History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . tors meetings sometimes assembled at the house ofEnsign Harwood. Ebenezer Snell and Asa Hatch were appointed a committeeto get the town incorporated. A proposition to set off the westpart of the town to Gageborough was favorably acted uponSept. 3, 1778. Aoted Sept. 14, 1778, that Lieut. Jared Smithgo to the General Court to get the town incorporated. It is evident that the town was largely settled between 1762and 1771. The order in which each family moved
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . tors meetings sometimes assembled at the house ofEnsign Harwood. Ebenezer Snell and Asa Hatch were appointed a committeeto get the town incorporated. A proposition to set off the westpart of the town to Gageborough was favorably acted uponSept. 3, 1778. Aoted Sept. 14, 1778, that Lieut. Jared Smithgo to the General Court to get the town incorporated. It is evident that the town was largely settled between 1762and 1771. The order in which each family moved cannot l)edetermined. The men appointed on committee by the propri-etors meetings at Concord may very likely have been thefirst settlers. It is said that Jacob Melvin became a settler in1766, and that there were then but seven families in town;that all the men from these seven families assembled, cleareda house-spot, and erected a log house for Mr. Melvin, and thathe moved into it the same day. It is probable that StephenFarr, Joseph Farr, Samuel Brewer, Thomas Barrett, TillyMerick, Stephen Hayward, Charles Prescott were these .seven. HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 441 f;imilies ; that Daniel Reed, William AVard, Peter Harwdud,Timothy Moore, Nathan Harwciod, with others, located duringthe next three or four years. The majority of the proprietorswere evidently in Concord, or that vicinity, until 1770 or aboutthat time; but in the spring of 1771 they were so largelysettled here that future meetings of the proprietors were heldwithin the township. As another theory of first settlement we add that a recentwriter in the Gazette, in an article upon the late EbenezerShaw, claims that his old place was the site of the first settle-ment,—the Deacon Bigelow farm. The tirst frame building is said to have been erected on thepresent place of Alanson Keed, by John Tower. It had nofloor. PHYSICIANS. In 1774, as noted elsewhere, Dr. Bradisli, Dr. Mick, and were autliorized to open a sm
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