Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . o, by the Qua-boag Historical Society and measures werebeing taken to have it put into good repairwhen, one night, it burned to the ground. Governor Belcher, in whose honour theCold Spring here referred to was afterwardscalled Belchertown, had been in office severalyears at the time of this junket and was highlyregarded by the people in spite of the factthat there was some opposition to him amongthe so-called favoured classes. In 1742 hewas removed from his office in
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . o, by the Qua-boag Historical Society and measures werebeing taken to have it put into good repairwhen, one night, it burned to the ground. Governor Belcher, in whose honour theCold Spring here referred to was afterwardscalled Belchertown, had been in office severalyears at the time of this junket and was highlyregarded by the people in spite of the factthat there was some opposition to him amongthe so-called favoured classes. In 1742 hewas removed from his office in Massachu-setts but was soon appointed governor of theprovince of New Jersey, where he was wel-comed with open arms and did much to helpJonathan Edwards,^ — in whose ^ GreatAwakening he had been deeply interested,— put Princeton University on its feet. The Sabbath day that the party tarried atNorthampton was doubtless spent in hear-ing Edwards preach. As for the errand which occasioned thejunket: it had to do with a very real griev-ance of the Indians. Land speculators were * See Romance of Old New England Churches. 62. DWIGHT HOUSE, BROOKFIELD
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