. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. eral Court should otherwise order. Under this authority acted until June, 1641, when he was duly commissioned by theGeneral Court with similar powers. On the 14th of April, 1641, the name of the town was changed, by avote of the inhabitants, from Agawam to Springfield. This is said to havebeen a compliment to Pynchon, whose residence in England had been aplace of that name. The General Court recognized the town by the nameof Springfield in 1641. Rev. George Moxon had been settled as
. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. eral Court should otherwise order. Under this authority acted until June, 1641, when he was duly commissioned by theGeneral Court with similar powers. On the 14th of April, 1641, the name of the town was changed, by avote of the inhabitants, from Agawam to Springfield. This is said to havebeen a compliment to Pynchon, whose residence in England had been aplace of that name. The General Court recognized the town by the nameof Springfield in 1641. Rev. George Moxon had been settled as the minister in 1637. In 1639a house was built for him upon a home-lot fourteen rods wide, which wasgranted him. He had at first a salary of forty pounds sterling, whichwas raised by an annual tax. In 1645 tne first meeting-house was stood near the south-easterly corner of Court Square, and extended intothe present Elm Street, and fronted southerly. Prior to 1647 the bounds of the town were quite indefinite. In 1638old style (1639 as tme s now reckoned), a committee, appointed for the. KING Chief of the Wampanoags. 14 KINGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. purpose, described the northern boundary as at a brook on the other sideof the river, about a quarter of a mile above the mouth of Chicopee brook at the lower end of the long meadow on the east side of theriver, and the brook a little below on the west side, are mentioned asthe southerly boundary. No east or west boundary is given. In the year 1647 the General Court made very large additions to theterritory of Springfield: so that it included Westfield, Suffield, a consider-able part of Southwick, and the whole of West Springfield, Holyoke, andAgawam, on the west side of the river; and the present Springfield, Chico-pee, Enfield, Somers, Wilbraham, Ludlow, Longmeadow, and Hampden, onthe east side. Over all this territory Massachusetts claimed and exercised jurisdictionuntil about the year 1748, when t
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