USA > Massachusetts > Hampden County > Springfield > Historical address delivered before the citizens of Springfield in Massachusetts at the public celebration, May 26, 1911, of the two hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the settlement; with five appendices, viz: Meaning of Indian local names, The cartography of Springfield, Old place names in Springfield, Unrecorded deed of Nippumsuit, Unrecorded deed of Paupsunnuck > Part 6
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HILLS RUNS, THE. WEST SPRINGFIELD. The land under and on the Great Hill. I 253.
HOG HILL. CHICOPEE and SPRINGFIELD. A spur of the Great hill at the town line. Map G.
HOGPEN DINGLE. HOGPEN DINGLE BROOK. DINGLE BROOK. Some part of the valley of the brook of that name is marked on Map D. The stream is enlarged in Chicopee into Crystal lake and under the name of Bemis brook enters the Chicopee river at the electric light works northeast of Fairview Cemetery. It is not the Bemis brook of Map O. which is really Ely's brook. Perhaps the hogpen was for general use in collecting and serving the hogs that roamed the woods east of the Town Plat. It was ex- tinct before 1663. 1 B 59, 312; 2 B 257; D 389. E 167. History of Spring- field for the Young p. 43.
HOGSTYE SWAMP. HOLYOKE or WEST SPRINGFIELD. Near Riley's brook; north from the foot of Brush Hill. H 483; 3 I C 43.
HOLYOKE. Named from Elizur Holyoke. For a lay out "of proprieties" see 2 B 191. The Pynchon spelling in early deeds indicates a word of three syllables.
HOMESTEAD MEADOWS. Equivalent to the Wet Meadow. C 359.
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HORSE BURYING GROUND. Several tracts of land in Springfield have been known by this name. One of these was on Armory street a short dis- tance north of Worthington street on land belonging to Horace Phelps, popularly known as "Old Cockeye", whose grandson, William Barnes, was the first insurance commissioner of the State of New York. Another locality was on the north side of Carew street at the point which is indicated by the lower side of the compass mark on Map W pl. 18. In the middle of the nine- teenth century the land shown on Map G as that of Primus Mason, a negro, was known by this name and in fact he may be said to have been the pro- prietor, netting some pecuniary profit from the fact. His thrift as an owner and purveyer for various wants enabled him to found with his accumula- tions the Springfield Home for Aged Men, in accordance with a matured plan expressed in his will. His last residence on the southeast corner of State and Chapin (now Mason) streets is sketched on Map P. An excellent portrait in oil maybe seen in the Home, the excellent work of Wm. R. Whit- more, from a photograph taken after death. See First Report of the Spring- field Home for Aged Men. "Primus," as he was called, was a portly, fine looking man and generally liked.
HORSE FERRY. HOLYOKE. Map D.
HORSE HOUSE. The horseshed accommodating the First Church. 2 B 446.
HOUSE MEADOW. HOUSE MEADOW HILL. AGAWAM. It was here that Cable and Woodcock by Pynchon's authority erected the first house of the proposed settlement in 1635 and, as Holyoke says, here they "kept their residence" during the summer. By reason of information from the Indians that the meadows were overflowed in the spring, the settlement was finally located on the east side of the river. It is possible that an Agawam tradition is correct that the house stood on the projecting portion of the bluff opposite the meadow called afterwards House Meadow Hill, for Holyoke's language is not entirely conclusive whether it was on the meadow or the hill. The meadow itself is not now capable of exact definition, due in part to the fre- quent changes in the channel of the Agawam; but it may be said that the spot marked on Map T as in the ownership of Leonard Clark was within its limits. Holyoke's note to the Indian deed; 1 B 231, 233, 277; D 638; E 331; K 191; 3 I C 61. Wright's Maps; Ex. rel. James W. Moore, C. E. of Agawam. For further locating see Crook and Noddle.
HUCKLEBERRY HILL. HUCKBERRY PLAIN. WEST SPRINGFIELD or HOLYOKE. From the holdings of the Ashleys and Baggs thereabouts it was ap- parently in the easterly part of the town. See Whortleberry Hill. 2 I C 13, 306.
HUGHES POND. This name has been applied in the nineteenth century to the western of the two Five Mile ponds.
INDIAN FIELDS. AGAWAM. The site of the Indian planting grounds at the mouth of the Agawam river. A 52; A B IO.
INDIAN LEAP. LUDLOW. A precipitous rock by the Chicopee river below Wallamanumps falls at the point where the stream is crossed by the Athol railroad. Holland's West. Mass. Vol. 2 p. 84. Noon's Ludlow p. 20.
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INDIAN ORCHARD. In the absence of evidence as to the meaning it may be left to conjecture. Indians and whites communicated to each other various agricultural usages. The locality would be of interest to the Indians as a fishing ground. The departure of the Indians left it solitary. A farm- stead is indicated on Map E. The new settlement first appears on Map I. In 2 B 240 (1671) there is a mysterious allusion to "tlie Hatwes" in a grant in this locality but neither Mr. Wright nor myself are able to explain it. It might refer to Indians dwelling there, for the condition of the grant is in the language commonly used in the grants when the Indians were to be bought off. Whatever in the future may be the civic pride of the dwellers in Indian Orchard it is hoped that their local name will be retained. In November 1877 the name became all at once well known and famous from an ecclesiasti- cal council held here which marked an epoch in New England theology, for which see the Springfield papers for Nov. 8, 1877. Holland's West. Mass. Vol. 2 p. 84; Maps C D E G. See also Pool brook.
INDIAN ROCK. WILBRAHAM. See Peck's Wilbraham p. 21.
INDIAN SPRING. EAST LONGMEADOW. East of the Salisbury quarry about a mile from the village.
INGERSOLL DITCH. Near the corner of Bay and Bowdoin streets. 2 LG 474.
INGERSOLL'S GROVE. The modern street drops the possessive. Major Edward Ingersoll, of sainted memory, descended from an old settler (see Florida) was storekeeper and paymaster of the U. S. Armory 1841-1882 and resided south of the present arsenal. He had a farmstead as shown on Map H, which was later extended west to Florida street and which was watered and made capable of picturesque effects by a small tributary of Garden brook. He built a summer house, yet standing, on the west side of the little valley, now called McKnight glen, and, in the meadow below, to the north east, another over a mineral spring. On the plain above were scattered yellow pines, the whole a pleasant resort and used more or less by the public. Per- haps the last event of a festive kind was the lawn party of Christ Church given here June 13, 1879. Soon after this the estate was sold for development but Ingersoll Grove (as a street) with some of its many trees in private grounds, and McKnight Glen remain to commemorate the days of old. The springhead of the brook is in the bank of McKnight Glen and until the spring was closed about ten years ago by the Board of Health, because of typhoid fever traced to it, the water was peddled for sale. See Franklin Square. For Major Ingersoll see Springfield Union March 20, 1886.
IRELAND. IRELAND PARISH. WEST SPRINGFIELD. The name, Ireland, was first applied to the region in the vicinity of Riley's brook occu- pied by John Riley, the first Irishman, and his descendants; and then, widening its meaning, the present limits of Holyoke became known as Ireland parish in West Springfield. Ireland was "the land of the Elys and Mc- Cranneys, both associated with the Rileys in marriage". 2 B 441, 450. E 374; G 222; K 71; 2 IC 13; Map D. Papers and Proceedings of the
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Connecticut Valley Historical Society Vol. 2 p. 175. Springfield Gazette Feb. 15, 1843. p. 3. col. 4.
ISLAND POND. Between Watershops Pond and Allen Street. The island formerly moved by the force of the wind and perhaps now is not firmly anchored. K 655, 666. Maps D I. With dark woods around the shore and watersnakes in the pond it was an uncanny place in my boyhood. The woods are gone and the lupine now lines its shores in May; but the watersnakes remain. 2 I C 123. To the west lies Island Pond Hill. 2 I C 123; 3 I C 290, 291. Map K etc.
JEFFERSON PEAK. LUDLOW. See Noon's Ludlow p. 43.
JENKSVILLE. LUDLOW. The hamlet near the quondam Putts Bridge now called Ludlow. Maps C N. Holland's Western Mass. Vol. 2 p. 88. Noon's Ludlow p 210, 326: See 2 L G 480.
JONES FERRY. CHICOPEE. It was at the foot of the present Mckinstry ave.
JOHNNYCAKE HOLLOW. CHICOPEE. At present there are two houses here, one very old, in which, as Hiram Munger (born 1806) informed Judge Luther White, the first Methodist meetings in Chicopee were held. The name is thought to denote the poverty of the inhabitants, who of late years have been noted for airing their neighborhood differences in the Police Court. For Hiram Munger see his "Life and Religious Experiences: Chicopee Falls, 1856". Map I.
JUG ROAD. WEST SPRINGFIELD. The old road from Morley's bridge to Little River, Westfield, passing along the slope of the trap range on the south bank of the Westfield River was for a part of the way a dug road, excavated in the bank. The considerable sales of liquors from King's Tavern to Westfield people who travelled this highway gave it the name of "Jug Road". Ex. rel. James W. Moore.
JUDE'S NECK. WEST SPRINGFIELD. Same as the neck of Ashkanunksuck. After Jude Ludington. Early nineteenth century. Map D.
KEEP'S GUTTER. EAST LONGMEADOW. 3 I C 6; 2 L G. 395. For the Keep family catastrophe see Holland's West. Mass. Vol. I p. 107.
KIBBE'S HOLLOW. The upper, steepsided valley of a nameless tributary of Garden Brook. Some portion of the streamhead is in the north east corner of the Armory grounds. The place in my boyhood was marked by clay and cattails. The brook, shown only on Map H, now covered, heads at 46 Federal Street and flowing to the rear of 811 Worthington Street passes through Sackett Ave. and enters the Garden brook sewer. The name belongs to the mid-nineteenth century. The land was then owned by Horace Kibbe, the candy manufacturer. Map P. See Bliss' Hollow.
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KILBURN'S BRIDGE. WILBRAHAM. At Worlds End. See Peck's Wilbraham p. 75.
KINGSFIELD. KINGSTOWN. See Elbows.
KNOX'S POND. In the latter half of the nineteenth century one of the prettiest pieces of landscape in Springfield was the deep lying meadow south of Pine Street in which Samuel W. Knox had made at the bottom of the depression and at the headwaters of a brook, a small pond containing an island with trees. Mr. Knox resided in the Ames mansion opposite and at one time was in Congress from Missouri. He died in Blandford, his native place. Maps K P.
LADDER SWAMP. EAST LONGMEADOW. The headwaters of the South Branch near Great Wachogue and south of the Springfield-Hampden road; not obsolete; 2 I C 244, 268. 2 L G 354.
LEDGES, THE. WEST SPRINGFIELD. An outcrop of sandstone. Map S. LIBERTY SQUARE. Same as Franklin Square. Map K.
LITTLE COVE. See Great Cove.
LITTLE HILL. Same as Brewer's Hill. Reg. Deeds. bk. 63 p. 232.
LILLY POND. At Sixteen Acres. Maps G I. The original and proper name is Venturer's Pond or Venture Pond. (q. v.)
LITTLE PLAIN, THE. AGAWAM. D 178.
LISWELL HILL. AGAWAM. The elevation 340 feet above sea level between East and West (formerly Front and Back) streets of Feeding Hills. The last Liswell died about 1850 and the name is obsolete. This and Mount Pisgah are par excellence "the Feeding Hills". Maps N T.
LOG BRIDGE. AGAWAM. A bridge in the north west part of the town which spanned the brook crossing the old road from Hartford to Northampton over Morley's bridge. The road, now discontinued, lay between the present north-south roads but the name still adhered to the bridge of the easterly of the two roads until its replacement in 1912 by a bridge of cement. 1 B 316; 2 B 109. Map A. See Block bridge, which is an alternative name for this bridge in B 58.
LOG PATH, THE. The embryonic State street as it crossed the log-made Causey and extended east through the wood and timber regions, between the Woodlots, across the Bay road and to or beyond the Stone Pit and into the swamps whence came canoe timber. It was the western terminus of the later Boston road. 2 B 284.
LOMBARD RESERVOIR. Map P.
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LONG DINGLE. The valley of the Meadow road in Forest Park. There is a nameless dingle south of the playground and marked Deer Preserve in the report of the Park Commissioners for 1905, in which, as Daniel J. Marsh one of the Commissioners (born 1837) informs me, he once saw Daniel Webster and George Ashmun hunting woodcock. 2 B 314; B 235, 287. For "the homeside" of Long Dingle see C. 429.
LONG HILL. That part of the Great Hill which is in the vicinity of the site of the Indian Fort. 1 B 240, 360; 2 B 314; Reg. Deeds bk. 140 p. 413.
LONG HOLLOW. CHICOPEE. (?) 2 I C 286.
LONGLANDS, THE. WEST SPRINGFIELD. Plowlands north of the Agawam. C 519.
LONGMEADOW. See Massacksick.
LONGMEADOW BRIDGE. In 1665 it was voted that the foundation should be of stone. 1 B 252, 326; 2 B 86.
LONGMEADOW BROOK. For a change of course see K 818 and Map A compared with later maps.
LONGMEADOW FIELD. The enclosed part of Massacksick, or the long meadow. G 526; H 29; I 623.
LONGMEADOW GATE. The gate at the north end of Massacksick near Cooley brook whence the road ran along the river to the south part of the meadow where also was a gate. Benj. Cooley was gatekeeper and lived nearby. I B 288, 425. The Fields at Nayasset and on the west side of the river were fenced. 1 B 230, 296; 2 B 109. Sec Plain Gate and Pent Road.
LONG POND. INDIAN ORCHARD. Maps B C E; omitted on A. Some- times now called Sullivan's Pond. In the late fall of 1914, after a dry season, and with no water in the northern half of the old pond, the peat-grown vegetation of that half had almost the look and beauty of Scotch heather. A good delineation, even as now appearing, may be found on Map K.
LOON BROOK. Poor Brook thus marked on Map A is probably an error.
LOON POND. A pretty sheet of water so clear and deep as more to be sought by loon than geese. In some old deeds it is called, apparently with- out reason, Walloon Pond. 3 I C 83. Map B etc. For loons locally see Morris and Colburn's "Birds of Springfield and Vicinity".
LOVERS GROVE. On Round Hill and extending northwards to the foot of the present Sheldon street. Maps C D E.
LOWER FALLS. In the Connecticut. Map D.
MAGAZINE, THE. 2 L G 365, 474.
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MANCHONIS. MASSACONIS. WILBRAHAM; possibly also Hampden, but north of the Scantuck region. The spelling is various in the old records :- Manchonis, Machonis, Massaconus, Monchonis. A locality at Nine Mile Pond and the neighboring cedar swamps, which gave its name to the moun- tains, as in the phrase "Manchconis Mountains". A pondy and swampy region would present to the Indians the character of a stronghold, which is perhaps the meaning of the word. 2 B 114, 202, 231, 245, 259, 271. Map O. For swamps as a stronghold for Indians see Major Pynchon's letter to Gov. Leverett; also 1B 132. In 1691 "the walk of the cows" was toward or beyond Manchonis mountains. 2 B 202.
MANCHONIS POND. WILBRAHAM. Nine Mile Pond. I IC 4.
MARKIIAM'S BUTTERY. CHICOPEE Or HADLEY. On the river road from Chicopee street to Hadley and near the boundary line. The name survives in Buttery brook in South Hadley. 2 B 181, 317.
MARKHAM IIILL. See Necessity Hill.
MARTHA'S DINGLE. See Thompson's dingle. 2 LG 405.
MASSACKSICK. LONGMEADOW. The plain or meadow of the lower level which was the site of the earlier settlement.
MAUNCHAUGSICK. In the valley of the Westfield river either in West- field or near Paucatuck in West Springfield. The word occurs in the un- recorded deed of Paupsunnuck to John Pynchon, and, I believe, in a re- corded deed, the reference to which is mislaid.
McCRAY'S CORNER. HAMPDEN. An old tavern stand on the left at a turn of the road under the mountain from Wilbraham to Hampden village as one enters the Scantic valley. The tavern was kept by Col. John McCray in the early nineteenth century. Obsolescent. Map A.
MCKNIGHT DISTRICT. The region north of State and east of Thompson streets and extending east to the tracts of the N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. and north to the brow of the hill overlooking the valley of Garden brook. This tract was opened to residence by the brothers McKnight to whose enterprise and taste the city is much indebted. "Dorchester Rest", facing Dorchester street, is the location of "McKnight's Shop", (so on the sign) and upon the removal of the shop to Fort Pleasant Avenue the site was presented to the city. John D. McKnight was born in Truxtom, N. Y. Jan. 28, 1834 and William H. MeKnight in the same place, July 6, 1836. They died in 1890 and 1903 respectively.
MEADOW BROOK. Same as Crowfoot brook. K 438.
MEADOW HILL. WEST SPRINGFIELD. In Agawam meadows near Middle Meadow Pond. Reg. Deeds bk. 30 p. 215.
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MEADOWS, THE. WEST SPRINGFIELD. The lowland between the Agawam and the dike, formerly called the Great Bottom. The latter name, with the advent of a new bridge, bids fair to become as extinct as the fort and then will disappear the fair view of "sweet fields beyond the swelling flood", which presented itself to the eyes of the early settlers and the generations following. The name now is also applied to the Plainfield and the plain of Chicopee street.
MEDNEGONUCK. See Mittineague.
MEDNEGONUCK SWAMP. WEST SPRINGFIELD. Between Ashley and Silver streets. C I. See Mittineague.
MEETING HOUSE HILL. WEST SPRINGFIELD. The present site of the now disused meeting house on Riverdale street. Bagg's West Springfield P. 135.
MEETING HOUSE LANE. WILBRAHAM. The way laid out in 1749 to the site of the old meeting house. Peck's Wilbraham p. 61.
MEMACHOGUE. A locality in the valley of the Chicopee above Skipmuck. Probably the same as Minnechoag. 2 B 280.
MERRICK'S FOLLY. South of the Bay road. 2 IC 239. Perhaps the swamp on Stone Pit brook below Dirty Gutter. 2 IC 106, 239.
METHODIST BURYING GROUND. The northwest part of the Spring- field cemetery. From the part later opened by the influence of Rev. Wm. B. O. Peabody it is divided by the edge of the hill, overlooking the valley. This ground was first laid out in connection with the Methodist church, on the corner of Union and Mulberry streets, which was afterward replaced by an edifice on the corner of State and Myrtle streets. Upon the sale of the latter the organization and one other were combined in the present Wesley Church. The deeds were not only of the right of burial but of the fee simple. Near the northeast gate is a stone commemorating the first interment, December 1825; being a child of an early warden of Christ Church, Samuel McNary. The odd inscription given in Poets and Poetry of Springfield p. 19 is 117 feet east from the Mulberry street fence and 17 feet south from the north fence. Map H.
METHODIST MEETING HOUSE. This site is marked on Map C and in the corner of the map is an undesignated and correct engraving of the church edifice. In 1873 it was taken apart and reerected on Belchertown green, unchanged in the exterior except some details of the tower. A single foundation stone remains on the site, which is that of the author's residence.
MIDDLE MEADOW. AGAWAM. See Wright's Maps p. 4; 1 B 287; 2 B 240.
MIDDLE MEADOW POND. AGAWAM. AB 21; C 107.
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MILL BROOK. AGAWAM. Enters the Agawam west of the bridge. D. 377. Joseph Leonard had a corn mill here. Ex. rel. James W. Moore. See Pauhunganuck.
MILL PLAIN. WEST SPRINGFIELD. On the range about a mile south of Bear Hole. For the mills there see Bagg's West Springfield p. 120 and the older maps. The millsaw referred to in Bagg's West Springfield is in posses- sion of the writer, by inheritance. 2 IC 250.
MILL RIVER. The stream at the South End that flows through Usquaiok. The grist and saw mills are mentioned continually in the early records. For the foot bridge and cartway see I B 276; 2 B 109. For a mill and falls in. the nineteenth century see Chapin's Old Inhabitants p. 65. A drawing of the bridge at the foot of Blake's hill (Belmont Ave.) made by R. M. Shurtliff about 1860 is in the possession of the Conn. Valley Hist. Soc.
MINNECHOAG. LUDLOW. The Wilbraham range north of and near the Chicopee river. Stebbins' Wilbraham p. 19; 2 B 280; 2 LG 363.
MITTINEAGUE. WEST SPRINGFIELD. Corrupted from an Indian original which is usually written Mednegonuck but appears as Metenaganuck in 1 575, where it refers to the lowland on the south side of the Agawam opposite the present village of Mittineague and perhaps this is the original form of the word. "Medaneag" occurs in 2 I C 28. This designation seems to have been used for the lowlands on both sides of the river. The syllables "ganuck" are found in Schonunganuck, Pauhunganuck, Ashkanunksuck, and also in Cappawonganuck, a locality near Nolwottuck (A 6) 2 B 251, 283; 2 I C 206, 293; 2 LG 466. See Mednegonuck Swamp.
MITTINEAGUE FALLS. Map D. See p. 87.
MOHEAGUE PATH. Is the Mohegan trail. A 107; C 171. Wright's Maps. See Pequit Path.
MONEY HOLE. HOLYOKE. In the Connecticut at the island above the Lower Falls. Money Hole Hill is the scarp between Hampden and Lincoln streets. 2 IC 40; 3 IC 9. Map D. Some maps show a water pocket here.
MORLEY'S BRIDGE. WEST SPRINGFIELD. It spanned the Westfield river where the stream was crossed at Paucatuck Falls by the road from Hartford to Northampton which in Agawam made "the back street," now West street of Feeding Hills. (See Block Bridge in Agawam). Below the bridge was a ford through which the writer passed about 1860 when the bridge was undergoing repairs. The bridge was often damaged in the spring floods which fertilized the meadows of Paucatuck and was so thoroughly washed away and sent down stream in the great storm of Dec. 10, 1878 that no vestige was ever found. The importance of the highway having been diminished by railroads, the bridge was not rebuilt. Col. Morley's house was near the south end of the bridge. King's tavern was on the other side but just west of the Westfield-West Springfield town line; so placed, it
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was claimed in the latter town, in order that Westfield might get the revenue from the license. The disuse of the stage line to Albany was the ruin of the tavern stand. The bridge was chartered in 1803 to replace the ford.
MOUNTAINS, THE. THE MOUNTAIN PARISH. A name of the pres- ent Wilbraham and Hampden when a precinct of Springfield. See Peck's Wilbraham pp. 30, 34, 73. See also Springfield Mountains.
MOUNT ORTHODOX. WEST SPRINGFIELD. The spur of the Great Hill at the head of Elm street on which stands the "White Church" so called, now disused for church purposes.
MOUNT PISGAH. AGAWAM. At the elevation 300 feet above sea level between the East and West streets of Feeding Hills at the Hinsdale Smith tobacco farm. It occurs in deeds of the early nineteenth century but is now obsolete. Maps T Y.
MOUNT VISION. HAMPDEN. Map N.
MUDDY BROOK. AGAWAM. The western branch of Stoney River. (q. v.) 2 B 258, 308. In AB 127 Saw Mill brook is equivalent.
MUXY MEADOW. MUCKSEY MEADOW. This is a general term, now obsolete, and was applied to any wet or dirty meadow. See Oxford Dict. Specific instances are the meadow on the present location of Lyman and Taylor streets, I B 264; a meadow near Round Hill, K 549; the pondy land in Longmeadow at Massacksic, I B 297; H 523, I 346; meadow land north of the Agawam bridge in West Springfield, I B 346, 373, 2 B 93; the site of Ramapogue; land in Agawam, 2 B 258, 325. Hassocky Marsh was a Muxy Meadow. I B 24.
MUXY MEADOW BRIDGE. LONGMEADOW. I B 297; 2 B 294.
NAYAS, NAYASSET. The plain land north of the Town Plat extending from Round Hill to Rockrimmon or thereabouts and in West Springfield at Ashleyville or Chicopee Plain. "Nayas" is equivalent to "Naiag", a point, and the suffix "et" is merely a locative. Whether the point intended is a curve of the river, or on the Springfield side is equivalent to Crooked Point in the plain is not determinable by record. The bend in the river is rather too large and sweeping to attract notice as a point; yet places on a river would be more likely to furnish Indian names than those in a plain. At the mouth of the Chicopee, at its union with the Connecticut is or was a point and perhaps we can here find the origin of this name. See Holyoke's Note to the original Indian deed; the same in I B 19; 156, 163, 369. Map C. Also the old Dutch Map in Wright's Maps and, for the configuration at the mouth of the Chicopee, various later maps.
NECESSITY. Certain land at this locality was described in 1708 as being above the Sixteen Acres saw mill and bounded westerly by the sawmill land
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and on all other sides by the commons. (C 591). It thus lay on the rim of the settlement and to the south of World's End. These whimsical names betray a sense of humor we do not always attribute to the Puritans or other early settlers. Similar instances are Markham's Buttery, Peggy's Dipping Hole, Presumption, Nonsuch Meadow, Skunks Misery, Johnnycake Hollow; also, in Enfield, Coronation Brook, C 520; in South Hadley, Grace Hollow (G 505); in Northampton, Hog's Bladder Meadow, (C 336); in Westfield, Poverty Plain; Battle Street, in Somers; Feather Street in Suffield. South of Necessity lies Necessity Hill (2 IC 302, 3 IC 269, 2 LG 354, 405.) on the westerly slope of which the traveller crosses the Springfield-Hampden bound- ary line. This elevation, which contains the highest land in Springfield, has of late been called Markham Hill and the original name is obsolete. Map I shows a house at the four corners within Longmeadow marked W. Higley. Some years ago the owner of this estate, perferring urban life, picked up house and barn and removed across the road to Springfield. Washington gave the name Necessity to a fort in Pennsylvania because, says Irving, of the pinching famine which prevailed during its construction.
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