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Each one of us hath taken Life's weary burden up ! Each one of us partaken Of sorrow's bitter cup ;- Some o'er the grave low bending, Have hid our treasures there, While up to heaven sending The agonizing prayer !
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And now, as soon we sever, Each to his weary way, From mem'ry's tablets never Shall pass this blessed day. And oh, when each succeeding, We lay us down to rest, Through the dear Saviour's pleasing, May we meet among the blest !
After the singing of the hymn, we knelt in prayer. It was at the same family altar, where the earliest vows of the forgiven had been recorded, where the noblest aspirations of youth had been consecrated to Heaven, and where the faith of Christian parents had committed to God their departing children, to be guarded against the dangers of the world and kept holy and undefiled. It was an hour which those who were present can never forget, for all the events of long past years, which memory has gathered as her treasures, were again opened to the heart. At the close of the prayer, the eldest of the group, himself a man passing the me- ridian of life, taking the Bible from its envelope, laid it upon the knees of our parents, remarking only, that " at a meeting such as we could never expect again, it was deemed fitting to have some memorial as a token of respect and affection to our parents ; that for this purpose we had chosen the Bible as the most meet emblem of what we felt; and that as it was the book they had given to each one of us as a guide in our early years, so we returned it to them as the staff of their age." I need not add that the last scene was the most touching, and the more so that it had been entirely un- expected.
The twilight of the evening was fading away before the group broke up. As we were rising to go, one mother remarked upon the cause of gratitude which the situation of each one of the chil- dren in life gave to all. "They owe it all to you," said the father. "No!" was the mother's reply, " they owe it all to this blessed book, the Bible."
I am, dear sir, Very respectfully yours,
PEASE . SC
LENOX, FROM THE NORTHWEST.
THE LAST CHAPTER OF THE CHRONICLES OF THE BERKSHIRE JUBILEE.
BY CATHARINE M. SEDGWICK.
Now GEORGE, of the tribe of BRIGGS, being of a goodly stature, and moreover having an upright mind and a pleasant speech, gained the hearts of his brethren.
And the dwellers in Massachusetts, chose him to be their head and chief ruler. And George dwelt in the goodly land of Berk- shire, and his dwelling was in that upper valley of the Housa- tonic, which our fathers bought of the red men and called it Pittsfield.
Now in the first year of the magistracy of George, a good spirit entered into the hearts of the Sons of Berkshire, both of those who dwelt in the homes of their fathers, and of those who were dispersed abroad.
And to these last came visions and dreams, and the homes of their childhood rose before them, and they saw in vision the green and dewy hills of Berkshire, with their maple groves, and the wide shadowing elm which hath no equal for beauty and graceful- ness among all the trees that the Lord hath made; and also the firs and the pines of their mountain tops ; and the smiling vallies standing thick with corn, and the pasture and the orchard, and the skating and the coasting ground.
And there appeared before them in vision also, the fair daugh- ters of their people even as they had seen them in the freshness and the beauty of their early days.
And the ripple of the lakes sparkling in their vallies, and the gushing of the streams from their hills was in their ears, like far off music.
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And their kindred who had been gathered to their fathers, the mother who had rocked their cradle, and he who had toiled for their youth, and brothers, and sisters, and friends, rose before them, and beckoned them to the land in which they were born.
And their hearts were faint within them till a goodly purpose was breathed into them and they spake with one voice, and said, " Hath not the Lord given us rest on every side." Now we will proclaim a Jubilee !- we will go up to our Jerusalem ! We will worship in the Temples of our fathers ! We will kiss the sod that covers the graves of our kindred ; and we will sit ourselves down in the old places where their shadows will pass before us !
And we will rejoice and make merry with our brethren ; and Memory and Hope shall be our pleasant ministers. And we will lay our hearts together and stir up the mouldering embers of old friendships till the fire burns within us, and this, even this sacred fire will we transmit to our childrens' children.
And even as they said, so did they; and in the summer solstice with one heart and one mind they came together.
The pilgrims from afar and the sojourners at home. Even from the valley of the Mississippi came they ; and from the yet farther country of the Missouri-and from the land of the sun, even from the south land, and from all the goodly lands round about. Massa- chusetts.
And strangers who honored them, and whom they honored, also came; not intermeddling with their joy, but greatly aug- menting the sum thereof.
And they gathered together, a multitude of people, old men and elder women, young men and fair young maidens and much children-a very great company were they.
They came not, like the queen of Sheba, " bearing spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones," but instead of these- sound minds well instructed-hearts of gold-loyalty to the land of their fathers-imperishable friendships-religious faith-all pearls of great price.
And a great heart was in the people of Pittsfield, and they
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opened the doors of their pleasant dwellings and bade their brethren enter therein. And they spread fine linen on their beds, and they covered their tables with the fat of the land; for the Lord had greatly blessed the people of Pittsfield.
And they said to all their brethren, come now and enter in, and freely take of our abundance, for lo have we not spread our ta- bles for you ; and hath not the angel of sleep dressed our beds, that our brethren may sleep therein ?
And the faces of their brethren shone and they entered in ; and they said, it was a true report wc heard of thee, thy land doth excel, and thou hast greatly increased the riches and the beauty thereof. Corn aboundeth where, in the time of our fathers, the ground was barren. Thy flocks and thy herds are multiplied. Many goodly dwellings, such as were not aforetime hast thou set up. Thou hast enlarged the bounds of thy fruitful fields, and thou hast gemmed thy gardens with flowers. Walks hast thou laid out and planted them, and thou hast done well to cherish that stately elm, the monument of the past, the last relic of the forests where the red men hunted.
And moreover, here do we behold a wonder such as Solomon in all his wisdom conceived not of, when he said, " there is noth- ing new under the sun." Here in this land, the wilderness to which our fathers came but as yesterday, have ye builded a work which was not done, nay, nor was it so much as conceived of, by the cun- ning artificers of the east, nor by the many handed labor of Egypt, nor by the art of Greece ; and even now is the report of its pon- derous engines and passing multitudes in our ear !
And many words were spoken cheering the heart and lighting up the countenance.
And all the people went up together into the temple of the Lord. And there spake unto them Mark, the son of Archibald, and this was the same Archibald, albeit a tiller of the ground, honored among his brethren of the lower valley, for he loved much, and was an honest man, but now he was gathered to his fathers, and Mark his son was set up to be a lightin the land and an instructor of the young men. And his brethren had chosen him to speak unto them, he being of an excellent spirit and know-
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ledge, and understanding, and noted for showing of hard senten- ces and dissolving of doubts. And he spake wisely and he greatly pleased his brethren : are not his words written in this Book of the Jubilee?
And WILLIAM, the son of that priest of the valiant heart, who in the days of the oppression of the Kings, ministered unto the people of Pittsfield, he also spake unto his brethren.
And JOSHUA of the tribe of SPENCER, a wise man and learned in the law spake to them. And he brought forth to them from their old Chronicles lost and forgotten treasures, and he pleased them with the sayings and doings of their fathers.
And a goodly tent was spread, and they did eat together, both men and women, with great gladness, but they drank not save of the pure water of their hill-country, for George their ruler, said unto them, touch not the wine-cup, for there be of our brethren who have perverted this good gift, and drunk of it to ther own destruction, and thereby causing us shame, and also much sorrow-threfore we will put away this evil from among us.
And they listened to the voice of their ruler, for they loved him, and they did the thing he desired.
And now all that Joshua spake, and also the sayings of the wise and the witty men, and the speech of the eloquent, and the salutation of the stranger, and the word spoken by the simple and loving heart, and the song sung to the stringed instruments, be- hold they are written in this Book of the Jubilee !
Now the time of separation came, and they blessed the Lord for that he had greatly blessed the land of their fathers.
And a spirit of meditation fell upon them, and they said in their hearts, our days on the earth are a shadow and there is none abiding.
One generation appeareth and passeth away, and another cometh, but the good that we do that shall remain.
Have we not this day listened to the words of Mark and Joshua, and have we not delighted to honor George, whom our brethren have set up to be a ruler over us ? Whence come they forth-
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Mark, Joshua and George ? Not from the rich, nor the learned- lo did not their fathers labor among us even with their hands ! Now seeing this is the order of our land shall we not call on the son of the humble man to be diligent-shall we not multiply for him instruction, and open to him the fountains of knowledge, and remove far from him vanity and corruption ?
We pass away, but our hills and our vallies they remain-in beauty hath the Lord made them. His creations are fair to look upon-shall not the work of our hands be in harmony with the Lord's work ?
Therefore where the hand of the feller has felled the goodly trees we will plant and water, and the Lord will surely give us increase.
And when we build our temples, whether they be for the wor- ship of the Lord our God, or for the instruction of our young men and maidens, or for the meeting of the rulers and judges of our land, we will seek a goodly pattern therefor of men cunning in art.
And also for the houses in which we dwell, and the barns, and whatever is builded with man's hands will we ask a pattern of men skilled in these matters, lest following the devices and de- sires of the ignorant we mar and burden the lovely land the Lord hath given us.
And our bridges, and our fences also shall be pleasant to the eye-and order and neatness shall be manifested about our habita- tions-and in all these things will we heed the warning which Benjamin, of the tribe of Franklin, hath given us in the parable of the " speckled axe," thereby warning us not to set down con- tent with imperfection.
And we will enlarge our gardens and plant therein the fruits and flowers of divers countries ; and our daughters shall tend them, as Eve dressed the garden in the days of her innocency.
And also we will not forget our burial-places where our kindred lay, and where we shall soon be gathered among them. We will extend the borders thereof. We will plant around them trees and fashion walks ; that our young men and maidens may love to
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come thither to think on their fathers. And there shall be seats there for the old man at noon-tide to sit under the cool shade and meditate on the Life and Immortality which the Lord our Saviour hath brought to light.
And morevoer, we will plant flowers there, that our little chil- dren may come to pluck them, and the soft music of their feet may be on the sod that covers our graves.
And this good and much more did they purpose to the land they loved-even the pleasant land of Berkshire.
And when the hour of parting came, the bands of their early love were straitened. And they said with one accord, HENCEFORTH AND FOREVER WE ARE BRETHREN !
GREAT BARRINGTON, FROM THE NORTHWEST.
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NAMES
OF
EMIGRANT SONS
AS RECORDED IN THE REGISTRY.
[A REGISTRY was prepared for the reception of the names of those who had gone out, and still reside out from Berkshire. But owing to the immense crowd, and to the fact that almost every moment of time was occupied in some public exercise, but com- paratively a small part of those present, recorded their names. In copying from the Registry, we have omitted all who now live in the County. We shall be agreeably surprised if there are not mistakes in the names. They were written in great haste, and many of them so illegibly, that, though we have been assisted to decipher them by the bright eyes of two of Berkshire's fair daugh- ters, we do not feel confident in all our spelling .- ED. ]
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REGISTRY.
NAMES.
PLACES OF BIRTH.
WHEN AND WHERE RESIDENT IN BERKSHIRE.
PRESENT RESIDENCE, AND REMARKS.
J. C. Brigham, ..
New Marlborough, ...
1806
Joshua N. Danforth, .
Pittsfield, ..
Pittsfield, ... . from 1798 to 1815
Jared Curtis,
Stockbridge, ..
Pittsfield,. . .
Farmington, Conn., ... Pittsfield, .
Dalton, .
from 1776 to 1781
Charles E. West, .. .
Washington,. .
from 1809 to 1830
D. Crocker, .
Andover, Conn., ...
Richmond, ...
from 1776 to 1780
W. W. Turner, ...
Great Barrington, ....
from 1800 to 1819
Levi Clark, .
Lanesborough, .
from 1781 to 1800
James L. Bagg, ..
· from 1811 to 1826
William Chapman, ..
Pittsfield, ..
from 1813 to 1829 .. 1812
John Mills, .
Sandisfield, .
. .
from 1792 to 1811
George W. Carson, ..
Dalton, .
from 1823 to 1826
Calvin Durfee,
Pittsfield,
from 1797 to 1825
J. Sidney Lewis, .
Lenox, May 23, 1795, . 1798,.
1808 1808
Sidney Warner,
Sheffield, from 1820 to 1831
Rev. Charles Bently, ..
Tyringham, . Stockbridge,
Cyrus W. Field,.
H. N. Brinsmade, ..
H. B. Hooker, ...
Rutland, Vt.,
Ezekiel Bacon,.
Stockbridge,.
Pittsfield, . . . . from 1834 to 1841 Lanesborough, .. . from 1827 to 1836 Pittsfield, Williamstown, Stockbridge, from 1776 to 1815
Samuel A. Danforth, .... Russell S. Cook, ...
Pittsfield,.
New Marlborough, ...
New-York. Alexandria, Dist. of Columbia. Charlestown, Mass. Clergyman. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Monroeville, Ohio.
Elbridge, N. Y. New-York. Principal of Rutger's Fem. Institute. Charleston, S. C. Hartford, Conn. Elbridge, N. Y. Syracuse, N. Y.
BERKSHIRE JUBILEE.
Middletown, Conn. Springfield, Mass. Charleston, S. C., 1817. New-York, 1828.
Albany, N. Y. Dedham. New-York. "
Waterloo, N. Y. Harwinton, Conn. New-York. Newark, N. J. Falmouth, Mass.
Utica, N. Y. Representative in Congress from Berkshire District, from 1807 to 1813, and Chief Justice of court of common pleas for the western district of Mass. from 1812 to 1814, and Comp- troller of U. S. Treasury.
Pittsfield, .. . Boston. . from 1804 to 1837 Lenox, ... from 1814 to 1826 | New-York. Cor. Sec'y American Tract Society.
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V
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0721111 21
1
X
.
. from 1815 to 1838
Asahel L. Smith, ... .
Drake Mills,
·
Louisa M. Lewis, ..
from 1799 to 1818
.
Thomas Mosely, .. Maria Tillotson Mosely, ... Lemuel Pomery, Jr., .... .. Aurelia Hollister Pomeroy, Seth Burgess, .
Pittsfield, .. from 1832 to 1837
A. S. Hubbell,
Lancsborough, 1836
Isaac Hills, .
Jerusha Kirkland Lothrop,.
Stockbridge,
Sandisfield, . . . ...
from 1794 to 1818
Otis Mills, . . . Samuel S. Mills, ..
William B. Whitney, ..
Lenox, Sandisfield, ...
from 1809 to 1834
William J. Bacon, ..
Williamstown, ..
Pittsfield, .
from 1803 to 1815
from 1796 to 1809
William H. Mosely, . Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, J. Edwards Lee, ...
Jonathan IIuntington, Charles Lombard, ..
D. C. Whitwood, ...
Mrs. James Fowler,.
Westfield ...
Asa Johnson and wife, .. . Sheffield, ..
John B. Eldridge,
Southwick,
Pittsfield,.
from 1817 to 1826
Sockbridge, Lenox, from 1791 to 1812
Great Barrington,.
from 1807 to 1817
New-York. Lawyer.
Southeast, N ... Y. .
from 1807 to 1826
Hyde Park, N. Y. Farmer .
Sandisfield, ....
Pittsfield, .. .
Stockbridge, ..
Great Barrington,. from 1778 to 1840
Utica, N. Y. Merchant. 66
66
Westfield, Mass. Counsellor at Law.
New-York. Author.
Kelloggsville, Ohio. Merchant.
Alford, ...
Richmond, ..
Great Barrington,. from 1800 to 1825 from 1818 . .... from 1781 to 1798
New-York. Merchant. Canceau, N. Y. New-York. Oxford, N. Y. Forwarder.
Joseph II. J. Dwight, .. . Cyrus 'T. Francis, . William Hendrix ..
West Stockbridge, . . Lawrence Ford, ... .
Richmond, ..
Pittsfield, .
Pittsfield, .
.
66 from 1813 to 1832 .
St. Louis, Mo.
Syracuse, N. Y. Merchant.
Johnson Hall, Stephen W. Brown,
Sheffield, . from 1794 to 1797 from 1797 to 1799 .
Williamstown, Pittsfield,
Pittsfield, ..
from 1813 to 1817
Newark, N. J. Lawyer. Rochester, N. Y. Utica, N. Y. Charleston, S. C. 66 66
Corning, N. Y. Lawyer.
Springfield. Mass, Lawyer. Utica, N. Y. Lawyer. Ware Village, Mass. Spencertown, N. Y. Salisbury, Conn. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Otis,
Otis, . .
from 1821 to 1833
from 1804 to 1827
Stockbridge,
from 1790 to 1798
West Stockbridge, Stockbridge, ..
from 1804 to 1841
Westfield, Mass.
East Bloomfield, N. Y.
Hartford, Conn. Printer.
M. S. Bidwell, .... . R. C. Wheeler, .. . .J. W. Wheeler, . E. P. Woodruff,. ..
C. Gold Lee, CC
L. Churchill, .. Mrs. L. Churchill,. Mary Churchill, ... Norman Leonard, ..
Sheffield, ..
from 1800 to 1824
Lyman Cobb, .
Stockbridge, ..
Lenox, .. . from 1800 to 1816
Ileman Tieknor, ... F. B. Austin, ..
Uriah Edwards,. .
John Saxton,
Sheffield, .
from 1800 to 1822
Great Barrington, .....
Pittsfield. . from 1785 to 1806
Pittsfield,
from 1811 to 1835 from 1817 to 1835 .
Albany, N. Y. Broker. Marion, Ala. Merchant. Little Falls, N. Y. Counsellor at Law.
Washington, D. C. C. C. Ist Comptroller's office.
James Larned, . .
Thomas Allen, .
J. Wheelock Allen,
Lenox,
Lenox, .. from 1798 to 1821
. from 1804 to 1824
from 1800 to 1819
E. D. Beach,.
Pittsfield, .. Stockbridge,.
Stockbridge,
from 1784 to 1814
Hinsdale, . . Stockbridge,
West Stockbridge,. ...
from 1780 to 1802
Stockbridge, .
New-York.
Southbury, Ct.,
Otis,
.
froni 1798 to 1819
Pittsfield, . froni 1823 to 1825
from 1777 to 1840
.
New-York. Syracuse, N. Y. Clergyman.
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Little Falls, N. Y. Wayland, Mass. Clergyman. 235
from 1789 to 1794 from 1793 to 1814
1836
Elbridge, N. Y. Dexter, Michigan.
REGISTRY-(CONTINUED.)
NAMES.
PLACES OF BIRTH.
WHEN AND WHERE RESIDENT IN BERKSHIRE.
PRESENT RESIDENCE, AND REMARKS.
Cyrus A. Stowell, .. .
Peru,.
from 1808 to 1833
William Allen, ... .
Pittsfield,.
Pittsfield, .. from 1784 to 1817
David D. Field, ... .... ...
Madison, Ct., ... ....
Stockbridge,. .. . from 1819 to 1837 New Marlborough from 1811 to 1832
Joel Johnson, . .
Clark Wright, ...
Charles J. F. Allen, . ...
Pittsfield,
.
F. Hollister, ..
Milo Osborne, . ..
Lenox,
.
Williamstown, .... from 1805 to 1809
Charles A. Dewcy,.
Brooklyn, Coun., .... Williamstown, . Haverill, N. H., .....
from 1793 to 1826
L. A. Smith,
Newark, N. J.,.
Williamstown, .... from 1821 to 1827 . from 1821 to 1827
Frances L. Griffin Smith, .. John S. Stone, ...
West Stockbridge, .. .
West Stockbridge, from 1795 to 1817 66
Aaron Pickett, .
Henry C. Brace, .
Stockbridge, .. .
from 1823 to 1839
from 1808 to 1838
David Mosely Hinsdale, ... Hinsdale,
E. W. Leavenworth,
G. C. Merrill, ..
. Hinsdale, . .. .
Richmond, .
Pittsfield, ..
...
Westfield, . ..
·
from 1819 to 1841
Henry Clay Gates, . Noah Rossiter, .
Richmond, .
·
Lester Keep,. . Lee,.
M. A. Curtis, .. ..
Louson Nash, . .
William Buel,
William A. Gold, .
John Barnabee, .. ..
D. D. Field, .. .... Dudley Field, . .... New-York,.
Mark H. Sibley, .. .... Great Barrington, .. . Williamstown, . .
H. R. Hubbell, .. Frederick Sedgwick, ..
Lenox,
Richmond, ..
from 1772 to 1821
Streetsboro, Ohio. Farmer. Northampton, Mass. Clergyman. Haddam, Ct. Springfield, Mass. New-York. Physician. Boston. Public Appraiser C. House. Utica. Merchant and Manufacturer. New- York. Engraver. Bloomington, Ill. Att'y at Law.
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Hartsville, N. Y. Pontiac, Michigan. Merchant. Syracuse, N. Y. Counsellor at Law. New-York. Tailor. Monroe, Michigan. Merchant.
Westfield. Tailor.
Little Falls, N. Y. Merchant. Fair Haven, Conn. Physician. Hillsborough, N. C. Clergyman. Gloucester, Mass. Lawyer. Litchfield, Conn. Physician.
New-York. Com. Merchant.
York, Ohio. Farmer. New-York. Lawyer.
Haddam, Conn., .. ·
Sheffield, from 1790 to 1816
Litchfield, Conn.,. Pittsfield, ..
Peru, . .
Pittsfield, from 1821 to 1835 from 1811 to 1840 Stockbridge, from 1818 to 1824 from 1836 to 1811
from 1798 to 1814 from 1829 ·
Canandaigua, N. Y. Lawyer. Troy, N. Y. Merchant. Salisbury, Conn. Teacher. New-York. Farmer.
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White Creek, N. Y. Att'y at Law. Northampton, Mass. Judge Sup. Sup. Mass. Newark, N. J. M. D. Newark, N. J. Brooklyn N. Y. Rector of Christ's Church. Pastor of Cong. Church.
Reading, Mass.
Sandisfield, . .
from 1792 to 1814
Canaan, N. Y.,. .... Great Barrington,. from 1806 to 1827
from 1815 to 1836 from 1785
William A. Boyd, .
.
from 1797 to 1842 from 1797 to 1828 from 1808 to 1827 from 1781 to 1805
Stockbridge,. .
Great Barrington, ..
·
from 1812 to 1826 from 1809 to 1827 from 1812 to 1834
Wells Colton, .. .. John P. Putnam, . ....
Windsor,.
..
.
Pittsfield, . from 1800 to 1824
from 1810 to 1830
·
Russell Austin, .
J. C. Chesbrough, Baltimore, Pittsfield, . .. H. P. Chesbrough, . . . Franklin Gay Taylor .. . Lee, .. .. ·
C. P. Noble,
Mason Noble, .. . Williamstown, . .. Hanodsburg, Ky., .. . Joseph Hyde, .. . Lee, .
William Hyde, ... « Hubbard Beebe, ..
Richmond, ..
...
from 1808 to 1829 .
· from 1819 to 1837
from 1789 to 1800
..
. .
from 1832 .
.... . . ....
·
..
J. C. Hubbell, ... .
Eunice Rossiter ...
Roswald Brown, .. .
Sandisfield, .....
from 1797 to 1825
Cyarina H. Hubbard, . . Cheshire, .. . ...... .....
Chester P. Dewey,. Samuel R. Betts, ... . Richmond, .
.
·
1816
Hinsdale, ... ..
from 1809 to 1823
Newburgh, N. Y.
from 1817 to 1834
Pittsfield, .
·
from 1815 to 1822
Chester, Mass. Clergyman.
Utica, N. Y. Physician.
Troy, N. Y. Lawyer. New- York. Merchant.
Boston.
Lowell.
Manufacturer.
Westfield. Clergyman. New-York.
Oneida Co. N. Y. New Lebanon, N. Y. Farmer. Chicago, Il1. Merchant.
Albany, N. Y. Merchant. Rome, N. Y. Author. Ramapo, N. Y. Manufacturer.
Richmond, . .....
from 1766 to 1795 .
Pittsfield,
from 1800 to 1810 .
.
from 1802 to 1826 |
Wheatfield, N. Y.
Auburn, N. Y. Theo. Student. New-York. Clergyman. New-York. Agent Amer. Bible Society.
Ware, Mass. Cashier. Westfield, Mass. Preceptor. New-York. Lawyer. Otisco, N. Y. Farmer. Buffalo, N. Y. East Greenbush.
St. Charles, Mo. Teacher. Hartford, Conn. Cummington, Mass. Rochester, N. Y. New-York. Judiciary.
Brooklyn, N. Y. Merchant.
Granville, Michigan. Merchant.
Springfield,
Daniel James, . . . Stockbridge,. . from 1776 to 1813
R. M. Townsend, . ·
John A. Cone, ... · Abner Hitchcock, . · Fred. Hubbard, . . Pittsfield,
Homer Bartlett, . .. . ·
Granby, Mass.,
Williamstown, ... from 1815 to 1824
Ware,
.. from 1818 to 1821
. A. Robbins, .. .
Lenox,
from 1820 to 1841
Tyringham, ..
Lanesborough, .. . Lee, . ..
from 1785 to 1810 from 1822 to 1838 ·
Dalton,
from 1822 to 1840 · from 1832 to 1836 ..
·
from 1808 to 1809
O. B. Pierce, . . .... J. H. Pierson, ... .. .. Elizabeth Colt, . . Charles S. J. Goodrich, . . . .
from 1837 to 1841
.. 1811
from 1826 to 1841
.. from 1809 to 1827 . .. 1820
from 1802 to 1818
. . . . . .
· from 1806 to 1826
Williamstown, ..
Solomon B. Noble, . .... Joel Danforth, . . . .
Tyringham, . Pittsfield, ... Charles B. Gold, .... ... Henry Goodrich, .. ....
Lanesborough, ... Richmond,
.
. . . .
...
from 1813 .. ....
Pittsfield,.
..
. .
. .
from 1826 to 1836 1806
Williamstown, .. .. . . ....... .
Hancock,. from 1806 to 1831 ·
from 1819 to 1840
Great Barrington, .... New Marlborough, ...
·
. from 1812 to 1841
. from 1826 to 1813
Emerson Davis, ... .
Thomas Robbins, ... ... A. R. Northrop, .. Custis Hoppin, . ... James W. Laflin, .... ..
. L. M. Crane, ... ... R. L. Spellman, .... .....
.. .. . .. . .
..
Williamstown, .. ...... Zoar, .. ... .. .....
Brooklyn. Physician.
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.....
........ . .
·
from 1794 to 1812
from 1805 .
..
.....
... ..
from 1811 to 1833
Mrs. C. A. Betts, .... . A. D. Matthews, . . Timothy Wright, ... Francis Warriner, ... ·
REGISTRY-(CONTINUED.)
NAMES.
PLACES OF BIRTH.
WHEN AND WHERE RESIDENT IN BERKSHIRE.
PRESENT RESIDENCE, AND REMARKS.
Albany, N. Y. Lumber Dealer. Greenfield, N. H. Clergyman. Schen ctadly, N. Y. Rochester, N. Y. New-York. Rochester, N. Y.
Albany, N. Y.
Granby, Mass.
Teacher.
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