Author: James Russell TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisbourg (N.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement in 1654
Author: James Russell TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisbourg (N.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association; 1870-1879
Author: Pocumtack Valley Memorial AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Author: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deerfield (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Nims Family
Author: Elizabeth Cheney SuddabyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Godfrey Nims (d. 1705) may have been of Huguenot origin, according to a family tradition. He was living in Northampton, Massachusetts, by 1667, and settled in Deerfield by 1679. He married twice, to Mary Miller Williams, and Mehitable Smead Hull, both widows with children, by whom he had children of his own. He was survived by four of his children.
Clifton William Scott and Mildred Evelyn Bradford Scott of Ashfield, Mass
Author: Fred W. ScottPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595328717
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Volume 1 of Clifton William Scott...is the rich heritage of a New England family. Fond remembrances of the author's parents are provided by family and friends. Brief family histories of eight branches of the family tree--Scott, Bradford, Taylor, Robinson, Williams, Porter, Shaw, and Ranney--are followed from the immigration of each patron ancestor during the great migration of 1620-1643 from England to either the Pilgrim's Plymouth Colony or the Puritan's Massachusetts Bay Colony, then to the Connecticut Valley towns, and finally to the Berkshire Hills towns of Buckland and Ashfield. Scott and Bradford descendants to the present time are documented, as are the numerous Pilgrim connections to the 1620 Mayflower passengers.
History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association; 1870-1879
Author: Journal of the Senate of the State of Michigan
Author: Michigan. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description
Western Massachusetts
Author: John Hoyt LockwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
History of the Second Massachusetts Battery (Nims' Battery) of Light Artillery, 1861-1865
Author: Caroline Elizabeth WhitcombPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "History of the Second Massachusetts Battery (Nims' Battery) of Light Artillery, 1861-1865" by Caroline Elizabeth Whitcomb. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Deerfield Massacre
Author: James L. SwansonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501108182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV+ series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between natives and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic saga that unfolded. Once it was one of the most infamous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704. This impregnable barricade—known to early Americans as “The Old Indian Door”—constructed from double-thick planks of Massachusetts oak and studded with hand-wrought iron nails to repel the tomahawk blades wielded by several attacking Native tribes, is the sole surviving artifact from one of the most dramatic moments in colonial American history: In the leap year of 1704, on the cold, snowy night of February 29, hundreds of Indians and their French allies swept down on an isolated frontier outpost to slaughter or capture its inhabitants. The sacking of Deerfield led to one of the greatest sagas of survival, sacrifice, family, and faith ever told in North America. One hundred and twelve survivors, including their fearless minister, the Reverend John Williams, were captured and forced to march three hundred miles north into enemy territory in Canada. Any captive who faltered or became too weak to continue the journey—including Williams’s own wife—fell under the tomahawk or war club. Survivors of the march willed themselves to live and endured captivity. Ransomed by the royal governor of Massachusetts, the captives later returned home to Deerfield, rebuilt their town and, for the rest of their lives, told the incredible tale. The memoir of Rev. Williams, The Redeemed Captive, published soon after his liberation, became one of the first bestselling books in American history and remains a literary classic. The Old Indian Door is a touchstone that conjures up one of the most dramatic and inspiring stories of colonial America—and now, at last, this legendary event is brought to vivid life by popular historian James Swanson.