Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-06-17

The HADLEY CELEBRATION, They had 1
great time at lIadley, Mass, Oh the sth inst.
in celebrating the T,co Hundredth annivcrsa
ry of the settlement of that town-so G,mou,
in the Indian wars of carly times, and notcC
also for being the place of conccalmcnt lol
many years of the rcgcde judges COTE anc
Whalley.
The day was ushered in by .hc ringing o
bells and a salute Of 100 guns
A long procession, headed by cavalry and
infantry from the vicinity, was made, con
sisting Of the Governor and other chief civi
officers of the State, of the County, and Of
South Hadley, Amherst, CRANKY and Hatfield
those Towns being embraced in the origin
al limits of lladley,-of the President of the
day, Hon. Erastus Hopkins Of Northampton,
a native Of Hadley, and OF the Trades, the
Students of Amherst College, &C., &c.
As part of the parade, according to the
report in the Boston Traveller, there was
representation of the Olden Time, consisting
Of about % or 80 ladies and gentlemen dressed in
ancient costume Of wigs, cooked hats knee breech-
cs, &c, four couples being on billions; following
this was an old fashioned churn mounted on a
pair OF wheels, to represent, according to trad-
tion, the manner in with the Indians were boat
back, when making an attack upon the town, by
number OF ladies who rushed out upon them and
they supposng it to be n cannon gave way.
As the procession moved down West street. an
attack was made upon it by body Of Indians
from Northampton, commanded by Capt. Clark.
The attack was made upon the Northampton Light
Infantry, and in few moments the old ladies'
with the churn, came 20 the rescue, beating them
back into the fields off the street. The affair was
managed admirably well
Following these came a representation of the
trades students of Amherst College nhabit-
ants on foot, etc. The procession proceeded thro'
several of the principal streets to large tent on
West streets to large tent on West street, where
the GRAFTON was delivered, by Prof. F. d. Hun
tington, of Cambridge.
The discourse of Prof Huntington was of
course a historical one, and full of interest
for the hearers. In the progress of it, he
sketchcd the history of COTE and Whallcy,
while in Iadley, and their place of conceal
ment in Rev Mr. Russell's house during the
last year of their lives. The prevailing ac-
counts are that they both died there and
were buried there, one on Mr. Russell's prem
ises, and the other near by.
The Russell estate has been directly transmitted
from that family through Isaac Chauncy the sec.
ond minister, his son Josiah Chauucy, two samu.
el Gaylords father and son, to Chester Gaylord.
now living Oh the spot. This latter remembers
that at the rebuilding, in 1905, the bones of
large human skeleton, much deeomposed, were
found under fiat stone, with the remains of n
CONN, behind the front cellar wall. Beyond cues.
tion, these were the remains of Whalley, the stur.
dy old King Killer, buried one hundred and TWEEN.
ty years before. On exposure to the air the do.
cayed fragments crumbled into dust, fine as that
of summer threshing floor, which the wind driy
eth away and is utterly lost another fit theme
for Hamlet and Horatio at the grave of poor
Yoriok, the Kings jester The Puritan Republi.
can was NO jester for king, quit otherwise than
that he was in solemn awful earnest; his word
Tor the tyrant was the axe, though 1t should af.
,eiwards fall on his own neck or sever his own
heartstrings.
a loem was delivered by E. c. Porter,
Esq, and the day closed with dinner and
the usual amount OF toasts and speeches.
The celebration is styled the most success.
iul one OF the kind, that has occurred in the
state for many years