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" We do hereby freely and voluntarily make the following declarations, viz. : That we do wholly and entirely renounce Gen. Gage as a Governor of this prov- înce, and will pay no regard to his proclamations, or any other of his acts or doings, but, on the other hand, he ought to be considered and guarded against as an unnatural and inveterate enemy to the country by every person that is a true friend to his country ; and also we do hereby engage that we will join our countrymen upon all occasions in defense of the rights and liberties of America; especially we will use our influence in order to prevent the late Acts of Parlia- ment with regard to this province being put into execution, and will bear our full proportion of men and money for the purposes aforesaid, as occasion may call for the same."
It was voted if any such suspected persons should neglect or refuse to sign such declaration they should be proceeded against as provided by the Provincial Congress.
July 12, 1776 .- Voted the sum of £85 10s. be paid to 15 effective men that may appear in behalf of the town of Hatfield, to go and join the northern army. John Dickin- son, John Hastings, and Perez Graves were appointed a com- mittee to attend to that business and see that the men pass muster and enlist.
Early in the summer of 1776 it was voted by the town to in- struct their representative at the present General Assembly to use his endeavors that the delegates of the colony at the Con- gress be advised that, in case the Congress should think IT NECESSARY FOR THE SAFETY OF THE AMERICAN UNITED COLONIES TO DECLARE THEM INDEPENDENT OF GREAT BRITAIN, THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF HATFIELD WITH THEIR LIVES AND FORTUNES WILL SOLEMNLY ENGAGE TO SUPPORT THEM IN THE MEASURE.
March 10, 1777 .- Voted that the militia officers, selectmen, and committee of correspondence be directed to obtain, if possible, by subscription a sum sufficient to encourage Hatfield proportion of men to enlist into the war for three years.
May 19, 1777 .- Appointed John Hastings a representative, and a committee to draw up instructions for him, viz .: John Dickinson, Elijab Morton, Pbinebas Frary, Jonathan Allis, Elihu White.
May 8, 1778 .- Voted a committee to adjust the past services of the inhabitants of this town, and report what each man hath done in the present war.
May II, 1778 .- Voted to raise 180 pounds to procure men for the army.
Ort. 30, 1778 .- Voted 100 pounds to procure powder, lead, and steel. Voted 140 pounds to obtain clothing for Hatheld Continental soldiers.
May 20, 1779,-Passed in the affirmative, that the town desired to have a new form of government or constitution, though 61 voted in the negative.
June 24, June 29, July I, and July 8, 1779, several votes were passed to encour- age men to join the Continental army.
Ang. 12, 1779 .- Deacon Elijah Morton chosen a delegate to the convention to form a new constitution.
Sept. 6, 1779 .- Chose Maj. Seth Murray and Col. James Chapin delegates to attend a county convention, to be held at Northampton, to consider the propriety of fixing the price of things.
Sept. 24, 1779,-The recommendations of the Northampton Convention were not approved.
Several subsequent votes are recorded with reference to en- listing soldiers, raising money for bounties, or for clothing and provisions. Unfortunately the names of those going into the army are not given, and no list of Revolutionary soldiers can be made from the town books. The votes we have given show the opening of the contest, the determination of the people, and the progress of the struggle.
SHAYS' REBELLION.
Oct. 17, 1783, the town appointed Deaeon Elijah Morton and Col. Israel Chapin delegates to appear at a convention appointed to be held at Col. Seth Marsh's, in Hatfield, on the 20th instant. Voted that the said delegates do not sit with the convention unless there appear delegates from a major part of the towns in the county of Hampshire. Delegates are recorded as elected to other conventions of the county, but they appear to have been held to deliberate on the pro- posed division of the county, on the time and place for hold-
ing the courts, and not directly in the interest of the Shays rebellion.
Hatfield was the place of Shays' conventions, and therefore appears as an active participator in them, according to the general histories of that period, and perhaps justly so. The first large gathering of insurgents occurred in this town April, 1782, when 300 persons made this a rallying point, and, marching upon Northampton under Capt. Reuben Dick- inson, demanded and secured the release of three prisoners confined in the jail.
The convention of Aug. 22, 1786, held at llatfield, was rather of a formidable affair. Fifty towns were represented. The assemblage continued for three days. Here was drawn up the famous list of grievances given in the general history,- a list which, sent into the surrounding towns, had a decided influence in leading many to adopt the views of the insur- gents. At one time the State forces were quartered at the present place of John D. Brown's residence, while the Shays forces were at the lower end of the street. There were seven sons of one man by the name of Ransom, of Coleraine, here at that time. Some man relating the occurrence said Cole- raine had sent forty-two feet of Ransom, the sons averaging six feet in height.
As one of the sad incidents of that dangerous period we give the following inscription :
"To the memory of James Walker, who, respected by the brave, beloved by his country's friends, dear to his relatives, while manfully defending the laws and liberties of his country, nobly fell by the impious hand of treason and re- bellion on the 17th of February, 1787, in the thirty-second year of his age. Citizen, passing, drop a tear, and learn to imitate the brave !"
WAR OF 1812.
Approaching this stormy political period of New England history, we find the following in Hatfield records :
April 4, 1808, town cordially approved of the address of the selectmen of the town of Northampton ; express gloomy ap- prehensions of an unnecessary war, but intimate their readi- ness to co-operate with the government in defending our national honor.
Feb. 8, 1809, a town-meeting was called to consider the alarming state of public affairs, and voted to concur with the two branches of the Legislature in recommending "a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer," viz., Thursday the 16th instant. And the following resolutions were voted :
"Whereus, the people have a right in a peaceable manner to request the Legislature, by way of addresses and petitions or remonstrances, for a redress of grievances they suffer ; and whereas, the aspect of our public affairs is alarm- ing almost beyond a precedent,-our citizens suffering (as we think) needless and most extraordinary privations, public confidence tottering to its base, and government endeavoring to palm upon us laws in our opinion unconstitutional, arbitrary, and oppressive; and whereus, during the administration of Washington and Adams, when our country was emerging from the horrors of a cruel and re- lentless war, when a form of government was to be established embracing the union of these States, when the hatchet of war with the savages upon our fron- tier was to be buried, when ways and means were to be devised to cancel our national debt, when commercial treaties with European nations were to be established, our country rose to wealth and greatness unparalleled in the history of the world ; therefore,
" Resolved, That it is a departure from their policy and measures that has produced these evils and brought the nation to the brink of wretchedness and ruin.
" Resolved, That the embargo is unnecessary and oppressive.
" Resolved, That we view the late law for enforcing the embargo as a death- blow to our civil liberties; as by it the sanctuary of our dwellings is made liable to search and our property to seizure upon the suspicion only of the mere crea- tures of the President; as by it the breath of the Executive may constitute the law of the land; and, above all, that the civil is made subservient to the military power.
" Resolred, That we view with anxiety and concern the late extraordinary augmentation of military power, without so much as an intimation from our government of their object and design.
" Resolved, That the President ought to distrust, and that we hold in contempt the opinion of, those who would treat us as rebels and term us the most worth- less part of community, because we do not hold out our hands to the chains and tamely submit to arbitrary power,
" Resolved, That we have ever viewed the returning of the British treaty by the President without submitting it to the Senate as an impolitie measure, and
JOSEPII SMITH,
of Hatfield, son of Joseph and Lois (White) Smith, was born April 1, 1792. He was a descendant, in the sixth generation, of Lieut. Samuel Smith, who emigrated from England to Massachusetts Bay in 1634, resided some years in Wethersfield, Conn., and removed to Hadley, Mass., in 1659.
His ancestor of the next generation, John Smith, was killed by the Indi- ans, in Hatfield Meadows, in 1676.
His grandfather, Samuel Smith, was commissioned a lieutenant by Gov. Phipps, Sept. 10, 1755.
His father and two uncles were soldiers in the Revolutionary army, one of them holding a lieutenant's commission.
His great-grandmother, Canada Waite, was born in Canada while her mother was a prisoner, having heen captured by the Indians at Hat- field a short time previous.
She was named in commemoration of that captivity.
Joseph Smith was commissioned a lieutenant in the militia in 1815; a justice of the peace in 1843; repre- sented his town (elected by the Demo- cratic party) in the General Court the same year; and held various other offices in the gift of his fellow- citizens. He was a firm supporter of the church and parish of his native town.
He married, Jan. 28, 1823, Hannah White, daughter of Amasa and Eu- nice White Wells.
He was a nephew of Oliver Smith, Esq., founder of the "Smith Chari- ties," and a brother of Miss Sophia Smith, founder of Smith College, of Northampton, and Smith Academy, of Hatfield. He died Oct. 20, 1861. Joseph, an infant son, died May 28, 1836.
Mrs. Smith was born Aug. 26, 1795, and died March 10, 1879.
With the exception, perhaps, of one year, she visited Saratoga every summer, beginning with the year of her marriage, a period of fifty-five years.
Joseph smith
RESIDENCE OF JOS. S. WELLS , LATE RESIDENCE OF MRS. J. W. SMITH, DECEASED, HATFIELD, MASS
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in our opinion it is through the meaos and measures of our Administration that all essential differences with Great Britain have not long since been amicably and honorably adjusted.
" Resolved, That we esteem our national Constitution as an invaluable legacy from our political fathers, and if necessary will yield our lives and fortunes a cheerful sacrifice to defend it, and we do hereby exhort our fellow-citizens to rally aronil it as the standard of political safety, and to esteem no sacrifices too great to preserve it. And as we have heretofore petitioned the President and Congress in vain, therefore,
" Resolved, That the selectmen be a committee to prepare a respectful petition to our Legislature, praying that honorable body to use all constitutional means in their power to procure our eolargement, that so agriculture and commerce may again receive the rewards of industry aod enterprise."
It does not appear who drafted the above resolutions, but they certainly form an able and eloquent State paper, however much the principles involved may seem to us of the present time as equaling the States' rights assumptions of South Caro- lina and the other States of the late Confederation.
OFFICIAL ACTION IN THE CIVIL WAR.
Hatfield, like its sister towns of the valley, was prompt in patriotic work when the storm of civil war burst upon the country.
1861 .- A town-meeting was held May 6th, at which Moses Morton, Wm. Il. Dickinson, George Waite, J. D. Billings, George W. Hubbard, Elijah Bard well, and Erastus Cowles were authorized to borrow on behalf of the town the sum of $5000, to be expended by them as they might deem expedient, on such soldiers from this town and their families as shall be mustered into the United States service during the continuance of the present war.
It was also voted to furnish each volunteer with a uniform, if needed, and a sufficient amount of money to make his monthly pay $26.
Voted, that the town will provide liberally for the families of the volunteers ; then, giving three cheers for the Star-Span- gled Banner, they adjourned for two weeks.
May 20th, it was voted to pay each volunteer in the 10th Regiment for time spent in drilling as the committee shall deem just.
All this was a liberality scarcely equaled by towns at that early date.
1862, April 7th .- The treasurer was fully authorized to bor- row money for State aid to soldiers' families in accordance with the law upon that subject.
July 18th .- It was voted to pay a bounty of $100 each for volunteers, and, in case of the death or disability of any one, aid was promised to his family until it was able to support itself.
The assessors were directed to abate the taxes of volunteers. August 25th .- The bounty of $100 each was extended to nine months' men equally with those enlisting for three years.
These votes were so full, and the authority given to the excellent war committee and to the selectmen so unlimited, that no town action was taken in 1863.
1864, April 4th .- A bounty of $125 each was voted to fill the quota of the town under the calls of October, 1863, and those of February and March, 1864.
Individuals had advanced money for recruiting purposes, and this was refunded by vote of the town.
To avoid any delay, the treasurer was authorized to borrow money to anticipate the collection of taxes.
1865, May 23d .- A tax of $3755.50 was voted for the pur- pose of refunding sums advanced by individuals, to be paid in two equal instalments,-1866 and 1867.
The assessors were also requested to assess "upon the polls and estates" a sum sufficient to pay each drafted man who fur- nished an accepted substitute an amount of not more than $300,-the tax list to be delivered to the collector without a warrant.
Hatfield furnished 146 men for the war, and this was a sur- plus of seven above all demands. Two were commissioned
officers. The whole amount of aid paid solely by the town was $14,994.71. The assessed valuation of the town in 1860 was $1,071,747, and the population 1337. Aid tosoldiers' families, afterward paid back by the State, was, in 1861, $154.55; 1862, $1291; 1863, $2406.07; 1864, $2026.82; 1865, $800; total, $6678.64.
Private liberality was abundant.
The ladies sent to the soldiers and to the hospitals during the war contributions of money and supplies to the amount of $3000, and $1000 was sent by citizens generally through the Christian Commission.
Of the soldiers furnished, a large number were citizens of the town, and their names are appended to this sketch. Twenty lost their lives. The recruits hired elsewhere make up the 146 credited to Hatfield in Col. Schouler's history.
Dwight Morton, enl. June 21, 1861, 10th Inf., Co. C; disch. Feb. 28, 1863, for disability.
Jonathan D. Warner, enl. June 21, 1861, 10th Inf., Co. C; app. hospital steward, Oct 1862; trans, to 37th Inf., June 20, 1864.
Dwight S. Strong, musician, ent. Sept. 20, 1861, 27th Inf .; disch. Sept. 3, 1862, by order of War Department.
Lyman B. Abbott, enl. Sept. 20, 1861, 27th Inf., Co. A ; re-en1. March 30, 1864, to the credit of South Hadley ; disch. June 21, 1865.
Richard B. Abbott, enl. Sept. 21, 1861, 27th Inf., Co. A; disch. April 10, 1865. Henry M. Ilitchcock, enl. Sept. 20, 1861, 27th Inf., Co. A; re-en1. Jan. 2, 1864; app. Feb. 20, 1864, hospital steward.
Frederick Klistener, enl. Sept. 20, 1861, 27th Inf., Co. A ; reported missing in adjt .- general's report of volunteers, vol. ii. page 527; was a prisoner.
Simon Schaefer, enl. Sept. 1, 1864, 27th Inf., Co. A ; taken prisoner; disch. June 26, 1865.
Cordean Sweet, enl. Sept. 20, 1861, 27th Inf., Co. A ; disch. for disability, Jan. I, 1863 ; re-enl. Jau. 5, 1864; disch. Nov. 7, 1864, for disability.
John Richards, enl. April 15, 1862, 27th Inf., Co. C; re-enl. Jan. 2, 1864; died of wounds, June 9, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Va.
Calvin L. Coville, enl. Aug. 30, 1862, 37th: Inf., Co. F; disch. June 21, 1865. Elilm Coville, enl. Aug. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F; died of wounds, July 22, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa.
David B. Curtis, enl. Ang. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F; disch. June 21, 1865. Charles E. Hubbard, enl. Aug. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F; disch. April 18, 1863, for disability.
Jerome E. King, enl. Ang. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F; disch. June 21, 1865. Lorens Sietz, en1. Aug. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F ; disch. June 21, 1865.
John II. Vining, ent. Aug. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F; died of wounds, June 12, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Va.
Oliver S. Vining, enl. Aug. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F; disch. April 16, 1863, for disability.
Charles L. Waite, enl. Ang. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F; died Feb. 13, 1863, at White Oak Church, Va.
Oliver Warner, enl. Aug. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F; disch. June 21, 1865. HIenry H. Field, enl. Ang. 30, 1862, 37th Iuf., Co. H ; disch. Jnoe 21, 1865.
J. D. Warner, hospital steward, enl. Dec. 21, 1863, 37th Inf .; unaccounted for in adjt .- general's report of volunteers, 1868, page 776, vol. ii.
Edwin Graves, Ist sergt., enl. Ang. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F ; died of wounds, May 21, 1864, at Wilderness, Va.
Emerson L. Coville, sergt., enl. Ang. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F; wounded ; disch. Jan. 7, 1865, for disability.
John W. Field, sergt., enl. Ang. 30, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F; killed May 6, 1864, at Wilderness, Va.
Wm. A. Champoey, enl. Aug. 1, 1862, 37th Inf., Co. F; app. hospital steward, Oct. 27, 1862; disch. June 21, 1865.
Joseph Richards, enl. Dec. 30, 1864, 27th Inf., Co. C; died July 1I, 1864, at Andersonville, Ga.
Wells Clark, enl. Dec. 26, 1861, 31st Inf., Co. G ; re-enl. Feb. 17, 1864; died of wounds, May 23, 1864, at New Orleans, La.
Dwight D. Graves, sergt., enl. Nov. 23, 1861, 32d Inf., Co. B ; pro. to 1st sergt. at re-eo., Jan. 5, 1864 ; 2d lient., April 1, 1865 ; disch. June 29, 1865.
Wm. R. Waite, enl. Nov. 27, 1861, 32d Inf., Co. B; disch. to re-enl. Jan. 4, 1864. Josiah H. Potter, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. I; disch. Ang. 14, 1863.
Henry P. Billings, 2d lieut., enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M.V. M., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, 1863.
Fernando B. Bennett, sergt., enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K; died June 22, 1863, at Port Iludson, La.
John E. Doane, corp., enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M.V. M., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, '63. Charles K. Morton, corp., enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52dl M. V. M., Co. K; disch. Aug. 14, 1863.
Alvio D. Diasmore, musician, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K; disch. Ang. 14, 1863.
Dwight G. Abells, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K; disch. Aug. 14, 1863. Ebenezer C. Anderson, en1. Oct. 11, 1862, 52dl M.V. M., Co. K; died July 1, 1863, at Batoo Rouge, La.
llenry F. Anderson, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K; disch. Aug. 14, '63. Joho Beck, enl. Oct. II, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Ang. 14, 1863.
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Lambert J. Bristol, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, '63. Jeremiah Brown, enI. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Ang. 14, 1863. George Chandler, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 5211 M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Ang. 14, 1863. Myron D. Cooley, en1. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, 1863. Whitney F. Cooley, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, 63. Augustus D. Cowles, enl. Oct. 11, '62, 520 M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Ang. 14, '63. Ilenry A. Dickinson, enl. Oct. II, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K ; died March 22, 1863, Baton Rouge, La.
Lucius Field, eoI. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Ang. 14, 1863; died soon after his return, from disease contracted in the service.
Alonzo Hallett, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, 1863. Seth W. Kingsley, enl. Nov. 18, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co, K; disch. Ang. 14, '63. George L. Marsh, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 521 M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, '63. Josiah L. Morton, enI. Oct. 11, 1682, 52d M.V. M., Co. K ; disch. Ang. 14, 1863. Alvin L. Strong, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, 1863. John E. Waite, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 5211 M. V. M., Co. K; disch. Ang. 14, 1863. Daniel W. Wells, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, 1863. Judson W. Harris, corp., enl. June 21, 1861, 10th Inf., Co. C; disch. July 1, 1864; (lied at Alexandria, Va., Sept. 12, 1864.
James H. Abbott, enl. June 21, 1861, 10th Inf., Co. C; killed May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania, Va.
Charles L. Bardwell, enI. June 21, 1861, 10th Inf., Co. C; disch. Ang. 16, 1862, for disab .; re-enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d Regt., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, 1863.
Charles W. Evans, enl. Jan. 21, 1864, 10th Inf., Co. C; trans. June 21, 1864, to 37th Inf .; disch. July 16, 1865.
Philetus Averill, Berdan's Sharpshooters.
Joseph Billings, enl. Sept. 15, 1863, 2d II. Art., Co. F ;· disch. Sept. 3, 1865; pre- viously served a short time in the 25th Inf.
Charles S. Babcock, enl. March 12, 1862, 21st Inf .; wounded Dec. 13, 1862; also May 10 and Sept. 30, 1861 ; re-enl. March 15, 1864; pro. to 2d lieut. Nov. 29, 1864 ; trans. to 36th ; disch. June 8, 1865.
Jienry F. Bardwell, enl. Sept. 18, 1861, 25th Inf., Co. K ; re-enl. Jan. 18, 1864. Michael Burke, enl. Aug. 9, 1864, 30th Inf.
Anthony Bolack, enl. Nov. 15, 1861, 31st Inf., Co. B; died Juno 20, 1863, at Brasher City, La.
Caleb D. Bardwell, enl. Sept. 8, 1862, 520 M. V. M., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, 1863. George W. Bliss, regular army.
Elbridge G. Clifford, enl. July 19, 1861, 21st Inf., Co. I ; died of wounds, Oct. 10, 1862.
Edward C. Cowles, enI. Sept. 21, 1861, 25th Inf., Co. K ; re-enl. Jan 18, 1864 ; disch. June 29, 1865.
l'eter Carter, eul. in 2d Regt.
Lysander Chaffin, enl. in 37th Regt.
Alonzo Dennis, enl. Nov. 18, 1861, 31st Inf., Co. B; died Dec. 12, 1862, at Fort Jackson, La.
- Davis, enl. in 21st Regt. (not Hatfield), probably.
Frederick Evans, enl. Sept. 22, 1863, 2d H. Art., Co. E ; disch. Sept. 3, 1865.
Thomas Frary, enl. Oct. 10, 1861, 27th Inf., Co. D ; died Nov. 6, 1864, at More- head City, N. C.
James McCue, enl. July 29, 1863, 22d Inf., Co. II; wounded May 5, 1864; trans. to 32d Inf. ; died April 25, 1865, at Baltimore.
Patrick Morrissey, enl. Jan. 10, 1865, 24th Inf., Co. K : disch. Jan. 30, 1866.
Thomas Puffer, enl. Aug. 15, 1861, 21st Inf., Co. B ; disch. March 13, 1862, for disability.
Christopher D. Hooker, enl. Dec. 31, 1863, 4th Cav., Co. G; wounded at Wil- liamshurg; disch. May 26, 1865.
William H. Ilooker, enl. Dec. 31, 1863, 4th Cav., Co. G; disch. Nov. 14, 1865.
Lorenzo L. Hawkins, enl. Ang. 5, 1861, 21st Inf., Co. B; wounded and missing since Dec. 13, 1862.
Michael Hennesy, enl. July 19, 1861, 21st Inf., Co. K ; trans. to 4th U. S. Art., Oct. 25, 1862 ; died in the service.
James Iloare, enl. Aug. 25, 1863, 22d Inf., Co. D ; died of wounds, Ang. 2, 1864, at Alexandria, Va.
Liberty Holmes, enl. Jan. 4, 1864 ; rejected Jan. 9th.
Alphens HI. Ilathaway, enl. Oct. 10, 1861, 31st Inf., Co. C; died May 16, 1864, at New Orleans.
James Halligan, enl. in 27th Regt.
Raymond E. Rogers, enl. Ang. 15, 1864, 2d Cav .; disch. July 20, 1865. Jeremiah O'Sullivan, enl. Aug. 15, 1864, 2d Il. Art .; disch. Sept. 3, 1865.
Alvah A. Sutton, enl. Jan. 4, 1864, 4th Cav , Co. E; disch. Nov. 14, 1865.
Ebenezer F. Stone, enl. Aug. 12, 1864, 27th Inf .; unassigned; disch. Sept. 1, 1804, for disability.
Obadiah Smith, enl. Dec. 25, 1861, 31st Inf., Co. G; disch. Nov. 27, 1862, for lisability.
James Shea, enl. Jan. 4, 1864, in navy ; disch. July 30, 1865; absent, sick. Lewis Sikes, enl. in 1st Conn. Batt.
Luke Zobu, enI. Jan. 4, 1864, 4th Cav., Co. E; disch. June 9, 1865.
Francis Wemit, enl. Jan. 4, 1864, 4th Cav., Co. E.
WILLIAMSBURG.
GEOGRAPHICAL.
WILLIAMSBURG lies northwest from the county-seat, and distant about eight miles. It is bounded north by Goshen and Franklin County ; east by Franklin County and Hatfield ; south by Northampton and Westhampton ; west by Chester- field and Goshen. It has a farm acreage of 15,092 acres. This town is the "Hatfield addition," sometimes called " Hatfield three-mile grant," and " Hatfield woods." This was a tract six miles long and three miles wide, granted by the General Court to Ilatfield in 1695-96. It therefore became the absolute property of that town, and was divided up among the people. The present boundary lines of Williamsburg are very nearly identical with those of the " grant," though not entirely so. The title to the soil of Williamsburg is thus traceable back to the direct grant from the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
NATURAL FEATURES.
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