlius, b. June 8, 1825; George Shepard, b. April 29, 1827, d. July 19, 1833, ae. 6; Fanny Shepard, b. May 31, 1829, d. May 19, 1831, ae. i; Charles Shepard, b. July 16, 1832, d. July 28, 1833, ae. i; George Shepard, b. July 27, 1834, d. in Aikin, S. C, April 14, 1856, ae. 21; Charles Uphani, b. March 28, 1837, is a clerk in Middletown, Ct.; Edward, b. Sept. 4, 1839, grad. Y. C. i860, and is now a member of Cambridge Law school; Thomas Kast, b. Feb. 15, 1844, is a member of the class of 1864 in Y. C; Samuel, b. Dec. 29, 1849.

16. Hon. Lucius Manlius, s. of Lucius, (13) Amherst, pursued his studies preparatory to College, at Amh. Academy, between 1834 and 1839, under the instruction of Rev. George C. Partridge, Hon. Rodolphus B. Hubbard, Mr. Frederick A. Buel, and Rev. Nahum Gale, D. D., graduated at Amh. College in 1843, was appointed in 1852, Librarian of Amh. College, and in June, 1861, Post Master of Amherst. In politics a Republican, he was in 1859 by that party chosen State Senator for the Hampshire & Franklin District. He m. June 6, i860, Clarinda Boardman, dau. of Hinckley Williams of Goshen. Child - George She pard, b. March 2, 1861.

Clark Clary

CLARKE, Mr. Henry, Windsor 1640, representative 1641-1650, Assistant 1 650-1 66 1, a first settler of Had., a wealthy and distinguished man. He was one of the Commissioners for holding the courts at Spr. and Nh. (or Associates, as they were called after 1666) from 1663 to 1676. He d. s. p. Dec. 23, 1675. M. Jane, who d. Feb. 25, 1672.

8. Seth, s. of Nathaniel, (6) grad. Y. C, 1765, studied medicine with Dr. L. Hubbard of New Haven, Ct., and established himself in the practice of the same in Amh., where he d. Sept. 9, i8i6, ae. 74. M. (1) Oct. 20,

Cowles Craft

1. CROW, John, came to New England in 1635, was an early settler of Hartford, and one of the first settlers of Hadley, freeman 1666. He returned as early as 1676 to Hartford, where he d. Jan. 16, i686. M. Elizabeth, only child of William Goodwin. Children - John, a merchant in Fairfield, d. at sea, s. p., 1667; Samuel; Nathaniel, who prob. resided in Hartford, and was b. Nov. 3, 1771, killed by being run over by the wagon while her parents were removing from Conn., March 9, 1773, ae. i; Lucretia, b. Oct. 9, 1773,

7. Thomas, s. of Nathaniel, (i) freeman of Conn., 1657, and of Mass. 1661, a first settler of Had. Having sold out at the latter place in 1679, he removed to Wethersfield, and there d. 1716. M. March 7, 1667, Hannah,

23. Moses, s. of Samuel, (10) Hat., d. abt. 1787. M. Oct. 24, 1737, Anna, dau. of Joseph Smith. Children - Samuel, res. in Wh.; Rebecca; Martha, m. William Mather; Miriam, m. Silas Billings; Anna, m. John Bullard.

24. Benoni, s. of Samuel, (10) Hat., d. abt. 1723. M.Ruth. Children - Ruth, m. Elisha Belding; Ann, m. Nathaniel Coleman; Alehitable; Martha.

Field

2. Nathaniel, s. of Sampson, (i) res. in Deerfield, where he d. April 30, 1727. M. Mehitable. Children - Obadiah; Nathan; Eunice; Amos, d. before 1729.

Gardner Gaylord

1. GAYLORD, William, b. in Windsor, Ct., Feb. 25, 1651, settled in Had., and d. 1680. He was s. of William and Ann (Porter) Gaylord, and grandson of Dea. William Gaylord of W., who prob. came over from old England in 1630, in the Mary and John, and was one of the first deacons of the Dorchester Church. M. Dec. 21, 1671, Ruth, dau. of John Crow. She m. (2) John Haley. Children - Ruth, b. April i, 1673; Child, b. Oct. 23, 1674; Samuel, b. Oct. 19, 1676; William, b. Oct. i, 1678.

GILLETT, Joseph, b. Nov. 2, 1664, s. of Joseph, of Simsbury, settled in Hat., whence he rem. to West Hartford. M. (i) Nov. 3, 1687, Esther Gull; (2) Mercy Griswold at Hartford. Child - Elizabeth, b. 1689.

Goodell Goodman

11. Eleazar, s. of Eleazar, (6) rem. from S. H. to Lake George. He m. Rebecca, dau. of Joseph White. Children - Justin, b. Feb. 7, 1771 ; Eleazar; Eldad; Nathan; Satnuel; Oren.

GOODWIN, Mr. William, sailed from London, in ship Lyon, June 22, 1632, and arrived in New England, Sept. 16, 1632. He was made freeman in Mass. Nov. 6, 1732, and was in May 1634, Deputy from Cambridge to the General Court. He was an early settler of Hartford, Ct., where he was a man of great influence, both in Church and State. Having resided in Hadley about ten years from its first settlement, abt. 1620 he returned to Ct., and d. in Farmington, March 11, 1673. He m. Susanna, who d. in F., May 17, 1676. Child - Elizabeth, m. John Crow of Had. and Hartford.

Graves

1. GRAVES, Thomas, Hartford, 1645, rem. to Hat., and d. Nov. 1662. He m. Sarah, who d. Dec. 17, 1666. Children - Isaac; John; Samuel; perhaps a Daughter, whose name is unknown.

20. Jonathan, s. of Samuel, (9) Sunderland. He m. June 2, 1715, Mrs. Elizabeth Combs. Children - Jonathan, who prob. d. young; Ebenezer, b. Sept. 10, 1717.

Hastings Hawley

2. John, s. of John, (i) settled in Hat., whence he rem. to Deerfield, and subsequently to Waterbury, Ct., where he d. He m. (i) Dec. 26, 1667, Martha, (probably Baldwin,) who d. Jan. 7, 1676; (2) Nov. 20, 1696, Alice, wid. of Samuel Allis of Hat. She was slain by French and Indians, Feb. 29,

Hibbard Hinsdale

3. George, s. of George, (i) d. Dec. 1849, ^^- 69. He m. Nov. 30, 1797, Susanna Washburn. Children - Clarissa; Truman; Elizabeth; Eliphaz; Isaiah Washburn.

3. Samuel, s. of Robert, (i) rem. from Had. to Deerfield, where he was killed by Indians, Sept. 18, 1675. He m. Oct. 31, 1660, Mehitable Johnson, perhaps dau. of Humphrey of Roxbury. She m. (2) John Root, (3) Dea. John Coleman. Children - Mehitable, h. Oct. 18, 1663, prob. m. Obadiah Dickinson; Ann, h. Feb. 22, 1666; Mary, m. 1685, Thomas Sheldon, and d.

4. Experience, s. of Robert, (i) Deerfield, d. 1676. He m. Oct. 10, 1672, Mary, dau. of John Hawks. She m. (2) July, 1677, John Evens of Hat. and Deerfield. Children - Elizabeth, m. John Comwell of Middletown; and another daughter, whose name is not known.

Gardner. Children - John, b. Aug. 7, 1677; Experience, b. July, 1679, m. Nathaniel Clark of Medfield; Mehitable, b. abt. 16S1, m. Nathaniel Wright of Medfield.

2. John, s. of Rev. Samuel, (i) a merchant, rem. April, 1814, from Hadley to Boston, and thence in Oct. 1824 to Northampton, where he d. Jan. 9, 1842, ae. 71, leaving a very large estate. He m. 1797, Lydia, dau. of Thomas Thompson of Newburyport. She was b. April 17, 1773, and d. in Newburyport, April 10, 1842, ae. 68. Children - Sarah Ann Wait, h. Jan. 20, 1799, m. Sept. 23, 1822, Rev. John Wheeler, then of Windsor, Vt., but afterwards President of University of Vermont at Burlington. She d. in Burlington, Nov. 2, 1847; Elizabeth, b. May 18, 1802, d. Aug. i, 1802; Thomas Thompson, b. Dec. 13, 1804, d. June 27, 1805; Samuel, b. April 11, 1807, grad. D. C. 1827, was ordained and installed over the ist church in Montpelier, Vt., Oct. 26, 1831, and dismissed May, 1835, was installed over ist church in Saco, Me., Feb. 1836, and dismissed 1841, reinstalled over the same church in 1842, and dismissed 1845. He now resides in Nh. and is an author of note. He m. May 29, 1832, Caroline W., dau. of Josiah Dwight of Nh.; Erastus, b. April 7, 1810, grad. D. C. 1830, was settled May, 1835, in the ministry at Beech Island, Edgefield District, S. C, and dismissed 1837. He was settled in the fall of 1837 over the 2d Presbyterian church in Troy, N. Y., and dismissed in the fall of 1841. He has since resided in Nh., and has represented that town in the Legislature. As a political speaker, he has in the State few superiors. He m. (i) June 25, 1835, Sarah H. Benedict of Charleston, S. C, who d. May 3, 1838; (2) Nov. 18, 1841, Charlotte Frelinghuysen, dau. of Rev. William Allen, D. D., of Nh.; George, b. Sept. 13, 181 2, d. at the Santa Cruz, West Indies, March 16, 1830, ae. 17, while a member of Yale College; Lewis Spring, b. Sept. 18, 1815, entered in 1831 the University of Vermont, but left before graduation, pursued his medical studies at Northampton, and in Boston, New Haven, Ct., and Philadelphia, Pa., and graduated at Med. Col. at Charleston, S. C. About the year 1840, he commenced the practice of his profession in Northampton, but after two years was compelled by failing health to abandon the same. His residence has since been at Northampton. He m. Oct. 14, 1846, Fanny J. Washburn of Boston.

1. HOYT, David, deacon, s. of Nicholas, b. in Windsor, Ct., April 22, 165 1, rem. to Hat. and thence to Deerfield. He, together with his wife and children, Jonathan, Sarah, Ebenezer, and Abigail, was taken captive in the sack of Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704, and carried away towards Canada, and perished of hunger near the lower Cohoes. He m. (i) April 3, 1673, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Wells, who d. before Sept. 1676; (2) Mary; (3) Abigail, wid. of Joshua Pomeroy, and dau. of Nathaniel Cook of Windsor. She m. (3) Dea. Nathaniel Rice of Wallingford, Ct. Children - Samuel, b. June 12, 1674; David; Mary, m. April 4, 1707, Judah Wright; Sarah, b. May 6,

Hoyt Hubbard

1. HUBBARD, John, s. of George of Wethersfield, Milford and Guilford, Ct., came abt. 1660 from Wethersfield, Ct., and d. abt. 1705. He m. Mary (perhaps Merriam of Concord) who survived him. Children - Mary, b. Jan. 27, 1651, d. young; John, b. April 12, 16^^;^ Hannah, b. Dec. 5, 1656, d.

Hubbard Ingram

13. Isaac, s. of Isaac, (7) rem. from Sund. after 1756 to Amh., and thence in his old age to Wilmington, Vt., where he d. abt. 1810. He m. Oct. 29, 1752, Submit, dau. of Isaac Graves of Sunderland. Children - Elihu, b. March 24,

1743, Elizabeth, wid. of Noadiah Lewis of Farmington, Ct., and dau. of Dea. Ichabod Smith. She prob. d. Oct. 1789. Children - Anna, b. June 10,

Ingram Jennings

JENNINGS, Stephen, freeman 1690, came perhaps from Brookfield to Hat., and returned thither. He m. probably, (2) May 15, 1677, Hannah, wid. of Samuel Gillett, and dau. of John Dickinson of Had. She with two of her Gillett children was in 1667 carried to Canada. Children - Captivity,

JUDD, AsAHEL, b. in Nh., s. of Thomas of Nh., who was s. of Samuel of Nh., who was s. of Dea. Thomas of Cambridge, Hartford, and Windsor, settled in S. H. He was an Ensign in a colonial company in Nova Scotia, in the French war, and d. near Minas, N. S., in 1756. He m. (i) Rachel Wait of Nh., who d. April 26, 1751, in 24th yr.; (2) 1754, (pub. Feb. 3,)

1. KELLOGG, Joseph, weaver, of Farmington, Ct., in 1651, rem. as early as 1659 to Boston, and thence as early as 1662 to Hadley, where he was a lieutenant and often one of the selectmen. He d. ae. abt. 80, in 1707 or 1708, as appears from the fact, that his will dated 1707, was proved Feb. 4,

1791, Martha, dau. of Lt. David Smith of Amh., and removed to Weybridge, Vt., and thence to Malone, N. Y.; Electa, m. Jan. 15, 1789, Nathaniel Bangs, and removed to New Salem; Esther, m. Dec. 21, 1785, Elijah Prouty; Elijah, m. Hannah Herrick, rem. to Weybridge, Vt., and thence to the State of

(2) Submit, dau. of David Blodgett, Jr., and rem. to Weybridge, Vt., and thence to Malone, N. Y.; Joel, b. abt. 1780, m. Elizabeth Alexander of Deerfield, and d. in Amh., June 27, 1827, ae. 47; Philomela, m. Feb. 27, 1810, Elisha Smead of Weybridge, Vt.

30. Whiting, s. of Moses, (21) res. in Ashfield and Montgomery, but d. in Had., Jan. 16, 1838. He m. Elizabeth Cross of Ashfield. Children -

Kellogg King

KELLOGG, Giles Crouch, b. Aug. 12, 1781, grad. Y. C. 1800, read law with Jonathan E. Porter, Esq., was admitted to the bar in Hampshire County, opened an office in Hadley, and there spent his Hfe. By his townsmen he was honored with many private and public trusts. For many years he was town clerk and treasurer, and for thirteen years Register of Deeds for Hampshire County. He was often representative to the General Court of the State, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853. In the war of 181 2, he served as an adjutant in one of the Massachusetts regiments. For several years he taught successfully in the Hopkins Academy in Hadley. He d. June 19, 1861, ae. 80. He m. 1814, Martha Hunt, dau. of Noadiah Warner. She was b. Oct. 9, 1787. Children - Ebenezer White, b. Feb. 6, 1815; Francis, b. Jan. 25, 1817; Giles, b. March 2, 1819; Maria Catlin, b. June 18, 1821; Martha Hunt, b. Oct. 25, 1823; Lucy Warner, b. March 22, 1826; Anna Marsh b. Aug. 11, 1828; William, b. Aug. 1830, d. March 20, 1831.

1. LEWIS, William, came over from England in the Lion, arrived at Boston, Sept. 16, 1632, was admitted freeman Nov. 6, 1632, belonged to the Braintree company, which in Aug., 1632, rem. from Braintree to Cambridge. He was in 1636 one of the earliest settlers of Hartford, and subsequently a founder of Hadley, and representative for Hadley, 1662, and for Northampton, 1664. Prior to Nov. 29, 1677, he had removed to Farmington, Ct., where he d. Aug. 2, 1683. He m. Felix, who d. in Had., April 17, 1671. Child - William.

2. William, s. of William, (i) was in 1644 a resident of Farmington, and the first recorder of the town on its incorporation in 1645. Though one

Lewis Lyman

2. Timothy, s. of Phinehas, (i) studied medicine with Dr. Hunt of Nh., and d. June 12, 1792, ae. 42. He m. June i, 1780, Elizabeth Pomeroy, who m. after his death Ebenezer Clark of Lunenburgh, Vt. Children - Joanna, prob. b. May 4, 1782, m. Abel Brown of Spr., and abt. 1839 rem. to Wisconsin; Elizabeth, bapt. March 28, 1784, a cripple; Naomi, b. March, 1787, m. Asa Clark of Lunenburgh, Vt.; Elihu, b. July, 1789, went to Vt., and thence to Wisconsin; Phinehas, b. Feb. 20, 1786.

I. MARSH, John, Hartford, 1639. was one of the first settlers of Hadley, but rem. thence first to Northampton, and then to Hartford, where he died 1688. He m. (i) Anne, dau. of Gov. John Webster. She d.

Marsh

16. Joseph, s. of Moses, (12) rem. to Brookfield, Vt., and was there killed by the falling of a tree, Aug. 1783, ae. 28. He m. Mindwell Pomeroy. She m. 1784, Ebenezer Clark of Lunenburgh, Vt. Children - Sally, b. June 10, 1782, m. 1800, Lemuel Holmes of Lunenburgh, Vt.; rem. to Malone, N. Y., where she was living in 1853; Joannah, b. Jan. 1784, [Jan. 12, 1785?] m. Daniel Clark of Lunenburgh, Vt., rem. to Huntsburg, Ohio, and there res. in 1853.

3. Hon. Ebenezer, s. of Ebenezer, (2) Amh., grad. D. C. 1776, was Representative and Senator in General Court, Member of Congress, Sheriff of Hampshire County, Adjutant General of Mass. With the exception of his eye sight, he retained all his faculties until the close of his long life. He d. Sept. II, 1843, ae. 88. He m. July 7, 1779, Mary, dau. of Noah Dickinson of Amh. She d. July 30, 1835, ae. 77. Children - Mary Dickinson, b. April 4, 1780, m. Dec. 24, 1807, Daniel Dwight, Esq., of Westmoreland, N. H.; Ebenezer, b. Sept. 29, 1781, m. Dec. 30, 1804, Lucina Mayo of Orange; Noah Dickinson, b. Sept. 19, 1783, grad. D. C. 1803, lawyer in Amh. and Painsville, O., and is supposed now (1861) to be a resident of Unionville, O. He m.

Merrick Montague

MIGHILL, Samuel, perhaps the same with the above, formerly of Hartford, m. 1 7 14, Sarah Prentice, and in Nov. 1728 deserted his wife and rem. to Had. She in 1733 sued for divorce. They had no children.

Moody Morton Nash

9. Daniel, s. of John, (3) resided in So. Had. until about the time of the American Revolution, when he removed to Shelburne, and d. Aug. 24, 1 79 1, in 84th yr. He m. Abigail , who d. in Conway, Sept. 6, 180^, ae. 93.

Nash

24. John, s. of Josiah, (20) followed the business of boating down the Conn, river to Hartford, until the building of the Conn. River R. R. in 1849

28. Lorenzo S., s. of Cotton, (22) resides in Gr., is a deacon in the (Cong.) church, and was in 1859 a Representative to the General Court for the District embracing the towns of Amherst, Granby and Pelham. He m. Nov. 21, 1838, Pemielia, dau. of Dr. Enos Smith of Gr. She was b. Sept. 20, 1817. Children - Henry Smith, b. Oct. 22, 1840, d. Sept. 14, 1841; Sarah Hawkes, b. Aug. 20, 1842.

Nash Parsons

2. CoL. Samuel, s. of William, (i) was Representative 1685 and 1686, Colonel of the Regiment, Judge of Probate, and one of his Majesty's Council, and the most important man, after the death of Col. Pynchon, 1703, in all the western part of the Province. About 1687 he removed to Hat., where he d. Dec. 25, 1740, ae. 95. He m. (i) Sept. 24, 1668, Mehitable, dau. of

Partridge Perkins

PLIMPTON or PLYMPTON, Peter, s. of John, bapt. in Dedham, March 16, 1652, rem. to Deerfield, thence as early as 1679 to Hatfield and still later to Marlborough, where he d. March 27, 1717. He m. July 2, 1677, Mary Mundan. Children - Hannah, b. March 28, 1679; Mary, b. March 8, 1681.

2. Hon. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (i) at one time Representative, an extensive trader with England, and afterwards Judge and Sheriff of the County, d. July 29, 1722, leaving to his family an immense estate of over ;£io,ooo. He left upwards of £534 in goods including 196^ shipped for him at London, and sixteen hundred and forty two acres of land in Brookiield, valued at £518. He had bills of credit on hand to the amount of £403. He m. (i) Feb. 22, 1683, Joanna, dau. of Capt. Aaron Cook. She d. Nov. 13, 1713, ae. 49; (2)

Rugg Scott

1. RUSSELL, John, b. abt. 1597, glazier, Cambridge, freeman March 3, 1636, town clerk in 1645, constable in 1648, rem. early to Wethersfield, and

2. John, s. of John, (i) grad. H. C. 1645, ord. abt. 1649, ^^ pastor of the church in Wethersfield, Ct., and there remained until the settlement of Hadley, when he removed and was pastor of said church until his death, Dec. 10, 1692, in the 66th yr. of his age. He m. (i) June 28, 1649, Mary Talcott; (2) Rebecca, dau. of Thomas Newbury of Windsor, Ct. She d. Nov. 21,

Smith

22. Erastus Smith, s. of Benjamin, (18) m. Aug. 17, 1791, Lydia Hibbard. Children - Clarissa; Sophia; Lydia; Erastus; Sarah; Zebina; Thaddeus, Representative, i860; Elizabeth, bapt. April 6, 1806; Catharine Amelia, bapt. Sept. 20, 1807; Child, bapt. April 24, 1793, d. ae. 4 days.

SMITH, Samuel, Lieut., with wife Elizabeth and children, Samuel, ae. 9, Elizabeth, ae. 7, Mary, ae. 4, and Philip, ae. 1, sailed for New England, the last day of April, 1634, in the Elizabeth of Ipswich. He and his wife were each then called thirty two years of age. He came from Wethersfield, Ct., where he was a leading man, to Hadley, where he held important offices both in church and state. He is supposed to have died in 1680, ae. abt. 78. His inventory was taken Jan. 17, 1681. He m. Elizabeth, who d. March 16, 1686, ae. 84. Children - Samuel, h. abt. 1625, prob. rem. to New London, Ct., and thence prior to 1664 to Va., and if so, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. .Henry Smith of Wethersfield; Elizabeth, b. abt. 1627, m. abt. 1646, Nathaniel Foote; (2) William Gull; Mary, b. abt. 1630, m. (i) John Graves; Philip, b. abt. 1633; Chileab, b. abt. 1635; John.

2. Philip, s. of Samuel, (i) was one of the first men of his time, in the town of his adoption, a lieutenant, deacon, and representative, and d. Jan. 10, 1685, "murdered with an hideous witchcraft," according to Cotton Mather.

28. William, s. of Samuel, (12) South Hadley, d. 1770. In his will made and proved 1 770, he names his wife Elizabeth, the heirs of his daughter Elizabeth, deceased, grandchild Charles Chapin and his wife Silence. Children - Jerusha, b. June 25, 1727; Rebecca, b. Sept. 21, 1731; Elizabeth, b. July 10, 1734, m. March 27, 1755, William Negus, and d. prior to 1770. One of his daughters probably d. June 25, 1740.

40. Ephraim, s. of John, (18) So. Hadley, m. Mary, dau. of John Preston of So. Had. Children - Ephraim, m. Thankful Goodman; Eli; Darius; Simeon; Luther; Joanna, m. Samuel Goodman; Lois, m. William Taylor.

43. Silas, s. of John, (18) m. (i) 1749, Sarah, dau. of John Preston; (2) Rebecca Allen. Children - Philip, m. Achsah Chapin, (see the Chapin genealogy) d. in Springfield; Perez, b. 1753; Silas, b. Nov. 30, 1754; Sarah, m. Hugh McMaster of Palmer.

76. Sylvester, s. of Enos, (55) deacon in ist church, is the person, by whose solicitations Mr. Judd was induced to commence the History of Hadley, and from whom he obtained ten-fold more information and assistance in the prosecution of the work, than from any one beside. He m. (i) Jan. i, 181 2, Polly, dau. of Lemuel Warner. She d. Aug. 19, 1817, ae. 24; (2) April 6, 1819, Elizabeth Edwards, dau. of John Smith. Children - Rodney, b. Aug. 6, 1812; Henry, b. Dec. 14, 1814, d. Nov. 3, 1815; Mary Ann, b. April 23, 1817, m. May 29, 1844, Chester Smith.

102. JosiAH White, s. of Horace, (87) Nh., was by trade a printer, for several years publisher of the Northampton Courier, but at the time of his death, a clerk in the office of Superintendent of the Conn. River Rail Road. He d. May i, 1854. He m. May 27, 1841, Jane S. Damon of Nh. Children - Isaac Damon, b. Aug. 6, 1845; Jine, b. April 13, 1853.

1. STANLEY, Thomas, was at Hartford, 1636, whence he removed to Had. in the first settlement of the town, and was there buried Jan. 30, 1663.

Children - Nathaniel, b. abt. 1638; Hannah, m. Samuel Porter, and d. Dec. 18, 1708; Mary, m. John Porter of Windsor, Ct.; Sarah, m. John Wadsworth of Farmington.

STICKNEY, John, b. in Stoughton, abt. 1742 or 1743, while a butcher's boy, learned of one Dunbar, near Boston, the new style of music, and came up into the Connecticut valley, and taught the same in Northampton, South Hadley, Hartford, Wethersfield, New Haven, and other places. In the face of not a little opposition, he persevered, until he had banished the old and introduced the new method of singing. He finally settled in South Hadley, worked on the farm in summer and in winter taught singing school, in most of the towns in the region, until he was about sixty-five years of age. He d. in 1826 or 1827, ae. 84. He m. (i) Elizabeth Howard of Stoughton; (2) Lucy, wid. of Azariah Alvord. Children - Jonas, b. June 10, 1769, d. July 23, 1771; John, b. April 3, 1772, a physician in Canada; Chester, b. July 3, 1779, d. Nov. 1779; Caleb Howard, b. April 2, 1785, d. Jan. 26, 1786; Caleb H., h. 1787; Walter, b. Aug. 1790.

STOCKWELL, Quintan, rem. from Hat. to Deerfield, and thence to Suffield, Ct. He was captured Sept. 19, 1677, at Deerfield, and carried to Canada, but returned the subsequent year. He m. Abigail. Children - John, b. Oct. 8, 1676; Eleazar, b. in Branford, Ct. 1679.

Stockwell Taylor

5. Ebenezer, s. of John, (i) rem. as early as 1731, to Granby, and was alive in 1756. He m. Mehitable, dau. of Dea. Samuel Smith of East Hartford, Ct. Children - Jacob, b. July 10, 17 18; Ebenezer, b. March 24, 1723, m. Experience; Lois; Mary.

11. Jacob, s. of Ebenezer, (5) perhaps resided in Granby. He m. (i) Elizabeth Lane, to whom he was pub. Sept. 28, 1751; (2) Wid. Ruth White,

Taylor Vinton

TILTON, Hon. Peter, came here from Windsor, Ct., was Recorder of Hadley from 1661 to 1693, Representative in General Court, 1665-6, 1668, 1670 - 1679, one of the commissioners, or Associate Judges of the County Court, and at a later period one of the "most worshipful Assistants of the colony," and last, though not least, a deacon, if not an elder in the church.

Wait Ward. 145

WARD, Nathaniel, an early settler of Hartford, and a gentleman of good standing in the colony of Conn., was one of the first settlers of Had., where he was made freeman, March 26, 1661. He d. childless, naming in his will, dated May 27, 1664, and proved Sept. 1664, his kinsman William Markham, kinswoman Elizabeth Hawks, sister Cutting, sister Allen, and her son Daniel, and kinsman Noyes. He was buried June i, 1664. He m. Jane, wid. of John Hopkins of Hartford.

(2) Esther, wid. of Thomas Selden, who d. 1693, as is inferred from the fact, that, her inventory was taken Dec. i, 1693. Children - Andrew, m. Rebecca Fletcher, and d. in Middletown, Jan. 26, 1681; Robert, m. (i) Feb. 1654, Elizabeth Grant; (2) Mrs. Deliverance Rockwell, and d. in Middletown, Ct., April 10, 1690; Jacob; Daniel; Isaac, b. abt. 1645; Ruth, living in 1677, and presented to the Court, for wearing silk; Dau., m. John, or Daniel Pratt; Mary, m. (i) John Steel; (2) William Hills; John, res. in Middletown, Ct.

Warner

7. Samuel, s. of Daniel, (3) Hatfield. He m. (i) May i, 1715, Hannah Sacket; (2) Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Morton. Children - Rebecca, b. May 6, 1716; Jesse, b. May 6, 1718, res. in Belchertown and Conway; Samuel, b. Oct. 27, 1722; Nathan; David, b. Feb. 15, 1732; Joshua, b. Dec. 12, 1733, settled in Williamsburgh; Hannah; Elizabeth, m. Israel Chapin; Abraham, lost at sea; Sarah, m. Elijah Wait.

I. WARNER, John, supposed to haVe been the son of William of Ipswich, rem. from Ipswich to Brookfield, and thence to Had. He was living as late as May 17, 1692, and then gave his real and personal property to his three sons, Mark, Eleazar and Nathaniel. He m. Priscilla, dau. of Mark Symonds. Children - Mark; John; Nathaniel, b. abt. 1655; Joseph, b. Aug. 15, 1657, d. 1658; Mehitable, b. April 16, 1659, d. June 12, 1678; Daniel, b. April 16, 1661, res. in Ipswich, and d. 1688; Eleazar, b. Nov. 13, 1662; Priscilla, m. 1688, Thomas Cummings.

6. Eleazar, s. of Eleazar, (4) Sunderland, d. abt. 1777,- as appears from the fact, that, his will made 1770, was proved Nov. 1777. He m. Martha. Children - Seth, b. 1729, m. Martha, and d. before his father, leaving wid. Martha, and four children, viz., Eleazar; Gideon; Jonathan; and Martha; Eleazar, b. 1733; Jonathan, b. 1736, d. in Albany, 1759; Martha.

1. WEBSTER, Hon. John, probably came into Connecticut in 1636, or 1637, of which colony he was one of the fathers. He was there a magistrate. Deputy Governor, Governor, and one of the Commissioners of the United Colonies. He was an influential member of the church in Hartford, took a deep interest in the controversy which agitated that and other churches, and was one of the leaders of the Hadley company. He was buried in Hadley, April 5, 1661. He m. Agnes. Children - Matthew, res. in Farmington, Ct., and d. July 16, 1655; William; Thomas; Robert, res. in Middletown and Hartford, and d. 1676. Hem. abt. 1652, Susannah Treat; A n«e,m. John Marsh, and d. June 9, 1662; Elizabeth, prob. m. William Markham; Dau., name unknown, m.. Jonathan Hunt of Nh.

2. Thomas, s. of Thomas, (i) rem. abt. 1684 to Deerfield, and there d. 1691. He m. (i) Jan. 12, 1673, Hepzibah, dau. of Peter Buell of Windsor, Ct. She with three of her daughters was in June, 1693, knocked on the head and scalped by the Indians, but she and one dau. recovered from their injuries. She m. (2) Feb. 17, 1699, Daniel Belding. Children - Mary, b. Nov. 12, 1673; Sarah, b. 1676; Thomas, res. in Deerfield, m. March 29, 1700, Sarah Barnard, and d. s. p. 1750; Eleazar, a sailor, d. in Middletown, Ct., 1723; John, sent to Canada, 1706, slain May, 1709; Daniel; David; Hepzibah, m. John Dickinson.

9. John, s. of Ebenezer, (6) Deerfield and Greenfield, d. abt. 1747, as is inferred from the fact, that, adm. on his estate was granted March, 1747. He m. Sarah Allen of Windsor. She m. (2) Michael Metcalf, and d. as early as April, 1761. Children - Samuel, b. Oct. 28, 1729, m. Margaret McCullis, (grandfather of Hon. Daniel Wells of Greenfield, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and Samuel Wells, Esq. of Northampton, Clerk of the Courts;) Sarah, b. 1732, m. Col. Isaac Lyman of Keene, N. H.; John, b. 1734, m. Tamar Rice; Daniel, b. 1735, killed in Johnson's fight, 1755; Susanna, b. 1737, d. young; Elijah, b. 1740, m. Hannah Billings; Susanna,

WESTWOOD, William, together with Bridget, his wife, sailed from England, in ship Francis, the last of April, 1634, he ae. 28, and his wife 32. He was made freeman of Mass., March 4, 1635. He removed in 1636, with Mr. Hooker and his company to Hartford, or rather arrived in Hartford before Mr. Hooker, and when the first Court was holden at Hartford in April, 1636, was one of the six men (two from each town) who composed it. One of the wealthiest and most prominent of the first settlers of Hartford, he took the same position in Hadley, where he d. April 9, 1669, ae. abt. 63. He m. Bridget, who d. May 12, 1676, ae. abt. 74. Child - Sarah, b. abt. 1644, m. May 30, 1661, Aaron Cook, and d. March 24, 1730, ae. 86.

I. WHITE, John, came from England, in the ship Lyon, which sailed from London, June 22, 1632, and arrived in New England, Sept. 16, following. He settled in Cambridge, was adm. freeman, March 4, 1633, and rem. prob. in June, 1636 to Hartford, of which town he was an original proprietor. He was one of the first settlers of Hadley, and Representative, 1664 and 1669. About 1670, he returned to Hartford, where he was an Elder in the retained her physical and mental powers, in a good degree, almost to the close of life. Children - Simeon, b. 1745, m. Aug. 2, 1770, Hannah, dau. of Elisha Hubbard of Hatfield, res. in Williamsburgh, and Rutland, N. Y., and d. Aug. 20, 1820, ae. 75 ; Asa, h. 1747, m. Jan. 20, 1785, Zilpah Hayes of Granby, Ct., settled in Williamsburgh, and there resided till his death, except a few years, from 1812 to 1816, when he lived in Chesterfield. He d. Sept. 15, 1829, ae. 82; Jerusha, b. 1751, m. Jan. 6, 1789, Arnold Mayhew of Williamsburgh, and d. Dec. i, 1839, ae. 88.

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20 J. William, s. of WilHam, (11) resided in Hinsdale, N. H., in Northfield and Springfield, Mass., and d. in Had., Dec. [30?] 1810, ae. 78. He m. (i) April, 1757, Lydia, dau. of Ehzur Patterson of Northfield. She was b. 1737; (2) Nov. 14, 1765, Martha Chapin of Springfield. Children - Giles, m. Sarah Dodd, and rem. to Cobleskill, N. Y., as early as 1797; Sarah; Mary; William; Samuel; Gad, m. Flavia.