History of Hadley: Including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley Amherst and Granby Massachusetts (Classic Reprint)

Book Synopsis: Excerpt from History of Hadley: Including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley Amherst and Granby MassachusettsThe story of the town has been told with rare interest in Judd's History of Hadley. This book has been long out Of print. More than thirty years ago, I bought the only copy I could find on sale in Boston. As it is indispensible to any well-equipped library of Americana, public or private, and has become so scarce that its price has reached a prohibitory figure to most students, there can be no question about the necessity of a new edition. Judd's History has been known as a standard work ever since it was issued. It not only covers Hadley, but the territory for a score of miles up and down the valley Of the Connecticut. In it the searcher after knowledge Of the manners and customs of the early days will find a full field from which to garner colonial, ecclesiastical, scholastic, civic, industrial, mercantile, legal and legendary lore. The very Opening chapter contains a clue to the Obscure, but interminable church quarrels so common and persistent among our Puritan and Pilgrim fathers and mothers. The causes, when we can unlock their confusing mysteries, seem to us trivial, but examination shows that by these earnest, honest men and women, they were considered vital and controlling, as being matters of eternal consequence. It was one Of these disturbing events in Connecticut that determined when and by whom Hadley should be settled.

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