History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Vol. II, Part 52

Author: L.H. Everts & Co
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts
Number of Pages: 896

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These unfortunate dissensions had a depressing effect on the religious interests of the town, causing the dissolution of the church and preventing, for several years, the formation of a new society. For about three years the town had no church within its bounds, but on the 6th of June, 1788, was organized what became known as

THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN CHARLEMONT.

It embraced originally 16 members, and the council which organized it was composed of the Revs. Nehemiah Porter, John Emerson, and Roger Newton, who were in session three days. In the fall of 1788 the church-roll contained the names of Gershom Hawks, Elizabeth Nichols, William Negus, Oli- ver Avery, Martha Taylor, Fanny Brooks, Jesse Reed, Eli- phalet Cutting, Mary Taylor, Dorothy Leonard, Joanna Crocker, Esther Rice, Samuel Rice, Dorothy Rice, Freedom Bice, Joshua Hawks, Reuben Hawks, Abigail Avery, William Rush, Ilannah Thayer, Aaron Rice, Sylvanus Rice, Jonathan Hastings, Champion Crocker, Paul Rice, Dinah Rice, Abigail Thayer, Jonathan Hawks, Samuel Peirce, Abigail Peiree, John Ellis, Ruth Peirce, Miriam Peirce, Andrew Rudd, James Fales, Nathan Gould, Martha Gould, Josiah White, Rebecca White, Aaron Gould, Lydia Gould, Abel Wilder, E. W. Farland, Josiah Upton, Joseph Upton, Nathaniel Upton, Ebenezer Green, and Phebe Green. Of this church, too, Aaron Rice and Gershom Hawks were the first deacons, and Aaron Rice the church clerk. In 1796, Ebenezer Fales was elected deacon, and at a later date Abel Wilder was ordained to the same office.

As early as 1786 the town took steps to build a new meeting- house at some central point. Joshua Hawks, Artemas Rice, and George Kennan were appointed to select a site. They reported a suitable place between Artemas Riee's and John Brooke's, and it was voted that the house have the same dimensions as the old one,-the Heath meeting-house. The house was located about two miles east of the village, and was erected under the direction of Thomas Nichols, Gershom Hawks, and Othniel Taylor. It was not wholly finished until 1804. In that year the committee reported their work com- pleted, and that they had rented 31 pews below, and 16 in the gallery of the church. This house was used as a place of worship until 1845, when the present edifice in the village of Charlemont was erected. In that year 42 members withdrew to form a church at East Charlemont, and for a number of

years the town maintained two flourishing Congregational Churches. Then followed a season of declining interest, leaving the parent church often in a struggling condition. At present it is again fairly prosperous, and, in 1878, reported 31 male and 66 female members.

The Rev. Isaac Babbitt was settled as the first pastor of the church, Feb. 24, 1796, and was dismissed June 7, 1798. Hle was a native of Easton, Conn., graduated at Dartmouth in 1783, and studied theology with Dr. Burroughs. lle was a strict Calvinist, a plain but not a forcible preacher.

The second pastor of the church was the Rev. Joseph Field, who was installed Dec. 4, 1799, and dismissed July 10, 1823. He was born in Sunderland in 1772, graduated at Dartmouth in 1792, and entered the ministry soon after. He married a daughter of the Rev. John Emerson, of Conway. He was the author of several valuable books, one of the best known being a "Treatise on the Trinity." While pastor of the church he embraced Unitarianism, and was dismissed on ac- count of his views. He remained in town until his death, representing Charlemont in the Legislature seven terms, after 1828, and occasionally supplying the pulpit of the Unitarian Church.

The Rev. Wales Tileston was ordained the third pastor, March 16, 1825, and dismissed March 22, 1837. IFe was a native of Williamsburg, graduated at Union College in 1822, at Andover in 1823, and began preaching soon after. His ministry at Charlemont was blessed with many conversions.

The fourth pastor, the Rev. Stephen T. Allen, was ordained April 18, 1838, and dismissed April 24, 1839. Ile was a native of lleath, graduated at Amherst in 1833, and, after leaving Charlemont, became the editor of Merry's Museum.

The Rev. John D. Smith was ordained Nov. 20, 1839, dis- missed Aug. 11, 1844, resettled June 21, 1848, and again dis- missed May 19, 1852. He was born in 1812, graduated at Yale in 1832, studied theology at New Haven and Andover, . and began to preach soon after. He was a son of Nathan Smith, M.D.,* and himself became a physician. After his dismission he lived in Charlemont, and represented the town in the Legislature.

The Rev. Mathew Kingman was ordained the next pastor, June 6, 1854, and was dismissed Dec. 24, 1861. He was a man of ability and worth, but the church had become too weak to longer retain him.

The church was supplied with preaching for the next six years by the Revs. W. F. Bacon and A. P. Johnson. May 21, 1867, the Rev. Benjamin W. Pond was installed, and re- signed April 17, 1870.

The Rev. P. K. Clark was next installed, Aug. 16, 1871, and died while pastor of the church, Jan. 6, 1872. He was interred at South Deerfield, where he formerly served as a pastor, leaving a wife, son, and two daughters, surviving members of his family.

The Rev. Henry G. Marshall was installed as his successor, Sept. 4, 1872, and was dismissed June 18, 1877. The Rev. Rufus Taylor then supplied the pulpit four months ; and since April 21, 1878, Rev. Lincoln Harlow has been acting pastor.

Besides those mentioned as supplies of the church, the Revs. John Tatloek, George Lyman, T. J. Clarke, Edward Clarke, Levi Packard, and Samuel Fisk have served in that capacity.

The clerk and treasurer of the church in 1878 was J. H. Smead, and the prudential committee was composed of J. H. Smead, A. W. Leonard, and E. F. Long. The number of resident members was 75, and a Sunday-school, having 85 members, was maintained. M. M. Mantor, superintendent.

THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN EAST CHARLE- MONT.

This hody was organized Aug. 6, 1845, with 43 members, nearly all of whom had withdrawn from the old church for

* See medical chapter, History of Hampden County.

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this purpose. The first meetings were held in the school- house, and the Rev. Nathaniel A. Keys supplied the church with preaching. He had previously been a missionary to Syria. In 1847 the church erected its present meeting-house, whose attractiveness and exterior appearance are equal to the average country churches in this part of the State, and has since ocenpied it for public worship. On the 17th of March, that year, the Rev. Moses H. Wilder was installed the first pastor, and continued that relation until Oct. 3, 1848. He was a native of Winchendon, Mass., and was licensed to preach in Indiana in 1831. For a number of years he was a success- ful missionary of the Ilome Society, and labored as an agent of various benevolent associations.

After a vacancy of a little more than a year, the Rev. Aaron Foster was installed the second pastor, Feb. 13, 1850, and was dismissed March 19, 1870, on account of ill health. He was born in Hillsboro', N. H., March 19, 1794, and reared accord- ing to the practices of the Friends. In 1822 he graduated at Dartmouth, finished his studies at Andover in 1825, and was ordained an evangelist in that year. After laboring in the South as a missionary, and in the North as a pastor, he became the agent of the American Peace Society in 1844, and in 1851 was a delegate to the World's Peace Convention in London. In 1853 he was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, and subsequently held other pub- lic trusts, discharging their dnties with marked ability.

His pastorate was very successful, and under his ministra- tion the church greatly prospered.

In 1870 the church was supplied for six months by the Rev. Thomas Smith, and four months by the Rev. Daniel Savage.

In the spring of 1871 the Rev. Elijah Cutler became con- nected with the church as a supply, and served in that con- "nection until 1873. In May, 1873, the Rev. Wellington Newell received a call to the pastorate, and Sept. 3d, of the same year, was installed. He filled the pastoral office until Sept. 18, 1877, and since that period Rev. L. C. Guild has supplied this church in connection with the one in Buckland.

The deacons of the church have been Sylvester Maxwell and Elihu Smead, elected Aug. 29, 1845; Zenos L. Parker, Phineas Field, L. Rice, R. H. Leavitt, Levi Smith, George Hillman, David Avery, and Edward H. Leavitt.

A Sunday-school of 40 members is maintained. In 1878, Emery F. Packard was the superintendent.

The following Congregational ministers, with one exception, were born in Charlemont : the Rev. James Ballard, who was born in town in 1805, graduated at Williams in 1827, and, after being a teacher ten years, studied theology, and was licensed to preach in 1837. After a number of years of min- isterial labor he settled at Grand Rapids, Mich., and again engaged in teaching.

Rev. Roswell Hawks was born in Charlemont in 1788, graduated at Williams in 1811, and was ordained to the min- istry in 1815.

Rev. Theron M. Hawks was born Oct. 24, 1821, graduated at Williams in 1844, and finished his studies at Union Theo- logical Seminary, New York City, afterward becoming a teacher there.

Rev. Lemuel Leonard was born in town Nov. 23, 1812, was at Amherst from 1830-32, and was licensed to preach in 1838.

Rev. Daniel Rice was born in Conway, Oct. 13, 1816, bnt his parents removed to Charlemont in 1818, and he lived there till manhood. He graduated at Amherst in 1837, and finished his theological studies at Lane, Ohio, in 1842.

CHARLEMONT BAPTIST CHURCH.

The exact date of the organization of this body cannot be determined from the society records. By some the time is fixed as early as 1791, but it is probable that it was a few years later. In 1800, Elder John Green is mentioned as the

minister who agreed, three years later, to build a meeting- house. This was erected about a mile west of the village, and in 1819 was removed to its present location. In 1805, the church-roll contained the following names :

Ichabod Packard, Wm. Williams, Fitch Comstock, Jonathan Comstock, Elisha Pike, Moses Barber, Ebenezer Williams, Ebenezer Montague, David G. Church, Phineas W. Hartwell, Jacob IIont, Jr., Jason Fuller, Samuel Riddel, Hezekiah Hastings, Elijah Steel, Samuel Rathbone, Samuel Hale, John Frary, Edward Beckwith, Zenos Atwood, Jacob Hunt, Wm. W. Fitch, Andrew Smith, Ephraim Church, Edward Giles, John Giles, John Barber, Benjamin Comstock, Samuel Ford, Elihu Hawks, Giles Farrer, Silas Beckwith, Abigail Hastings, Wm. Wil- liams, Jr., Asa Paine, Ephraim Hale, Joseph Hawley, Samuel Negus, Jr., Samp- son Spaulding, Wm. Middleditch, Elihu Booth, Aaron Bass, Joseph Nast, Jonalı Hill, Hannah Hawks, Nathan Lyon, Jr., Jonathan Crosby, Nathaniel White, Alonzo Reed, Win. Green, Thomas Anlt, Thomas Goodenough, Nathaniel Cobb, Timothy Stearns, Julius Willard, Rufus Hawks, Ezekiel Edgerton, Jonathan Hartwell, John Cobb, Jonathan Hawks, Silas Shirtlif, Moses Stanford, Wm. Hart- well, Uzziel Simons, James Briggs, Ebenezer Upton, Rodolfus Nichols, Martin Howard, Christopher Shippee, Jr., John Pike, Charles Winchester, Billey John- son, Timothy Knowlton, Ichabod Hill, Samuel P. Nims, Nathaniel Rice, Silas Pratt, Noah Parsons, Isaac Cooper, Valentine Goodenough, Jonathan Thompson, Calvin Hawley, Nathan Shippee, Israel Hawks, Joseph Edgerton, Jr., Eliphalet Thayer, Benjamin Harris, Darius Edgerton, Benoni Flagg, Zebina Hastings, Orin Rogers, Bennet Edson, Reuben Farley, Jonas Leonard, Win. Arms, Stephen Sprague, John Howes, John Fisher, Alpheus Clark, Jonathan Howard, Eliah Leach, Ruel Thayer, Caleb Hill, Valentine W. Rathbone, Rufus Hawks, James A. Riddle, Lot Cottle, Fairbanks Dart, John Giles, Ebenezer Beckwith, Nathan- iel Green, Asa P. Church, Philemon W. Frost, Moses W. Ward, Isaac J. Hawks, Alvah Pike, Rufus Bardwell, Josiah Upton, David Harris, Jonathan Weston, John Luscombe.

The aggregate membership of the church has been abont 250. In 1819, when the meeting-house was removed, there were 60 members. In 1878 there were 73 reported. The Sun- day-school had 60 members, and N. B. Ballard was superin- tendent.

As near as can be ascertained, the first deacons of the church were Ebenezer Williams, Jonathan Hawks, and William Hartwell. The subsequent deacons have been David Harris, Jonathan Ballard, Edmund Hartwell, Jonathan Hartwell, Nathan A. Ballard, Chandler A. Brown, and N. B. Ballard.

The first pastor of the church was the Rev. John Green, who remained until 1803. He was succeeded by Elders Wheeler and Palmer, and, in 1806, by Elder Ebenezer Hall. In 1807 the Rev. Rathbone preached, and soon after the Rev. Samuel Carpenter. In 1816 the Rev. Nathaniel Rice assumed the pastoral relation, and was with the church until April, 1824. For a time the pulpit was supplied by the Revs. Savory, Ab- bott, Goodnow, and Trumbull, but in October, 1827, the Rev. N. McCullock became the pastor, and continued until 1830. llis successor was the Rev. D. Dunbar, and from 1831-33 the Rev. David Pease was the pastor. In 1836 the Rev. Amherst Lamb was installed, and was dismissed in April, 1845. Since that period the pastors and ministers of the church have been as follows : 1845-49, Rev. B. F. Remington ; 1850-51, Rev. James Parker ; 1852-54, Rev. Harvey Crowley ; 1860, Rev. John Fairman ; 1861, Nathaniel Chapman ; 1864-65, Rev. C. Brooks; 1866, Rev. Washington S. Coburn ; 1869, Rev. Alfred Free ; 1872, Rev. James Monroe ; 1873-77, Rev. II. V. Baker; 1877-78, Rev. J. H. Parmelee; and since Sept. 9, 1878, Rev. C. J. Wilson.

In addition to the foregoing, the Revs. James M. Cooley, R. P. Hartley, S. Bentley, M. J. Kelley, Abijah ITall, and a few others have supplied the pulpit.

The Rev. Philander llartwell, a Baptist, was a native of Charlemont.

CHARLEMONT METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

It is supposed that Methodist meetings were held in this town as early as 1806, but it does not appear that a class was formed or an organization effected until 1825. In that year the preachers laboring on the Rowe circuit gathered a few members into a class on Legate Hill, and supplied them with preaching as occasion permitted. The work prospered, and in 1831 Charlemont became a part of the Gill circuit, with a regular preaching-place at the house of Chester Upton, in

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Gould Hollow, near the south line of Heath. At this time the Rev. William Todd was the preacher in ebarge. The Uni- tarian meeting-house, south of this place, was next occupied, and after much difficulty the brick school-house at the village was secured, as a place for the meetings of the Methodists, whose membership was increasing rapidly. In 1833 a great revival occurred, from which the church received 50 additions, and, the school-house becoming too small to accommodate the congregation, the use of the Baptist meeting-house was se- cured, and it was occupied a short time ; but in 1834 the frame of a meeting-house, 38 by 44 feet, was put up on the site of the present edifice and supplied with rough seats, and wor- ship was maintained until 1837, when it was fully completed, and consecrated by the Rev. R. Ransom.

The several classes were about this time constituted the Charlemont circuit, embracing appointments in other towns. Six years later the church began extending its work into the adjoining country, and the following year these efforts were attended by a revival in Heath, whereby from 70 to 80 persons were converted ; and in Charlemont 40 more were converted the same year.

In 1849 a class of Methodists was formed at East Charle- mont, and, with those coming from Heath, the membership was now increased to 168. The following ten years was a period of encouraging prosperity, firmly establishing the church. In 1861 one of the members, Rosetta H. Mayhew, presented the society with a house and lot for a parsonage, which was made habitable by the Rev. R. Mitchell, at that time the preacher in charge. But the prosperity of the church was destined to be checked in the same year. In the winter the meeting- house, which had but a short time before been placed in good repair, was burned to the ground, inflicting a heavy loss on the society. The following summer the unoccupied Unitarian meeting-house was purchased and moved to the site of the old edifice, and in a remodeled state is the present house of wor- ship. For a number of years the condition of the society was not prosperous, on account of the expenses attending the erec- tion of the new church, and the membership became reduced ; but in 1868 there was again an encouraging inerease, the fruits of a revival. In 1878 the number of members was re- ported as GO. The church was valued at $2500, and the par- sonage at $1000. The trustees were R. R. Edwards, J. M. Wheeler, E. E. Warfield, W. S. Warfield, W. E. Niles, H. Temple, and D. A. Veber. The present pastor is the Rev. J. W. Cole, and the superintendent of the Sunday-school J. M. Wheeler.

The Methodist preachers in Charlemont, from the organ- ization of the first class to the present, have been the fol- lowing: The Revs. Samuel Eighmy, John Nixon, A. Har- lin, E. Andrews, J. B. Husted, E. Crawford, J. C. Bonticou, S. II. Sizer, William Todd, A. C. Bosworth, Windsor Ward, Horace Moulton, E. P. Stevens, Samuel Heath, D. K. Ban- nister, William Kimball, C. Hayward, W. Willcutt, Lyman Wing, J. W. Lewis, W. Taylor, E. Bugbee, E. K. Avery, C. C. Barnes, Proctor Marsh, L. Frost, Porter R. Sawyer, David Mason, G. W. Green, Moses Palmer, William Bard- well, E. A. Manning, Ichabod Marcy, Amasa Taylor, A. A. Cook, David K. Merrill, William Pentecost, John Goodwin, George MeNamara, Rufus Gerrish, Samuel Jackson, Charles Morse, William B. Fowlman, R. Mitchell, C. N. Merrifield, Jobn 11. Gaylord, John Cadwell, George E. Chapman, Icha- bod Marcy, W. T. Miller, and J. W. Cole.

Among the Methodist ministers who were natives of Charle- mont have been the Revs. Daniel Graves, Philo Hawks, David L. Winslow, Otis Legate, and William Legate.

THE INDEPENDENT CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY (UNITARIAN) OF CHARLEMONT

was formally organized March, 1825, with the following officers : Joseph P. Allen, Moderator ; Anderson Mayhew,

Clerk ; Samuel Rice, Treasurer ; Holmes Mayhew, Joel Hall, George Mayhew, Assessors; Samuel Potter, Collector ; Jo- seph P. Allen, Anson Mayhew, Joel Hall, Committee on Mem- bership; and Anson Mayhew, Thomas Mayhew, Eugene Field, Committee on Preaching.

In 1830 the society had sixty-four contributing members, among them being

Roswell Rice, Samuel Ford, Erastus Rice, Samuel Potter, Nathaniel IIam- mond, Joel Hall, Nicholas Graves, Gershora Howes, Amos Avery, Elilm Avery, Eli Thayer, David Clements, Seth Nichols, Chester Rice, Washington Hill, Hart Rice, John Mayhew, Samuel Rice, Eugene Field, John Steel, Constant Field, John Nims, David Smith, Isaac Allis, Rufus Barber, Pardon llaynes, Josiah Judd, O. Bingham, Josiah Pratt, John Pike, Jonathan Howard, Moses Cole, Luther Parker, George Winslow, Chester Marsh, Benjamin Allba, Matthew R. Fuller, Calvin Johnson, and Aaron C. Hammond.

About this period (1830) a house of worship was erected near the cemetery, in the centre of the town, in which meet- ings were held with greater or less regularity until about 1850. After that it stood unoccupied until the summer of 1861, when it was sold to the Methodists of Charlemont, who moved it to the village for the use of their denomination. Since that period a few Unitarian meetings have been held, but the organization of the society is no longer maintained. The last regular meeting was held July 27, 1869, and was presided over by Eugene Field ; Henry Bassett was chosen clerk.

Among the clergy who have ministered to the society have been the Revs. Joseph Field, C. Nightingale, William Cush- ing, Benjamin Parsons, George F. Clarke, R. Bacon, Hervey, and Emerson. The clergymen of this faith, natives of Char- lemont, have been the Revs. William Barber and Joseph Barber.

CEMETERIES.

The oldest burying-ground in town is a little west of Charle -. mont village, on the hill-slope, overlooking the surrounding country. Here are buried the men massacred by the Indians, half a mile east, in 1755, and others interred subsequently to the number of a dozen, chiefly members of the Rice family. A plain tombstone, engraved after the rude manner of those days, is inscribed,

" In Memory of Capt Meses Rice, who was kill'd by the Indians in this place, June ye 11th, 1755, in yo 61st year of his age, and lies at the right hand." "In Memory of Mr l'hincas Arms, who was kill'd by the Indians in this place, June yo 11th, 1755, in ye 24th year of his age, and lies at the left hand."

This event is better commemorated by a square granite monument, about 12 feet high, which was erected over their graves in 1872, by Orlando B. Potter, of New York, a native of Charlemont, and a descendant of Capt. Rice on the female side. On the south face of the monument is this inscription :

"CAPT. MOSES RICE, the first settler of Charlemont. Born at Sudbury, Oct. 27, 1694. M. Saralı King, of S., Nov. 16, 1719, Removed to Charlemont 1742, Killed by the Indians June 11, 1755."

The west face is devoted to Phineas Arms, and the remain- ing sides to the Rice family.

In this ground is also a plain stone,

"Sacred to the memory of Deacon Aaron Rice and Freedom, his wife, who, having sustained the hardships of an infant frontier settlement in time of war, having reared a family of eleven children, six of whom are interred in this ground, and lived together in happy wedlock fifty years, departed this life, the first, Dec. 9, 1808, aged eighty-four; and the other, Sept. 15, 1809, aged seventy- nine.

"' Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.'"

A few years ago the town appointed a committee to inclose this ground with a stone fence, but this has not yet been done.

The oldest public cemetery is about two miles east of the village, and was presented to the town before 1771 by Col. Jonathan White. It has been inclosed by a substantial stone

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fence, and its general appearance is quite attractive. In the same locality is another cemetery, and at East Charlemont, by the church, is a well-kept place of interment. At the vil- lage of Charlemont is a fine burying-ground, and west of this place, toward and near Zoar, are three more small cemeteries, making eight in all in the town. This large number has pre- vented any of them from being as neatly kept as they might be under more favorable circumstances, yet none of them are suffering from neglect.

MILITARY.

On the 18th of January, 1773, Othniel Taylor was commis- sioned captain of a military company organized in Charle- mont. The loss of the muster-roll prevents us from giving the names of the members, but no doubt they were essentially the same as those given elsewhere as settlers.

The questions agitating the country during several years before the stirring events of the Revolution received proper consideration in Charlemont. On the 4th of October, 1773, a meeting was held " to take into consideration the melancholy state of the province of Massachusetts Bay, occasioned by the unnatural oppression of the parent state of this province." After deliberation the town declared its "respect for the sacred person, crown, and dignity of our right and lawful sovereign, King George the Third," and that they harbored no thought of separating from the parent state; but they set forth their grievances, as follows :

" That the inhabitants of this towu hold sacred our excellent Constitution, 80 dearly purchased by our forefathers; that we also hold dear our possessjous, 80 dearly purchased by ourselves, when, to settle this town, and make it more advantageous to his ministry, and profitable to ourselves and posterity, we have beeu alarmed by the yells of the savage about our ears, and heen shocked with scenes of our dearest friends and nearest relatives butchered, scalped, and cap- tivated before our eyes ; we, our wives, and children forced to fly to garrison for safety. Therefore, we must hold the man in the greatest scorn and contempt who shall endeavor to rob us either of liberty or property, and that we look upon it as a great frown of Almighty God to permit a man to govern us who seems so much bent to ruin the people."

They concluded with a prayer for repentance "of all our sins, especially those that pull down such a heavy judgment on us as an oppressive governor."

After the report was "repeatedly read," it was unanimously adopted, recorded in the town book, and a copy forwarded to the committee of correspondence at Boston.

March 11, 1776, Sylvanus Rice, Asaph White, John Brooks, Jonathan Hastings, Artemas Rice, Aaron Rice, James Me- Kennan, William Brown, Oliver Avery, Othniel Taylor, James White, and Nahum Ward were appointed a commit- tee of correspondence and safety, and on the 20th of Decem- ber of the same year, "agreed and voted to raise the sum of £40 in order to provide a town stock of ammunition."

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History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Vol. II, Part 52

Author: L.H. Everts & Co Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts Number of Pages: 896

Author: L.H. Everts & Co
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts
Number of Pages: 896