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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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(Seal) Thomas Hastings Jun. V Saml. Billing (Seal) Thomas Meekins ; Nathl. Dickinson Malstr (Seal) ; Jer. Alvard (Seal) Nathl. Coleman (Seal) This i> a true cony of the original covenant and agreement, hereentered this 15th clay of May 1706. and attested by Thomas Hastings Jun, Town Clerk. Note 4. Hatfield, England. Hatfield. England, is thus described in Murrays Handbook ofHertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire:— A quaint, old-fashioned market town lying along a hillside, overshadowedby the trees and oaks of Hatfield House, with narrow streets, old houses,shops curiously low, everywhere clean and cheerful. There is a modern, butnot attractive, suburb, known as the New Town. one half mile north of theold town. Away by the Lea are some large mills. The church of St. Etheldreda is one of the largest in the country, datingfrom Norman times. Salisbury chapel on the north of the chancel waserected by Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury (died 1616). the builder ofHatfield House.
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APPENDIX. 463 Hatfield House, the magnificent Jacobean mansion of the Marquis ofSalisbury, K. G.. stands in a fine park east of the town. The bishops of Elymade Hatfield a residence and built themselves a sumptuous palace there,whence the place came to be designated Bishops Hatfield to distinguish itfrom other places of a like name. Hatfield Park, the finest in the country, is ten miles in circumference,undulating, with the Lea flowing through it, and abounding in noble trees.Some of the trees are famous. The Lion oak near the house is over 30feet in girth, of a remarkable antiquity, and though dilapidated from age,still verdant. More famous, however, is Queen Elizabeths oak by theavenue—Hatfield Park is celebrated for its avenues—leading towards thevineyard and the river Lea. According to tradition Elizabeth was sittingreading under this oak when the news was brought her of the death of QueenMary. In a cabinet in the library is kept the broad-brimmed hat she worewhen she received

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