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terrors of the first Indian war, was taken out by night and left in the lonely cemetery. The next year Na- thaniel Dickinson, Joseph Baldwin, Thomas Wells, and Richard Goodman, the latter killed by Indians while viewing his fences, were escorted to the grave- yard by an armed guard and hastily interred. Parson Russell was called upon, in 1689, to mourn the death of his father, John Russell, Sr., and in 1681 the town lost Richard Montague, the grave-digger whose services as a baker for the soldiers when quartered in Hadley had saved them from starvation. Lieutenant Samuel Smith died in 1680, Andrew Warner and Robert Boltwood in 1684, and Philip Smith in 1685 met his death because of the practises of a witch. Samuel Porter, a strong supporter of the church, in 1698 rested from his labors in its behalf, and with Samuel Moody was laid beside his colleagues. One by one the old "engagers," Francis Barnard, Peter Tilton, William Markham, Timothy Nash, and Parson Russell himself, gave up their toils and struggles, until the close of the century found only Joseph Kellogg and John Hubbard living of those who built the first little homes on the broad street. A few years later every one of that valiant company except John White, William Lewis, John Marsh, William Goodwin, and John Crow, who had removed to other towns, were inhabitants of that silent settlement where wars and tumult were unknown.
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No costly marble monuments mark the graves of those old first settlers, for they died in the midst of troubled times when care for the living was more important than unnecessary expense for the dead. A few rude gravestones were erected, some with figures carved upon their surfaces, and inscriptions which moss has overgrown and time obliterated. Slate stones were set up for those who died in later years, and after 1800 marble slabs were placed to mark the resting- places of those ancient worthies whose lives were their best monument. Many slaves were also buried in the old cemetery, but the rough stones on which were cut their names and virtues have long since crumbled away. No hearse was owned in Hadley until 1826. The path through the home lot of Edward Church was worn and beaten by the feet of the bearers as they passed in slow procession with the bier upon their shoulders to the place of burial. The minister stood among the neighbors who gathered round the grave, but no word was said and no prayers offered. Such were the funeral fashions of the fathers in colonial days.
The graves of three Hadley pioneers, Captain Aaron Cooke, Chileab Smith, and John Ingram, are marked with ancient headstones. The stone at the grave of Dr. John Westcarr, who died in 1675, seems to have been placed in position many years after his death. The old historian states that in 1858 there were only ten stones in the yard with dates earlier than
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1720, and on many of these the inscription is now entirely obliterated. The oldest monuments in the cemetery are the sandstone tables erected in 1692 to the memory of Parson Russell and his wife, Rebekah. The inscription on the first, which is fully legible, reads as follows:
REV RUSSELL'S REMAINS WHO FIRST GATH- ERED AND FOR 33 YEARS FAITHFULLY GOVERNED THE FLOCK OF CHRIST IN HADLEY TIL THE CHEIF SHEPHERD SUD- DENLY BUT MERCIFULLY CALLED HIM OFF TO RECEIVE HIS REWARD IN THE 66 YEAR OF HIS AGE, DECEMBER 10, 1692.
The words above Rebekah declare:
REBEKAH MADE BY GOD MEIT HELP TO MR JOHN RUSSELL AND FELLOW LABORER IN CHRIST'S WORK. A WISE VERTUOUS PIOUS MOTHER IN ISRAEL LYES HERE IN ASSURANCE OF A JOYFUL RESURRECTION. SHE DIED IN THE 57 YEAR OF HER AGE, NOVEMBER 21, 1688.
The graves of Rev. Isaac Chauncey and of Rev. Chester Williams are marked by upright sandstones, while a marble monument points out the place where lies Rev. Samuel Hopkins. Each of these stones bears an appropriate inscription describing the life and
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character of him who is buried beneath the stone. The cemetery was enlarged in 1828 and covers at present about four acres. Here, during all the years of its eventful history, the descendants of the first "engagers" have one by one returned to lay their friends and relatives by the side of the common ances- tors, the founders of the town. Here is the newly made grave of Bishop Frederic D. Huntington, an illustrious son of Hadley, and every famous name of the old-time pioneers is repeated again and again on ancient and modern headstones.
No need is there to recite or emphasize the heroic deeds of each calm sleeper. The story is written in the history of the land which their sons and daughters have peopled with a race of men and women worthy of their sires.
INDEX
INDEX
A
Allis, William 4,79
Amherst
50, 53, 91, 117
Amherst College 71,94
Angel of Hadley, The 27
Army from Connecticut, The, 34
Ashfield 111
Attack on Hadley, The
35
Austin, Rev. Samuel 61
Broom Industry, The 110
Ayres [Rev.] Roland
72
Burgoyne, General
64, 65
B
C
Bacon, Andrew
15, 118
Baldwin, Joseph
16, 119
Ball, Dyer 97
Barnard, Francis
16, 28, 119
John
78, 118
John, 2nd,
15, 16,28 21
Samuel
42, 45
Barnet, The
112
Barnstable 10
Richard 50
Clark, Henry
16. 78, 118
William
12
Bayne, Rev. J. S.
72
Beaman, Rev. Warren H.
72
Beecher, Henry Ward 97
Beers, Captain 25
Colt, Benjamin
62
Belding Samuel
4
Billing, Richard
4
Bloody Brook 28
Boardman, Rev. Daniel
81
Boltwood, Robert 16, 85, 119 88
Bonney, Dr.
95
Boston, Joshua 48
Bradstreet, Simon 40
Branford
10
Breck, Rev. Robert 54
Bridgman, Elijah C. 97
97 Henry M. James G. 97
Brown, Rev. John 72
Church, Benjamin
55
Edward
16, 117, 120
Richard
16, 42, 43, 118
Chauncey, Rev. Charles
41
Rev. Isaac 40, 43, 49. 121
Israel 53, 81
Nathaniel 81
Bartlett, Daniel 66 Lyman 97
Bates, Isaac C
92
Clary, John 88
Clinton, The 108
Coleman, John Thomas 15, 118
Commissioners of the New England Colonies
28
Conway
111
Cook, Horace
96
Cooke, Aaron
10, 15, 31, 43.
Samuel
46, 78,87, 120
Joseph
Chapin, John
106
126
Index
Cooke, Aaron, Jr. 25
Moses
55,89
Noah
63
Solomon
111
Westwood
55, 89, 90, 101
Cowls, John 4, 62
Crow, John 16, 33, 84, 119
Cullick, John
77
F
D
Danforth, Francis
72
Davenport, John
77
Dedham
81
Deerfield
32, 53, 81
Dickinson, Azariah
26
Benjamin
81
Elijah
69
Elisha
68,89
Hezekiah
44
John 15, 32
Levi 110, 111
Nathaniel 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 26,
78, 79, 119
Nathaniel, Jr.
4
Nehemiah
45
Reuben 50
Samuel
4
Samuel, Dea.
89,90
Simeon
81
Thomas
14
Grannis, Edward 21
Graves, Isaac 4, 12
John, 4
Thomas
4
Dwight, Daniel
81
John
8.4
Timothy
94
Pres. Timothy 70
Dwight Memorial Library
84
Hampshire Troop, The 25
Harrison, Isaac 33
Hartford 1, 3, 4, 8, 31, 44, 76,
78, 81, 113
Eastman, Joseph 89
Eaton, Gov. Theophilus 75, 77
Edwards, Jonathan 56, 57,63
Noah 106
Emmons, Rev. Nathaniel 61
Enfield Falls 112
Essex, England
8
Falls Boats 107
Falls Fight, The
32, 33
Fellows, Richard 4
Field, Zachariah
1
Flying Fish, The 108
Franklin, The 114
G
Gale, Levi 111
Gardner, Samuel 16
Gay, Ebenezer 81
Gaylord, Chester 92
Nehemiah
66
Samuel 56,89
Goffe, General William 23,31
Goodman, James 55
John 15 Richard 2, 5, 15, 30, 44, 119
Goodwin, William 11, 16, 77,
78, 82, 119
William 92
Dispatch, The 108
Dunbar, John 97
H
E
Harvard College
9, 41, 53, 79,
81,90
127
Index
Harvard, John 75
Hatfield
4, 25, 26, 32, 54, 67,
81, 92, 96, 111
Hawkes, Gershom
36,37
John
16, 118
Hawley, Joseph 43,87
Hooker, Rev.
61
General Joseph
97
Hopkins, Gov. Edward
75,76
John 69
Rev. Samuel 54, 57, 60, 67, 69, 121
Hopkins Academy 96
Hopkins Fund, The 78,95
Hopkins Grammar School 79
Hovey, Thomas 89
Hubbard, Edmund
62,89
John 12, 15, 81, 119
Joseph 55
Humphrey, President 71
Hunt, Ebenezer 70
Huntington, Rev. Dan
59, 92
Rev. Frederic Dan 59, 122
Theodore
96
I
Indian Fort, The 5,79
Ingram, John 16, 120
J
James, John
81
K
Keedy, Rev. E. E. 72
Kellogg, Ezekiel 55
Giles, Crouch 62, 92
Joseph 7, 11, 14, 21, 31, 32,
34, 119
Kellogg, Joseph, Jr. 37,55
Kelsey, Seymour 66
King Philip
24, 28, 36
L
Lake George, Battle of 59
Lamb, Daniel
106
Lewis, William
2, 15, 119
Lincoln, General
67
Locke, Dr. William 34
Longmeadow
57
Lothrop, Captain 25, 28, 34
Lyman, Enos
102
Israel
68
Rev. Joseph
67, 70,92
Phineas
62
M
Magnalia, The 38
Markham, William
3, 16,119
Marsh, Daniel
45, 55
Dwight, 97
Ebenezer, 55, 62
Job 55. 89,90
John
3.16,119
Jonathan 46. 81
Moses
55, 62, 63, 66, 67,
Martin, Rev. Benjamin 72
89
Mather, Cotton
38
Nathaniel
81
Prof. Richard H. Warham 81
Meekins, Thomas 4. 12
Montague, Peter
45
Richard 7, 15, 20, 34, 119
Moody, Samuel
16, 40, 119
Morse, John
81
Muddy Brook 28
97
128
Index
N
Nash. Enos 57,89
John 101
Rev. John A.
94
Josiah
66,68
Samuel
37
Samuel 95
Newbury, Thomas 10
Timothy
16, 34. 119
New Haven
23, 70, 75, 94
New London
19, 111
Nichols, A.
16
George
94
Noble, Medad
66
Northampton
4, 5, 14, 17, 20,
25, 26, 32, 53, 56, 59. 61, 81,
90, 112
North Hadley
96
Norwalk
53
Norwich
33
Nye, Ichabod
66
P
Parsons, Rev. David 61,70
Joseph 43
Partrigg, John 81
Samuel 34, 40, 43, 44, 81, 86
William 15,118
Pease, Willis 113
Phelps, Charles 59, 67, 68, 89
Pierce, Josiah 62, 63, 84, 90,
102. 110
Pittsfield 111
Pixley, Wm. 16
Plummer, General Joseph B. 97
Pomeroy, Ebenezer 66
Titus 106
Pomfret 54
Porter. Aaron 81
Eleazer
46, 47, 48, 54. 63.
89, 112
Elisha 63, 64, 65, 89
Porter, Experience 97
Jeremiah 55
Jonathan Edwards 64 Moses 56, 58, 60, 68, 69, 92 Samuel 15,34
Samuel, 2nd 43, 44, 45, 46
63, 67, 68, 89, 92, 119
Samuel, 3d
55
Prentice, John 19
Proprietors of the Locks and Canals 109
Prutt. Arthur 49
Zebulon 51
Pynchon, John
1, 2, 20, 24, 28,
43, 87
R
Rand, Rev. William 53
Reed, Thomas 30,32
Regicides, The
Riddle, Rev. William 61
Rugg, Samuel 101
Russell, Rev. Ezekiel 94
John 3, 14, 19
Parson John 1,3, 10, 11,
15, 17, 19, 21, 22. 29, 31,
34, 39, 40, 75, 78, 86, 97,
119, 121
Jonathan 10
Philip 9
Samuel 10
Russell Church, The 71
S
Saratoga, Battle of 64
Seelve, Pres. L. Clark 97
Slavery in Hadley 48
Shays, Daniel 67
Shepherd, Levi 106
Shipman, William 111
Smith, Benjamin 88
129
Index
Sınith Caleb 68,88
Chileab, 1st
16, 120
Stephen 4
Chileab, 2nd
46,89
Terry, Stephen 16, 118
David
89
Tilton, Peter 6, 15, 23, 31, 78, 83, 119
Dudley
65
Ebenezer
49
Traynor, Francis 66
Eliakim
56, 62
Treat, Salmon 81
Enos
58, 67
Erastus
88
Ichabod
55
Jacob 71, 92
U
John, Dea.
46, 55,89 90
United
Colonies of New
England 76
Utrecht
44 58
V
Vermont, The
108, 113
Vermont, University of
94
W
Ward, Nathaniel 2, 5, 16, 78,
79. 82, 118
Warner, Andrew 16, 44, 79, 119 Daniel 4
Jonathan
Oliver
52. 55
Orange
45
Warren, Lemuel
68
Watson, Caleb 79
Webster, Gov. John 3, 16, 19, 117 Mary 15,37
Noah
117
Wells, Jonathan 33
Thomas 12, 15, 119
Thomas, Jr. 21
Westcarr, Dr. John 20, 21, 120
Westfield 3. 32
West Springfield 57
Westwood, William 2, 4, 7, 10.
12, 15, 118
Rodney
117, 119 84
Samuel 3, 4, 6, 12, 15, 17
25, 30, 65, 78, 117, 119
Seth 92
Timothy 66
Warham 63
Windsor 68
Rev. Worthington
94
Smith College 97
South Hadley 52.90
South Hadley Falls 102, 109
Springfield 12, 25, 28, 32, 54, 94 Standley, Thomas 4, 7
Stanley, Nathaniel 15
Thomas 4, 7,15, 118
Steele, Stephen 81
Stockbridge, Levi 96,97
Stratford 41
Strong, Governor
60, 70
Sunderland 53
Swan, Thomas 81
T
Taylor, John 16
Taylor, Oliver S. 94
John
Joseph 81,89
Noah 63
Oliver 62, 66, 89
Percy
68
Philip
15, 31, 37, 38, 86
Turner, William 32
130
Index
Wethersfield 1, 4, 8, 9, 81, 110
Whalley, Gen. Edward 23, 24
White, Daniel 4,67
John
2, 4, 15, 119
John, Jr. 4
Nathaniel 46,67
Whitefield, Rev. George 54
Whiting, Rev. John 10
Whitney, Prof. William D 97
William Hall, The 113
Williams, Rev. Chester 54, 56,
121
Rev. Ebenezer
54
Elisha
81
Rev. John 53
Solomon
81
Williams, Rev. Stephen
57,81
Williamsburg 111
Windsor
3, 10, 15, 81
Witchcraft in Hadley
37
Woburn
90
Woodbridge, Rev. John 69, 92 Worcester, Rev. Leonard 61
Y
Yale. David
76
Elihu
76
Yale College 54, 57, 72, 81, 97
Younglove, John 80
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