. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. day; and when Pynchon admitted the author-ship of the work, and after being admonished by the Court, and dealt with KINGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. J5 by leading divines of the colony, selected to convince him of his errors,failed to make a satisfactory recantation of them, he felt himself to be, andwas, in no little peril. As the result of this difficulty, he left America, andreturned to England, in 1652, where he died a few years afterwards. HenrySmith, his son-in-law, — although designated a
. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. day; and when Pynchon admitted the author-ship of the work, and after being admonished by the Court, and dealt with KINGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. J5 by leading divines of the colony, selected to convince him of his errors,failed to make a satisfactory recantation of them, he felt himself to be, andwas, in no little peril. As the result of this difficulty, he left America, andreturned to England, in 1652, where he died a few years afterwards. HenrySmith, his son-in-law, — although designated as his successor in the magis-tracy at Springfield, — and Mr. Moxon the minister, accompanied Pynchonto England. Neither of them ever returned to this country. Two mem-bers of Mr. Pynchons family remained in Springfield, — his son JohnPynchon, and his son-in-law Elizur Holyoke. After the departure of Pynchon and Smith, Springfield was destitute ofany local magistracy. To provide for this exigency, the General Court, inOctober, 1652, appointed three commissioners as magistrates, to govern the. town. These were John Pynchon, Elizur Samuel Chapin. These three men had jurisdiction for the trial of allcauses, civil or criminal, except those criminal cases of so grave a characteras were proper to be tried before the General Court at Boston. In May, 1653, these three commissioners were appointed by the GeneralCourt a committee to lay out two new plantations at Nonotuck, or Norwot-tuck. They reported, in 1654, that they had laid out a plantation on thewest side of the river, and reserved land on the east side for another whenrequired. The first of these became the town of Northampton; the other,on the east side of the river, became the town of Hadley. In 1662 Springfield, Northampton, and Hadley were made a countycalled Hampshire, of which Springfield was made the shire-town. Thethree commissioners were authorized to hold courts, both at Springfield andNorthampton. In
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