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It became, therefore, of great moment to Massachusetts to defend the line of the Deerfield in the French and Indian war of 1744-48.
Such an incident in Kentucky simply repeated what had been going on just a century before in Massachusetts, at Deerfield and at dozens of other settlements on the edge of the great forest which was the home of the Indians.
It's the only one I own." On his way back to the fire from Deerfield Street, the night before, he had stopped at the hotel, changed his evening clothes for a business suit, and left his suitcase in his room. It had not occurred to him that the fire might spread as far as that.
The father, Leonidas Hubbard, had come "'cross country" from Deerfield, Ohio, with gun on shoulder, when Michigan was still a wilderness, and had chosen this site for his future home. He had taught in a school for a time in his young manhood; but the call of the out-of-doors was too strong, and forth he went again.
But on what a totally different scene than before the coming of the great blizzard! There had been plenty of snow in Deerfield before, but now there was so much that one old man, who worked for Mr. Macksey, said he never recalled the like, and he had seen many bad storms. "Well, now to tunnel out!" exclaimed Mr.
John Williams, captured by the Indians at Deerfield in 1704, and was now minister of Long Meadow, Massachusetts. He had joined the anti-papal crusade as one of its chaplains, and passed for a man of ability, a point on which those who read his diary will probably have doubts. The lot of the army chaplains was of the hardest.
Tom had fallen from a ladder, been taken up and brought home dead, and she had travelled back five hundred miles to bury him in Deerfield, beside his father and mother; for he was their only son. There were about a hundred dollars left for Mary. She could not work now, and she went to board with her half-sister, the Deerfield tailoress.
The elder, Solomon, remained with his relatives in Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Not long after his settlement in Pennsylvania, my grandfather, Captain Noah Grant, married a Miss Kelly, and in 1799 he emigrated again, this time to Ohio, and settled where the town of Deerfield now stands.
It was a charming place in summer, where one could find laurel, and checkerberries, and sassafras roots, and sit in the cool breeze, looking at the mountains across the river, and listening to the murmur of the Deerfield. It used to be a notion in New England that a meeting-house ought to stand as near heaven as possible.
T. Wentworth Higginson, Boston, Mass. James Russell Lowell, Cambridge, Mass. J. A. Saxton, Deerfield, Mass. Francis George Shaw, West Roxbury, Mass. John G. Whittier, Amesbury, Mass. Other contributors were: E. P. Grant of Ohio. A. J. H. Duganne of Philadelphia. The Brook Farm writers were: George Ripley. John S. Dwight. Charles A. Dana. Lewis K. Ryckman.
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