History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from its settlement in 1654;

1779.] REVOLUTION—CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION 431
Few Towns f r o m Northampton was not represented in the
Hampshire Co. flj^-g^ Concorcl Convention; in fact only five
Represented at, . tx i • /-^ i i •\ ^ i
towns m Hampshire Uounty sent delegates.
Concord.
Jonathan Clark represented Southampton,
and Ebenezer Mattoon Jr., Amherst. At the convention
held at Concord in the month of October, other recommendations
concerning prices were adopted, but little
attention seems to have been paid to them.
Convention 4o Regu-
The coiivention for regulating prices, held
late Prices held at at Coiicord, was the foreruiincr of a simi-
Northampton. , . .
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lar meeting assembled m Northampton
the same year. The Committees of Correspondence of the
towns of Hadlej^, Hatfield, South Hadley, and Amherst
sent circular letters to the selectmen of all the Hampshire
County towns, proposing a convention of delegates to meet
at the Court-House in this town, on the second Wednesday
(8*'') of September, 1779, at 9 o'clock a. m. Its object as
stated therein was "that there may be a uniformity of
prices in the several towns.'" No records of the proceedings
of this convention remain. But it is apparent that a
list of prices was recommended, upon which was a proposition
to rate English hay at $6 per cwt. Hadley accepted
the list agreed upon at this meeting, but Northampton took
no notice of it. It is doubtful whether or not this town
was represented in the convention.
Requisitions for Men Demands for soldiers and supplies followed
and Supplies. gach other with rapidity throughout the
year 1780. On the o'*" of June, a call was
made for six months' men to reinforce the Continental
army. The resolve of the General Court ordering this enlistment
provided that an able-bodied man who was drafted
and refused to serve or to obtain a substitute, should pay a
fine of £150. Each man was to be paid 6s. per mile mileage
to the place of rendezvous, which was Springfield for
the west. Each soldier was to have a firelock, bayonet,
cartouch box, and a blanket. For the first three he was to be
paid £5 at the end of his term of service, and £15 for the
blanket. Noah Goodman of South Hadley was appointed
superintendent of enlistments in the county. The quota