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participated in the assault on Petersburg, and on the 3d they were the first troops to enter the city. They lost three killed and three wounded in that engagement. Immediately after the fight they started and were marching and counter-marching constantly during several days. On the 6th they were engaged at Saylor's Creek where they fought desperately. inflicting a severe loss on the enemy: more than seventy dead bodies were found on the field after the battle, in their immediate front. Their ines was eight men killed and thirty-one wounded. After the battle of Say- lor's Creek they followed the enemy till the surrender on the 9th of Ageil. near Appomattox Court House. The regiment then went successively to Burkesville, Danville, Wilson's Station, Richmond, and Washington On the 22d they left Washington for Massachusetts, and they were di- charged at Readville on the 1st of July. 1865.
Forty ninth Regiment. This, which was a nine months' regiment. was recruited entirely in Berkshire county in the early autumn of 1862. Its first rendezvous was in Pittsfield, at Camp Briggs, so named in honor of Brigadier General Henry S. Briggs, son of ex Governor G. N. Briers At this camp they remained from early in September till the 7th of No vember, when they went to Worcester. There their regimental organist. tion was completed by the election of Captain W. F. Bartlett. * colonel. Captain S. B. Sumner. lieutenant-colonel and Captain Charles T. Phim. kett, major. The quarters of the regiment at Worcester were at what was known as Camp Wool, and the companies verenpied comfortable bar. racks. During its stay of less than three weeks at Wotekster the pezzi. ment received arms and equipments. and on the 20th of November it Jeff for New York. On the 4th of November it crossed East River and marched ten miles to what was known as Camp Banks. There the non were quartered in stables fitted up as barracks, and they remained till January 24th. 1863. when they sailed for New Orleans, where they arrived on the 7th of February. They proceeded up the river to Carrollton. where they remained till the 1th, then saiba for Baton Rouge, where they remained till the 20th. During this time in addition to ordinary camp duties the regiment participated in a feint on Pont Hudson.
On the 20th the regiment marched for Port Hudson, and on the 21st it participated in the battle of Plains Stop, in which it acquitted itself honorably. In this action Lieutenant Tucker received a wound in his knee which made amputation necessary. On the 27th of May the 19i.
* William Francis Bartlett, son of Charles Leopard Bartlett, and zrondam of Bodley Bartlett, a member of Congress in 1500, was born at Haverhill, June ath. 120, When the civil war broke out he was a student in Harvard University, but i April, 1H. be entered a private, and in July was commissioned captain in the Sich realmont. After the return of the 49th he was made colonel of the Sith regiment and in June, But was promoted fuller general for conspicuous gallantry at Port Hudson, and commanded a division of the US ter of Robert Pommes, of Put-full and locanto letter of the man who. Jeden the lith of December, 1996.
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ment participated in the first assault on Port Hudson. The report of the adjutant general concerning the Forty-ninth in this action wasas follows: " It lost seventy-six killed and womoled, being one-third of the regi- ment engaged, three companies having been on special service. The regiment lost in that assault as large a proportion as any other regiment. and established its reputation for cool and steady bravery. The brave and intrepid Colonel Bartlett was unfortunately shot through the west and heel early in the engagement, while leading the regiment to the as- sault on horseback. Lieutenant Colonel Summer was wounded in the. shoulder about the same time. Lieutenants Judd and Deming were killed while gallantly cheering on their men. Eleven of the eighteen officers with the regiment were hit. The command of the regiment de- volved on Major Plunkett after the wounding of his superior officers, and he continued in command during the remainder of its form of service. a position which he held with great credit to himself and honor to the regiment."
On the 14th of June the Forty-ninth took part in a feint on the enemy's works, and lost one man killed and seventeen wounded. Dur- ing the entire time that Port Hudson was invested the regiment was in the front. engaged in the duties of the siege till the surrender took place on the 9th of July, 1863. It was then sent with other troops to Donald- sonville. On the 13th they marched about four miles up Bayon Lafourche, where, by the falling back of other portions of the force, they we're nearly surrounded. They made their way to the rest of the rom- mand with a loss of one killed, five wounded. and sixteen missing. On the 1st of August the regiment returned to its camp at Baton Rouge. after a campaign of seventy three days, in which it achieved an honor. able distinction.
On the 9th of August the regiment embarked for home via Missis sippi River and railroad. They took cars at Cairo on the 18th and ar. rived in Berkshire county on the 21st. At Pittsfield they were received with the honors which they had so richly earned during their compara. tively brief but arduous service.
Fifty-fourth Regiment (colored). Recruiting for this regiment com- menced in Boston. February 9th, 1863. The place of rendezvous was Readville, and by the 12th of May the regiment was more than full. No bounty was offered, but the State voted a bounty of son per man after the regiment was full. The regiment left the State on the 28th of May. reached Hilton Head June 3d. and sailed thener to Beaufort. On the 8th it reembarked for St. Simon's Island. Ca .. whence it want to Now Food- erica. On the 10th eight companies sailed on an expedition up the Alla. maha River, and brought back as a prize a schooner with cotton.
It went successively to Hilton Head, St. Helena Island. Stone Intel. and James' Island, on which last it was in action near Secessionville. los. ing fourteen killed, eighteen wounded, and thirteen missing. It went to Morris Island, where it arrived July Isth. On that day was made the
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celebrated assault on Fort Wagner, in which this regiment had the advance, and by their heroic valor demonstrated to the country the fight. ing qualities of colored colliers. They charged across a distance of 1.000 vards, but after desperate efforts to hold the position which they gained on the parapet. they were repulsed with the loss of 21 killed. 136 wounded, and 104 missing. After this assault they were placed on fatigue duty, and in five months performed more than 0,000 days' work. On the 28th of January, 1864. the Fifty-fourth went on an ex forlition to Florida, in the course of which it routed a rebel force near Baldwin, and took part in the battle of Ornstee, where it lost thirteen killed, sixty six wounded, and eight missing. They entered this fight with the cry. .. Three cheers for Massachusetts and seven dollars a month !"
On the 28th of September. 1864. the men of this regiment were ac. knowledged as United States soldiers, and paid as such $13 per month. Prior to this they had been seven times mustered for poy, and $7 per month had been offered them, but they had refused to accept it. They would give their services, but they would not sell their man. hood. On the 30th of November six companies of this regiment were in action at Honey Hill, S. C. where they suffered a loss of three killed. thirty-eight wounded. and four missing.
After the arrival of General Sherman's forces from Atlanta this regi ment made connection with them, and were afterward skirmishingahuost daily, but without serions loss. On the 18th of April, 1865, they had a fight at Boykin's Mills, near Camden, losing two killed and twenty wounded.
During its entire term of service this regiment acquitted itself with honor, and demonstrated to the country and the world that as soldiers colored men were not in any respect inferior to their white brethren.
Fifty-seventh Regiment. This regiment, which was largely com- posed of veterans, was recruited in the autumn of 1883 and the spring of 1864. It left the State April 18th. 1864. arrived at Annap dis on the 20th. at Washington on the 25th of the same month, and at Rappahannock Station on the 3d of May. On the 6th it was engaged in the action of the Wilderness where it sustained a loss in killed, wounded, and missing of 251. It was next engaged. May 12th, at Spotsylvania, where it last 72. It was again engaged there on the 18th, when IT were left on the field. On the 24th it was in action near Oxford Ford, on the North Anna. where it left with the enemy its colonel and 36 men, It took part carly in June in the operations near Bethesda Church, but was not sever ly engaged, and suffered only a small loss. On the 17th of June it pultici- pated in an assault on the enemy's works at Petersburg. These works were carried at the point of the bayonet, but the regiment Just to in the action.
From that time till July 30th they did duty in the trenches. losing six officers and 23 men. On the Both of July they were in action of the mine explosion, losing six officers and Ja men. August lutke they took
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part in the operations against the Weldon Railroad, losing 15. Ou the 30th of September they were in the action at Poplar Grove Church. where their loss was eight. They were again engaged on the 25th of October at Hatcher's Run, where their casualties were 14 enlisted nom. The regiment went into the trenches in front of Petersbing on the 13th of December, and remained in the lines before that place till the 25th of March, 1865. On that day they relieved the Fifty-ninth near Fort Steel- man, where they were in action, earning a proud record. They entenel Petersburg on the 3d of April, and soon after the assassination of Lingula they went to Washington, where they remained till August, 1805. when they were mustered out of the service.
Sixty-first Regiment. Recruiting for this regiment was comme non in August, 1864. and in October a battalion of five full companies was sent to City Point. Virginia. It was soon afterward put on duty with an engineer brigade laboring on fortifications.
On the 17th of November it was joined by the sixth company. They participated in the operations before Petersburg, and on the 12th of December went to City Point again. There they were joined on the 5th of January, 1865, by the seventh company, on the 15th of February by the eighth company, and on the 15th of March by the ninth and tenth companies. On the 17th of March the regiment was detached from the engineer brigade, in which it had been constantly employed on fortifies tions, and assigned to a brigade that was engaged in guard and provost duty. It was in action at Fort Selgwick . Fort Hellyon the 2d of April. 1865. In a fierce assault on Fort Mahone this regiment lost 35 men. which was considered a small loss considering the fierceness of the attack and the severity of the musketry and artillery fire through which they charged. On the 12th of May the regiment went to Washington. and on the 23d participated in the grand review there. In June five companies returned to Massachusetts where they were mustered out on the lith of that month, and the others remained as a separate battalion till the 20th of July, when they returned, and were mustered out on the 1st of August.
CHAPTER XVI.
CIVIL HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Incorporation .- Population .- County Officers .- Members of Congress .- Members of Legislature.
P RIOR to its incorporation Berkshire county was a part of the county of Hampshire, which was in 1811-12 divided into the three counties of Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire. Berkshire was incorporated by an act of the Provincial Legislature passed at the session of May, 1761. At that time it included the towns of Sheffield, Stockbridge, New Marlboro, and Egremont. There were also within the limits of the county the plantations of Poontoosack, now Pittsfield; New Framing- ham, now Lanesboro; West Hoosic, now Williamstown; No. I, now Tyringham; No. 3, now Sandisfield, and No. 4, now Becket. As now constituted the county consists of thirty-two towns, as follows. Adams, incorporated in 1;78; Alford. 1773: Becket. 1765; Cheshire, 1793; Clarksburg. 1798; Dalton, 1784; Egremont, 1760; Florida, 1805; Great Barrington, 1761; Hancock, 1776; Hinsdale. 18p4; Lanesboro. 1;65: Lee, 1777; Lenox, 1767; Monterey, IS47; Mount Washington, 1772; New Ashford, ISO1; New Marlboro, 1759; North Adams, 18;8; Otis, 1778; Peru, 1771; Pittsfield. 1761; Richmond, 1765; Sandisfield, 1762; Savoy, 1797; Sheffield, 1733; Stockbridge. 1739; Tyringham, 1762; Washington, 1777; West Stockbridge, 1774: Williamstown, 1765; and Windsor, 1771.
The act of incorporation described the boundaries of the county as follows :
" Beginning at the western end of Granville, where it touches the Connecticut line, to run northerly as far as said west line of Granville runs, then easterly to the southwest corner of Brandford, and to run by the west line of the same town to the northwesterly corner thereof; from thence northerly in a direct line to the southeast corner of No. 4, and so running by the easterly line of No. 4 to the northeast curner thereof; and thence in a direct course to the southwest corner of Charlemont, and so northerly in the west line of the same town till it comes to the north bound of the province, and northerly on the line between this province and the province of New Hampshire [now Vermont], and on the west by the utmost limits of this province "
The act took effect on the ist of July, 1761 It was named Berkshire tront the county of Berks, or Berkshire, England.
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The population of Berkshire county at the end of each decade since 1980 has been as follows:
PLACES.
1,00
1 800
1×10
16:30
1-10
15M
1820
Adams.
2010
1:03
Alford.
515
512
619
Becket
Cheshire
1225
1310
120%
:01
1142
10200
Egremont
Florida
Great Barrington
1373
1744
1:54
1:005
Hancock
1211
11 -;
1020
1105
Hinsdale
Lanesboro
2142
1143
1:07
1:1-4
Lenox
1169
10/1
1310
1315
1305
1619
1×1:
911
1001
1141
Richmond
1250
1014
1011
1795
1646
1655
1151
164:
1150
110:
Savoy
Sheffield
1800.
2050
2170
Stockbridge.
1336:
1261
1972
13 ::
1001
19:1
2136
Tvringham
1897
1712
011
912
10:4
1330
1:13
Williamstown
1709
2056
1~13
2010
21:1
Windsor
916
961
1108
1081
1u12
Total
30291
33-55 85199 35720
The totals here given include the population of several unincorporated tracts
When the county was incorporated the boundary line between Massachusetts and New York was not settled, and it remained a matter of dispute till after the Revolu- tion. The Dutch patentees claimed lands as far east as the Housatonic River, and the State of New York claimed jurisdiction over the territory embraced in these claims. Commissioners were finally appointed by Congress, at the request of both States, to survey and establish the line, which they did in 1787. This line lett a considerable portion of what was previously Hancock in New York, but along the towns of West Stockbridge and Alford it left in Massachusetts a gore, which was afterward anneved to those towns.
In 1783 the town of Middlefield, Hampshire county, was incorporated. This town included " the northeast corner of Becket, the south side of Partridgefield (now Peru) a part of Washington, and the land called Prescott's Grants," all in the county of Berkshire. Afterward a strip of land belonging to Plamfield and Cummington. in Hampshire county, was annexed to Windsor, in Berkshire. In 1793 a portion of Hawley, then known as Plantation No. 7, and lying within the limits of Berkshire county, was annexed to Hawley and Hampshire county A tract of land in the northeast corner of Berkshire county was, in 1822, made a portion of the county of Franklin, and along with a portion of the town of Kowe, in that county, was created
2.39
New Marlboro
1550
North Adams
Otis
Peru ..
1011
1861
1111
1011
11:00
itil
Mount Washington.
67
291
1:1
315
470
New Ashford
411
1319
11:00
12.0
1.30~
Lee ...
1170
:120
1,11
1:07
Monterey
:021
150
Pittsfield
1992
3961
10.3
Sandistiek1
15×1
;11
1448
1251
Washington
West Stockbridge
1113
1049
2611
17757
Clarksburg
231
Dalton ..
5.51
700
10.30
10:2
115
1139
1:5%
120
4.il
166-
10390
1102
918
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into the town of Monroe. The result of these changes was a slight diminution of the area of Berkshire county.
During many years after the division of the county into towns there were three unincorporated tracts within its hits. One of these hay west of Williamstown, and had the form of a triangle three and one-half miles in length along that town, and one in breadth at its base on Hancock. This was annexed to Williamstown in 1835, Another, called Zoar, was a broken tract lying east from Florida, and principally east from Deerfield River. In iSos this tract had 215 inhabitants. It was made a part of the town of Zoar in Hampden county, in 1838. Boston Corner, so called because it was the southwest corner of Boston State, as Massachusetts was sometimes called. was a triangular tract of 940 acres which was not included in Mount Washington. though within the limits of Berkshire county. In 1555 it had seventy-three ich bit- ants. It was ceded to New York in 1853.
The following have been sheriffs of Berkshire county: Elijah Williams, of Stock- bridge, appointed 1761; Israel Dickinson, Pittsfield, 1776; John Fellows, Sheffield (during Revolution); Caleb Hyde, Lenox, 17St; Thompson J. Skinner, Williams. town, 1791; Simon Larned, Pittsfield. 1792; Henry C. Brown, Pittsfield, 1812; Thomas Twining, Sandisfield. 1838; Edward F. Ensign, Sheffield, 1843; Thomas Twining. Sandisfeld, 1848; Edward F. Ensign, Sheffield, 1852; George S. Willis, Pittsfield, 1853, Graham A. Root, Sheffield, 1855: Hiram B Wellington, Pittsfield, 1881.
The county clerks have been: Elijah Dwight, of Great Barrington, 1961; Henry W. Dwight. Stockbridge, 1781; Joseph Woodbridge, Stockbridge, 1853: Chorirs Sedgwick, Lenox, 1821: Henry W. Taft, Lenox (present incumbent). 1856.
No treasurer is known to have been appointed prior to 1766. Then and since they have been as follows : Silas Kellogg, Sheffield, 1766; Mark Hopkins, Great Barrington, 1774; Henry W. Dwight, Stockbridge, 1784; Moses .Ashley, Stockbridge, 17SS; Barnabas Bidwell, Stockbridge, 1791; Caleb Hyde, Lenox, ISto; Joseph Tucker, Lenox, 1813; George J. Tucker, Lenox, 1847; George H. Tucker, Pitts- field, 1878.
From the incorporation of the county, in 1761, to 1790 there was but one registry of deeds at Great Barrington. The register was Mark Hopkins till 1726. and Moses Hopkins till 1790. In that year the county was divided into three dis. tricts, Southern, Middle, and Northern, and the previous records were removed to the county seat in the Middle district. The registers in the Southern district, since 1790, have been: Moses Hopkins, Charles W. Hopkins, Samuel Newman, Isaac Seeley, and John C. New, the present register.
In the Middle district they have been: Caleb Hyde. Samuel Quincy, Joseph Tucker, George J. Tucker, Theodore L. Allen, and Henry M. Pitt, the present incumbent.
In the Northern district : Wolcott Hubbell. James Barker, Timothy Whitney. Samuel Bacon, Luther Washburn, George N. Briggs, Richard Whitney, Silas P. Butler, Herbert A. Fuller, and E. Earl Merchant, the present incumbent.
Members of Congress from Berkshire county. Senators: 1796-99. Theodore Sedgwick, of Stockbridge; 1854-55. Julius Rockwell, Pittsfield; 1875- , Henry Lawrence Dawes, Pittsfield.
Representatives: 1789-97, Theodore Sedgwick, Stockbridge; 1797-99. Thompson J. Skinner, Williamstown; 1799-1801, Theodore Sedgwick, Stockbridge; 1801-3.
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John Bacon, Stockbridge; 1803-6, Barnabas Bidwell, Stockbridge: 1806 ;, Simon Larned, Pittsfield; 1807-13, Ezekiel Bacon, Pittsfield; 18:3-14. Daniel Dewey, Wi- liamstown; 1814-17, John W. Hulbert, Pittsfield; 1817-21, Henry Shaw, Lanesboro; 1821-29, Henry W. Dwight, Stockbridge; 1829-43. George Nixon Briggs, Lanesboro and Pittsfield; 1843-53. Julius Rockwell, Pittsfield; 1853-55, John Z. Goodrich, Stockbridge: 1855-57, Mark Trafton, Westfield; 1857 75. Henry I. Dawes, North Adams and Pittsfield; 1875-77, Chester W. Chapin, Springfield; 1877- , George D. Robinson, Chicopee.
The county has always been represented by two State Senators. For a short time a portion of Hampshire county was included with the southern Berkshire dis- trict, and Messrs. Kingman, Brewster and Orcut, residents in that county, were elected for single terms from that district.
The following is a complete list of the Senators: 1780- , Jahlee! Woodbridge. Stockbridge; James Barker, Cheshire; 1781-2. Jahleel Woodbridge, John Bacon, Stockbridge; 1783, Jahleel Woodbridge, Stockbridge; Jonathan Smith, Lanesboro; 1784, Jahleel Woodbridge, Theodore Sedgwick, Stockbridge; 1785, Theodore Sedg. wick, Stockbridge; Thompson J. Skinner, Williamstown; 1786-87, Thompson J. Skinner, Williamstown; Elijah Dwight, Great Barrington; 178-93. Elijah Dwight, Great Barrington: Thompson J. Skinner, Williamstown; 1794-96. Thompson J. Skin- ner, Williamstown; John Bacon, Stockbridge; 1797, Thomas Ives, Great Barrington; William Williams, Dalton; 1798, Thomas Ives, Great Barrington; John Bacon, Stock . bridge; 1799-1800, William Williams, Dalton; David Rosseter, Richmond; 1801-2, Thompson J. Skinner, Williamstown; Barnabas Bidwell, Stockbridge: 1953-4. John Bacon, Barnabas Bidwell, Stockbridge; 1805-6, John Bacon, Stockbridge; Timothy Childs, Pittsfield; 1807-8-9, Timothy Childs, Pittsfield; Azariah Eggleston, Lenov: 1810, Timothy Childs, Pittsfield; William P. Walker, Lenox; 1811, Witham P.Walker, Lenox; William Towner, Williamstown; 1812, William Towner, Willmm-town; Lem- uel Barstow, Great Barrington; : 813-14, Joseph Whiton, Lee; Wolcott Habbell. Lanesboro; 1815, Timothy Childs, Pittsfield; William Walker, Lenox; 1516, Caleb Hyde, Lenox, John Whiting, Great Barrington; 1817, John Whiting. Great Barring- ton; Daniel Noble, Williamstown; ISIS, Caleb Hyde, Lenox; Daniel Noble, Wil. liamstown; 1319-20, Caleb Hyde, Lenox; Phineas Allen, Pittsfield; IS21. Phineas Allen, Pittsfield; Lemuel Moffit, West Stockbridge; 1822, Lemuel Moffitt, WoR Stock. bridge; Jonathan Allen, Pittsfield; 1823. Jonathan Allen, Pittsfield; George Hull. Sandisfield; 1824, George Hull, Sandisfield; Rodman Hazard, Hancock; 1825. Rodman Hazard, Hancock ; Samuel Shears, Sheffield ; 1326, Sonuel Shears, Sheffield; Peter Briggs, Adams; 1827, Peter Briggs, Adams; Joseph B. Hill, West Stockbridge; 1828, Charles Mattoon, Lenox; Robert F. Barnard, Sheffield: 1529. Robert F. Barnard, Sheffield; Samuel Mckay, Pittsfield; 1835, Russel Brown. Cheshire; Samuel Mckay, Pittsfield; 1831-32, Russell Brown, Cheshire; Willburr Curtis, Egremont; 1833-34, Thomas B. Strong, Pittsfield; Edward Stevens, New Marlboro; 1835, Henry Shaw, Lanesboro; William Porter jr., Lee: 1836. Russel Brown, Cheshire; Joseph Fitch, New Marlboro; 1637. Henry H. Childs, Plusseld : Joseph Fitch, New Marlboro; 1838-39. Lester Filley, Ous; Stephen B, Brown, Adams; 1840, Russell Brown, Cheshire; Increase Sumner, Great Barrington; 1841. William C. Plunkett. Adams; William Williams, Stockbridge; 18;2. Thomas F. Plunkett, Pittsfield: Trerense Summer, Great Barrington; 15;3, Thomas F Plunkett. Pittsfield; Ira Curtis, Shetfield; 1344, Henry H. Cook, Lenox; Asahel Buck jr.,
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Lanesboro; 1845, Asahel Foote, Williunstown; Charles W. Hopkins. Great Barring- ton; 1846-47, Samuel A. Hulbert, Lee; Thomas A. Bowen, Adams; 1848, Charles H. Plunkett, Hinsdale, John 2. Goodrich, Stockbridge: 1849. John 7. Goodrich, Stockbridge; William Phelps, Lenox; 1850, Henry L. Dawes, Adans; Nathaniel Benjamin, Egremont; 1851, Asa G. Welch, Lee; Richard P. Brown, Egremont; 1852, James T. Robinson, dums; Richard P. Brown, Egremont: 1853, Henty H. Cook, Lenox: Ensign H. Kellogg, Pittsfield; 185;, Jonathan E. Field, Stockbridge; Ensign H. Kellogg, Pittsfield: 1855. Billings Palmer, Great Barrington; Andrew A. Rich- mond, Adams; 1856, Benjamin F. Mills, Williamstown; William Taylor, Lee; 1857, Henry I .. Sabin, Williamstown; William Taylor, Lec; 1855, Zenas M. Crane, Dalton; John Branning, Lee; 1859, James T. Robinson, Adams; John Branning, Lec; 1500, Samuel B. Sumner, Great Barrington; Lansing J. Cole, Cheshire; 1661, Lansing J. Cole, Cheshire; Orlo Burt, Sandisfield: 1862, Thomas F. Planken, Pittsfield; Orlo Burt, Sandisfield: 1863-64. Jonathan E. Field, Stockbridge; Edwin F. Jenks, Adam ; 1865, Jonathan E. Field, Stockbridge; Paul A. Chadbourne, Williamstown; 1865. Joseph Tucker, Lenox; Paul A. Chadbourne, Williamstown; 1867. Samuel W. Bow- erman, Pittsfield; Joseph Tucker, Lenox; 1868, Sameer W. Bowermin, Pittsfield; Marshal Wilcox, Lee; 1869. Charles J. Kittredge, Hinsdale; Richmond Kingmin, Cummington; 1870, Charles J. Kittredge, Hinsdale; Joseph A. Benjamin. Egremont; 1871, Richard Goodman, Lenox; Shepard Thayer, Adams; 1872, Shepard Thayer, Adams; Elisha H. Brewster, Worthington; 1873-74, Edward Learned, Pittsfield; Prentiss C. Baird, Lee; 1875, Lysander J. Orcutt, Cummington; William H. Phillips, Pittsfield: 1876, Byron Weston, Dalton; Norman W. Shores, Lee; 1877, Ensign H. Kellogg, Pittsfield; Harrison Garfield, Lee; 1878, Horace J. Canfield, Stockbridge; Frederick P. Brown, Adams; 1879. Dallas J. Dean, Adams; Justin Dewey, Great Barrington; 1880, James W. Dwyer, North Adams; Elizur Smith, Lee; 1881, Fran- cis W. Rockwell, Pittsfield; Elizur Smith, Lee; 1882, Francis W. Rockwell, Pittsfield; John M. Seeley, Great Barrington; 1883, Foster E. Swift, North Adams; John M. Seeley, Great Barrington; 18844-85, S. Proctor Thayer, North Adams; Herber: C. Joyner, Great Barrington.
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