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" Old Deerfield " cemetery, located on Old Albany Road or as it's called "Harrow's field".........this is a " town that time passed by"..............For serious Deerfield reseachers, there is a book: " Family & Landscape: Deerfield Homelots from 1671; Susan McGowan & Amelia F.Miller, Pomcumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1996 which can be ordered through the on line Deerfield Museum Store...............this part of Deerfield, now called "OLD Deerfield" was attacked in 1704 by the French and Indians from Quebec,Canada.
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Many of the stones are hard to read, if anyone knows about the folks, email me and I will put your info up with your email for researchers.
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There is a site for South Deerfield which is a section of Deerfield. They are posted separately to keep folks from getting confused.
" Old Deerfield " cemetery, located on Old Albany Road or as it's called "Harrow's field".........this is a " town that time passed by"..............For serious Deerfield reseachers, there is a book: " Family & Landscape: Deerfield Homelots from 1671; Susan McGowan & Amelia F.Miller, Pomcumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1996 which can be ordered through the on line Deerfield Museum Store...............this part of Deerfield, now called "OLD Deerfield" was attacked in 1704 by the French and Indians from Quebec,Canada.
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Many of the stones are hard to read, if anyone knows about the folks, email me and I will put your info up with your email for researchers.
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There is a site for South Deerfield which is a section of Deerfield. They are posted separately to keep folks from getting confused.
In Memory of Rev.SAMUEL MATHER, pioneer minister of Deerfield , 1673 - 1675, who lived in a house on this site....born at Dorchester,1650, graduated Harvard,1671; married HANNAH TREAT, dau of Gov.Robert Treat of Conn.,1676................................
Samuel was son of TIMOTHY and grandson of RICHARD MATHER, minister of Toxysth, Eng. and Dorchester,Mass.............
Samuel was a minister at Windsor,Conn 1682-1728..........after
Bloody Brook" massacre (1675), the town was destroyed (this town is now South Deerfield ) and the church scattered......at the request of the survivors, he waited 4 years, when there being no prospects of the re-settlement, he accepted the call from another church.
Samuel was son of TIMOTHY and grandson of RICHARD MATHER, minister of Toxysth, Eng. and Dorchester,Mass.............
Samuel was a minister at Windsor,Conn 1682-1728..........after
Bloody Brook" massacre (1675), the town was destroyed (this town is now South Deerfield ) and the church scattered......at the request of the survivors, he waited 4 years, when there being no prospects of the re-settlement, he accepted the call from another church.
In Memory of Rev.SAMUEL MATHER, pioneer minister of Deerfield , 1673 - 1675, who lived in a house on this site....born at Dorchester,1650, graduated Harvard,1671; married HANNAH TREAT, dau of Gov.Robert Treat of Conn.,1676................................
Samuel was son of TIMOTHY and grandson of RICHARD MATHER, minister of Toxysth, Eng. and Dorchester,Mass.............
Samuel was a minister at Windsor,Conn 1682-1728..........after
Bloody Brook" massacre (1675), the town was destroyed (this town is now South Deerfield ) and the church scattered......at the request of the survivors, he waited 4 years, when there being no prospects of the re-settlement, he accepted the call from another church.
Samuel was son of TIMOTHY and grandson of RICHARD MATHER, minister of Toxysth, Eng. and Dorchester,Mass.............
Samuel was a minister at Windsor,Conn 1682-1728..........after
Bloody Brook" massacre (1675), the town was destroyed (this town is now South Deerfield ) and the church scattered......at the request of the survivors, he waited 4 years, when there being no prospects of the re-settlement, he accepted the call from another church.
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