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DEERFIELD , a township of See also:Franklin See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the See also:Connecticut and Deerfield See also:rivers, about 33 M. N. of See also:Springfield. Pop. (1900) 1969; (1910 U.S. See also:census) 2209. Deerfield is served by the See also:Boston & See also:Maine and the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford See also:railways. The natural beauty and the historic See also:interest of Deerfield attract many visitors. There are several villages and hamlets in the township, the See also:oldest and most interesting of which is that known as " The See also:Street " or " Old Street." This extends along one wide thoroughfare over a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill and across a See also:plateau or valley that is hemmed in on the E. by a range of See also:highlands known as See also:East See also:Mountain and on the W. by the foothills of Hoosac Mountain. Many of the houses in this See also:village are very old. In Memorial See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, a See also:building erected in 1797–'798 for the Deerfield See also:academy, the Pocumtuck Valley memorial association (incorporated in '87o) has gathered an interesting collection of colonial and See also:Indian See also:relics. Deerfield was one of the first places in the See also:United States to enter into the See also:modern " arts and crafts See also:movement "; in 1896 many of the old See also:household See also:industries were revived and placed upon a business basis. Most of the See also:work is done by See also:women in the homes. The products, including See also:needlework and See also:embroidery, textiles, rag rugs, netting, wrought See also:iron, See also:furniture, and See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal-work in See also:gold and See also:silver embellished with See also:precious and semi-precious stones, are annually exhibited in an old-fashioned See also:house built in 1710, and a large portion of them are sold to tourists. There is an arts and crafts society, but the profits from the sales go entirely to the workers.
The territory which originally constituted the township of Deerfield (known as Pocumtuck until 1674) was a See also:tract of 8000 acres granted in 1654 to thetown of See also:Dedham in lieu of 2000 acrespreviously taken from that See also:town and granted to Rev. See also:John. See also:Eliot to further his See also:mission among the See also:Natick See also:Indians. The rights of the Pocumtuck Indians to the Deerfield tract were See also:purchased at about fourpence per See also:acre, See also:settlement was begun upon it in 1669, and the township was. incorporated in 1673. For many years Deerfield was the N.W. frontier settlement of New See also:England. It was slightly fortified at the beginning of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip's See also:War, and after an attack by the Indians on the 1st of See also:September 1675 it was garrisoned by a small force under See also:Captain See also:Samuel See also:Appleton. A second attack was made on the 12th of September, and six days later, as Captain See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Lothrop and his See also:company were guarding teams that were hauling See also:wheat from Deerfield to the See also:English headquarters at See also:Hadley, they were surprised by Indians in See also:ambush at what has since been known as Bloody See also:Brook (in the village of See also:South Deerfield), and Lothrop and more than sixty of his men were slain. From this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time until the end of the war Deerfield was abandoned. In the See also:spring of '677 a few of the old settlers returned, but on the 19th of September some were killed and the others were captured by a party of Indians from See also:Canada. Resettlement was undertaken again in 1682. On the 15th of September 1.694 Deerfield narrowly escaped See also:capture by a force of See also:French and Indians from Canada. In the See also:early See also:morning of the 29th of See also:February 1703–1704, Deerfield was surprised by a force of French and Indians (under Hertel deRouville), who murdered 49 men, women and See also:children, captured 'II, burned the town, and on the way back to Canada ' murdered 20 of the captured. Among the captives was the Rev. John See also:Williams (1664–1729), the first See also:minister of Deerfield, who (with the other captives) was redeemed in 1706 and continued as pastor here until his See also:death; in 1707 he published an See also:account of his experiences as a prisoner, The Redeemed See also:Captive Returning to' See also:Zion, which has frequently been reprinted. From the See also:original township of Deerfield the territory of the following townships has been taken: See also:Greenfield (1753 and 1896), See also:Conway (1767, 1791 and i8rr), Shelburne (1768) and a See also:part of See also:Whately (1810).
See See also:George See also:Sheldon, A See also:History of Deerfield (Deerfield, '895) ; the History' and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck , Valley Memorial Association (Deerfield, 1890 et seq.); and Pauline C. Bouve,, " The Deerfield See also:Renaissance," in The New England See also:Magazine for See also:October 1905.
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