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be legally appointed in the manner herein before set forth, and authorized to act in their stead.
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix my scal the day and year before written. OLIVER SMITH and Seal.
Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who in his presence, aud at his request, and in presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses.
CHARLES PHELPS. THEOPHILUS P. PHELPS. CHARLES P. PHELPS.
WHEREAS, I, OLIVER SMITH, by my last Will and Testament executed on the fifteenth day of July, A. D. 1844, have appropriated certain funds for the several purposes therein specified-and whereas I now deem it expedient to modify some of the provisions in regard to the investment and management thereof ;
I do by this CODICIL, direct that the fund of Two HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS established by the fourth Section of said Will as an accumulating fund shall be always kept loaned and invested in good and safe bonds, secured by good and sufficient mortgages on real estate; and that all the accruing interest and income therefrom-together with the growing income from such accumulation, shall from year to year be loaned and invested in the same manner, so far as the same can be safely done in the judgment of said Board of Trustees. And whenever in their opinion it shall be unsafe, or become impracticable so to invest such excess, or increased accumulation, or any part thereof, the same may be then invested in all, or in any, of the following Stocks, to wit, the Stocks of the Government of the United States -the Stocks of the following separate States, to wit, New York, Massachu- sets, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Vermont-and also the Stocks of the following cities, viz. New York, Boston and Albany-and in such pro- portions of all, or either, as the Trustees shall think proper.
The "Contingent Fund" established in the fifth Section of said Will-or any portion thereof-may also be at the discretion of said Trustees, be invested in good bonds, and mortgages, or in any or all of the Stocks above specified. But no portion of the above mentioned funds shall ever be invested in any other kind of Stocks whatever.
The Funds appropriated for the "Agricultural School"' and the "Coloniza- tion Society" may be invested in such way and manner as in the judgment of the Trustees shall best secure the two great objects-safety and productiveness.
And I do hereby revoke, and declare null and void, all such portions of my said Will as contravene the provisions of this Codicil.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my name and seal this thir- teenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
OLIVER SMITH and Seal.
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Testator as a Codicil to be annexed to his last Will and Testament, and to be taken as part thereof, in presence of us, Who at his request, in his presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto.
CHARLES PHELPS. THEOPHILUS P. PHELPS. CHARLES P. PHELPS.
INDEX.
SUBJECTS AND PLACES.
Abenakis Indians, 161.
Academies, see Deerfield, Greenfield, Hopkins, and Smith Academies. "Account of the desolation of Deer- field," 150. Acetylene lights, 239. Acts of Parliament, 187. Adams, 167.
Adventures of Jonathan Wells, 463-6. Agawam Indians, 72.
Agricultural School, see Smith's
School.
Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of, 175.
Albany, 88, 93, 94, 95, 96, 157, 158, 159. - Indians, 119, 120, 122. Allegiance, Oath of, 106.
Almanac, The Farmer's, 209. Altar in St. Joseph's Church, 347, 349. American Bible Society, 237, 309.
Board of Commissioners for For- eign Missions, 237, 243, 305, 309, 344.
- Colonization Society, 490.
Home Missionary Society, 237, - 309.
Amherst, 183, 198, 199, 217, 272, 486. - College, 178, 237, 243, 354. - Gas Company, 239. Ammunition, 118, 155. Amponchus, 48. Anecdotes :
- Aunt Patie, 285. - Tom Banks and his master, 280.
- The constable vs. Solomon Graves, 213.
- Grace of the ex-slave, 197.
- Joseph Guild and Gen. Washing- ton, 289-90.
- A horse led upstairs, 196.
- The parson's prayer at the bridge, 215.
- Prayers for King George III., 282. - The schoolboy reader, 248. - Seating the meetinghouse, 251. Anniversary of Rev. C. J. Boylan, 349. Anti-federalists, 202. Apples, 146.
Appendix, 459-96.
Apprentices, 110, 490-3. Architecture, 141-2.
Archives, 7, 164, 190, 238, see also Records. Arithmetic, 110, 111. Art, 141.
Ashfield, 168, 198.
Ashuelot, N. H., 151, 152, 173.
- Equivalent, 173.
- Grants, 173. Assessments, 103, 111, 126, 129, 146, 195, 240. Assessors, 103, 129, 140.
Attacks by Indians, see under Indi- ans.
Attorneys, 104. "Aunt Beck," 205-7, 256.
Austria, Immigrants from, 234. Automobile supplies, Manufacture of, 319, 365. Awakening, The Great, 170.
Back log, 252.
Baker's Ferry road, 48, 205.
Bands, 214, 227.
Banks' Corner, 135, 280, 311.
- road, Houses on, 312.
Baptism, 459-60.
Baptists, 243.
Barbers, 284. Barley, 137.
"Bars, The," at Deerfield, 85.
Barnet, Vt., 156. Bashan, 47, 118, 142. Battles with the Indians, 80, 81, 84-5, 152-3.
Baxter's "Saint's Rest," 209. Bayonets, First use of, 176.
Bay path, 74, 167.
Bay State Screw Company, 319, 365. Beef, 167, 195, 211.
Beer, 146, 212.
Belchertown, 198. Belfry, 169, 251, 252, 297, 345. Bells, 114, 139, 169, 213, 251, 252. Berkshire County, 173, 174, 183, 187. Bernardston, 167, 172, 201.
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HISTORY OF HATFIELD.
"Bever," 257.
Bible, 110, 143, 209, 249, 345.
Bills of credit, 167, 198.
Blackbirds, 126.
Blacksmiths' shops, 67, 100, 144, 255, 265, 269, 293, 303, 318, 321, 338.
Blandford, 172, 198.
Blankets supplied the army, 195.
Blazed trees as highway bounds, 134.
Blockhouses, 167, 172.
Bloody Brook, 79, 81, 151, 159.
"Bloody morning scout," The, 175. Board of Education, 315.
Bohemians, 234.
Bonesetter, 102.
"Book of Martyrs," Fox's, 209.
Books, 143, 209.
Boston, 19, 68, 94, 96, 167, 179, 180, 181, 182, 186, 189, 190, 199, 203, 213, 231. Public Library, 58.
-
- tea party, 182.
Boundaries, 24, 55-6, 57, 127, 248.
Bounties for soldiers, 194-5, 227, 230, 231. on blackbirds and crows, 126. - - on scalps, 122.
Bradstreet's grant or farm, 25, 131, 133, 134, 162.
Bradstreet, Village of, 118, 222, 235. -- Houses in, 332-7.
Brandy, 148, 212.
Brass kettle, 209, 211.
Brattleboro, Vt., 162.
Bridges, 51, 135, 207, 214-7, 275, 306.
Bridge Street, Houses on, 324-5.
British Museum, 106.
British government and ministry, 178, 179, 182, 185, 188.
Broad brook, 363.
Brookfield, 72, 74, 76, 81, 119, 151, 159, 162, 213, 274.
Brook Hollow, 48, 283.
Broom corn, 219, 220, 221, 275, 459.
Brooms, Manufacture of, 219, 220, 275, 299.
Broom scraper, 220.
Brotherhood, Rights of the, 460.
Brunswick, Me., 162.
Bulls, 69, 126. Bunker Hill, 190.
Burning of the fields and woods, 35, 37.
Burying grounds, 61, 108, 168, 197, 223, 296, 315, see also Cemeteries. Business expansion of the eighteenth century, 167.
Calendars, Julian and Gregorian, 22. Cambridge, 19, 20, 186. Camp Miller, 230.
Canada, 15, 88, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 112, 125, 149, 150, 151, 153, 155, 156, .
158, 162, 164, 167, 174, 194, 238, 253, 278. - Military strength of, in 1678, 471. lane, 322.
Canadians, 220.
Candles, candlewood, 144, 212.
Capawonk brook, 27, 35, 46. - meadows, 22, 27, 28, 48, 72, 128. Captives, 80, 89, 90, 92, 93, 95, 97, 119, 121, 150-2, 153, 156-7, 159, 160, 163.
Carpenter's shop, 255.
Carpets first used, 196.
Carriages, 170, 213.
Carriage shop, 293.
Cart path, 74.
Carts, 146.
Catechism, 110, 209, 253.
Catholics, 203, 242, 346.
- and Protestants, Relations be- tween, 347, 349.
Cattle, 37, 69, 71, 88, 126, 129, 137, 195, 203, 213, 219, 230, 236, 253, 350, 459.
- keeper, 69.
Cavalry, 164, see also Hampshire troop.
Cemeteries, 223, 296, see also Burying grounds.
Census, 203, 478.
Chaises, 170.
Chamblé, 95.
Changes, 234, 240.
Champlain, see Lake Champlain.
Chapel at West Hatfield, 238, 325.
Charities, 236-7.
Charlemont, 167, 172, 198.
Charter for Queen's College, 178.
- from William and Mary, 115. Charts of house lots, 43, 67, 108.
Cheese, 212, 213.
Chesterfield, 198.
Chestnut mountain, 109.
- Plain road, 162.
- Street, Houses on, 325-8.
Chicopee, 150.
Children, 110, 251, 253, 257.
Christian Lane, 135.
Churches, Congregational, 62-4. 168, 181, 222, 223, 241, 343-6, 459-60 ; membership, 63, 460.
- St. Joseph's, 316, 346-9.
Clapboards, 37, 146.
Clarke School for the deaf, 354.
Claverack road, 135, 291.
Clock on the church, 297, 345.
Clothier, 266-7.
Cider, 212.
Cider mill, 321, 363.
Civil war, 225-33; roll of soldiers, 231-3.
Coat roll of Revolutionary soldiers, 190.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND PLACES.
Cocked hats, 205, 274. Codfish, 213. Coffin's "History of Newbury," 45. Coinage, 68.
Colleges, 74, 110, 177-8; Graduates of, 362; Preparation for, 112, see also Amherst, Harvard, Mount Hol- yoke, Queen's, Smith, Williams, and Yale colleges. Colonization Society, 263. Colored people, see Negroes.
Colrain, 152, 167, 172.
Commerce, Restrictions on, 179.
Committee of Correspondence, 184.
- Inspection, 186. - Safety, 114, 115, 186, 187, 188.
Common land, 24, 49, 110, 126, 130, 131, 160.
Commons, Division of, in Hatfield, 109, 160, 473-6; in Hadley, 160-1. Compass, 40, 133. Concord, 184, 201.
Conferences with the Indians, 164, 171, 173-4. Confession Act, 198. Congregationalists, 460.
Congress, Continental, 194, 198, 199, 201 - Provincial, 183, 184, 185, 186.
Connecticut, State of, 20, 21, 76, 77, 81, 88, 92, 119, 123, 156, 158, 164, 170.
- river, 20, 33, 34, 51, 87, 214, 459. River Railroad, 224, 325, 339, 341. - valley, 21, 33, 66, 113, 119, 120, 136, 142, 148, 149, 175, 177, 178, 221, 224. Valley Stock Farm, 236.
Constables, 101, 109, 137, 185, 203, 213.
Constitution, Federal, 201, 202, 218. of Massachusetts, 195, 203, 205, 350.
Contributions of Hatfield for various causes, 74, 125, 194, 229. Conventions, 180, 181, 183, 184, 198, 199, 200, 201, 350.
Conway, 198, 199. Cooperation, 241. Corn, 68, 72, 111, 123, 126, 137, 146, 219, 222. Corn mills, 46, 47, 144, 284, 319. Cotton, 145, 146. Council of war, 80. County courts (Hampshire), 8, 62, 122, 141; Sessions of, interrupted, 183, 199.
- commissioners, 74, 102. Courts, see County and General courts, also 183, 198, 199, 201. Cowas, Vt., 156. Cow bridge, 47, 322. Cows, see Cattle.
Creamery, 236. Crescent Pistol Company, 364. Critical period, 200.
Crown Point, 175.
Crows, 126. Cummington, 198.
Curfew, 114.
Currency, 167, 198, 200, 202, 290. Currier's shop, 256.
Dalton, 173, 189. Dame schools, 208, 352.
Dancing, 147. "Deaconing" hymns, 143. Deacons, 108, 137, 344.
Debtors, 198.
Declaration of Independence, 113,
175, 194, 195.
Deeds of land from the Indians, 26-8. Deerfield, Town of, 73, 77, 78, 79, 92, 95, 96, 119, 121, 123, 127, 136, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153-5, 156, 158, 159,
162, 163, 174, 183, 198, 199, 209, 274, 347, 486.
- lane, 117, 134. river, see Pocumtuck river.
Democrats, 249. Denison farm, 25, 27, 109, 118, 131, 132, 133. "Desolation of Deerfield," 150.
Diary of "Aunt Beck," 205-7. - Dr. Thomas Hastings, 150-2. Dickinson Academy, 209.
- Hospital, 14, 237, 243, 341.
Dike, 34.
Distillery, sce Stills, also 284. Ditches, 135, 460.
Divorce, 148.
Doctors, 102, 216, 270, 303, 305, 316.
Door, Scroll and casings of, 302; Illustration of, 275.
Dorchester, 20. Dower of bride, 209. Drafts, 227, 229, 231. Drainage of home lots, 34, 460-1.
- swamps, 133. Dress of the Puritans, 141.
- in the eighteenth century, 209. Drinking, 148, 212, 256-8. Dryden's poems read, 209. Dutch traders at Albany, 164. Dummer, see Fort Dummer.
Dwight and Partridge, 256.
Ear marks of the cattle, 69, 70. East Division, 48, 61, 307. Eastern Indians, 161, 164. Education, 13-14, 110-1, 208, 236, 350, 352, 354-5, see also Schools.
"Egg Pop" day, 257. Electors, Presidential, 485.
- under the will of Oliver Smith, 486, 495.
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HISTORY OF HATFIELD.
Electric lights, 239. Elin Street laid out, 108.
- Houses on, 309-15. Elm trees, sec Trees. Ely insurrection, 199, 200. Embargo, Hatfield's attitude toward, 218. Enfield, Conn., 151. Engagers to settle in Hatfield, 23, 24, 25, 29, 39.
Entertainment of strangers forbid- den, 59.
Equipment of soldiers, 117-8.
Estates, 42, 47, 102, 103, 138, 168, 240.
Evangelistic services, 345.
Faculty tax, 195. Falls fight, The, 84-5.
Fall Town, 152, 167.
Fanning mills, 254.
Farmer's Almanac, 209.
Farmington, Conn., 73, 87.
Farm machinery, 234.
"Farms, The," 118, 121, see also Den- ison farm.
Father Rasle's war, 151, 162-5.
Federalists, 202, 249.
Fences, 49, 55, 56, 68, 69, 110, 129, 239, 253.
Fence viewers, 101, 129.
Ferries and ferrymen, 300.
Fifty pound lots, 47. Field drivers, 129.
Fines, 100, 110, 141.
Fire companies, 240.
Firelocks, 117.
Fitch Brothers, 219, 284, 319, 363.
Fitch Brothers and Porter, 363.
Flagstaff raised, 225.
Flax, 145, 167, 211.
Flintlocks, 117.
Flints, 156.
Flip and flip iron, 212, 257. Floods, 37, 136, 461.
Flowers, 142-3.
Forbes Library, 7.
Foreigners, 242.
Forestry, Town system of, 240.
Forests, Annual burning of, 35, 37.
Fortifications, 81, 82, 100, 117, 118, 149, 155. Fort Dummer, 151, 162, 167, 170, 172. - Edward, 176. - Lyman, 176. - Massachusetts, 167, 172, 173, 175, 177.
- Pelham, 167, 172. Shirley, 167, 172. Sumter fired on, 225.
Forts built across the frontier, 166, 167. Fox's "Book of Martyrs," 209. Framingham, 213.
Freeman's oath, 58. Freemen, 42, 58-9.
French, 81, 95, 96, 116, 119, 150, 152, 153, 156, 157, 162, 164, 176, 177, 179. - and Indian wars, 151, 166, 172, 173, 174, 175, 180, 256. -Canadian settlers, 220, 346. river, 158. Fruits, 146. Fulling mill, 145. Funeral customs, 148.
Galleries in the meetinghouse, 60, 138, 168, 250, 345.
Garrisons, 79, 84, 100, 116, 123, 149, 156, 159, 164, 172.
Gas plant, 239, 319. Gates, 253, 267, 279, 290. 293.
Gauger of casks, 105, 129.
Gazette, see Hampshire Gazette.
General Court, 24, 25, 51, 53, 54, 57, 66, 72, 102, 106, 115, 119, 120, 122, 123, 127, 130, 133, 146, 158, 163, 168, 173, 177, 180, 182; 184, 189, 198, 199, 200, 201, 214, 217, 218, 257, 484.
Germans, 224, 346. Gill, 84.
Girls, Schooling of, 111, 208, 249, 352 Glass, 45, 60, 138, 195.
Goodwin lot, 82, 107.
Goshen, 198.
Governors of Massachusetts men- tioned, 19, 25, 97, 114, 115, 195, 350.
Grain used for currency, 167.
Grammar schools, 110, see also Hop- kins Grammar School.
Granby, 198. Grants of house lots, 40-3, 46, 60, 66- 7, 108-9, 118, 161.
- by the colonial government, 25. Granville, 198. Great Awakening, The, 170.
- Barrington, 173, 201. Meadow, see North Meadow.
- Pansett or Ponsett, 48, 49, 55, 56.
-
Plain, 168.
- Pond, 27, 132, 134.
Greenfield, 164, 167, 198, 230, 346, 486.
- Academy, 237. Green's "History of England," 143-4. Greenwich, 198. Gregorian calendar, 22. Gristmill, 319, see also Corn mill.
Guns, Manufacture of, 364. Gun shop, 222, 319, 324, 364.
Habeas corpus suspended, 199.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND PLACES.
Hackberry tree, 297. Hadleigh, England, 23, 57.
Hadley, Settlement of, 22, 29; Name, 23; Church in, 23; Rights of in- habitants in, 23; Boundaries, 24, 25, 127-8, 170; Separation of Hat- field from, 50-7, see also 8, 12, 34, 46, 63, 73, 77, 79, 83, 87, 93, 100, 106, 120, 132, 153, 155, 156, 160, 161, 162, 163, 170, 173, 177, 183, 187, 198, 202, 205, 214, 217, 219, 237, 486.
Halfway brook, 72.
"Halfway Covenant," 21.
Hall of Records in Springfield, 8, 27.
Hampshire County, 73, 102, 104, 105, 116, 120, 123, 150, 158, 159, 162, 165, 172, 174, 175, 199, 200. - Gasette, 8, 214, 227, 229, 230. - troop, 74.
Hard times following the Revolu- tion, 198, 207.
Hartford, Conn., 20, 21, 31, 77, 92, 212, 459-60.
Harvard College, 74, 110, 170, 178. Hasty pudding, 253.
Hatfield Addition, 146, 168, 476.
- England, 57, 461-3.
- Equivalent, 168, 477.
- Gas Company, 239.
- woods, 130. Haverhill, 157.
Haydenville, 205, 248. Heath, 167.
Hemp, 146. Herbs, 144, 212.
Herding and herdsmen, 69.
High school, Place of, supplied by Smith Academy, 356.
Highways, 51, 67, 68, 74, 101, 103, 134-5, 204-5, 239, 248.
"Hill, The," 62, 104, 108-9, 117, 126, 128, 130. Hinsdale, 174.
History of American Literature (Tyler), 107.
the Connecticut Valley, 7, 62, 218, 362.
Deerfield (Sheldon), 7, 61, 73, 78, 89, 92, 93, 112, 463.
England (Green), 143-4.
- Hadley (Judd), 7, 22, 58, 78, 87, 122, 147, 160, 459.
- Newbury (Coffin), 45.
Northampton (Trumbull), 7, 106, 200.
- Western Massachusetts (Hol- land), 7, 62. - Whately (Crafts), 7, 161. Whately (Temple), 7, 62, 63, 161. Hogs, 37, 71, 126, 129, 211, 213. Hoosic, 152.
Hopewell Swamp, 119, 122, 131, 132, 133, 134, 161.
Hopkins Academy was the old
Grammar School, 46, 47, 104, 107, 112, 352.
Horn books, 110.
Horse mountain, 205, 286.
Horses, 38, 71, 129, 136, 137, 146, 236, 459.
Housatonic Indians, 11.4.
House lots, First survey of, 40; As- signment of, on the street, 41-4, 66; on "the Hill," 108; on Middle Lane, 109; at "the Farms," 118; Charts of, 43, 67, 108.
Houses, Number of, 106, 240; Style of, 44, 45, 61, 142, 170, 202, 259, 288.
Hundred Years' war, 100.
Husking bees, 147.
Husks used for mattresses, 222.
Hyde and Shattuck, 364. Hymns, 143.
Immigration, 220, 224, 234.
Incorporation of Hatfield, 57.
- Whately and Williamsburg, 191. India, 305, 344.
Indian attacks on Brookfield, 76, 81, 119, 151. Brunswick, Me., 162.
Chicopee, 150.
Deerfield, 78, 79, 81, 92, 119, 149.
Fall Town, 152.
Fort Dummer, 151. fort in the Great Meadow, 152 ..
Hadley, 88. Hatfield, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 87, 88- 90, 121, 150, 162.
Haverhill, 157.
- Lancaster, 81.
Longmeadow, 83.
- Marlboro, 83.
Northampton, 80, 81-2.
Northfield, 78, 81, 151, 163.
Pascommuck fort, 150.
Schenectady, N. Y., 119.
soldiers in a swamp below Sugar Loaf, 78. soldiers at Bloody Brook, 79.
- Springfield, 79, 81.
- Swansea, 76.
Westfield, 81, 151.
- Windsor, Conn., 83.
Indian deeds, 26-8.
- Field, 27, 60.
- fort, 77.
Hollow, 37.
- names, 142.
- tribes, 72, see also Abenakis, Agawam, Albany, Eastern, Hou- satonic, Mohawk, Mohegan, Nar- ragansett, Natick, Niantic, Nip-
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muck, Pequot, Pocumtuck, River, Scatacook, Squakheag, and War- ranoke Indians.
women, 72.
Indians, Purchase of lands from, 27; Characteristics of, 71; Camping grounds of, 72; Numbers of, 73; flee to Canada and New York, 88; encamp in Hopewell Swamp, 119; Trading with, forbidden, 119; tried for murder of Richard Church, 120; declared enemies, 121; Bounty for scalps of, 122; teach the making of maple sugar, 144.
Independence, Declaration of, 175, 195.
- Hatfield votes in favor of, 194.
Indigent minors and widows pro- vided for, in the will of Oliver Smith, 491-5.
"Industry and Prosperity," 14, 459. Industries, Changes in, 214; develop- ment of various kinds of, sec under Brooms and Broom corn, Cattle, Hogs, Horses, Live stock, Manufactures, Onions, Sawmills, Sheep, Silkworms, Tar and Tur- pentine, Teasles, Tobacco. of the home, 144.
Jail at Northampton, Israel Williams and his son confined in, 188. - attacked by a mob, 199. "Jenny Lind elm," 223, 295. Judd manuscript, The, 7. Julian calendar, 22.
Kinderhook, N. Y., 96. King's hill, 126, 132, 300. King Philip's war, 75-98, 152. - Losses in, 81, 99. King William's war, 116-24, 155.
- Expenses of, 122.
- Courts suspended during, 123. Kissing the bride, 147. Knitting, 212-3.
Ladder, Fine for not procuring, 100. Ladies' Benevolent Society, 346. Lake Champlain, 94, 95, 157, 158. - George, 94, 175, 256. Lancaster, 76.
Land speculation, 167. Lathe shop, 319, 365. Laurel park, 72. Law against excess in apparel, 141. Lawsuits, 128, 198. Lead, see Powder and lead. Leaders, 12, 112, 241. Lebanon, Conn., 76. Lecture days, 345. Lee, 173.
Legal Tender Act, 198. Legislature, see General Court.
Letters quoted from Rev. Hope Atherton, 86-7.
Governor Brockholds, 472.
- Timothy Cooper, 470.
- Pres. Timothy Dwight, 202.
- Governor Frontenac, 469, 472.
- Dr. Thomas Hastings, 163.
- Col. Samuel Partridge, 149, 159, 162, 163.
- Maj. John Pynchon, 79, 121, 467. Capt. Sylvester Salisbury, 471.
Quintin Stockwell, 96.
Benjamin Waite, 96.
- Rev. Stephen Williams, 155, 463.
- Dr. Thomas Williams, 176.
- Rev. John Wilson, 473.
- to the colony of Connecticut for aid received in fighting the Indi- ans, 123-4.
to the town of Hadley about the boundaries, 127-8.
Liberia, Plan to colonize, 490.
Library, 143, 238, 250, 294.
Lighting the streets, 239.
Linen, 145-6.
"Lining out" hymns, 143. Linseed oil manufactured, 169. Linsey-woolsey, 145.
Liquor, 104, 148, 256-8.
Lists and tables :
- Books in circulation, 143, 209.
- Bridge proprietors, 217; bridge tolls, 216.
Broom shop proprietors, 220.
Census returns, 478.
Coat roll of Revolutionary sol- diers, 190.
- Contributions of Hatfield women in the Civil war, 229.
Deacons, 344.
- Engagers, or first settlers, 23-4.
- First French settlers, 221; first German settlers, 203, 224; first Irish settlers, 224.
Graduates of colleges, 362; of Smith Academy, 357-62.
- Grain values in 1698, 137.
Inventory of Lieut. William Allis, 103.
Jury on trial of Indian murderers, 120.
- Land, amount divided in the meadows, 49.
- Losses in the wars, 81, 85, 89-90, 150-2, 159-60, 231.
- Militia officers, 101.
Ministers, 343-4.
Oath of allegiance, Signers of, 106.
- Proprietors of Bradstreet farm, 134; of commons in Hadley, 133,
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND PLACES.
160-1; of commons in Hatfield, 473-6; of Denison farm, 118; of Hatfield Equivalent, 477-8; of Hopewell Swamp, 133; of house lots, 43, 67, 108; of Williamsburg Addition or the Three Mile Grant, 476-7.
- Representatives to the General Court, 484-5.
Selectmen, 478-84. Sheep owners in 1699, 125-6.
- Soldiers in Turner's expedition, 85; in rescue expedition to Deer- field, 153-5; in Revolutionary war, 192-4; in War of 1812, 218-9; in Civil war, 231-3.
Teachers in Smith Academy, 356-7. - Tobacco growers, Largest, 235. - Town clerks, 484. Valuation statistics, 129, 240. - Lithuanians, 234.
Little Meadow, 47.
Little Ponsett or Pansett, 48, 49, 55, 56, 132, 279.
Live stock industry, 126, 236.
Livery stable, 308.
Loaf sugar, 213.
Long lots, 47.
Loom, 145, 212.
Lotteries, 215, 258, 306.
Louisburg, Capture of, 166. Lower Ashuelot, 152.
"Lower Going Over," 135.
Lower plain, 48.
Ludlow, 198.
Lunenburg, 152. Lyceums, 223.
Machinery in farm operations, 234. Magistrates, 59.
Maine, Fighting in, 162.
Main Street, Houses on, 253-76, 294- 307. Malt, 146. Malt house, 126. Maltster, 203.
Manufacturing, 219, 220, 222, 254, 275, 299, 363-5.
Map of 1795, 204.
Maple Street, Houses on, 308-9.
Maple sugar and syrup, 144, 212. Market, 318.
Marriage customs, 147.
- fees, 147. - portion, 493. Massachusetts 160 Historical Society,
Massacres, 14, 79, 84, 88-91, 150, 152. Mattresses, Manufacture of, 222. . "McFingal," 254, 262.
Meadows, Division of, 47, see also Amponchus, Capawonk; Little,
North, and South Meadows, Ba- shan, Brook Hollow, Cow bridge, East and Middle Divisions, Fifty pound lots, Great and Little Pon- sett, Indian Field, Indian Hollow, Long lots, Lower plain, New Field, "the Nook," "the Park," "the Plain," Scotland, Thompson lot, Turn of the River, and Upper Hollow.
Meetinghouses, 54, 59, 60, 63, 101, 124, 137-8, 155, 168-9, 189, 249, 250-2, 296-7, 304, 345.
Memorial Hall in Deerfield, 114, 186. - Hatfield, 97, 143, 191, 204, 223, 237-8, 240, 296, 454.
Memorial windows, 345.
Men, Work of, 146, 213.
Men's club, 346.
Meslin, 146. Methodists, 243, 343.
Middle Division, 48.
Middlefield, 174.
"Middle Going Over," 135, 327. Middle Lane, 42, 109, 117, 129, 253, 286 .
Milford, Conn., 204.
Militia and military training, 101, 116, 117, 118, 122, 184-5, 186, 199, 202, 218, 231-3, 254.
"Mill and Meeting," 46.
Mill Lane, see Middle Lane.
Mill river, 27, 35, 363.
Mills, 100, 155, 169.
Mill Swamp, 69, 109, 134, 135, 327.
Ministers, 54, 55, 59, 107, 112, 147, 168, 180, 181, 208, 223, 241, 257, 304, 343-4, 345.
Minister's library, 143. - rate, 102, 137.
- salary, 55, 60, 107, 137, 167, 223, 250. wood, 108. Minute-men, 185, 186, 189.
"Missionary farm," 309.
Missions, 344, 346.
Mobs, 183, 187, 199, 201.
Moccasins, 158. Mohawk Indians, 73, 77, 80, 84, 88, 90, 94, 149, 157, 163, 171, 176.
Money, 123, 137, 167, see also Cur- rency and "Provision pay."
Monson, 198. Montague, 198.
Montreal, 157.
Mormons, 287. Motto of town seal, 14, 459.
Mountain Street, 205, 291. Mount Esther road, 135.
Mount Hope, 76.
- Sugar Loaf, 24.
- Toby, 24, 27, 120. - Warner, 119.
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HISTORY OF HATFIELD.
Muddy Brook, 151. Mulberry trees, 221. Music and musical instruments,
143. Mutton, 167.
Nails for the meetinghouse, 137. Napanset river, 48.
Narragansett Indians, 80, 92.
Natick Indians, 90.
Naval quota in the Civil war, 233.
Negroes, 116, 129, 169, 196, 248, 279, 281, 284, 285, 312, 320.
"New England Primer," 209.
"New England Rarities," 143.
New Field, 48.
New Hampshire, 162, 173, 176.
New Haven, Conn., 169.
Newspapers, 209.
New style reckoning, 22.
New York, 219, 231.
Niantic Indians, 88.
Nipmuck or Nipmet Indians, 72, 76, 92, 93, 122.
Nonotuck, 21, see Norwottuck.
"Nook, The," 48.
Norridgewock, Me., 162, 164.
Northampton, Settlement of, 20; Sale of Capawonk meadows by 22, 28; Boundaries, 24, 26, 127, see also 44, 63, 73, 77, 79, 81, 84, 106, 120, 121, 151, 153, 156, 162, 163, 177, 184, 198, 199, 200, 201, 217, 223, 237, 272, 346, 347, 352, 354, 486.
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