History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . ney and Belcher, heard the frag-mentary story the former was telling, and replied, If the damis breaking, the folks below must know it, and drove out forHaydenville. The Williamsburg bells were rung at a quarterbefore eight oclock. About fifteen minutes, it is supposed,elapsed between the time Cheney reached Spellmans and thetime when Graves started. Graves made directly for the manufactories, supposing otherswould easily hear the warning, but the operati
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . ney and Belcher, heard the frag-mentary story the former was telling, and replied, If the damis breaking, the folks below must know it, and drove out forHaydenville. The Williamsburg bells were rung at a quarterbefore eight oclock. About fifteen minutes, it is supposed,elapsed between the time Cheney reached Spellmans and thetime when Graves started. Graves made directly for the manufactories, supposing otherswould easily hear the warning, but the operatives would beprevented by the noise of the machinery. At Skinnerville hewas but a short time ahead of the fiood, though he himselfwas not aware of that fact. At Haydenville there was lesstime, but it sufficed to save many lives that must have other-wise perished. Here, Myron Day, seated in a light wagon,catching the word from Collins Graves or others, and seeingthe flood itself above the brass-works, started on the instantfnr Leeds. Lashing his horse into a foam, he barely keptahead of the seething waves, until, dashing into the defile. Cyrus Miller is a grandson of John Miller, the firstsettler of Williamsburt;. The history of the latter is veryfully given in coiinootion with the general sketch of thetown. John Miller had three sons, Stephen, Cyrus, John,and one daughter, Mrs. Asa Wright, of Northampton. This early pioneer lived for a year or two in the loghouse erected by him, and then built a larger one. Inthe year 1735 he erected the house that until recentlystood upon the old farm, and this is said to have been thefirst frame house in town. John Miller died Sept. 7,1792, aged eighty years. His wife, Martha, died Nov. 24,1805, aged eighty seven years. Their son Cyrus suc-ceeded them on the old farm, and died June 17, 1825,aged sixty-eight years. He married, in 1781, Sarah Phin-ney, who survived him many years, and died March 24,1859, at the age of ninety-eight years a
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