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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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eenow standing in front of this lot was set out by JosiahDwight, son of Seth Dwight, about the year 1768. The house now occupied by Mr. Otis Wells was built byDea. Cotton Partridge, and is now, I suppose, not far fromninety years old. He died in 1846. His children are scat-tered from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, and fromVermont to North Carolina, and no descendant of Lieut.Samuel Partridge bearing his name is now living in Hat- REMINISCENCES OF SAMUEL D. PARTRIDGE. 259 field. When I last saw the homestead the buildings werethe same, and occupied the same place which they did inmy early childhood. The next house, on the site now occupied by Mrs C. M.Billingss house, was owned and occupied by Mr. AmasaWells, the grandfather of Mr. Otis Wells. He was a manof such irreproachable life, and so highly esteemed and re-spected, that even the bitterest partisan never uttered a wordagainst him. The house on the homestead was very old.and was called the oldest in town. It was two stories in
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The Jenny Lind Elm, on the Isaac Graves Allotment. height, with the second story projecting in front over thefirst, for purposes of defense against the Indians. I remem-ber being told while it was in the occupancy of Mr. Wells,that is, before he died, that it was one hundred andeleven years old; which, with the fact that it was built withreference to attacks by the Indians, leads me to concludethat it was built early in the eighteenth century. Mr. Wellswas killed by a fall from the roof of this house. He leftfour sons, all of whom but Elisha emigrated. An onlydaughter. Hannah, married Joseph Smith. Jr., and lived anddied in Hatfield. 260 HISTORY OF HATFIELD. The next was the house of Capt. Elijah Smith, brother ofOliver Smith, where he lived with three sons and onedaughter, all of whom died in Hatfield. Another daughterwas married to Dea. Joseph Billings, and one of the sons,Charles, was afterward married and left the homestead.The only material change which had taken place in theappe

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