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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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e proprietors in the cere-monies and festivities of the day. At 11 oclock A. M. the corporation withthe artillery and music, proceeded from Roberts Inn to the meetinghouse,where an appropriate sermon was delivered by Rev. Dr. Lyman, to a verycrowded audience. After the services were concluded the artillery andmusic, gentlemen spectators, the architect, the president, directors and cor-poration, and the Rev. clergy were formed in procession by the Marshall ofthe day, and marched to the bridge. HISTORY OF HATFIELD. 215 After passing and repassing the bridge in inverted order, under analternate discharge of artillery from the opposite banks of the river, theprocession returned to Whites Inn. and partook of a handsome entertain-ment. A few appropriate toasts with a discharge of artillery, concluded theceremonies of the day. An apocryphal account states that a prayer was offeredby Priest Wells of Whately,—presumably at the bridge,—in which he prayed for everybody up and down the street
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The Dr. Daniel White Tavern. and across the bridge. As he was hemming and hawing,about to begin all over again, he was interrupted by RogerDickinson, who shouted, Jump ashore, parson, jumpashore. Dr. Lymans sermon was printed. He was enthusiasticover the possibilities in store from the improved means ofcommunication, believing it foreshadowed the coming of themillennium. The funds for building the bridge were raised partly by thesale of lottery tickets, a common method for raising moneyat that time. The first bridge lottery was authorized in1803. The drawings were held at the tavern kept by Dr. 216 HISTORY OF HATFIELD. Daniel White in the house now the residence of D. W.Wells. Dr. White was the most noted inn keeper of theperiod and his tavern was a popular resort. He studiedmedicine in his youth and went to Whitestown, N. Y., topractice. Losing one of his first cases, in which the opera-tion of bleeding the patient, then in general use by physicians,had fatal results, he packed his b

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