History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . ure ofpewter buttons at the old Ayres place. The building inwhich the enterprise was pursued was afterward moved intoGreenwich village, and is now a dwelling-house, owned byDwight Johnson. One of the first blacksmiths at the village was GadWright, whose shop was near Warners scythe-factory. About fifty years ago, Warren P. Wing engaged in themanufacture of cards at the village. Somewhat earlier,Nathan Powers had a woolen-mill at the place where DavidParke
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . ure ofpewter buttons at the old Ayres place. The building inwhich the enterprise was pursued was afterward moved intoGreenwich village, and is now a dwelling-house, owned byDwight Johnson. One of the first blacksmiths at the village was GadWright, whose shop was near Warners scythe-factory. About fifty years ago, Warren P. Wing engaged in themanufacture of cards at the village. Somewhat earlier,Nathan Powers had a woolen-mill at the place where DavidParkers saw- and grist-mill now is. The business of braiding hats has been quite a branch ofindustry since the first part of the century, being followed byboth , but principally by females. A large number arestill made in the town. The first saw- and grist-mill was built about the year 1745,by a man named Holmes, near or on the spot where DavidParkers mill now stands, at Greenwich village. Holmes alsoerected one of the first houses in the town, which stood wherethe tavern now is in 1768. Capt. Hitchcock owned themill. JOHN H. An extract from the gcneftlogicnlrecord of Rev. Julin C. Morgan, latoof Naples, N. Y., which he compiledwhen eighty-one years of age: Miles Morgan was a son of Wil-liam, of LandafT, Glamorganshire,Wales. Miles emigrated from Walesto Bristol, England, and from thereto America, and settled at Spring-field, Mass., May 14,1636. Soon alterhis ariival in Boston, William Pyn-chon, Esq ,with a nnmber of families,removed from Roxbnry, and eettledthe town of Springfield, He joinedthese emigrants in their enterprise,and on their arrival at their place ofdestination the land upon what isnow the main street in Springfieldwas divided into shares, and distiih-uted by lot among tiie settlers. Thetract of land which was allotted toMorgan extended on the south sideof Ferry Lane, now known as CyprusStreet, from the niain street to tht*river. It is a rich and beauti
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