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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
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raves 12 50 8 Stephen Taylor 12 16 Richard Billings 8 1 100 8 Ozias Goodwin 12 16 Daniel Warner 8 ! 125 8 Zechariah Field 12 16 Thomas Bull 8 Highway to Northampton 8 150 8 John Cole 100 8 Richard Fellows Plan of the House Lots in Hatfield Allotted 1661-1670.Inclosure shows the line of first stockade, built in King Philips War. £100100 100 100 100100 100150 100 100 125 44 HISTORY OF HATFIELD, and did not share in the distribution of the hind as hewas well alon^ in years and lived with his son Isaac, towhose estate £50 was added. The monument erected inhis memory by the Graves family in 1906 marks thespot where he had his home. One of his descendants,Mrs. H. L. Howard, now lives on the John Gravesallotment. What sort of houses were built at first is a matter ofconjecture. Rude and hastily built shelters of logs areUsually the first structures erected by pioneers and probablysome log houses were found in both Hadley and Hatfieldin the early days. However, in Northampton, a flourishing
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One of Hatfields Oldest Houses. Built early in the eighteenth century, probably similar in style to those built earlier. settlement seven years old in 1661, were plenty of sawyersand saw pits, so that some more substantial dwellings andperhaps also barns may have been built at the very begin-ning. The scarcity of timber has been alluded to. White oakwas used for framework, hewed and squared by hand.The use of pine as a building material did not seem to beappreciated by the early settlers in this region and manyhouses standing to-day which date back to colonial times HISTORY OF HATFIELD. 45 are framed and studded with oak. Oak seems to have beenused in preference so that the scarcity of pine probablycaused the first settlers little concern. Boards had to be sawed by hand in a saw pit. The manwho stood above and guided the saw was called the top-man. and received a little higher wages than his fellowlaborer in a pit below, who was called the pit-man.Wages of 2s. and 2s. 6d. per day were

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