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Cyndy  > History > Massachusetts > OLD DEERFIELD (historic Deerfield), Franklin Co.,
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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.
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Cyndy > Saw this lovely rose among many roses along a wooden fence.
and the smell !   I took a deep wift of the rose and endedup with pollen on my nose.
Cyndy > the blue house is the front of the Wells - Thorton house....see next picture of the "ell "  

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This fellow is a classmate , also a SHELDON,  STEBBINS, PRATT, BARNARD, BARDWELL, DENIO........
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Cyndy > WELLS - THORN HOUSE........the oldest part in rear,

note well on side
Cyndy > This explains the engravings you will see in the next few photographs............






photographs of all the engravings here  were permitted by the staff of the Memorial Hall Museum, Sept. 13, 2003
Cyndy > GODFREY NIMS..............ancestor of the Nims Family in America.. settler at Pocumtuck (Deerfield) before (King) Philip's War....a soldier under Capt. Turner at the Fall's Fight (now Turners Falls),1676. ....Prominent in the civil affairs of Deerfield...in 1692 he bought the home lot where his life's tragedies were enacted and upon which stands this Memorial Hall.............In honor of Godfrey Nims and Mary Miller , his wife...this marble is here placed by Franklin Asa Nims, Greeley,Colorado, 1903.
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(parenthese's are my notes)


photo permitted by the guides at Memorial Hall Musuem
Cyndy > In memory of SAMUEL ALLEN....who was killed by the Indians on the meadow north of the BARS HOMESTEAD while valiantly defending his children, Aug 25,1726:.........of EUNICE ALLEN, his daughter, age 13, who was tomahawked by the Indians but survived......of SAMUEL ALLEN, his son, age 8, who was taken captive by the Indians but after many months was rescued through the gratitude of an Indian woman, by his uncle, COL . JOHN HAWKS......both children were restored to their mother.....
HANNAH HAWKS ALLEN.....lived to be the oral historian of this eventful day and of their generation..........erected by the descendants of CALEB ALLEN, son of Mr. SAMUEL ALLEN of "the Bars".





Photo permitted by the guides at the Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, Mass.
Cyndy > SAMSON FRARY....son of John of Medfield.....married there, MARY DANIEL........he was at Hatfield in 1668....was one of the planters at Deerfield, 1670.......driven off by the savages, he came back at the final settlement, and was slain at the sacking of the town, Feb.29, 1703/4..................................
.........bold...brave....persistent............Line of descent from Samson Frary...... Nathaniel Frary, 1675........Nathan Frary 1719 -1794........Electa Frary Parsons,1718-1824........Lucretia Parsons Morton, 1788-1862......Levi Parsons Morton, by whom this stone is placed.
Cyndy > PHILLIP MATTOON....

ZECHARIAH FIELD

NATHANIEL SUTCLIFFE

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click on picture to enlarge.......



photos permitted by the staff at Memorial Hall Museum, Sept.13, 2003.
Cyndy > There are so many names here.....to read all you just click on photo to enlarge...........

List of soldiers in the 1704 assult......
  INGERSOL....SELDEN....SMITH....WAIT....ALLIS...FOOT...CATLIN...HOYT.....BOLTWOOD....INGRAM....WARNER...HICKSON
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..........other families on the wall at the Memorial Hall Museum.......BROOKS.....WELLS......BELDING.....STEVENS.....PRICE....WILLIAMS......HURST....POMROY.....ALLEN






photo permitted by guides at Memorial Hall Museum
Saw this lovely rose among many roses along a wooden fence.
and the smell ! I took a deep wift of the rose and endedup with pollen on my nose.
 > Saw this lovely rose among many roses along a wooden fence.
and the smell !   I took a deep wift of the rose and endedup with pollen on my nose.
Saw this lovely rose among many roses along a wooden fence.
and the smell ! I took a deep wift of the rose and endedup with pollen on my nose.
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