This is being sent to 12 list.....if you get more than one of these, just delete the rest. If your ancestors lived in Connecticut and Mass under the jurdistion of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.....and migrated northward via the Connecticut River Valley (to Vermont, NH and maybe NY) ......check for surnames....one or two may be the one you are seeking. the spelling is as is shown in the book, no changes made =========================================================== HISTORY OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY BY LOUIS EVERTS, 1879 GREENFIELD: the history of Greenfield up to 1753 is identified with that of the mother-town of Deerfield. Greenfield was also known as: Green River The grant of 1673 : included what is now Greenfield-Gill-and part of Sherburne land grantors: ( some of the following were grantees only and others were grantees and settlers). If they were proprietor only , I will put (proprietor) if the person was proprietor and settler, I will put (both): if on record but not known if the grant was taken (?) 1687: Nathaniel Brooks(both) John and Edward Allyn (?) Joseph and Robert Goddard (proprietors) Ebenezer Wells (settler) David Hoyt of Deerfield (proprietor) Samuel Smead (settler) John Severence(settler) John Hall (?) ======== 1743: petition to set Green River off as a town 4-18-1753: the first town meeting of Greenfield Benjamin Hastings: moderator/town clerk Ebenezer Smead, Daniel Nash, Samuel Hinsdale: selectmen Ebenezer Arms: treasurer Benjamin Hastings: constable Nathaniel Brooks and Shuel Atherton: tithingmen James Corse, Jonathan Smead, Eleazer Wells: fence viewers Amos Allen, Ebenzer Wells, : surveyors of highways Aaron Denio should be dear-reaf James Corse and Amos Allen should be hog reafs Joshua Wells: sealer of weights and measures Benjamin Hastings : sealer of leather Thomas Nims and Gad Corse: field drivers Daniel Graves, Daniel Nash, Aaron Denio: committee to supply us with preaching for the present year ============================ Indian Wars: see Deerfield history which has been sent out ......the soldiers were from Deerfield which Greenfield was part of until 1753. ======================================= Revolutionary War: those from Greenfield as well as those from other towns which the town will be given in parenthese after the name. Agrippa Wells Sam Williams Ezekiel Foster( from Bernardston,Ma) Oliver Atherton Elijah kingsley Dan Corse Asaph Allen John Wells Eben Scott Samuel Turner Samuel Shattuck John Connabel Timothy Bascom Ezekiel Foster,jr John Coats Ezra Rennell Simeon Nash Olliver Hastings Nehemiah Andrews Frederick Denio John Burt Reuben Shattuck Daniel Chapin Thomas Hunt David Davis Eliphaz Childs Samuel Nichols Samuel Deane John Dewey Joseph Slate Joel Chapin Ariel Hinsdell Caleb Chapin William Kingsland Samuel Hastings Elijah Mitchell Hezekiah Chapin Jonathan Atherton Amos Smead Tubel Nash Daniel Picket Hophni Rider Daniel Wells Firman Wood Michael Frizzle John Severance Moses Arms Jacob Pole (Sherburne) Ezekiah Foster (Bernardston) Isaac Newton Hull Nims Benjamin Hastings James Lowe David Wicks David Field Ebenezer Graves David Risley David Gibbs Matthew Clark John Moody Samuel Stoughton Robert Biddle Thomas Dickinson Moses Newton Benjamin Kneeland Samson Horsley Thomas Horsley Eli Hamilton There were 101 more men but their names were not given. Cynthia listowner Ct-River-Valley-L