. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. ex-tended from Connecticut to New Hampshire and Vermontand was flanked east by Worcester and west by Berkshire,Northampton had been a county town. When the old countywas divided, the middle sectionretained the old name, taken fromone of the old counties of Eng-land. The northern section wasnamed for Benjamin Frankhn andthe southern for John Hampden,a famous English patriot, who,believing that Resistance totyrants is obedience to God, wentof his f
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. ex-tended from Connecticut to New Hampshire and Vermontand was flanked east by Worcester and west by Berkshire,Northampton had been a county town. When the old countywas divided, the middle sectionretained the old name, taken fromone of the old counties of Eng-land. The northern section wasnamed for Benjamin Frankhn andthe southern for John Hampden,a famous English patriot, who,believing that Resistance totyrants is obedience to God, wentof his free will to jail rather thanpay the unjust ship money taximposed by King Charles. Hereceived his death wound fight-ing for the cause of liberty on oneof the battlefields of the Englishrevolution. Returning now to the ancientways of life, we remember, assaid in the second chapter, that in the very earliest timesthe people lived in houses made of logs and thatched withstraw or grass. For windows they often had only oiled paperinstead of glass. But things had gradually improved; so thatmany of the boys and girls whose fathers went as soldiers in. John Hampden. X16 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD the. Revolution lived in much larger and more convenienthouses. Nevertheless, the best of those houses were rathercold in winter. Neither furnaces nor stoves were only fire was in the great kitchen fireplace, with some-times another fireplace in the parlor. The great fire, builtfrom huge sticks, crackled and roared and looked very warm,as indeed it was, if one was near enough to it. It boiled thekettle, hanging on the crane, and baked the buckwheat cakes;but while it gave out heat it was sucking in a deal of coldfrom all parts of the house, so that one would be warm infront and cold on the back, unless he sat on a settle. A settlewas a seat with a high back extending to the floor. Sometimesthe chimney place was so large that the settle was inside andone could look up and see the stars. Wh
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