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Preserved Clapp. He settled on South street. The place was afterward owned, 1747, by Josiah Clark, Jr.
John Clark. The third Dea. John, lived in South- ampton.
Nathan Lyman.
Jonathan Root.
Ebenezer Miller, Jr.
Elias Root.
Aaron Lyman.
Preserved Wright.
Joseph Wright, Jr.
Hezekiah Wright.
John Bridgman.
Benjamin Lyman.
Thomas Bridgman.
Benjamin Root.
Miriam Clark.
Mary Clark.
Mary Alvord. Mary Wright.
Elizabeth Edwards. Hannah Southwell.
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Elizabeth Burt. Elizabeth Lyman. Hannah Strong. Sarah Parsons. Anna Wait.
Lydia Wright.
Deborah Phelps.
Elizabeth Hunt. Rebecca Clary.
Rebecca Strong. Thankful Alexander.
Clemence Wright. Miriam Sheldon.
Ruth Alexander.
Keziah Wright.
Experience Stebbins.
Margaret Leonard. Ruth Basconi. Esther Strong. Samuel Allen, Jr. Moses Kingsley. John Clapp. One of the five sons of Capt. Pre- served. Ebenezer Hawley. His father was the first Jo- seph Hawley. Gave his property to his nephew, the eminent Major Joseph. Ebenezer French.
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Jonathan King. John Burt. Jonathan Burt, Jr. Eliakim Clark.
Eliakim Phelps.
Supply Kingsley. The church chose him associate deacon with Ebenezer Hunt in 1754.
Elisha Clark. The last one killed by Indian cruelty. At the time he was threshing in his barn, 1747. His father was the second Dea. John.
Aaron Leonard. Jonathan Rust.
Amos Loomis. Samuel Phelps, Jr.
Nathaniel Clark, Jr. Was ensign, afterwards lieu- tenant, chosen selectman several times.
Roger Clapp, Jr. Son of Capt. Preserved. His son, Roger, was a settler of Southampton. Jonathan Graves. Josiah Alvord.
Ebenezer Hunt. The same that was chosen dea- con. He kept a record of passing events, which has served and still does, a valuable purpose.
Lydia Wright. Esther Webb. Eunice Judd.
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SOLOMON STODDARD'S MINISTRY.
Rachel Strong.
Damaris Strong. Mary Sheldon. Abigail Curtis. Patience Miller.
Mary Alvord. Martha Hunt.
Sarah Root. Mary King. Elizabeth Wait.
Mehetabel Clapp.
Hannah Sheldon. Hannah Edwards.
Abigail Wright. Mary Edwards. Mary Edwards. Sarah Allen. Submit Searl. Elizabeth Burt.
Elizabeth Webb. Ann Root. Hannah Miller. Abigail Strong. Sarah Rust. Hannah Fowler. Sarah Kingsley.
CHAPTER III.
Rev. Jonathan Edwards' Ministry, 1727-1750. ADMISSIONS .- HISTORICAL ITEMS.
Jonathan Edwards. The third minister of North- ampton. His pastorate, attended with uncom- mon success, continued twenty-three years. Con- sidered the greatest of American logieians and theologians.
Ebenezer Parsons. Same as Captain Ebenezer. Third son of Esquire Joseph. His home lot was near the Norwood House. Active and useful in public affairs,
Josiah Strong.
Noah Bridgman. The town voted him a tract of land at Horse Mountain or North Farms.
James Lyman. Jonathan Dwight.
Stephen Root. Ephraim Ayres. Jonathan Burt, Jr. Eleazar Hannum.
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THIRD MEETING HOUSE-ERECTED 1737.
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Elisha Searl.
Gideon Parsons.
Eleazar Hutchinson.
Eleazar Kingsley. Elisha Sheldon.
Zebadiah Miller.
Asa Wright. Elkanah Burt.
Thomas Burt.
Phinehas King.
Amos, a Negro.
Benjamin Phelps.
Joseph Hunt. Son of second Jonathan. Gradua- ted at Yale, 1729. Entered no profession. His dwelling stood on Elm street, on the left hand of the road leading to Round Hill.
Jonathan Strong, Jr. He was the first of five Jonathan Strongs on South street. He married, 1730, Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Roger Clapp, in same neighborhood. The first tything man, víz : in 1761. Elizabeth Wait. Esther Wright. Mary Parsons. Mehetabel Strong. Elizabeth Strong. Hannah Lyman.
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Eunice King. Mary Leonard. Elizabeth Allen. Hannah Allen. Hannah Root.
Martha Root. Mindwell King.
Mary Hunt. Hannah Strong.
Hannah Clark.
Rachel Langton. Mary Bascom.
Hannah Miller.
Theodotia Hunt.
Hephzibah Pomeroy. Jerusha Clark. Abigail Bridgman. Hephzibah Hulbert. Elizabeth Langton. Aaron Clark. Samuel Dank. Samuel Mather, M. D. Graduated at Yale, 1726. Studied medicine. Lived here in full practice fifty years, being the first educated physician that settled in Northampton. Officiated as a magistrate and selectman. Samuel Clapp, Jr.
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Joseph Clark. Jonathan Bascom.
Daniel Pomeroy. £ Same as Lt. Daniel. The youngest of Major Ebenezer's six sons. Killed at the battle of Lake George in 1755.
Josephi Allen. Father of fourteen children. Three of them were ministers. His wife acted as phy- sician with remarkable success.
Nehemiah Dwight. Came from Dedham. The first in town to own a sleigh. It had plank runners. At that time pleasure sleighs did not exist. Benjamin Stebbins.
Daniel Alexander.
Reuben Case.
Thomas Porter.
Joseph Bascom.
Eleazar Burt.
Jonathan Clark.
Ebenezer Wright, Jr.
Nebemiah Allen.
Ithamar Clark. Ebenezer Miller, Jr.
Ichabod Strong. Samuel Mather, Jr. Graduated at Yale, 1756. A physician in Westfield. A special justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
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Jonathan Clapp. Born on South street, lived in Easthampton, kept a public house, rose to the rank of major, had fourteen children, ancestor of Allens, Lymans, and other races.
Caleb Strong. A lieutenant of superior intellect, father of Caleb, eleven times governor of Massa- chusetts.
Daniel Warner. The first of that name who lived in the Warner district, near John F. Warner's. Elizabeth -Warner.
Mary Stebbins. Hannah Pomeroy.
Mary Marshall. Mary Lyman.
Mindwell Burt.
Sarah Edwards.
Martha Bascom.
Mary Clesson.
Eunice Parsons.
Abigail Lyman.
Rebecca Leonard.
Eunice Strong.
Thankful Pomeroy. Lydia Rust.
Elizabeth Clap. Jemima Parsons. Thankful Phelps.
JONATHAN EDWARDS' MINISTRY.
Mary Phelps. Mindwell Phelps.
Mary Taylor. Mindwell Alexander.
Elizabeth Clesson.
Ann Lyman. Elizabeth Wait.
Hezekiah Root.
Preserved Marshall.
Josiah
Elias Lyman. An inn-keeper at South Farms. Noah Strong.
Moses Lyman, Jr. Son of Capt. Moses who lived near the corner of what afterward became Pleas- ant and Main Streets.
Daniel Lyman. Graduated at Yale, 1745. A law- yer in New Haven, a member of the city coun- cil, a deacon, much esteemed.
Charles Phelps. Son of Lt. Nathaniel. Lived across the river, two miles north of Hadley. A model farmer.
Moses Clark. Jonathan Miller. Elias Strong.
Daniel Clark. Built on Elm street, 1739, the western-most dwelling in town ; a century later it was the Allen Clark place.
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Hezekiah Root, Jr. Reuben Wright. Titus Wright. Elnathan Wright. Joseph Bridgman.
Seth Pomeroy. General Seth, a patriot of the Revolution, at the battle of Bunker Hill, a brave offieer. A manufacturer of fire-arms.
Gad Lyman. An carly settler in Goshen.
Ephraim Parsons. Israel Rust, Jr. Seth Marshall.
Josiah Phelps. Enoch South well.
Nathaniel Edwards. Ile taught the first school on South street. His son Nathaniel went to college, but did not graduate.
Sarah Langton. Lydia Burt.
Mary Bartlett.
Abigail Bridgman. Mary Wright. Mary Kingsley. Sarah Root. Elizabeth King. Sarah Hutchinson. Bethiah Webb.
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Ruth Root.
Mary Clark.
Experience Allen. Wait Parsons.
Sarah Clap. Lydia Bridgman. Mary Burt.
Elizabeth Alvord.
Abigail Langton.
Elizabeth Clark. Jemima Danks. Dorothy Mather.
Esther Root. Mary Hannum. Mindwell Clapp.
Eleazar King.
Joseph King. Seth Strong. Moses Wright. Pelatiah Holbrook.
Ephraim Wright. His home lot near the center, between King and Market streets. 1794, he gave three and one-half acres to his son Seth. Near the end of the century, Seth sold to Asa- hel Pomeroy and went to Boston.
Ebenezer Clark, Jr. Built, 1740, on Elm street. Three generations lived there, among them Dea. Jared and his family.
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Mark Warner, 3d.
Elihu Parsons.
Charles Wright.
Thomas Strong. Son of the first Jonathan. Grad- uated at Yale, 1740. Settled in the ministry at New Marlborough, 1744-77.
Ebenezer Wright, 3d.
Joseph Miller.
Waitstill Strong, Jr.
Aaron Miller.
Nathaniel Day.
Sclah Clark.
Ebenezer Phelps. The first of that name, house near Shady Lawn.
John Hunt. Built and occupied the Henshaw mansion where S. E. Bridgman lives. Set out the elms which gave name to the street.
Eliphaz Clap. John Baker, Jr.
Panl Dudley.
Ezra Clark. Lived on Bridge street near the toll gate. Commenced there 1739. Was one of the Committee of Fifteen in the war of the Revolu- tion.
William Lyman. Same as Capt. William. His son, William, a graduate of Yale, 1776, a mem- ber of Congress, Consul to London under Jef-
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ferson, died there 1811 and buried in Gloucester Cathedral, England. Samuel Clark, Jr.
Rebecca Searl.
Lydia Pomeroy. Sarah Cass.
Mary Pomeroy.
Elizabeth Allen.
Mindwell King.
Prudence Stoddard.
Thankful King.
Rebecca Stebbins. Miriam Danks.
Mary Parsons.
Rebecca Mix. Rachel Judd.
Hannah Alexander.
Martha Alexander.
Phebe Stockbridge. Elizabeth Danks. Mindwell Parsons. Rebecca Alvord.
Hannah Bartlett. Sarah Janes. Mercy Edwards. Elizabeth Clark. Mary Hulburd. 4
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FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.
Hannah Phelps.
Elias Lyman, Jr. Kept a public house near Rock Ferry, South Farms. Educated two sons at Dart- mouth College.
Zebulon Wright.
Elisha Strong.
Abel Ingersoll.
Gideon Hale.
Ebenezer Wait.
John Wright, Jr.
Stephen Sheldon and Israel Sheldon. Brothers, sons of Ensign Ebenezer on Bridge street.
Samuel Strong.
Aaron Wright.
Reuben King.
Joseph Strong. One of this name moved, 1716, to Conventry, Conn. A man of property and great worth. Beeame town treasurer, selectman and justice of the peace. For fifty-two times was representative. Ineluding extra sessions, he was a member during sixty-five sessions. In his ninety-first year he was moderator of the town meeting.
Benajah Strong. His son, Asahel, a deaf mute, was drowned July 9th, 1770.
Phinehas Clark. Lived on Elm street next be- yond Prof. Stoddard's.
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JONATHAN EDWARDS' MINISTRY.
Noah Baker. Became a Baptist minister, preached in Sunderland, lived to be ninety-one.
Noah Clark, Jr. Timothy Baker. Samuel Bridgman.
Noah Wait.
Eleazar Root.
Simeon King. Joseph Hunn.
Ezra Clapp. Graduated at Yale, 1740. Lived at Westfield.
Samuel Kingsley. Built about 1740. The house stands on South street, number 19, owned for- merly by Dea. Daniel Kingsley.
Priscilla Searl. Sarah Edwards.
Miriam Edwards.
Mary Warner.
Eunice Parsons.
Esther Wait.
Thankful Clark.
Sarah Baker. Mary Baker. Elizabeth Clark. Mary Strong. Elizabeth Edwards. Eleanor Dwight.
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Mary Bridgman. Hannah Loomis.
Naomi Strong.
IIannah Wait. Damaris Wait.
Sarah Parsons. Abigail Clesson.
Thankful Clesson.
Hannah King.
Abigail Clark.
Mindwell Lyman.
Dinah Wright. Aaron Clapp.
Daniel King.
Thomas Wright.
Medad King.
Asahel King.
Timothy Root.
Moses Sheldon.
Moses Kellogg. Samuel Edwards, Jr. Lived number 80 Sonth street, great grandfather of Prof. Bela B. and Dr. Justin Edwards, both eminent Bible scholars. Abner Lyman. Married about 1726, Lydia, daugh- ter of the first Mark Warner.
Asahel Clapp. Moses Hannum.
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JONATHAN EDWARDS' MINISTRY.
Selah Wright.
Isaac Parsons and Josiah, Jr. Sons of Josiah Par- sons, Sr. Homestead originally fronted on Mar- ket and Bridge streets. Isaac received the east- erly half, and Josiah, Jr., had the westerly por- tion.
Stephen Clark. John Keet.
John Alvord. Jonathan Frary. Aaron Root. Seth Clapp. Elisha Harvey.
Samuel Clesson, Jr.
Job Strong. Lieut. Nathaniel's son, Ilawley street. Graduated at Yale, 1747. A missionary with Brainerd among the Indians in New Jersey. He said Thirty Indian children could answer all the questions in the Assembly's catechism. Settled at Portsmouth, N. H., 1749.
Elisha Pomeroy, or Capt. Elisha. His property comprised the dwelling, shop and land of his grandfather, Dea. Medad Pomeroy, now covered with buildings below the Edwards Church.
Esther Wright. Mary Stockbridge. Phebe Strong.
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Dorothy Root.
Rachel Clapp.
Experience Strong.
Esther Sheldon.
Anna Bartlett.
Rachel Parsons.
Anna Phelps.
Eunice Searl.
Eunice Wright.
Abigail Judd.
Submit Clapp.
Rachel Maudsley.
Rachel Searl.
Abigail Hutchinson.
Lois Clark.
Experience Wait.
Rachel Parsons.
Phebe Lyman.
Hannah Edwards.
Catharine Clark.
Naomi Warner.
Martha Sheldon.
Timothy Clark. Aaron Baker. Benjamin Edwards, Jr. Thomas Wait. Samuel Langton, Jr.
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Nathan Graves.
Eldad Pomeroy. Zebadiah Alvord. Onesimus Nash.
Elisha Warner. Son of the first Mark. Lived in Chesterfield. IIad no children.
Simeon Clark. Born opposite the Art Gallery. Married Rebecca Sheldon, 1749. The next year moved to Amherst. Chosen deacon there. The homestead continued till recently in same family. Jerijah Strong, Jr. Lived on North Market street. The fifth and sixth generations now occupy the place.
John Searl. Graduated at Yale, 1745. Entered the ministry. Assisted in preparing some of Ed- wards' works for publication.
Jacob Parsons. Married daughter of first Ebenezer Hunt. Father of twelve children. Lived on Bridge street.
Ebenezer Pomeroy, 3d. Son of Deacon and grand- son of Major Ebenezer.
Nathaniel Searl.
Nathaniel Searl, Jr. James Downing. Caleb Clark. Samuel Burt.
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FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.
Robert Danks. A descendant probably of the Rob- ert who began, 1665, the settlement at Nasha- wannuck, and from whom Danks' pond received its name.
David Burt, Jr. Edward Cotes.
William Bartlett, Jr. One of the early settlers at Westhampton in 1768 was William Bartlett.
Built the first frame house, paid the largest tax. Elihu Lyman. Gradnated at Yale, 1745. Studied law, lived at New Haven, partner of his brother Daniel.
Eunice Sheldon.
Martha King. Thankful Parsons.
Experience Wright.
Sarah Wright.
Sarah Holton.
Lydia Wright.
Naomi Wright.
Martha Phelps.
Sarah Burt.
Silence Clark.
Abigail Janes. Mary Searl. Rachel Pomeroy. Lois Strong.
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Hannah Miller.
Sarah Miller.
Mary King. Eunice Edwards. Eunice Cook. Eunice Wait. Abigail Phelps. Hannah Judd.
Eunice Phelps. Miriam Wright. David Bartlett. Noah Lyman. Charles Coles.
Jonathan Alvord.
Ephraim Danks. Samuel Hannum. Matthew Clark. Married 1754, Sarah, daughter of the second Dea. Jolin Clark on South street. Matthew Clark lived at Lebanon, Conn. Jonathan Edwards. Benoni Danks. Zadok Lyman. Jason, servant to Major Pomeroy. Simon, servant to Capt. Dwight, Ishmael, servant to Nathaniel Edwards. Joab, a colored man.
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Josiah Clark, Jr. Son of Ensign Josiah. Settled and lived on South street. Officiated as deacon thirty-four years. Gideon Henderson. John Wait, Jr. Thomas Starr.
William Clark. A farmer on Elm street. Married and settled nearly opposite John Whittelsey's, 1746. Drove fat cattle to Boston between 1753- 57. He and Daniel Clark, his cousin, were neighbors fifty-eight years.
Daniel Strong. Brother of Job the collegian, aided his brother in obtaining an education. Another Daniel Strong was drum major in the war of the Revolution, went by the name of "Dub Strong." Nathaniel Phelps, Jr.
Ebenezer Pomeroy, 4th.
Ebenezer Bartlett, Jr.
Benjamin Parsons. An unmarried brother of Jo- seph on South street, lived to be eighty-eight. The place went into the hands of William Par- sons, hatter, same as Major William.
David Bartlett, Jr. Rachel King. Christiana King. Anna King. Mary Waters.
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Sarah Lyman. Merey Searl. Elizabeth Root. Mary Hannum. Sarah Pomeroy.
Mary Churchill. Elizabeth Phelps. Martha Root. Mary King.
Freedom Edwards.
Abigail Danks.
Dorothy Danks.
Elizabeth Cass.
Hannah Keet.
Rachel Wright. Patience Alvord.
Abigail Judd. Jemima Bartlett.
Esther Parsons. -4 Mabel Bartlett. Elizabeth, servant to Col. John Stoddard.
Joseph Parsons. His homestead on South street joined that of Noah Parsons. Always lived on the place. Age eighty-five.
Seth Clark. Ebenezer Alvord. Oliver Warner.
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FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.
Bela Strong. Ithamar Strong. Same as Capt. Ithamar, boatman on the Connecticut river. He lived on the westerly corner of Main and South streets. Bela Strong lived where Memorial Hall stands.
Obadiah Frary.
Medad Lyman.
William Sheldon.
Simeon Lyman. John Miller, Jr.
Stephen Wright, Jr.
Timothy Wright. Lived on King street. His daughter, Elizabeth, married Dea. Enos Wright, one of the best women that ever lived. Grand- parents of William K. Wright.
Gershom Clark. John Langton. Samuel Janes, Jr.
John Lyman, Jr. An inn-keeper for fifty-three years at South Farms. Himself one of ten chil- dren, so in his turn he became the father of the same number. One went to Yale.
Supply Clapp. Benjamin Parsons, Jr. Caleb Wright. Noah Edwards. Gideon Clark.
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Nathaniel Wright.
Elisha Hawley. Brother of Major Joseph. Same as Capt. Elisha. He fell at the battle of Lake George, 1755.
Martin Phelps. His son of the same name gradu- nated at Yale, 1776, and lived in Chester, Mass. Stood high as a physician, was town clerk, rep- resentative. Lived to be eighty-two. His son of the same name was sheriff of Chester.
Leah, servant of Jonathan Edwards.
Mary West.
Mary Wright.
Elizabeth Pomeroy.
Jane Stephens.
Phebe Parsons.
Sarah Porter.
Mary Alexander.'
Rebecca Clark.
Experience King.
Sarah Clark.
Rebecca Nash.
Rachel Clark.
Esther Hannum.
Sarah Edwards. Keziah Parsons. Joanna Clark. Mary Parsons.
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Sarahı King.
Jemima Wright.
Martha Hunt.
Mary Baker.
Rachel Phelps.
Sarah Alvord.
Elizabeth Edwards.
Lucy Strong.
Charles Brewster.
Samuel King.
Noah Copley.
Jedediah Clark.
Joseph Cook.
Seth Wright.
Edmund Taylor.
Abraham Miller, Jr.
Noah Langton.
Thomas Judd, Jr. His father lived first in the center, then at South Farms. Reared ten chil- dren. The Judds of South Hadley were his de- scendants.
Enoch Clark. Born 1726, near the Art Gallery. A Lieut., also an inn-keeper.
Joseph Hawley. The third and most eminent of that name. Graduated at Yale, 1742. As an advocate of American liberty stood pre-eminent. Rendered important service to his country in his
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seat in the legislature. Served twenty six years as deacon.
Phinehas Lyman. Son of Lient. Gideon. Eliza- beth Hawley, Capt. Elisha's widow, after a few years of widowed life, married Phinehas Lyman. Timothy Dwight, Jr., viz. Major Timothy. An extensive trader, large land holder, for sixteen years was Judge of Common Pleas. Had four- teen children, several of them graduates.
John Pomeroy.
John Alvord, Jr.
John Macklane.
Moses Webb. Ebenezer Clapp.
Elisha Pomeroy.
Ebenezer Edwards. Killed by the fall of a trec, Aug. 22d, 1771, aged fifty-one.
Benjamin Lyman, Jr.
Aaron Hannnm.
Jonathan Kingsley, Jr.
Preserved Bartlett, Jr.
Matha Clark. Jemima Clark.
Eunice Alvord. Abigail Lyman. Sarah Parsons. Mary Marshall.
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Rebecca Marshall.
Anna Wright. Jemima Sheldon.
Esther Lyman. Rachel Hunt.
Sarah Miller.
Hannah Strong.
Mary Parsons.
Lydia Parsons.
Phebe Edwards.
Abigail Pomeroy.
Dinalı Corse.
Catharine Munn.
Mary Lyman.
Elizabeth Bartlett.
Lois Phelps.
Lucy Warner.
Sarah Clark. Bathsheba, a colored woman.
Eliakim Wright.
Elisha Baker. Jonathan Miller.
Stephen Dorchester. Eliakim Marshall. Noah Pomeroy. Samuel Alvord. Caleb Sheldon.
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Samuel Langton.
Medad Edwards. Home on South street. A tra- dition remains that he occupied a " block house," much used in those times as a means of defence. Constructed of logs, the lower story penetrated below the surface of the ground several feet ; the upper projected on all sides beyond the lower.
Elias Sheldon. Born 1721. The second who lived on Sheldon place, Bridge street. Continued there till 1793.
Isaac Lyman. Son of Capt. Moses. Graduated at Yale, 1747. Was pastor at York, Maine, sixty years, 1749-1809.
Simeon Pomeroy. Lived on King street near the "Edwards Elms," between Mrs. Dr. Fisk's and the Aaron Breck place.
Samuel Clarke. A native of Windsor, Ct. Came to Northampton, 1747, a saddle and harness maker. Lived on corner of Bridge and Hawley streets. Nine children born there. Ancestor of John the banker, Edward, Christopher, Richard, and of the present Christopher.
Dorcas Lyman. Lydia Lyman. Margaret Alvord. Rachel Keet. 5
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Elizabeth Rust.
Ruth Connor.
Mary Downing. Sarah Parsons. Hannah Edwards.
Experience Phelps.
Catharine Wright.
Experience Birge. Jerusha Alvord.
Margaret Parsons. Mary Tule.
Experience Lyon.
Rebecca Sheldon.
Sarah Strong. Sarah Bartlett.
Jemima Root.
Elizabeth Cook.
Jemima Miller.
Rebecca Searl.
Rachel Barnard. Sarah Strong. Lydia Hutchinson. Martha Alvord. Sarah Langton. Mary Canfield. Sarah Searl. Beulah Parsons.
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Elizabeth Bartlett.
Jerusha Clark.
Esther Edwards. Married, 1752, Rev. Aaron Burr, president of Princeton College.
Jerusha Edwards. Expected to marry Rev. David Brainerd, missionary. He died at her father's, 1747.
Mary Edwards. Married to Major Timothy Dwight. One of her fourteen children was Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, 1795-1817. Her husband built the Mrs. Dr. Fisk house. Her children were all born there. The three foregoing, Esther, Jerusha, and Mary Edwards, were daughters of Rev. Jonathan Edwards, third pastor.
Mary Alexander. Experience King. Hannah Baker. Ann Judd.
CHAPTER IV.
Rer. John Hooker's Ministry, 1754-1777. ADMISSIONS .- HISTORICAL ITEMS. 1754.
Abner Barnard.
Charles Clapp.
Stephen Baker.
Silas Brown.
Philip Clark.
Obadiah Janes.
Moses Bartlett.
Thomas Williston.
Oscar Munson.
Nathaniel Bartlett.
Silas Hamilton. Elihu Clark. The first of that name. The young- est son of Lieut. Ebenezer. Lived near Presi- dent Seelye's. Elisha Cook. Son of Dea. Noah. Owned with his brother Aaron, the upper mill. (GS)
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Noah Parsons, Jr. Married, 1755, Phebe Bartlett. Built near the South street bridge. He set out the elm in front of his dwelling, 1755. Seth Pomeroy, Jr. The oldest of Gen. Seth's five sons. Graduated at Yale, 1753. Tutor there, 1756-7. Pastorate at Greenfield Hill, Conn.
Bildad Wright.
Jonathan Phelps.
Submit Judd.
Catharine Strong.
Mary Alvord.
Eunice Clark.
Sarah French.
Experience Parsons.
Sarah Phelps.
Mary Hulburd.
Beulah Lyman.
Eleanor Lyman.
Miriam Bartlett.
Mary Kingsley.
Eliza Strong. Hannah Lyman. Eleanor Bart.
Hannah Porter. Catharine Clapp. Abigail Judd.
Penelope Strong.
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Miriam Phelps. Mary Clark.
Eunice Brown.
Eunice Phelps.
Elizabeth Elmer.
Naomi Bartlett.
Hannah Baker.
Hannah Baseom.
1755.
Joseph Stebbins. Medad King.
Eleazar King.
Samuel Judd, 2d. Lived seventy-seven years on Pleasant street, 1685-1762. Followed there by Samuel, 3d.
Elijah Hunt. House and lot west of Miss Burn- ham place on Elm street. He reared and edu- cated his sister's son, Hon. Elijah Hunt Mills, born in Chesterfield.
Joseph Root.
Moses Parsons. Among the removals to Durham, Conn., is found the name of Moses Parsons. Elizabeth Burt. Mercy Clark. Esther Hunt. Margaret Intehins.
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Catharine Parsons. Mary Phelps. Hannah Hunt.
1756.
Silas Clark. Home lot above the Baptist meeting house. Succeeded his father, Noah. Whole number of Silas children, twelve.
Elijah Clark. Born and lived opposite the Art Gallery. One of the committee of fifteen in the war of the Revolution. Chosen deacon in 1785. Three of his sons were deacons.
William Phelps.
Thomas Fairfield.
Samuel Fairfield.
Samuel Judd.
Simeon Alvord.
Gideon Lyman.
Thomas Allen. Graduated at Harvard College, 1762. First minister of Pittsfield. On account of his valor at the battle of Bennington was called the "fighting parson." Father of Presi- dent Wm. Allen, grandfather of Judge William. Mrs. Nathaniel Phelps. Haunot Root. Elizabeth Wright. Lucy Alvord.
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IIannah Clark.
Thankful Clark.
Prudence Parsons.
Mrs. Jonathan Janes.
Sarah Hooker, of Springfield, wife of Rev. John Hooker, the fourth minister. She was Col. Worthington's daughter.
Miriam Lyman. Thankful Lyman. .
Eunice Pomeroy. Lydia Phelps.
1757.
Obadiah Clark. Aaron Kingsley. Joseph Lyman. Simeon Clapp, on South street, practiced as a phy- sician. Rhoda Kingsley. Mary Bartlett. Sarah Clapp.
1758.
George Hodge. Jane Hodge. Jerusha Sheldon. Sarah Allen. Martha Pomeroy.
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Freelove Chilson. Mrs. Elisha Alvord. Lois Shattuck.
1759.
Elnathan Phelps. John Graves. John Hurlburt. Samuel Phelps.
Noah Bridgman and William Judd. Both mar- ried, 1759, and settled at North Farms. Their families intermarried.
Catharine Brown. Sarah Allen. Mercy Bridgman. Susanna Judd.
1760.
Joseph Alvord. A weaver, home on Bridge street.
Hannah Parsons.
Prudence Stoddard.
Mary Hunt.
Lydia Clark.
Lois Parsons.
1761.
Joel Clark. Adino Pomeroy.
74 FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.
Paul King. Joel Parsons. Pliny Pomeroy, brother of William the clothier, and father of Gaius.
Jerusha Burt.
Martha Clark.
Mary Miller. Lois Pomeroy. Jemima Burt. ..
Mary Burt. Lucy Baker. Thankful Star.
Experience Clark.
Lydia Cook. Mary Ring. Mrs. Joel Parsons.
1762.
Oliver Lyman. Mr. Strickland.
Asahel Clark. Oliver Burt. , James Hulburt. Simeon Strong. Hawley street, where he lived eighty-five years, a farmer and cooper, father of eleven children. Joseph Clapp.
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