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HADLEY , a township of See also:

Hampshire See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the See also:Connecticut See also:river, about 20 M. N. of See also:Springfield, served by the See also:Boston & See also:Maine railway. Pop. (1900), 1789; (1905, See also:state See also:census), 1895 ; (1910) 1999. See also:Area, about 20 sq. m. The See also:principal villages are Hadley (or Hadley Center) and See also:North Hadley. The level See also:country along the river is well adapted to See also:tobacco culture, and the villages are engaged in the manufacture of tobacco and brooms. Hadley was settled in 1659 by membersof the churches in See also:Hartford and See also:Wethersfield, Connecticut, who were styled " Strict Congregationalists" and withdrew from these Connecticut congregations because of ecclesiastical and doctrinal laxity there. At first the See also:town was called Norwottuck, but within a See also:year or two it was named after See also:Hadleigh in See also:England, and was incorporated under this name in 1661. See also:Hopkins See also:Academy (1815) See also:developed from Hopkins school, founded here in 1664. The See also:English regicides See also:Edward See also:Whalley and his son-in-See also:law See also:William See also:Goffe found a See also:refuge at Hadley from 1664 apparently until their deaths, and there is a tradition that Goffe or Whalley in 1675 led the See also:people in repelling an See also:Indian attack. From 1675 to 1713 Hadley, being in almost See also:constant danger of attack from the See also:Indians, was protected by a palisade enclosure and by stockades around the See also:meeting-See also:house.

From Hadley, See also:

Hatfield was set apart in 1670, See also:South Hadley in 1753, and See also:Amherst in 1759• See Alice M. See also:Walker, Historic Hadley (New See also:York, 1906); and See also:Sylvester See also:Judd, See also:History of Hadley (See also:Northampton, 1863; new ed., 1905).

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