Established as the township of Enfield, 1683, this area was part of the Springfield Plantation (now Springfield,Mass.) granted to William Pynchon and others of the Massachusetts General Court. Springfield settled 1636 but no effectual grants were made here until after King Philip's War of 1675-1676.
In 1679 John Pease and his brother Robert, of Salem,Mass., visited the land and spent the winter alone in a hut on the hillside of the present Enfield Street Cemetery. The next spring,1680, they removed their families along with their father, John Pease,Sr, and Elisha Kibbe to the Freshwater Planatation. Within 3 years, 30 more families joined them.
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Established as the township of Enfield, 1683, this area was part of the Springfield Plantation (now Springfield,Mass.) granted to William Pynchon and others of the Massachusetts General Court. Springfield settled 1636 but no effectual grants were made here until after King Philip's War of 1675-1676.
In 1679 John Pease and his brother Robert, of Salem,Mass., visited the land and spent the winter alone in a hut on the hillside of the present Enfield Street Cemetery. The next spring,1680, they removed their families along with their father, John Pease,Sr, and Elisha Kibbe to the Freshwater Planatation. Within 3 years, 30 more families joined them.
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