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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was not put with the air of a beggar at all, butrather of a creditor who had come to collect his just dues;and her friends took care in filling her basket to select onlysuch preparations as were suited to a critical and fastidiousappetite. She was liberal in her theological views for thosedays, and, in fact, she might be called an advanced thinker. 2g6 HISTORY OF HATFIELD. I heard her relate how she once heard a sermon where theminister told the story of the prodigal sons return, and howhis father saw him a great way off and ran and met him andfell on his neck and kissed him, assuring his hearers that wasthe way Christ felt towards them, and that, she said, isthe kind of preaching I like to hear. About half a mile to the west, on the left side of the road,near where it turns to the north, stood the house of RoswellPease, where he lived with his family. It was a small redbuilding, and there was no other dwelling on this road nearerthan the other side of Horse Mountain in Williamsburg.
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The Oldest House in Town. Returning eastward toward the Middle Lane, and descend-ing the hill known as Stone Pits, there was on the right ayellow gambrel-roofed one-story house, then occupied byNehemiah Wait and his wife. The house still remains there,and I think is probably the oldest house in town. I havementioned it before as the old Morton house removed fromthe Perez Hastings place not less than eighty years ago. In a southeasterly direction from this house, and on theopposite side of the road leading to the mill, there stood atwo-story, unpainted house, in which lived Joel Day and his REMINISCENCES OF SAMUEL D. PARTRIDGE. 287 family, consisting of his wife, four sons, and one daughter.One son was drowned in the river near the house. Anotherson, Zelotes, settled in New Haven, Conn., where he becamea wealthy and respected citizen. Alonzo, the eldest, removedto Savannah, Ga. Pliny remained in Hatfield, where he died.He was married, but had no children. The daughter mar-ried and remo

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