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FOWLER, SAMUEL JONES, was born in Westfield, June 26. 1851. His first Amerl- can ancestor was Willlam Fowler, who came to Boston In 1637 and moved to MII- ford, Conn., in 1639. He married Joan Al- vord. 1646, and died In 1704. His son, Ambrose, of Windsor, Conn., was the first Fowler of this line to settle in what is now Hampden county. That was in 1671, and he resided in Westfield. Samuel Jones Fowler'a genealogy is as follows : William, referred to In the foregoing, married Joan Alvord, 1646; their son, Samuel. married Ahlgail Brown, 1683: their son Samuel married a wife whose name was Mercy ; Poof the third Samuel, son of Samuel and Mercy. married Naomi Noble In 1734; the next In line, another Samuel married first, Ellza- beth Dwight, of Springfield, and second. Jemima Lyman, of Northampton: the fourth Samuel's son. James, married first Lucy Douglas, of Westfield, and second, Charlotte Whitney. of Stockbridge : James had a son, the fifth Samuel, who married Maria Jones, of Stockbridge, and they were the parents of Samuel Jones, Frances and Harold North Fowler. The latter married Helen Bell, of Exeter. N. H., and now re siles in Cleveland, Oblo.
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town, and at the age of about twenty years Hovey In 1709. He was a son of Sergeant he began his business career as clerk In the Joseph Smith, who married Rebecca Dick- store of J. R. Gould, of Belchertown. Two Inson, of Hadley, in 1680. Sergeant Smith years later (1881) he purchased Mr. Gould's was a son of Joseph Smith, who came from Interest In the firm of Gould & Heath, at England to Hartford in 1651, and there married Lydla Hewitt, daughter of Rev. Ephraim Hewitt, the second minister of the Windsor church. Other ancestors of Dr. Three Rivers, and In the next year he suc- ceeded to the sole proprietorship of the business. In 1885 he took as partner his brother. 11. A. Shaw, with whom he was llannum are the Warrens of Hatfield, and associated until 1889, when he again be- came sole owner and has so continued to on his mother's side, was father of Capt. the present time. Mr. Shaw was appointed postmaster at Three Rivers January 1, 1898. In 1884 he married Allce M. Holden, of Bondsville, by whom he has three children. Irving, Allce and Florence Shaw.
the Dickinsons of Hadley. Ablal Squler, Sylvester Squler of revolutionary fame and one of the pioneers of Montgomery. Ablal Squler's wife was Rhoda Lathrop, whose famlly were prominent early settlers in West Springfield. Capt. Squler's son, Lath- cop Squier, married Elizabeth Leflingwell, granddaughter of Lieut. Thomas Leffing- well, of Norwich, Conn. Elisha Lefting- well, son of Lieut. Thomas, was one of the first settlers In what now is Huntington.
HANNUM, JAMES WILSON, whose name Is frequently mentioned in the medical chapter of this work, and who, also, since 1853 has resided in Hampden county (In West- field until 1879 and subsequently In Lud- low), was born in Williamsburgh, Mass .. September 24, 1831, and removed to East- hampton, where his father died In 1833 ; and thence with his mother and brother to Westfield In 1855. Dr. Hannum was edu- cated in the Westfield public schools (tak- ing supplementary Instruction In Latin and Greek), the medical department of the Uni- versity of Michigan, and the same depart- ment of Columbia college, New York city, graduating from the latter Institution ( best known as the College of Physicians and Sur- geons), In 1877. For two years he prac- ticed In Whateley and located permanently In Ludlow In 1879. in 1886 he married Maria Louise Miller, daughter of Wilbur Fisk Miller. Of this marriage these chil- dren have been born : Allce Louise, born December 30, 1887 ; John Squler, born May 1, 1990; Willlam Porter, born December 16. 1200. On his father's side Dr. Han- num is a descendant In the seventh genera- tlon from William llannum, who emigrated from England In 1630, settled first in the Dorchester colony, removed thence to Northampton, where he died In 1677. Aaron Hannum. great-grandson of William and grandson of John, was born In 1722; mar-
DIBBLE, ALFRED, manufacturer of whip stocks in Westfeld, a resident in that town since 1865 and a former resident in old historic Southwick, was born in the town last mentioned October 25, 1837. He ac- quired his early education in the South- wick schools and married there November 25, 1857. Philenia Fowler. On July 31, 1862. Mr. Dibble enlisted in the 34th regi- ment, Mass. Vol. Inf., and served with that notable command (the history of which Is recorded In a preceding chapter), until the close of the war, when he was mustered out, holding and having won a lieutenant's com- mission. Returning home, Mr. Dibble de- voted himself to business pursuits and re- moved from Southwick to the larger and more enterprising town of Westfleid In 1865. His first wife having dled, on November 24, 1868, he married Elizabeth Dickinson. His children are Morton A., born October 30, 1858 ; Burton E., born October 6, 1862 ; Oscar W., born November 15, 1869; Ger- trude C., born April 27, 1874, and Mary E., born September 14, 1877.
CHASE, HENRY ADAMS, postmaster at Hol- yoke and a resident In that city since 1848, is a native of Nashua, N. H., born August ried Rachel Smith (born In 1726), daughter 4. 1840. Hle was educated in the Holyoke of John Smith, one of the first settlers of public schools and also in Meindoe Falls Belchertown and a conspicuous figure in (Vermont) academy, and for more than the early history of that town, both in civli forty years has been Identified with the and church affairs. John Smith was born best Interests and history of our industrial In Hadley In 1687, and married Elizabeth city. Mr. Chase is descended from old.
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substantial New England stock. In 1635. Miriam Cook and In the following year Thomas, William and Aquilia Chase, sons was called to the superintendency of the of Sir Robert Chase, of Cornwail, England. Palmer schools. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson emigrated to America and settled, Thomas have one child, Miriam Cook Thompson, in Hampton, N. H., Wlillam in Yarmouth, born September 13. 1899. Mass., and Aquilla In Newberry, Mass. Ed- BLISS, ETHELBEET, p. o. Wilbraham. win Chase, father of Henry A., was born Mass,, was born January 28, 1852, a son in Litchfield. N. H., March 17, 1813, and of Albert and Orpha (Blshop) Bliss. and his wife, Maria Adams, was born in Nashua, received a common school education. Mr. N. H., June 24. 1819. He dled September Bliss purchased hls present place in 1970 27, 1882 and his widow April 27, 1895. and started his famous peach orchard in Henry A. Chase married (June 19, 1866) 1894. In 1873 Mr. Bliss married Abble Sarah J. Mayo, of Burlington, Vt., and of Cross ; they have three children, Walter M. this marriage six children have been born : H. Estella, and Dora A. Edwin Mlal, born February 15, 1868; WHITNEY, MILTON BURRALL, attorney Henry Mayo, born September 22, 1869; and counsellor at law. of Westfield, senior Charles Arthur, born June 3. 1873 ; Joseph member of the Hampden bar, was born in Granville October 6. 1825, son of Samuel Paul, born February 18, 1875 : Laura, born December 27, 1876, and Richard Wade, born Hart and grandson of Samuel Platt Whit- July 12, 1880. ney, the latter the pioneer of the family
GREEN, THOMAS J., contractor and bulld- In Hampden county, he having removed er, member of the board of town assessors from Simsbury. Conn., to Granville about the year 1800. Samuel liart Whitney was the eldest son of Samuel Platt Whitney and of Westfield, and a resident and business man in that town since 1857, was born In Lunenbury, Mass., October 25, 1835. Hlis was born in October, 1800. Hle married early education was acquired in the pub- Mariila Lovisa Dickinson (daughter of lic schools of his native town. On October Otis Dickinson, of Granvlile), by whom he 23, 1861. Mr. Green married Alvira E. had three children, Mliton B. being the Loomis, a native of Russell and daughter eldest child and only son. Milton lived in of the late Orrin and Caroline Loomis, of Granville until he entered college. He was graduated at Willlams In 1849. and after- ward read law with the late Willlam G. Bates, of Westfield. According to the reg- Ister of the Hampden bar (chapter xvill) he was admitted to practice in 1853. and from that time he has been closely identi- Ned with professional and public life in this county, always maintaining a residence In Westfield. On October 2, 1901. Mr. Walt- ney married Florence Fuller, daughter of lienry Fuller, of Westfield. Chicago, Ill. The children of this marriage are Addison Loomis Green, born October 23, 1862, now a practicing lawyer of Holyoke ; Liillan Isola Green, born June 24. 1864, dieđ February 5, 1866 : Lena Ella Green, born April 6. 1867. married and now living In Westfield. und Arthur Everett Green, horn August 25. 1874. now living In Westfleid. During the period of his active business Ilfe Mr. Green was one of the most extensive contractors in all Hampden county and he also dealt in lumber at wholesale and re- tall. A few years ago these interests were disposed of and since that time he has practically retired from active business pur- suits. For the past three years he has been one of the town assessors and In other ways since his residence in our town he has been identified with Its civli as well as Its so. cial and business history.
PARKS, FRANCIS R .- In the history of the towns of Montgomery and Russell. among the early settiers none were more promi- nentiy Identified with the growth and devel- opment of the region, or of the administra- tlon of town affairs, than the representatives of the Parks family : and what Is true of ploneer times will apply to almost any sob sequent period In the history of these towns Jeremiah l'arks appears to have been the pioneer of the famlly In what now is Hampden county. for he bought land in Montgomery In 1780 and sold It In 1783 to
THOMPSON. ALFRED CLARK, superintend- ent of schools in Paimer since August. 1897, was born In Norwich, Conn., March 25, 1867. He acquired his elementary education in Norwich Free academy (ciass of 1888), Ellas Parks. in early town history Elias and was graduated from Yale university in Parks took a more active part than did 1892. On June 30, 1896, he married Lina most of his descendants in later years.
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Jeremiah Parks, according to family rec- they have three children : Florence Aman- ords, was baptized at Preston, Conn., April da. born September 6. 1855: Carlos Car- 7. 1725. and became a resident of I'nion, penter, born December 5. 1856; and Ina Conn., In 1761. He served two months In Adella, born May 16. 1861. On April 15. the American army during the revolution. 1879. Florence Amanda married. Arst. Harry Ellas Parks, son of Jeremiah, was born In A. MeGrath, of Holyoke, and they had one 1762, or 1764, and died May 10, 1828 : he is child, Claribelle Adelia, born May 20, 1880. buried In Russell. He married, first, Isa- died at the age of thirteen years ; second, bella I.Indsey, of Blandford, and second, she married Willlam Wells Bemls, November Huldah Burt, of Southampton. Francis 9, 1895. who died December 13. 1896. Of Robert Parks of Westfield, son of Robert this unlon she has one daughter, Wilhel- mina Wells Bemis, born January 4, 1897. Florence died November 9, 1900. Carlos
William, grandson of Lyman, and great. grandson of Ellas and Huldah Parks, was born in Holyoke, April 10, 1876, and re- C., now vice-president of the First State moved with his parents to Westfield In that bank of Bertrand, Nebraska, married, Novem- year. He Is a descendant in the ninth ber 13. 1890. Rena Florence. daughter of generation of Robert Parks, born In 1580,
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bruce. of Bertrand. They and died In 1665, at Mystic, Conn .. who have an adopted daughter, Wilhelmina Wells came from Preston, England, to Boston, In 1630, removed to Wethersfield, Conn., about 1639 and thence removed to New London
( Bemis). Ina Adella married. October 18, 1882, Edwin N. Henry. Of this Gibbons family, the first to come to Hampden coun- ( about 1650), where his barn was the first ty was Peter Gibbons, the great-grandfather t 1 place of worship for the townsmen. He was of Martin T. That was in 1756. and he selectman in 1651 and representative in 1642 and 1652. He married Martha Champ- lin, and from them the line of descent comes direct through eight successive generations to Francis Robert Parks of Westfield. He ( Francis R.), graduated at the Westfield high school in 1995. from Yale university In 1899, and since that time has been asso- ciated in business with his father. was one of the first settiers In the south part of the town of Granville. l'eter was born In Waltham, Mass .. April 20. 1730. In November. 1751. he married Sarah Green, with whom he lived fifty-nine years, They had twelve children and eighty-five grandchildren. One of the sons, Jedediah. born February 10, 1770, was the grandfath- er of Martin T .. the subject. Jedediah married Elizabeth Cowdrey, who was born October 9. 1770. Their children were Car- los, futher of Martin T., born July 12, 1793 ; Damaris. born April 13, 1796; Philura. born October 27. 1798: Amoret, born Aug- ust 20, 1800, dled June 4. 1802 ; Hiram. born September 26. 1802 ; Amoret. born Feb- ruary 19. 1804> Eliza, born October 10. 1806: Martha, born January 6. 1810, died July 13. 1810; and Watson, born February 18, 1812. On the twenty-third of April. 1902, Mr. and Mrs. Martin T. Gibbons cele- brated their golden wedding anniversary.
GIBBONS, MARTIN TINKER, p. o. Granville, farmer. mechanic, and for twenty-one years a teacher in the public schools, was born April 27. 1827. son of Carlos and Almira ( Tinker) Gibbons. Carlos Gibbons was born July 12. 1793. During his business life he was a farmer until 1849, when he became a merchant. In 1848 he represent- ed his town In the state legislature and at other times held various town offices. He was Industrious, well-to-do. and popular, and dled at the age of seventy-two years. The mother. Almira Tinker, was a woman DEWEY, LOUIS MARINUS, of Westfield. assistant manager of the Loomis Automobile company, traces his ancestry in New Eng. land to heads of familles as follows : Thomas Dewey. from Sandwich, Kent coun- ty, England, settled at Dorchester, Mass .. about 1630. and later at Windsor, Conn .. where he died April 27. 1648: married March 22. 1638-9. Frances, widow of Joseph ('lark. She afterward married George of exceptional education for her time and lived to the ripe age of eighty six years. Of their union twelve children were born : Nancy. Lucretia, Lucina. Lydia, Elizabeth C .. Martha N., ,Martin T .. Charlotte A., Edwin C., John M., Phineas L., Nancy I ... all born in Granville. Mass. On the 23rd of April, 1852. Martin T. Gibbons married Adella Elizabeth. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Carpenter. of Granby, Conn .. and Phelps, and died In Westfield, Sept. 27.
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1690. l'eter Crary, at New London, Conn., rled Louisa Cooley, of Somers, Conn., who 1663, lived on the Groton side ; died there In was born June 14. 1824. and died In 1847. 1708 ; married Dec., 1677, Christobel Gal- lie married, second, Cynthia A. Wright. lup, born about 1660. John Tillotson, of 1854 (born In Chicopee, June 20, 1832, and Rowley, removed to Newbury, Mass .. then was educated in Mt. Holyoke seminary). probably to Saybrook (Lyme), Conn. ; mar. Their children were Anna Louise, wife of ried May 24, 1655, at Newbury, Jane Evans. the late Austin Ely Smith. of Springfield; Robert Day died at Hartford, 1648 ; married (Mr. Smith for several years previous to his Edatha Stebbins, who removed to Spring. death was general manager of the Spring- field, where she died Oct. 24, 1688. Simeon field street railway system, and in that Nackett, died at Cambridge, Mass., 1636 ; capacity was one of President Olmsted's married. John Warner, son of William, most valued assistants.) Edward Wright. born 1616, probably the John Warner who educated In Chicopee high school. The embarked at London in the Increase, 1635, children of Austin and Anna Louise (IIer- aged 30 ; became one of the early settlers of rick ) Smith, are Anna Lida, born 1876, died Brookfield, about 1670, then at Hadley, 1675 ; married. 1655, Priscilla Symonds. Mark Symonds of ipswich, Mass., In 1634. aged 50 years ; freeman May 2, 1638 ; died there April 28, 1659, aged 75 ; wife Joanna,
1879 : Ruby Adelalde, born 1887. Cynthia A. Wright, second wife of Henry S. Herrick, Is a ilescendant of Eleazer Wright, who with the Frinks, Pendletons and Browns found refuge In Willimansett and the region now dled April 29, 1660. Thomas Orton of Holyoke when their lives and property were Charlestown, Mass., father of Thomas Or- threatened by the British soldiers during ton of Windsor and Farmington, Conn., who the revolutionary war. Finding fertile lands In the locality, they settled here after the war and were numbered among the proml- nent settlers of their time. Eleazer Wright was a lieutenant In the American army
married June 1, 1641, Margaret Pall, or Pell. Valentine l'rentice of Roxbury, Mass., 1631, probably came with Ellot in the Lion, bringing wife Allce and son John ; freeman, August 7, 1632 ; bis widow married, April during the war, and his won, Eleazer 3, 1634, John Watson.
Wright, junior, served In the organization HERRICK, HENRY STEPHEN, of Chicopee, was born In Montgomery In 1822, the son of Aaron Herrick, one of the early settlers in Montgomery, a large and substantial known as the home guards. Edward Wright llerrick was born June 25, 1865. He mar- rled Edna Stanwood Chapin, Nov. 3. 1885. Their children were Daisy Louise, born farmer, and who died there April 28. 1828. July 19. 1886 ; Allce Edna, born October 18, 1887 : Amy Sophia, born July 17. 1889 : direct line of descent from Henry Hierrick, Cora Wright, born Feb. 23, 1891.
This branch of the llerrlek family is in a the fifth son of Sir William Herrick, of Beau Manor Park. Leicester county, Eng-
LOOMIS, SILAS, citizen and horticulturist of Mt. Vineyard, Westfield, was born August land. Ilenry came to America and settled 26, 1829, on the place where he now resides. first In Virginia and removed thence to He Is a descendant of Joseph Loomis, who with his wife. five sons and three daughters came from Braintree, Essex county. Eng- land, in 1638, and settled in Windsor,
Saiem In 1653. Hlls three sons were Zach- ariah, Ephraim and John. Ephraim was the great-great-grandfather of Henry Steph- en Herrick and the great-grandfther of Conn., in 1639. He was a woolen draper Aaron Hierrick, the latter of whom was the in England. They sailed from London in pioneer of the family In Montgomery and the ship "Susan and Ellen" and arrived at Hampden county. His wife was Polly Boston, July 17. 1638. He died November 25. 1658. Lleut. Samuel Loomis was born In England, married Elizabeth Jndd (De- cember 27, 1653), and moved to Westfield
Shortclift, born October 3, 1788, and died In Litchfield. Ohlo, in 1869. Their five chil- dren were Aaron, Henry. Susanna, Orlinda and Maderla Herrick. Henry Stephen Her- from Windsor between 1672 and 1675. rick served his town and city (Chicopee) in Their son Willlam was born March 18. the capacity of census enumerator three 1672. married, January 13, 1703. Martha times, selectman one year, assessor seven Morley, who died February 22, 1753; he years, and also was one of the first council- died in 1738. Jonathan, sr., son of Will- men in the new city of Chicopee. He mar. Iam, was born January 23, 1719, married
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Hannah Sheldon of Springfield, May 11, 1746 and used in the revolution by Justus 1746. He died In 1798 In West Springfield. Loomis, Nr., and by his son Justus Loomis, He was the father of eleven children, and jr., in the war of 1812. Slias Loomis mar- was great-grandfather to Silas. Justus rled, July 2, 1854, Susan A. Rowley (born Loomis, sr., the fourth child of Jonathan, In New Haven, Conn., January 8, 1835). sr., was born March 7, 1754, married Mary Their two children are Eugene W. and Alice Bow (1781), who dled December 16, 1819, aged sixty-one. He served In the revolu- tlonary war. Ile owned a good farm at Feeding Hilis, where he died May 14, 1818, aged sixty-four. To them six children were born. Their son, Justus, jr., father of Sllas, was born at Feeding Hllis, Febru- ary 5, 1782. In 1806 he bought the farm now occupled by the subject of this sketch. He cleared and Improved a large portion of the land of which there were about thirty acres, a pathiess wood, the abode of wild beasts and the hunting grounds of Indlans. He was a soldier in the war of 1812-15. He was twice marrled, his first wife being Sarah Dewey: his second wife Irene Van- horn of West Springfield (widow of Waiter Loomis). They were married May 29, 1825. She died September 17, 1861, aged Southampton. He died in Pittsfield, June seventy-eight. She was the mother of Silas and one daughter, Amanda, and also of four children by her unlon with Waiter
A. Loomis. Eugene Is a whip manufactur- er. He was born May 14. 1855 ; married September 1, 1880, Sarah F. Young (daugh- ter of George G. and Martha Ann Parker). Their four children were Nellle M., born July 26, 1881, married Orlo Robinson Pense, October 30, 1900 ; Llilian V., born December 9, 1885 ; Harold F., born April 11, 1887, dled January 12, 1888 ; and Earl S., born June 13. 1894, died February 17, 1895. Allce A. Loomis was born December 21, 1862 ; married September 29, 1887, Irwin Boswell Bailey, a wheelwright of Spring- field. They have two children, Olive Irene, born November 22, 1888, and Leila Marlon, born September 14, 1899. Mrs. Loomis's father, Erastus Hale Rowley, son of Thomas Rowley, jr., was born January 8, 1809, in 19, 1852. He was a carriage maker, and being skilfuli in carving and ornamental work, he assisted In making the beautiful Loomis, namely : Edmund. Amanda, Der- carriage used by General Andrew Jackson. rick and William R. Loomis of Westfield, the latter of whom Is still living and just past his 89th birthday. Justus Loomis, jr., died August 28, 1864. lle had a family of six children by his first union, all now de- censed : Hiram, Frederick, Mary Ann, Bet- sey, Emliy and Huldah (who married S. Pease Chapin of Springfield, and she died in 1895). Silas Loomis learned the trade of a carpenter and during the civil war he worked in the U. S. armory in Springfield. In October, 1855. he went to Ohlo with his and Mercy (Pomeroy) ('lapp, who died in family, but returned In 1857 to Westfield, where he worked for some years at carpen- tering, and, being also a machinist, he as- sisted in the invention and manufacture of
His wife, Charlotte Taylor Rowley, was born In New Hlaven, February 15. 1813, a daugh- ter of Solomon Taylor. Their children are Mrs. Susan A. Loomis, Mrs. Alice C. Allen, George E. (soldier In the civil war), Mrs. Neille Drew. Mrs. Elia C. Sloan. and Mrs. Emily Parker. The mother died September 4. 1853. Thomas Rowley, jr., was born in Bloomfield, Conn., In 1780. and died Feb- ruary 23, 1864. In 1800 he married Su- sanna Clapp. daughter of Lieut. Joel Clapp 1855, aged seventy. lils father. Thomas Rowley. sr., was born in Bloomfield. Decem- ber 24, 1753, and died In Southampton, Oe- tober 7. 1843. lle was a soldler in the the Lombard rounding whip machine, which revolution and had several thrilling experi- was patented in 1878, and In which Mr. ences. He married Mary Hayes, of Granby, Loomis owns one-fourth Interest. Mr. Conn. She was born October. 1761, and Mr. Loomis bas made many improvements died in Southampton. February 13, 1852, on the old family homestead, which is still standing. on the old home which he has owned since his father's death. He makes a specialty of raising peaches and grapes and all fruits. JANES, GEORGE HERBERT, physician and surgeon of Westfield, medical examiner for Hampden county since 1899, is a native of In the family of Mr. Loomis is a treasured reilc of colonial times, a flint-lock gun with battered bayonet of the kind called the East Brimfield, born December 1, 1862, and "Queen's Arms," an English piece made in a descendant of one of the carilest settlers
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of that historle old town. Indeed, on the has one child, Doris Augusta Janes, born paternal side. Dr. Janes is descended from August 24, 1899.
ancestors who were among the earllest colonists of New England, following closely FOWLES, CHARLES F., farmer. of West- field. son of Royal and Harrlet Smith Fow. upon the coming of the Pilgrims. The ler. was born Sept. 28, 1x35, In the house Janes famlly in America dates Its ancestry and on the farm where he now lives. He to William Janes, born In Essex county, was educated in the famous old Westfield academy. and always bas pursued the aro- cation of farming. He married May 21. 1861, Emily M. Hawley, of Hadley, Hamp- shire county. England. In 1610. and arrived in this coun- try In 1637. settling in the New Haven plantation, where he was a teacher for a period of seventeen years. In 1656 he re- moved to Northampton and there was a teacher of the youth ; also a teaching elder in the town church, and being a man of Intelligence and substance, he was chosen to fill the office of town recorder. In 1671 he was one of the petitioners for and joined a company for the settlement of Squakheag ( Northfield). In his office of teaching elder he preached to the settlers assembled under the old historie Northfield oak. After the destruction of the settlement by the In- dians. 1675, he returned to Northampton, where he lived until his death, in 1690. Abel Janes, son of Elder William, a soldier In the Falls battle with King Philip's war- rlors in 1676, Ilved most of the time In Northampton until 1706. when he removed to Lebanon, Conn. William Janes. son of Abel. with five sons, removed from Lebanon to Brimfield, and there became the owner of 500 neres of land. The year of his removal Is not known, and while his name does not appear among the proprietors of that town, he Is belleved to have settled there as early as 1734. His lands were acquired through a grant from the crown. In 1876 the lands included In the old grant to William Janes were occupled by Harvey. David W. and Edwin A. Janes. Capt. William J. Sherman, Jonathan Emerson and Capt. Parsons Allen. all of whom, except Capt. Allen, are de- scendants of (or related by marriage to them) William Janes, the ploneer. Now, however, these farms are owned outside the family. The Janes family had representa-
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