The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-28
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ON County ~ fAnVsIs"pt A"S As~e'
sA1ss-E~nnert Men-Popu'laio''- Property
TIE Condition Of Vari0us 1oicns-Iae Cot
ssssssu-Ff agriculture amount AID Va
~ Of Prod9etsons-M Miscellaneous Articles =
Manufacturing Industry Cottons-W ootlens-
Tsrio,ss Manu- aetSss- Houses! Stops-hf'As-
PERSONAL Property-PLate-No Northampton, &c.
h those delightful times-H Massachusetts, heroic
- and chivalrous era-whea the Indians were
ri great in the land and did not hesitate q; scalp
10 even aeacons and ruling elders; when Satan
- - hold sort OF i" bloody sssize" every few
ysaD in New England; when deep forests stretched
m niles upon miles where nov are broad meadows
= wealthy towns, and savsges pursued the trail'
vAsH to day the locomotive makes its forty miles
end e many marders) an hour; in those dear, de-
ueAsenl times-what blessing that they have been
dad snd gone these hundred years-Hampshire coun
q was great place. 1t dates back TO the year 1862,
- county and contained some settlements previous
- that time. For more than century it embraced
Ae entire Of what we now call Western Massachu-
ss1ks, and was the largest county IN the colony or
uvUUnes OF Massachusetts, Bay. At length, not
sits century since, Berkshire was created from
portion Of it, add fifty years later, other portions
efk were made into the counties of Franklin and
s ceased to exist about forty years ago, and that
aGbetionate designation is to be found now in only
AnH histories or obsolete chronicles. While it
ssntiAued to exist in its integrity, il had
claims 10 be considered one Of the ineA conn
mmities on the continent and its fertility and
natural beauties were worthy of its great poll
HsA extent. The county of Hampshire in colo
uisl times was all Western Massachusetts,. The same
ocunty from l76l to lSl1-l2, was that region less
Berkshire and was very portant community d't
mig the rst thirty years OF the States existence;
azd the present county Of Hampshire is but the mere
Angment of what was once so designated, and ranks
aunOng our fourtkrate counties, Niddlesex ana 5us
fnk being III the arst rank, Essex and Worcester in
Ne second and Bristol and Norfolk in the third.
Beausiful and rich as she Is and respectable she
y IN ali ways, Hampshire exercises but SNAIL
h6rence The affairs of the State, and not even
~ ehaoow cast BY her me can be called great.
The history Of Hampshire IL Interesting aud ro
mantle. When incorporated, IN 1862, it contained
bGt three towns, VIZ. Northa npton, founded 10
1854, and cow the shire town; Hadley, commenced
m 1859, and Springfield, the oldest place Ia Wesern
1AasachHsetts as II dates from 1886, and now the
yEineipal place ia the county OF Hampden. After
IN Restoration, when the socalled regicides were
obliged to choose between Ty surn and exile, several
e their number came to America. The best known
a these gentlemen we're Cote and Whaey, who had
helA high military Office under Cromwell, and who fed
% New England. Tsey reached Boston, but were
oompelled 10 leave there on account Of the
1nnOyances they experience from some adherents Of
IN House of Stuart, aud took up their abode at
Cambridge, which in those days was much farther
rum Boston than it now is. Bat even Cambridge
bHCame too hot for them after intelgen e was re.
onived that COTE ana Whailey were not included in
The act OF indemnity. They went to New Haven,
where they were protected against their pursuers,
thcsgh they were hard pressed. In 1864 they went
m Had N nsh hire WHARF cd
1W years in the house OF dr. Russell minister Of the
place. When Hadley was attacked, In 1876, during
thihp's war, stranger appeared among the de-
1ndere Of the town. and bore himself SO nobly that
ths repuse OF the Indians has generally been a.tri
1atea to his exertons. 1t is supposed that CHS in
atNdual was COTE though Sir Walter Scott has at.
1abated the deed to Whalley in Peveril Of the
Peak but that person was too far gone n decline
% have played the part OF deliverer. Cooper has
made good of the incident IN OF his Indian
novels, The Wept of Whish- Ton Wish,' in the
early chapters Of which we have account Of some
- the searches that were made after the reglcides
~ the emssaries of the roysiists. The care that
Mas taken Of these men by the coonists shows what
was the party feeling in those days aud how
Che people OF Massachusetts, TO the rule Of the
Etuarss The incidents OF their career are inter.
woven with colonial history. COTE appear
anse At Hadley WAS long regarded as a supernatural
Incident, and II was supposed that he was the Gray
Oho~spon who led the people Of Boston Ia their
hEst Manifestations Of hostility TO Sir Edmund An
roe 1859. For tas last piece Of history my only
xntberty is Mr. Ha Ythorne, and did he not wre the
"Life OF Franklin Pierce!' This champion is the
8usrdian genius-the St George or St. Denis---of
0he Yankees and always makes his appearance, like
Q ghOstly stormy petrol, lust as row is about 10
disturb the monotoby Of New England life COTE
md Whalley we're originally buried at Hadley, but
!hsir remains were removed to New Haven, where
hey new lie, hard by those OF Dixwel, third regi-
eide, whose course OF American life was much more
ageob than that Of those who BECAME his brethren
IN death.
There have been quite number Of eminent men
sunnectcd with Hampshire county. Mr.. Bryan, the
pset and editor, was born at Cammington, IN 1894
GAlt Strong one of our earliest United states sena-
eugs, who elected Governor OF Massachusetts
Ostener than any other man, was OF Northampton,
where he how lies buried Isaac Bates, als Dstionsl
ssnstor, belonged here, and so did hyron Lawrence,
recently deceased. rho for many years lad 8 pioni-
nent part in state politics. Jonathan Edwards,
che great metaphyscian, lived and preached at Nor
champion for almost quarter OF century. Mr..
Bancroft, secretary, ambassador, historian, clergy
mon, and collector once kept the academy at Round
Hill, Northampton. he was WING in those days,
md attended wing conventions in which Gen. Jack
ssn was denounced; but when the wings would not
nominate him for Congress he that they were
mjuring the country, and made his fortune by
timely rat Noah Webster once resided al An
herst. Joseph Havley, one Of the best mea Of the
Revolutionary era, lived at Northampton. He is not
- well known as he deserves TO be to the mass OF
readers in our time bot he greatly respected by
he most eminent men in the contest that eyentuatod
- VII DShsHSuty utaHk cStdUHsucN lie was early
IN advocate OF independence, and Patrick Henry de.
csrsd that be had the right idea Of things long be-
lore the great overt act was perpetrated. General
Washington WAS one OF his correspondents, aud held
him IN high esteem The town of Hawley now In
Franklin county, but originally in Hampshire. and
which was incorporated in l792, was named in honor
n him.
Tie increase Of population in Hampshire county
has been by no means rapid Of late years. In 1870
The population was rs Al in 1880 it was 20 2l0 in
ls4V, 50,392; and in 1850, "a 200. OF the twenty.
three towns in the county eleven lost in population
between 1910 and 1850. The towns which gained
IN Numbers were Northampton, which increased
most from 1872 TO 5,lo4; South Hadey, from ,422
t. esq; Ware, from ,95s to 3, $685. Easthampton
Asm 72A TO l,292; Amherst, from 2il5 to 2 1885, and
Hatfield from 9i5 10 l,07l. Bechcrtown, En6sld,
EraDby, Hsdley, Norwich, and Williamsburg, each
madee small increase. The towns which declined
IN plumbers were Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen,
Greenwich Middlesex, Pelham, Plain8eld, Prescott
Southamp ton, Westnanpton and Worth ngton Mid
dle8eld lost more than 9ty per cent of her inbsbi
taDts Goshen does not appear to have rourished
.ske her Dameslke, but lost onetgefth Of her people
While thus " Fastening slowly In adding 70 her
men, Hampshire has done better in the ac,urnula-
ALL