HADLEY

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HADLEY , a township of

Hampshire

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the Connecticut river, about 20 M. N. of

Springfield

SPRINGFIELD

, served by the Boston & Maine railway. Pop. (1900), 1789; (1905, state census), 1895 ; (1910) 1999. Area, about 20 sq. m. The principal villages are Hadley (or Hadley Center) and North Hadley. The level country along the river is well adapted to tobacco culture, and the villages are engaged in the manufacture of tobacco and brooms. Hadley was settled in 1659 by membersof the churches in Hartford and

Wethersfield

WETHERSFIELD

, Connecticut, who were styled " Strict Congregationalists" and withdrew from these Connecticut congregations because of ecclesiastical and doctrinal laxity there. At first the town was called Norwottuck, but within a year or two it was named after Hadleigh in England, and was incorporated under this name in 1661. Hopkins Academy (1815) developed from Hopkins school, founded here in 1664. The English regicides Edward Whalley and his son-in-law William

Goffe

GOFFE (or Govc11), WILLIAM (fl. 1642-1660)

found a

refuge

REFUGE

at Hadley from 1664 apparently until their deaths, and there is a tradition that

Goffe

GOFFE (or Govc11), WILLIAM (fl. 1642-1660)

or Whalley in 1675 led the people in repelling an Indian attack. From 1675 to 1713 Hadley, being in almost constant danger of attack from the Indians, was protected by a palisade enclosure and by stockades around the meeting-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

. From Hadley, Hatfield was set apart in 1670, South Hadley in 1753, and Amherst in
1759
See Alice M. Walker, Historic Hadley (New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, 1906); and Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley (Northampton, 1863; new ed., 1905).

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