An historical address : delivered at the centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town of Wilbraham, June 15, 1863 / by Rufus P. Stebbins ; with an appendix.

SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Partial contents An account of the centennial celebration of the incoporation of the town of Wilbraham and the speeches at the dinner -- Evidence of the relinquishment of the claim of the Indians to the territory west of the mountains, found in the Office of the Registry of Deeds of Hampden County -- Indian name of Wilbraham -- Appropriations made by Springfield to furnish preaching to the "Mountains" -- Mr. Merricks' ordination -- "Old tenor" and "lawfull money" -- Roads. Bridges -- Elegy on the young man bitten by a rattlesnake -- Soldiers in the French War, 1755-1760 -- Extracts from Samuel Warner's journal, kept on the expedition to Crown Point, 1759 -- Vote of the town of Springfield forbidding trespass on the Outward Commons -- Measures taken to obtain incorporation as a town -- Births and deaths which took place before the incorporation of the town, as recorded by Samuel Warner -- Ministry and school lots -- A list of the roads first laid out in the town -- Ancestry of Rev. Noah Merrick, etc. -- Setting off the South Parish -- Petition for incorporation -- Act of incorporation -- Valuation of the property of the town of Wilbraham, 1771 -- Names of those who signed the non-consumption pledge, 1774 -- Lexington Alarm -- Service at Ticonderoga -- Bennington Alarm, 1777 -- Journal of Samuel F. Merrick, M.D., on the expedition of the Wilbraham Company at the "Bennington Alarm" -- Soldiers who died or were killed in the Revolutionary War -- Revolutionary pensioners -- Subscription for solderis' bounty -- Depreciation of currency during the Revolutionary War -- Shay's Rebellion -- Names of men in the War of 1812 for seven months -- Soldiers in the present war -- Historical sketch of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North Wilbraham, Mass / Nathaniel Fellows -- Petition for Methodist Society in Wilbraham -- Petition of Noah Stebbins and others for incorporation "into a parish or religious society by the name of the Methodist Episcopal Parish in the towns of Wilbraham, Springfield, and Ludlow" --The Presbyterian saddle -- Ministers in the North Parish after Rev. Mr. Brown -- Settlement of Rev. Moses Warren -- Ministers in the South Parish after Rev. Mr. Wright -- History of the Wesleyan Academy -- Slavery in Wilbraham -- Graduates of colleges -- Professional men not graduates of colleges -- Educated ladies and teachers -- Miscellaneous -- Genealogies of the families of some of the first settlers of Wilbraham.
General noteIncludes index.
General noteReproduction of original from Yale University Libraries.
General noteSabin no. 91041.
References RLIN, CTRG06-B62
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