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In 1843 Mr. Wilder conveyed an acre to Thomas Nims, who held the title for Luceba, the wife of Dr. Samuel Stearns, who built there the house lately owned by Joseph P. Felton, opposite to his residence. Mr. Wilder also sold to the First Congregational Society of Greenfield, the lot on which they erected their parsonage.
From the southwest corner of land on the east side of the Leyden road, Pliny Martindale conveyed land to Dwight Bullock, on which he built his home.
What has been known for a hundred years or more as the Martindale farm belonged in early times to Richard Catlin, John Denio, John Denio, Jr., Jonathan Catlin and Matthew
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Severence. Lemuel Martindale settled in Greenfield in 1762. His son Uriah succeeded to the place, and his son Theodore succeeded him. Several of the sons of Uriah Martindale were interested in wool and woolen mills. They owned the mills on the east side of Green river, just below the Wiley & Russell Company dam, which were swept away in the flood of 1836. Uriah Martindale manufactured brick quite exten- sively, on the land sold by him to Samuel Wilder, advertising I 50,000 for sale in 1830. Pliny D. Martindale, a soldier of the War of the Rebellion, inherited the farm from his father, Theodore, but since his death it has come into the hands of John W. Bragg, who runs it as a dairy farm. The old house stood just south of the present brick one which was built by Uriah and Theodore Martindale.
The five acre place, on the west side of the road, just north of the Martindale house came from off the Jonathan Smead farm, and the first house was built on it by David Lanfair, in 1843. His brother Elmer lived there several years.
John Graves, son of Daniel, born in 1739, only escaped capture or death by his good running powers, when his father was killed by Indians at Country Farms in 1756. He prob- ably built the Seth S. Newton house recently demolished, and here were born his sons, Eli and Luther, to whom in 1809 he conveyed that farm and the one lying north of it, now owned by Charles B. Wells. The ell part of the old house which stood on the north farm was formerly a distillery. In 1817 Eli and Luther made a division of their interests, Eli taking the south and Luther the north farm. Luther went to Duxbury, Vermont, about 1834. Eli was the father of Dea- con John J. Graves, who will be remembered by the older people of the town. Eli sold his farm in 1833 to Reverend Amariah Chandler, who transferred an interest in it to his son, H. Satterlee Chandler, and in 1842 they sold it to John and Curtis Newton who kept it two years and sold it to their brother, Obed Newton, who had been living in Colrain. It
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came from Obed Newton to his son, Seth S., who has lately disposed of it to George Shearer.
In 1826 Luther Graves sold his portion of the old farm to Jonathan Smead, his neighbor, who conveyed it to Jonathan Smead, Jr., in 1843, and he resided there until his death. In 1872 his heirs conveyed it to J. Henry Smead, one of the sons of Jonathan, Jr., and the family built the present house, and in 1874 sold the place to Charles B. Wells, the present owner.
The original Jonathan Smead, of Greenfield, born in 1707, son of Ebenezer of Deerfield, lived and died on Irish Plain. His son Jonathan, born in 1735, soldier in the French and Indian wars, lived on the place on the Leyden road now owned by Horace A. Smead. The second Jonathan willed this farm to his son Jonathan, the third of the name, who was born in 1773. He had a son Jonathan (the fourth of that name) to whom he gave the farm on the east side of the road, before described. The old homestead, Jonathan, 3d, con- veyed to his son, Deacon Charles L. Smead, in 1843. The present house was built in 1840. His son, Reverend George L. Smead, obtained the title in 1877, and in 1890 sold the place to the present owner, Horace A. Smead.
Lyman A. Nash built the house lately owned by William S. Andrews, about 1840, the place having been occupied by an old house owned by Benjamin Walker, who sold it to Jonathan Smead in 1821, and Smead conveyed it to Mr. Nash in 1839. The farm was made up from several tracts of land purchased from Ebenezer Allen in 1805 and Benjamin Walker in 1814, by Eber Nash. The " Hinsdale farm " on the east side of the road was purchased in 1840 by Lyman A. Nash, who was the only son of Eber Nash. There was for- merly an old log house on the Hinsdale farm, lying upon the east side of the highway. Frank L. Nash inherited this farm from his father, Lyman A., and in 1890 sold it to Mr. An- drews, who has recently sold it to Haven A. Mowry.
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About ten rods southerly from the Country Farms school- house, on the east side of the road, there stood a house a cen- tury ago known as the Bush place, and at one time William Grennell lived in it. J. P. Felton purchased the twelve acre lot it stood upon, in 1855, of Anson Hillman. Before that time it had been owned by Lucius T. Sage and Charles T. Sage. The land is now a portion of the Alonzo Graves farm. On the west side of the road, nearly opposite, in the pasture of Clarence M. Cobb, is an old cellar hole, but I have never been able to learn the name of any person known to have lived there.
Among the large landed possessions of Mehuman Hins- dale, or drawn on his rights in the first division of land north of Cheapside and east of Green river, were lots Nos. 76 and : 88, containing 160 acres. These lots and thirty-six acres ad- joining were conveyed by his heirs Samuel and Ariel Hins- dale in 1791 to Colonel Samuel Wells, and he owned the same at his decease.
In 1840 his son and executor, Alfred Wells, conveyed the rights of Colonel Wells's heirs to Lyman A. Nash, and the same year Mr. Nash reconveyed the same to Alfred Wells in his individual capacity. Mr. Wells resided on the place until 1855, when he sold it to Joseph P. Felton, who lived there until 1864, and then sold to John M. Forbes. The next year Mr. Forbes conveyed the farm to Alonzo Graves, who, with two of his sons, still own it and reside there, having built a new house and large and convenient barns. The original road laid in 1736, from the town plot to " ye north end of ye bounds," ran along the brow of the hill northeast of the present buildings, while the Country Farms schoolhouse formerly stood a few rods east of the present one, and the highway to Ley- den passed it on the east side and continued down the hill, just north of the present farm buildings of Mr. Graves.
In 1787 Ebenezer Graves came into possession of several tracts of land in the Country Farm district. His sons, Job
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and Ebenezer, Jr., inherited from him and obtained other lands by purchase. Ebenezer, Jr., according to tradition, had a log house about where the home of Clarence M. Cobb now stands. In 1833 he conveyed that land to Ariel Hinsdale. Hinsdale commenced to build the house now the home of Mr. Cobb, but before finishing it sold the farm in 1835 to the writer's maternal grandfather, Captain Edward Adams, of Colrain. In 1845 my grandfather deeded his farm to my oldest brother, Edward A. Thompson, who was to him like an adopted son, and at his decease the estate came to my father, John Thompson. At his death the other heirs quit- claimed their interest to John W. Thompson, and in 1856 he conveyed the farm to Anson K. Warner. Eight years after, Mr. Warner sold the place to Sylvester W. Hall, and in 1865 Mr. Hall conveyed to John Sanderson, who sold it to the present owner, Clarence M. Cobb, in 1889.
A little north of this place on the east side of the road is a piece of land which was formerly swampy, on which was con- siderable timber, which Jonas Moore in 1844 conveyed to Justin Root; two years later Mr. Root sold it to Albert H. Nims; Mr. Nims in 1847 to Edward A. Thompson; with the rest of his estate it passed to John W. Thompson, who purchased a small house and moved it to the north end of the land, and in this house Timothy Keefe raised his large family of children, and purchased the greater part of this lot in 1860, of the late Anson K. Warner. Mr. Keefe sold the farm to Walter C. Smith, the present owner, in 1892.
Job Graves and Moses Graves were sons of Ebenezer Graves, before mentioned, and inherited in part the Country Farms land. Moses never married and died in 1846, aged eighty-four years. Job died in 1845, aged eighty-nine years. He willed his real estate to his son Horace. This family of Graves were intermarried into the Sage and Pickett families, and through descent and sale in 1860 the farm owned by both Job and Moses Graves became the property of Job G.
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Pickett, who now owns it. Fifty years ago there were two small houses near the Leyden road, on this land, Mr. Pickett's present house being built about 1840.
Abner Arms, born in 1731, early settled on land drawn by his father Daniel, in the division of lands north of Cheapside and east of Green river, and built his home on what is known as the S. B. Slate farm. His sons Solomon and Guy seem to have taken a large share of his estate and Solomon suc- ceeded to the home place where he died about 1843. His only son died young, and his daughter Harriet married San- ford Billings, who lived on the place a few years, until his wife's decease, when the farm in 1849 was sold to Dwight Bullock. It came into the hands of John W. Buddington in 1861, who sold it to Seorem B. Slate in 1866. Mr. Slate resided here until he sold the farm to the present owner, Frank E. Rice, in 1893.
Guy Arms, the brother of Solomon, took for his portion the farm now owned by the town and occupied as a home for its poor. Guy Arms undoubtedly built the old part of the house now standing. He sold in 1823 to Jonas Moore, who came from Marlboro, Vt., and was the father of Jonas W. Moore who lately died in town, having reached a very great age. Justin Root married the daughter of Jonas Moore, and in 1844 took a deed of the farm and in 1847 conveyed it to the town. The town built the newer part of the old poor- house, and moved the barn to its present location, from the west side of the old road. Recently a large and convenient almshouse has been built by the town.
Asher Corse, son of James the old hunter and tavern keeper, born in 1737, settled on the well known Larrabee farm. He had two sons and three daughters. His oldest daughter, Clarissa, married Timothy Larabee. Their son John settled in Milwaukee, and at that place was born to him a child, by him named Milwaukee Harriet, who was the first white child born at Milwaukee. Asher, the other son and his wife, Lucy
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Grennell, died in 1814, and Asher, Sr., made provision for their nine orphan children in his will. He gave the farm to his grandson, Hart Larrabee, who lived there until his death in 1853. Eber N., the youngest son of Captain Hart, suc- ceeded to most of the landed estate of his father, and still resides on the premises.
Hart Larrabee, Jr., removed to Illinois, and sold the most of his share of his father's farm in 1854 to Samuel Lillie. He conveyed this land the same year to Patrick Dooley, who purchased some additional land of Eber N. Larrabee, and dying, his heirs in 1869 sold the place to Henry L. Pickett. Mr. Pickett made this his home until his death, and his ad- ministrator sold the place in 1892 to Frank N. Pickett. Arthur B. Cromack is the present owner.
The Pratt farm, now owned by Levi L. Fiske, was owned by Stephen Pratt about one hundred years ago. At his decease in 1813 it passed by will to his son, Jeremiah, who in 1856 conveyed it to his son, Stephen L. Pratt. In 1876 it came into the hands of D. Orlando Fiske, who sold it to Everett W. Miner, and Miner conveyed to Levi L. Fiske in 1886.
Elijah Dix, Oliver Atherton and Joseph Nash sold land to Amos Parsons between the years 1790 and 1804, which made up the Nathaniel Black farm.
The portion which came from Oliver Atherton, had been previously owned by John McMard, who built the first house about 1782, and from him McMard brook took its name. His sons William and Joseph sold to Atherton, and Mr. Parsons in 1838 sold this farm to Reuben Kenney, who resided there until 1851, when he sold it to his son-in-law, Noble P. Phillips. Mr. Phillips lived on the place until 1884 and sold to Nathaniel Black, who is the present owner.
Lot 55 in the division of the common lands was drawn by Samuel Barnard. Samuel Barnard, Jr., conveyed this to Jeremiah Newton in 1791, and Newton sold to Thomas
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Johnson in 1803; Thomas Johnson to Amos Parsons in 1809, and Amos Parsons to Isaac Barton in 1836. Mr. Barton started the tanning business, and his son, Lyman G. Barton, succeeded to the farm and business. He sold to Manley D. Carpenter, the present owner, in 1891.
The John S. Allen place was deeded by John Strickland to David Strickland in 1797. David Strickland conveyed to Daniel, Seth and Asaph Smead in 1814, and the Smeads to Isaac Barton in 1827, Isaac to his brother David in 1840, and it finally came into the hands of John S. Allen in 1858, and was owned by Mr. Allen at his decease and by his sons ever since.
Before the " new road " from the John S. Allen place to Bernardson was cut through, there was a road leading from the Log Plain road, a few rods east of the railroad to what was known as the Joab Scott place. This was the ancient Ather- ton place, which Oliver Atherton in 1798 conveyed to his son Joseph. The other heirs released in 1809 and Joseph and Horace Atherton conveyed to Joab Scott in 1829. He resided here until 1856 when the executor of his will sold the farm to Israel P. Hale and his sons. While Joab Scott held the title, in 1838, he sold to Isaac Barton, Sr., a portion of the farm, which was purchased from his executor by Leonard Barton and sold in 1852 to Francis M. Scott; Scott sold this part in 1858 to John S. Allen, who sold it the same year to Lewis Fowler; Fowler sold to Albert B. Clark and Ziba Leonard in 1865 ; the next year Clark sold out his interest to Horatio Leonard ; Ziba Leonard also sold to his son Horatio, who died in 1891 and willed said estate to his wife, Ellen S. Leonard. The Hales and Seorem B. Slate sold the other portion of the Scott farm in 1868 to John A. Adams, and in 1874 it passed into the hands of Charles W. Leighton, who has greatly improved the estate by the erection of fine buildings.
The " Barney Snow " place, the last house in Greenfield on
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the old stage road, was owned before 1800 by Obed Wells, tanner. He was drowned at Gardners Island in 1809. He had conveyed in 1808 his farm to his son Patrick who followed - the trade of tanner, on this farm. After a few years the tannery was given up, the old building cut in two, one part moved to the Rufus Phillips place, and the other was sold with two acres of land on the corner opposite the old L,og Plain schoolhouse, to one Israel Smith in 1811, but like its owner, it has passed away. Patrick Wells had financial trouble and in 1823 the farm was sold by the sheriff to Calvin Fris- bie. In 1832 he sold to Israel Phillips, and Phillips to David Carpenter in 1836, and Carpenter to Barnabas Snow in 1852. Mr. Snow lived on the farm until his death by accident in 1899, since which time his son Israel B. Snow has pur- chased the interest of the other heirs.
In 1844 David Carpenter sold the place on the west side of the road to his son Ira Carpenter, who conveyed it to Elihu Osgood in 1852, and at his death in 1885, Mr. Osgood willed it to his son, Elihu C. Osgood, who with his son now owns it. This farm was formerly the Captain Isaac Newton place ; he was the father of Isaac Newton, 2d, who built the Mansion House. A sketch of Captain Newton's public services will be found in another place.
Adjoining the Snow farm on the south is the ancient Atherton place originally conveyed by Ebenezer Barnard to Jonathan Atherton in 1824, and described as having been drawn on the shares of Benjamin Munn and Samuel Barnard. Jonathan and Zora Atherton in 1837 conveyed to Francis N. Snow, and he to Justus Bassett in 1840. Justus Bassett sold to Stephen Gore in 1840 and in 1847 it was purchased from him by William B. Coburn, who in 1859 sold it to Warren Osgood. In 1867 Warren Osgood conveyed a half interest to his son, Warren S. Osgood, and dying in 1878, he willed his remaining portion to him. Mr. Osgood sold the place in 1885 to Alfred W. Powling and he in 1892 sold it to the
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present owner, Dan C. Willard. An old cellar hole, a few rods south of the present house, was once covered with a portion of the old tannery building moved from the Snow farm.
On the west side of the stage road, just north of its junction with the Log Plain road (called the proprietors road), stood for many years the old Log Plain schoolhouse. The house now standing just west of the dry bridge over the Boston & Maine railroad was built about 1848 by Thomas Hillman. When fifteen years old the author hauled all the sawed material for this house from the old Glen sawmill.
In 1793 Captain Oliver Sage obtained from Samuel Doane Cook,* thirty-seven acres of land, but the particular piece with the buildings thereon came to him in 1814, from Dr. Alpheus F. Stone, and the doctor had it from Noah Fox in 1810. Cap- tain Sage also bought other lands, one piece of fifty acres from Ebenezer Ames in 1812. He conveyed his farm to his son Lucius T. Sage in 1844, and at his decease it was sold by his executor to Samuel J. Lyons in 1874, and by him con- veyed to Oliver W. Sage, son of Captain Sage, the same year. In 1883 Oliver W. Sage sold the home place to Minerva S. Bascom who has since owned it.
The Charles C. Phillips place on the west side of the road was sold to Adaline B. Phillips, by Lucius T. Sage, in 1860, the old house built by Allen Atherton standing thereon at that time. Charles C. Phillips built the present house, and it passed into the hands of Luther B. Franklin in 1895, and he sold it to Henry H. Straw in 1899.
Ephriam Hubbard owned land on the east side of the stage road as early as 1795. Joseph Severance, hatter, married one of his daughters, and in 1820 purchased the interest of the other heirs of the Hubbard estate. In 1855 Pliny Sev- erance conveyed to Ira Carpenter, and in 1887 his widow and heirs conveyed to John C. King, who now resides there.
* Samuel Doane Cook came from Durham, Conn., about 1764.
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The little place lately owned by Williams Chambers was the hatter's shop of Joseph Severance, and passed through his hands and the hands of Pliny Severance, Wass Hilman, Ol- iver Warner and William P. Warner, to William Chambers, who took the title in 1870.
The place late the home of Russell F. Pease is a portion of the large farm deeded to Lieutenant John Clark, the old Revolutionary soldier, by Seth Catlin, David Smead, Consider Arms, John Williams and Elijah Billings in 1782, and kept as a tavern by Lieutenant Clark for many years. He sold to Jonathan Bacon in 1804. Bacon was a prominent man in town affairs, and lived here until 1820 when he sold to Walter Brown .* Walter Brown sold to Chester Bascom in 1825, and until 1876 this was known as the Bascom place. Chester Bascom sold the blacksmith shop and the water privilege to Russell F. Strickland, and he made edge tools here for some . years.
He also sold to Barnard A. Newell in 1845 land around the pond, near the house now owned by Joseph Meeks, which was formerly the home of Alexander Ryther. In 1868 Joseph P. Felton bought up all the rights of Chester Bascom's heirs, and sold the farm to Chester A. Bascom. He conveyed the place to Pliny D. Martindale in 1876, and Martindale sold it to John F. Carbee in 1883. Carbee lived here several years, and sold it to Josephine C. Mowry in 1890. The same year Mr. Meeks purchased a portion and added it to his summer home, and in 1891 Mrs. Mowry sold the place to Frederick A. Lamb, who built the new buildings. Mr. Lamb conveyed it in 1899 to Russell F. Pease.
Mr. Meeks's brickhouse and two acres of land were sold by the administrator of the estate of Russell F. Strickland, in 1838, to Jared Newell and by him the same year to Barnard A.
* Reverend David Bacon, son of this Jonathan, born in Greenfield and then a min- ister in Kentucky, was in Greenfield in September, 1868, visiting his old home which he left forty-eight years before.
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Newell, who in 1850 deeded it to Electa Ryther, Mrs. New- ell's mother, and at her decease it was willed by her to her three daughters, Mary R. Newell, Martha E. Burrows and Sarah M. Remington, who in 1883 conveyed it to Mr. Meeks.
The well known Barnard A. Newell place was owned in 1805 by his father, David Newell. A part of it was owned in 1790 by William and Joseph McHard, who deeded it to Oliver Atherton, who conveyed it to Gideon Daggett in 1795 and he sold it to Mr. Newell. In 1832 Mr. Barnard A. Newell, having returned from the south, where he had been successfully engaged in stage routes, purchased the home farm from his father, and built the beautiful residence which he occupied until his death in 1866. By his will this estate passed to his widow, Mary R. Newell, and from that time until her death in 1897, she continued to reside at the old farm. By her will she gave the farm to her friend who had been her companion for many years, Olive F. Knowlton, who has since married Horace Parmenter, and they continue on the premises.
The little farm of Thomas Hillman once belonged to Thomas Wetmore, and in 1834 was sold by him to Wass Hillman, and by him in 1843 to his son Thomas, who still owns it. He was born in 1815 and well remembers the old meetinghouse.
What is known as the Willard Bullard place was sold by Joseph Phillips in 1795 to Ephraim Hubbard. Ephraim Hubbard's heirs sold to Epentetus Reed in 1828, and the same year he conveyed it to John Lyons who owned it until 1838, when he sold to Samuel Jennings. Mr. Jennings made this his home until 1850 when John M. Forbes purchased it, and sold it in 1854 to Willard Bullard. This was Mr. Bul- lard's home during the remainder of his life, and at his decease his heirs sold the farm to Josephine C. Mowry, who in 1899 conveyed it to Nelson Kulya, who is the present owner.
The Merriam place came from Samuel Pickett to Dorus
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Bascom in 1824, and from him to Rejoice Newton in 1826, Joel W. Merriam purchasing it of Mr. Newton in 1835. Mr. Merriam died in 1856 and Freedom Merriam succeeded to it and her heirs conveyed it to Ophelia M. Fairman in 1892.
The Lemira Hicks place was purchased by her of Willard Bullard in 1863. Mr. Bullard bought it of Seth C. Smith in 1853, he getting title from John Reddington the same year, Reddington getting his title from the heirs of George Adams, who purchased it of Edward Holt in 1842. Holt got his title from Varney Spaulding in 1837.
Asher Newton, a blacksmith, about one hundred years ago had a shop on the east side of the stage road on the corner south of Lover's Lane. His home was on the farm now occupied by Mark Bullard, which he purchased from Joshua Rugg in 1795. In 1812 he leased to Samuel Pickett, Ben- jamin Hastings and Jerothrum Strickland a piece four rods square on the west side of the road, just above the little brook which comes from the old "Indian spring," on which they built a distillery. This was known as the " Pickett still " for many years. Asher Newton sold to Rufus Lyons in 1819, and Lyons the same year to Samuel Pickett, Jr. While Pickett owned it he sold off the little pieces on the north, and the remainder became a part of the great Pickett farm.
Samuel Pickett, Sr., came here from Durham, Conn., and was one of the early settlers of the town, and owned much land. In 1829 he sold the old homestead, now known as the Luke Bullard place, to Benjamin F. Pickett and Aaron Spaulding. In 1831 Spaulding bought the interest of his part- ner, and in 1838 sold the farm to George Adams. In 1843 Adams sold to Edward F. Henry, and in 1846 he sold to Smith S. Bellows. Bellows in 1847 to Samuel M. Wood and Wood to Francis Sessions in 1848. Mr. Sessions conveyed it to Silas Bullard in 1859. Mr. Bullard at his death in 1882 willed the northerly part of the farm, which was formerly
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Asher Newton's, to his son Mark Bullard, and the home farm to his son Luke, and Laura H., the widow of Luke, now owns it and lives there.
The ten acre place formerly the home of John Chapin was a portion of the above described farm, and was sold by Aaron Spaulding in 1837 to John W. Alexander ; he sold it in 1852 to Henry Severance, and Severance in 1855 to Moses S. Chapin ; and the same year he conveyed it to John Chapin, who owned the shop on the east side of the road, which he used for marble work. John Chapin's heirs sold it in 1892 to Clifford Beurbeau.
The Billings or Damon L. Fay farm was owned in 1784 by William Clark and he conveyed it that year to Joshua Rugg, who was called " Dr." Rugg. The doctor sold it in 1801 to Daniel Wells ; he in 1807 to William Tryon ; Tryon in 181 I to Ephraim Hubbard ; Hubbard in 1812 to Sylvanus Burn- ham ; Burnham in 1816 to Amos Davis ; Davis in 1822 to Rufus Lyons ; Lyons in 1823 to Zebina Billings. Mr. Bil- lings made this his home until his death. He and all his children were fine singers. The farm came to his son, Henry F. Billings, who in 1852 built the present house. Afterwards it became the property of Colonel Aretas Ferry ; in 1877 the Ferry estate conveyed it to Damon L. Fay who is the present owner. A portion of the farm came to Mr. Billings from Patrick Wells in 1812, and two and one half acres and an old house from Samuel Pierce in 1818.
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