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An historical address : delivered at the centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town of Wilbraham, June 15, 1863.

0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

Stebbins, Rufus P. (Rufus Phineas), Stebbins, Horatio, Fellows, Nathaniel, Warner, Samuel,

Includes index. An account of the centennial celebration of the incoporation of the town of Wilbraham and the speeches at the dinner -- Evidence of the relinquishment of the claim of the Indians to the territory west of the mountains, found in the Office of the Registry of Deeds of Hampden County -- Indian name of Wilbraham -- Appropriations made by Springfield to furnish preaching to the "Mountains" -- Mr. Merricks' ordination -- "Old tenor" and "lawfull money" -- Roads. Bridges -- Elegy on the young man bitten by a rattlesnake -- Soldiers in the French War, 1755-1760 -- Extracts from Samuel Warner's journal, kept on the expedition to Crown Point, 1759 -- Vote of the town of Springfield forbidding trespass on the Outward Commons -- Measures taken to obtain incorporation as a town -- Births and deaths which took place before the incorporation of the town, as recorded by Samuel Warner -- Ministry and school lots -- A list of the roads first laid out in the town -- Ancestry of Rev. Noah Merrick, etc. -- Setting off the South Parish -- Petition for incorporation -- Act of incorporation -- Valuation of the property of the town of Wilbraham, 1771 -- Names of those who signed the non-consumption pledge, 1774 -- Lexington Alarm -- Service at Ticonderoga -- Bennington Alarm, 1777 -- Journal of Samuel F. Merrick, M.D., on the expedition of the Wilbraham Company at the "Bennington Alarm" -- Soldiers who died or were killed in the Revolutionary War -- Revolutionary pensioners -- Subscription for solderis' bounty -- Depreciation of currency during the Revolutionary War -- Shay's Rebellion -- Names of men in the War of 1812 for seven months -- Soldiers in the present war -- Historical sketch of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North Wilbraham, Mass / Nathaniel Fellows -- Petition for Methodist Society in Wilbraham -- Petition of Noah Stebbins and others for incorporation "into a parish or religious society by the name of the Methodist Episcopal Parish in the towns of Wilbraham, Springfield, and Ludlow" --The Presbyterian saddle -- Ministers in the North Parish after Rev. Mr. Brown -- Settlement of Rev. Moses Warren -- Ministers in the South Parish after Rev. Mr. Wright -- History of the Wesleyan Academy -- Slavery in Wilbraham -- Graduates of colleges -- Professional men not graduates of colleges -- Educated ladies and teachers -- Miscellaneous -- Genealogies of the families of some of the first settlers of Wilbraham. Book.