. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, , onthe 13th of I\Iay. 1778, a requisition was made for men from thattown Xoah Cobley and Paul Noble went, and David Fowler,Roger Bagg, Enoch Holcomb, Joseph Dewey, Simeon Stiles,Jacob Noble, Benjamin Sexton, John IMoxley, Martin Root,Stephen Fowler, Eli Granger, Roger Noble and Daniel Fowlerpaid their fines. Although the contest between Great Britain and her formerAmerican colonies was %nrtually at an end in 17S0, a formal peacewas not established until the treaty of Paris was signed, Septem-ber 3,1783. The closing j
. "Our county and its people" : A history of Hampden County, , onthe 13th of I\Iay. 1778, a requisition was made for men from thattown Xoah Cobley and Paul Noble went, and David Fowler,Roger Bagg, Enoch Holcomb, Joseph Dewey, Simeon Stiles,Jacob Noble, Benjamin Sexton, John IMoxley, Martin Root,Stephen Fowler, Eli Granger, Roger Noble and Daniel Fowlerpaid their fines. Although the contest between Great Britain and her formerAmerican colonies was %nrtually at an end in 17S0, a formal peacewas not established until the treaty of Paris was signed, Septem-ber 3,1783. The closing j-ears of the struggle found Great Brit-ain in actual conflict with several European powers, yet she suc-ceeded in resisting them and kept reinforcing her Americanarmies with fresh supplies of troops. At length, however, allhope of subduing her rebellious subjects had vanished, and theEnglish people clamored loudly for a discontinuance of the afterward the house of commons voted that they shouldconsider as enemies to his majestj and their country, all who C-l ( 81. , OF Till-: UFAOLVTIOS should advise or attempt a further i)r(iseeutiou of offensive waroil the continent of America. THE UNITED STATES ARMORY. The establishment of a national armory or gun works atSpriuirfield had its inception in au act of congress passed in 177G,by which the suggestion was made that J\Iassachusetts constructan armory at Brookfield for manufacture of arms, cartridges andother nuiuitions of war. It had been the first intention of Gen-eral Washing-ton to found the works at Hartford, but on the rep-resentation of Col. David ]\lason to General Knox that Spring-field was a more suitable location, the act finally designated thattown as the site of the establishment. Colonel Mason had servedas an artillery officer in the last French and English war, and he,under the committee of safety of Massachusetts, collected atSalem the cannon and military stores which the British in 1775sought to capture
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