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

526 HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTON. [1789.
sion. And it is requested that no person walk or ride on either side the
procession from the House to the Grave."
And in " order to carry the foregoing regulations into effect," a committee
consisting of ten persons was appointed and " requested to attend
at funerals & to regulate the procession agreeably to the foregoing
recommendation untill the same shall become habitual to the people."
The above report was considered and adopted by the
town, and henceforward funerals were conducted with
" decency and decorum," and no doubt the minds of the
rising generation were suitably impressed thereby.
The towu clock had grown old and was out
^^'P'^'*'- of order in 1790. A committee recommended
that it would be better economy to pur-
Town Clock out of
chase a new clock, than to repair the old one, inasmuch as
a new one would cost but £30. The matter was referred to
the next town-meeting, but was not called up at that time,
for there is no other record relative to the subject.
Manufacturing in At the close of the Revolutiou New Eng-
Northampton. j^nd had uo manufactures. Nearly all that
had been commenced were obliged by the
hard times to suspend. Very little machinery existed or
was in use throughout the entire country. Only here and
there in any of the inland towns was anything of the kind
carried on, and that in a very limited manner, almost
wholly by manual labor. Two years before the war broke
out, Northampton contained a small establishment for the
manufacture of the coarse pottery then in use, but before
the war closed, even that had ceased to exist. When affairs
became more settled, and business in consequence began to
revive, the forerunners of the splendid system of manufactures,
which has since made New England famous,
were commenced by enterprising citizens in different parts
of the Commonwealth. The second attempt at manufacturing
worthy of the name in Northampton, was the paper-
mill, established by William Butler, at what was subsequently
known as the "Paper Mill Village." He made
there by hand all the paper used in printing the Gazette.
In 1817, he sold the mill to his brother Daniel, who carried
it on till his death in 1849. It afterwards passed into the
hands of William Clark and was continued under different
proprietors till the property was bought by the present