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' Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us ! ' The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other. and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round."
APPENDIX.
The foregoing Address,-excepting a few omissions, made necessary by the limitation to two hours,-was delivered in the first church on the evening of Sunday Oct. 29, 1854. The order of the exercises was this : invocation and reading the scriptures by J. P. Hubbard, episcopal minister ; singing by the " Old Folks" of an original hymn ; prayer by J. P. Cleaveland, minister of the first church ; singing ; address ; prayer by G. Hall, congregational minis- ter; reading of letters from natives of the town, living at a distance, by G. G. Ingersoll, unitarian minister ; singing .- The communications from abroad were from Benjamin Tappan of Steubenville, Ohio, aged 81, John and Charles Tappan of Boston,-Lewis Tappan of Brooklyn,-and Charles Stoddard of Boston :- these were published in the Hampshire Gazette, Jan. 23, 1855.
The head of the Tappan family in Northampton was Benjamin Tappan, a brother of Dr. David T., Professor of Divinity at Harvard College. His fath- er, Benjamin, minister of Manchester, was descended from Abraham of Bos- ton, England. Mr. T. was at first a goldsmith, afterwards for many years a merchant. A patriot of the revolution, he was in 1779 on a committee with Caleb Strong, Dr. Shepherd, Abner Barnard, and Simeon Parsons for filling up the companies of Militia; and he himself marched to repel the invasion of Burgoyne. He died Jan. 29, 1831, aged 83; and his wife, Sarah Homes, died March 26, 1826, aged 78. A memoir of her by L. T. was printed in 1834. Besides his four sons, whose letters are here referred to, there are now living his son Arthur of New York, not unknown in the history of anti-slavery, and William of Binghamton, and two daughters, widows of Col. Wm. Edwards of Brooklyn, N. Y., and of Rev. Dr. John Pierce of Brookline, Mass. The ages of these eight children of one family extend from 66 to 82 years, with an av- erage of 74 or 75 years. Their descendants are very numerous .- Judge Tappan emigrated, with an ox team and agricultural implements, to Ohio, by the way of Buffalo, in 1799. He himselfcut down the first tree, which fell by the axe in the now flourishing village of Ravenna. A sketch of his life was pub- lished in the Democratic Review, when he was a Senator of the United States, written by Mr. Gilpin, Solicitor of the Treasury at Washington.
Mr. Stoddard, who, like the writers of the other letters, had emigrated from this town forty or more years ago, is a descendant of the second minister, and the son of Solomon Stoddard, who is still living, aged nearly 84.
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NOTICES OF EARLY SETTLERS.
GEORGE ALEXANDER had a son Alexander in 1656, and died in 1703. From 1672 to 1698 there were sixteen children of John and Alexander.
SAMUEL ALLEN, (written Allyn in the old records,) was the son of Samuel Allyn, who died at Windsor in 1648, and who is supposed to have been the brother of Matthew Allyn of Hartford and Windsor and of Thomas Allyn of Middletown. His lot was north of Mr. Woodford's, afterwards Jonathan Ed-
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wards', in King street. He married Hannah Woodford in 1659 and died Oct. 18, 1703. His children were ten, of whom Samuel, who died in 1739, was a deacon of the church in the time of Mr. Edwards. Deacon Samuel's son Jo- seph was the father of Thomas Allen, the first minister of Pittsfield, and of other sons, mentioned in the Address, of whom Solomon, minister of Brighton, N. Y., was the father of the wives of deacon Luther and deacon Enos Clark, now living, and of Phineas and Moses Allen of Pittsfield and New York. Among other descendants in Northampton are deacon Aaron Breck and Mo- ses Breck.
A bequest of 133 pounds by Thomas Allen, who died in 1754, provided for the education of his grand nephew Thomas of Pittsfield; and he also gave between 6 and 7 pounds " to promote the spread of the gospel among the heathenish natives of this province." In the same spirit his nephew, Joseph, left a tract of land in Southampton to the president of Dartmouth College " to be expended in propagating the gospel among the Indians."
NEHEMIAH ALLEN, son of Samuel of Windsor, married Sarah Woodford in 1664, and died in 1684. He had 9 children. Samuel removed to Deer- field in 1706 and thence to Coventry. His son Joseph, born in 1708 at Deer- field, married Mary Baker of Woodbury and was the father of Colonel Ethan Allen of Vermont.
JOHN ALLEN, son of Samuel of Windsor, married Mary Hannum, daugh- ter of William in 1669, removed to Deerfield where both were killed by the Indians in May, 1704. His son John, born 1670, removed to Enfield, where his descendants now live :- Solomon is his great grandson, born of Solomon, the son of Ebenezer.
ALEXANDER ALVORD came about 1658 and had sons Jeremiah and Eb- enezer.
EDWARD BAKER was here in 1655 ;- Joseph had sons Joseph and Samuel in 1665 and 1673 ; Timothy and Grace had sons Timothy, John, Thomas, and Edward from 1675 to 1685 .- He was the ancestor of Osmyn Baker, late a member of Congress.
THOMAS BASCOM came from the north of England about 1650. His wife was Mary Baldwin ; he died Sept. 11, 1689. His grandson, Jonathan, who married Mindwell King and died in 1780 aged 74, was a first settler of South- ampton. Mary, sister of Jonathan, m. Noah Sheldon of S.
JAMES BRIDGMAN's son James was born May 30, 1655, and died Jan. 14, 1656, the first death. He himself died in 1676: Sarah, his wife, in 1667. His descendant, Thomas Bridgman, published Inscriptions on the Grave Stones of N. 1850; and subsequently several books of Inscriptions relating to cemeteries in Boston and elsewhere.
DAVID BURT was the son of Henry of Roxbury and Springfield. His de- seendant, deacon Samuel of Southampton, was the father of Rev. Sylvester Burt of Great Barrington, of Rev. Federal Burt of Durham, N. H., and of Rev. Jairus Burt of Canton, Conn.
PRESERVED CLAP, son of Capt. Roger Clap and Johanna Ford of Dor- chester, was born Nov. 23, 1643. He married Sarah Newberry of Windsor, was representative and ruling elder, and died Sept. 20, 1720, aged 76. Among his children were Preserved, Roger, and Thomas. Roger's son Sim- eon was the father of Simeon Clapp, a soldier of the revolution, who was at Saratoga, also of the guard of Major Andre at his execution, and died May 31, 1851, aged 92. Martha, his wife, died Jan. 29, 1843, ag. 79. Warham, brother of Simeon, d. Oct. 7, 1852, aged 82: Sophia, his wife, d. Nov. 2, 1846 ; she deserves honorable remembrance for giving a home for many years to the
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last Indian, Sally Maminash, a Christian woman, who died Jan. 3, 1853, aged 88. Capt. Preserved Clap, b. 1676, m. Mehitabel Warner of Hatfield, d. Oct. 11, 1752 : among his children were Roger, Preserved, John, Eliphaz, and Ez- ra. Roger's son Roger was a settler of Southampton. Eliphaz m. Rachel Parsons and had Naomi, Eliphaz, b. 1746, Elijah, and Mindwell.
WILLIAM CLARK was of Dorchester in 1636, select man in 1657 ; removed to Northampton, and was one of the pillars of the church in 1661. Ilis son John, born in 1631, had six sons, John, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Increase, Noah, Josiah, born from 1679 to 1697. They all lived in Elm street. The sons of John, Nathaniel, and Noah settled in Southampton. Ebenezer died in 1781, aged 99: his son, William, died in 1807, aged 87. Next, William, the son of the last, died in 1842, aged 78, the father of William Clark, now living .- In- crease Clark had six sons, Daniel, Elijah, Moses, Simeon, Noah, Josiah .- 1. Daniel died Dec. 26, 1804, aged 92: his son was deacon Solomon Clark, and his grandson was the late Allen Clark. 2. Elijah, deacon, died in 1791, aged 60 : he was the father of deacons Luther and Enos Clark, now living, the foriner nearly 88. 3. Moses had fourteen children, one of whom was deacon Israel, who died Oct. 22, 1851, aged 86.
Dr. Dwight says as to John Clark, the son of William, that of his ten chil- dren four lived to be above 90 years, three above 80, and three above 70 : and that his descendants,-when his son Ebenezer died in 1781, aged 98,- amounted to 1145.
AARON COOK, major, married a daughter of T. Ford. He was early at Dorchester; at Windsor in 1640 ; at Northampton in 1661. He died Sept. 5, 1690, aged 80. His son, Capt. Aaron, m. Sarah Westwood of Hartford in 1661 ; and his son, Lieut. Westwood Cook, was the father of Noah Cook of Hadley, who m. first Ann Cook and next Keziah Parsons of Northampton : he was the father of Rev. William C. of Sudbury. The last was the father of Rev. Samuel C. of West Cambridge, who died 1784 and whose wife was the sister of John Hancock. Noah Cook and Keziah Parsons were the ancestors of Rev. Dr. Parsons Cook of Lynn, son of Solomon. From him also descended Noah Cook, late of Keene, and Josiah P. Cook of Boston :- Rev. Phineas Cook late of Lebanon and his son Rev. George Cook :- Rev. Amos of Ber- nardston, and Rev. Theodore of Northampton.
ROBERT DANKS married Elizabeth, the widow of John Webb, who began in 1665 the settlement in Nashawannek, now in Easthampton, and died in 1692. His descendent, Samuel, settled in Southampton .- Danks' pond may be named from him.
ALEXANDER EDWARDS came from Wales and lived in Northampton from 1655 to 1690. He married Mary Baldwin, widow of John Searl who died in Springfield in 1642. From him descended two eminent men, the late Profes- sor Bela Bates Edwards, and Dr. Justin Edwards of Andover. Both descend- ed from Alexander's grandson Samuel, who died in 1749. The son of this Samuel, named Samuel, the grandfather of Dr. B. B. Edwards, a soldier in 1745, removed to Southampton in 1753, where he was a deacon, and died in 1784. Elisha, his son, also a deacon from 1790 till his death in 1832, was the father of Dr. Bela B. E., who d. April 20, 1852, aged 49, and whose memoirs by Dr. Park and valuable writings are well known .- Dr. Justin Edwards, whose labors in the cause of temperance and the Sabbath are also well known, was born in Westhampton and died in 1853. His memoirs will soon be pub- lished.
THOMAS FORD arrived in the ship with Mr. Warham of Dorchester in 1630 : he removed to Windsor, and thence to Northampton in 1661 or before. He died Nov. 9, 1676. He had four daughters : Abigail married elder John
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Strong at Dorchester in 1630 : Johanna, b. June 8, 1617, married Capt. Roger Clap of Dorchester Nov. 6, 1633, in her 17th year ; Hepzibah married Richard Lyman and another married Capt. A. Cook.
WILLIAM HANNUM came from Windsor : he died in 1677. His son John had thirteen children ; his grandson John was the father of Eleazer of South- ampton.
JOSEPH HAWLEY, a graduate of 1674, a representative, lived here as early as 1678, and died in 1711. His son Lieut. Joseph was born in 1682 and died June 1, 1735, aged 53 : other sons were Samuel, Thomas, Ebenezer. His wife Lydia d. 1732, aged 75. Joseph married Rebekah Stoddard, daughter of Rev. S. S., and was the father of the eminent Joseph Hawley, who died in 1788.
WILLIAM HOLTON was one of the Springfield petitioners and one of the earliest settlers ; a deacon of the church from 1663 to his death in 1691. The first marriages were of his daughters Mary to David Burt in 1654 and Sarah to John King in 1656 .- Jolin Holton lived here as early as 1668 and died in 1689 .- A Thomas Holton was killed by the Indians in their attack March 14, 1676, when they broke through the palisades at the lower end of Pleasant street, setting fire to several houses and barns. Others killed at the same time were Robert Bartlett, Mary Earle, and two soldiers belonging to a company, which had arrived the evening before.
WILLIAM HULBERT was at Dorchester in 1635, at Windsor in 1640 ; he married Ann, the widow of Samuel Allen, and removed to Northampton. She died in 1687 and he in 1694. John and William were his sons. Martin Lu- ther Hurlbut, a native of Southampton, a graduate of Williams College 1804, was a descendant,-whose son, William Henry Hurlbut, a graduate of Har- vard 1847, is the author of Gan Eden or Pictures of Cuba.
JONATHAN HUNT by his wife Clement had sons Jonathan, Thomas, John, Ebenezer; daughters Hannah, Mary. He was here as early as 1662; and was deacon from 1680 to his death in 1691.
JOHN INGERSOLL married Abigail Bascom Dec. 2, 1657. He removed to Warronoco or Westfield, of which town the late deacon Jonathan Ingersoll of Stockbridge was a native.
WILLIAM JANES was recorder of lands for twenty years, Medad Pomeroy being town recorder or town clerk : most of the early records were by these men. He was a school teacher and bore the honorable title of Mr., as did his fellow teachers, James Cornish and Joseph Hawley, the ministers Mather and Stoddard, and William Clark and Joseph Parsons.
THOMAS JUDD, deacon, went to Hartford in 1636 and thence to Farming- ton. Ile came to Northampton about 1680 and married, as his second wife, the widow of Thomas Mason. He died Nov. 12, 1686, aged 80 or more. All of the name in New England descended from him. Jonathan Judd, the first minister of Southampton, was his descendant of the fifth generation,-leaving seven children, one of whom, Sylvester Judd of Westhampton, died in 1832, aged nearly 80, the father of Sylvester Judd now of Northampton.
JOHN KING came from Northampton England. He married Sarah Holton in 1656 and was an early member of the church. His sons were John, Joseph, Ebenezer; he had a daughter Sarah. His descendants are chiefly in South- ampton. His grandson Joseph was accidentally killed, while hunting, by Samuel Burt.
ENOS KINGSLEY lived in Northampton in 1668. He came from Dorches- ter, and was the son of John. His grandson Ebenezer was a settler of South- ampton,-clerk and school teacher. In the first half century there were forty children of the name.
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DAVID LEE was the son of John Lee and Mary Hart, who lived in Farm- ington in 1653 : he settled in Northampton and married in 1695 Lydia Strong, daughter of Jedidiah Strong and Freedom Woodward,-grand daughter of elder John S. and Abigail Ford. He removed to Coventry, probably in 1709; and there his son Jonathan Lee was born, who was the first minister of Salis- bury, the father of a large family, one of which married T. Allen, the first min- ister of Pittsfiekl ;- another was the late Chauncey Lee, D. D., of Colebrook, and Marlborough ;- another was the father of Dr. Charles A. Lee of New York.
RICHARD LYMAN was the son of Richard, who came to Massachusetts in 1633 and was of Roxbury in 1635 and died at Hartford in 1640. He was in Northampton as early as 1658, and died June 3, 1662 : in the preceding year he became a member of the church, then founded. Ilis wife was H. Ford. The line of his descendants to Dr. Joseph Lyman of Hatfield, who died in 1828, was as follows-Richard, Richard, Jonathan, Jonathan. Dr. L.'s son was the late Jonathan H. Lyman, of Northampton, whose children are S. L. Hinckley, Dr. G. H. Lyman, and Mrs. (Rev. Charles) Mason of Boston, and and others in Philadelphia and Northampton .- It may be well supposed, that many of the name remain in N., as in the first half century the children of the name here born were seventy in number. He was recorder of the proprietors of Nonotuck from 1654 to 1657.
JOHN LYMAN, brother of Richard, was in N. in 1658. Ile married first Dorcas Plum : his second wife, it is believed, was a danghter of Rev. Mr. IFuit of Windsor. His son Moses was born in 1662; his grandson, Moses, born in 1689, married Mindwell Sheldon, and was the father of Rev. Isaac Lyman of York, who was the father of Theodore Lyman of Waltham and grand father of Theodore, late mayor of Boston.
Elias Lyman, a brother of Isaae, born in 1715, married Hannah Allen, sis- ter of Joseph, and died in 1790. His daughter Mindwell married Dr. Sylves- ter Woodbridge of Southampton, the father of John Woodbridge D. D. of Hadley .- His son Elias Lyman, who died in 1816, was the father of Justin of Hartford, of Elias of White River, Vt., and of Asahel of Northampton, now 79 years old.
Robert Lyman, the brother of John, married in 1662 Hepzibah Bascom .- From one of the three brothers descended Gen. Phineas Lyman and several ministers of Connecticut.
ELEAZER MATHER, the first minister, had two sons, Warham, born 1666, and Eliakim. Dr. Samuel Mather died in 1779 ; Dr. William in 1775, aged 32; Dr. Warham in 1813, aged 49; Dr. Elisha in 1841.
WILLIAM MILLER had eight children. John was killed by the Indians in 1676.
JOSEPH PARSONS married Mary Bliss at Windsor Nov. 6, 1646. His son Joseph was born in 1647 and died in 1729, aged 82 : his wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Elder Strong. He had other sons, Ebenezer, born in Northamp- ton May 1, 1655, Jonathan, and David ; also Hannah, Mary, Abigail, and Hester: and himself died at Springfield March 25, 1684. Joseph, the sec- ond's, children were Joseph, b. 1672, James, Ebenezer, David, Josiah, Daniel, and Moses .- Noah Parsons was born in 1692, married Mindwell Edwards, daughter of Benjamin, Jan. 17, 1712, and died Oct. 27, 1779, aged 87. Ile had 12 children, 215 descendants : first a son ;- then Jemima who m. Samuel Kingsley 1739 ;- Elizabeth m. Joseph Allen 1733 and died 1810, aged 84 ;- Mindwell, who m. Simeon King, 1737 ;- Rachel m. Eliphaz Clap ;- Thankful m. Ebenezer Ashley and John Dean ;- Mary m. Wm. Bartlett ;- Keziah m.
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Aaron Cook ;- Noah, who m. Phebe Bartlett 1752, and died Jan. 11, 1814, aged 84 : his wife was in 1737 the child spoken of by Mr. Edwards in his ac- count of the revival, and she d. Jan. 5, 1805 ;- Margaret, m. Phineas Ashley and Joseph Hutchins ;- Miriam m. Azariah Moseley 1762 ;- Timothy d. Feb. 2, 1822 .- Mrs. Elizabeth (Parsons) Allen, who died Jan. 9, 1800, the mother of Jonathan, &c. (p.24,) is mentioned in the church records as eminently pious, and as having assisted at the birth of three thousand children. David Par- sons, D. D., of Amherst, ordained 1782, d. 1823, was a descendant of Joseph, by Joseph and Elizabeth Strong. Of other descendants of the name twelve or fifteen have been ministers, among whom are Isaac Parsons of East Had- dam and his son Henry M. recently settled in Springfield.
NATHANIEL PHELPS bad a son William in June 1655, from whom and from Nathaniel were in subsequent years many descendants.
ELDAD POMEROY died May 22, 1662, the son of Eltweed of Dorchester and Windsor. His son deacon Medad married 1, Experience Woodward in 1661, and 2, Abigail Chauncey in 1686, widow of Rev. Mr. Chauncey of Hat- field and daughter of elder Strong. He died Dec. 30, 1716. He had ten or more children. His son, by his first wife, Ebenezer, had several children, one of whom was Seth. The five sons of Seth were 1, Quartus ;- 2, Asahel, the father of Miss Polly Pomeroy ;- 3, Lemuel, the father of the late Lemuel of Pittsfield, of Gamaliel of Southampton, and of Theodore, a physician in Utica ;- 4, Seth, father of Rev. J. L. Pomeroy of Worthington ;- 5, Medad a physician in Warwick.
JOHN PYNCHON deserves to be remembered on account of his relation to Northampton. The settlement of Nonotuck is probably more indebted to him `than to any other person. He was the son of Wm. Pynchon, who with oth- ·ers commenced the settlement of Springfield in 1636, but who, having incur- red the displeasure of the General Court by his book on the 'Price of Man's Redemption,' returned to England with his minister, Mr. Moxon, in 1652; but his son John remained behind, then about twenty-five years old. After a long life, employed in useful public service, Colonel Pynchon died Jan. 17, 1703, aged 76. Ilis wife was Amy, daughter of Gov. George Wyllys. Mr. Stoddard's sermon on his death was published. Many of his descendants have lived in Springfield and Brimfield.
THOMAS ROOT came from Hartford ; he died April 17, 1694. He had sons Thomas and Samuel. His descendants are in Southampton and in other towns. The births of this name in the first half century were about sixty.
JOHN SEARL was the son of John who died in Springfield in 1642. He was at N. soon after 1658 : his mother married A. Edwards. His great grand son Nathaniel was a settler of Southampton, where his descendants are nu- merons. His nephew, Rev. John S., graduated at Yale in 1745 and d. 1787. David S. was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1784 .- John Searl and three chil- dren were killed by the Indians at Paskhomuck May 13, 1704. His son Eli- sha, carried captive, returned from Canada after some years.
ISAAC SHELDON sailed from Plymouth, England. He was at Dorchester in 1634, and at Windsor in 1640. His son Isaac was born at Northampton Sept. 4, 1656 ; and by his wife Mary he had fourteen other children. The liberality of his descendant, Silas Sheldon of Southampton, ought to be re- membered. By hard labor on a poor farm he acquired his property. He ed- ucated several adopted children,-founded Sheldon Academy by a gift of 2 or 3,000 dollars : gave 1,000 to the Hampshire Education Society, and 1,000 to Amherst College.
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JOHN STEBBINS was the son of Rowland Stebbins, who came from the west of England with his sons John and Thomas about 1666 and settled in Spring- field. John removed to Northampton, as early as 1658 : and there his father died Dec. 14, 1671, aged 77. John was an early member of the church. Thomas lived in Springfield and died in 1683 : his descendants in four suc- cessive generations bore the name of Joseph, of whom the last died in Spring- field in 1819, aged 82, and was the father of Dr. Daniel Stebbins living in Northampton, born April 2, 1766, who entered upon his 90th year April 2, 1855.
SOLOMON STODDARD, p. 16. Professor Solomon Stoddard of Middlebury College was his deseendant. A graduate of Yale in 1826, he died at North- ampton Nov. 11, 1847, aged 47. His mother, Sarah Tappan, died April 27, 1852, aged 80 : his father is still among the living .- Ile and Prof. Andrews published a valuable Latin grammar.
JOHN STRONG, elder. In addition to p. 13, it may be stated, that among his descendants were the following,-JOB STRONG, a graduate of Yale in 1747, joined as a missionary J. Brainerd at Bethel in 1748. A letter of his is printed in Brainerd's Life, p. 303. He says thirty of the Indian children could answer all the questions in the Assembly's Catechism. He was ordained minister of Portsmouth in 1749 : but died in 1751, aged about 27.
NEHEMIAH STRONG, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Yale College, graduated in 1755, and died in 1807. He heard Edwards preach the sermons constituting his History of Redemption. SIMEON STRONG, LL. D., Judge of the Supreme Court, was born in N. in 1735 ; graduated at Yale in 1756. He died at Hadley Dec. 14, 1805, aged 69. JOSEPH STRONG, D. D., died at Norwich, Conn., Dec. 18, 1834, aged 80 : and his son HENRY STRONG, LL. D., died at Norwich Nov. 11, 1852, aged 64. CALEB STRONG, minister of Montreal, a graduate of Yale in 1835, died Jan. 4, 1847 :- he was the son of Lewis and grandson of Governor Caleb Strong.
THOMAS WOODFORD was of Springfield in 1636, and of Hartford in 1639, where in 1645 he was collector of funds for the students at Cambridge. He married Mary, the daughter of Robert Blott of Boston. Ile was of North- ampton from 1658 till his death in 1667. He lived on the lot afterwards oc- cupied by Jonathan Edwards, now by J. D. Whitney. His daughter Mary married Isaae Sheldon ; Hannah m. Samuel Allen ; and Saralı m. Nehemiah Allen.
SAMUEL WRIGHT died in 1665: he had been a deacon in Springfield. His son Samuel was also a first settler. The late Governor Silas Wright of New York State was a descendant. In the first half century there is a record of the birth of about eighty children of the name of Wright. The race, it may be supposed, is not extinct. A few years ago twenty-five or thirty of the name were members of the church.
LIBERAL ACT REFERRED TO, p. 34.
Elisha Alvord gave a deed Oet. 6, 1767 of a lot in the centre of Northamp- ton "To the Inhabitants of the County of Hampshire," in consideration of one hundred and thirty pounds paid by Ebenezer Hunt, Timothy Dwight, Jr., Seth Pomeroy, Caleb Strong, Solomon Stoddard, Samuel Clark, Ephraim Wright, William Lyman, Seth Lyman, John King, Samuel Parsons, Jonathan Allen, Selah Wright, Joseph Allen, Joseph Cook, Joseph Lyman, Benj. Shel- don, Jr., Quartus Pomeroy, Elisha Lyman, Gideon Clark, John Hodge, Hez- ekiah Russell, Thomas Bridgman, Elijah Southwell, Asahel Clapp, Abner Barnard, Daniel Hitchcock, Wm. Mather, Levi Shepherd, Eliphaz Strong,
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Seth Clapp, Elnathan Wright, Joseph Parsons, Haines Kingsley, Timothy Parsons, Anson and Enos Kingsley, Asa Wright, Josiah Parsons, Jr., Titus King, Oliver Lyman, Elihu Lyman, Elkanah Burt, Ebenezer Clapp, Elihu Clark, Pliny Pomeroy, Abijah Wait, John Parsons, Jr., Simeon and Jos. Clapp, Joseph Hutchins, Lemuel Lyman, David Lyman, Elias Lyman, Jr., and Asahel Danks of Northampton, and Samuel Fairfield of Hatfield: " gen- erons subscribers of the consideration above mentioned for the purchase of the premises hereinafter described for the public use of erecting a Court Honse thereon for the sole use and benefit of the Inhabitants of the County of Hamp- shire."-The same to be held " to the proper use of the Inhabitants of the said County of Hampshire in succession and for the term of and so long as courts are and shall be held by law in said town of Northampton for the purpose of a Green or Common and for the erecting of a Court House or Court Houses thereon, as shall be ordered by the proper authority for the setting up and erecting the same :- and whensoever that term shall cease and determine, and the courts are removed and shall be held at some other town or place pursu- ant to law, which are now held there, that then the same shall be and remain as an open, nuinclosed Common, for the use and benefit of the Inhabitants of the said town of Northampton in succession forever for erecting any meeting house for public worship or town honse for town affairs or meetings and for no other purpose whatever."
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