. A history of Hatfield, Massachusetts, in three parts : I. An account of the development of the social and industrial life of the town from its first settlement. II. The houses and homes of Hatfield, with personal reminiscences of the men and women who have lived there during the last one hundred years; brief historical accounts of the religious societies and of Smith Academy; statistical tables, etc. III. Genealogies of the families of the first settlers. igh valuation assessed upon their business abil-ity,—in 1772, William Williams, £60; Joseph Smith, 50;Israel Williams, Jr., 35; Lieut. Sam
. A history of Hatfield, Massachusetts, in three parts : I. An account of the development of the social and industrial life of the town from its first settlement. II. The houses and homes of Hatfield, with personal reminiscences of the men and women who have lived there during the last one hundred years; brief historical accounts of the religious societies and of Smith Academy; statistical tables, etc. III. Genealogies of the families of the first settlers. igh valuation assessed upon their business abil-ity,—in 1772, William Williams, £60; Joseph Smith, 50;Israel Williams, Jr., 35; Lieut. Samuel Partridge, 35;Lucy Hubbard, 30; Reuben Belden, 30; Jesse Billings, 26;Seth Murray, 25: Isaac Graves, 25. There were several other taverns in Hatfield besides theHubbard tavern in the stage coach days. Capt. Seth Mur- ]()() HISTORY OF HATFIELD. ray was an innholder in the old house on the S. F. Billingsplace. Ebenezer White kept tavern for many years in theold house now a part of the tobacco warehouse of C. arner and his father had been a tavernkeeper before Allis was the proprietor of a popular housestanding north of the \Y. H. Dickinson place. There isa story to the effect that one day a cousin of the landlordcame in pretty full of New England rum and hearing ofa rather pleasant room being given to a negro was so dis-gusted at this practical evidence of equality that he ledhis horse upstairs to see the room. The horse easily. The Hubbard Tavern. climbed the stairs, but could not get down, and it requiredthe services of many men to drag him to the Allis was the first one in town to use carpetson the floors. Slavery was abolished in Massachusetts in 1781, buteven before that many had liberated their slaves. It wasmaintained in the colonies by the crown and so, althoughthe institution was held in abhorrence by many of the north-ern colonists, it could not be abolished till the success ofthe Revolution was assured. As already alluded to seve
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