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Granted, 273, 317.
Hayward, 364, 382, 388, 405, 419, 426, 433. One shilling 6 pence for helping Thomas Crowfoot, 396.
Use of bull, 510.
Selectman and overseer of the poor, 392. Surveyor, 423. 428. Terry, Thomas, Jr .- Hog reeve, 428, 492.
THOMAS.
Thomas, Benjamin .- To lay out highway, 70.
Thomas, Joseph .- Granted land, 277.
Thomas, Rowland .-- Building committee, 127.
Boundary between Springfield and Northampton, 182, 213.
Boards for meeting-house, 161.
Committee. 79.
Committee to give land to Mr. Glo- ver, 81.
Committee on settling Westfield to replace first committee, 107.
Concerning meeting-house, 120. Committee to prevent damage by floods, 125.
Committee to settle land controver- sy, 195.
Desired to exchange land, 257.
Desired grant, 270, 278. Granted land, 220, 223, 225. 228, 247, 253, 272. 279.
Highway, 247.
Laying out highway at Skipmuck, 198.
Liberty to fish, 190.
Land desired for his sons and grant- ed, 257.
On committee for granting land. 83. On boundary committee: settling boundary, 135, 169, 195.
"Preambulation" work, 151. Relating to boundary between Springfield and Westfield, 103, II8.
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INDEX TO PERSONS.
Selectman, 85, IIO. Surveyor, 145, 192. Sealer of weights and measures, 198. To lay out highway over Agawam River, 88, 89.
To consider a way over Mill River, 94.
To see to upper "causey," 196. To make impartial valuation town's land, 149.
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To view land, 258.
Work on boundary, Springfield and Enfield and Hadley. 176, 179, 180, 181, 182, 191.
TILTON.
Tilton, Peter, Hadley .-
Boundary between Springfield and Hadley, 181.
Relating to boat, west side of the river, 14I.
THOMPKINS.
Thompkins, Samuel .- Hog reeve, 448.
THROW.
Throw, David .- Granted land, 25I. To be freed from rate, 147.
TOWSLEY.
Towsley, Michael .- Granted land, 312.
TOUSEY.
Tousey, Thomas .- Inhabitants to be assessed to pay remainder of his salary for teach- ing, 385.
VAN HORN.
Van Horn, Bon .-
Fence viewer and field driver, 398, 456. Swine, 409. To improve land, 315. Van Horn, Christian .- Constable, 394. Fence viewer and field driver, 409, 430, 456. Fence viewer, 500. Granted land, 424. Making pound gate, 397. To improve land, 314.
To execute the law about swine, 378, 382, 384. Use of bull, 461, 473, 480.
For his trouble in tending Benja- min Stebbins, Jr .; suspected of small pox, 488. Use of bull, 490, 508. WAITE.
Waite, Benjamin .- Work on schoolhouse, 488.
Waite, Richard .- Granted land, 245, 276.
Desires grant, 271, 274, 276.
Hayward, 198. To fortify new meeting-house, 137.
WARNER.
Warner, Ebenezer .- Granted land, 306. Hog reeve, 428. Tithingman, 414. Use of bull, 487, 496.
Warner, John .- Constable, 205.
Fined for absence from Town-meet- ing, 15I. Fence viewer, 338.
Granted land, 292.
Liberty for fishing, 174.
Relating to Country. rate, 336.
Selectman, 346, 349, 363.
Tithingman, 387. To move mill, 312.
Warner, Samuel .- Allowed 20s for plank, 375. Building stocks, 460.
Clerk of the market, 366.
Constable, 409.
Fence viewer, 405, 448.
Granted land, 306, 309.
Granted £2, 412.
Hayward, 405.
House for horses, 436.
Orders about swine, 378, 382, 384.
Surveyor, 369, 402, 473.
Work on schoolhouse, 488.
WARRINER.
Warriner, Ebenezer .- Boards for Court House, 437.
Constable, 390, 391, 392.
Carrying person, 3S, 4II. Concerning rates, 455.
Dissents from vote, 373.
Granted land, 306.
Liberty to build house, 408.
Law on turpentine, 422. Selectman, 438, 447, 456, 482, 492, 500. Surveyor, 374, 426.
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INDEX TO PERSONS.
Swine, 378, 384, 393. Services, 465.
Tithingman, 394.
Use of bull, 496, 507.
Viewer and field driver, 405, 423. Work on schoolhouse, 488.
Warriner, James .- Assessor, 355, 366.
Boards for Court House, 437.
Boundary between Springfield and Enfield, 191.
Constable, 187, 332.
Desires grant, 270, 280.
Dissented, 373.
Granted land, 222, 240, 249, 272, 281.
Highways, 68, 69, 70, 313, 355.
Hayward, 143, 149.
Liberty to pasture in the burying ground, 350.
Material and work at Court House, 486.
Overseer of the poor, 456.
Propounded for exchange of land, 258.
Relating to Mr. Brewer, 395, 401.
Receives Province Treasurer's re- ceipt, 337.
Relating to rates, 351.
Repairs as are needed about Town House, 478.
Surveyor, 124, 135.
Selectman, 154, 196, 199, 341, 346, 353. 366, 412, 425, 430, 447, 456, 466, 469, 482.
Services, 465.
To fortify new meeting-house, 136.
To make report for east side, 345.
Tithingman, 211, 352, 384.
To get arrears due town, 353.
To enlarge seat for Judges in the Court House, 431.
To make up accounts, 433. Viewers, 349.
Work about Mallefuild tomb, 460. Warriner, James, Jr .-
Boundary, 473.
Boundary of Brimfield and Spring- field, 506.
Boards for Court House, 437.
Constable, 369, 434.
Concerning repairs on meeting- House, 405.
Desires grants, 280. Dissented, 373.
Fence viewer, 384.
Granted land, 280, 293, 313, 319, 323.
Granted and measured, 323. Hayward, 193, 340, 384. "Preambulation," 479.
Rates, 454. Surveyor, 342, 359. Selectman, 398. Tithingman. 356, 382.
Warriner, Samuel .--- Desires grant, 301. Fence viewer, 387. Hayward, 349, 387. Law about swine, 370, 382, 384. Tithingman, 388.
Warriner, Thomas .-- Fence viewer, 500.
Warriner, Nathaniel .- Viewer, 513.
Warriner, Jonathan .- Surveyor, 419. Viewer and driver, 433.
Wife; her distressed circumstances, 515. Warriner, Joseph .- Freed from rates, 115.
Town Clerk, 394, 398.
Warriner, William .- Constable, 82, 113, 119, 426.
Dissented, 373.
Establish and repair highways, 68, 69, 70.
Granted for his "extraordinary trouble about the Crowfoots" and Cornelius Webb's wife, 479.
Granted land, 240, 249, 293.
Hayward, 342, 349, 370.
Orders about swine, 387.
Repairs about Town House, 478.
Stone for tomb, 452.
Slitwork for Court House, 437.
Stone for Court House, 479.
Surveyor, 97, III, 388, 398, 414.
Tithingman, 366, 391, 482.
Use of bull, 488, 496, 509.
Work on schoolhouse, 459.
Work and brick for schoolhouse, 487.
WEBB.
Webb, Cornelius .- Hog reeve, 415. House, 481. Repairing Henry Wright's house, 465. Webb, Orange .- Rates, 454. Webb, John .- Granted land, 309.
WEBSTER.
Webster, George .- Liberty for turpentine, 284.
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INDEX TO PERSONS.
WELLER. Weller, John .- Admitted inhabitant, 334.
WECOMBO.
Wecombo, Indian .- Challenges timber of cedar swamps, 114.
WHEELER ..
Wheeler, David .- Granted land, 250.
WHITE.
White, Daniel .- To execute law respecting boards, etc., 415.
White, John .- Constable, 430. Surveyor, 412, 456, 500.
Tithingman, 405, 409.
To disburse money for Agawam school, 462, 471, 491, 495. Viewer and field driver, 405, 438.
WILLIAMS.
Concerning land, 446. Williams, Cornelius .- Granted land, 237. Williams, John .- Admitted inhabitant, 80.
Williams, Rev. Stephen .- Wishes quit claim, 441.
WILLISTON.
Williston, Joseph .-
Assessor, 387, 409. Committee on house lots, 307.
Concerning ministry land, 366. Constable, 358.
Committee to build Court House, 416, 417. Concerning free ferry, 406, 412.
Constable instead of John Stebbins, 449.
Fence viewer, 338, 352, 369, 378, 414, 428, 438, 448, 513.
Hayward, 349. 352, 378, 414, 428. Measurer, 391.
Pound, 437.
Relating to town's debts and cred- its, 386.
Selectman, 366, 428, 430, 466, 467.
To set price on growth, product, etc., 434.
To make up accounts, 434. 456, 458, 470.
To pay town bank money, etc, 426. Tithingman, 382, 384.
Williston, Joseph, Jr .-- Fence viewer, 492. "Preambulation," 479. Williston, Nathaniel .-
WOLCOTT.
Wolcott, Henry .- Hog reeve, Longmeadow, 420. Highway in Longmeadow, 514. Surveyor, 448.
WORTHINGTON. Worthington, John .-
Assessor, 412. Bonds, 486, 491.
Constable, 392. Concerning ferry, 412.
Concerning free ferry, 406.
Committee to build Court House, 417.
Desire granted, 432.
For boundary, 3 shillings, 407.
For his daughter's care of Eben Leonard's wife, 460.
Granted land, 298.
Glass for school, 463.
Moderator, 434.
Paper, 479, 486, 507.
Relating to Court House, 416.
Selectman, 405, 418, 432, 473.
Trustee, 439, 440, 461, 478.
Tithingman, 426.
To set price on the growth, prod- uct, etc., of the town, 434. Viewer and hayward, 414.
Worthington, Jonathan .- Concerning swine, 382, 384. 395.
Constable, 492.
Desires grant, 305.
Fence viewer and hayward, 394.
Granted land, 306, 316.
Surveyor, 467.
Tithingman, 409.
WRIGHT.
Wright, Abel .-
Arbitrator in the Glover case, 208.
By-laws, 374.
Boundary between Springfield and Hadley, 191.
Concerning ministry lands, 362.
Desires cornmill, 287.
Fined for absence from Town-meet- 151.
Granted land, 216, 227, 228, 236. 249, 263, 272, 277, 290.
Granted liberty to move fence, 266. Granted land at Woronoco, 98. Highways, 69.
Highway at Skipmuck, 517.
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INDEX TO GENEALOGIES.
Laying out highway at Skipmuck, Wright, Henry .- 198. Liberty to improve trees, 354.
Report for east side, 345. Relating to paying rates in other specie than money, 335, 337. Selectman, 197, 349. Trustee, 376. To lay out highway, 202. To answer petition, 340. To help draw a petition west side, 345.
against Wright, Abel, Jr .-
Desires grant, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283. Granted land, 279. 280, 281, 290.
Wright, Benjamin .- Fence viewer and field driver, 359, 409.
Constable. 402. Compensation for land, 437.
Fence viewer and hayward. 413.
Note relating to Widow Crowfoot, 484. Surveyor, 419. Use of bulls, 442, 479.
Wright, Judah, Northampton. Paid judgment allowed, 367. Sues Pelatiah Glover, 359.
Wright, Joseph .- Desires grant, 278, 281, 283. Granted land, 278, 279, 292. Hog reeve, 428.
Wright, Samuel, of Northampton .- Desired to be admitted an inhabi- tant, 369.
INDEX TO GENEALOGIES.
Ashley, David, 521.
Ashley, Jonathan, 522.
Ashley, Joseph, 522.
Atchinson, Benoni, 523. Atchinson, John, 523.
Clark, John, 547. Colton, Quartermaster George, 548.
Bagg, John, 524.
Colton, Isaac, 549.
Ball, Francis, 524.
Colton, John, 550.
Cooley, Benjamin, 550.
Bancroft, Thomas, 526.
Cooley, Benjamin, Jr., 551.
Barber, John, 526.
Cooley, Eliakim, 552. Cooley, Daniel, 552.
Beamon, Simon, 527.
Bedortha, Reice, 528.
Cooley, Joseph, 552.
Bedortha, Samuel, 529.
Bedortha, Joseph, 530.
Bliss, Widow Margaret, 530.
Bliss, Nathaniel, 532.
Bliss, Lawrence, 532.
Bliss, Samuel, 533.
Day, Robert, 557. Day, Thomas, 558.
Day, Thomas, Jr., 558.
Bliss, John, 533. Bridgman, James, 534.
Denton, Daniel, 559.
Branch, William, 535.
Dorchester, Anthony, 559.
Brewer, Rev. Daniel, 535.
Dorchester, John, 559.
Brooks, William, 535.
Dorchester, James, 559.
Burr, Jehu, 536. Burt, Henry, 537.
Dumbleton, John, 562.
Burt, Jonathan, 539.
Dumbleton, Nathaniel, 562.
Burt, David, 540. Burt, Nathaniel, 54I.
Edwards, Alexander, 563.
Bush, Jonathan, 543.
Elmer, Daniel, 563. Ely, Nathaniel, 563.
Cable, John. 543.
Cakebread, Isaac, 543.
Chapin, Dea. Samuel, 543. Chapin, Henry. 546.
Chapin, Josiah, 547. Chapin, David, 547. Chapin, Japhet, 547.
Ball, Jonathan, 525. Ball, Samuel, 526.
Cooley, Obadiah, 55I.
Cooper, Thomas, 553. Cooper, Timothy, 555. Cooper, Thomas, Jr., 556.
Crowfoot, Joseph, 557.
Dudley, Hugh, 560.
Ely, Samuel, 564. Everett, Richard, 565.
Exell, Richard, 578. Ferry, Charles, 578.
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INDEX TO GENEALOGIES.
Ferry, John, 579. Ferry, Charles, Jr., 580. Ferry, Gershom, 580.
Foot, Nathaniel, 581. Foot, Samuel, 581. Foster, Edward, 581.
Frost, Isaac, 582.
Gilbert, Thomas, 582.
Gilbert, Thomas, Jr., 582.
Gregory, Henry, 583.
Glover, Rev. Pelatiah, 584.
Parsons, Hugh, 614.
Parsons, Benjamin, 614.
Parsons, Samuel, 615.
Parsons, Joseph, 616.
Parsons, Hezekiah, 616.
Harmon, John, Jr., 587.
Harmon, Joseph, 588.
Harmon, Nathaniel, 588.
Pepper, Francis, 620.
Petty, John, 620.
Petty, John, Jr., 620.
Petty, James, 621.
Pritchard, Roger, 621.
Pryngrydays, Edmund, 621.
Pynchon, William, 622.
Pynchon, John, 625.
Pynchon, John, Jr., 629.
Pynchon, William, 629.
Pynchon, John, 3rd, 630.
Reeves, Thomas, 631.
Richards, John, 631.
Rogers, Henry, 631.
Rogers, Henry, Jr., 632.
Rogers, John, 632.
Scott, John, 632.
Scott, William, 633.
Searle, John, 633.
Searle, John, Jr., 633.
Searle, John, 3rd, 634.
Sewell, Thomas, 635.
Sikes, Richard, 635.
Sikes, Nathaniel, 636.
Sikes, Victory, 636.
Sikes, Increase, 637.
Smith, Henry, 637.
Stebbins, Thomas, 638.
Stebbins, Thomas, Jr., 640. Steele, John, 640.
Steele, Barrett, 641.
Stevenson, James, 641.
Stiles, John, 641.
Stiles, Ephraim, 642.
Stuart, John, 642. Sweetman, Thomas, 642.
Swink, Peter, 643. Taylor, James, 643.
Taylor, James, Jr., 643.
Taylor, Jonathan, 644. Taylor, Samuel, 644.
Miller, John, 608. Miller, Ebenezer, 608. Morgan, Miles, 609.
Morgan, David, 610. Moxon, Rev. George, 61I. Munn, Benjamin, 611. Munn, James, 612. Munn, John, 612.
Munn, Nathaniel, 613. Mygot, Zebulon, 613.
Noble, Thomas, 613.
Norton, John, 614.
Osborn, James, 614.
Glover, Pelatiah, Jr., 585.
Hale, Gershom, 586. Honcock, John, 586. Harmon, John, 587.
Hayes, Edmund, 589.
Henryson, John, 589.
Hitchcock, Luke, 589.
Hitchcock, Luke, Jr., 589.
Hitchcock, John, 590.
Holyoke, Elizur, 591.
Horton, Jeremy, 592. Hunter, William, 592. Ingersol, John, 503.
Jess, William, 594. Jones, Grittith, 594. Keep, John, 595.
Keep, Samuel, 595.
Knowlton, Benjamin, 595.
Lamb, John, 596.
Lamb, Samuel, 596. Lamb, Daniel, 597.
Leonard, John, 597.
Leonard, Joseph, 598. Leonard, Benjamin, 598.
Leonard, Abel, 599. Leonard, Josiah, 599.
Lobdell, Simon. 599. Lombard, John, 600.
Lord, Richard, 600. Mac Cranny, William, 600.
Marshfield, Samuel, 601. Mathews, John, 603. Merrick, Thomas, 603.
Merrick, Thomas, Jr., 604.
Merrick, James, 604. Merrick, John, 605. Miller, Obadiah, 605. Miller, Lazarus, 606.
Miller, Obadiah, Jr., 606.
Miller, Thomas, 607. Miller, Thomas, Jr., 607. Miller, Samuel, 608.
Terry, Samuel, 644.
Parsons, Ebenezer, 616.
Parsons, Cornet Joseph, 617.
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INDEX TO GENEALOGIES.
Terry, Samuel, Jr., 647.
Williston, Joseph, 655.
Terry, Thomas, 648.
Williston, Joseph, Jr., 655.
Thomas, Rowland, 649.
Wood, John, 655.
Worthington, John, 655.
Thomas, Benjamin, 649. Thomas, Joseph, 649.
Worthington, Jonathan, 656.
Van Horn, Bon, 650.
Worthington, William, 656.
Van Horn, Christian, 650.
Waite, Benjamin, 651.
Wright, Abel, Jr., 657.
Wolcott, Henry, 651.
Wright, Benjamin, 658.
Wolcott, Joseph, 652.
Wright, Henry, 658.
Warner, John, 652.
Wright, Joseph, 658.
Warriner, William, 653.
Wright, Dea. Samuel, 659.
Warriner, James, 653.
Wright, Samuel, Jr., 659.
Warriner, Joseph, 654.
Wright, Abel, 657.
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Younglove, Joseph, 660.
APPENDIX.
ORIGIN OF THE NAMING OF MOUNTS HOLYOKE AND TOM.
Dr. Holland in his "History of Western Massachusetts," and in some of his subsequent writings, gave a very poetical account of the naming of these two conspicuous mountain ranges, and what he wrote has gener- ally been accepted as historical facts. There is no known record showing conclusively how or when these names originated. Dr. Holland in his ac- count states that two exploring parties from Springfield went northward, -one on the east side of the Connecticut, headed by Elizur Holyoke, and the other on the west side by Rowland Thomas. When these two parties arrived at the narrow pass between the mountains, at what in later years was known as Rock Ferry, then and there the two mountains were named, after the leaders,- the mountain on the "east side receiving the name of Holyoke, and that on the west side Thomas, afterwards curtailed into plain and homely Tom." There is no other account of such an expedi- tion. The first mention of Mount Holyoke in the records is in 1664, when a County road was laid on the east side of the Connecticut from Hadley to Windsor. Mount Tom is mentioned in the records as early as 1662. In a deed in Book A, Page 32, in the Register of Deeds' office in Springfield, is this: Joseph Parsons and wife Mary of Northampton deed to Aaron Cook, Senior, of Northampton, swamp land, and take land that was grant- ed by the town of Northampton to Cook,-that "lyeth under Mount Tom, and bounded easterly by the Great River and westerly by Mount Tom, and the sides lye against John Webb, Sen., northerly, and John Webb southerly."
There can be no doubt that Mount Holyoke was named for Elizur Hol- yoke, but how the other received the name of "Tom" there is as yet no explanation that is beyond a doubt. June 10, 1660, Thomas Cooper sells land "at a place called Woronoco, extending from a brook called Tom- hommuck on the north, to Woronoco river on the south." In other deeds in Book A, are mentioned, on Page 6, "the aforesaid tract of ground called Wequetayyag-Yowunok hommuck;" Page 8, "Sunnuck- quommuck;" Page II, a track of ground called "Sunmuk quommuck;" Page 15, "Luekommuck;" Page 17, a "brook called Tomhammucke;"
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Page 33, "Tomhommuck brook;" Page 43, "bounded by a brook called by the Indians Tomhommuck." Under Mount Tom, on the banks of what was originally the Connecticut, we have Pascommuck. It is evident that the Indian words terminating with "hommuck" had reference to a brook or river, possibly running through a meadow, and it is as clear to the writer that Tom was a prefix of some Indian word, applied to our loftiest mountain range, "curtailed" as Dr. Holland has said, "to plain and homely Tom," but without reference to that useful early resident, Rowland Thomas. Those who have made a study of the Indian tongue may be able to give a better explanation. These comments are made only in the light of suggestion with the view of separating fact from fiction.
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