History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . he has been trial-justice andjustice of the peace ; has held the positionof special county commissioner one term,and other offices too numerous to Montague takes an active interest inagricultiiral subjects, and is in fact one ofthe most enterprising and progressive menof the town. He is also a mend:)er of theCongregational Society, and has alwaysIeen a firm supporter of the ordinances oftliat Church. He wMs married on the 8th of April,1847, to
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . he has been trial-justice andjustice of the peace ; has held the positionof special county commissioner one term,and other offices too numerous to Montague takes an active interest inagricultiiral subjects, and is in fact one ofthe most enterprising and progressive menof the town. He is also a mend:)er of theCongregational Society, and has alwaysIeen a firm supporter of the ordinances oftliat Church. He wMs married on the 8th of April,1847, to Lucinda, daughter of Levi Wil-der, of Wendell, and by this union hadone son and two daughters. The latteronly are living. They are Abide T. andEmma L. Mrs. Montague died on the Istof Octo-ber, 1805, Mr. Montagues second wife is Sarah P.,daughter of Eleazer Warner, of Sunder-land, by whom he has had three children,viz.: Fannie (deceased), Ida V., and AlbertI. Mr. ^lontagup was largely instrumen-tal in the building of the Sunderlandbridge across the Connecticut River, nndwas for many years director and trustee ofthe bridge ifiiigJin)^jaaLg ©i? ihhu^ HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 683 Ebenezer, son of Jonathiin Graves, who was born Sept. 10,1717, and died hi 1813, aged ninety-six. The first death issupposed to have been that of Pliilip Pauton, wlio was killedby the fall of ji tree in There was probably a mill of some kind at Swampfield dur-ing; the first settlement, for, under date of 1690, Maj. Pynchonreferred, in a letter, to the fact that Indian tracks had beendiscovered about old Swampfield Mill. Where this millstood cannot be stated. In 171-5, Daniel Beaman and others,of Decrlield, put up a saw-mill on Saw-ilill Brook (probablyin what is now Montague). In 1721, Philip Smith, of Had-lej, built a grist-mill at the upper end of Little mills were authorized in 1722 and ManoahBodman and others built a saw-mill on Slatestone Brook. There wa
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