History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Vol. II, Part 64

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

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The school term usually extended from July to January, for which the ordinary appropriation was £10. This school- house stood at the foot of Meeting-house Hill.

In 1768 it was resolved to build three school-houses, and that each school-squadron should build and maintain its own school-house and choose its own teacher.

In 1771 a new school-house was built at the centre, between John Clark's and Nathaniel Carswell's; in the same year another one was built, "on the North River ;" and in 1774 another was built, near the meeting-house.

In 1797 the town had so advanced in population that it was divided into 11 school-classes or districts, and for the support of education £140 were raised. In 1800 a school-house was built on the river, near Jas. Mccullough's, and another near Jesse Lyon's.

Coleraine expended, in 1877, $2694.14 for the support of 15 schools, at which the average total daily attendance was 272.

BURIAL-PLACES.

Of the numerous burying-grounds in the town, the oldest is the one on what is called " Meeting-house Hill," about a mile east of Coleraine Centre. This ground was laid out in 1743, just south of the first meeting-house, which was built in 1742. The ground is now in a bad state of repair and sadly neglected. Doubtless there were burials there as early as 1743 or previous ; but if the graves made there then, and for thirty years afterward, were marked by headstones, time and man's neglect have extinguished the signs by which the early resting- places of the dead might be found to-day, for the oldest head- stone to be seen there now bears date 1775. Among the earliest traceable inscriptions are the following :

Ilugh Riddel, 1775; Joseph Wilson, 1777; James Wilson, 1777; Eleanor Wil- liams, 1781; Esther Bell, 17>2; Lient. John Thornton, 1783; W'm. Miller, 1783; Agnes Stewart, 1784 ; Capt. Benjamin Clark, 1786 ; Anna Callwell, 1788; Thos. Bell, 1789; Joseph MeEwen, 1791; Margaret Wilson, 1795; John Patterson, 1797; Robert Miller, 179>; Eleanor Patterson, 1796; Abraham Peck, 1798; Dearon Thomas McGee, 1798; James Bell, 1793; Ann Riddell, 1790; Rev. SamI. Taggart, 1825.

INDUSTRIES.

The chief element of Coleraine's industries is that of manu- fatetures, which, in 1875, yielded a closely estimated value in products of $390,622, while the value of agricultural and do- mestie prodnets for the same year aggregated $183,000,-an excellent showing in both departments.

The largest and most important manufacturing interest is

Francis J. Hosmer, 4th Vt.

B. F. Roberts, 31st Mass. William Carl, Vt. Cav. Edwin Carl, Vt. Cav.

Sidney Esta, 10th Mass. John H. Curtis, luth Mass. Thomas Easton, 18th Mass.

- James E. Easten, 18th Mass. Ch. Honghtaling, 10th Mass. F. E. Clark, 21-1 Mass. Lew s Jilson, 34th Mass. David Jilson, Jr., 34th Mass. Wm. Il. Bradley, 34th Mass. Walter Nichols, 34th Mass. Ed. R. King, 20th Mass.

that of the Griswoldville Manufacturing Company, of which Mr. Joseph Griswold is, and always has been, the head.

In 1828, Mr. Griswold located in Coleraine, at what is now Griswoldville, and began the manufacture of sa-li, doors, and blinds. In 1830 he began to make also augers, gimlets, and shaving-boxes, and in 1832 he erected a cotton-mill with 16 looms, and before the close of the year doubled its capa- city. In 1835 he added a second mill, and in 1840 he organ- ized the Griswoldville Manufacturing Company. In 1851 the mill first erected was destroyed by fire, but in the short space of twelve working-days was rebuilt. In 1856 the second mill, built in 1835, was burned to the ground, but in 1858 it was restored in its present enlarged form. The main building, of brick, is 250 by 50 feet, two and a half stories high ; there is a brick L, 60 by 40 feet, and there are also a boiler-house, cotton-house, sheds, etc.

In 1865 the company erected at Willis Place a second brick cotton-mill, 200 by 52 feet, three stories in height, with an ex- tension 70 by 40 feet. Both mills are on the North River, and are operated by water-power, although supplied with powerful Corliss engines, to serve in an emergency. Their combined annual product is about 6,000,000 yards of printing-elothis and sheetings.

About 200 persons are employed at both mills, and of these a majority reside in the company's briek tenements, of which there are 21 at Willis Place and 34 at Griswoldville.

The first cotton-mill in Franklin County was built in 1814, by Johnson & Wing, on the North River, at what is now Shattuckville. Cotton yarn was >pun there, and woven by hand among the residents thereabout.

In 1832, Hollister & Johnson built a mill with 14 looms, just above the old one, and shortly thereafter enlarged its capacity to 32 looms. In 1837, C. and H. Thompson and C. W. Shattuck purchased the mill, enlarged its capacity in 1844 to 64 looms, and still further in 1860 to 100 looms.

Oct. 4, 1864, the dam, mill, machinery, and a large stock of goods were entirely swept away by the disastrous flood of that day, the entire loss involved reaching to upward of $100,000. In 1870, Mr. C. W. Shattuck built upon the old site the present frame structure, which contains 200 looms, produces 3,000,000 yards of cotton sheetings and shirtings yearly, and gives employment to 100 persons. The mill-building meas- ures 122 feet in length, 50 feet in width, and 56 feet in height, with additions for dressing-room, wheel-pit, picker- and cot- ton-rooms.

Coleraine is an excellent grazing-town, and much of the attention of farmers is therefore given to the raising of stock and production of butter. The soil, which is loamy on the hills and sandy on the bottoms, produces a fair yield of tobacco and general farm products.

The minor manufacturing industries of the town include the foundry of Milo Smith, several saw-mills, and the butter- box factories of F. Purington and Pierce Bros.

The assessed valuation of Coleraine in 1878 was $547,093, of which $381,475 was on real estate. The total tax-State, county, and town-was $7478.33,-a rate of $1.36 per $100.

MILITARY.

COLERAINE'S WAR RECORD.

Appended will be found the names of the soldiers furnished by Coleraine for service in the war of the Rebellion of 1861 :

Thomas Majorly, IOth Mass.

1 E. Emerson, 20 Vt.

Cephas Parker, 34th Mass.

Thomas Brown, Jr., N. Y. V.

James Stone, Ioth Ma-s. Henry Grover, Ioth Mass.

Levi Heffron.

W. M. Lamb, 10th Maxs.

John Wallace, 10th Mass.

James W. Wallace, IOth Mass.

James II. Carrier.

G. F. Stratton, Ioth Mass. L. Churchill, 3Ist Mass.

l'eter Bard, loth Mass. J. E. Holden, 3Ist Mass.

James T. Langstroth, 10th Mass. Asa L. Snow, 10th Mass.

Jubn S. Daniels, 18th Mass. 95

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Thomas Carl. Reuben Barnes. S. C. Jilson, 34th Mass. A. P. Nelson, 52d Mass. Geo. W. Adams, 52d Mass. James T. Avery, 5211 Mass, E W. Booth,* 52d Mass. Wm. II. Booth, 52d Muss. E. P. Browning,* 52d Mass. Alvin Brown, 52d Mass.

C. B. Denison, 52dl Mnsa.

James 11. Davis, 521 Mass. M. M. Fisk, 52d Mass.

11. A. Howard, 520 Mass. George Jeffs, 52d Mass. Samuel A. Miner, 52d Mass.

11. 1. MeLond, 521 Mass.

L. B. Moore, 5211 Mass.

S. Il. Moore, 52d Mass.

F. C. Miller,# 52d Mass.

Il. M. Peterson, 52d Mass.

Il. F. Purington, 52d Mass. Dudley Preston,# 52d Mass. Wm. A. Russell, 52d Mass. J. W. Rugg, 52d Mass.

Win. II. Stone,# 52d Mass.

A. A. Smith, 521 Mass.

John Smead, 52d Mass.

Hoyt Sumner, 52d Mass.

Charles S. Stetson, 52d Mass. HI. W. Thompson, 52d Mass. V. D. Thompson, 52d Mass. T. P. Thompson, 52d Mass. A. A White, 52dl Mass. E. J. Wilson, 52d Mass. 1. York, 521 Mass.

A Bardwell, Jr., 52d Mass. James B. Minor, 52d Mass. F. T. Merriam, 528 Mass. Charles II. Porter, 52d Mass. Il. M. Howard, 52d Mass. B. F. Miner, 5211 Mass. Ira S. Orr, 52dl Muss. Alonzo Brown, 52d Mass. II. M. Barber, 52d Mass. Seth A. Curtis,* 52d Mass.

LEYDEN.

GEOGRAPHICAL.

LEYDEN is one of the smallest towns in northern Frank- lin, its population being 524, and its area 9684 acres. It is bounded north by the Vermont State line, south by the town of Greenfield, east by the town of Bernardston, and west by the town of Coleraine.

Green River, which winds along the western border of the town, is the only stream of any consequence. The nearest railway-stations are Bernardston village, on the Connecticut River Railroad, seven miles, and Greenfield village, in the town of that name, nine miles, from Leyden Centre.

NATURAL FEATURES.

Leyden, greater than Rome in one respeet, is set upon more than a score of hills, which dot the town upon the north and the south, upon the east and the west. It occupies a region noted for its salubrious atmosphere and for its delightful landscapes. From the highest eminence, in the western part of the town, the view includes portions of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut,-an area of charming country in which mountains, valleys, and streams combine to present a picture of rare beauty.

A famous natural curiosity is Leyden Glen, on the south, near the Greenfield line. At this place the brook has worn a passage through the high rocks fifteen feet in width and from thirty to fifty feet in depth. This gorge, which is forty rods in length, is a wildly romantie spot, and the beautiful glen presents a delightful retreat, where tourists make annual sunt- mer pilgrimages. At the head of the glen the waters of the brook are confined within the limits of a reservoir, whence the village of Greenfield obtains an abundant supply of pure water.

Green River, which has its head-waters in Coleraine and Leyden (West Hollow Brook in the latter being one of its sources), flows south ward and empties into the Deerfield River near Greenfield. Stone was quarried to some extent for the bridge of the Connecticut River Railroad Co. in Bernardston, but the lack of transportation facilities-Leyden having no railway communication-limits the usefulness of the quarry. A curiosity that has for years attracted wide attention is " the hanging rock," on the farm of Mr. Jonathan Budington. This rock, which weighs upward of twenty tons, and is so set that a slight pressure of the human hand moves without displacing it, is said to have maintained that condition since the year 1800.

EARLY SETTLEMENT.

The settlement of Leyden is necessarily a part of the early history of the town of Bernardston, since Leyden was set off from Bernardston, and until 1784 was a part of that town. An old record gives the names of the following persons as having settled in the district of Leyden in the years 1784, 1785, 1787, and 1788 :

In 1784, John B. Demontal, Mary, his wife, and Eliza- beth, Abigail, and Charlotte, their children, from Shelburne, Mass. ; John Moore and his wife, with their children, David and Alexander, Mary Moore and her children, Thomas, James, and Mary, from Palmer, Mass. ; Sylvester Crandall and Mary, his wife, with their children, from Guilford, Vt .; John Wells with Desire, his wife, and their children, David and Sena, from Springfield, Vt. ; Jehial and Polly Niles, from Connecticut ; Oliver and Thankful Noyes, with their children, from Guilford, Vt. ; Daniel Edwards with Mehitabel, his wife, and their children, from Coventry, in Connecticut ; Solomon Dimmock, Bedgood Bulfish and his wife, Ellen, and Sarah Cole, from Enfield, Conn .; Levi Brooks, wife, and three children, with Thomas Brooks and wife, from Guilford, Vt .; Benjamin Grinnel and wife, from Rhode Island; and James Philips and wife, from Springfield, Mass. In 1785, Joshua Noyes, wife, and four children, from Guilford, Vt. ; David Denison, wife, and children, and John Burrows, wife, and children, from the same town.

In 1787 the new settlers included John Saunders, wife, and children, from Rhode Island; Peter Brown, wife, and chil- dren, from Montague, Mass. ; Jabez Knapp, wife, and chil- dren, Enoch Childs, wife, and children, and Joseph Engley, all of Taunton, Mass. The record states further that these new-comers were " received" by Nathaniel Carpenter, Lieut. Daniel Newcomb, and Lieut. Reuben Shattuck. The first person born in Leyden was Polly, daughter of Richard and Patience Grinnel, July 31, 1784, and the first marriage that of Caleb Adams to Catherine Davenport, whose "inten- tions" were published April 6, 1786. An earlier record states that "Samuel Guild, Jr., of Leyden, was married to Mrs. Lydia Esen, of Bernardston, May 25, 1782." The first four frame houses built in the town were erected by Enoch Briggs, Squire Packer, - Bliss, and - Page. The house built by Briggs is the one now occupied by Hervey Wilbur ; the one built by Squire Packer is the one in which A. P. Shattuck resides, and the one built by Page is now the residence of Edward Gary, at Beaver Meadow. The house

* Died in the service, or in consequence of wounds received in the service.

O. W. Clark, 52d Mass, II. C. Cromack, 52d Mass. Levi E. Call, 52d Mass. Joel L. Clark, 52d Mass.

J. H. Curtis, 5Ml Mass. James W. Carpenter, 52d Mass. E. Davenport, 52d Mass. Z. J. Dunton, 52d Mass.

ELISHA CHAPIN, father of the subject of this notice, was born in Leyden, Franklin Co., Mass., May 24, 1782. He was the son of Selah and Jerusha Chapin, and grand- son of Caleb and Catharine Chapin.

Elisha Chapin was a promi- ment man in the town, and held various offices of trust ; be was a member of the Legis- lature four years, and, in 1820, assisted in revising the consti- tution of the State ; he was justice of the peace fifteen years, and a member of the board of selectmen thirteen terms.

OLIVER CHAPIN was born in Leyden, on the place where he now resides, Feb. 12, 1811. He received a common-school edu- cation, and also attended the Northfield Academy two terms. When he reached his majority he was employed by his father to work upon the farm during the summer, and received for his labor eleven dollars per month. This he continued two

Oliver Chapin

years, and in the mean time taught school during the win- ter months ; he afterward took charge of the farm, receiving a monthly salary until his father's decease, which occurred in 1835. He then assumed the management of the estate, and subsequently bought the farm, consisting of one hundred and fifty acres, by paying off the co-heirs. He has since been engaged in farming. He has served in the capacity of selectman eleven years. Is a man of strict integrity, and has been uniformly successful in his undertakings ; takes an act- ive interest in educational mat- ters, and in all things pertaining to the benefit of the community in which he lives.

He was married, June 13, 1843, to Caroline L., daughter of James C. Root, of Bernards ton. They have no children.

Mr. and Mrs. Chapin are members of the Universalist Church of Leyden, and contrib- ute liberally to its support.

RESIDENCE OF OLIVER CHAPIN, LEYDEN, MASS.

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HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY.

erected by Bliss stood upon the site of the present residence of David Mowry, Esq. Garner Champlin, who was the first earpenter, built the house of Nathan Mowry, about a mile west of Leyden Centre, but whether he assisted in building the others referred to cannot now be told. The first tavern is sup- posed to have been kept by Thomas Wells, in the south part of the town, and the second by David Carpenter, in the west. The first store was set up at Beaver Meadow by one Fuller. For some years after the incorporation of Leyden, the mail for that district was conveyed from Greenfield by Elisha Burnham, of Bernardston, who is said to have performed. his journeys on foot. The first postmaster was Reuben Sheldon.

Earlier settlers than above stated were from Rhode Island and Connecticut. One Coolidge, of Rhode Island, is reported to have taken up the first farm. It passed afterward into the possession of Enoch Briggs, and is the farm now owned and occupied by Hervey Wilbur, whose ancestor, Uriah Wil- bur, of Connecticut, settled on the Leyden tract in 1780. Other early settlers were the Babcocks, Barstows, Vinings, Ingrahams, Gateses, Spices, Henrys, Fosters, and Cunnables. The first important highway laid out was the county road from Greenfield, Mass., to Guilford, Vt., still the route between those points.

NOTEWORTHY INCIDENTS.

Upon the breaking out of the Shays rebellion in 1786, Ley- den voted " to do something about the difficulties and tumults in the State, and to chose a committee for that purpose." It was voted shortly after that " we are uneasie with the pres- ent administration of the government, and that if any men are called for and turn out in support of our priviledges they shall be paid for their time and supplied with provisions by the town." Of the three insurgents killed in Shays' attack upon Springfield, in January, 1787, one was Jabez Spicer, of Leyden.

In 1787 the people chose a committee to lay the circum- stances of the district before the General Court, and to petition for relief, but what relief they obtained is not clear. About this time the district was visited with a disastrous hurricane, which leveled thousands of trees, destroyed houses and crops, and worked much damage, and it may have been because of that calamity that relief was asked for.

Shortly after 1790, Leyden was much excited by the advent therein of one William Dorrel, once a private in the army of Gen. Burgoyne, and a settler, shortly after that chieftain's sur- render at Saratoga, in the town of Northfield, Mass. Thence he removed to Leyden, and shortly after his location there began to publicly teach a doctrine alleged to be founded upon free love, and a belief that the taking of animal life under any circumstances was a grievous sin. Although an ignorant man and given to intemperance and other debasing vices, he obtained many adherents, and upon their credulity established a seet known as the Dorrelites. Among other things, he taught that to each generation of man was appointed a Messiah, and that for his generation he was the Messiah. The believers in the faith held property in common, repudiated the use of anything whatsoever resulting from the taking of animal life, dressed in tow-cloth, wore wooden shoes, drank, danced, and earoused in their religious exercises, which were led by Dorrel, and conducted themselves, in short, like fa- natics.

The Dorrelites were extinguished by Ezekiel Foster, of Leyden, at a meeting of the sert held some time during the year 1800. Dorrel was holding forth as usual in a wildly en- thusiastic manner, and, claiming the protection of a mysteri- ous power, defied mortal flesh to harm him, whereupon Foster lifted his strong right arm and smote the apostle Dorrel to the earth. This broke the charm by which Dorrel had enslaved his followers, and they, realizing that their leader was an impostor, returned to their sober senses, and the sect of Dor- relites became a thing of the past. Dorrel afterward admitted that he had no faith in the doctrines he promulgated, but

undertook their dissemination simply to show how casily he could delude people. After his fall he lived in humble retire- ment in Leyden, and during the last few years of his life was so reduced in circumstances that he was a town charge. Ile died in 1846, at the advanced age of ninety-five, from a self- imposed starvation, which he sought on the plea that he had lived long enough, and was buried in the Beaver Meadow Cemetery.

Other very old persons who have lived in Leyden were the Widow Burns, who died in 1840, aged one hundred, and Mary Ellis, in 1802, at the age of ninety-seven. The oldest person now living in Leyden is Aunt Hannah Mowry, aged ninety. Mr. Jesse Henry, now living, at the age of eighty- five, in Leyden (1879), was a lieutenant in the local militia at the time of the draft in 1814 for soldiers to serve in the second war with Great Britain. The draft in Leyden took place on a Sunday, in front of the old meeting-house ; and of the eight persons who were drafted on that occasion, the names of six are here given, as follows: Stephen Doyle, Ira Gaut, Briggs Potter, Adin Eason, Lincoln Fields, and Nathan Bud- dington. The last survivor of the six named was Stephen Doyle, who died in Leyden in 1876.

Among the men of mark who have originated in Leyden may be mentioned Henry Kirke Brown, a sculptor, and John L. Riddell, the inventor of the binocular microscope and magnifying-glass.

ORGANIZATION.

In response to a petition of certain inhabitants of Ber- nardston, setting forth that they labored under difficulties and inconveniences in their present situation, the Legislature passed an act, March 12, 1784, erecting a part of Bernardston into a district with the name of Leyden. The boundaries were laid out to be as follows :

" Beginning at the north west corner of Bernardston, from thence to run south, eighty degrees east, three miles and two hundred and eighty rods on the New Hampshire line* (so called), to a becch-trée, then south to the south line of said town, then west on the line between said Bernardston and Greenfield to Green River (so called), which is the said boundage between the said Bernardston and Colrain, then northerly along by said Green River to the northeast corner of Bernardston."

The town was named in honor of Leyden, in Holland, where the Puritan ancestors of many of the settlers of Mas- sachusetts lived for some time previous to emigrating to America. The first town-meeting was held April 26, 1784, and the warrant therefor was served by Caleb Adams, under instructions from David Smead, Justice of the Peace.

The names of the persons who served the town as selectmen and town clerks in succession from 1704 to 1789 will be found appended.

SELECTMEN.

1784 .- Agrippa Wells, Chas. Packer, Reuben Shattuck.

1785 .- Agrippa Wells, Ebenezer Vining, Oliver. Babcock.

1786 .- Alphens Barstow, Chas. Packer, Renben Ingraham.

1787 .- Alphens Barstow, Samnel Guild, David Gates.

1788 .- Agrippa Wells, David Gates, Ezra Shattuck.

1789 .- Alphens Barstow, David Gates, Ezra Shattuck.

1790 .- Alpheus Barstow, Chas. Packer, Andrew Henry.

1791 .- Agrippa Wells, Peleg Babcock, Ezra Shattuck.

1792 .- Andrew Henry, Chas. Packer, Alphens Barstow.

1793 .- Ezra Shattuck, David Gates, Richard Esen.

1794 .- Ezra Shattuck, David Gates, Lemuel Foster. 1795 .- Samuel Cunable, David Gates, Lemuel Foster. 1796-97 .- Simeon Allen, David Gates, Richard Esen.

1798 .- Hezekiah Newcomb, David Gates, Richard Esen.

1799 .- Lemuel Foster, Jonathan Olmstead, Richard Escu.

1800 .- David Denison, Matthew Severance, Oliver Babcock.

1801 .- David Denison, Chas, Packer, Hezekiah Neweumb.

1802-3 .- David Denison, Peleg Babcock, Hezekiah Newcomb.

1804 .- David Denison, Peleg Babcock, Lemnel Foster. 1805-6 .- David Denison, Hezekiah Newcomb, Jos. Green. 1807 .- Peter Gates, Hezekiah Newcomb, Jos. Green.

IÑOS .- Peter Gates, Amos Burrows, David Denison.

1:09 .- Hezekiah Newcomb, Amos Burrows, Salmon Shellon.

INIO .- Selah Chapin, Jr., John Easom, N. Carpenter, Jr.

* Vermont was then called "The New Hampshire Grant."

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1511 .- Selah Chapin, Jr., Amos Burrows, Hezekiah Newcomb. 1812 .- Selah Chapin, Jr., Salmon Sheldon, Nathaniel Avery. 1813 .- Selah Chopin, Jr., Briah Wilbur, Jr., Ezra Foster.

1814 .- Selah Chapin, Jr., Uriah Wilbur, Jr., Hezekiah Newcomb, 1×15. Rufus Shattuck, Uriah Wilbur, Jr., Hezekiah Newcomb. 1816 .- Tabor Balwork, Elisha Chapin, Hezekiah Newcomb. 1×17-18,-Tabor Babcock, Uriah Wilbur, Hezekiah Newcomb. 1819 .- Ezra Shattuck, Uriah Willmir, Leonard Bliss.

1820 .- George Mowry, Elisha Chapin (20), Eli Wing. 1821 .- George Mowry, Elisha Chapin (24), Hezekiah Newcomb.

1822 .- George Mowry, Elisha Chapin (2), John Barstow. 1×23 .- George Mowry, Elisha Chapin (20), Salmon Sheldon. 1824 .- Josiah Avery, Elisha Chapin (2d), Elijah Brown. 1825 .- George Mowry, Elisha Chapin (2d), Elijah Brown. 1826-27 .- George Mowry, Elisha Chapin (20), Hezekiah Newcomb.

183L .- Jesse llenry, Edward Denison, Jr., Jos. Babcock. 1832 .- Elisha Chapin, Josiah Avery, John Dale. 1833 .- Rufus Hastings, Josiah Avery, Smith Langley.

1834 .- Hezekiah Newcomb, Elisha Chapin, Smith Langley.

1835,-Josiah Avery, Elisha Chapin, Smith Langley. 1836 .- Josiah Avery, Edward Denisou, Chas. Manly.

1837 .- Jonathan Buddington, Eli W. Packer, Horace Potter.

1838-39 .- Renben Sheldon, Geo. Mowry, Josiah Avery. 1840 .- Jesse Henry, John Barstow, Rufus Frizzel. 1841 .- Jesse fleury, Horace Potter, Knfns Frizzel.

IS42 .- Jesse Henry, A. P. Shattuck, Rufus Frizzel. 1543 .- Josiah Avery, Edward Denison, Ilorace Potter.

1844 .- Jesse Henry, Horace Potter.

1845 .- A. P. Shattuck, Horace Potter, E. A. Gates.

IN46,-A. P. Shattuck, Russell Richmond, E. A. Gates.

1847 .- Jesse llenry, F. W. Carleton, Gervis Barstow.

1848,-Jesse Henry, F. W. Carleton, A. P. Shattuck.

1849,-Jesse Henry, Josiah Avery, A. P. Shattuck.

1850 .- Jesse Henry, Edward Denison, Chester Severance.

IN51 .- Jos, Green, Edward Denison, Chester Severance.

1852 .- Cyrus C. Miner, Edward Denison, Chester Severance. 1853 .- Jesse Henry, Jos. Green, E. A. Gates.

1×54 .- Jesse Henry, Oliver Chapin, S. C. Brown.

1855 .- Jos. Green, Oliver Chapin, E. A. Gates.

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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 64

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