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

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NORTHAMPTON.
teamsters for carrying public
stores, 443 ; beef and clothing
for the army, 445, 446 ; votes
to borrow money, 445, note 1 ;
no farther allowance made the
assessors for dinners, 446;
new law to preserve order in
meeting-house, 447 ; petitions
G-eneral Court for immunities
to soldiers, 448 ; delinquent
counter-
classes assessed, 449 ;
feit money, 450; ferry, ib.;
sends delegates to Hatfield convention,
454 ; mob endeavors
to stop courts in, 454-456
Ely's trial in. 458 pursues the
;
mob, 459 ; hostages in jail, 460 ;
mob attempts to release them,
461-463 ; situation grave, 464 ;
delegates at Hatfield and Hadley
conventions, 467, 46 9;
many asseinble to stop the
courts, 470 ; removal of the
courts to, agitated, ib. ; news
of peace in, 471, 473 ; search
for Norton, 472 ; a remonstrance
and petition, 47 3;
votes to protect the clock
winder, 473, and note : sundial,
474 ; Easthampton estab-
lished, ib.; company march to
Springfield, ib. ; refuses to admit
girls to public schools, 475;
opposes division of county,
es-
;
INDEX.
478, 560. 561 ;
tablished,
newspaper
480-483 ; opening
act in Ely and Shays rebellion
in, 483; votes on the "grievances,"
487 ; court in, broken
up, 488, 489 ; sends militia to
Springfield, 494. 495 ; skirmish
with Berkshire insurgents, 498,
499 ; men protect arsenal, 503 ;
insurgents in, 508 ; Gen. Lincoln's
army in, 513 ; hanging
in, 516, 593 ; incident of rebellion,
517 commissioners meet
;
in, 519 people sent to jail,
;
531, 532 ; probate court held in
jail, 532; instructs representa-
sent to protect
tive, 533 ; men
General Court, ib. ; sends delegates
to convention, 534 ; instructs
them, ib. ; regulations
in regard to funerals, 525,
536; paper-mill,
duck, 527 ; rope
53 6, 537;
made, 538 ;
Lickingwater bridge repaired,
529 ; law against ball playing,
ib.; church service, ib.; sing-
NORTHFIELD.
ing, 529, 530, 565, 569 ; new
method of singing opposed,
choristers eniploj'ed,
530, 531 ;
531 ; noted for excellence of
church music, ib. ; new schoolhouse
at Lickingwater, 533,
553 ; Hawley's
wins lawsuit,
land in, 545 ;
ib.; accepts
Hawley's gift, ib.; sells property,
545, 546 ; Hawley fund,
western emigration, 550,
546 ;
551 ; loses men in St. Clair's
defeat, 551 ; schooling girls,
551-553; aids Rev. Mr. Williams,
554, 567 post-office, ;
554,
556 ; stage lines through, 555,
556 ; stages help the town, ib.;
fire-engines in, 557, 558. 573
fire in, 558 ; fire-wardens, ib.;
aqueduct built,
561-563 ; new
559 ; dancing,
schools, 563
bridge over Lickingwater, ib.
soldiers raised, 564 ; treasurer's
books burned, 565 ; citizens
petition for .singing master,
ib. ; school-committee and
reports, 566 ; votes against
revision of constitution, 568 ;
giiide-posts, 569 ; votes in favor
of treaty, 569-570 ; the pe-
tition to legislature approved,
570 geese, 571 ; ; protection
against fires, 571-573 ; fire companies,
Hadley
574 ; canal at South
Falls,' 574-576; had
landing place in Springfield,
575 ; freight carted around
falls, ib. ; dam
in, 577. 578, 579 ; attempt to
remedy the trouble, 580 ; illegal
voting, 583 ; school-house
in Easthampton and Roberts
Meadow, 583, 583; South
Street reduced, 584 ; tithingmen
directed, ib. ; schoolmistresses,
586, 587 ; school-district,
587, 588 ; trial and exe-
;
causes sickness
cution of Halligan and Dailev,
589-593 ; mighty men of, 60*3,
604; History of, vol. 1, cited,
17, 30, 21, 35, 45, 53, 65, 69, 89,
94, 166, 183.
Northampton Institution for Savings,
615.
Northfieid,
soned,
reoccupied, 15 ; garri-
17, 19-33 ; two men
killed at, 18 ; Indian depredations
in, 19 ; pays share of cost
men of Coui't-House, 87 ;
in
Louisburg expedition, 114;