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GALENA .- A vein of sulphuret of lead, which promises to be of some commercial value, exists in the west part of the town. Strictly speaking, there appear to be three distinct veins of this metal ; but only two of them have been explored to any extent.
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One is found on the westerly margin of Poplar hill, and extends into Conway. The other is on the casterly side of Hog Moun- tain, and may be traced for three-fourths of a mile. A cross vein has been discovered on land of Edwin Bardwell. The usual width of the vein is from six to eight feet, traversing the granite formation, and is found disseminated in masses in quartz. In the southern part it contains oxide of manganese along with the galena.
Statistics of Industry, not heretofore given.
Woolen Mills. Pounds Wool consumed. Yards Cloth manufactured.
Valuc.
1837.
3 52,500
57,000 $37,000
1855. 1 35,000
47,000 18,800
1865.
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40,000
86,992 86,992
In 1865, 30,000 pairs men's wool hose were manufactured, of the value of $14,000. In 1837, the value of the palm leaf hats made was $7,500.
CHAPTER XIII.
MISCELLANY AND STATISTICS.
CEMETERIES .- At the time Whately was settled, it was the common custom to carry forth the dead for burial "upon men's shoulders." And hence the need in this town of three burial places, to accommodate the three distinct early centres of popula- tion. And this will explain the votes passed at the first town meeting, "to provide a grave-cloth and two biers for the use of the town." Probably a bier had been already provided for the Chestnut Plain settlers.
The centre cemetery was located at the corner of the Chest- nut Plain and Mount Esther roads, or as near the corner as the ground would allow. It was doubtless selected for convenience, rather than attractiveness, as the northerly slope and clayey soil give it a cold aspect. The grounds at the Straits and at West street were selected for convenience, and are "beautiful for situa- tion." They are where the free winds and bright sunshine come ; where the morning and evening light falls pleasantly, and the associations of soil and scenery are cheerful. But the thoughtful zeal and refined taste of the present pastor of the Congregational church have done much to make them all attrac- tive, and his name should be transmitted on these records, as one who deserves the praise of the living for his loving care for the dead.
So far as can be ascertained, the oldest grave in the central ground is that of Mrs. Hester, wife of Daniel Morton, who died Oct. 21, 1762 ; the oldest stone in this yard is that of Mrs. Jemima, wife of Lucius Allis, who died JJune 9, 1764. The oldest stone, and perhaps the oldest grave in the cast cemetery, is that of Mr. Joseph Sanderson, dated Mar. 20, 1772. The
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oldest stone in the West Whately ground is that of Clarissa, daughter of Lieut. Noah and Lucy Bardwell, who died Dec. 15, 1776.
In the year 1824, the heirs of Thomas Sanderson, Esq., pre- sented to the town the hearse which their father intended to have given, had he not been removed by death before the same was finished.
MAIL FACILITIES .- A private weekly post between North- ampton and Ashfield, via Whately Centre, was established in 1789. The names of the post-riders are, Andrew Wood, 1789- 91, and from '92 to '99; Stephen Taylor, 1791; Ethan A. Clary, '99, 1800 ; Bliss Furbush, 1800-3 ; Joseph Richardson, 1804-11 ; Josiah Shaw, Jr., 1811-14. In 1814, a post-office was established by the government in this town, and the mail was carried from Northampton, via Whately, Conway, Ash- field, and Buckland to Hawley, once a week each way. Robert Winchell was the first post-master, and kept the office at his dwelling-house. When Elijah Allis opened a tavern at the house opposite Mr. Winchell's, he was appointed post- master.
REMINISCENCES .- Extract from a letter to the author. "I am a grandson of Philip Smith, son of Elisha. Philip was born July, 1730, and was but a small boy when his father settled in the Straits, as I have often heard him say. I lived in his family, and have heard him relate many incidents of those early times. The five families there lived in good agreement, helping each other as is common in new settlements. They cleared them a fishing place at the mouth of Sugar-loaf brook, where they took shad and salmon so plenty that shad sometimes could not be sold for a copper apiece, consequently they were regarded as mean food. Sargeant Wait brought a few potatoes in his sad- dle-bags from a Scotch settlement in the east part of the State, which he planted and nursed with care, and obtained a good crop. These were the first potatoes my grandfather ever saw. Sargeant Wait's son Seth, when a boy, was somewhat timid, and when he happened to stay to play till after dark, he would hire Philip to go home with him for a potatoe. I have often heard
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my grand-father speak of the Indian alarms. Some time after the commencement of the French and Indian War, they all went to Hatfield for fear of the enemy.
" Very truly yours,
" PHINEHAS SMITHI. " Ogden, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1850."
THE "GREAT DRAIN."-This starts in the North Swamp, near the Deerfield line, in three branches, two on the west side, and one on the east side of the Swamp road. The two west branches meet, and cross the road in one channel, which receives the east branch, and running southerly, crosses Christian lane west of Lucius Graves's house, and empties into Little river, south-westerly of the house of Erastus Crafts.
It is a current tradition that this drain-designed, for both sanitary and agricultural reasons, to draw off surplus water-was projected, and partially opened, by His Majesty's government, before 1770. It was opened (or re-opened) in 1801-2, by order of the county commissioners ; and a tax was levied on the proprietors of the swamp lands to defray the cost. Capt. William Tryon and Dea. Thomas Sanderson, were the proprietors' com- mittee ; Justin Morton collected the taxes.
CHALYBEATE SPRINGS .- Several of these springs are found in the east part of town. One, known by the local name of Physic Spring, comes out just east of the road, near the house of J. C. Sanderson. Another flows into Hopewell brook, near Dea. Elihu Belden's paint mill.
LOCALITIES. - Most of the hills, brooks and swamps in Whately are identified with one and another point in our his- tory, and have been already mentioned in such connection as to indieate their location. In many instances, the name corresponds to the nature of the locality, and is itself suggestive of its origin ; in some cases the name is evidently arbitrary, though its reason is obvious ; while in others, no clew exists by which to account for a given designation.
Great Swamp, as the name was first applied, extends through the town from north to south ; the part lying north of the cause- way has in modern times been known as North Swamp. Mill
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Swamp was the name given to the wet lands on both sides of Mill river. The Island was the strip of plain land lying between the two swamps. Beach Island is in the North Swamp. Pro- bably the Claverack road, as originally laid out, crossed this Island. Wet Swamp, now called Hopewell, at first embraced the spongy land under the bluff, bordering the river meadows, and extended no further north than the proprietors' highway, which run west from the Joshua Beldin place. This tract was . so wet as to be considered worthless ; and probably the name Hopewell was applied to it, when some sanguine owner proposed to open ditches, in the hope of reclaiming the swamp. Hope- well hill borders the swamp near the Hatfield line. Trumbull's Hill, just south of Stephen Belden's, was so named because a man of the name of Trumbull was slain here by the Indians. Poplar Spring near the road, about forty rods north of the Zebina Bartlett place, was a favorite baiting place for travelers. Probably Mehuman Hinsdale was captured by the Indians at this spot, in 1709. Dead Meadow is situated upon the plain a half mile south-west of where John Wait lived. Shingle Hill, where Benj. Wait lived, is south-east of Paul W. Fields's. The Glen is a romantic gorge on Roaring Brook, and has of late become a favorite resort for pic-nics. Hopewell Brook is wholly in Whately. Sugar Loaf Brook, called by the Indians Weekio- annuck, rises in Deerfield and flows through the north-east corner of the town. Mill River, named in the Indian deeds Cappawong, and sometimes Mattaoolanick, rises in the easterly part of Conway, flows through the south-west corner of Deer- field, and receiving the waters of Bloody Brook from the east, just within the Whately line, traverses the town from north to south, receiving from the west, Roaring brook, Gutter brook, School-house brook and West brook.
Canterbury, Egypt, Chestnut Plain, Round Hill, Round Knoll, Stoney Hill, Chestnut Mountain, Mount Esther, Spruce Hill, Gutter Hill, Staddle Hill, Poplar Hill, Ilog Mountain, Dry Hill, Grass Hill, are well known localities, and most of them have been called by their present names since the earliest settlement of the territory.
Mount Esther was occupied as a station for obtaining the trigonometrical survey of the State ; and the prospect from this
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and Chestnut Mountain, as well as from Grass and Poplar Hills, is very extensive. The landscape as seen from these points, is perhaps too indefinite in outlines to be specially attractive. But the scenery from Round Ilill, and Spruce Hill, and Indian Hill, -the two former commanding the entire valley from Sugar Loaf to Holyoke, and eastward to the Pelham Hills, and the latter commanding the Sugar loaf range and the valley of the Deerfield River-is scarcely surpassed in the interior counties. The views lack the elements of grandeur and sublimity ; but in quiet beauty, and rich variety, and breadth, and clearly cut out- lines, each is replete with charms, and has a perfection of its own. Whoever has watched the mists, and shadows, and unfoldings of distance, and the rapidly shifting contrasts, as they are successively unveiled at sunrise, of a June morning ; or has carefully studied the variegated tints of meadow and rock and forest, as they appear of an autumn afternoon, has a picture engraved on his memory that is ineffaceable, "a thing of beauty " which is " a joy forever."
PHYSICIANS IN WHATELY. Perez Chapin, 1778-1788. Benjamin Dickinson, 1787-1804. Oliver Norton, 1788- 1789. Francis Harwood, 1794, till his death. Richard Em- mons, 1812-1815. Joshua D. Harwood, 1814, till his death. Chester Bardwell, 1816, till his death. Myron Harwood, 1827, till the present time.
Statistics of Population, etc., from 1771 to 1870, compiled from the Census Returns.
1771. Number of males over 16 years, 75; total population, estimated, 320. Number of dwelling-houses, 40; number of families, 18.
1776. Total white population, according to Colonial census, 410.
1786. Number of males over 16 years, 141 ; total population, estimated, 544; number of dwelling-houses, 68.
1790. Number of males under 16, 199; over 16, 184; number of females, 352; total, 735: number of dwelling-houses, 120; number of families, 130.
1800. Total number of inhabitants, 773.
1810. Number of males, 433; number of females, 457; total, 890.
1820. Total number of inhabitants, 1,076.
1830. Number of males, 573; number of females, 538; total, 1,111.
1840. Total number of inhabitants, 1,072; number of polls ratable, 291; number of polls not ratable, 19; number of dwelling-houses, 168; number of barns, 160.
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1850. Total number of inhabitants, 1,129.
1860. Number of males, 544; number of females, 513; total, 1,057 : 2 females over 90 ; 216 dwellings ; 227 families. 1865. Number of males, 538; number of females, 474; total, 1,012: 1 female over 100; 222 dwellings ; 223 families.
1870. Total number of inhabitants, 1,068.
Deaths.
1771 to '81, 70; 1781 to '91, 64; 1791 to 1801, 92; 1801 to '11, 107; 1811 to '21, 151; 1821 to '31, 165; 1831 to '41, 131; 1811 to '51, 166; 1851 to '61, 209; 1861 to '71, 198; 1871, 22; total for 101 years, 1,375. Died under 5 years, 497 ; between 70 and 80 years, 141; between 80 and 90 years, 114; between 90 and 100 years, 23; over 100 years, 1.
Valuation, according to Official Returns.
1830, $ 206,858. 1840, $ 220,927. 1850, $ 438,772. 1860, $ 624,902. 1865, $665,972. 1870, $ 802,511.
Selectmen, from the Incorporation of the Town.
John Wait, 1771.
Simeon Wait, 1771.
Edward Brown, 1771. Philip Smith, 1771, 72.
Salmon White, 1771-75, 77, 78 84- 86, 90-92, 94; 14 years.
Noalı Wells, 1772-75, 78, 82, 83, 88.
David Scott, 1772. Elisha Frary, 1772, 80.
Thomas Sanderson, 1773-75, 77, 78, 83-87, 89, 90, 92-96, 98-1803, 12- 17; 29 years. Oliver Graves, 1776, 77.
Joseph Belding, Jr., 1776, 77, 83. John Smith, 1776, 77, 80, 87-89. Perez Chapin, 1780.
Silas Smith, 1781. Noah Bardwell, 1781, 90, 91, 93, 96. David Graves, Jr., 1781, 82.
Col. Josiah Allis, 1783-89, 91-93. Maj. Phineas Frary, 1794-99, 1803- 6, 9, 12-15 ; 15 years.
Asa Sanderson, 1795, 1803-5, 12, 13. John White, 1795, 98-1800, 2-11; 14 years.
Capt. Seth Frary, 1800, 1, 2, 4, 5, 14, 15. Levi Morton, 1801, 3. Bezaleel Smith, 1804, 5, 11. Gideon Dickinson, 1806-8, 10, 11. Zenas Field, 1807, 8, 10, 11, 16. Oliver Graves, Jr., 1809, 16, 18, 19. Capt. Rufus Smith, 1811. Consider Morton, 1812, 13. Capt. Salmon Graves, 1812, 13. Oliver Morton, 1814, 15, 16. Orange Bardwell, 1814, 15. Lemuel Wait, 1816, 18. Isaac Frary, 1817, 19. Silas Frary, 1817, 18, 20. Seth Smith, 1819-21, 24-27. Thomas Crafts, 1820-22, 25, 28, 30, 32-36. Capt. William Fay, 1821, 29. Charles Morton, 1822. Dea. James Smith, 1822. David Stockbridge, 1823-26, 28, 31, 40,43. Dea. Justus White, 1823, 24, 31. Dexter Morton, 1823. Dr. Chester Bardwell, 1826.
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Calvin Wells, 1827, 35-39, 45. David Saunders, 1827.
Daniel Brown, 1828, 29, 30, 45. Levi Bush, Jr., 1829. Capt. Luke Wells, 1830. Chester Brown, 1831-36, 40, 41. Luke B. White, 1832, 33, 34.
Hiram Smith, 1837-39, 46, 55, 61. James M. Crafts, 1855.
J. C. Sanderson, 1837, 44, 45, 49, 50.
Arnold Morton, 1838, 39, 13, 44, 47,51. Dexter Crafts, 1840.
Rufus Graves, 1841, 46, 61.
Stalham Allis, 1811. Rodolphus Sanderson, 1842, 47. Plyna Graves, 1842. Capt. Sethi Bardwell, 1842, 1851. Lyman Dickinson, 1843, 44, 55. Daniel F. Morton, 1846.
56, 57, 61-66, 68, 69 ; 15 years.
John Field, 1848. Abel W. Nash, 1818. Capt. Asa Parker, 1851. Stephen Belden, 1852, 53, 59. Elliot C. Allis, 1854.
Zebina W. Bartlett, 1851, 67. Isaac Frary, Jr., 1854.
Rufus Dickinson, 1856, 57, 59, 69. J. W. C. Allis, 1856, 68, 69. Alonzo Crafts, 1857, 60, 62-64, 67. Alfred Belden, 1858. Dennis Dickinson, 1858.
Edwin Bardwell, 1858-60, 62-67, 70, 71; 11 years.
L. W. Hannum, 1860, 61. Elihu Belden, 1865.
Eliphas HI. Wood, 1866.
Harvey Moor, 1868. Samuel Lesure, 1870.
Thomas Wait, 1847, 49, 50, 52, 53. 'Samuel C. Wood, 1870.
Samuel B. White, 1848-50. 52, 53, | Elbridge G. Crafts, 1871.
David Ashcraft, 1871.
Town Clerks, from 1771 to 1781.
Salmon White, 1771-79. Dr. Perez Chapin, 1780, 81.
Thomas Sanderson, 1782-86, 89-98, 1800, 1; 17 years. Col. Josiah Allis, 1787, 88. Dr. Benj. Dickinson, 1799. William Mather, 1802-9, 12, 13. Elijah Allis, 1810, 1811. Thomas Wells, 1814. Luke Wells, 1815-25.
Edward Phelps, 1826. Chester Wells, 1827-30. Martin Woods, 1831, 32. Eurotas Morton, 1833, 31. Dr. Myron llarwood, 1835, 36, 38- 41. Stalham Allis, 1837. Samuel Lesure, 1812-56, 60-71; 27 years. Dennis Dickinson, 1857. 58, 59.
Town Treasurers, from 1771 to 1871.
Salmon White, 1771-79. Dr. Perez Chapin, 1780, 81. Thomas Sanderson 1782 - 86, 92 - 1802. Josiah Allis, 1787-90. Elijah Smith, 1791. Bezaleel Smith, 1803.
Solomon Adkins, Jr., 1804-8, 15, 16. Jehu Dickinson, 1809-11. Samuel Grimes, 1812, 13. William Mather, 1814. Oliver Morton, 1817, 18, 21, 23. Lemuel Wait, 1819, 20.
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Luther Wells, 1822. Calvin Wells, 1824-28. Caleb Crafts, 1829. Leonard Loomis, 1830, 31, 33, 45, 69.
Levi Bush, Jr., 1834, 35.
Eurotas Morton, 1832, 36, 37.
Cha's D. Stockbridge, 1838, 40. Samuel B. White, 1841-44, 48. Elliott C. Allis, 1841, 58, 63, 64. Franklin Graves, 1847, 52, 53.
Rufus Graves, 1849. James M. Crafts, 1850, 61, 71. John White, 1851. Zebina Bartlett, 1855, 57, 59. Henry K. White, 1856, 59, 60. S. E. Allis, 1862.
Horace B. Fox, 1865.
Apollos Clary; 1866. E. H. Wood, 1867. Edward C. Sanderson, 1868. Elbridge G. Crafts, 1870.
Assessors from the Incorporation of the Town.
Edward Brown, 1771. Philip Smith, 1771, 72, 95.
Salmon White, 1771-82, 81-86, 90, 92, 94 ; 18 years. Elisha Frary, 1772.
Thomas Sanderson, 1773, 74, 77-79, 82, 84-86, 89, 91-94, 99, 1800, 2, 3, 4, 6-9, 12-14 ; 26 years. Israel Graves, 1793-96.
Noah Wells, 1773, 74, 78, 79, 82, 83, 88.
Benjamin Smith, 1775, 1776. Oliver Graves, 1776. John Smith, 1775-77, 87, 89. Amos Marsh, 1780. Noah Bardwell, 1781, 87, 90, 91, 94-96. Joseph Belding, Jr., 1781, 83. Josiah Allis, 1783-93. Phineas Frary, 1794, 99-1802, 5. Asa Marslı, Jr., 1796. John White, 1797, 98, 1801, 5. Dr. Francis Harwood, 1797. William Mather, 1797-1807, 9. Lemuel Wells, 1798. Jona. Smith, Jr., 1803-6. Seth Frary, 1805. Asa Sanderson, 1805, 13. Bezaleel Smith, 1805. Elijah Allis, 1807-11. Isaac Frary, 1808, 10, 11. Charles Bardwell, 1810, 11. Thomas Crafts, 1812, 1830.
Orange Bardwell, 1812, 13. Thomas Wells, 1813, 15-20, 26. Silas Frary, 1814-16, 19. Ebenezer Barnard, 1814, 15. Dexter Morton, 1816, 19, 21, 31.
Chester Wells, 1817, 18, 25, 27-29. Seth Smith, 1817, 18, 22, 23, 28, 29, 32, 34.
David Stockbridge, 1820.
Daniel Brown, 1820, 25, 26, 30. David Saunders, 1821-25.
Asa Dickinson, 1821.
Justus White, 1822.
Edward Phelps, 1823, 24.
Chester Brown, 1824. Charles Morton, 1826.
Capt. William Fay, 1827, 31.
Elijah Sanderson, 1827. Arnold Morton, 1828, 29, 36, 38. Luke Wells, 1830. Eurotas Dickinson, 1831, 32, 33.
Abel W. Nash, 1832, 47.
Asa Sanderson, Jr. 1833, 45. Rodolphus Sanderson, 1833, 35, 36, 39, 40, 45, 56. Dexter Crafts, 1834, 35. Col. Caleb Crafts, 1834. Capt. Sethi Bardwell. 1835, 62. Thomas Wait, 1836, 46. Calvin Wells, 1837, 38, 47. John C. Sanderson, 1837, 43, 57, 62. Hiram Smith, 1837-39, 42, 48, 50, 51, 57.
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Leonard Loomis, 1839, 40, 42. 59. Aaron S. Stearns, 1855.
Dennis Dickinson, 1810, 41, 43.
Renben Jenney, 1841.
John B. Morton, 1841, 45.
Alfred Belden, 1812, 54.
Samuel Dickinson, 1813, 44. Justin R. Smith, 1844.
L. W. Hannum, 1857. Harvey Moor, 1858. George W. Crafts, 1858, 61. Edwin W. Warner, 1859.
Josiah Allis, 1841, 46.
Samuel B. White, 1846, 61.
Dr. Chester Bardwell, 1860, 63.
Elliott C. Allis, 1817, 52, 53, 60.
John L. Morton, 1818.
Jabez Pease, 1818.
Lewis Wells, 1819.
Cha's D. Stockbridge, 1819-51, 60, Alvin N. Claghorn, 1863, 64. 65, 66.
Franklin Graves, 1819.
Rufus Graves, 1850, 51.
Isaac Frary, Jr., 1852, 53.
Zebina W. Bartlett, 1852, 58, 58.
Porter Wells, 1851.
E. S. Munson, 1854, 56.
Samuel B. White, 1838, 46.
Elijah Allis, 1839. Thomas Nash, 1842. Jabez Pease, 1844.
Maj. Phineas Frary, 1805, 8, 10, 11. Dr. Chester Bardwell, 1847, 48, 51.
John White, 1825. Rev. L. P. Bates, 1829.
David Stockbridge. 1830.
Thomas Crafts, 1831 ; May and Nov. Capt. Luke Wells, 1832.
Edwin Bardwell, 1854. Iliram Smith, 1855.
Chester Brown. 1833.
William HI. Fuller, 1858, 59.
Leander Clark, 1831, 40.
C'alvin Wells, 1835.
Asa Dickinson, 1836.
Alfred Belden, 1868.
Seth B. Crafts, 1871.
Delegates to Constitutional Conventions.
Col. Josiah Allis was Delegate to the Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution in 1788.
Dea. Thomas Sanderson was Delegate to the Convention to revise the Constitution of Massachusetts, 1820.
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Chester Bardwell, Jr., 1863. James M. Crafts, 1865, 66, 71. Edw. C. Sanderson, 1867, 68, 69, 71. Myron Brown, 1867, 68, 69.
Chester R. Wait, 1870. Edwin C. Parker, 1870.
Representatives to the General Court.
John Smith, 1783. Thomas Sanderson, 1781, 1812. 13.
Capt. Salmon White, 1785.
Col. Josiah Allis, 1787, 88.
Dea. Justus White, 1819.
Abel W. Nash, 1852. Josiah Allis, 1853.
L. W. Ilannum, 1861. Capt. Seth Bardwell, 1861.
Rodolphus Sanderson, 1837.
William (. Smith, 1855, 60. Charles D. Crafts, 1855. Henry K. White, 1856, 57.
Paul W. Field, 1861, 64-66, 70, 71. Samuel C. Wood, 1861. Edwin W. Belden, 1862. Eurotas Morton, 1863, 67, 68, 69.
EXTRACTS FROM THE TOWN RECORDS.
1780, May 19. An uncommon darkness was over the earth for some hours.
1780. The Dollar, which became legal currency in 1750, is first named in the town records this year, though it was not used in keeping the town accounts till near 1800.
LOTTERY .- 1791. The town voted that Thomas Sanderson be a dele- gate to attend a meeting at the house of Mr. Caleb Alvord, in Greenfield, to consult on the propriety of petititioning the General Court for a lottery, for the purpose of building a bridge over Deerfield river.
1797. The town voted that it will not give liberty to inoculate for the small pox.
1798. Voted, to give a bounty of six shillings for wild cats.
1801. A wolf was killed in Whately. The bounty paid by the town was $ 10.
1804. Voted, to build three horse-blocks near the meeting-house.
1812, Dec. 7. Voted, that every man have liberty to wear his hat in town meeting.
SLAVES .- Two of our citizens owned slaves at the time of their settle- ment in Whately : viz.,-Gideon Dickinson and Richard Chauncey,-and so far as can be gathered from the census returns, these are the only col- ored persons enumerated in our population. Mr. Chauncey's slave was George Prutt, who was an original member of the church, and died Sept. 18, 1794, æt. 75. He lived for a time in the family of Zenas Field, and was much respected.
LONGEVITY .- In the year 1849, in a total population of 1,129, there- were living in Whately fifteen persons, whose united ages amounted to 1,300 years, being an average age of 863 years. Of these, seven were males and eight females ; and included in the list were three married couples who had lived together respectively 66, 63, and 56 years.
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FAMILY GENEALOGIES.
[The date after a name indicates when the Individual became a resident of Whately; two dates connected by a - note the time of settlement and removal.]
ABERCROMBY, ROBERT, 1779-85. A weaver ; was one of " Burgoyne's men ; " built a house in the Lane, on the Plyna Graves's place : m. Jan. 28, 1779, Elizabeth Bragg, dau. of Abial. Chil. William, bap. Mar. 19, 1780; Agnese, bap. Oct. 20, 1782.
ADKINS, JOSIAHI,1 Middletown, Conn., d. Sept. 12, 1690. ADKINS, SOLOMON,2 b. 1678; a deacon; m. May 18, 1709, Phebe Edwards; d. 1748. ADKINS, SOLOMON,3 b. Aug. 11, 1720; rem. from Middletown to Whately, 1782 or 3; lived in the Straits ; afterwards with his son ; a basket maker ; d. Feb. 26, 1804. Wife Thankful, d. April 7, 1806, æt. 79. Chil. Solomon, b. May 4, 1762; Thankful, m. John Crafts; Giles ; Elijah ; daughter m. - · Cone.
ADKINS, SOLOMON,4 1784. Owner of the Stalham Allis place ; a tanner and shoemaker. He m. Mar. 9, 1787, Electa Graves, dau. of Oliver ; chil. Enoch, b. Ang. 23, 1788; Henry, b. June 16, 1791 ; Eleeta, b. Nov. 20, 1793; d. young; Electa, b. Dec. 2, 1795; d. young ; Chloe, b. Apr. 18, 1798 ; Joel, b. Sept. 7, 1800; Hannah, b. July 14, 1803; Solomon, b. Oct. 8, 1805. ADKINS, GILES,4 m. Jan. 9, 1794, Martha Graves, dan. of Oliver ; chil. Freeman, per. others. ADKINS, ELIJAII, 4 m. Dec. 21, 1797, Tirza Cooley, dau. of Barnas and Hannah.
ADKINS, ENOCH,5 m. Feb. 13, 1822, Amanda White, dan. of Luther. He d. June 15, 1844; she d. Jan. 4, 1863; chil. William B., b. Feb. 10, 1823; died young ; Chloe C., b. Dec. 12, 1824; William M., b. June 7, 1827 ; George E., b. Oct. 29, 1829 ; Electa, b. Aug. 15, 1833; Catharine M., b. Dee. 16, 1835 ; d. Sept. 1866. ADKINS, HENRY,5 m. Jan. 1, 1817, Lucinda Clark, dau. of Peter ; chil. Zilpah. A., b. Nov. 10, 1817; d. 1868; Henry B., b. Mar. 20, 1820; d. July 10, 1853; Eli S., b. Jan. 16, 1824; Levi C., b. Sept. 15, 1827. ADKINS, CHLOE,5 was for many years a teacher in the Public Schools in Whately. She m. John Elwell, and moved West. ADKINS, JOEL,5 m. Mar. 18, 1824, Fidelia Smith, dau. of Asa ; d. Mar. 7, 1868 ; chil. Edward Almeron, b. June 18, 1826 ; Frederick Augustus, b. Jan. 12, 1828; Mary Eliza, b. May 26, 1830; d. 1833. ADKINS, SOLOMON,5 In. June 6, 1833, Wealthy Arms. Moved to South
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Deerfield ; wife d. March 17, 1870; chil. Mary Jane, b. Sept. 8, 1835 ; Fidelia R., b. Ang. 25, 1839 ; m. May 19, 1864, Eurotas Morton ; Fred. C., b. Jan. 23, 1844 ; m. Aug. 18, 1870, Sarah B. Iloward.
ADKINS, CHLOE C.,6 m. Aug. 9, 1814, Elias IIolmes ; chil. George A., b. June 2, 1816; Emma J., b. Jan. 13, 1851; Frederick, b. Sept. 17, 1853; d. young ; Hattie E., b. Ang. 31, 1856 ; Nellie, b. Mar. 28, 1861; d. young; Nettie B., b. Aug. 12, 1866. ADKINS, WILLIAM M.,6 m. Elizabeth P. Allen ; chil. Carrie L., b. Aug. 16, 1853 ; Ilattie J., b. June 7, 1858.
ADKINS, EDWARD ALMERON,6 m. Feb. 1, 1854, Clarissa Graves, dau. of Plyna; an architect and carpenter; d. Mar. 10, 1871; chil. Arthur Leon, b. Ang. 13, 1857 ; William Henry, b. May 9, 1862. ADKINS, FREDERICK A., 6 m. Nov. 21, 1855, Marietta Murphy, dan. of Timothy and Priscilla. She was b. Sept. 27, 1836; chil. Frank Hale, b. March 1860. ADKINS, MARY J.,6 m. Oct. 16, 1860, Andrew Dutton; chil. Charles K., b. July 8, 1861 ; Belle A., b. Mar. 16, 1864; d. July 26, 1868; Annie A., b. Oct. 26, 1869.
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