"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . , onthe 13th of May, 1778, a requisition was made for men from thattown Noah Cobley and Paul Noble went, and David Fowler,Roger Bagg, Enoch Holcomb, Joseph Dewey, Simeon Stiles,Jacob Noble, Benjamin Sexton, John Moxley, Martin Root,Stephen Fowler, Eli Granger, Roger Noble and Daniel Fowlerpaid their fines. Although the contest between Great Britain and her formerAmerican colonies was virtually at an end in 1780, a formal peacewas not established until the treaty of Paris was signed, Septem-ber 3, 1783. The closing year
"Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, Massachusetts. . , onthe 13th of May, 1778, a requisition was made for men from thattown Noah Cobley and Paul Noble went, and David Fowler,Roger Bagg, Enoch Holcomb, Joseph Dewey, Simeon Stiles,Jacob Noble, Benjamin Sexton, John Moxley, Martin Root,Stephen Fowler, Eli Granger, Roger Noble and Daniel Fowlerpaid their fines. Although the contest between Great Britain and her formerAmerican colonies was virtually at an end in 1780, a formal peacewas not established until the treaty of Paris was signed, Septem-ber 3, 1783. The closing years of the struggle found Great Brit-ain in actual conflict Avith several European powers, yet she suc-ceeded in resisting them and kept reinforcing her Americanarmies with fresh supplies of troops. At length, however, allhope of subduing her rebellious subjects had vanished, and theEnglish people clamored loudly for a discontinuance of the afterward the house of commons voted that they shouldconsider as enemies to his majesty and their country, all who 6-1 ( 81 ). o cc WAR OF THE REVOLUTION should advise or attempt a further prosecution of offensive waron the continent of America. THE UNITED STATES ARMORY. The establishment of a national armory or gun works atSpringfield had its inception in an act of congress passed in 1776,by which the suggestion was made that Massachusetts constructan armory at Brookfield for manufacture of arms, cartridges andother munitions of war. It had been the first intention of Gen-eral AVashington to found the works at Hartford, but on the rep-resentation of Col. David Mason to General Knox that Spring-field was a more suitable location, the act finally designated thattown as the site of the establishment. Colonel Mason had servedas an artillery officer in the last French and English war, and he,under the committee of safety of JNIassachusetts, collected atSalem the cannon and military stores which the British in 1775sought to capture. In 177
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