. History of Conway (Massachusetts) 1767-1917 . Neighh(jrh(X)cls of theTown and the Prominent Families in F(jrmer ( Remarkal)le List of Conway \oung Peoi)le Who in Professional and Business Life 212-2.^8 and .Akkanged by Miss Ada Sketches of the Families That Came to Conwa\ during the First One Hundred ^ears, ILLUSTRATIONS The Village from Parsons Hill, Frontispiece Main Street Looking West, in 1890 14 The First Framed House in Town, 34 The Parsonage of Rev. John Emerson, 36 Centennial Elm, Site of First Schoo
. History of Conway (Massachusetts) 1767-1917 . Neighh(jrh(X)cls of theTown and the Prominent Families in F(jrmer ( Remarkal)le List of Conway \oung Peoi)le Who in Professional and Business Life 212-2.^8 and .Akkanged by Miss Ada Sketches of the Families That Came to Conwa\ during the First One Hundred ^ears, ILLUSTRATIONS The Village from Parsons Hill, Frontispiece Main Street Looking West, in 1890 14 The First Framed House in Town, 34 The Parsonage of Rev. John Emerson, 36 Centennial Elm, Site of First Schoolhouse, 73 Dr. E. D. Hamilton, 91 Col. Austin Rice, 95 H. W. Billings, Esq., 100 Pumpkin Hollow and Fields Hill, 103 One of Conways Great Elms, 106 Gen. James S. Whitney, 108 Conway Creamery, Ill Burkeville Woolen Mill, 115 The Conway Churches 128 Second Congregational Meeting House, 134 The Burkeville School, 161 The High School, 167 Marshall Field, • 170 The Field Memorial Library, 191 Burkeville, 232 Main Street Looking East, in 1890, 240. HISTORY OF CONWAY. Chapter TO I.\(ORPOR.\ri().\. |{\ )\v.\ki) ( . Hii,(.s. Ioc iMiic K AM) IIII-: iKoNi ii:k. NiiiL iiiiks trotii \l Rixt-r into ye Western woods. Soreads the grant b> which the Ceneral Court of the provinceof Massachusetts, in 1712, enlarged the holdings of the Pro-prietors of Pocumtuck by adding to them the tract of landnow covered by Conway. Queen Annes War had arrested thegrowth of the frontier settlements of New FIngland, but thecessation of hostilities, proclaimed at Boston in 1712, encouragedthe people of Deerfield, the mother town, to drive anotherwedge into the wilderness and thus secure suitable commons andmore lands for early settlement. Thus Conway, two hundredyears ago, was carved out of the primeval forest and appro-priately given the name of Deerfield Commons. It was officiallyknown, however, as South West District, and under this nameobtained a definite position on the colonial map, as
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