Identifier: historyofhatfiel00well_0 (find matches)
Title: A history of Hatfield, Massachusetts, in three parts : I. An account of the development of the social and industrial life of the town from its first settlement. II. The houses and homes of Hatfield, with personal reminiscences of the men and women who have lived there during the last one hundred years; brief historical accounts of the religious societies and of Smith Academy; statistical tables, etc. III. Genealogies of the families of the first settlers
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Wells, Daniel White, b. 1842 Wells, Reuben Field, b. 1880, joint author
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Pub. under the direction of F.C.H. Gibbons
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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. This house wascomparatively new and of a yellowish color. His wife wasLucy Andrews of Ashfield. Before leaving Hatfield theyhad seven sons, and a daughter was born to them after theirremoval to Heath. On the opposite side of the bridge road stood the samehouse which now- stands there, occupied by Dwight, a son ofDea. Cotton Partridge, with his wife, Betsey Sabin, and fiveor six children. They removed to Phelps, N. Y. This hadbeen the home of John Dickinson, a brother of Gen. LemuelDickinson, who removed to the state of New York. Thehouse, which is probably among the oldest in town, remainsunchanged in its form. The toll house, at the bridge, was a one-story building andwas occupied by Simeon Smith with his wife, three sons, and REMINISCENCES OF SAMUEL D. PARTRIDGE. 275 three daughters. This bridge had a fine appearance and wasbuilt on four arches. Mr. Smith was the son of SimeonSmith of Amherst and a descendant of Samuel, who wasthe ancestor of Oliver Smith. He was a brother of Maj.
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Doorway of the John Dickinson House. Sylvanus Smith and of Asa Smith of Northampton, both atone time deputy sheriffs in Hampshire County. He was thefirst man to raise broom corn and manufacture brooms inHatfield. In 1816 or 17 he removed with his family toAmherst. 276 HISTORY OF HATFIKLD. ( )ii or near the spot w here the house of Mrs. Polly Gravesnow stands, looking up the street, there stood a house bear-ing marks of age, where lived Cotton White and his family,who are also the first whom I recollect as occupying theJesse Billings house nearly opposite. It was an old Dickin-son homestead. The last of the family who owned it wasGen. Lemuel Dickinson, who, about the year 1806, removedw ith his wife, Molly Little, and four sons to Lowville, N. Y.His three daughters remained in Hatfield, Mabel, the oldest,being married to Samuel Partridge (my father), Polly toIsrael Dickinson, and Sophia to John Smith. Col. JohnDickinson, the father of Gen. Lemuel Dickinson, lived onthis place, where he

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