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

6H llSTDEX.
NIVERVILLE.
Niverville, Sieur Baptiste Boucher
de, his forces attack Fort
No. 4, 153 ; destroys property,
154, and note 1 ; leads attack
on Fort Massachusetts, 161.
Northampton, first houses in, 1 ;
men from, on garrison duty,
17 ; Indians attack party from,
26 ; men on guard duty in, 31 ;
in dauger from roving bands
of Indians, 33. 34 ; not fortified,
34 ; schoolmaster's salary
increased, ib.; sewer controversy,
34, 35 ; testimony of
Jonathan Edwards, 36, 37 ;
care of paupers, 37 : trespassers
fined, 39 ;
prohibited, 40 ;
baiting cattle
appoints committee
to provide colleague
pastor, 42 ; terms of settlement
proposed, 44, 45 ; sells
land, 45, 46 ; buys homestead
for Mr. Edwards, 47, 48 ;
Mr. Edwards'
pays
companion on
journey from to
journeys, 48 ;
Boston, 50, and note ; Mr.
Stoddard's funeral sermons
printed, 52 ; votes to build
new meeting-house, 67, 68, 71;
money,
revivals, 68 ; borrows
72 ; instructs seating committee,
74 justices to preserve
;
order in meeting-house, 77 ;
bounty for killing crows, 83,
310, 574 ; maps of. 83, 565 ;
sheep raising, 83 ; dogs not
allowed to run at large, 83, 84,
98 : physicians and surgeons
in, 85, 86; school building
moved, 86 ; town-meetings
held in meeting-house, 87 ;
Court-House and town-house
built, 87, 88 ; pays share of
cost, 87 ; Soiithamjiton taxes,
88 ; town officers elected by
plurality vote, 88, 89 ; school-
ing at Pascommuck. 89, 90
sells school lands. 91 grants
;
grist-mill privilege, 92, 93 ;
seeks legal advice over common
land conti'oversy, 93, 94 ;
settled for ten years, 94, 95 ;
again in dispute, 95 ; suits
against trespassers, 96 ; finally
settled, 97 grants land to
;
Southampton, ib, ; schools in
outer districts established, 98 ;
highway encroachments dealt
with, 99 ; refuses Mr. Edwards'
i*equest, ib., and note ;
;
NORTHAMPTON.
almshouse, 100, 327 ; disorder
among the youth, 100 ; Sab-
bath wardens appointed, 100,
101 ; number of deaths in, 101;
soldiers from Worcester sent
to, 106 ; town divided into
squadrons, 106, 107 ; forted
houses, 100 ; mounts in different
parts of, 107-110 ; volun-
teers from, pursue Indians,
111 ; furnishes men for expedi-
tion against Louisburg, 114 :
soldiers return home, 118, 119 :
none killed, 119 ; their names,
120; releases soldiers from
poll-tax, 157 ; vote about wood
for schools, 179 ; boards the
schoolmaster, ib.; appoints
committee to improve the
schools, 180. 181 ; new school-
house in Second Precinct, 181 ;
makes allowance for depreciation
in currency. 182, 183 ; division
of the land granted by
legislature in 1702, 183 : rules
of division, 183, 184 ; number
of acres in meadow land, 190 ;
takes measures to prevent Mill
River overflowing its bank,
191 ; new bridge and cost, 192,
329 ; new pound built, 192
sells portion of highway,
193 : town warrants not re-
corded, 193, 194 ; precinct
meetings, 194, 206, 207 ; permanent
salary granted Mr.
Edwards, 195-197; special
committee to preserve order
on the Sabbath, 197, 198; great
revival in, 198-201 ; good results,
200 ; dismissal of Jonathan
Edwards, 223, 224 ; not
wholly to blame, 225, 226;
Rev. Mr. Hooker called, 240
ordained, 241 ; cost of ordination,
242 ; inventory of stock
of ammunition, 244; sends
guard to Southampton, 245
soldiers from, march to Crown
Point, 253. 285 ; French neu-
trals in, 286, 287 ; sends men
to Ticonderoga. 295 ; soldiers
march for Canada, 296 ; war
not discussed in town-meeting,
300 ; fines for refusing town
;
;
school-
new offices, 301, 302 ;
houses built, 302, 303, 331, 528 ;
claims Shepherd's Island,
303; hires only grammar
schoolmaster, 304 ; refuses re-