Gazetteer of Hampshire County, Mass , 1654-1887

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sons manifested an intention before March 25, 1661, to establish themselves on that side of the river in the new town, viz: Aaron Cook, Thos. Meekins, Wm. Allis, Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., John Coleman. Isaac Graves (with his father, Thos. Graves), John Graves, Samuel Belden, Stephen Taylor, John White,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sons manifested an intention before March 25, 1661, to establish themselves on that side of the river in the new town, viz: Aaron Cook, Thos. Meekins, Wm. Allis, Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., John Coleman. Isaac Graves (with his father, Thos. Graves), John Graves, Samuel Belden, Stephen Taylor, John White, Jr., Daniel Warner, Richard Fellows, Richard Billings, Edward Benton, Mr. Ritchell (with his son), Ozias Goodwin, Zechariah Field, Lieut. Thomas Bull, Gregory Wilterton, Nathaniel Porter, Daniel White, VillUm Pitkin, John Cole, Samuel Church, Samuel Dickinson. Of these twenty- seven persons, Aaron Cook and Samuel Church did not remove to the west side of llic river. Ozias Goodwin, Lieut. Bull, Gregory Wilterton, and William Pitkin continued to reside at Hartford; Nathaniel Porter at Windsor; Mr. Ritchell (and son) and Edward Benton at Wethersfield. Seventeen appear to have become permanent residents on the west side, and thus constituted the first settlers of Hatfield. They were from Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield, Conn., except Thomas Meekins and William Allis, who belonged to Braintree, Mass. Several families, whose names were afterward very prominent in all the public business of Hatfield, as Hastings, Partridge, Williams, Smith and others, settled a few years later. The home-lots in Hatfield village were assigned so that they were owned from i66S to 1672 about as follows, commencmg at the north end, east side of the street, at the old highway to the river present Bliss Hotel corner]: Thomas Bracv; Hezekiah Dickinson, twenty rods wide; William Scott, t venty rods wide; Daniel Belden, sixteen rods wide; Samuel Allis, sixteen rods wide; Samuel Marsh, sixteen rods wide; Nathaniel Foote, sixteen rods wide; a space left for a street; Philip Russell, four acres; S...