William Pynchon and 8 families settled in an area called Springfield in 1636........there is a map drawn in 1898 by Henry M.Burt that shows all the homesteads on both sides of the Connecticut River.(no date for lots) - The map is shown with the Connecticut River dividing Springfield in half.....the east side of the river today is Springfield and the west side is West Springfield. - Starting with the Springfield side of the river with the northern most lot north to southern lots These lots were bordering the Conn.River and what is now/was Fulton St (north end) and they appear to be meadow lots as they are large. William Pynchon Henry Smith Elizur Holyoke -------- The following are on the other side of Fulton St. (see above description); numbers represents the lot size in rods (if you have a map of Springfield, you will be able to follow this by street names) - Thomas Cooper Griffith Jones 13 John Lamb 10 Rowland Thomas 18 Symond Sacket 10 ( near where Carew St is now) Obediah Miller 10 Hugh Dudley 10 Samuel Terry 10 (near what is Essex Str.now) John Stewart 10 Simon Beaman 10 Frances Pepper 10 George Alexander 10 (near what is Franklin St) Simeon Beaman 10 John Dumbleton 10 Henry Chapin 10 way to upper wharf...... Cypress St. Miles Morgan 20 John Stebbins and William Brooks 18 back bordering the river......... Thomas Cooper 14 (in area of railroad row -does this still exist?) William Pynchon 20 (in area of today's Hampden St. and Fort St.) Elizur Holyoke 20 ( in area of Bridge St and Worthington St) Henry Smith 20 George Moxon 14 (in area of Vernon St.) Samuel Chapin 8 (cannot read street name) Richard Exell (?) 8 Richard Stiles 8 ( in area of -looks like Court St.) William Warriner 8 (in area of Court St.) Training field and burying ground 8 ( in area of Court Square) Thos. Stebbins 8 Frances Ball 8 Robert Ashley ( in area of today's State St.) John Leonard 8 Thomas Merrick 8 Thomas Horton and James Bridgman 8 John Searle and Alexander Edwards 8 John Clarke 8 (now in area of Howard St. John Dibble 8 Morgan Jones 4 Rowland Stebbins 8 ( in area of Orion? St.) Samuel Wright 8 Henry Burt 8 John Harmon 8 Nathanel Pritchard 8 ( in area of Willow St) Nathaniel Bliss 10 George Langton 8 ( in area of Margaret St.) Margaret Bliss 14 Joseph Parsons 8 ( area of Fremont St.) Thos. Sewell and Jonathan Taylor 8 John Matthews 8 (Lombard St.) William Branch 8 William Branch 8 ( Gardner St. area) Griffith Jones 8 Roice Bedortha 8 ( area of Norwood St.) Benjamin Cooley 8 Jonathan Burt 8 Hugh Parsons 8 (area of Elmwood St) John Lombard 6 way to lower wharf...now York St. ============================================================================ Now to what is West Springfield today..... all bordering the west side of the Connecticut River and lying between the Conn.River and the Agawam River.....this area was PLANTING GROUNDS for the settlers (numbers represent rods) Thomas Cooper 22 William Pynchon 30 Henry Smith 20 Elizur Holyoke 20 George Moxon 14 Dea. Samuel Chapin 4 Richard Exell 8 Richard Sikes (many Sikes in Connecticut especially Suffield which was part of Mass at the time) William Warriner 8 Thomas Stebbins 8 Benjamin Munn 8 Robert Ashley 8 John Leonard 8 Thomas Merrick 8 James Bridgman 8 Alexander Edwards 8 John Clarke 8 James Osbourn 8 Rowland Stebbins 8 Dea Samuel Wright 8 Henry Burt 8 John Harmon 8 Nathanel Pritchard 8 Richard Sikes (Sykes) 8 Nathanel Bliss 10 Margaret Bliss ?(cannot read) Joseph Parsons 10 Jonathan Taylor 10 John Matthew 8 80 rods of blank space Jonathan Burt 10 Hugh Parson 10 John Lombard 7 mill lot 10 acres ----------------------------------- Cynthia List administrator for: Ma-Bay-Colony-L@rootsweb.com Can-Deerfield-Attack-1704-L@rootsweb.com CtHartfo-L@rootsweb.com MaHampde-L@rootsweb.com http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/