History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . a sled con-taining a cord of green wood from the body of a man, withhis shoulder, and drawing the man out with one hand, andthus saving his life. Naptha was a great lover of sacredmusic. He would often sit with his face toward the back ofthe chair, resting only his toes on the floor, so that he couldbeat the time with his whole frame, and then sing, using thenumerals to measure the meter. Plumbtrees. About 1739 Lieut. Abner Cooley, born in Springfield, , 17
History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . a sled con-taining a cord of green wood from the body of a man, withhis shoulder, and drawing the man out with one hand, andthus saving his life. Naptha was a great lover of sacredmusic. He would often sit with his face toward the back ofthe chair, resting only his toes on the floor, so that he couldbeat the time with his whole frame, and then sing, using thenumerals to measure the meter. Plumbtrees. About 1739 Lieut. Abner Cooley, born in Springfield, , 1712, son of Simon Cooley, who was one of the fortyoriginal proprietors of Sunderland, went to the south part ofthe town, called Plumtrees, to live. This was the first settle-ment there. His first house, probably built upon land whichwas granted his father, was made of logs. He was jokinglyadvised when building it not to put his pins in very tightas he would probably not stay very long, it being then inthe woods. Very soon after, he bought several tracts of land in thevicinity, the deeds of which, dated one in 1741 and one in. HISTORY OF SUNDERLAND. 163 1744, are now in the possession of his descendants. In 1758,Abner Cooley built a frame house south of where the brickhouse now stands, which was built by his grandson, CharlesCooley, and is now owned by his son, George L. Cooley. Theold house was moved to the east on what was then thecounty road from Sunderland to Amherst. The new roadrunning from this point southerly to Amherst was not builttill 1823. The old frame house is still standing, although ina different situation. The second settler at Plumtrees was Isaac Hubbard, Jr.,who had lived in a house which he built on home lot , which stood a little south of the house of A. M, Dar-ling. About 1753 or 1754 he went to Plumtrees to live,and built a house at the north part of the Pl,umtrees dis-trict, where his son Giles lived later, who was followed byhis son Martin and his gr
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