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Title: History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: L.H. Everts & Co
Subjects: Connecticut River Valley -- History Franklin County (Mass.) -- History Hampshire County (Mass.) -- History Hampden County (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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hich are hid with biambles; and as for its tillage-ground, most is a greatdistance from the town, and not clear from brush in some places of it and to it,insomuch as an indifleient person cannot but judge (as we suppose) that thedanger is double, in managing field-empUiyments, to what ours is. 2d. Its Prepurutiuu.—It is a place (with grief of heart be it spoken), most ofthe east side in asheS, unbuilt and unfortified, unless some few houses. 3d. Its Proi-iileittuil Dijipeitsation.—It hath been sorely under the blasting handof God, so that it hath, but in a lower degree than ordinary, answered tlie laborof the husbandman, and sometime his labor upon it is v/holly cast away. Now, these thoughts are very discouraging unto all tliought of our removalthither,—for to remove from hulatations to none, from fortifications to none,from ii compact and pl^iu place to a scatleied, from a place of less danger in thefield to more, from a place under the ordinary blessing upon our labors to one
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HISTORY OF HAMPDEN COUNTY. 941 usually blasted, seems to us such a strange thing that we find nut a man amongUB inclined thereto. Three days afterward a second letter was dispatcliod, and,after repeating the protest contained in the first letter, thuscontinued: *If wo must be gone from hence, many of us have estates and friends callingof us elsewhere, and thereupon most of us incline, in case wo remove, to comedownwards. But yet the hand of God hath shtlt ue up, so that we apprehendthat we are under the call of God to abide here at present, by reason of the surehand of God upon us, disenabling Capt. Cooks family and others from a remove,who are low, and captains wife at the point of death under the bloody flux.Wherefore the ground of these lines is, in pait, to intimate unto you that if thereshould be any convoy allowed at the present by your honored selves to any onefor the biingiug olf their estate, the oppoitunity being so desiiahle to us all, ifour town wei e not under the circums

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