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GREENFIELD , a township and the See also:county-seat of See also:Franklin county, in N.E. See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., including an See also:area of 20 sq. m. of meadow and 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 See also:country, watered by the See also:Green and See also:Deerfield See also:rivers and various small tributaries. Pop. (1890) 5252, (1900) 7927, of whom 1431 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 10,427. The See also:principal See also:village, of the same name as the township, is situated on the N. See also:bank of the Deerfield See also:river, and on the See also:Boston & See also:Maine railway and the See also:Connecticut Valley See also:street railway (electric). Among Greenfield's manufactures are See also:cutlery, machinery, and taps and See also:dies. Creenfield, originally See also:part of Deerfield, was settled about 1682, was established as a " See also:district " in 1753, and on the 23rd of See also:August 1775 was, by a See also:general See also:Act, separated from Deerfield and incorporated as a See also:separate township, although it had assumed full township rights in 1774 by sending delegates to the Provincial See also:Congress. In 1793 part of it was taken to See also:form the township of Gill; in 1838 part of it was annexed to Bernardston; and in 1896 it annexed a part of Deerfield. It was much disaffected at the 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 of See also:Shays's See also:Rebellion.
See F. M. See also:Thompson, See also:History of Greenfield (2 vols., Greenfield, 1904).
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