. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. aries is still the law in Massachusetts; but thetowns were too large and the people too full of serious workfor ceremony and the woods and swamps too numerous tomake perambulation anything more than an occasional attemptto see that the bounds were all right. In the beginning of the previous chapter it was said thatWilliam Pynchon was the founder of Springfield and thathe was good, and wise and kind. We must now return to John and Mary P
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. aries is still the law in Massachusetts; but thetowns were too large and the people too full of serious workfor ceremony and the woods and swamps too numerous tomake perambulation anything more than an occasional attemptto see that the bounds were all right. In the beginning of the previous chapter it was said thatWilliam Pynchon was the founder of Springfield and thathe was good, and wise and kind. We must now return to John and Mary Pynchon are growing up to manhoodand womanhood, he has remained the chief man of the planta-tion. He was the richest man in it, in fact, the only manwho had any considerable wealth. Hehad the most land and the most the cattle, Mrs. Pynchon took theimmediate charge, and if she was likemany farmers wives of the early times,she had a good many cows to milk withher own hands and some of the churn-ing to do. Her husband, though aplanter, was more prominently a mer-chant and had to spend much time in ^^^fur trade with the Indians and seeing. 46 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD to the importation from Boston or Europe of things that thesettlers needed and could not make. Besides, he ownedthe mills which ground the corn and sawed the logs on Millriver. And then, again, he was obhged to spend much time in thepublic service, because he was the man best fitted to do it,as everybody acknowledged. He was the judge before whomall the people brought their disputes for trial at law. He wasa member of the General Court, which met at Boston andmade laws for the whole colony. He was the commissionerof the colony to treat with the various Tribes of Indiansbetween the Boston settlements and those on the HudsonRiver. It is a very important fact that the Indians, who, if theyhad been wrongfully treated might have caused much trouble,found in him one who would do exact justice between themand the white
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