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HISTORY 
 
 THE HOPKINS FUND, 
 
 Grammar School and Academy, 
 
 HA I) LEY, MASS. 
 
 PREPARED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION 
 
 AND AUTHORITY OF THE TRUSTEES 
 
 OF HOPKINS ACADEMY. 
 
 AMHERST, MASS.: 
 
 THE AMIIERST RECORD PRESS. 
 1890. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The pages that follow came to be in this wise. For about a hund- 
 red and fifty years the Hopkins Grammar School had a being and did 
 a good work in Hadley, until its Trustees by charter from the legisla- 
 ture of Massachusetts became the Trustees of Hopkins Academy. 
 
 Under this name the good work has gone on seventy years and more 
 until the present time. The Fund which has in part supported the 
 school from the first, had its beginning in the bequest of Gov. Edward 
 Hopkins, who left a considerable sum from his estate in aid and 
 encouragement of good learning in New England, then newly settled. 
 This Fund received increment, from time to time, from other sources. 
 Its fortunes have been various. At different periods its concerns 
 have deeply moved the minds of the people, and been a considerable 
 factor in the life of the town and the community. This interest has 
 left its impress in the record of town meetings, court proceedings, and 
 the doings of President and Council who were in power in New P^ngland 
 for a short time under the British Crown from May 25 to Dec. 20, 1 686. 
 
 The work done by aid of this Fund has been benign. Tt has been 
 a blessing to many. The story is rich in interest and worthy of 
 record, that all who wish can read and possess. The materials for 
 such a history were passing beyond reach. To make sure of them, 
 before it was too late, was felt to be a demand of duty, that did not 
 admit of longer delay. Questions as to this Fund, and its proper 
 administration and use arising from time to time, deemed to be new, 
 and to demand hearing and adjustment, were known to be questions 
 long ago raised and decided by highest authority. It was proper that 
 such knowledge should be within reach of all, and thus occasion for 
 strife be wanting, and peace and good will prevail unbroken. 
 
 Hence at a meeting of the Trustees of Hopkins Academy held May 
 (I, 1.S85, after discussion of the subject, it was voted that a committee 
 consisting of Rev. Dr. Ayres, Rev. Dr. Dwight and Dea. Geo. Dick- 
 inson be chosen to investigate and arrange for publication the history 
 of the Hopkins Academy Fund from its inception, its present stand- 
 ing, and its relation to the Board of Trustees and the public." 
 
 It was further voted that Dr. F. Bonnev be added to the committee. 
 
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It was voted that the above committee he authorized and empowered 
 to expend such sums of money as they may deem necessary to carry 
 out the purposes of their appointment." Nov. 27, 1<SS ( J, it was voted 
 " that the committee having the matter in charge be authorized to go 
 forward and publish the History of the Hopkins Academy Fund which 
 has been under consideration for some years." 
 
 By authority of these earlier votes the chairman of the committee 
 before named entered upon the work prescribed. 
 
 This proved to be no easy task. The materials of the history were 
 out of sight. Records and papers supposed to be in being eluded 
 search, hopelessly lost in some instances. Very valuable orig- 
 inal papers belonging to the Academy had gone from its posses- 
 sion. Many of these were found among the private papers of the 
 late Sylvester Judd, who probably had them in his possession by per- 
 mission for the purposes of his History of Hadley, and failed to 
 return them. 
 
 After his death these papers were purchased by .1. R. Trumbull, 
 Esq. and Dea. Geo. W. Hubbard, and by them held as their own to 
 dispose and convey, until the death of Dea. Hubbard, who by his will 
 conveyed them to be held by the Forbes Library in trust. These 
 papers at present are with J. II. Trumbull, Esq., until the Forbes 
 Library building is ready. 
 
 It would seem as if these papers were still the rightful property of 
 the Trustees of Hopkins Academy, and that they might regain pos- 
 session of their own by process of law. Should they reach the place 
 of deposit intended for them, however, they may be in safer keeping 
 than in the archives of the Trustees. Hints are now and then met of 
 a book of records kept by the Trustees of the Grammar School, of 
 which no trace has been found. 
 
 Printed catalogues published by the Trustees from time to time 
 have yielded very valuable information. But some of these are still 
 missing after all the search that has been made. 
 
 Much valuable information has been derived from persons living 
 who were members of the Academy in its earlier years. Among these 
 may be named Miss Thankful Smith (now deceased), Mrs. Charles 
 W. May, Rev. Henry Seymour, Dr. Franklin Bonney, Rev. Addison 
 Ballard, D. D., Rev. Ezekiel Russell, D. I)., and many others. 
 
 It is hoped that this memorial of a noble institution and its work 
 may be received and held in kind esteem by all among its pupils, 
 teachers, guardians, patrons, and friends who may scan its pages. 
 
 Hadley, Jan. 75, 1890. 
 
CHAPTER I, 
 
 EDWARD HOPKINS AND HIS WILL. 
 
 The school known as Hopkins Grammar School and Hopkins Acad- 
 emy has a history of nearly two and a quarter centuries. Nothing 
 concerning this town is worthier of record than the story of this 
 school, and its Fund. From its beginning until now it has given 
 the town a name and memorial widely through the land, and 
 beyond the seas. The dweller here is quite sure to think and 
 speak of it as chief among the good things that give honorable dis- 
 tinction. It has been, and is, a power for good, in the town and 
 beyond, far and wide. It has done a good work and made a record, 
 which should be preserved in such form as to be within reach of all 
 who feel an interest in these things. Such is the aim of the pages 
 that follow. 
 
 The man whose name this school bears and perpetuates was not its 
 founder, in the ordinary sense, though to him its being and such a 
 history are due. Honor to whom honor is due. The name Hopkins 
 should be held in grateful remembrance, (as it is largely), by all who 
 are or have been dwellers in Hadley, or have been members of the 
 school, and all who have enjoyed the fruits of his bounty elsewhere, 
 or have felt the 'inspiration of his spirit and example. This influence 
 IIMH been benign and widely pervasive. The wise forethought of this 
 man was remarkable in one living in his time, though like so many 
 others before and since " he built more wisely than he knew." 
 
 Edward Hopkins began life with the seventeenth century. He was 
 born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, in the year 1600. He was 
 a scholar in the Royal Free (Jnunmar School in his native town. The 
 Grammar School which he would establish in New England was after 
 the pattern with which he was familiar in his youth, a school for boys, 
 in which they were taught in the tongues and fitted for the University. 
 
These schools were free, in that they were open, on the payment of 
 such charges as were necessary to maintain them, to any who wished 
 to enjoy such advantages. 
 
 Of his life previous to leaving England little is known. Engaging 
 in commerce as a merchant he won a handsome fortune. In early 
 life he joined the Puritans as a convert to their doctrines and observ- 
 ances. While living in London, he had worshiped in the parish church 
 of St. Stephens in Coleman Street of which John Davenport was 
 vicar. Here Theophilus Eaton was likewise an attendant. The rela- 
 tions of these men were close and confidential. With a company of 
 friends, including the two just named, Edward Hopkins embarked his 
 fortunes in 1637 to find, if not " a refuge and receptacle for all sorts 
 of consciences," at least an opportunity to worship God in their own 
 way and to administer their civil affairs " more according to the rule 
 of righteousness" than was then the fashion in the Old World. 
 
 " 1637, Mo. 4, 26 Ship Hector and another arrived at Boston. In 
 these came Mr. Davenport and another minister (Samuel brother of 
 Gov. Eaton) and Mr. Eaton and Mr. Hopkins, two merchants of 
 London, men of fair estate and good esteem for religion and wisdom 
 in outward affairs." (Winthrop Hist. N. E. I, 22(>. ) 
 
 " Edward Hopkins was one who would be a foremost man wherever 
 he might be." 
 
 Declining many overtures to settle in Boston, after a short stay 
 there he joined the settlement at Hartford, where he is at once found 
 sharing in the administration of public affairs. The year of his arrival 
 his name appears as one of the " committee " of the General Court at 
 Hartford, so that it is deemed likely that lie had part in that assembly 
 of 1638 by which the " inhabitants and residents of Hartford, Windsor 
 and Weathersfield,did associate and conjoin themselves to be one Public 
 State or Commonwealth" "to maintain and preserve the liberty and 
 purity of the Gospel of the Lord .Jesus Christ, which \ve now profess, 
 and in civil affairs to be guided and governed according to such laws, 
 rules orders and decrees as shall be made, ordered and decreed" not 
 by the King and Council not even by Royal Parliament, but by the 
 General Court, elected by the whole body of freemen, in which 
 " The Supreme Power of the Ooninioiiwealth" was declared to reside. 
 That constitution was the nearest approach to a republican organ- 
 ized democracy, in which the whole people of the several towns acted 
 through representatives in a legislature elected twice a year by all the 
 inhabitants, that the world had yet seen. Mr. Hopkins was elected 
 
first secretary of the Colony of Connecticut and deputy Governor 
 under the Constitution of l('>:'s. and succeeded Mr. Haynes as Gov- 
 ernor in 1640, and again in 1646, 1648,1650 and 1652. In 1654 he 
 was again elected, though at the time of this choice he was in England, 
 whence probably his return was looked for. 
 
 In alternate years he was usually Deputy Governor, and frequently 
 chosen assistant and also one of the Commissioners of the United 
 Colonies. In this last capacity he signed in behalf of Connecticut 
 the articles of Confederation in 164)). by which the Colonies of Mas- 
 sachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven united for future 
 help and strength, under the name of the United Colonies of New 
 England, and was president of that body, when a settlement was made 
 with the Dutch in 1650. In 1640* he was one of the committee 
 a i (pointed to negotiate the purchase from Mr. Fenwick of the port 
 and appurtenances ;it Saybrook. And indeed, there was hardly a 
 committee raised on the " foreign relations " of the Colony with Mas- 
 sachusetts, the Dutch or the Indians, in which he did not occupy a 
 prominent place with Gov. Haynes, Capt. Mason, Mr. Whiting and 
 Mr. Wyllis. In the interval of public duty he was diligent in busi- 
 ness on his own account. 
 
 Gov. Hopkins went to England in 1653, on the occasion of his 
 brother's death, intending to return to his family and friends in New 
 England ; but on his arrival there he was soon made warden of the 
 fleet, (an office filled by his brother at the time of his death) , Commis- 
 sioner of the Admiralty and member of Parliament. Detained by 
 these new duties, he sent for his family, and died in London in March 
 or April, 1657.* 
 
 While he remained in this land he was still engaged as a merchant, 
 and pushed his trading stations up the river and into the wilderness, 
 and founded the commerce in American cotton. f This man, who bus- 
 ied himself with affairs both public and private, was one whose phys- 
 ical frame was frail. He was a man of feeble health. " He conflicted 
 with bodily infirmities but especially with a blood} 7 and wasting cough 
 which held him for thirty years together." (Mather, Mag. 5.) 
 
 He was eminent for piety, as well as wisdom and success in secular 
 affairs. He and those with whom he came hither had as not the least 
 of their reasons for removal " a great hope and inward zeal they had 
 of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way there- 
 
 *School Report city of Cambridge, for the year 1885, p. 35. 
 
 Barnard History ot Hopkins Grammar School, Hartford. 
 
 Letter of Gen'l Court of the Mass, to Mr. Hopkins. Hutchinsou Coll., p. 271. 
 
 tBacon's Address. 
 
unto, for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the Kingdom 
 of Christ in these remote parts of the world, yea though they should 
 be but as stepping stones unto others for pel-forming so great a work." 
 (Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims, p. 47.) His intimate friend 
 and fellow voyager hither, John Davenport, " a prince of preachers, 
 and worthy to have been a preacher to princes," had been his spiritu- 
 al teacher and counsellor in London. In the 1 1 art ford church he had 
 for " his dear pastor" Thomas Hooker " the light of the New England 
 churches," and received with meekness what they as ministers of 
 Christ had to impart. He bore affliction to his dying day, taught by 
 affliction to die daily as long as he lived. One expression of his 
 heavenly mind, says Mather, among many others in a letter before 
 his end was, "How often have I pleased myself with thoughts of a 
 joyful meeting with my father Eaton ! 1 remember with what pleas- 
 ure he would come down the street that he might meet me when I 
 came from Hartford unto New Haven, but with how much greater 
 pleasure shall we shortly meet one another in heaven." With such 
 men as these he was kindred in spirit, sharer in their sentiments, 
 plans and counsels. 
 
 The wife of Gov. Hopkins was the daughter of the second wife of 
 Theophilus Eaton, first and sole Governor of the Colony of New 
 Haven. Mrs. Eaton was a prudent and pious widow of David Yale, 
 daughter of the Bishop of Chester, Dr. Morton. Elihu Yale for whom 
 Yale College is named, was the son of Thomas Yale, son of Mrs. 
 Eaton by her first husband David Yale. Her daughter Anna 
 was the wife of Edward Hopkins, named by him in his will as his 
 11 dear distressed wife," on account of whose condition his own life 
 was marked by such sad and sore affliction. With all his property 
 and honor, his sad spirit depressed by bodily disease and pain bore 
 this added weight. " She was one that had from a child been obser- 
 vable for desirable qualities. But sometime after she was married 
 she fell into a distempered melancholy which at last issued in an incur- 
 able distraction. Very grievous was this affliction unto her worthy 
 consort, who was by temper a very affectionate person, and now left no 
 part of a tender husband undone, to ease and if it were possible to 
 cure, the lamentable desolation thus come upon the desire of his eyes." 
 (Mather, B. II, Ch. 7, f>.) 
 
 " Mr. Hopkins the governour of Hartford upon Connecticut came 
 to Boston and brought his wife with him, a godly woman of special 
 parts, who was fallen into a sad infirmity, the loss of her understand- 
 
ing and reason, which h:ul been growing upon her divers years by 
 occasion of her giving herself wholly to reading and writing and had 
 written many hooks. Her husband being very loving and tender, 
 was loath to grieve her ; but he saw his error when it was too late. 
 For if she had attended her household affairs and such things as 
 belong to women and not gone out of her way and calling, to meddle 
 in such things as are pioper for men whose minds are stronger etc., 
 she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and 
 honorably in the place God had set her. He brought her to Boston 
 and left her with her brother, one Mr. Yale a merchant, to try what 
 means might be had here for her. But no help could be had." (Win- 
 throp, History of Xew England, I, p. 2(>C> [217].) 
 
 (iov. Hopkins was a liberal man devising liberal things. He lived 
 to serve and bless others. "He considered the poor and would put 
 considerable sums of money into the hands of his friends to be by 
 them employed, as they saw opportunity, to do good unto all, especially 
 to them that are of the household of faith. In this thing he was like 
 that noble and worthy English General, of whom it is noted that he 
 never thought he had anything, but what he gave away, and yet after 
 all with much humility he would profess, as one of the most liberal 
 men that ever was in the world, often would, ' I have often turned over 
 my book of accounts, but I could never (hid the great God charged a 
 debtor there'." (Mather, Mag., B. II, Chap. 7, 4.) 
 
 This man had been prosperous in business and gained a good estate. 
 Having first made provision for the needs of his wife, and made such 
 other legacies to relatives and friends, as he deemed proper and right, 
 it was his concern that what remained of his property should be of 
 use for generations and centuries to come, in helping young people of 
 promise prepare themselves for the service of their country, and of 
 mankind. Such had been his own character. His forecast of the 
 future was far-reaching and wise, a sure instinct, inspired from above. 
 He had no children of his own, and he made it a care and study that 
 the children of others should have opportunity in the way of good 
 learning^ for making themselves ready for such service. His charac- 
 ter and spirit, in this regard, as in other respects, may be read in his 
 will, here given in full. 
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 EDWARD HOPKINS'S WILL. 
 
 [A copy of this will in manuscript is among the papers of the late Sylvester Jurtd, now 
 in the keeping of J. R. Trumbull, Esq. The preface in Latin is omitteil.] 
 
 The sovereign Lord of all creatures giving in evident and strong intima- 
 tions of" his pleasure to call me out of this transitory life unto Himself it is 
 the desire of me Edward Hopkins Esq. to be in readiness to attend his call 
 in whatsoever hour he cometh both by leaving my soul in the hands of Jesus, 
 who'only gives boldness in thai day and delivers from the wrath to come 
 and my body to comely burial according to the discretion of my executors 
 and overseers and also by settling my small family, if it may be so called, 
 in order and in pursuance thereof do thus dispose of the estate the Lord in 
 mercy hath given me. 
 
 First my will is, that my just debts be paid out of my entire estate, where 
 the said debts shall be found to be justly due. vi/., if any debts shall be found 
 to be justly due in New England, then they be paid out of my estate there. 
 And if any shall appear to be due here in old England, that they be paid out 
 of my estate here. 
 
 As for my estate in New England (the full account of which I left clear in 
 book there, and the care and inspection whereof \vas committed to my loving 
 friend Mr. John Cullick) I do in this manner dispose. Item. I do give and 
 bequeath unto the eldest child of Mrs. Mary Newton wife to *Mr. Roger 
 Newton of Farmingtou and daughter to Mrs. Thomas Hooker, deceased, tin- 
 sum of 30; as also the sum of 80 unto the eldest child of Mr. John Oullick 
 by Elizabeth his present wife. Item. I do give and bequeath to Mrs. Sarah 
 Wilson, the wife of Mr. John Wilson, preacher of Hie gospel, and daughter 
 of my dear pastor, Mr. Hooker, my farm at Farmington. with 'ill the houses. 
 outhouses, buildings, lands &c. belonging thereunto, to the use of her and 
 the heirs of her body forever. I do also give unto Mrs. Susan Hooker, the 
 relict of Mr. Thomas Hooker, all such debts as are due to me from her upon 
 the account I left in New England. 
 
 And the residue of my estate there I do hereby give and bequeath to My father, 
 Theophilus Eaton, Esq, Mr. John Davenport, Mr John Cnllick. and Mr. William 
 Goodwin, in full assurance oftJicir trust, and faithfulness in disposing of it according 
 to the true intent and purpose of me the said Edward Hopkins, which is to give some 
 encouragement in those foreign plantations for the breeding of liopeful youths both at 
 the grammar school, and college, for the public service of the country in future times. 
 
 For the estate which the Lord hath given me in tJiis England I thus dispose 
 and my will is that 150 per annum be yearly paid per my executor to Mr. 
 David Yale, brother to my dear distressed wife for her comfortable mainte- 
 nance, and to be disposed of by him for her good, she not being in a condi- 
 tion to manage it for herself; and I do heartily entreat him to be careful and 
 tender over her; and my will is. that this be paid quarterly by .">7 10 each 
 quarter and to continue to the end of the quarter after the death of my said 
 wife, and that my executor give good security for a punctual performance 
 thereof. My will also is that the :><> given me per the will and testament of 
 my brother Henry Hopkins, lately deceased, be given to our sister. Mrs. Judith 
 
 *First minister of the church in Farmington. 
 
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 Kve. during her natural life, and that it be made up to 50 per annum during 
 her life. 
 
 I do give to my sister Mrs. Margaret Thomson the sura of 50, to be paid 
 her within one year after my decease. I do give uuto my nephew Henry 
 Thomson 800 whereof 400 to be paid within sixteen months after my 
 decease and the other 400 within six months after the death of my wife. 
 
 I do likewise give and bequeath to my neice Katharine Thomson, but now 
 Katharine James (over and above the portion of 500 formerly given her) 
 100. I do also give and bequeath unto my neices Elizabeth and Patience 
 Dalley, unto each of them 200. provided they attend the direction of their 
 brother or aunts or such as are capable to give them advice in the dispose of 
 themselves in marriage. 
 
 I give to my brother Mr. David Yale 200, to my brother Mr. Thomas 
 Yale 200 and to my sister Mrs. Hannah Eaton 200. 
 
 My farther mind and will is, that within six ^months after the decease of mi/ wife 
 500 be made over into New England , according to the advice of my loving friends 
 Major Robert Thomson and Mr. Francis Willoughby, and conveyed into the hands of 
 the trustees before mentioned, in further prosecution of the aforesaid public ends, which 
 in the simplicity of my heart are for the upholding and promoting the kingdom of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ in those parts of the earth. I do further give unto my beloved 
 wife a bed, with all the furniture belonging unto it for herself to lie on, and 
 another for the servant maid that waits on her, and 20 in plate for her pres- 
 ent use besides one third part of all my household goods. 
 
 1 give unto Mr. John Davenport, Mr. Theophilus Eaton, Mr. Cnllick each 
 of them 20, to be made over to them in New England where they are; and 
 my will and pleasure is that 20 be put into a piece of plate, and presented 
 in my name to my honored friend Dr. Wright to whom I owe more than that, 
 being much engaged, desiring him to accept it only as a testimony of my 
 respects. I do give unto my servant James Porter 10, unto my maid Mar- 
 garet 5 ; unto my maid Mary 40 shillings. I do give unto my honored and 
 loving friends Major Robert Thomson and Mr. Francis Willonghby 20 apiece 
 in a piece of plate as a token of my respects unto them; and I do give unto 
 my servant Thomas II ay ton 20. I do give unto my sister Yale the wife of 
 Mr. David Yale 20, as also to John Lollo. a youth now with my sister Eve 
 20 to farther him out to be an apprentice to some good trade and 20 more 
 at the time of his coming to his own liberty to encourage him to set up his 
 trade, if he continue living so long. 1 do give unto my nephew Henry Dalley, 
 master of arts in Cambridge my land and manor of Thickol in the county of 
 Ess'.x; and for the payment of all debts, dues and legacies, do give unto him 
 all my personal estate, and, by these presents, renouncing and making void 
 all other wills and testaments, do declare, and constitute and make him my 
 sole executor and my good friends Major Robert Thomson and Mr. Francis 
 Willoughby overseers of this my last will and testament. 
 
 Signed sealed, declared, and published by the said Kdward Hopkins Esq. 
 at his home in London, on the 7th day of March in the year of our Lord 1657, 
 to be his last will and testament. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE TRUSTEES I NDEli THE WILL. 
 
 The persons named in this will as trustees, are worthy of larger 
 mention. Only three of them appear in the execution of the trust. 
 The ophilus Eaton died soon after the will was made. "This man 
 had in him great gifts, and as many excellences as are usually to be 
 found in any man. He had an excellent princely face and port com- 
 manding respect from all others." u He carried in his very counte- 
 nance a majesty which cannot be described." (Mather I, 152.) 
 
 u No character in the annals of New England is of purer fa me than 
 that of Theophilus Eaton." (Winthrop, J, 277, note.) 
 
 In 1643 he was first designated by the title of Governor of the New- 
 Haven Colony, which office he held by annual and unanimous election 
 till his death Jan. 8, 1658. He was an earnest friend of education. 
 He was careful concerning the education of the sons in his own fam- 
 ily. He kept up contributions for poor scholars at the college at 
 Cambridge. He corresponded with teachers in different parts of New 
 England, " that this town might never be without a suitable school 
 master." (Barnard, Journal of Education, 1828, p. 27(1.) 
 
 Anne, the daughter of his second wife by her former husband, was, 
 as has been seen, the wife of Gov. Edward Hopkins. 
 
 Another of these trustees was Mr. and ('apt. John Cullick. He 
 was a leading man in colony and church affairs. He was for several 
 years one of the magistrates, and secretary of the colony. He was 
 one of the aggrieved minority in the Hartford church when trouble 
 arose in that body, " the withdrawal's " as they were sometimes called. 
 His name is found (as one not "fully engaged") among the original 
 engagers, who met at Goodman Ward's house in Hartford April 18, 
 1659, and engaged themselves under their own hands or by their 
 deputies, whom they had chosen, to remove themselves and their 
 families out of the jurisdiction of Connecticut into the jurisdiction of 
 Massachusetts." He was an active leader in promoting this mi- 
 gration. 
 
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 May 20, 1().")S. ('apt. ( ullick and Mr. ( ioodwin, being in Boston for 
 the purpose, petitioned the General Court there in their own and oth- 
 ers' behalf, for leave to settle up the river " out of the jurisdiction of 
 Connecticut, and within the pious and godly government of Massa- 
 chusetts." 
 
 On the "25th of the month that Court gave them leave, but coupled 
 the permission with the condition that they submit themselves to a 
 due and orderly hearing of the differences between themselves and 
 their brethren. (Walker, Hist. 1st ch. Hartford, 168, Judd, Hist. 
 Hadley, 18, ID.) 
 
 Mr. Cullick removed to Boston in 1651), and died there Jan. 23, 
 1663. (Barnard III, 182.) 
 
 Among these Trustees the name of John Davenport, already men- 
 tioned, is second to none. 
 
 He was born in Coventry, England, in 1598, of which city his 
 grandfather was mayor. In 1607 lie was schoolmate of Theophilus 
 Eaton in the Coventry Grammar School, admitted to Oxford before 
 he was 14, called, as assistant to another, to public and constant 
 preaching in London at 11). Here he won admiration and praise as a 
 preacher, and for courage in visiting and residing with his flock in 
 time of a dreadful plague. In 1624 he was vicar of St. Stephen's 
 Church in Coleman Street, London, where his friendship with Gov. 
 Eaton grew and ripened into a close intimacy, which helped to shape 
 the future of both. Here Edward Hopkins was likewise his friend 
 and parishioner. He ceased to be in sympathy with the Church of 
 England in doctrine and polity, and became the object of suspicion to 
 Abp. Laud. He suffered spoiling of goods and resigned his benefice, 
 left England for Holland, whence, finding himself out of harmony with 
 those with whom he was thrown, he returned to England in 1635. 
 Having learned that civil and church affairs in New England were 
 taking shape in accord with his own mind, he and Eaton became lead- 
 ers in an expedition chiefly of Londoners who came in the ship Hector 
 and another, and landed in Boston in 1637. Davenport and Eaton 
 were chief agents in founding the colony of New Haven, where, with 
 Davenport as pastor, the 1st church of New Haven was gathered and 
 constituted Aug. 22, KJ.'W. 
 
 In 1651 he was invited to remove to Boston and become pastor of 
 the second church then newly formed. This invitation he declined, 
 but later, when New Haven was no longer a colony by itself, but 
 absorbed in Connecticut, he left his charge at New Haven to accept 
 
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 the urgent call to the first church in Boston. He removed thither and 
 was installed Dec. 1, 1668, when more than seventy years of age, and 
 died March 11, 1670, ae. 72. He was a very ardent friend of educa- 
 tion. It was his strong desire that a college should be founded at 
 New Haven. He corresponded with Gov. Hopkins concerning it, had 
 hopes of aid from him concerning it, which failed of fruition by reason 
 of the death of Gov. Hopkins, and he was the close, constant, confiden- 
 tial friend of the Governor, and of course earnest and hearty in the 
 desire and purpose to carry out his plans as expressed in his will. 
 (Barnard, Journal of Education, III, 280, 28").) 
 
 As has been noted, one of the trustees under the will of Gov. Hop- 
 kins was William Goodwin. Since through him chiefly any portion 
 of this legacy found its way to Hadley, more extended notice of him 
 will be in place in this history. 
 
 It is thought that he was probably an Oxford graduate admitted 
 B. A. 1622 23. He sailed from London in the ship Lyon, Win. 
 Pierce master, June 22nd, and arrived in Boston Sept. 16, 1632. He 
 is -soon settled at Newtown (Cambridge), where from the first he was 
 prominent in civil and in church affairs, as he was later at Hartford 
 and Hadley. He was a man of character, of large means and great 
 influence. Gov. Winthrop speaks of him as kt a very reverend and 
 godly man," but records the censure received by him in one instance 
 in open court, for some 4i unreverend speech" to one of the assistants, 
 as also Goodwin's humble acknowledgement of his fault. 
 
 He was made freeman in Massachusetts Nov. 6, 16:52, and in May, 
 1634, deputy from Cambridge to the General Court. He was chosen 
 ruling elder of the Newtown church as early as 1633. 
 
 As ruling elder he and some other laymen, (among them probably, 
 Dea. Andrew Warner) laid hands in ordination on Mr. Hooker, pastor, 
 and Mr. Stone, teacher in that church. He was one of the foremost in 
 furthering the removal from Newtown to Hartford. When land was 
 to be bought in Hartford in 1636 by the emigrants from Newtown, 
 the agents in the negotiation were Mr. Stone, teacher, and Mr. Good- 
 win, ruling elder of the Hartford church. In the office of ruling elder 
 he was next in dignity to the pastor and teaeher. lie was moderator 
 of church meetings. It pertained to the office to propose the admis- 
 sion and dismission of members, prepare all matters of business in 
 the church, to keep watch of the private conduct of church members, 
 to bring incorrigible offenders before the whole body for hearing and 
 judgment, to pronounce censure when determined, to call the church 
 
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 together and dismiss its meetings with the benediction, to visit the 
 sick, to ordain persons elected by the church to any office therein, to 
 preach in the absence of the pastor and teacher. Thus in one instance 
 lie >k exercised," as the conduct of public religious service was called, 
 for two months continuously in the absence of pastor and teacher at 
 i\ synod in Boston in 1637. 
 
 Mr. Goodwin lived in close and happy intimacy with his pastor, Mr. 
 Hooker, until his death, July 7, 1(54 7. To Mr. Goodwin and Gov. 
 Hopkins Mr. Hooker in his last will committed the care of his prop- 
 erty and the custody of his children. 
 
 He lived in happy relation with Mr. Stone and his brethren in the 
 church until about six years after the death of Mr. Hooker. 
 
 Then came a time extending from f658 to 1659 of sore and bitter 
 <1 narre! in the Hartford church, which drew the attention of all the 
 New England churches, and fills large space in the early ecclesiastical 
 history of this colony. 
 
 It has been taken for granted that the question at issue in this strife 
 was one of baptism and the rights of the children of baptized church 
 members. Of late this view is called in question. It is now thought 
 that the large element in the controversy was personal. It was a 
 struggle concerning the rights of the minority of the church, "the 
 withdrawers ", and the majority led by Mr. Stone, a man of strong 
 individuality, disposed to magnify his office, as in his turn was Mr. 
 Goodwin likewise. 
 
 The convictions of the two parties concerning each other's rights 
 and prerogatives were strongly opposed. Mr. Goodwin's feeling was 
 strong that the rights of the brotherhood were disregarded. 
 
 It is generally agreed that this church difficulty began in antago- 
 nism between 'reaching Elder Stone and Ruling Elder Goodwin, both 
 men of strong character, firm conviction, unbending will, staunch and 
 steadfast in maintaining truth and right as they saw them. 
 
 This difference, it is thought, is very much one concerning a pulpit 
 candidate. On one occasion Mr. Stone hindered a vote of the church 
 concerning the fitness of Mr. Wigglesworth for office in the place of 
 Mr. Hooker. 
 
 There were stormy church meetings one after another, in which Mr. 
 (Joodwin charged that the act of the teacher infringed the preroga- 
 tives of others. 
 
 The majority was with the teacher and acquitted him, but the charge, 
 though rejected by the church after debate in two meetings, was again 
 
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 preferred in a formal paper by Mr. Cullick, to which the church sent a 
 reply which is lost. 
 
 These two men were much heated. But Mr. Goodwin felt most 
 keenly his practical deposition from the office of ruling Elder in the 
 church and its official headship, by the choice of a moderator. This 
 was done by the advice of Mr. Stone who had resigned his office. 
 Mr. Goodwin was a man " fond to rule ", for whom it was not easy to 
 accept graciously the loss of such a position. 
 
 The minority apparently withdrew from the communion of the 
 church, refused to recognize Mr. Stone as an officer of the church, 
 and asked for a council to consider the whole case. 
 
 After hindrance and delay such a council was held June 11, l(>f)(>, 
 resulting in the substantial vindication of the minority as against the 
 arbitrary course of Mr. Stone and the church. They did not accept 
 the decision. Mr. Stone went to Boston to consult the elders there, 
 five of whom wrote to the withdrawers, deploring their differences, 
 and offering their offices of help toward a settlement. 
 
 A Council of nine churches and seventeen members held at Boston 
 Sept. 2(), 16;")!), in its result reproves both parties, expresses the hope 
 that mutual satisfaction may be given, that there be a return of the 
 dissenters into communion with the church of Hartford as formerly. 
 But if any still desire to remove, the council's advice and determina- 
 tion is, that the church forthwith give their dismission kk and that such 
 as have joyned themselves to another church doe solemnly renew their 
 covenant." The council ends with a pathetic exhortation to love and 
 unity, and not to turn again to folly. 
 
 This result was graciously received by the representatives of both 
 parties, of which they gave proof before they left Boston for home. 
 Most of the withdrawers, led by Mr. Goodwin and John Webster, soon 
 removed to Hadley, (had already virtually done so), and the great 
 quarrel in the Hartford church was over. 
 
 " On the whole respecting this controversy the impartial verdict of 
 history must be that in spite of many irregularities and doubtless a 
 good -deal of temper on both sides, the general weight of right and 
 justice was with the defeated and emigrating minority."- ( Walker's 
 History, First ch. Hartford, pp. 14(5 175.) 
 
 We know this man by the goodly company in which we find him. 
 Mr. Goodwin was of like mind with Theophilus Eaton, John Daven- 
 port and John Cullick. They were one in spirit, in principle, thought, 
 aim and purpose. They walked together because they were agreed. 
 
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 Gov. Hopkins chose Mr. Goodwin as one of the trustees of his 
 estate for he knew him and believed in him. He had been with him 
 in the conduct of affairs with the Indians. He was fellow member 
 with him in the church in Hartford. Gov. Hopkins was a man of 
 peace, and yet it is thought that he was in sympathy with the minor- 
 ity in the Hartford church. The trouble had begun, as he was leav- 
 ing the country, and he was aware of its progress as it went on, and 
 with this knowledge chose Mr. Goodwin as one to exercise this trust. 
 
 M r. Davenport of New Haven likewise was in sympathy with the 
 minority withdrawing, among whom Mr. Goodwin was a leader. He 
 opposed their course in propounding themselves for admission to the 
 Wethersfield church. Papers drawn up and signed by Rev. John 
 Higginson of Guilford in answer to inquiries of the Weathersfield 
 church concerning the propriety of admitting the withdrawers to their 
 fellowship, served greatly to strengthen and encourage tiiem in their 
 course. (Walker, p. Hi!!.) 
 
 The troubles in the Hartford church had this outcome. Mr. Good- 
 win and those with him, deeming that in no other way they could 
 gain their hearts' desire, first meditated removal, planned it, carried 
 out their plans. These withdrawers from the Hartford church, with 
 others of like mind in the churches of Weathersfield and Windsor, 
 were the first white settlers of Hadley, with whose coming hither the 
 church of Christ in Hadley as such began its life. 
 
 On this wise was the coming of Mr. Goodwin to Hadley, who was 
 among the first to come, and in it is found the answer to the question, 
 how any part of the. Hopkins legacy found its way hither, since Edward 
 Hopkins himself had been dead more than two years, when the "en- 
 gagers" held their meeting in Hartford in April, l(y!). and knew little, 
 it is likely, of this region as the probable site of an emigrating colony 
 from Hartford. In considering the disposition of the estate, there will 
 be occasion to take further notice of Mr. Goodwin and his part in 
 these transactions. 
 
CHAPTER TIL 
 
 THE DISPOSAL OF GOY. HOPKINS' ESTATE. 
 
 The trustees were delayed in the execution of their trust six years. 
 The General Court of Connecticut was in sympathy with the majority 
 in the Hartford church and with the town as well. Hence the Court 
 sequestered the estate and directed the payment of all rents and debts 
 not to the trustees, but to the Selectmen of the several towns where 
 the property was situated, who were also held accountable to the 
 General Court. This fund must be kept in Hartford. Such was the 
 feeling, desire, purpose, study. Mr. Goodwin's removal with a colony 
 to Hadley meant the loss of the fund to Hartford. Aug. 23, 1658 
 the Court " ordered and required that the several towns where any part 
 of the estate of either Edward Hopkins Esq. or George Fen wick Esq. 
 be known to remain shall speedily take inventory of said estate and 
 present it under the hands of those who order the prudentials of the 
 town to the Court in October next." (Conn. Col. records.) This 
 was not done for the aid or at the request of the trustees, for they 
 were " hindered" by it. They had already an inventory of the estate. 
 Mr. Hopkins says in his will, that he had left a clear list of it with 
 Capt. Cnllick. (Bacon, Appendix 4<s. ) (Barnard.) 
 
 This order was neglected as would appear from a vote of June 1 ">, 
 1().V.) ''that whatever person or persons in this Colony have, in their 
 present possession or improvement, any estate that either is, or has 
 been reputed the estate of Geo. Fen wick or Edward Hopkins Esq. 
 that they secure and preserve the said estate in their own hands, or the 
 value thereof, (casualties accepted) to be accountable to this court, 
 when required thereunto, until the wills and inventories of said gen- 
 tlemen be exhibited into this court and right owners to the estate 
 appear and administration be grunted according to law." The effect 
 of this vote, says Bacon, would naturally be what Mr. Davenport 
 complains it was, to, make those indebted to the estate refuse to pay 
 their debts to the trustees and to lock up the whole estate 1 for safe 
 keeping until a satisfactory share of it was allotted to Hartford. 
 
Oct. ('), 1(559 " The last will of Edward Hopkins P^sq. being exhib- 
 ited into this court it is thought meet by this court that the former 
 restraint laid upon the estate should be taken off and that the debts 
 due the estate should be required and gathered in, to prevent damage 
 to the estate." This order, says Barnard, probably originated in the 
 fact that owing to a council held at Hartford in June, 1659, to com- 
 pose the difficulties in the church in Hartford, Elder Goodwin and his 
 friends temporarily gave up the design of removing to Hadley, but 
 resuming their intentions to leave, the sequestration was renewed by 
 the following order of the General Court. "Feb. 2.'J, 1659 60. 
 Whereas there hath been a repealing of the former restraint laid upon 
 the estate of Edward Hopkins Esq. that debts due the estate might 
 be taken in. Upon further consideration, this court orders that the 
 estates aforesaid be secured within this colony, until the said estate 
 be inventoried and the inventory be presented, and administration 
 granted by this court." 
 
 By an order passed May 17, 1660, it appears that an inventory of 
 the estate had not been presented, whereupon individuals holding the 
 estate and the selectmen of the several towns were required to make 
 presentment thereof at the next court on penalty of 5 for each neg- 
 lect. By a subsequent order dated June N, 1661. the treasurer was 
 required to take the custody or the rents of portions of the estate 
 occupied by John Cole and William Hills. In pursuance of this 
 order (May 17) Joseph Mygatt, John Allen, James Steele and Wil- 
 liam Kelsey, "Townsmen of the town of Hartford," presented to 
 the General Court, June 18, 1660, a month after the order was passed, 
 an inventory of the Hopkins Estate, amounting to 1.'>S2 03 06, 
 " Besides the iiegar." On the back of this inventory is the following 
 endorsement : 
 
 "Hartford, June 16, 1660. Concerning Mr. Hopkins estate we 
 underwritten having presented the order of court to l)ea. Stebbing 
 and Lieut. Bull desiring their return ; they answered as followeth : 
 that the inventory on this paper, was a true inventory, as far as they 
 knew, only his farm at Farmington and some trifles excepted, come 
 to hand since, and they do engage to preserve the said estate and 
 make return of it to the court at any time it is demanded, until the 
 will and inventory of Mr. Hopkins be proved in the Court at 
 Hartford." 
 
 In this inventory "His housing and land in Hartford and Weath- 
 ersh'eld " are set down at 621), which deducting t'.S 1 for Weathers- 
 field, leaves 545 for the value of Jiis real estate in Hartford. 
 
On the 3d of October, 1061. '' The will and testninent of Kdward 
 Hopkins P^sq. being presented to this court legally attested, is accepted 
 as authentic. This court do likewise order and impower Edward 
 Stebbing and Lt. Thomas Bull, to. take the management of the estate 
 of Mr. Hopkins deceased into their hands :md the gathering in the 
 debts due to the estate, and to be accountable to the court for the 
 same, when called thereunto." 
 
 Dea. Stebbing and Lieut. Bull had the charge of the estate of (iov. 
 Hopkins' estate in Connecticut, not only by appointment of the Gene- 
 ral Court but by a prior appointment of the Trustees in 1.659, under 
 authority given by Henry Dalley, sole executor of the will. 
 
 "Upon a proposition from Mr. Goodwin, in reference to the legacy 
 belonging to THIS COLONY by the last will of Mr. Hopkins, and whereas 
 there was by a writing a tender of 350 to this colony out of that 
 estate : this court doth declare that they do not reject the tender. 
 And further, this court doth appoint Major Mason, Mr. Matthew 
 Allyn, Mr. Wyllys and Capt. John Talcott, as a committee to treat 
 with the trustees of Mr. Hopkins's estate about foresaid legacy, and 
 what the major part of those that meet do conclude, shall stand as 
 the issue of that business and the secretary is to write a letter to the 
 Trustees to appoint time and place of meeting." 
 
 This committee corresponded with Mr. Goodwin, desiring the Trus- 
 tees to appoint a time and place to meet with this committee, " to put 
 a final issue to the business respecting the legacy." But Mr. Good- 
 win under date Feb. 24, 1601 wrote that the committee have ordered 
 350 to be allowed on conditions named, a characteristic letter here- 
 with given entire. 
 Letter from Mr. Goodwin to the Honored Court that is to be held in 
 
 Hartford in March next following the date hereof. 
 MUCH HONORED. 
 
 We received writings from yon signed by the secretary, wherein 
 you desired the Trustees to appoint a time and place to meet with a commit- 
 tee which you have chosen to treat with them and to put a final issue to the 
 business respecting the legacy. I am desired in the name of all the Trustees 
 to inform the Court that we cannot entertain that motion, both for that we 
 are not able to undertake such travel, nor do we see any use at all of it (if 
 we were able) for we have ordered three hundred and fifty pounds set out of 
 Mr. Hopkins' estate committed to our trust to be allowed to Hartford upon 
 these conditions and terms following. (1) That it be by them improved 
 according to the mind of the donor expressed in his will. (2) That this court 
 do also engage to remove all obstructions out of our way that we may not be 
 disturbed nor any way hindered from, by, or under them, in the management 
 
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 of the rest of that estate, according to our trust, that so love and peace may 
 be established between us. (15) That yon will' deliver us back the attested 
 copy of the will sent us from England or else a true copy of it under the seal 
 of the colony. 
 
 Now if it please the honored Court or their Committee to accept of this 
 tender of 350 as is aforesaid, and shall deliver unto us. or to our attornies 
 an instrument drawn up in writing and sealed with the seal of the Colony 
 wherein all the conditions of the tender aforesaid shall be fully and plainly 
 expressed and confirmed by the Court as aforesaid before the last of March 
 next ensuing the date hereof, that then this grant of 350 to Hartford as 
 abovesaid shall be settled upon them, to be improved by them according as 
 is expressed in the will of the donor. But if the Court do not plainly 
 declare their acceptance according as is above expressed, then we hereby 
 declare our grant to them here inserted to be a nullity and void; and 
 thus I humbly take leave of you, subscribing myself, Your worships in all 
 due observance, 
 
 WILLIAM GOODWIN, 
 In the name of the rest of the Trustees. 
 
 Hadley, February, 24th, 1661. 
 
 It could have been no easy matter for these Trustees to meet and 
 confer with the committee in Hartford as requested, since Mr. Goodwin 
 must make the journey from Hadley, Mr. Davenport from New Haven 
 and Capt. Cullick from Boston. 
 
 From a writing presented to the General Court at New Haven by Mr. 
 Davenport resigning the donation of Governor Hopkins to their care, 
 dated the fourth day of the fourth Moneth, 1660, it appears that the 
 three Trustees and legatees then surviving, viz. : himself, Capt. Cullick 
 and Mr. Goodwin, "met together to consider what course they should 
 take for the discharge of their trust, and agreed that each of them should 
 have an inventory of the aforesaid testatour's estate in New England, 
 in houses and goods and lands, which were prized by some in Hartford, 
 intrusted by Capt. Cullick and Mr. Goodwin, and in debts, for the 
 gathering in whereof some attorneys were constituted, impowered and 
 employed by the three surviving trustees, as the writing in the magis- 
 trate's hands will show. 
 
 Afterward, at another meeting of the said Trustees, they consid- 
 ering that 
 
 " by the will of the dead, they are joyned in one common trust, agreed to 
 act w th mutual consent in performance thereof, and considering y' by the will 
 of the testator two of Newhaven were joyned with two of Hartford, and y l 
 Mr. Hopkins had declared his purpose to further the Colledge at Newhaven, 
 they agreed that one half of that estate w' h should be gathered in. should be 
 paid vnto Mr. Davenport for Xewhaven, the other half to Captain Cullick and 
 Mr. Goodwin to be improved for the vses and ends forenoted, where they 
 
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 should have power to perform their trust, w'' h because they could not expect 
 to have at Hartford they concluded it would be best done by them in that new 
 plantation vnto w :h sundry of Hartford were to remove and even now gone, 
 yet they agreed that out of the whole an 100 1 ' should be given to the Colledge 
 at Cambridg in the Bay, the estate being IGOO 11 , as Captain Cullick believed it 
 would be, w ch we now see cause to doubt, by reason of the sequestrations 
 laid upon that estate and still continued by the General Court at Hartford, 
 wherevpon some refuse to pay their debts and then forsake the purchases 
 they had made, to their great hinderance of performing the will of the 
 deceased according to the trust committed to them, and to the endamagement 
 of the estate." 
 
 The following letters, written near the same date, having reference 
 to the same matter may best interpret themselves. 
 
 1660, 20 d. of the 2 d in. in the closing paragraphs of a letter to Gov. Win- 
 throp, Mr. Davenport wrote as follows : " The course that the General Court 
 take about Mr. Hopkins, his legacie, seems to me very strange, viz. : that 
 they would know what portion of it they shall have and yet keep his trustees 
 from receiving what belongs to that estate by sequcstracions one after 
 another whereby the estate will suffer no small loss, some being ready to 
 deliver up what they had purchased, because they will not have a litigious 
 title, and one hath waved his bargains upon that account. Others who were 
 ready to have paid what they owe to the estate now refuse to paye, pretending 
 the Courts order, whereby when the sequestration shall be taken oft', there is 
 danger that through loss of the season when they were prepared to paye, 
 there will be loss of the payment itself the debtours pleading their disabilitie 
 now. And the pretence whereupon the sequestraeion is the 2 :i time laid on is 
 that the inventory is not given in, whereas some of the Court it seems knew 
 that it was left with our Attorneys in Hartford by Capt. Cullick with a trust 
 to be by them presented to the Court which they also acknowledge and take 
 the blame to themselves. But I do not love contentions. We have agreed 
 in the answer which I send enclosed. Yours ever obliged, &c. 
 
 JOHN I)A\ I:\IM )irr." 
 
 The following was enclosed in the foregoing : 
 
 " HONORED SIR: 
 
 Captain Cullick and Mr. Goodwin have been with me. by whom I under- 
 stand that some were appointed both from the General Court and from the 
 Towne of Hartford to know what portion of Mr. Hopkins, his Estate (with 
 the disposal thereof for the ends specified in his will we are entrusted) shall 
 be allowed unto the said Colonie or Towne. 
 
 Our joynt answer thereto is. that the General Court be pleased to declare 
 
 1. That they accept of that copie of Mr. Hopkins his will which is deliv- 
 ered unto the Court already, as authentical and sufficient for the end where- 
 unto it is produced. 
 
 2. That the said Court acknowledges us three to be invested with power 
 by virtue of said will to dispose of the estates bequeathed unto us according 
 to the mind and intent of the Testator to our best understanding. 
 
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 3. That all the seqncstracions, encumbrances and disturbances whatsoever 
 from the General Court be so taken off, that we may prosecute and settle the 
 business that concerns onr trust without impediment or interruption. These 
 things being done to onr satisfaction we shall seriously consider what answer 
 we may give to the praemised question according to God and the trust com- 
 mitted to us. 
 
 In witness thereof we subscribe our names at Newhaven the 19 th day of the 
 
 2' 1 month in the year 1000. 
 
 JOHN DAVENPORT, 
 
 JOHN CULLICK, 
 WILL. GOODWIN. 
 
 Indorsed by Gov. Winthrop, Mr. D., Capt. C. and Mr. G. about the Hopkins 
 legacie." (Mass. Hist. Coll. IV. Series, vol. VII. pp. 513, 514.) 
 
 "To THK HONORED COURT AT HARTFORD. 
 Much Honored. 
 
 Yours of Nov. 10, 1(503, I received and not to trouble you 
 with my answer under your second motions to induce us to be of your minds 
 my final return to all is this. That as I have no cause, so I do in no sort 
 consent to that which you were pleased to move me unto but do desire that 
 you yourselves would return the estate unto us, who only have the right to 
 dispose thereof with due satisfaction for all damage that shall appear to be 
 done unto it since it hath been taken out of onr hands, which being timely 
 performed, I doubt not but the three hundred and fifty pounds tendered unto 
 you in February 1061 may yet be settled upon Hartford, on such like conditions 
 as be therein expressed tending to the securing of the estate from any 
 further obstructions by your means, and ordering of the improvement of it 
 according to the donor's end expressed in his will, as our duty bindeth us to do. 
 
 Now hereunto I do humbly desire the Honored Court speedily and plainly 
 to declare themselves to me (or our attorney) whether they do now accept 
 of this tendery or not without any further agitations about the disposing of 
 it, which it hath already been a great wrong to the estate and the donor 
 thereof, as also to us the Trustees and the whole country besides, the which 
 if you shall decline to do betwixt this and the end of March next ensuing the 
 date hereof, this tendry also is to be judged a nullity and we shall forthwith 
 endeavor the freeing of the estate elsewhere* as the great betrustment com- 
 mitted to us in all respects considered, in duty bindeth us to do thus. Hoping 
 and heartily wishing that you would accept of my motion though I cannot 
 accept yours I rest Yours to love and serve as I may, 
 
 WILLIAM GOODWIN. 
 Hadley, Feb. 1. 1663." 
 
 (Bacon's Address, appendix 0.50). 
 
 Another letter of the same date as the foregoing is herewith given. 
 " To THE MUCH HONORED Gov. MR. WIXTHROP AT His HOUSE IN HARTFORD, 
 PRESENT THESE : 
 
 MR. GOODWIN TO JOHN WINTHROP. 
 
 Honored Sir. I received a writing from the honored 
 Court at Hartford wherein they are pleased to move me to such a disposal of 
 
 *NOTE. The English Court of Chancery is probably intended. 
 
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 Mr. Hopkins trust committed to us the Trustees, as we cannot consent vnto, 
 I have sent by the same hand which bringeth this unto your worship my 
 answer therevnto ; and the which I do desire may be a fynale issue of these 
 agitations between vs and the Honored Court which have been very prejudi- 
 cial to that pious act of the worthy donor as also to vs the Trustees and 
 almost all the country besides, by thus long and without cause detaining the 
 estate from vs who only have right to dispose thereof and thereby hindering 
 the vseful improvement of the same for the glory of God and the good of 
 His people. 
 
 They are pleased to speak much of vnity, peace, love and friendship 
 between yourselves and us. I conceive that this which I do now offer to the 
 Court is a nearer way to attain to that than that which is propounded by 
 thern to me and also be for the prevention of further trouble which is not like 
 to be avoided, for we ought not in duty to the estate and the worthy donor 
 thereof, but forthwith vse our utmost endeavor to free the same, that it may 
 be vnder the improvement the worthy donor bequeathed it vnto. 
 
 Thus, Worthy Sir I commit you and all my good friends with you to the 
 holy guidance and blessing of heaven and rest yours most willing to live the 
 little remainder of my few days in love and peace with you all. 
 
 WILL. GOODWIN. 
 HADLKY, Feb. 1, '63. 
 Endorsed l>y John Winthrop jun. 
 Mr. Goodwin Rec'd Feb. 9. iri;.V 
 
 (Mass. Hist, Coll. Vol. VIII, 4th Series, pp. 60, 51.) 
 
 During the year 1(563, when Gov. Winthrop was in England, Mr. 
 Dalley, the executor of Gov. Hopkins' will, " dealt with him" for the 
 restraint put upon the estate, and the Governor promised that on his 
 return it should be set at liberty. Mr. Winthrop came over in 1663, 
 and Oct. 8th of that year, the Court appointed the Governor (Winthrop) , 
 Mr. Matthew Allyn, Mr. Wyllys and Capt. Talcott, or any three of 
 them, to consider what is next to be attended in reference to Mr. 
 Hopkins and his estate, by him bequeathed for to be improved for the 
 promotion of learning and to make report of their thoughts at the 
 next Court. 
 
 Their thoughts found expression in the record of the Court 1663-4, 
 March 10th. 4t This Court, upon good advice, do wee cause to take off 
 the sequestration formerly laid upon the estate of Edward Hopkins, 
 Esq., which for several good reasons was laid under restraint, partly 
 because an authentic copy of the will of the said Edward Hopkins did 
 not appear for the orderly discharge thereof, and partly because an 
 attested inventory of the will of the said estate hath not as yet been 
 exhibited into this Court, yet it now being hopeless because of the 
 decease of Capt. John Cullick to obtain such inventory, This Court 
 doth order as before mentioned." 
 
-2;') 
 
 The subject is not Mgiiin introduced in the records of the General 
 Court, but in the records of the Government Council, under date Jan. 
 13, 1664-5, we find the following order : " This Council doth hereby 
 declare that the estate of our honored friend, Edward Hopkins, Esq., 
 shall not be molested by sequestering in behalf of the country." 
 
 April 28, 1 ('.(It, Mr. Davenport tendered Gov. Hopkins' donation to 
 the town of New Haven in a paper reciting the difficulty and embar- 
 rassment of the Trustees by reason of the restraint laid upon the 
 estate. Now Mr. Winthrop has returned from England and his 
 promise made to Mr. Dally has just now been made good, and at 
 length the estate is free. " He further stated that though the estate 
 was something damnified, yet it is thought that when all is paid there 
 will be a thousand pounds in the whole, of which Hartford had gained 
 four hundred for a school now the rest was in their trust and he bad 
 writ to Mr. Goodwin about it and he thought it was meet New Haven 
 should have more than Hadley and so Mr. Goodwin agreed to pay the 
 one hundred pounds out of his part to the college in the Bay which 
 they had purposed before to give it." (Bacon's Discourse, Appendix, 
 p. 53.) 
 
 In this partition Hertford receives a sum larger than had been 
 named in the former tendry, sharing equally with New Haven, and by 
 Mr. Goodwin's own suggestion, the hundred pounds paid to Har- 
 vard College should be taken from Hartley's share. 
 
 THE FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATE. 
 
 The estate after such long and annoying delay is set free. The 
 two surviving Trustees, Davenport and Goodwin, proceed to divide it 
 among the three towns, New Haven, Hartford and Hadley. But for 
 the troubles in Hartford church the fund would have been shared 
 equally by New Haven and Hartford. This distribution was made in 
 writing and is preserved in two papers, the same in substance, though 
 some particulars found in one are wanting in the other. 
 
 One of these papers* is found in the Records of the Hopkins Gram- 
 mar School in New Haven, entitled : 
 
 The Agreement Between Mr. Davenport and Mr. Goodivin about 
 
 Disposing Mr. Hopkins /u'.s Estate. 
 
 The closing paragraph is this : " Hereunto, as to our last order, dispose 
 and determination touching the said estate, we have set our hands and seals 
 
 *Copies of both papers are in the Judd collection with J. R. Trumbull, Esq. 
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2(5 
 
 in several instruments before witnesses, the far distances of our habitations 
 and our unfitness for such a journey denying us opportunity of a joint action 
 otherwise than by writing. Therefore with mutual consent we thus declare 
 our agreement. I the said Win. Goodwin do sign and seal this instrument as 
 my true agreement for Mr. John Davenport of New Haven. 
 
 WAI. GOODWIN. [Seal] 
 The 13th day of the 4th Month, 1664:. 
 Signed and sealed in the presence of us HENRY CLARK, 
 
 WM. WESTWOOP. 
 
 On the records of the Trustees of Hopkins Academy is found the 
 following paper, differing as already noted from the foregoing, copied 
 from the manuscript among the papers of the late Sylvester .ludd in 
 the keeping of J. R. Trambull, Esq. 
 
 Messrs. Darenport and Goodwin's Agreement, April 30, 1664. 
 
 " Be it known unto all men, that whereas the worshipful Edward Hopkins 
 Esq. a faithful servant of the Lord, and our honored friend, hath by his last 
 will and testament (which is proved according to law in England, and demon- 
 stration thereof made to the General Court at Hartford in New England) 
 , given and bequeathed all his estate in New England, his debts and legacies 
 there being first paid out of the same ; together with 500 that are to come 
 f,om Old England after the decetii-e of Mrs. Hopkins: unto Theophilus Eaton Esq. 
 John Davenport Sen r . Pastor of the Church of Christ in New Haven, Capt. 
 John Cullick and Mr. Wm. Goodwin sometime of Hartford, since of Boston 
 and Hadley in the Colony of the Massachusetts in New England; confiding 
 in their faithfulness for their improvement of the same towards the education 
 of youth in good literature for the service of Christ in these foreign parts. 
 We therefore the said John Davenport and William Goodwin (being the only 
 survivors of the said Trustees) for answering the trust committed to us by 
 the last will and testament of our worthy honored friend, do order and 
 dispose of the said estate as follows viz. 
 
 The debts and legacie being paid, we do give to the town of Hartford the 
 sum of 400 of which Hills his farm shall be a part, at the price at which it was 
 sold by us, and payment ready to be delivered if there had been no interrup- 
 tion, the rest of the 400 in such debts or goods as we or our agents see meet, 
 provided that this gift be improved according to the true intent of the donor 
 (viz for or towards the erecting and promoting of a grammar school at Hart- 
 ford. Provided also that the General Court at Connecticut do grant and give 
 to us the said Trustees a writing legally confirmed so that neither themselves 
 will, nor any by from, or under them shall disturb or hinder us in our dispose, 
 or executing our dispose of the rest of the estate, which being done this gift 
 is in all respects valid. We do also desire and request that the school house 
 may be set upon the house lot which was lately in the occupation of Jeremy 
 Adams, where our worthy friend did much desire that a school might be set. 
 Further our desire is, that the management of the said estate at Hartford 
 may be in the hands of Dea. Edward Stebbing. Lt. Thomas Hull and their 
 assigns. 
 
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 We do further order and appoint that the rest of Mr. Hopkins his estate, 
 both that which is in Neio England and the 500 which is to come from Old Eng- 
 land when it shall become due to us, after Mrs. Hopkins her decease be all of it 
 equally divided between the towns of Newhaven and Hadley, to be in each of 
 those towns respectively managed and improved towards the erecting and 
 maintaining of a Grammar School in each of them. And the management 
 thereof to be in the hands of our assigns, which are for that at New Haven 
 for the present and so to continue (except some other way may be by us 
 agreed on) the Town Court of New Haven, consisting of magistrates and 
 deputies, and the officers of the church at New r haven. And for that at Hadley 
 John RussellJun. Pastor of the church of Christ at Hadley, Lt. Samuel Smith, 
 Andrew Bacon and Peter Tilton. These we the said John Davenport and 
 William Goodwin do appoint, and constitute to be our Trustees, for ordering 
 the said estate and carrying on the work, wherein it is to be employed each 
 in their several towns respectively. 
 
 Hereby committing to them and investing them with full power to act in 
 the same in their several towns respectively; in all respects as ourselves, 
 both in managing this trust themselves and in choosing successors from time 
 to time, as they shall. see meet, who, or the major part of whom, or (in case 
 at any time the Rest of the Trustees be taken away before others be chosen) 
 any of whom may and shall have full power to perfect and put in execution 
 the pious end and intendment of the worthy donor, yet reserving to ourselves 
 while we live, the full power of a negative vote for the hindering of anything 
 that may cross that end. Only provided that one hundred pounds shall be 
 given and paid to Harvard College out of that half of the estate which Hadley 
 hath*, which also is 'to be ordered as we or our assigns shall judge most 
 conducible to the end intended by the donor. 
 
 Hereunto as to our last order, dispose and determination we have set our 
 hands and seals. 
 
 Signed and sealed by William Goodwin at 
 
 Hadley April 30th 1664 in presence of WILLIAM GOODWIN and Seal. 
 Henry Clark and Nathaniel Dickinson Sen 1 ' 
 And at New Haven by the Rev. John 
 
 Davenport Sen. 8 th 3 d , 1664 in presence of JOHN DAVENPORT Sen r and* Seal. 
 William Jones and John Davenport Jun. 
 
 This is a true copy of the Instru- 
 ment made by Mr. Davenport and 
 Mr. Goodwin for the disposition of 
 Mr. Hopkins his estate committed 
 to them. 
 
 HENRY CLARK, 
 
 Constable and Commissioner. 
 Sept. 23 1672. 
 
 *NOTE. It was at the suggestion of Mr. Goodwin that the one hundred pounds to be 
 paid to Harvard College should come from Hartley's part in the division. It is worthy of 
 note, likewise, that 400 were assigned to Hartford, while it was not vet sure that the value 
 of the estate would reach 1200. Is not this spirit magnanimous:' 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE FUND AT HADLEY. 
 
 To the part of the fund (arising from the Hopkins legacy, as before 
 related) assigned to Hadley, additions were made from time to time 
 by several individual donors, and by the Town of Hadley. One of 
 these, John Barnard, removed from Cambridge to Hartford, was one 
 of the first settlers of Hadley, where he was buried May 23, 1664. 
 He must have been acquainted with Gov. Hopkins and Mr. Goodwin. 
 He had been with them in the church at Hartford. Moved by a 
 common impulse he and Mr. Goodwin had come hither to lay founda- 
 tions for many generations. 
 
 In his will, bearing date May 21, 1664, shortly after the foregoing 
 agreement of Mr. Goodwin and Mr. Davenport, occur the words that 
 follow, as copied in the records of Hopkins Academy, from the orig- 
 inal in the Probate office at Northampton. 
 
 JOHN BARNARD'S BEQUEST, MAY 21, 1664. 
 
 John Barnard hath bequeathed and given in his last Will and Testament 
 unto the Town of Hadley in Hampshire, for promoting and advancement of 
 a school for learning, twelve acres, one rood and nine pole of meadow land, 
 perpetually to be and remain to the use aforesaid, lying within the bounds of 
 the township of Hadley. 
 
 Six acres, two roods and twenty-nine poles lying in the meadow called 
 Hockanum, bounded by Mr. W m Goodwins land, north east, Francis Barnards 
 land, south west, abutting on the river, north west and the swamp south east. 
 Another parcel in the meadow, called the great meadow, containing five acres, 
 two roods and twenty poles ; bounded by the land of Phillip Smith east and 
 William Partridge west, abutting on the highway north, and the adjoining 
 furlong south. 
 
 By the same supposed to be in a codicil May 21, 16(54. 
 
 John Barnard, I do give (viz.) to the use and toward the maintenance of a 
 school, I give perpetually my piece of land lying in the Forlorn ; as also my 
 piece of land that lies in Hockanum, and also that land I have given to a 
 school if there be not a school in Hadley at the decease of my wife, then the 
 land to be improved by four of the poorest men in town till there be a school 
 set up. 
 
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 Another donor was Nathaniel Ward, an early settler of Hartford, 
 a gentleman of good standing, in the colony of Connecticut. He was 
 among the first that came to Hadley, where he was made freeman 
 March 26, 1661. He was buried June 1, 1664. He is called Good- 
 man Ward. At his house in Hartford "the engagers" met, April 
 18, 1651), and engaged themselves under their own hands, or by their 
 deputies whom they had chosen, to remove themselves and their fam- 
 ilies out of the jurisdiction of Connecticut into the jurisdiction of 
 Massachusetts. He died childless. His will is dated May 27, 1664, 
 just after the Hopkins estate was set at liberty. He gave a piece of 
 his home lot, on the street, with his house, for the use of the school. 
 A part of this building was used for many years as a school house. 
 From a vote of the town March 30,1709-10, it appears that an 
 appendage to this house, an outhouse is " ready to fall down." The 
 spot is the site of the present residence of Mr. L. S. Crosier. 
 
 This gift was made near the time of the agreement of Davenport 
 and Goodwin, before any school was established in Hadley, and yet 
 it is by no means improbable that such a prospect was in his mind. 
 
 The extract from his will conveying this gift is herewith given : 
 
 MR. WARD'S GIFT, MAY 27, 1064. 
 
 " Nathaniel Ward. Item to the town of Hadley I give after the decease of 
 my wife, my now dwelling house with ab^ut five roods or an acre and a half 
 of land on which it standeth, and my lot of five acres more or less in the north 
 meadow and my lot in Hockanum containing nine acres more or less, to be 
 improved toward maintaining a school ever. Provided that whereas I have 
 taken up twelve or thirteen pounds' of the estate of Mr. Hopkins if any of 
 that be by me to be repaid it shall be out of the estate given by me to the town." 
 
 Another benefactor of the school was Mr. Henry Clark, Windsor 
 1640, representative 1641-1650, Assistant 1650-1651, a first settler of 
 Hadley, a wealthy and distinguished man. He was one of the commis- 
 sioners for holding the courts at Springfield and Northampton, (Asso- 
 ciates as they were called after 1669) from 1663-1676. He dieds. p. 
 Dec. 23, 1675. 
 
 There is reason to think that he was intimately acquainted with Wm. 
 Goodwin, shared his confidence and his views in matters of education, 
 especially as related to Hopkins school, which at the time of his death 
 had begun its work and which it was in his mind to promote by this 
 bequest. 
 
 April 30th, 1664, he witnessed the paper signed by Davenport and 
 Goodwin, directing the disposition of the legacy of Governor Hopkins, 
 dividing it between Hartford, New Haven and Hadley. 
 
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 Here is given out of strict chronological order Henry Clark's dona- 
 tion, Dec. 15, 1675, more than ten years later than the two other gifts 
 already mentioned, and after the Hopkins school began its work. 
 
 " I do give my nine acre lot in Hockanum in the town of Hadley and two 
 acres and a half of my lot in the lower end of the great meadow, in Hadley, 
 on the nether side of the lot, I give to the town of Hadley, committing it to 
 the care, disposing and ordering of Lieut. Samuel Smith, Ensign Cook, Dea. 
 Tilton, and Mr. John Russell, Jr., to be by them disposed of, (in case they 
 quietly keep and remain in their committeeship for Hopkins school) unto 
 Hopkins School for Hadley. But if they be put out of, or disturbed in that 
 committeeship then to be otherwise disposed of, as they or the survivors of 
 them, see meet for the good of the town." (Record of Hopkins Academy.) 
 
 It is worthy of record that John Barnard, Nathaniel Ward and 
 Henry Clark, who left something from their estates (about forty acres 
 of land in all) for a school, was each of them without children, like 
 Gov. Hopkins himself, whom they had known and whose spirit they 
 seem to have caught. They made the children of others, in long 
 succession, their heirs, thus furnishing a worthy example, which since 
 their time none have been found to copy in the matter of gifts to this 
 school. Is it too much to hope that some such may yet appear after 
 so long a time ?* 
 
 The town of Hadley made grants of land from time to time to and 
 for the use of a Grammar school as appears from votes in the town 
 records as given herewith. 
 
 JANUARY 14, Hifiti. 
 
 "The town have granted to and for the use of a (iraminar Scoole in this 
 town of Hadley and to be and remain perpetuallie to and for the use of said 
 Scoole the two little meddowes next beyond the Brooke commonlie called the 
 mm Brooke and as much upland to be laid to the same -as the comittee 
 chosen by the town shall in their discretion see rneeteand need ful provided 
 withall it be left to the Judgment of the said Committee that so much of the 
 2 nd meddow shall be excepted from said grant as that there may be a rt'ezuble 
 and convenient passage for cattel to their ft'eede." 
 
 The committee, chosen for the occasion aforesaid, are Mr. Clark, 
 Lieut. Smith, William Allis, Nathaniel Dickinson and Andrew Warner. 
 This meadow tract contained sixty acres, more or less, with consider- 
 able upland, bounded north and west by the great river, and by the 
 fence south and east. 
 
 *Dea. Geo. Dickinson who died Aug. 10, 1889, left in his will *-20<) to the Trustees of 
 Hopkins Academy in trust for the benelit of the young men's Library Association, and 
 in case that Association should cease to exist, to be employed for the benefit of ilopkins 
 Academy and library. 
 
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 Marginal note by Peter Tillon. These meadows are the round neck 
 of land and the little long meadow that was reserved by the Indians 
 in the first sale and afterwards purchased by itself. 
 
 (Original Town Record, p. 40.) 
 
 THE TOWN OF HADLEY'S GRANT, OCT. 16, 1671. 
 
 " The town have granted a piece of land ,near the corn mill for the erecting 
 and setting a dwelling house upon the same (for the use of a miller) with this 
 proviso that whatever laud or estate, with the said house and mill, c. that 
 hath been given by the Town of Hadley or by any other, for the maintaining 
 of a Grammar Scoole there be ordered, managed and disposed by the present 
 school committee in being and after them by their successors whom they 
 shall chuse, provided they be still pious discreete flaithful men, otherwise the 
 said grant to be void and Invalid to the ends and purposes aforesaid." See 
 Town Record. 
 
 A true copy compared with the original this present 8th of Oct. by us. 
 
 JOHN RUSSELL, AAHON COOKK. 
 
 The above preserved in the Record of Hopkins Academy. 
 
 June 3, KITH, the town voted and granted a parcel of ground 
 adjoining to the mill perpetually as a house lot for the miller, not 
 exceeding four acres, to be laid out by the committee appointed for 
 the purpose. 
 
 Gifts for the School which became its Fund were seven in number, 
 and all made during the fourteen years, from 1664 to 1678. They 
 were these : 
 
 1. By Davenport and Goodwin from the Hopkins estate in 1664. 
 
 '1. By John Barnard in 1664. 
 
 3. By Nathaniel Ward in 1664. 
 
 4. By the Town in 1666. 
 />. By the Town in 1671. 
 
 6. By Mr. Clarke in 1(57."). 
 
 7. By the Town in 167H. 
 
 All these gifts were made within twenty years after the settlement 
 of the Town. In the order of time they followed the lead of the 
 Hopkins donation and seem both in intention and in fact to have 
 constituted one fund and under one management, though somewhat 
 vaguely and loosely defined. 
 
 TOWN VOTE, MARCH 14, 1666-7. 
 
 "The town have voted Mr. Clark, Lieut. Smith, Nathaniel Dickinson, 
 Andrew Warner and William Allis a committee for and in behalf of the town 
 to order, dispose, set and lett according to their best judgment and discretion 
 the parcels of land lying about the mill brook, granted and given to and for 
 the use of a Grammar scoole in this town of Hadley and for the advantage of 
 the same." 
 
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 At this time the school had begun its course, under the direction of 
 Mr. Goodwin with such counsel as he was inclined to receive from the 
 others named in the agreement, to act with him. It is likely that he 
 had in his mind his own retirement from such direction and control 
 and his removal from town, and wishing to see the school and its 
 affairs settled on a secure and durable footing, he made the following 
 proposal to the town : 
 
 MR. GOODWIN'S PROPOSAL TO THE TOWN, MARCH 20, 1668-9. 
 
 "Mr. Goodwin proposes as that wherein he is willing to concur (viz) that as 
 to the ordering of that estate, distributed and given by Mr. Davenport and 
 himself (as trustees to Mr. Hopkins) to the town of Hadley, tlonour of the 
 said estate both for the present and the ffuture ; he the said Mr. William 
 Goodwin hath chosen three persons (or will chuse them) to have power in the 
 premises. He is willing allsoe that the town should give their aprobation of 
 the said persons. As allsoe that the town shall make choice of two more able 
 and pious men which ffive persons together with himself shall have the sole 
 and ftull dispose and management of the estate above expressed, in all respects 
 for the end to which it is bequeathed. 
 
 2 nd . As allsoe the said five persons together with himself while he liveth 
 shall have the sole dispose and management of all other estate and estates 
 given by any donor or that may be ichilest they survive to this town of Had- 
 ley for the promotion of literature or learning. 
 
 3 rd . Those fflve persons to continue, abide and remaine in the work above 
 expressed till death, or other Providence of God remove any of them and the 
 surviving to chuse to themselves the full number aforesd. 
 
 4 th . Mr. Goodwin desires the name of the Scoole may be called Hopkins 
 Scoole." 
 
 TOWN VOTES IN ANSWER TO THE ABOVE, MARCH, 26, 1669. 
 
 "Mr. Goodwin being sent to by the town to know the persons he would 
 make choice of, as respecting the premises, he returns he had chosen Mr. 
 John Russell, pastour of the church at Hadley, Left. Samuel Smith and 
 Aaron Cooke. The 'town voted their aprobation of Mr. Goodwins choice. 
 The Town allsoe voted Nathaniel Dickinson Sen r , and Peter Tilton to Joyne 
 with the three persons before mentioned as a Joint committee who with Mr. 
 Goodwin while he lives, and after his decease shall Jointly and together have 
 the ordering and Hull dispose, of the estate or estates given by Mr. Davenport 
 and Mr. Goodwin (as trustees as aforesaid to Mr. Edward Hopkins) to this 
 town of Hadley, or any other estate or estates that are or may be given by 
 the town itself or any other donour or donours, ft'or the use, benefit and 
 maintenance and promoting of a Gramar Scoole to and ft'or the use and in this 
 town of Hadley. As allsoe Jointly and together to doe, act and conclude and 
 execute and fflnish anything respecting the premises ffaithfullye according to 
 their best discretion. 
 
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 Voted Allsoe by the town that as to the flive persons before expressed, if 
 any decease, or be otherwise disabled through the 1'rovidence of God, the 
 rest surviveing shall have the sole choice of any in the rooine and place of 
 those surceasing, to the full number of five persons, provided they be known, 
 discreet, pious, faithful persons. 
 
 The Town hath ordered Mr. Clarke and Peter Tilton to present the premises 
 to the court to be recorded." 
 
 (The above is from the original town record, p. 44.) 
 
 " A true copy compared with the original by us, 
 
 JOHN RUSSELL and AAUON COOKE." 
 
 The above note is appended to a copy taken by the above mimed, 
 and preserved in the records of Hopkins Academy. 
 
 AGREEMENT BETWEEN MR. GOQDWIN AND THE TOWN AS 
 
 PRESENTED TO THE COURT MARCH 30, 1(><>9.* 
 
 Whereas John Davenport Sen. Sometime of New Haven, now of Boston, 
 in the colony of Massachusetts ; and Mr. William Goodwin of Hadley in 
 Hampshire, in the same colony ; the only surviving Trustees to and for that 
 part of the estate of Edward Hopkins Esq. given and bequeathed by that 
 worthy and much honored donor, in his last will and testament; for and to 
 the promoting and advancing of literature or learning in these parts of America 
 called New England as his said trustees authorized and empowered by his las^ 
 will and testament or those surviving of them, should, according to their 
 discretion, care and faithfulness, see cause to order and dispose, the above- 
 said Mr. John Davenport and Mr. William Goodwin, making a clear and 
 absolute gift and disposal, of a considerable sum, or part of said estate, to 
 the town of Hadley in Hampshire, in the colony aforesaid; for and to the end 
 and use above expressed (viz) for the erecting and maintaining of a Grammar 
 School, as by an instrument jointly sealed and subscribed, by the said 
 Trustees appears: the said sum amounting to about three hundred pounds, as 
 also two hundred and fifty ponnds more ordered and given by the Trustees 
 to the Town of Hadley fit the decease of Mrs. Hopkins, And whereas the 
 said Trustees have by both their assents constituted a committee of four 
 persons, chosen by Mr. William Goodwin as respecting the estate as above 
 expressed given and disposed to the town of Hadley ; - for the ordering and 
 managing the same for the end aforesaid. Two of the said persons not 
 accepting the said trust, the aforesaid Mr. William Goodwin in consulting 
 with the said Town, about the further choice of persons upon whom the 
 management of the above estate might be perpetually settled, and the will of 
 the honored donor in all respects fulfilled. He acted in and about the same 
 with the town as follows, viz. Mr. William Goodwin hath made choice of 
 three persons to the end aforesaid, viz. Mr. John Russell Jim., Samuel Smith 
 and Aaron Cook Jim. of whom the town have voted their approbation. The 
 town also made choice of two persons, viz. Nathaniel Dickinson Sen. and 
 
 *NOTE. At a Count}- Corte hokleu at Northampton yc ;>0th day of ye 1st month li(!9, the 
 affairs of the School were presented, and these papers ordered entrance at lemrtheon the 
 record with warm approval " in perpetuum rei memoriani. " (Court Record in Probate 
 Office, pp. 205, 206.) 
 
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Peter Tilton, which five persons viz. Mr. John Russell Jim. Samuel Smith, 
 Aaron Cook Jun., Nathaniel Dickinson and Peter Tilton shall be and are a 
 joint Committee authorized and empowered clearly to act and jointly and 
 together as also with the said Mr. William Goodwin while he lives, and after 
 his decease, having full power, jointly and together, to order and appoint, 
 dispose, manage, act, finish and conclude according to their discretion, care, 
 and faithfulness, anything in respect to the premises; and for the benefit, 
 furtherance, and advancement of the end or ends before mentioned, intended 
 and expressed, by the worthy donor of the said estate, and likewise, by the 
 Trustees in the gift of the same to the said tow^n of Hadley. 
 
 Also the said Committee of five persons above expressed, shall have full 
 power and authority, jointly and together to order, dispose and manage, any 
 other estate or estates given and bequeathed to the town of Hadley ; either 
 by the toion itself, or by any other donor, or donors or that may or shall be given, 
 to the use and benefit, promoting and advancement of the school aforesaid, 
 and learning for and in the town of Hadley. 
 
 The town hath ordered, that the five persons before mentioned surviving 
 Mr. Goodwin, if any of them shall decease, or otherwise be disabled, the 
 remaining persons of the said Committee shall have the sole choice of other 
 or others in their room or place still continuing the number of five, provided 
 their choice be of known discreet, pious, faithful persons." 
 
 Wm. Goodwin, who has been so prominent in this history, now ceases 
 to be active in these matters. He was, as has been seen, elder in the 
 church at Newtown, afterward at Hartford, and still later at Hadley. 
 After him neither of those churches had another ruling elder. After a 
 residence of ten years at Hadley he removed, about 1670 to Farm- 
 ington, Conn., where he died March 11, 1673* 
 
 In 1672, Sept. 24th, at the County Court held in Springfield, he was 
 plaintiff in an action agt. Peter Tilton Defdt. Thus runs the record : 
 
 "Mr. William Goodwin late of Hadley Plaintiff contra Peter Tilton of 
 Hadley defdt in action for the case for intruding himself upon the committee- 
 ship about ye estate of Edward Hopkins Esq. (improved in Hadley) upon the 
 schoole contrary to the mind of the said Mr. Goodwin Trustee to the sd 
 estate. Also ye sd. Mr. Goodwin is Plaintiff agt. Mr. John Russell Jun. 
 Lieut. Smith, Ensign Cooke all of Hadley Defdts in action of the case for 
 associating withe sd Peter Tilton in acting upon sd schoole affairs and for all 
 just damage."! (Court Record in Probate Office, Northampton, pp. 140, 141.) 
 
 Mr. Tilton challenged the Court as unqualified to hear the case for 
 the reason that the members of the Court had some of them individ- 
 ually been advised with concerning the matter. At the dictate of a 
 wise expediency they did not hear the case. Hence it was dismissed. 
 Two of the Judges declinind to act because of defendant's objection. 
 
 *NOTE. Inquiry has risen of late whether Elder Goodwin did not marry Mrs. Susanna, 
 the widow of Rev. Thomas Hooker. 
 
 fThe dean of the Court "exonerates and discharges Mr. Goodwin as having performed 
 his engagements concerning the estate," though no exact and detailed account is given. 
 
This record further takes notice of the " trouble and harshness" to 
 which Mr. Goodwin luvd been subjected in the matter of the school 
 estate and commends him for his zeal and fidelity. 
 
 "The Corte considering the admirable inteiis-ness, the indefatigable care 
 and paynes that Mr. Goodwin hath expressed to promote and advance the 
 affairs of the schoole both for its foundation and progress Doe thankfully 
 accept thereof." i; They acknowledge the good hand of God in sending those 
 Reverend ffathers, and worthy Gentlemen the said Trustees to dispose such 
 an estate to these remote parts of the country and of this colony, for so 
 worthy and eminent a work. (See Record at large pp. 140, HI.) 
 
 This record is illuminating as respects the character of the men 
 concerned in this business. We have had occasion to notice the strong 
 individuality of Mr. Goodwin. A like strong individuality was 
 characteristic of the defendants. " Peter Tilton was such a man. 
 Between two such men rivalry, antagonism and even collision were 
 possible. Difference there surely was, involving some degree of 
 feeling. For his comfort's sake Mr. Goodwin .may have felt that it 
 would be well for him to leave Hadley for Farming-ton, that he might 
 close his days in peace remote from strife. He went and thither his 
 troubles followed him, as has been seen. It must have been a sore 
 trial to his spirit that with the chief defendant were associated Lieut. 
 Smith, Ensign Cooke, and, more than all, Mr. Russell, who afterward 
 was at such pains and cost to vindicate his memory and secure the 
 ends he had at heart, with odds against him. Mr. Goodwin lived on 
 the lot occupied by the late Uea. Geo. Dickinson, on which earlier 
 stood the house of Dea. Jacob Smith. 
 
 Win. Goodwin had one daughter, Elizabeth, who married John 
 Crow. One of the Trustees of Hopkins Academy, lately deceased, 
 was a lineal descendant of Win. Goodwin.* 
 
 TROUBLES CONCERNING THE SCHOOL PROPERTY IN 
 THE CORN MILL. 
 
 At the date of the agreement of Mr. Davenport and Mr. Goodwin, 
 April, 1664, the part of the Hopkins estate assigned to Haclley was in 
 trust with Mr. John Russell, Lieut. Samuel Smith, Andrew Bacon and 
 Peter Tilton in conjunction with Mr. Goodwin himself, who would 
 seem to have 1 had the management of matters very much in his own 
 hands. This prominence was conceded to him so long as he continued 
 to reside in Hadley. lie is spoken of as disposing of the property 
 with the consent of the other Trustees, investing a considerable share 
 
 *Deacon Rodney Smith, died February ->, 181)0. 
 
of it in a corn mill, on the mill brook a little south of the school lands. 
 There is no known record of the year in which the mill was built, nor 
 of any grant by the town for the use of the stream. A vote of the 
 town Oct. 16, IG 71, granted a house lot for the use of the miller. 
 (Town Records) . The mill may have been built that year. In 
 Philip's war the mill was garrisoned at times and was preserved until 
 Sept., 1677, when it was burned by the Indians who had made an 
 attack upon Hatfield. The miller's house, the farm barn, fences and 
 other property were likewise consumed. The committee, through lack 
 of ability and fear of the Indians, did not rebuild the mill. They 
 resigned and remitted their right to the place and remains of the dam 
 in consideration of ten pounds voted by the town Nov. 7, 1677. The 
 town likewise voted and granted to Robert Boltwood the remains of 
 the dam belonging to the mill aforesaid. He, encouraged by the 
 town, rebuilt the mill about 1678 or 1679. The committee of the 
 Grammar school obtained it in 1683, Samuel Boltwood son of Robert 
 had it in 1685 ; and it was again delivered up to the Trustees of the 
 Hopkins school in 1687 in whose possession it remained. 
 
 The school committee was not at one in respect to this surrender. 
 Mr. Russell never gave his consent. It caused him sore trouble and 
 on the 30th of March, 1680, he presented to the County Court at 
 Northampton the estate of the school and what had* been done by the 
 other Trustees, the Town and Boltwood. The Court decided that 
 this transaction of the Trustees was illegal, " we may not allow so 
 great a wrong." They judged that Goodman Boltwood should be 
 repaid what he had expended and that the mill should belong to the 
 school. (Judd, p. 58.) 
 
 ORDER OF THE SESSIONS, MARCH 30, 1680. 
 
 At a Court held at Northampton March. 30, 1680. The languishing estate 
 of the school in Hartley being presented to this Court, by the Rev. Mr. John 
 Russell, one of the committee for the said school, the Court taking the same 
 into their serious consideration and finding by the records of this Court that 
 there hath been three hundred pounds of Mr. Hopkins his estate disposed and 
 ordered to Hartley for erecting and maintaining a Grammar school there, the 
 management whereof for the school was to be by a committee appointed to 
 that end viz. The Rev. John Russell, Mr. Samuel Smith, Mr. Peter Tilton and 
 Capt. Aaron Cook, and finding in the records of the Court holden at Spring- 
 field Sept. 24, 1672 ; that by the accounts then presented to the Court and by 
 the then acknowledgement of the committee for the school, the aforesaid 
 three hundred pounds, which was disposed to Hadley, out of Mr. Hopkins 
 his estate ; was then actually in the hands of the committee, and under 
 
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 improvement there for the said school; which that Court then ordered should 
 be continued, ami improved towards the maintenance of a grammar School in 
 Hadley forever. And accounting it our great duty to use all just endeavors 
 to promote, as all schools of learning in general, so in particular, and more 
 especially, this school, that had such a foundation and fair beginning, it 
 becomes matter of inquiry of the committee, what was become of the said 
 three hundred pounds, and which way it was laid out and improved for the 
 school, who gave this answer. 
 
 That it was most of it, by Mr. Goodwin in his life time laid out upon a corn 
 mill standing upon a stream or small river about two miles or more upward 
 from the town of Hadley, which mill brought in annually a considerable 
 income to the school whilst it stood, but in the time of the Indian war, the 
 said mill and house were burnt down and ruined, whereby, the school is 
 brought into a low condition. Hereupon it being further inquired into con- 
 cerning the remains of the said mill and dam, and it appears that three of the 
 committee (for the others knew not the act of the rest till afterwards and 
 they did not consent to it) At the motion of the town of Hadley for the 
 encouragement of Robert Boltwood to rebuild the corn mill in the place where 
 it formerly stood the committee had in consideration of the promise of ten 
 pounds from the town, for the school, resigned the place and the remains of 
 the Dam to the town for that end, whereupon the remains of the Dam 
 belonging to the mill above said were by the vote of the town of Hadley 
 granted to Robert Boltwood, who built thereupon, and thereon, as the said 
 Boltwood present in Court says, he now improves the mill to his own use 
 and as his own. 
 
 This Court well considering the premises and observing several oversights, 
 and irregularities in the aforesaid proceedings, and that there i no legal 
 alienation of the mill from the school, nor may it according to right thus pass 
 from the school, for which it was first built, and to which it was settled, do 
 therefore declare that the said mill ought to revert and continue to the Gram- 
 mar School in Hadley, and the maintenance thereof; all which, although 
 forced to declare in answer to a case and query propounded, referring to the 
 school estate, that we mat/ not allow of so great a wrong, and evident preju- 
 dice to so good a publick matter, yet do it with great tenderness and respect 
 to the town of Hadley that voted ; to those of the committee that acted 
 (knowing what a day of temptation and discouragement it was done in, 
 through fear of the enemy and uncertainty of any estate) as also with respect 
 to Goodman Boltwood, and his estate, which we would not be wasted or 
 suffer in the least degree. And therefore that we may do him all the right, 
 which being true to the public interest will allow us, we judge that Robert 
 Boltwood be fully satisfied and repayed what he has now laid out or disbursed 
 upon the said mill and may be justly due to him upon that account. And this 
 being done the revenue and profits of the said mill, to be continued and 
 improved according to its native and original constitution of it, toward the 
 maintenance of the Grammar School in Hadley (which is in part a resolve of 
 the other query, or case propounded) and the income from the said mill, with 
 the rents of the land, Mr. Henry Clarke gave to this school and the farm or 
 
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 lands given by the town of Hadley with other donations ; this Court hopes 
 will after a little time set the school upon its legs again , especially if the two 
 hundred and fifty pounds that is to come to this school from Mr. Hopkins 
 estate in England can be gained. And in the meantime we advise that what 
 shall come in from the land, mill, and otherwise (till a schoolmaster be got) 
 be imployed toward payment of Goodman Boltwood, for that he hath been 
 out upon the mill and to putting of the farm, belonging to the school, under 
 away of improvement, so as to bring in a yearly rent or income for the end 
 aforesaid. Yet we see not but that something of the donations may be to a 
 school at Hadley for the present (if the committee see cause) be allowed for 
 an English school there." The soundness of this opinion was afterwards 
 called in question in that without warrant it relaxed the requirement that a 
 Grammar School must be maintained. (Records of Hopkins Academy.) Cop- 
 ied from the Record in Probate office pp. 207, 208. The same record is found 
 in the office of the Clerk of Court. 
 
 In the records of the County Court in the Probate Office at North- 
 ampton is found the following, pp. 224, 225. Sept. 26, 1682, the 
 committee rendered an account of the school estate to the County 
 Court. 
 
 REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE TO THE COURTS HELD AT 
 SPRINGFIELD, SEPT. 26, 1682 
 
 The. Committee for the Hopkins School in Hadley p r sented to the Corte a 
 Return or an accompt concerning the school which is as follows. 
 
 Whereas the Worshipful Edward Hopkins Esq. who sometyme dwelt at 
 Hartford upon Coneticot. and afterward removed to Old England where 
 finishing his course hee in Testimony of his sincere affection to the work of 
 y e Lord in forraigne partes and as an expression of his zeal to the glory of 
 God therein, bequeathed a considerable estate to be improved for ye educating 
 of youth in good Literature and intrusted the same to be disposed by the 
 Wisdom and fidelity of Theophilus Eaton Esq. Mr. John Davenport the Rev. 
 Pastor of the church at New Haven, Capt. John Cullick and Mr. W ni Goodwin 
 Sometymes of New Haven and Hartford. 
 
 Bee it known that ye sayd Mr. John Davenport and Mr. W" Goodwin did 
 as by Deede under their hand and seales Bareing date at Hadley and New 
 Haven Aprill 30, 1664 and May 30, 1664 having first made over tin- sum of 
 400 to ye Town of Hartford for the erecting and maintaining a gramer 
 school there appeares made a free donation of ;ill ye rest of ye sayd estate 
 given by sayd Edward Hopkins Esq. to be disposed as above sd, viz both y l of 
 which was in New England and alsoe 500 which was after Mrs. Hopkins her 
 decease to be sent over to the Towns of New Haven and Hadley to be equally 
 divided between ye sd Towns excepting one hundred pounds that was to be 
 payd out of that part which belonged to Hadley unto Harvard Coledge. This 
 was to be improved in each Town for ye erecting and maintaining of a Gramer 
 School and committed to the management of their assignes and their succes- 
 sors which they should from tyme to tyme Chuse for the prsuance and putting 
 in execution ye will of ye Pious and Worthy donour. The assignes first 
 nominated and appointed by Mr. Davenport and Mr. Goodwin in their original 
 
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 Deecle were ye Rev. Mr. John Russell, pastor of ye Church of X in Hadley 
 Leuft. Sam 1 Smith. Andrew Bacon and Peter Tilton, of whom Andrew Bacon 
 not excepting and Mr. Tilton delaying his acceptance until some further 
 overture had passed between Mr. Goodwin and the Town of Hadley, after- 
 wards he accepted of sd work and Aaron Cooke Jun. was Chosen by Mr. 
 Goodwin with the consent of the Rest in the Roome of the sd Andrew Bacon 
 he accepted the same March 2(5, 1669 and the school by a joynt vote and 
 agreement was called the Hopkins School. These Remayned y e Assignes or 
 Committee for ye sd Hopkins School untill y e 7 dec 1680 when Leuft Sam 1 
 Smith lyeing sick and p r ceiving his approaching end the sd Sam 1 Smith and 
 Mr. Peter Tilton the Reverend Mr. John Russell Capt Aaron Cooke chose his 
 son Leuft Phillip Smith in the Roome in sayd Trust. Hee the Sayd Phillip 
 Smith delayed his acceptance of the said Trust untill April 13, 1682 and then 
 he accepted and acted with the Rest. Likewise Mr. Peter Tilton have long 
 desired to lay down the burden of that service and being unwilling after all 
 entreaties to continue ye same on ye sd 13 Aprill 1682 he layed down the 
 said place. The Rest of the Comittee yielding thereto, he having for it 
 together with y e sd Mr. John Russell Capt. Aaron Cooke and Leuft Phillip 
 Smith made choice of Sam 1 Partrigg to succeed in the Roome of y e sd Mr. 
 Tilton on the sd 13 of Aprill 1682 the sd Sam 11 Partrigg accepted the sd service 
 and acted therein so that y e present comittee for Hopkins School in Hadley 
 are ye Rev John Russell Capt Aaron Cooke Leuft. Phillip Smith and Sam 11 
 Partrigg. 
 
 The estate of the Hopkins School prsented by the comittee was 
 
 s. d. 
 
 By Mr. Goodwins account as in the particulars thereof it appears 
 
 30801 -11 
 
 Item Given by Thomas Coleman 05 00 00 
 
 Item Given by W" Westwood 013 17 02 
 
 Item Given by Widow Barnard 002 00 00 
 
 3281901 
 
 Item Given by the Town of Hadley to the School two small meadows lyeing 
 about the mill commonly called the school meadows by estimation about 60 
 acres of meadow 
 
 Item Given by Nathaniel Ward of Hadley to y schoole one house w r ith 
 about an acre of Land and about twelve acres of meadow Land 
 
 Item Given by John Barnard twelve acres of meadow 
 
 Item Given by Mr. Henry Clarke about eleven acres and a half of meadow 
 Land 
 
 These Lands have not been brought to any particular vallueation. 
 
 Item There is by y l> sd Deed of Mr. John Davenport and Mr. W m Goodwin 
 the one half of 500 li which Mr. Hopkins by his last will ordered to be sent to 
 New England given to sd Hopkins School in Hadley the which has not yet 
 been received and we feare is never like to be. The account of Hopkins 
 School in Hadley as Mr. Goodwin gives an account of charges expended by 
 him to settle the estate 10 00 00 
 
 6 
 
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 Item loss in the price of a house and land bought by Mr. 
 
 Goodwin and allowed 25 08 00 
 
 Item building a cellar, Grain e, Chimney, and oven while the 
 
 mill was building. 3 0000 
 
 Item building a house over the mill 12 03 00 
 
 Item building a house for the miller to dwell in 43 19 03 
 
 Item building a Barne for ye tt'arine 10 00 00 
 
 Item fencing in ye farm at first 2fi 04 00 
 
 [tern fencing twice more after the war 2000 00 
 
 Item pd to clearing a debt of Mr. Hopkins which was con- 
 dition at of clearing a debt to Mr. Hopkins 17 0000 
 Item to W 1 " Markham for a rood of Land and Repair of 
 
 a Barn 0500 - 00 
 
 The Remaynder of this School Estate except House and Land was all of it 
 expended in Building a mill and Damm and repairs of the houses and in setting 
 up and maintaining the school master in y 1 ' beginning of the work principly 
 by Mr. Goodwin before the Comittee had any considerable influence in the 
 work. The mill thus erected and fitted yielded at first five or six and twenty 
 pounds per annum, afterward about twenty, which all of it that could be spared 
 from necessary repairs was improved towards the maintaining the school 
 master for ye sd drainer School until in the Indian Warr it was burnt and 
 consumed by the enemie except y c irons and some small remaynes. 
 
 These with the house and Land continue of the school estate, the farm 
 being now fenced again and the last yeare Lett out to tenants hath yielded 
 some small rent which is imployed towards the maintenance of the School 
 master. 
 
 This is the true account of y e state and estate of Hopkins School in Hadley 
 this present 25 of Sept. 1US2 
 
 JOHN RUSSELL 
 AAKON COOKK 
 
 This Corte having p 1 ' used this return or account for y e Comittee of Hopkins 
 his school in Hadley doe accept and allow thereof soe fan- as it is at present 
 and doe take notice of y c p'sent comittee for Hopkins School in Hadley 
 to be Mr John Russell Pastor to the Church of Christ in Hadley Capt. Aaron 
 Cooke Leuft Phillip Smith and Sam 11 Partrigg all of Hadley whom this Corte 
 do allow and approve of all and doe desire and expect their further manage- 
 ment and carrying on of y affairs of sd schoole from tyme to tyme which this 
 Corte will be always ready to promote and encourage as need may require.* 
 
 *XOTK. Record probate otli.-e, pp. '2-24, -225. Tho same in the ofliee of Clerk of Court. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 DOINGS COM KRNIXO THE SCHOOL, MILL, &r. FROM 
 
 1683-1688. 
 
 Aug. N, 16<S3, Robert Boltvvood agreed to surrender the mill and 
 appurtenances to the school committee" in consideration of their pay- 
 ing him 138 in grain and pork. They took possession about Nov. 
 1, 1683. 
 
 In 1684 hindrances arose. The town challenged some right in the 
 stream and land, and the committee would not consumate the bargain. 
 Robert Boltwood died in 1684. 
 
 .March 30, 168;"), John Pyuchon and John Allis heard the case of 
 Samuel Boltwood and the school committee, John Russell, Aaron 
 Cooke and Samuel Partrigg, by choice and consent of the parties, 
 respecting an agreement and bargain with Robert Boltwood made 
 Aug. 8, 1683. They decided that Samuel Boltwood should give the 
 committee a clean title to the mill and its appurtenances or else make 
 them good in the sum of 44, 13s, fxl, since to this extent was he under 
 obligation to them. ( See the originanl award in the papers with J. R. 
 Trumbull.) In consequence of this decision Mr. Judd says the mill 
 was delivered up to Samuel Boltwood about May 1, 1685. 
 
 At a new county court appointed by Andros, held at Northampton, 
 June 6, 1687. The order of the President and Council was read and 
 a petition and statement from the Trustees of the school. Samuel 
 Boltwood was summoned to appear and show cause why he detained 
 the mill. He presented a paper giving a regular account of his 
 father's building and selling the mill and of the award of Pynt'hon and 
 Allis, which put the mill into the Boltwood's hands. Referring to the 
 award, he says, "it seems rational, especially for those who profess 
 religion, to stand by what was done, or make good their bond. 
 What* is my just right I plead for and no other. " The next day the 
 court ordered those persons in Hadley, who had taken the school 
 estate into their hands for an English school to return it speedily to 
 
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 the former committee the feoffees of the Grammar school viz. Mr. 
 John Russell, Aaron Cooke, Joseph Kellogg and Samuel Porter to 
 whom they added Chileab Smith in room of Samuel Partrigg removed. 
 
 They also ordered that Samuel Boltwood should deliver up the 
 school mill and appurtenances to the same feoffees for the mainten- 
 ance of the school. If the feoffees and Boltwood could not agree the 
 matter was to be submitted to arbitrators agreed upon by the parties. 
 Judd's Hist. Hadley, pp. 61, 62. 
 
 Apr. 10, 1688. The difficulty between Samuel Boltwood and the 
 school committee as to what should be paid sd. Boltwood for his own 
 and his father's expenses on the mill, was submitted to arbitration 
 by mutual agreement and choice, to William Clarke, Esq., Joseph 
 Hawley, Esq. and Samuel Partrigg, two of these agreeing to decide. 
 If no two agreed, then Lieut. Allis was to agree and determine with 
 two of the aforesaid, and this judgment was to be approved by the 
 members of the Hon. Superior Court. The committee were John 
 Russell, Aaron Cooke, Joseph Kellogg, Chileab Smith. 
 
 Apr. 26, Wm. Clark, Joseph Hawley and John Allis signed a decision that 
 Goodman Boltwood should be alowed for what he and his father hath 
 expended in or about the mill now in the hands of the committee above 
 sd, seventy-one pouns, ten shillings ; toward which we find the committee 
 hath already paid sixty-two pounds, eleven shillings and eleven pence, 
 half-penny, so there is clue still to Goodman Boltwood 08-19-11 1-2, 
 which we order the committee to pay unto Goodman Boltwood in wheat, 
 peas and Indian and pork at equal proportions, or such other pay as 
 may be to his satisfaction, which being performed they shall give full acquit- 
 tances and discharges each to other and this to be a full and final issue 
 betwixt them of alt differences for or about the school estate. 
 
 That this is our determination we have hereunto subscribed o r names, the 
 clay and year above sd. 
 
 WILLIAM CLARKE, 
 JOSEPH HAWLEY, 
 JOHN ALLIS. 
 
 Apr. 26, 1688. Sam 11 Partrigg alsoe agreed to the above sd except only, 
 that he apprehended that there was a consciencious due to Robert Boltwood 
 or his heirs, with refference to his Building these mills in a tyme w r in he 
 exposed himself and family and the estate he layed out on the aforesaid 
 accoumpt in eminent Hazzard by reason of the Indian enemy, the war not 
 being at an end and defended principally at his own charges as alsoe the 
 Bargaining y l was made with him by the town pt. of the committee etc., 
 though now it proves illegal in law, yet something he apprehended due from 
 them that Bargained with him 
 
 SAM U PARTRIGG. 
 (Original paper with Jucld collection with J. 11. Trumbull.) 
 
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 In such wise this prolonged trouble and strife were composed and a 
 period of quiet ensued lasting many years. 
 
 The period during and following Philip's war for more than ten 
 years was full of trial and discouragement. Population diminished. 
 Values shrunk. The school revenues, especially, had suffered serious 
 loss, whose repair seemed not very hopeful. The hearts of the people 
 sunk. The school was kept up with difficulty. It was, in fact, inter- 
 mittent. It was not easy to get and keep a master competent to teach 
 the Grammar school. It was felt that in the situation, an P^nglish 
 school would answer all demands and obligations. The Court had 
 given encouragement to this sentiment. In the controversy that 
 sprung up at this time and showed much heat, the great majority were 
 on this side of the question. Mr. Russell, though his sense of right 
 and duty in the other direction was strong, found only a few to stand 
 with him. The general feeling found expression in the action of the 
 Town given herewith. 
 
 Aug. 23, 1686. Voted by the To.wn that all the estates of Houses and Lands 
 bequeathed and given by any Donor or Donours In their last will and Testa- 
 ment to this town of Hadley or to a schoole in said town, or to the promoting 
 and furtherance of learning in said town as the legacie of Nathaniel Ward, 
 John Barnard and Henry Clarke Gent, they would look on said estates and 
 donations to belong nextly to the town to be improved according to the will 
 of the testators and therefore take it into their own hands to manage order 
 and. dispose, to the use of a school in the Town of Hadley, this had a full 
 vote in the affirmative. 
 
 Voted bythe Town that Ensign Nash, Henry Barnard, Nehemiah Dickinson, 
 Thomas Hovey and Samuel Barnard are a committee from the Towne to make 
 demand of the school committee of all the produce Increase and rents of 
 lands and estates above said, and accrueing thereto which at present are in 
 their hands undisposed of. 
 
 Voted, that the Selectmen shall have full power to Sett and Lett out the 
 lands abovenamed for the use abovesaid. 
 
 Voted by the Town that Mr. Partrigg, Ensign Nash, Nehemiah Dickinson 
 and P. T. are a committee to look out for the procuring a school master, and 
 to determine, conclude and Agree with him with refference to his salary 
 according to their best discretion. Voted and granted." First Town Record 
 p. 26. A true copy compared with the original Oct. 8, 1686 By us 
 
 JOHN RUSSELL and AARON COOKK. 
 
 In such a vote Mr. Russell could by no means acquiesce. He must 
 have been deeply and strongly moved. The general feeling in the 
 town was one of strong opposition. One of the committee, a man of 
 influence and power, was the leader on that side. This was a kind of 
 proceeding under which it was not in Mr. Russell to remain quiet and 
 
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 make no protest and seek no relief. Hence he submitted the case at 
 the earliest moment to the county court held in Springfield, Sept. 28, 
 1686. The order of the Court is here given, p. 260 Probate Record* 
 
 ORDER OF THE COUNTY COURT SEPT. 28, 1686, AT THE COUNTY 
 COURT HOLDEN AT SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 The declining estate of Hopkins School in Iladley, being presented to this 
 Court by the Rev. Mr. John Russell Aaron Cook Joseph Kellogg and Samuel 
 Porter the committee of the said school for that some of Hadley, do disturb 
 or obstruct the management of the estate of said school ; therefore this Court 
 doth declare and order that the whole donations to a school there, from the 
 charitable donors, be all employed and improved, for and towards the main- 
 tenance of the Grammar School there in Hadley, it appearing that the intent 
 of Mr. Henry Clarke in what he gave to the school was, that it should go and 
 be employed to the said school, called Hopkins School, also the like doth 
 appear as to goodman Wards gift, and goodman Barnards may as well be 
 taken to and for that school as any other. 
 
 Wherefore this Court orders that all said gifts and others with the land 
 given by Hadley town be all accordingly improved by the aforesaid committee 
 And that Mr. Samuel Partridge, one of the committee who dissented from the 
 rest, ought to concur and join with them in it. We further declare that some 
 former concessions of the County Court at Northampton March 30, 1680, 
 which were suited to gain a compliance of all, and to ease some spirits, were 
 not so warily expressed, and therefore, those concessions or expressions may 
 not and are not to be understood to the disadvantage of the said school. 
 But that the mill, farm and all the donations, are notwithstanding to be 
 improved for and to the said Grammar School and not to an English disjunct 
 and separate from a grammar school. 
 
 We further advise, that the said committee, as trustees for Hopkins estate 
 do jointly improve all, for the ends aforesaid and do propose it to the town 
 of Hadley, to add something and help forward a school, which may suit and 
 answer both the committee's trust and the town's end also, of having children 
 taught to read and write. And Mr. Peter Tilton not concurring, but alledging 
 that one party, viz. the town of Hadley, were not present, (though Mr. Par- 
 tridge spoke in the Court in their behalf ; therefore further this Court orders 
 that in case the trustees of Hopkins school and the town of Hadley, do not 
 sodder or come to an agreement about said estate, and school, that then it be 
 further considered at Northampton Court. 
 
 This act, made in Court Sept. 28, and Sept. 30, 168(5 and ordered to be 
 entered. 
 
 As attest JOHN HOLYOKB Clerk. 
 
 Oct 2, 1686 extracted out of the acts of the abovesaid Court, examined and 
 compared therewith, and a true copy. 
 
 Attest JOHN HOLYOKE Clerk. 
 
 This Record is found both in the, Probate office and in the office of the Clerk of Courts 
 at Northampton . 
 
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 The following paper, sent probably at the same time with the act of 
 the Court, Sept. 28, 30, is in place here, immediately after the decree 
 of Court. 
 
 LETTER OF JOHN PYNCHON TO MR. RUSSELL. 
 
 Springfield, Oct. 2, 1(580. To the Rev d Mr. Russell p to ye Ch. in Hadley. 
 
 Rev' 1 Sir I am hartity sorry Mr Partrig is so cross in ye businesse of the 
 school and so averse as to obstruct all p'ceecling but it will be the duty of 
 the committee and nothing will be done as it ought till he be removed wh I 
 suppose Predt and council may do and sea good reason for it. Its soe hard 
 for the County Court to do any thing Mr P. being present and a justice of 
 the P. in some degree one of the Cort. And Mr. Tilton fully falling in with 
 him and is as strong and full in all his notions as Mr. P. himf , that hereby it 
 is a wonder y' any th passed it being strongly urged y l y e Cort had not to do 
 in it &c. that ye Cort might not however take cognizance unlesse y* I had 
 been sumoned. 
 
 Mr. Cl. tho, a friend in ye businesse and was almost, &c. But I am glad we 
 gott passed so mh as to recover and regain the ground lost formerly as you 
 will see by the inclosed wh. in truth Mr. P. desired Hadley might not see or 
 know at least awhile and Mr. Tilton said it would kindle such a flame yt would 
 not be quenched. But if to do right and secure public wright, kindle a 
 flame the will of the Ld. be done. And yet I beg his leading all concerned to 
 act with moderation &c. To gett the paper and order passed I was enforced 
 to declare y l if Mr. Clarke did not assent with me I would alone have it on 
 record myf . But he concurred in the order and it is the act of the Court and 
 now it is exprssed an order of the Court. 
 
 Mr. Partr affirmed the Court never ordered any th. only approved &c. The 
 latter part of it is advising Spossing the T. wd join and add someth. bee. 
 noth. also passed and the last is by way of Advice. The former is an order 
 wherein is an exprsn declaring yt all ye Comittee ought to Joyne together 
 And then if one will obstruct it is necessary and must come to it yt he be 
 removed by the Psid &c who must do this businesse we are too weak in ye 
 c Court and I am full for it to leave all with ye Presd and glad it is like to 
 be in the hands of ym who will powerfully order. 
 
 And I pray Gd ye sc may stand upon its right basis and all may run in the 
 old Channel bee * * it is right so to be however I h been Somew^hat forced 
 to yield But now I hope have gott upon even if not the higher ground and 
 bottom or standing already, lam highly ambitious of having the countenance 
 of the Prsidt in setting the sch and all matters in Statu quo with most humble 
 sarvice Yo rs most Cordiale 
 
 JOHN PYNCHON. 
 
 That Exp r sion y* ye committc to act joyntly and together was most 
 unhappily done by &c. and must be attended. 
 
 The order of the Court Sept. 28, IBS 6, is found on the same paper 
 and was probably sent to Mr. Russell with this letter. 
 
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 About this time it would seem that the offices of the President and 
 council in this business were invoked. In what sort they responded 
 can be learned from what follows. Joseph Dudley was now in the 
 office of President under a commission of King James II, and with a 
 council had jurisdiction over the King's dominion of New England. 
 Dudley held this office till Dec. 20, of this year, 1686, succeeded by 
 Sir Edmund Andros who was deposed by a vote of the people, April 
 20, 1689. This was an an arbitrary government in which the voice 
 of the people was not heard, which they disliked, and yielded to it 
 with ill grace. From Pres't Dudley Mr. Pynchon received an order. 
 What came of it is told herewith. 
 
 MAJOR PYNCHON AND COMMITTEE, S RETURN TO THE PRESI- 
 DENT AND COUNCIL IN BOSTON, 1686. 
 
 To the Honorable the President and Council in Boston. 
 
 In obdience to an order received from the Hon ble Council bearing date 
 October 21, 1686, on Thursday, November, 18, 1686 I went to Hartley and sent 
 for Capt. Aaron Cooke Sen. and Mr. Hawley. On the same day, I acquainted 
 Mr. Partrigg that I was come up, on the Councils order to examine, and make 
 report of the school affairs. Therefore, I desired a town meeting the next 
 morning that the town might depute some persons to give us an account of 
 things ; and after divers words was fain to order, that there should be a town 
 meeting at sun a quarter of an hour high. After this some hours- in the 
 night, some of the towns men came tome, and made sundry cavilling objections, 
 that they were surprised and that it was not the way to make good blood etc. 
 Next morning Capt. Cooke and Mr. Hawley came over to Hadley and having 
 waited till towards noon, some men came to us as a committee from the 
 town viz. Mr. Tilton, Mr. Partrigg with some others who objected against 
 the Councils order, in that it expressed a free school and they had no contro- 
 versy about any such school and that there was no particular complaint ; and 
 therefore they should refuse to declare aught. We told them we should 
 proceed to hear the school committee and were willing to give them opportu- 
 nity of answering. 
 
 Towards night (we waiting all this w r hile) the same committee with some 
 others, coming from the town, said that not being willing to show themselves 
 surly, they came and were willing to hear and discourse with us,' as gentle- 
 men and friends ; but not in attendance to the councils order, that they should 
 utterly refuse. 
 
 The Committee for the school, readily gave in the inclosed account of their 
 reasons, why they could not consent to the taking the estate given to Hop- 
 kins's school to any other use, and presented to us, the orders of the town, and 
 county courts, proving that the estate was by the TownaM given to Hopkins's 
 school ; to be ordered by the committee chosen by Mr. Goodwin and the town and 
 their successors forever. Neither do w r e find anything by the town presented, 
 that doth any way invalidate the reasons and plans, presented by the commit- 
 
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 tee ; notwithstanding, the town, by their act here presented have taken away 
 a great part if not all the estate. 
 
 The Towns committee after they heard what Avas presented, drew out two 
 or three long papers in a way of answer, and therein labored to prove an 
 English school was a Grammar school, therefore improving the estate, that 
 way answered the end of the donors, but they utterly refused to let us have 
 their answers or to send them to the Council ; alledging that they had no 
 power to do so. They further said : that no council nor county had anything 
 to do with the estate, but in a court of law, that it was their property, there- 
 fore at their dispose; for property and use were inseparable, they were in 
 possession and could not be ousted, but by a trial by their peers, (tho they 
 themselves, without the using any such way, or method, had taken it from 
 the committee, although they had possessed it, these twenty years.) 
 
 The committee humbly beg, they may be convinced of their error, or 
 strengthened in their work, or freed from it, and from the great complaints 
 of their acting by will not being peaceable and well wishers to the town 
 and that they may be directed what to do with respect to the mill, which the 
 County Court ordered to return to the school, and how they should act in 
 regard of that clause of their commission, that saith, that they should act 
 jointly and together. Mr. Partrigg, one of the committee, acting against 
 them. We humbly propose whether the clause, jointly and together, may 
 not refer, only to the committee that was chosen partly by Mr. Goodwin and 
 partly by the Town, and not to any successors, which are otherwise chosen 
 also whether it be not necessary to remove Mr. Partrigg from being one of 
 the committee, he being so strongly against the estates being improved for a 
 Grammar School ; which is sufficient to maintain one, with a little addition 
 from the town. Also whether it be not necessary, speedily to order, the 
 return of the estate again, into the hands of the school committee. 
 
 We should have sent your Honors copies of the settlement of the estate 
 upon Hopkins, s School, but that we understand by Mr. Russell, they are 
 already with the President. 
 
 Humbly requesting that some speedy course may be taken by an act from 
 the council, for the quieting of the hot and raised Spirits of the people in the 
 town ; and setting of this on its right basis, we subscribe ourselves 
 Your Honors, most humble Servants 
 
 JOHN PYNCHON 
 AARON COOKE 
 JOSEPH HAWLEY 
 
 Nov. 19, K)8(5. Voted by the Towne that Mr. Partrigg and Ensign Nash 
 and P. T. shall be sent to the gentlemen whom the President and Council 
 have ordered to appeare and examine some applications made to themselves 
 by some of Hadley, respecting a free school, to signify to said gentlemen 
 that the Town think themselves not concerned in said order, there being no 
 difference about any suoh thing as a tt'ree schoole, there being no such schoole 
 among us. Voted by the town, nevertheless, that Mr. Partrigg, Ensign 
 Nash, Nehemiah Dickinson, Daniell Marsh, Tho. Hovey and P. T. be a com- 
 mittee from themselves to treat with said gentlemen or to give Answer to 
 
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 what may be Aledged in a difference betweene some of the comittee for our 
 Towne schoole and themselves that so, if possible, there may be an Amicable 
 compliance. 
 
 The Reasons of the School Committee which were given in to the 
 Committee and by them sent to the Council. 
 
 WRITTEN BY MR. RUSSELL. 
 
 We cannot consent to the taking the estate belonging to Hopkins, s School 
 in Hadley, from the said school, and putting it to any other use: because to 
 us, this is 1 st . Against the gift to the good work, therefore not right 2 11 ' 1 
 Against our trust, therefore not faithfulness 3 rd Trust committed to us by 
 solemn and solemnly ratified covenant therefore against truth and truth that 
 that we are betrusted with the execution of. 4 th against the will of the deceased 
 therefore not according to the principles of humanity and piety 5 th Against 
 the law of not removing ancient landmarks, therefore brings the curse <V h 
 Against the Lord in His right, therefore Sacrilege 7 th Against authority, 
 managed by disowning, denying, opposing and misleading, (that we say not 
 seducing) others thereto, therefore against the ordinance of God, against 
 peace therefore against holiness &c. against the welfare of the town for the 
 present and the future, in all generations therefore unkindness to them and 
 their publick good, against the rule of prudence, exposing us to sin and folly 
 as well as the hazard of our estates, thus we say it is to us. If any can show 
 us that we err herein, we shall we trust willingly attend to, and led by better 
 light than our own, but till then, we look on what is done, as the taking away 
 all the school estate, and overthrow of that work. 
 
 These seven heads of argument are elaborated at much length with 
 abundant appeal to scripture and no little iteration. The fifth head 
 is argued as follows : 
 
 " 5 th Against the law of land marks, Deut. 27 : 17, Cursed be he that re- 
 moveth his neighbors land mark." These land marks between God, and the 
 town and all others, were set in the lot March 20 th and 26 th 1668-9 by Mr. 
 Goodwin for himself and Mr. Hopkins ; and by the Town and by the Court 
 March 30 th and by the Committee. Now for any of these parties to alter these 
 land marks, without the consent of all the rest, is against the law and against 
 right. Mr. Goodwin doth not consent, the committee consent not, the Court 
 consent not, and if all these, who shall consent for God? This is also done 
 without any trial by law, even by those who say, they can be touched in no 
 other way. Shall w r e remove land marks becaitse men, or a Town will be 
 angry if we do not? If it be objected that the estate taken by the Town and 
 which we are required to surrender was given to a school, not to Hopkins, s 
 therefore no wrong. The answer is 
 
 The Town hath given it to Hopkins, s School forever; upon serious consid- 
 eration ; by a solemn covenant with Mr. Goodwin ; ordered it to be enrolled 
 in the Court, the Court have added their sanction to it; the Court, the Town 
 and Mr. Goodwin, have betrusted the execution of this covenant with the 
 Committee and they have undertaken it. Who shall now warrant the execu- 
 tion of tliis covenant (tho' an error) with God and His property. 
 
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 That act especially of pious and publick minded men. which is capable of M 
 double interpretation a better or worse. Charity and piety binds us (leaves us 
 not at liberty) to interpret in the best manner. 
 
 If a pious man gives to a school; and there is not one word to distinguish 
 what school ; piety and Charity bind to refer it to the best its capable of ; 
 else I wrong the good man, and do not him the right which a rule and Charity 
 call for. Here is not such a mere evenness for charity to cast the balance? 
 but there are casting circumstances added to the rule of piety, and charity in 
 general viz. 1 st here was a school promoting, set on foot, and making by his 
 friend, that was as his own soul, where shall we think a man meant to act in 
 such a work ; but where a beginning was and with such a friend. 
 
 2 ud The School spoken of by John Barnard was not at the making of His 
 will ; but expected to be at his wife's decease or soon after, and to this it was 
 given ; this was Hopkins, s School. 
 
 3 rd . The Town, the then town, and the Court judged this the school and put 
 it into the committee's hands, to be by them ordered forever, and there it hath 
 been now about twenty years. 
 
 What reason now to deny or question the school's right? or what other con 
 have more or equal right? It's known that goodman Ward and Mr. Clarke's 
 donations were intended to a Grammar School, with Mr. Hopkins's donations. 
 
 4 th If the Town keep the property and use, they give nothing and if use and 
 property are inseparable, then the school having the use, have also the prop- 
 erty, or nothing. If you say the property and use is theirs (the Town's) and 
 they have given neither use nor property it's a poor gift." 
 
 The seventh head is argued thus : 
 
 " 7 th It is against authority. The ordinance of God, Rom. 1.3 : 18. 1 st . 
 Against the law I. 8. a most good and wholesome law, and according to God. 
 2 ud Against the County Courts order formerly. 3 rd Against the new order 
 when they have again considered and reviewed it. 4"' Against the President's 
 letter, for you put the committee upon tfcat, that not only yourselves have 
 regulated the contrary, but you know it's against the laAv, against that, that is 
 done by law. All the authority in the country demands one thing you com- 
 mand the contrary and commanding the contrary, say there is no law against 
 it, no Court, s act about it. 
 
 When this comes into a publick Town meeting, some question the order, 
 some deny it, others lead to the denying it, who must we obey now? . God or 
 man? all the authority in the country, or you? Should we now do this thing 
 we must say as you, no law, no act, or else, th.o there be, we will not, need 
 not attend it. If no obedience to authority, how can there be any peace or 
 order? or any man have his own? if men will take without law, against law. 
 against Courts, and teach others so to do. and set towns in a flame? Was 
 then one word spoken by you, for the asserting and maintaining authority, 
 when it Spoke, so as it can no plainer or louder, in such cases, by the ofticer 
 at Clarke, s arrest and this by justice of the Peace, to act that, that is not 
 justice nor prudence, and teach and lead others so to do. 
 
 Should not we be seditious, if we should do so? and make others so. It is 
 against the Town, not only as rushing them on alt these 1 rocks of sin and sorrow 
 
or punishment compelling them to break the hedge, that so the serpent may 
 bite them whereby all the sin and blame of the town would be ours ; but is also 
 against the Town profit for there is no such way of ease, and cheapness to 
 keep a school, as this, and the great advantage of some poor men to bring up 
 their sons to learning ; as we see in Bro. Barnard, s which may be much to the 
 glory of God, and their profit. 
 
 We should count it sinful and simple for us tu do these things and hazard 
 our estates, should we do it and when called to account for promoting the 
 estate answer? the Town were angry, or would have us do it would that 
 excuse or secure us? Simple it is because sinful, and also because if we, and 
 every one in the Town, should have joined with you we could not but have 
 added to your sin ; but have been no help. 
 
 Ques. If the question be how doth it appear that the estate of 'goodman 
 Ward and goodman Barnard is the Grammar School or Hopkins, s School 
 seeing the testators, in their wills, name not Hopkins, s School or a Grammar 
 School, and the town hath nowhere given it to Hopkins, s or a Grammar 
 School; or if given it not given it forever as appears by their act. 
 
 Ans. As to goodman Ward I know his expressed mind was, to join it with 
 Mr. Hopkins, s estate And goodman Barnard, given to a school if any one in 
 Hadley, at his wife.s decease. When he died there was an English school; 
 but that was accounted none ; or none as to his will an end ; but it must be 
 some higher; and the highest one that came before his wife's death, was this 
 Grammar one, Hopkins, s School; to which it was then due as an inheritance 
 by will ; and is not now to be pluckt from this true heir, to be given to another 
 born about twenty years after, of another kindred and inferior rank to the 
 causeless ' prejudice of this. Goodman Barnard, s heart, was one with Mr. 
 Hopkins. His will saith, if a school in Hadley, at his wife.s death (having 
 been much spoken of before, by Mr. Hopkins, s estate) then his estate is to 
 that school, but this Hopkins, s School, was in Hadley at her decease (and no 
 other but that he accounts none) . 
 
 But secondly. If the will of the donors have not determinately fixed it to 
 what school, then what doth reason Speak? There is somewhat given to a 
 school in a town and not fixed to what school, is the voice of reason now, and 
 the publick good, that it should be an higher school or an inferior one? to one 
 that is in the place, when the will saith it shall become due ; or to one that is 
 not of twenty years after; and we know not whether ever will be settled. Is 
 it to that which this man,s friend set up, with whom his heart was, or to 
 another, of which he never heard, and quite opposite to the mind and heart 
 of his friend? Religion and Charity, require one to interpret in the best part 
 I may. If it was not fixed by the donors, nor the voice of reason and the 
 publick good, and union of men,s hearts in friendship not the right of being 
 the first born, do settle it to a Grammar School, not the having the first 
 orderly possession of it, yet the town hath given it to and settled it on Hop- 
 kins, s Grammar School, forever. This appears by their act March 26, 1669 
 and by their consequent practice which we evidence by these. 
 
 1 st . It is evident by the whole frame of the town act, as well as by testi- 
 mony, that the very device, and good work aimed at, was the conjoining of 
 estates for a Grammar School in Hadley. 
 
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 This was what Mr. Goodwin was betrnsted with, had on his heart and 
 expressed to the town ; with this the town joined giving to it choosing com- 
 mittees and ordering the way of managing it. 
 
 2 ndl - v . It is evident that in this good device devised by Mi*. Goodwin and 
 the town, the estate devised and given to carry on this good work was all the 
 estate which Mr. Goodwin had given of Mr. Hopkins, s his donations or that 
 should be given, or was to come after her decease viz. two hundred and fifty 
 pounds, this was the estate on Mr. Goodwin, s part, And on the town,s part, 
 it was the school meadows they had given, and any other gifts by any other 
 donors that had been or should be given. The thing devised or the end of 
 the device was that these estates all of them should be to the school. 
 
 grdiy it j s evident, that the device and End of these agents, was the unit- 
 ing to pursue the very end and same work of Mr. Hopkins and his trustees. 
 This is first and last Expressed as the end of all this device and conjunction. 
 Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Goodwin, s device was a Grammar School forever in 
 Hadley. This plain end of the donors, they make their own ; and in express 
 words say again and again their device is to satisfy and carry on and perfect 
 that device. 
 
 4.thi y -phe device or end of this good work was, that the managing this 
 estate, and the care and ordering of this whole concern ; should be in the 
 hands of the Committee, by them chosen. 
 
 The Town and Mr. Goodwin, devised and ordered, that these should man- 
 age the work. 
 
 This is their commitiee Mr. Goodwin and the town do it by them. They 
 devise to carry on this work, which is to be forever by this committee. To 
 choose a committee, with power to choose successors for this end. This end 
 was the Grammar School perpetually or forever ; when it is said, if any de- 
 cease, the surviving ones shall have the sole power of choosing others and 
 all this for a perpetual settlement. 
 
 All these estates are, by Mr. Goodwin and the Town, put into the hands of 
 the Committee, for prosecuting Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Goodwins end perpet- 
 ually or forever. 
 
 5 th1 ^. It is evident, the device was, that all the parts of this estate, were 
 alike fastened, and made sure to this work. 
 
 1 st . All were conjoined with Mr. Hopkins his estate, and Mr. Goodwin, s 
 donations 
 
 And 2 nd All was in the hands of a Committee by succession ; and solely in 
 their hands and choice. 
 
 3 rd This was for perpetuating a perpetual settlement 
 
 6 thl y. It is beyond question, this was the device, as appears by their prac- 
 tice. It is so put into the hands of the committee as this order impowers and 
 appoints, so hereby the committee take and improve for this school, on these 
 terms, as a perpetual settlement so it hath been improved the biggest part of 
 twenty years. It is understood by the Court, so presented to them so they 
 call for ; and hear accounts of it, and ratify the same and now must we hear, 
 that it is nor so? 
 
 ythiy AH ^is is to Hopkin,s School. And now after all this acting and 
 possession, and improvement, must we hear that it is not the School, s? or not 
 
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 the Grammar School, s? or not forever? Sure we must needs say, that "we 
 have heard a language that we understand not, hence altho it be not in such 
 words, as some would have said, in some of these men,s wills "we 
 give it to a Grammar or Hopkins, s School : nor by the Town, we give the estate 
 of Nathaniel Ward &c. to a Grammar School in Hadley forever." Yet it is 
 said in words that are equivalent they are all given, by the testators to a 
 School in Hadley. No other School (Except some by women) hath ever been 
 settled in Hadley. The Town and the court have understood this, the School 
 and both of them, put this estate, and all the parts of it, into the hands of 
 this successive committee for a perpetual settlement. 
 
 What shall now warrant the taking this from the same? The Court also 
 calls for the Committee, s attending the management of all this estate, for 
 Hopkins School. This we understand to be their regulating of it." 
 
 More follows to the same effect chiefly in the way of recapitulation. 
 The paper unabridged is found in the Book of Records of Hopkins 
 Academy. 
 
 Here may be introduced Mr. Partrigg's Reasons, drawn up at this 
 time and perhaps offered at the hearing beforenamed. 
 
 MR, PARTRIGG'S REASONS. 
 
 Reasons of my dissent from the Committee in their tyeing up the School 
 Estate (Hadley, s right) to a Grammar School only; viz. 
 
 1 st . Because the school estate in all the parts of it, is the town of Hadley. s 
 right and property. 
 
 The first part I shall speak to is, that given out of' "Mr. Hopkins, s estate on 
 Court Record, Folio 105, 1st Book. 
 
 The Honor d Court sitting March 30th. li!(> ( . have entered upon record their 
 favorable acceptation and approving such work as the promoting learning, 
 and thus they enter the deed, which the Trustees to Mr. Hopkins, s estate 
 made for the disposure of said estate, such and so much to be equally divided 
 to each; viz. New Haven, Hadley; and to be disposed and managed in each 
 town to a Grammar School etc. and appointed and impowered committees to 
 act upon it as they shall see meet, or as ourselves might do etc. They have 
 also the Court, s Sanction; this in the deed. 
 
 When Hadley Committee come to act, as by agreement entered upon record 
 1st, they explain their meaning in the deed aforenamed, that said estate is a 
 gift to Hadley. See their agreement p. 107 of that aforesaid book of record. 
 In page 141 in said record tire said estate is declared, as the Court, s sense, to 
 be to the Town of Hadley two or three times over. 
 
 2<Jiy. The town of Hadley act upon it. either as having aright aforesaid, or 
 being intrusted, all the aforesaid shows rather, that they acted upon their 
 right; as also they improve part of the Committee (by their choice) and said 
 Committee receive and make discharges to as to said estate which the Court 
 confirms. See p. 141. 
 
 3rdi y The Town act accompting said estate their own right; and there- 
 fore add some of their own estate to the completing of their design; which, 
 
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 doubtless, they would not, nor could not, in prudence have done, had they no 
 right, and disposnre as aforesaid. See the lands and payments they made 
 following. 
 
 2 ud . Ft. of School estate, is those meadows given by the town to said use 
 of a Grammar School, is the town,s right for the ends aforesaid; because it is 
 not liable to be carried out of said town, it is to be improved in the town for 
 a school. 2'" 1 Town grants or appointments of any estate to their own use 
 must be considered as they are ; which seems to be no otherwise than a living 
 man,s will; subject to alteration, especially the grant being made to no other 
 use or right but their own. See their Grant folio 107 of said record. 
 
 3 rd Ft. Nathaniel Ward,s grant of estate (in his last will) to learning in 
 Hadley is Hadle} r ,s right, because the words in his will on the aforesaid record 
 folio 39 are (I give to the town of Hadley after my wife,s etc. for a school 
 etc.) his will being an approved will, according to the law of this jurisdiction ; 
 and the words positive makes it a firm right. A condition there is, but it no 
 ways weakens but strengthens the right; the debt to Mr. Hopkins, s estate 
 being satisfied and issued. 
 
 4 th . Ft. Goodman Barnard, s gift (in this last will) to learning in Hadley, 
 is Hadley, s right, which is in these words (in his will on record folio 37) to 
 the use and towards the maintaining a school, and further explains his w r ords 
 and also that land I give to the school in Hadley ; but if not a school in Had- 
 ley at my wife,s decease, then to four poor men in Hadley, till a school is set 
 up. It is true the words are dark in the grant giving it to a school and not 
 mentioning what school, but in the latter clause ties it to a school in Hadley, 
 if a school is set up, or to four poor men. So that it is clear the intent and 
 meaning of his will is giving it to Hadley in case they set up a school. 
 
 5 th Ft. Widow Barnard, s grant, on her will is Hadley, s right. The grant 
 is in these words ; I do also give to the use and furtherance of learning in 
 this town of Hadley 4. Here, no doubt, but the intent was to the town for 
 that end and no other they having the dispose of those concerns within 
 themselves. 
 
 th . Ft. Mr. Henry Clarke, Gentleman, his grant for his part of his estate 
 to learning or otherwise, is Hadley, s right, and it is declared in these words 
 in his will, folio 165. I give my nine acre lot in Hockanum and two acres 
 and an half of my lot in forlorn etc. to the town of Hadley, and upon condi- 
 tions etc. it is to Hopkins, s School. These conditions are; if the committee 
 meet with no disturbance: but in case they do, then he doubles his grant to 
 the town ; saying then it shall be improved for the good of the town, and thus 
 the trustees are bound though there is a respect to Hopkins, s School; but in 
 case that be not promoted, or flourish not, then; once and again lie says it 
 shall be to Hadley town, and it seems there was engagement to it by Mr. 
 Clarke. And would Hadley in reason have laid out so much as they have 
 besides their land aforesaid added from time to time had it not been their 
 own concern? viz. 
 
 When Mr. Watson was school-master 20 per annum for three years 60. 
 To Mr. Younglove for seven years an addition upon scholars, about 
 
 10 yearly 70 
 
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 Towards building the mill at 50 
 
 To Mr. Russell two years at least 10 per annum 20 
 
 More helping at mill several times at 10 
 
 210 
 
 In answer to this that said estate was tied to a Grammar school and com- 
 mitted to the School Committee for that end. It is true Mr. Hopkins, s estate, 
 by them that gave the deed to Hadley was so tied ; but it is questionable whether 
 the first donor did so tie it ; and as to this estate bound to be improved as 
 aforesaid it seems to be spent and by Providence lost viz. This estate, at 
 first delivered to Hadley by Mr. Goodwin, was in specie as followeth. 
 Imprimis in a house sold them which Mr. Watson had accompted for and work 
 done for himself at 113-9-7 
 
 In a mill built and work about it and the mill house besides the 
 
 50 the town allowed 175-0-0 
 
 In fencing at 26-4-0 
 
 Goodman Coleman Leger 
 Wid. Barnard Leger 
 Mr. Westwood Leger 
 
 336-13-7 
 PER CONTRA 
 
 Said House and work alienated to Mr. Watson 113-9-7 
 The mill and all work about it some of it lost and sold to the Town 
 
 except 15 in Irons and Stones 160 
 
 The aforesaid allowance by the town at 210 
 
 seven years rent of the school land at 20 a year 140 
 
 School land rent, since for 3 years besides rents of the mill at 10 30 
 
 653-9-7 
 
 By the aforesaid account it appears that Mr. Hopkins, s estate and all others 
 that gave moveable estate, as to the specie of it, is wholly spent and lost and 
 almost double the money with it; which the town and the town,s land hath 
 allowed to that use. 
 
 And name the thing within the limits of Hadley that can be called Mr. 
 Hopkins, s Estate, and hath and doth bring in an income to said school or to 
 Hadley ; except the rents of the mill, which being lost and spent as aforesaid 
 and I make no mention of it in the aforesaid account. As also 15 which 
 is yet due from the mill, for the old irons and stone, which if it be or be not 
 the town,s right, it is by them dearly bought, being but .15 for 50 they laid 
 out upon said mill. But if it be said there is 44 due from the mill and it is 
 an intermixed estate the aforesaid 50 will balance, if not, let the balance of 
 the abovesaid accompt; viz. 316 16 do it. So that the remaining estate 
 that brings in any income towards schooling, is the town,s land and those 
 lands in Hadley given by the aforesaid donors. 
 
 Hereupon the town have applied themselves to the Committee of the School, 
 to improve the estate, viz. the income of it, to English schooling, till said 
 
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 estate, or the town be in a capacity to obtain and procure higher learning. 
 And the Committee all but myself, refuse; and as to myself I would have 
 yielded for reasons following. 
 
 R. 1 st . Our Pastor lays it down from that 9 Heb. 1C, 17 There is no alter- 
 ation the testator being dead, And the donors of Hopkins, s Estate tyeing his 
 estate up to a Grammar School ; and therefore it must be improved to no other 
 school, to this I answer and make use of it as a reason aforesaid. Mr. Hop- 
 kins, s Estate and the estate of those other donors that gave moveable estate 
 is spent and lost as in the abovesaid accompt. And consider all sums more 
 of other estate and when the thing given is wholly gone, the conditions as to 
 the using of it is also gone and of no strength, there being nothing to use. 
 
 R. 2 nd . As to Goodman Ward,s, Goodman Barnard, s and his wife,s Mr. 
 Clarke, s donations aforementioned, no one of them is absolutely tied to a 
 Grammar School ; but to learning, or a school in general. And therefore if 
 the using the Estate be to an English school that is tied to a Grammar School 
 is a breach of the same rule. The tye to a Grammar School was only in Mr. 
 Hopkins, s estate by the donor which is ended with the estate; and the estate 
 given by the aforesaid donors under no such tye. See my aforesaid recital 
 of their grants 
 
 It is pleaded yet further, that the town have passed over their own land, 
 and all these donations to a Grammar School and to the use of the Committee 
 in succession forever. To this I answer (as a reason also) 
 
 1 st . if the town have done so, by the aforesaid argument taken from 9 Heb. 
 16, 17 they sinned in it because the donations are not given to a Grammar 
 School. But whether it be a sin or not, I hope the repentance which seems 
 to be evident may be accepted and the estate set at liberty, according to the 
 will of the donator and the earnest desire of the Town. But here see what 
 the town have done as to their donations and their own land, in passing them 
 over to a Grammar School as is pleaded. 
 
 In January 14, 1(566 the town did grant the school meadow r s to a Grammar 
 School, as an addition to Mr. Hopkins, s estate for the ends aforesaid; but 
 inasmuch as Mr. Hopkins, s estate is gone, and there is no estate left but 
 these lands and the lands the aforesaid donors gave, the town may have rea- 
 son to alter their order, and if they do I know not any sin in it in as much as 
 it is their ow r n concern. 
 
 The Town of Hadley never gave away their School land so as it can be 
 commanded away from a School or learning in Hadley. And if a Grammar 
 School that they first order cannot be obtained according to their judgment; 
 they may put it to any other learning ; viz. an English School and this is plain 
 from the words in this grant, that they have put it into the Committees hands 
 for the use of the School aforesaid or learning ; therefore if the Committee 
 do not keep up a Grammar or other School for learning the town may have 
 just cause to regulate the business to such learning as can be obtained, which 
 is all the town have desired, that if we cannot have a grammar with the 
 income of the estate, let us have such schooling as it will obtain. 
 
 2 nd And as to the other lands, it seems by the order to be tied to a Gram- 
 mar School neither by the donators nor the town ; for the town say they pass 
 
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 over all gifts and grants that shall be given from time to time to the use of 
 the school aforesaid. These donations were not so given 
 
 Further the order says or learning for and in the town of Hartley and if it 
 be for and in the town of Hartley, then it is nor given from themselves I know 
 no more binding in a town or for concerns of the town, when the propriety 
 is given to no particular in the town, nor no other, but to the use of the 
 town, but said orders may be and are usually, altered according to the order 
 of the town, as well as any particular person may alter his design, and no 
 account to be given. Especially when the alteration is very small, if any 
 thing from the order; viz. they having reserved for learning; to improve it 
 so if need be; and as to passing it to the Committee successively, it is not 
 their propriety thereby but for the ends and use aforesaid, in which if they 
 fail the town and no other may call them to accompt for it. Especially when 
 Mr. Hopkins, s estate which called for a mutual choice of a Committee by the 
 Town and his Trustees : that part is gone ; and that only left upon which the 
 town instructed their part ( of the Committee; and when by their order there 
 can be nothing acted but by both parts of the Committee jointly and together 
 and to the number of five persons so and so qualified &c. which is three or 
 four times mentioned. And if said Committee do nor act according to the 
 mind of the town for learning, or jointly again, the town may lawfully take 
 care, and give further orders about it. Especially when they answer the law r 
 of the Commonweath in Grammar or English Schooling, their families being 
 but about fifty 
 
 R. 4 th This reason is from the former State of the town considered with 
 their present State since which order was made between thirty or forty able 
 householders (to promote^ learning in the highest degrees here mentioned) 
 are now in their graves and the greater part of their survivors in a poor con- 
 dition to do anything towards a school : and nigh one third of the lands in 
 the town in tenants hands which take little care to promote such designs, as 
 also the greatest part of the children, such poor men,s, that cannot pay any- 
 thing towards schooling the children ; much less bring them up to Grammar 
 learning, so that there is not one that I Know of now that pretend to Gram- 
 mar learning except two that are brought up at their parents particular 
 charges ; the school having been so uncertain as is we Know, Grammar School 
 masters so hard to settle, that as soon as ever one is settled, one place or 
 other calls them off, and so it hath been ever since the first, except with Mr. 
 Watson who I understand went away upon some difference betwixt him and 
 our pastor 
 
 That we have been in clanger several times to be presented for want of a 
 school, notwithstanding the great provisions that hath been laid in upon that 
 accompt in Hartley as aforesaid. 
 
 And now the town only desire to use their own estate, in the vacancy of a 
 Grammar School, for an English, as I suppose their order will bear them out 
 in it, as aforesaid. It is now twenty years it hath been improved, I do not 
 desire to reflect upon the success it is so well known. But the improvement 
 of the school estate upon English learning by a grammar school master, and 
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 be viz. English learning or writing. But this, he that can teach grammar, is 
 surely better fitted to teach English, than lie that hath no grammar in him. 
 But the ground of all this is : if no grammar, such poor help as we have, 
 when better cannot be obtained; that we have not half years and whole years 
 vacancies, under pretence of grammar schooling; and so schooling fail in a 
 great measure. For I suppose it will be granted that the learning of any 
 trade or science, is best insinuated by constancy in attendance to it. 
 
 If we cannot have polishers for the stone let the ruff hewers set to it, to 
 prepare while polishers come. 
 
 A letter was written concerning these matters by Governor Dudley 
 to Mr. Russell, without date, but it must have been sometime between 
 May 27th and Dec. 26th, 1686, as follows : 
 
 GOVERNOR DUDLEY'S LETTER TO MR. RUSSELL. 
 
 RKv d SIR 
 
 I lately received your very solicitous letter referring to your free 
 school in Hadley ; and am very sorry that, while your inclination and opinion 
 is so good and well rendered, yon should seem to stand like Athanasius, con- 
 tra totum munclum. But right is too strong to suffer any force or compul- 
 sion long ; but it will break loose and prevail. In the meantime I am deeply 
 sorry that, the pious and charitable device of Mr. Hopkins should be in any 
 manner perverted or allayed, or the occasion of a difference or misunderstand- 
 ing in that good place. 
 
 My opinion such as it is I am willing to offer you, and as willing that you 
 communicate to those who may either value it, or to whom it may be a serv- 
 ice. However yon need not in this matter care upon the reputation of any 
 person; but upon known maxims in law and valid cases which I presume, no 
 good man with you will be so hardy as to oppose. However I am sure such 
 can harm none but themselves. Those rules that occur without the turning 
 to authors for the very words are such as these : the words of a deed are the 
 deed ; but the intent of a will is a will. And the true intent and meaning of 
 the donor, in every device, is carefully to be required by the ordinary and 
 pursued by the executor. That devices and bequests to pious uses are, of all 
 others most sacred, and to be pursued and advanced by persons entrusted ; 
 and in no case or manner to be slipt or narrowed but to be extended and 
 enlarged both for serviceableness and manner of improvement, as far as the 
 good and sound construction of the will, will in any way bear. 
 
 That executors or Trustees being thereto impowered making their declara- 
 tion and particular designation to a device at large to pious uses, is to be 
 holden good; and being once done and reasonably determined is not by them- 
 selves to be altered. 
 
 That all such trustees and managers of estates bequeathed to pious uses, 
 are from time to time accountable to the ordinary or their superior : (in whose 
 room our County Courts have always stood) and in case of breach or devia- 
 tion are to be regulated and restored into the right way. That whatever such 
 trustees shall do contrary to law, to embezzle the estate, lower the profits, 
 divert the use, or in any case whatever part with the freehold, whence the 
 
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 maintenance of the pious use should arise, and upon which it is now legally 
 settled, 'tis of itself perfectly void and of none effect. And they themselves 
 for such breaches are liable to censure for their reformation ; and finally for 
 a removal; and other meet persons betrusted, who shall more faithfully man- 
 age the same. That when gifts to publick uses are originally impracticable 
 and afterwards useless or unprofitable in the place from the manner of the 
 donation, they shall now neither be diverted to any more private or less prof- 
 itable use; but to more publick and greater; and that often by the authority 
 of the King and Parliament. That gifts and grants of particular persons or 
 Committees to any publick pious use, when the grant is duly and effectually 
 made in law, cannot by any means by themselves be ever revoked, but will 
 abide and remain in all respects effectual ; and are thenceforward become a 
 publick estate, liable to all the rules and methods of management accordingly. 
 
 From all that is above : I am of opinion that the trustees of Mr. Hopkins, s 
 Estate, have descended to the lowest and most restrained exposition of the 
 bequest, of the most pious and charitable donors in assigning the same to a 
 free Latin School ; and have conveyed it as far up the river as could modestly 
 be desired when they brought it to Hadley. 
 
 And what they have done therein and the town have added in disposing it 
 into lands streams and mills can by no legal methods ever be altered. And 
 that therefore the order of the County Courts, in all points is good and just 
 and of authority ; save in the last little hanck thereof viz. in the meantime to 
 be improved &c. which I am of opinion saving always a great deference to 
 the gentlemen of that Court, was an inconvenient as well as illegal conces- 
 sion, devised to have given a present easure to your earnest people, which 
 therefore hath the usual effect and issue of such method, to put forward the 
 irregular desire of the less thinking people to obtain their impetuous resolve 
 th'o thereby to the after destruction of the gifts and which without any 
 threatening, will end in the perfect removal of its improvement in your town : 
 And perhaps bring it here to this College, or some less profitable foundation : 
 all which I pray God to prevent for the honor of the Donors, Trustees, Town 
 of Hadley and the good and sound profession of the true religion. 
 
 If anything in this hasty paper may be of service to your good people, I 
 shall be glad. If any rest not in it, at your next desire, I may further pro- 
 ceed to communicate the matter to the Council while out of true respect to 
 your good neighbors, and unwillingness to discover their present ill humor I 
 have foreborne. I humbly ask your prayers and blessings and am Sir 
 
 Your faithful servant, 
 
 J. DUDLEY. 
 Original in Judd papers with J. R. Trumbull. 
 
 PRESIDENT AND COUNCILS ORDER DECEMBER 8, 168fi. 
 By the Honorable, the President and Council of His Majesty, s Territory 
 and Dominion of New England, in America. Upon the perusal of the return 
 made by Major Pynchon and the Committee for Hadley School. The Presi- 
 dent and Council do order that the Committee for the Hopkins, s school, be 
 and remain the Feoffees of the Grammar School in said town. And that Mr. 
 
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 Partrigg be and is hereby dismissed from any further service in that matter. 
 And that the said Committee make report of present Estate of said Mr. Hop- 
 kins^ and other Donations to the school (which having been orderly annexed 
 to the Grammar School and hereby continued to that) unto the next County 
 Court of Hampshire; who are hereby impowered, to supply the place of Mr. 
 Partrigg, with some meet person, in Hadley, and that the said Court do find 
 out, and order some method for the payment of Boltwood,s expenses upon the 
 mill ; that the the mill, Farm and other land given to the school may return to 
 that publick use. The President and Council, hereby declaring it to be beyond 
 the power of the Town of Hadley, or any other, to divide any of the lands or 
 estates or the said mills, streams or privileges thereof (which are legally 
 determined to this said Grammar school) to any other use whatsoever. 
 
 The President and Council judging the particular gifts in that Town a good 
 foundation for a Grammar School both for themselves and the whole Coun- 
 try.* And that the Grammar School can'be no otherwise interpreted, but to be 
 a school h olden by a master capable to instruct children, and lit them for 
 the university. 
 
 Council House Boston, December 8, 1686. 
 
 By order EDWARD RANDOLPH, Secretary. 
 
 This is a true copy of the order of Council, sent me by Mr. Randolph, taken 
 out of the original, which is to lodge with myself, till the County Court and 
 then to be there presented. 
 
 Attest, JOHN PYNCHON. 
 
 Found in the records of Hopkins Academy. 
 
 This order of the President and Council moved the school commit- 
 tee to make report to the next County Court in Hampshire. The 
 doings of the court are found in the paper that follows. 
 
 ORDER OF THE SESSIONS JUNE 8, 1687. 
 
 The Honorable the President and the Council by their order of December 
 8, 1686, having taken cognizance of the estate of the Grammar School in 
 Hadley, called Hopkins, s School; ordering that the Committee for the said 
 Hopkins, s School to be and remain the feoffees of the Grammar Scool in 
 said town ; except Mr. Partrigg, whom they dismissed from that service ; and 
 ordered the next County Court in Hampshire, to take care for supplying the 
 place of Mr. Partrigg, with some other meet person, referring the case of 
 the School and particularly the Committee to make report of the estate of 
 Mr. Hopkins and other donations thereto, to the next Court in Hampshire 
 which the said Committee have now accordingly done. And the Honorable 
 the President and Council, declaring the Donations to have been orderly 
 annexed to the Grammar School in Hadley, and that they are to be continued 
 to that service. And having ordered the said Court to find out, and order 
 some method for, the payment of Boltwoood,s expenses, upon the mill, that 
 the mill with the Farm and other lands given to the school, may return to 
 that publick use. 
 
 *It is in question whether, in the original of which this is a copy, the word was country 
 or county. 
 
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 The premises considered, and the committee of the said Hopkins, s School 
 viz. Mr. John Russell, Capt. Aaron Cooke, Joseph Kellogg and Samuel Porter 
 (now settled by the President and Council the Feoffees of the said School) 
 appearing at this Court of Quarter Sessions for the County, as the County 
 Court in Hampshire and presenting the Estate of Hopkins and other dona- 
 tions to said school, that they be settled to it as formerly they have been, by 
 order of former County Courts in Hampshire, and particularly by the last 
 County Court in Springfield in September, 1686. All which this Session will 
 approve of, and considering the President and Council judges the gifts a good 
 Foundation for a Grammar School for the whole Country, and having the con- 
 currence of his excellency, our Honorable Governor, therewith, as hinting the 
 same to the worshipful Judge of this Court, that it is not in the power of the 
 Town of Hadley, or any person to divert any Donations, Lands, Mills, Streams 
 or Estates, given, determined or employed to the Grammar School there ; to any 
 other use whatsoever. Wherefore this Court do advise the Town of Hadley, 
 or such as acted in their behalf (only one alone viz. Mr. Partrigg appearing) 
 who thr'o inadvertence or precipitancy have entered upon the school estate 
 taking part of the donations into their own hands, for an English School 
 (which may not be allowed disjunct from a Grammar School) to return and 
 restore the whole profits thereof to the former Committee viz. Mr. John 
 Russell, Aaron Cooke, Joseph Kellogg and Samuel Porter now the Feoffees of 
 the Grammar School called Hopkins, s School. Mr. Hopkins, s given by him 
 to promote humane literature, and declared by his Trustees, to be for and to 
 a Grammar School which can be no otherwise interpreted, as the President 
 and Council have declared ; but to be a school holden by a master capable to 
 instruct youth for the university. And therefore it is misapplied, and abused 
 by such persons in Hadley, who have acted in it, to employ it otherwise and 
 so ought speedily by them to be returned. And Mr. Partrigg saying : they 
 desired to be understood, as not detaining, or holding the estate ; but leaving 
 to the Court to order. It is therefore, hereby ordered, that those persons 
 in Hadley, who have anyways meddled, or intrenched upon the school estate 
 thereof, which ought to be managed by John Russell, Aaron Cooke, Joseph 
 Kellogg and Samuel Porter, the Feoffees of the said school, (to whom this 
 Court of Sessions [according to order] have now by the consent and choice 
 of the rest of the Committee, added Chiliab Smith of Hadley, to make up the 
 number of five Feoffees) do deliver up all the estate they have entered on 
 forthwith ; into the hands or ordering of the Feoffees on penalty of all damage 
 that may come to themselves by neglect thereof. And that Samuel Boltwood, 
 who hath the school mill in his improvement, which was firstly built by Mr. 
 Hopkins's estate, for the school, do likewise deliver up said mill and appur- 
 tenances, to the Feoffees aforesaid; who are to take it into their hands 
 and improvement, for the maintenance of the school to which it belongs. 
 And for what Samuel Boltwood hath expended upon the repairing or nfcw 
 building of it, he yielding to resign it in case he be paid what he hath lien 
 out ; if the toll or rent since it hath been in his Father,s and his hands have 
 not sufficiently paid their just expense upon a moderate due accompt. Then 
 the Feoffees of the school to allow further, according as they shall see just 
 
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 and reasonable; by continuing the rent of the mill to Mm, or otherwise, till 
 he be paid what is meet he should have. And in case the Feoffees and Samuel 
 Boltwood come not to an agreement concerning it between themselves within 
 thirty days, That then the consideration of what the said Boltwood should 
 and ought to have ;f or what estate he or his Father expended upon the rebuild- 
 ing of the said school mill be determined by Mr. John Allis, (whom this Court 
 appoints) and one such man as the Feoffees of said school shall choose and 
 appoint together with one such man as Samuel Boltwood shall choose or 
 appoint ; which three men or, at least two of them are to give in their award 
 concerning it, at the next Quarter Sessions, on the first Tuesday of Septem- 
 ber, which if neglected, we advise and direct the Feoffees to a prosess in a 
 course of law, that they may be in a capacity, to settle a school master there 
 according to the intent of the Donations ; which if the whole estate be all 
 got together and all improved, we hope may maintain a Grammar School, 
 with a small yearly addition thereto, by th,e Town of Hadley who may be well 
 benefltted by the same school master to teach their children. 
 
 Further, in case the Town of Hadley or those that acted for the Town, do 
 actually deliver up the estate thev entered upon, unto the Feoffees and do 
 forthwith declare it by delivering it into their hands, w T e propose it to the 
 Feoffees to allow them the half of sixteen pounds they engaged to a school 
 master or otherwise as the Feoffees see meet. 
 
 This is also a true Copy of the original at Quarter Sessions Court held at 
 Northampton in his Majesty s territory of New England Northampton, this 
 8th of June. 1687. 
 
 Attested by James Cornish, Clerk. 
 
 The Town in compliance with the order of the court passed this 
 vote in which it is easy to read the spirit of the voters. 
 
 TOWN VOTE AUGUST 29, 1687. 
 
 Voted by the Town that the Lands seized and taken into their own hands 
 with reference to an English school by their vote August 23 rd , 1686, wanting 
 that formality in the seizure, as might have been, the Town do now let fall 
 their said seisure leaving said lands in the hands of the Committee as for- 
 merly ; withal reserving a liberty to themselves and successors to make claim 
 and plea according to law at anytime for the future, for what may appear to 
 be their right in the Premises. 
 
 After the vote of the Town Aug. 29, 1687, the court of sessions 
 sent the following letter to the selectmen of Hadley, March 7, 1688, 
 to be communicated to the town. The members of the court were 
 John Pynchon, John Holyoke, Joseph Hawley, Capt. Aaron Cooke 
 of Hadley, Lieut John Allis. 
 
 HONORED FRIENDS : 
 
 Having had a sight of the vote of the town of Hadley of 
 Aug. 29, 1687. in way of compliance (as we suppose) with the advise of the 
 Court of Sessions, held at Northampton, June 7, 1687, we judge meet to let 
 you understand our sense of it, that it is far short of what we expected and 
 advised to being at best lean in itself, if not a justifying of yourselves in 
 
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 your former precipitant, illegal entering upon the school estate, rather than 
 a delivering it up to the committee as you were directed actually to do, and 
 forthwith to declare it under the hands of those that had acted in entering 
 thereon ; and presuming upon your readiness so to do it, we proposed it to 
 the committee or feoffees, if they saw cause, to allow one-half of the 16 that 
 was engaged toward a school master. But what you have done being so short 
 of that directed to and so worded as speaks your insubjection to authority, 
 especially in conjunction with your other actings, we must declare it no ways 
 convenient the committee should allow any part of the said 16 and that you 
 are accountable for your perverseness toward the school affairs, and for your 
 slighting of such who have had more regard to your own good and interest than 
 yourselves. Such a spirit we see breathing forth from you as will necessarily 
 call for some further animadverting thereon, if you do not retract some of 
 your actings which we earnestly desire you to overlook and rectify. We 
 would not particularize and yet in way of caution to amendment, might men- 
 tion your unkindness and sourness in not granting the use of a house that 
 stands empty and your illegal rating of the school estate, contrary to the 
 declared direction in all our books, of schools, hospitals etc. are not to be 
 taxed, which we do particularly insist on, for your speedy rectification of 
 what you have disorderly done (that we may not have occasion to lay it before 
 his excellency.) Several other things are before our consideration which we do 
 not mention, hoping and expecting you will revise your own actings and amend, 
 which is the (scope) of these lines to prevent anything that may prove uncom- 
 fortable to yourselves being assured that a sense of your own crossness, 
 perverseness, unsubjection to order and repentance for what is done amiss, 
 will but become yourselves, and is the plainest path to your own comfort, 
 which we pray God to direct you in and are 
 
 YOUR ASSURED FRIENDS. 
 
 We let you know and hereby declare that we forbid the constables and all 
 officers from levying or collecting any particular tax toward any town affair, 
 upon the school estate 
 
 Springfield March 7, 1687-8. By order of this Session 
 
 JAMES CORNISH. 
 
 (Clerk under Andrus.) 
 
 The selectmen replied to this letter and in June, 1688, and the Court 
 sent another to Hadley "enjoining them to seek their own peace." 
 
 Judd Hist. pp. 62, 63. 
 
 Mr. Russell's part in this controversy is worthy of careful note. 
 It caused him serious trouble. He was a staunch friend of the gram- 
 mar school in distinction from an English school and earnestly intent 
 on its secure establishment. There is reason to think he had the hope 
 of something still higher. In his mind's eye was a college to grow 
 up on this foundation. 
 
 Mr. Russell stood stoutly for the right as he saw it, against strong 
 opposition led by a man of large ability and influence (Mr. Partrigg) 
 and the leading man in the county after the death of Major Pynchon. 
 
His position and course on this question had the effect to cool and 
 estrange many of his people, so that after the decree of the court, 
 Sept. 28, 1686, only twelve persons could be found to sign a paper 
 adhering to Mr. Russell and the Grammar school, and accepting the 
 order of the court. All but this small number seem to have favored 
 an English school. This paper is as follows. 
 
 We whose names are underwritten hearing of a court order about Haclley 
 school which some do oppose, we for our parts fearing and the disorder of 
 opposing authority, declare that we neither oppose nor deny the said order, 
 but do accept the same, and submit to it, giving all due honor to authority 
 and would have it attended. 
 Oct. 18, IfiSti. Samuel Gardner 
 
 John Ingram 
 
 Chileab Smith 
 
 Joseph Kellogg 
 
 Samuel 
 
 John Preston 
 
 Samuel Porter Senior 
 
 Aaron Cook 
 Widow Mary Goodman William Marcum 
 
 Hezekiah Porter. 
 
 This was a time of great trial for these people. They were poor, 
 suffering from the waste of war and much discouraged. The school 
 estate had suffered serious loss. The school was intermittent. A 
 school-master suitable for a Grammar school was hard to find and 
 harder to retain on such terms as could be offered. The feeling on 
 either side was intense. Once heated it took time to cool. 
 
 The town seem to have given their feeling expression in votes to 
 reduce Mr. Russell's salary for several years. After his death in 
 1603 votes were passed which were a confession of wrong and made 
 good to his heirs the dues they had witheld.* 
 
 Among the Judd papers with J. R. Trumbull the following is found 
 which may be in place here : 
 
 TESTIMONY OF CHILEAB SMITH. 
 
 We whose names are undersigned do testify y' y Toxvn of Haclley upon 
 Mr. Goodwills motion did give liberty to sett a mill for the school in the place 
 where y e corn mill now is. 
 
 SAMUEL GARDNER , . 
 Oct. 15. 1687 CHILIAB SMITH 
 
 *Mr. John Russell, the first minister of II;idley. was graduated at Harvard, in the third 
 class, 1645, at the age of eighteen, born in England, the son of John Russell. He was 
 ordained when twenty-two \ ears of age, four years ater graduation, pastor of the church 
 in Weathersfield, Conn. In 1648, he was school master in Hartford. He remained in 
 Weathersfield about ten years, when he appears on the scene fifty miles up the river, as 
 pastor of the flock of Christ in Hadley, to whom he was a faithful shepherd until his death. 
 He toiled and suffered for his people in all the hardship and suffering of their lot. The 
 regicides Goffe and Whalley found harbor in his house. As a writer he was wordy and 
 full of repetition. He was the leading name in the school committee during his life, 
 though for a time there was some difference between him and Elder Goodwin. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE SCHOOL, AS LEARNED FROM 
 
 TOWN RECORDS, COURT PROCEEDINGS AND 
 
 OTHER PAPERS. 
 
 The school, as has been seen, began its work as early as 1C) (1 7. 
 How it went on for some time in its earlier years is learned from no 
 clear, continuous record, but is somewhat matter of inference from an 
 occasional vote of the town, proceedings in the County Court, and 
 sundry papers relating to troubles and differences that arose from 
 time to time and their adjustment. Some of these votes are given, 
 covering some years, as follows. Dec. 21, 1676, some ten years after 
 the school began its work, the town record has this vote : 
 
 It is ordered and voted by the town for the upholding and maintaining of 
 the Scoole that the Scoole master shall have thirty pounds p r Annum, which 
 shall be paid part from the Annuitie of the Scoole Estate and the rest made 
 up by the scholards and Towne. (Old Record, p. 55.) 
 
 It is also voted that whereas the scoole masters salerye the last year was 
 much diminished that therefore they will give on their next Town rate {fifteen 
 pounds to the said scoole master. 
 
 Allsoe with respect to the great ffailure of persons in not sending their 
 children to scoole it is ordered and voted by the Towne that the present 
 Selectmen and the Selectmen Annuallye shall take a list of all children ffrom 
 six years onld to twelve, which shall be compellable if not sent to scoole to 
 pay Annually according to and equallye with those that are sent, only some 
 poore men,s children which shall be exempted as they shall be Judged by the 
 Selectmen ; And ffrom six yeares onld, to continue till twelve at scoole except 
 they Attain a ripeness and dexteritie in Inferior learning, as writeing & read- 
 ing which shall be Judged by the Scoole master. (Original Record, p. 55.) 
 
 From these and other votes it would seem that scholars from six to 
 twelve years of age paid for schooling if able, whether in school or 
 not. The income of the school estate paid only part of the expense. 
 It was within reach of all of suitable age on payment of such cost as 
 was not met by the income of the school property and the Town's 
 allowance. The management, employment of teachers, and the like, 
 was in the hands of the school committee for the most part. 
 
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 Jan. 22, 1(577. Voted by the town that Mr. Younglove shall have for his 
 teaching school the next year the use of the House and Homestead 'belonging 
 to the school with twelve Akars of land given by John Barnard and thirty 
 pounds besides which shall be raised by the remainder of the school land the 
 scollards and the Towne. 
 
 Voted by the towne that for the year ensuing all male children ffrom six 
 yeares ould to twelve shall be compellable to pay to the scoole such as goe 
 after tenn shillings by the year and they that goe not ftive shillings by the 
 year and all others above the age expressed that are found Illiterate and go 
 not to paie ffive Shillings by the year, this order to begin its date May I 8t next 
 ensuing. (Original Record, p. 58.) 
 
 Oct. 15, 1078. Voted by the town unanimously respecting the scoole and 
 scoole master and his maintenance that Mr. Younglove showing himself 
 willing and desirous yet to remain scoole master the Towne voted as afore- 
 said to Improve him in this work for ne whole year from the time viz some 
 time in May when his year expires that he now is in, and have voted that with 
 the produce of the scoole land the scollards and the Towne in General shall 
 be raised 30 pound for Mr. Younglove, s Sallerye and he accepts of the same. 
 
 (p. 59.) 
 
 Feb. 7, 1680. Voted by the Towne that they are willing to endeavor the 
 procuring and provideing a scoole master that shall teach the Latin Tongue ; 
 as allso the English to any that are entered with writeing and Cyphering 
 
 Voted that the Said Scoole master shall have thirty pounds for this yeare 
 ensuing and so for the next If he continue which summe shall be raised by 
 the school estate and the scollards and what is wanting to make upp the said 
 Complement to be paid by the Towne and that the said payment shall be no 
 worse than other payments for service. 
 
 Voted that Every Latin Scollard shall paye twenty shillings p r Annum or by 
 ye yeare and Every English Scollard sixteen shillings and so proportionably 
 and all that are of Age that is from six to twelve yeares though they come not 
 yet shall paye eight shillings by the yeare and all that doe but Enter shall paye 
 for the Quarter. 
 
 Voted that the scoole Cornittee with Luft Joseph Kellogg and Samuel 
 Partrigg are Impoured to procure, provide and Agree with a Scoole master 
 that may be suitable for the worke of said scoole on the Termes aforesaid. 
 
 (Original Town Record, p. 65.) 
 
 1682, Jan. 11. Voted that for the raising of 10 pound to make up the 
 scoole masters Sallerye all that goe to scoole Shall paye and all that come to 
 Scoole from 6 yeares to 12 shall paye alike and those that come not yet of the 
 same Age half e so much and Tis left with the Selectmen to proportion out of 
 said persons for the making up of said Complement. 
 
 (Original Town Record, p. 70.) 
 
 Jan. 1685. Voted that Mr. Partrigg shall Teach schoole this winter three 
 months or longer, (p. 75, Town Record.) 
 
 Ap r11 28, 1686. Voted that Samuel Partrigg have eight pounds paid him for 
 his services in keeping schoole in Hadley the last winter. 
 
 Voted that the Selectmen with Ensigne Nash, Chileab Smith and Nehemiah 
 Dickinson, doe forthwith treat with the Schoole Committee and Desire the 
 
payment of eight pounds to Mr. Partrigg (out of the Schoole estate in their 
 hands) for his keeping schoole the last winter. 
 
 Ap r11 1 st , 1687. Voted by the Towne that a motion be made to the School 
 Comittee to lend the Towne 16 pounds of the School estate to pay Mr. Mather 
 the present School master Voted by the Towne their aceptance of said 
 motion by the Comittee and Mr. Partrigg Ingages to the Comittee in the 
 Townes behalf the return of said estate. 
 
 April 7, 1692. The School Committee moving to the Town that they may 
 remove the corn mill, that now is below the bridge to a more convenient place 
 for the use of the school. Hereupon voted by the Town that they do grant 
 the place they desire so long as they maintain a mill there for the Town,s use 
 
 March 30 th , 1709-10. Whereas the School Committee in Hadley desire the 
 advice and approbation of the Town with respect to their exchanging one 
 acre and half of land with an out house ready to fall down thereon, which 
 was given to the town by Mr. Ward deceased Voted by said town that the 
 committee can see it their way and can exchange the same for meadow land 
 or let a long lease of said acre and 1-2 of land so as may be of encouragement 
 to any to build thereupon, so as to bring in a better income to the school. 
 This town hath approved thereof. Voted in the affirmative. 
 
 These votes covering a period of more than thirty years, are largely 
 the history of the school at this time. From them it is gathered that 
 school matters were conducted somewhat loosely. The province and 
 function of the Committee as related to those of the Town were not 
 clearly distinguished. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 NAMES AND DOINGS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 
 NAMES OF TEACHERS OF THE 
 GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 
 
 A record of changes in the Committee is still in being. They seem 
 to have kept a record of their other doings, which is lost. The names 
 of the Committee are those that follow. Those chosen by Mr. Dav- 
 enport and Mr. Goodwin in their agreement in 1664, were Mr. John 
 Russell, pastor of the church in Hadley, Lieut. Samuel Smith, Andrew 
 Bacon and Peter Tilton. 
 
 In 1669 when Mr. Goodwin made his proposal to the town to name 
 three trustees, to whom the town should add two more to serve with 
 himself while he lived, Mr. Goodwin made choice of Mr. John Rus- 
 sell, Lieut. Samuel Smith and Capt. Aaron Cooke. The tow^n chose 
 Nathaniel Dickinson, Sen. and Peter Tilton, the latter of whom was 
 named in the agreement of Mr. Davenport and Mr. Goodwin, and for 
 some reason seems to have fallen out of the number and came into it 
 again by choice of the town. The name of Andrew Bacon also dis- 
 appears. It was agreed that this board of five persons should fill 
 vacancies in their number and thus make the committee perpetual. 
 Thus Lt. Philip Smith was chosen in 1680, 
 
 Col. Samuel Partrigg in 1682, removed 1687 by the County Court ; 
 Samuel Porter in 1685, 
 Joseph Kellogg in 1686, 
 
 Chileab Smith in 1687, by the Court with the concurrence of the 
 other members of the Committee. 
 In 1720 the Committee were : 
 Chileab Smith, 
 Thomas Hovey, 
 Samuel Porter, Esq., 
 Sargeant Joseph Smith and 
 Dea. John Smith. 
 
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 Nov. 5, 1733 the Committee were Westwood Cooke, John Smith, 
 Eleazar Porter. Under this date occurs the following minute in the 
 records of the Committee : 
 
 " We the subscribers, Lieut. Westwood Cooke Lieut. John Smith and Ele- 
 azar Porter of the Scool Committy in Hadley have made choyce of Dea. Sam- 
 uel Dickinson to serve as a coramitty man in the room and sted of Lieut. 
 Thomas Hovey, one of the scool Committy: he being aged and crazy and 
 declines the service any longer. And we have also made choyce of Mr. Job 
 Marsh to serve as a committy man, in the room and sted of Mr. Joseph Smith, 
 one of our late scool com" men now deceast." 
 
 In 1745 Capt. Moses Cooke was chosen, 
 44 1746 Dea. Joseph Eastman and Ensine Moses Marsh, 
 " 1750 Dea. Enos Nash, 
 " 1757 Mr. Eleazar Porter to succeed the Honorable Eleazar Porter, 
 
 deceast, 
 
 44 1758 Mr. Samuel Gay lord, 
 44 1768 Dea. David Smith, 
 44 1769 Mr. Elisha Porter, 
 44 1772 Mr. Edmund Hubbard, 
 44 1781 Mr. Charles Phelps, 
 44 1783 Dea. Oliver Smith, 
 44 1785 Lieut. Enos Nash, 
 44 1793 Capt. Elisha Dickinson, 
 44 1796 Dea. Seth Smith, 
 44 1797 Doct. William Porter, 
 44 1804 Dea. Jacob Smith, 
 44 1812 Dea. William Dickinson, 
 44 1815 Col. Moses Porter. 
 
 These five last named were in office when the General Court was 
 petitioned for the act incorporating Hopkins Academy, and were the 
 original Board of Trustees of that institution when incorporated. This 
 Committee was sometimes criticised by men of views opposed to each 
 other concerning a more or less liberal way of managing school affairs. 
 They were censured and even threatened with deposition for failing 
 to maintain it as a Grammar School. On the other hand, they were 
 blamed for too strict adherence to the Grammar School idea, and for 
 forgetting that the school was Hadley's sole and exclusive right, thus 
 stirring anew the embers of the controversy of 1686 7. 
 
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 TEACHERS OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 
 
 Just when the Grammar school began its work cannot be exactly 
 determined. Materials for its early history are scanty. The school 
 committee, as has been said, seem to have kept no record now to be 
 found but one that noted little but the filling of vacancies in their num- 
 ber as they occurred. Such accounts as the Treasurer kept are confused 
 and blind, and often baffle rather than satisfy inquiry. An occasional 
 vote of the town sheds a little light, but leaves many questions of 
 interest without answer. The roll of the names of the committee 
 from the first is preserved nearly, if not quite, complete. The names 
 of many of the teachers are known and something of their character 
 and later history. 
 
 It was understood from the beginning, and for the most part kept 
 in mind, that the school was a Grammar school, a school taught by a 
 master competent to give instruction in the tongues, and fit young 
 men for the university. Only for a short time an English school was 
 kept, while the committee was put out of their stewardship by the 
 town. With this exception the Grammar school was maintained not 
 wholly without interruption until it was merged in Hopkins Academy 
 after its incorporation in the year 1816. 
 
 Under date April 25, 1665, about a year after the agreement of 
 Mr. Davenport and Mr. Goodwin concerning the distribution of Gov. 
 Hopkins's estate it was " Voted by the Towne that they would give 
 20 pound pr Annum for 3 yeares towards the maintenance of a Schoole 
 master to teach children and to be as a helpe to m r russell as occasion 
 may require." 
 
 This is the earliest record of the kind. The first teacher employed 
 probably was Mr. Caleb Watson. Graduated at Harvard in 1661. 
 He was a native of Roxbury. He was in Hadley in January, 1667, 
 and probably came in 1666 and continued until 1673, when he and 
 Mr. Russell were no longer in full harmony. March 31, 1668, he 
 took the freeman's oath in court at Northampton. In 1674 he under- 
 took the school in Hartford and continued to teach it until 1705 when 
 a vote was passed " that he be no longer school master to this town." 
 
 (Bacon's Address, p. 64.) 
 
 About 1674-1680, John Younglove was the school master, from 
 Ipswich, was a preacher first at Quaboag, (Brookfield) and after he 
 left Hadley at Sufiield. Salary 30 and use of house and land. 
 
 In 1682-1683. Samuel Russell, son of Rev. John Russell, Har- 
 vard 1681. Was minister at Branford, Conn. 
 
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 1685. Samuel Partrigg of Hadley, three months. Was Colonel, 
 Representative in 1685-1686, judge of Probate and one of his majesty's 
 council, the most important man in the western part of the Province 
 after the death of Major Pyuchon in 17(>3. 
 
 1686-87. Warham Mather, H. C, 1685. Son of Rev. Kleazar 
 Mather of Northampton. Was judge of Probate at New Haven. 
 
 1688-89. John Younglove again. 6 months. 
 
 1689-90. Thomas Swan, LI. C. 1689. From Roxbury. He was 
 Register of Probate in Middlesex. 6 months. 
 
 1693-94. John Morse, H. C. 1692. From Dedham. Was minister 
 at Newtown, L. I. He kept school near a year. 
 
 1694-95. Salmon Treat, H. C. 1 694. Son of James T. of Weathes- 
 field. Was minister at Preston, Conn. Kept a year. Wages 39. 
 
 1695-96. Joseph Smith. Son of Lieut. Philip Smith of Hadley. 
 Was minister at Upper Middletown. Kept three quarters, at the rate 
 of 38. 
 
 1696-97. John Hubbard, H. C. 1695. Son of John H. of Boston. 
 Was minister of Jamaica, L. I. Kept one year at 30 as money. 
 
 1698-99. Joseph Smith again, one year or more. 
 
 1700-1. Samuel Melyeu, H. C. 1696. Son of Jacob M. of Boston. 
 Was minister at Elizabethtown, N. J. Kept one year, 38. 
 
 1701-2. Mr. Woodbridge. Either Ephraim or Samuel. Both 
 graduated at II. C. 1701. Both were ministers. 1 year, 3,8. 
 
 1702-3. Nathaniel Chauncey, Yale College 1702. First graduate 
 of Yale. The only member of the class. Son of Rev. Nathaniel C. 
 of Hatfield. Minister at Durham, Conn. 3 months. 
 
 1703-4. Samuel Ruggles, H. C. 1702. From Roxbury. Was 
 minister at Billerica. Kept 8 months, at the rate of 40. 
 
 1705-6. Samuel Mighill, H. C. 1704. Son of Rev. Thos. M. of 
 Scituate. A teacher in Mass, and Conn. Died in South Hadley 1769. 
 li year, at 40. 
 
 1706-7. Jonathan Marsh, H. C. 1705. Son of Jonathan M. of 
 Hadley. Was minister at Windsor, Conn. 1 year, 30 as money. 
 
 1707-8. John Partrigg, H. C. 1705. Son of Col. Samuel P. of 
 Hatfield. Died 1717. 1 year, 40. 
 
 1708-9. Aaron Porter, H. C. 1708. Son of Samuel Porter of 
 Hadley. Was minister at Medford. Kept 6 months, at the rate of 
 40. 
 
 1709-10. Rev. Daniel Boardman, Y. C. 1709. Son of Daniel 
 Boardman of Weathersfield. Was minister of New Milford, Conn. 
 Kept 8 months at the rate of 26| as money. 
 
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 1710-11. John James. A native of England, Honorary degree at 
 H. C. in 1710. He had previously been minister at Derby, Conn. 
 G months, at the rate of 26f as money. 
 
 1711-12. Elisha Williams, H. C. 1711. Son of Rev. Wm. W. of 
 Hatfield. Was president of Yale College from 1725 to 1739. 11 
 months at the rate of 26f as money. 
 
 1712-13^ Thomas Berry, H. C. 1712. Was a physician. Lived 
 at Ipswich. 6 mouths at the rate of 30 in money. 
 
 1713-14. Stephen Williams, H. C. 1713. Son of Rev. John W. 
 of Deerfield. Was minister at Long Meadow. 1| year at the rate 
 of 34 in money. 
 
 1714-15. Ebenezer Gay, H. C. 1714. From Declham. Was 
 minister at Hingham. 9 months at" the rate of 26. 
 
 1715-16. Rev. Nathaniel Mather, Y. C. 1715. Son of Rev. Samuel 
 M. of Windsor, Conn. Minister at - - Kept 4 months. 
 
 1716-18. " Mr. Chauncey's Son." If he was the son of Rev. 
 Isaac Chauncey of Hadley he was only 16 to 18 years old. If years 
 at the rate 36. 
 
 1718-19. Rev. Stephen Steele, Y. C. 1718. Son of James Steele 
 of Hartford. Was minister of Tolland, Conn. 1 year 40. 
 
 1719 20. Solomon Williams, H. C. 1719. Son of Rev. William 
 W. of Hatfield. Was minister at Lebanon, Conn. 1 year, 40. 
 
 1720-21. Hezekiah Kilburn, Y. C. 1720. He was born at 
 Weathersfield and resided there. 1 year 40. 
 
 1721-23. Rev. Daniel Dwight, Y. C. 1721. Son of Nathaniel D. 
 of Northampton. Episcopal minister at Charlestown, S. C. 1 J years 
 at 40 a year. 
 
 1723-24. Benjamin Dickinson, H. C. 1723. Son of Nathaniel D. 
 of Hatfield. A preacher many years. Lived in Hadley. 1 year, 40. 
 
 1724-25. Israel Chauncey, H. C. 1724. Son of Rev. Isaac Chauncey 
 of Hadley. He was an able preacher, but became deranged, and was 
 burned to death in a small building near his father's, Nov., 1736. 
 Kept J year at the rate of 40. 
 
 (This roll is copied from Mr. Judd's History of Hadley, pp. 66-67. 
 The fruit of painful, patient research.) 
 
 In March, 1743, Josiah Pierce, H. C. 1735, a native of Woburn, 
 began to keep the Grammar School. He was to instruct in reading, 
 writing, arithmetic, Latin and Greek. He kept 12 years to 1755 and 
 again 6 years, from 1760 to 1766. His pay was 27.J in N. E. cur- 
 rency, or $91, and he had the use of 25 acres of meadow land. 
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Mr. Pierce for a long period was town clerk as well as teacher. He 
 sometimes preached though he was probably never ordained. 
 
 Mr. Pierce began to teach school in Hadley as early as Jan., 1741. 
 He had 29 scholars on the 23rd and on the 29th day of that month. 
 From entries in his diary, kept in an interleaved almanac each year, 
 it appears that the school was frequently not in session, from one day 
 to one or more weeks at a time, on account of storms, town* meetings, 
 fasts, company, want of wood, master's absence on a journey, or to 
 take care of his farm, when no help could be had. Under date Nov. 
 19, 1742, occurs this entry: 
 
 This day being the day before Thanksgiving I keep school all day, as I have 
 heretofore, willing to attend; if parents will let their children attend ; but 
 they, the most of them, letting their children play about the streets rather y u 
 send them to school, I determine not to attend y e school in y e afternoon of 
 such day hereafter. 
 
 No mention is made of regular vacations. The school week was 
 six days. The school day more than six hours. The number of 
 scholars varied from 5 to 30. Average attendance, 25 or less, rather 
 than more. He notes that he taught Latin and Greek. Sometimes 
 he mentions Arithmetic as taught to sundry pupils gratis. June 8, 
 1743. " No school because no scholars sent." 
 
 From the Book of Treasurer's accounts No. 1 these facts are 
 gathered, p. 14. 
 
 17f>0, (date illegible). Agreed with m r Pierce to keep the school one year, 
 to give him the Improvement of ye school lands in Hadley 3 acres excepted 
 for which he is to have O L D T and give him 205 as Salary, the year begins 
 Sept. 10 
 
 In his own diary is this entry : 
 
 Sept. 8. I enter the school at Hadley. 
 
 And this in another place : 
 
 1700, Sept. 8. I entered the school again at Hadley this day, Sal. to be as 
 when I left it, viz 1 , 205 O. T. that is 27.6.8 L. M. per ami. and the use of 
 all the school land in Great meadow and Hockanum to be accounted 50 O. T. 
 i e 13s. 4d. 1. m. per ami. 
 
 27 G 8 p r ami. 
 6 6 8 p r quarter 
 2 5 (> p r month 
 11 4 p r week 
 
 Here is given the Covenant of Josiah Pierce and the school 
 committee : 
 
 Feb. 28, 1742-3. The school committee consisting of Eleazar Porter, 
 Westwood Cook, John Smith, Saml Dickinson and Job Marsh made a cove- 
 nant with Josiah Fierce. This covenant bound Josiah Pierce "to settle in the 
 
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 work and business of keeping a Grammar and English School in said Hadley 
 first Precinct viz instructing in Reading, Writing and Arithmetic and in the 
 Latin and Greek tongues so far as is requisite for admission into Harvard 
 and Yale Colleges, for so long a time as sd Pierce Shall be able to discharge 
 sd work and business faithfully." 
 
 His salary was to be 115 in bills of public credit whose equivalent 
 was 27 6 8 lawful money, payable annually, and the use of all 
 the school land in the Great Meadow, Hockanum Field and North- 
 ampton meadow, 25 acres in all, to be accounted 6-13s.-4d. lawful 
 money, per ann. 
 
 This covenant continued in force until May 7, 1755, when it termi- 
 nated at the desire of Mr. Pierce. The committee at this date were 
 Eleazar Porter, Moses Cook, Joseph Eastman, Moses Marsh, Enos 
 Nash. 
 
 See the original covenant in the Judd collection with J. R. Trum- 
 bull, Northampton. 
 
 In Sept. 8, 1760, Mr. Pierce entered the school again at Hadley on 
 the same terms as before, and continued in service six years. Judd. 
 Diary of Josiah Pierce, Sept. 8, 1760. 
 
 From this covenant it is clear that the committee understood that a 
 Grammar school must be maintained and that a Grammar school was 
 one in which enough Latin and Greek must be taught to meet the 
 requirement to enter Harvard or Yale Colleges. It is also plain that 
 the committee were responsible to the teacher for his annual salary. 
 More than one-sixth of this was received as the use of land. How 
 the rest was paid does not appear. 
 
 We can look into the school master's mind a little through such 
 entries as these : 
 
 May 26, 1744. I begin to instruct Mr. F in Latin and he breaks oft' like 
 a F-l. 
 
 May 7, 1855. I give up the school at Hadley. I am to improve the lands 
 as heretofore this year. 
 
 Dec. J), 1755. I enter in ye school at Hadley till Mr. Strong is well who is 
 sick. 
 
 Jan. 2(5, 1756. I keep the Hopkins School this day and no longer. 33s. 
 
 Dec. 28. I opened a school at my own house. 
 
 During the time between 1755 and 1760 he taught at South Hadley and at 
 Northampton for terms of three or six months, four weeks to the month, 
 days of absence to be made up. In the list of his pupils in South Hadley 
 appear the names of persons who became leading citizens. Boys only seem 
 to have been his pupils. The same is true largely if not wholly of the Hop- 
 kins School until its incorporation in 1816 as Hopkins Academy. 
 
 Oct. 27, 1766. Mr. Pierce began to teach school in Ainlicrst, and taught 
 six months a year or more, for 32 shillings, or $5.33 a month and board. 
 
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 Winter evenings he kept a ciphering school, a few weeks at one shilling an 
 evening. In the cold months 30 to 40 were in his day school in Amherst, in 
 the warm months 15 to 30. His family resided in Hadley, as was the case 
 when he taught in Northampton and South Hadley. He preached in vacant 
 pulpits occasionally, gratis, or at 18 or 20 shillings a Sabbath. March 29, 
 1G21>, he dismissed the school for the want of wood. 
 
 (Judd. Hist. Hadley, p. 421.) 
 
 After Mr. Pierce retired, Mr. Strong was his successor. How long 
 is not known. Mr. Pierce taught for him a short time while he was 
 sick. From this time on the list is incomplete. 
 
 Mr. Oliver Warner charges the school committee for the board of 
 Mr. Whitney, Aug. 3, 1772 to April 13th, 1775, deducting for 
 absence 11 days at New Haven, 4 days at Brimfield, 2 weeks at 
 Cambridge. Mr. Whitney, no doubt, was the school master during 
 this time. Old acct. book, p. 20. 
 
 1779. From Sept. 15 to March 15, 1780, Rev. Sewel Chapin kept 
 school. 
 
 1780. From Dec., 1780 to Dec. 25, 1786, Moses Hubbard, II. C. 
 1765 Honorary A. B., Y. C., A. M. also, married Mabel, daughter of 
 Samuel Hopkins, D. D. 
 
 1786. From Dec. 25, to Nov. 10, 1791, Mr. Enos Cook, Y. C. 
 1785, son of Joseph, son of Noah, son of Westwood, son of Aaron. 
 
 1791. Dec. 15, to July 8, 1792, Mr. Heman Ball. 
 
 1792. July 23, to Oct., two m. and one week, Ebenezer White. 
 
 1792. Oct. 1, to Apr. 6, 1793, Mr. Jasper Bentley. 
 
 1793. Apr. 6, to Oct. 9, Mr. Ebenezer White, except 1 m. and 8 
 days absent, being in the whole 4 months and 25 days at 3 per month, 
 14-9-8. 
 
 1793. Oct. 8, to April 1, 1794, Mr. John Smith. 
 
 1794. May 5, to Sept. 5, Mr. Samuel Grimes. 
 1794. Sept. 15, to April 5, 1795, Mr. John Smith. 
 
 1794. Rev. Gardiner Kellogg, Y. C. 1791. Kept school 2 weeks, 
 ending Apr. 1, apparently. 
 
 1795. Apr. 27, to Oct. 6, 5 mos. in all, Ebenezer White. 
 
 1795. Nov. 23, to ye 15 April, 1796, Rev. John Gmiey, Y. C. 
 1773. 1796 from Apr. 25, to Sept. 9. 
 
 1796-1797. Nov. to March 8, Mr. Fanning Tracy, Y. C. 1796, 
 also from March 9 to June 9 and two months ending Aug. 9, 1797. 
 After Mr. Tracy, 2 rnos., 17 days, dates not noted, Mr. Joseph 
 Bridgman. 
 
 1798. Jan. 18 to July 1, and to Oct. 12, 2 mos., 25 days and 
 from Oct. 8, 1798 to 1799, May 1, Mr. John Dickinson. 
 
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 1799. May 1 to Sept. 1, and 3 mos., 23 days to Dec. 24, Mr. 
 James Woodward. 
 
 1801. 7 mos. to April ;,(), Giles C. Kellogg, Y. C. 1800. 
 
 1803. 6 mos. ending Apr. 5, 1803 Rev. Bela Kellogg, W. C. 1800. 
 
 1803. Mr. Taylor. 
 
 No record is found of teachers of the Grammar school between 
 1803 and 1816. But it is remembered by one who was during this 
 period a member of the school, Dea. Simeon Dickinson of Northamp- 
 ton, that Rev. Mr. Gray was teacher for a time. Dr. Rogers taught 
 for a season and Mr. Chester, Y. C. 1804, afterwards distinguished 
 as Rev. John Chester, D. D. 
 
 It appears that these teachers with few exceptions, were young men, 
 recent graduates of College. Many of them afterwards distinguished. 
 Their terms of service were short for the most part. Very few of 
 them made teaching their life work. Hence the quality of their work, 
 though excellent, would not be what it might have been, had it been 
 their permanent choice. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 SCHOOL AFKAIR8 FROM 17^5-1 8 10. 
 
 After the troubles concerning the school estate were settled in 1 688 
 and the School Committee established and confirmed in their care and 
 management of the property, all went on quietly until about the 
 middle of the 18th century. 
 
 The period between 1750-70 was one when warm interest was felt 
 concerning the Hopkins school. Some controversy arose concerning 
 it. The committee were charged with neglect of duty in that the 
 Grammar school was practically such no longer. English scholars 
 were suffered to come in, in such numbers, that the master could not 
 give due attention to Grammar scholars. During this period there 
 was a scheme to set up a college with the Hopkins fund as a basis. 
 A Grammar school was started in Hatfield for scholars that did not 
 get their dues at the Hopkins school in Hadley. 
 
 This vote of the town of Hadley shows that interest concerning 
 education was alive in the minds of the people. 
 
 TOWN VOTES SEPT. 30, 1754. 
 
 At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Hadley hohlen at 
 the meeting-house in the first Precinct in said Hadley. 
 
 Voted. The Town is willing that the estate given for the support of a 
 Grammar School in the Town of Hadley, be employed (in conjunction with 
 other estates that may be obtained by subscription) for the support of an 
 Academy in the Town of Hadley ; the Grammar School being always main- 
 tained by the same, for the benefit of the said Town of Hadley. 
 
 A true copy from the Book of votes in the Town of Hadley, extracted Oct. 
 12th, 1754, by Josiah Pierce, Clark for sd. Town of Hadley. 
 
 Jan. 1, 1759. I. Williams, of Hatfield, wrote to Eleazar Porter of 
 the school committee, complaining that the design of the donor of the 
 school estate was not furthered as it ought to be by the trustees, that 
 so many English scholars were sent to the school that the master had 
 not time to attend properly to Grammar scholars and giving it to be 
 
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 understood that if the trustees or committee did not heed the warning 
 and change their course, measures were in contemplation to remove 
 them from office, for having failed in duty. 
 
 A letter of I. Williams without date or address, written probably 
 about this time, goes to show that a lively interest was felt in the 
 school question, to what end the school estate should be managed, 
 and what right and interest the town had in it. He argues strongly 
 and nt much length that the trust was not with the Town, but with 
 the trustees, for the ends indicated by the original donors. A 
 Grammar school was s.et up in Hatfield about 1754. About this time, 
 too, occurred the movement for a college in Hampshire county. See 
 the letters in the Judd collection with J. R. Trumbull. 
 
 July, 1766, (day of the month torn out.) Samuel Cooke of Cam- 
 bridge, wrote a letter to Rev. Samuel Hopkins of Hadley, claiming 
 very strongly that the school estate belonged to Hadley solely and 
 exclusively. 
 
 This letter seems to have been intended as an answer to the views 
 of Mr. Williams and those in sympathy with him and opposed to the 
 scheme they were anxious to carry out, to establish a college and 
 perhaps use the Hopkins estate in aid of the enterprise. He com- 
 plains of the disposition and effort to send English scholars from the 
 school. ( Judd papers with J. R. Trumbull.) 
 
 Letters of *Israel Williams concerning these matters are preserved 
 in the collections of the Mass. Historical Society in Boston. 
 
 This controversy died away. The committee were not disturbed. 
 The school was continued, it may be, with some interruptions. No 
 complete list of teachers can be found. A very few persons are 
 living who remember the Hopkins Grammar School as pupils in it 
 during the earlier years of the present century. At this time, as 
 before, it was understood to be a Grammar school taught by a master 
 able to teach the tongues and fit young men for college, though those 
 who sought such instruction were few. By far the larger number 
 were taught only the common English branches. 
 
 *Israel Williams was evidently an educated man, friend of education and positive clear 
 convictions and able to express them strongly. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 INCORPORATION OF HOPKINS ACADEMY. 
 
 At this time and onward there is reason to think that in the minds 
 of the committee and other friends of education the feeling was grow- 
 ing, that something more and better than had been realized was to be 
 desired. This desire found expression in a movement to secure from 
 the General Court of Massachusetts, an act of incorporation under 
 which the Hopkins Donation School should become Hopkins Academy. 
 
 The earliest record of this feeling and movement is found in the 
 doings of a town meeting held Jan. 1, 1816, when this vote was 
 passed : 
 
 Jan. 1, 1816. In a town meeting held this day it was voted that the town 
 will unite with the Committee of the Hadley Donation School in petitioning 
 the Legislature for the establishment of an academy in this town. 
 
 The committee themselves presented such a petition, as appears 
 from the act of incorporation herewith given. 
 
 Whereas it appears by the petition of Seth Smith and others, the Committee 
 of the Donation School in the town of Hadley, that a fund heretofore given 
 for the support of said School by the Honorable Edward Hopkins, may be 
 more conveniently and advantageously directed to the furtherance of the 
 benevolent objects of the donor by establishing a body politic for the manage- 
 ment of the same ; Therefore 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Gen- 
 eral Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that there be, and 
 hereby is established an Academy in the town of Hadley and County of 
 Hampshire upon the foundation of the Hopkins Donation School, to be known 
 and called hereafter by the name of Hopkins Academy and that Seth Smith, 
 William Porter, William Dickinson, Jacob Smith and Moses Porter, the Com- 
 mittee of the Donation School aforesaid be, and they are hereby incorporated 
 into a body politic by the name of the Trustees of Hopkins Academy ; and 
 they and their successors shall be and continue a body politic by the same 
 name forever. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That all the lands and monies heretofore given or 
 subscribed to the Committee aforesaid for the use of the said school, or 
 which shall hereafter be given, granted and assigned to the Trustees afore- 
 
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 said for the use of the said Academy, shall be confirmed to the said Trustees 
 and their successors iu that trust forever for the uses designated by the 
 Donors; and they the said Trustees and their successors shall be further 
 capable of having, holding and taking, in fee simple by gift, grant devise or 
 otherwise, any la'nds, tenements or other estate real or personal, provided 
 the annual income of the same shall not exceed flve thousand dollars ; and 
 that the rents and profits thereof shall be applied in such a manner as that the 
 designs of the donors may be effectually promoted. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said Trustees shall have power 
 from time to time as they shall determine, to elect such officers of the said 
 Academy as they shall judge necessary and convenient, and fix the term of 
 their respective ollices; to remove any Trustee from the Corporation, when 
 in their opinion he shall be incapable through age or otherwise of discharging 
 the duties of his office; to fill all vacancies by electing such persons for 
 Trustees as they shall judge best; to determine the times and places of their 
 meetings, the manner of notifying the said Trustees, and the method of 
 electing or removing them ; to ascertain the powers and duties of their several 
 officers, to elect preceptors and instructors of the said Academy, and deter- 
 mine the duties and tenures of their offices ; to ordain reasonable rules, orders 
 and bye-laws not repugnant to the laws of this Commonwealth, with reasonable 
 penalties, for the good government of the said Academy, and to ascertain the 
 qualifications of students, requisite to their admission and the same rules, 
 orders or bye-laws at their pleasure to repeal. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted. That the Trustees of the said Academy may 
 have one common seal, which they may change at pleasure and that all the 
 deeds signed and delivered by their Treasurer or Secretary, by their order, 
 and sealed with their seal, shall, when made in their name, be considered as 
 their deed, and as such to be duly executed and valid in law ; and that the 
 Trustees aforesaid may sue and be sued in all actions, real, personal or mixed 
 and prosecute and defend the same to final judgment and execution. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the number of said Trustees and their 
 successors, shall not at any one time be more than nine, nor less than five, 
 and a majority of the whole number for the time being, shall constitute a 
 quorum for transacting business, and a majority of members present at a 
 legal meeting shall decide all questions proper to come before the Trustees. 
 
 Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That Seth Smith be, and he hereby is 
 authorized to fix the time and place of holding the first meeting of the said 
 Trustees, and to notify them thereof. 
 
 Approved by the Governor Feb. 14, 18 1G. 
 CALEB STRONG was Governor at this time. 
 
 An act in addition to an act entitled ' l An Act to incorporate the 
 Trustees of Hopkins Academy." 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in Gen- 
 eral court assembled and by the authority of the same, That the number of 
 the Trustees of Hopkins Academy and their successors, shall not at any one 
 time be more than fifteen, nor less than live; and a majority of the whole for 
 the time being, shall constitute a quorum for transacting business; and a 
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 majority of the members present at a legal meeting, shall decide all questions 
 proper to come before the Trustees. 
 
 Sec. 2. B3 it further enacted, That the fifth section of the Act entitled 
 " An Act to incorporate the Trustees of Hopkins Academy " be and the same 
 is hereby repealed. 
 
 June 9, 1821. 
 
 The Trustees thus incorporated held their first meeting June 4th, 
 1817, at the house of Dr. Wm. Porter, chose Rev. Dan Huntington 
 and Rev. John Woodbridge as two additional trustees and adjourned 
 to the sixth of the same month at the house of Dea. Seth Smith. On 
 Friday, June 6th, the Trustees met and chose Rev. Joseph Lyman, 
 D. D. and Isaac C. Bates, P^sq. as two additional Trustees, making 
 the whole number nine, and adjourned to meet on the eleventh at the 
 house of Rev. John Woodbridge. 
 
 June llth. The Board met and chose the Rev. Dan Huntington 
 Secretary of the Board, the Rev. Joseph Lyman, D. D., President 
 and Wm. Porter, Esq., Treasurer. Isaac C. Bates, Esq., Rev. Dan 
 Huntington and Moses Porter, Esq. were appointed a committee to 
 frame Bye-laws for the regulation of Hopkins Academy, and Rev. 
 John Woodbridge, William Porter, Esq. and Dea. Jacob Smith were 
 appointed a committee to procure an instructor of the Academy. 
 
 June 30. The Board met as adjourned. The committee appointed 
 to prepare bye-laws, reported as follows : 
 
 1st. The officers of the Board of Trustees shall consist of a President, a 
 Secretary, a Treasurer and a Prudential Committee of three persons, which 
 shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting of the Board, to be holden on 
 Tuesday, fifteen days before the first Wednesday of December 10 o'clock, A. M. 
 
 2nd. The President shall be empowered, upon application of three or more, 
 Trustees, to call a special meeting of the Board, or when in his opinion it 
 shall be necessary, giving seasonable notice of the time and place of meet- 
 ing, and in case of the absence or inability of the President the same powers 
 are entrusted with the Prudential Committee. 
 
 3rd. The Treasurer shall give adequate bonds, with sufficient securities to 
 the Prudential Committee, for the faithful discharge of his duty. 
 
 4th. All orders on the Treasurer for the payment of money shall be drawn 
 under direction of the Prudential Committee. 
 
 5th. The Prudential Committee shall provide sufficient instructors for said 
 Academy, who shall be continued or removed at the discretion of the Trus- 
 tees, and the general concerns of the Institution shall be under the- Superin- 
 tendence of Said Committee. 
 
 0. The Instructors shall be persons of good moral character, of competent 
 learning and abilities, firmly established in the faith of the Christian Religion, 
 the doctrine and duties of which they shall inculcate, as well by example as 
 precept. 
 
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 They shall instruct their pupils whether males or female, in the several 
 arts and sciences, which may be necessary or proper to an accomplished edu- 
 cation of either. 
 
 The Preceptor shall open and close the school each day with prayer. He 
 shall be authorized to adopt such rules for the internal government of said 
 Academy under the revision of the Prudential Committee, as shall bo found 
 necessary, nor contravening those established by the Trustees. 
 
 [He shall also keep and at the end of each term render to the Treasurer, a 
 catalogue of the students, specifying, respectively the time of their entering 
 and leaving the school.] 
 
 7th. Youth of both sexes, who can read decently, in a common English 
 book without spelling and write a joined hand and are of good moral charac- 
 ter shall be entitled to admission. 
 
 [8th. Males studying the Greek and Latin languages are exempt from the 
 expense of tuition. 
 
 9 tli. Tuition by the term, shall be two dollars, one-half payable in advance, 
 the residue at the expiration of six weeks from the time of admission. ] 
 
 10th. All the students [shall uniformly attend upon the public worship of 
 the Sabbath] shall be in subjection to the authority and government of the 
 Institution ; shall be punctual and seasonable in their attendance upon its 
 exercises ; orderly and studious in their habits ; decent in their apparel and 
 deportment ; and shall in all things conform to the rules and regulations which 
 are or may be prescribed for their direction and government. 
 
 llth. All damages shall be estimated by the Preceptor and repaid by those 
 who occasion them. 
 
 12th. Punishments shall be either private or public admonition, and degra- 
 dation to be inflicted at the discretion of the Preceptor, and for more 
 aggravated offences suspension or expulsion to be inflicted by the Preceptor, 
 with the concurrence of the Prudential Committee. 
 
 [13th. There shall be four terms in each year and four vacations consisting 
 of two weeks each. The terms shall respectively commence on the first 
 Wednesdays of December, March, June and September. And at the end of 
 each term there shall be a public examination of the students.] 
 
 14th. Each meeting of the Board of Trustees shall be opened with prayer 
 by the President or some person nominated by him. 
 
 15th. Any alteration or amendment of the bye laws shall be proposed at a 
 previous meeting. 
 
 Voted to accept the above as the Constitution of Hopkins Academy. 
 [Aug. 30, 1819. The 8th and 9th articles of the Bye laws were so 
 far altered as that the price of tuition shall, in future, be two dollars 
 and fifty cents, as well for Latin and Greek, as English scholars tuid 
 in case any student shall at the same time attend to more branches 
 than two, the tuition shall be increased at the rate of fifty cents for 
 each additional branch of study, excepting in the French language, 
 the terms of tuition in which will vary according to the number of 
 scholars, and be subject to the order of the Prudential Committee, 
 
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 provided, however, that in ease any Latin and (Jreek scholar shall 
 attend to any other branch of study, the Latin and Greek shall be 
 deemed but one branch ; and provided also, that all charity scholars 
 who may be placed in the Academy by any Education Society, or by 
 the Prudential Committee, as such, shall be exempted from all 
 expense for tuition. 
 
 Sept. 6, 1821. It was voted that as a standing rule, there shall 
 be a regular meeting of the Trustees, for the transaction of business, 
 at the close of each quarter, when the publick examination is had. 
 
 Dec. 5, 1825. Voted that the annual meeting of the Board be 
 held each year on Monday next preceding the Wednesday which 
 commences the winter quarter, at 11 o'clock A. M. 
 
 Voted that it be the official duty of the preceptor to furnish the 
 Treasurer, at least three weeks previous to the expiration of such 
 quarter, a list of the names of the students, their place of residence, 
 and the sums due from them severally to the Treasury. 
 
 Vofed that in future the number of officers be enlarged by the choice 
 of a vice-president. 
 
 Nov. 9, 1839. It was voted that members of colleges be not 
 admitted as members of the Academy from this time. 
 
 Jan. 23, 1852. It was voted that the By-laws be so altered as to 
 allow the Preceptor of the Academy liberty to punish the younger 
 scholars as is customary in common schools. 
 
 Feb. 17, 1852. Voted that the 12th article which relates to the 
 punishment of scholars be erased.]* 
 
 BY-LAWS OF HOPKINS ACADEMY AS REVISED AND AMENDED 
 MAY 5, 1889. 
 
 ARTICLE 1st. The officers of the Board of Trustees shall consist of a 
 president, a vice-president, a secretary, a treasurer, a prudential committee 
 of three persons and an auditor of accounts, which officers shall be elected by 
 ballot at the annual meeting of the Board to be holden on the last day of the 
 Fall term in each year. 
 
 ART. 2d. The Prudential Committee shall be empowered, upon the applica- 
 tion of three or more trustees, to call a special meeting of the Board, or 
 when, in their opinion it shall be necessary, giving seasonable notice of the 
 time and place of meeting. 
 
 ART. 3d. The Treasurer shall give adequate bonds, with sufficient securi- 
 ties to the Prudential Committee for the faithful discharge of his duty. 
 
 ART. 4th. All orders on the Treasurer for the payment of money shall be 
 
 ^Articles in brackets subsequently repealed. 
 
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 drawn under the- direction of the Prudential Committee and be signed by not 
 less than two of them. 
 
 ART. 5th. The Prudential Committee shall provide sufficient instructors 
 for said Academy, who shall be continued or removed at the discretion of the 
 Trustees, and the general concerns of the institution shall be under the 
 superintendence of said committee. 
 
 ART. Gth. The instructors shall be persons of good moral character, of 
 competent learning and abilities, firmly established in the faith of the Chris- 
 tian religion, the doctrines and duties of which they shall inculcate by exam- 
 ple as well as by precept. They shall faithfully instruct all their pupils in all 
 the branches of the course of study as prescribed by the Prudential Commit- 
 tee, with the view to prepare young men and women for admission to college, 
 or other higher institutions of learning or for the conduct of life. 
 
 The Principal shall open the school each day with prayer. He is authorized 
 to adopt such rules for the internal government of said Academy under the 
 revision of the Prudential Committee" as shall be found necessary, not con- 
 travening those established by the Trustees. 
 
 The Principal shall return to the secretary, at the end of each term, the 
 names of all scholars to be entered on the records. 
 
 AHT. 7th. Pupils of good character, who have completed the study of 
 Geography, Grammar, Arithmetic and the History of the United States and 
 the rudimentary branches as taught in the Grammar Schools of the town, on 
 examination or on certificate satisfactory to the Prudential Committee, shall 
 be admitted to membership in the school with all its privileges, free of tui- 
 tion, if they belong to town. Pupils from out of town shall be entitled to 
 membership on payment of tuition at rates established by the Prudential 
 Committee. In special cases pupils whose needs are not met in other schools, 
 may be admitted to membership for the winter term, on the approval of the 
 Prudential Committee, provided they can be taught to advantage in existing 
 classes. 
 
 ART. 8th. All students shall be in subjection to the authority and govern- 
 ment of the institution, shall be punctual and seasonable in their attendance 
 upon its exercises, orderly and studious in their 'habits, decent in their apparel 
 and deportment and shall in all things conform to the rules and regulations 
 which are or may be prescribed for their direction or Government. 
 
 ART. 9th. All damages shall be estimated by the principal and repaired by 
 those who occasion them. 
 
 ART. 10th. Each meeting of the Board of Trustees shall be opened with 
 prayer by the president or some person nominated by him. 
 
 ART. llth. Any alteration or amendment of these by-laws shall be pro- 
 posed at a previous meeting. 
 
 ART. 12th. All by-laws or parts of by-laws inconsistent with the forgoing 
 are hereby repealed. 
 
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 SCHOOL HOUSES. 
 
 The committee in trust with the Hopkins Fund seem never to have 
 built a school house for their use until after the act incorporating 
 Hopkins Academy in 1816. Nathaniel Ward, who died in 1664, gave 
 a piece of his homelot on the street with his house for the use of the 
 school. A part of this building was used for a school house for many 
 years. After 1688 a room was hired for the school. In 1710 the 
 Ward house was said to be " ready to fall down." It had probably 
 ceased to be used for school purposes. 
 
 July 13, 1698 the town voted to build a school house 25 by 18 feet 
 and 7 feet between joints, to be set in " middle of the town." This 
 was the first school house built in Hadley. It stood in the broad 
 street. 
 
 The Hopkins school, says Mr. Judd, was apparently the only 
 public school in the old parish of Hadley, for more than a century, 
 except a school for boys and girls voted in 1760 for that year. It 
 was the common or town school. The master, with rare exceptions, 
 was a man of collegiate education and he instructed some in Greek 
 and Latin, but most, only in reading, writing and arithmetic. When 
 Hadley had 99 families in 1695, there was but one town school. 
 There still survives one man who remembers attending the Hopkins 
 school kept in the house in the middle of the street early in this 
 century.* 
 
 Following the act of incorporation came the erection of the Acad- 
 emy building. No votes of the Trustees are on record looking to the 
 choice and purchase of the site or the contract for building. .The 
 name of the builder is not preserved. The lot, 63 feet front, 53 feet 
 deep, containing thirteen rolls of land, was part of the homestead of 
 Mr. Chester Gaylord and was bought of him for the sum of fifty 
 dollars. The building fronted south on the street known as Middle 
 Lane and later as Academy Lane and Russell street. It was a plain 
 brick structure painted, three stories high, having its entrance close to 
 the sidewalk with no yard in front, and only a narrow space on the 
 other sides. April 7, 1817, the town voted that the Trustees be per- 
 mitted to enclose a part of this middle lane in front of their building 
 for a yard under the direction of the selectmen not exceeding four- 
 teen' feet in width. The ground floor was divided equally into two 
 school rooms, one on either side of the hall, running through the 
 building from south to north. 
 
 *Dea. Simeon Dickinson who died May, 1800, aged 95. 
 
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 The second story had five apartments. A small one over the 
 entrance at the south was sometimes used for a library. The other 
 rooms were repositories for chemical and philosophical apparatus and 
 recitation rooms as they were needed. 
 
 The whole of the third story was known as the Academy Hall, 
 which was thought to be fine and attractive. Its eastern end was oc- 
 cupied by a stage raised about four feet above the floor. This Hall was 
 used for rhetorical exercises every Wednesday afternoon, quarterly 
 examinations and for exhibitions and public lectures and sometimes 
 for preaching services on Sunday. The congregation of the Russell 
 church worshiped in it for several months during the erection of their 
 church building, when they had- Rev. Dr. Allen, ex-president of 
 Bowdoin College, as their preacher, and likewise Rev. H. B. Smith, 
 1). 1)., Prof, at Amherst College and afterwards at Union Theol. Sem. 
 He was known to say, " In that hall I spread my wings." These 
 apartments were severely plain and poorly equipped and furnished for 
 the work to be done in them, according to the standards of to-day. 
 But notwithstanding these limitations, good work was done and 
 benign results wrought in the development of character in the young 
 people, who resorted hither for instruction and training, of which not 
 a few living witnesses are left, though the departed are now the 
 majority. 
 
 Means for building were obtained in part by voluntary subscriptions. 
 Some ninety persons became subscribers for this object in sums vary- 
 ing from fifty cents to eighty dollars. A very small fraction of these 
 subscriptions was paid in money, VJut more in labor, in building mate- 
 rial and supplies of one kind or other. 
 
 Windsor Smith, a merchant of that time, subscribed forty dollars 
 in two installments, one of twenty-five and one of fifteen dollars, and 
 twenty-five dollars of this amount was paid in two installments each, 
 of ten gallons of rum, at seven shillings and sixpence a gallon, with- 
 out which those walls could not have risen. It is possible that liquor 
 in still larger quantity was deemed needful to this work, but hidden 
 from notice among charges for " sundries." In the treasurer's 
 accounts under date May 7, 1817, these charges are found, " 33 galls, 
 rum at 6s., 9d. bbl. 7s, $38.29, 1 qt. mug, 1 H Ibs. sugar .31." 
 
 The accounts for building were audited Nov. 28, 1817 and the 
 whole expenses of the Academy so far as then finished, found to be 
 $4954.90. This sum is much larger than the amount subscribed. 
 The costs of building beyond this, were paid from the treasury of the 
 
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 institution by degrees from time to time. The treasurer's accounts 
 lead to this inference. 
 
 Before the opening of the school a service of dedication was held 
 Dec. 9, 1817. 
 
 The prayer of dedication was offered in Academy Hall by Rev. 
 Joseph Lyman, D. D., of Hatfield, President of the Board of Trus- 
 tees. Divine service appropriate to the occasion was attended at the 
 meeting house at 2 o'clock i\ M. A sermon was preached by Rev. 
 John Woodbridge, from Dent, vi : 7, "And thou shalt teach them 
 diligently unto thy children." The Trustees voted that the thanks of 
 the board be given to Rev. Mr. Woodbridge for his sermon and that 
 a copy be requested for publication. 
 
 Dec. 10, 1817, the day following the dedication, the school was 
 opened under Rev. Dan Huntington as preceptor and Giles C. Kel- 
 logg, Esq. and Miss Sophia Mosely, assistants. The first catalogue 
 published in 1818, has the name of Miss Sally Willistou of East- 
 hampton, as preceptress, from which it would appear that although 
 Miss Mosely had been engaged, she did not serve that year, but was 
 employed the year succeeding. For the second year Mr. Hunting-ton's 
 salary was five hundred dollars. Mr. Kellogg had twenty dollars a 
 month and board with promise of more if the condition of the funds 
 would warrant an increase. Miss Mosely was to have twelve dollars 
 a month and board. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 HOPKINS ACADEMY IN COURT. TOWN OF HADLEY VS. 
 TRUSTEES OF HOPKINS ACADEMY. 
 
 Under this Charter and Constitution Hopkins Academy entered 
 upon its career of usefulness, having a large number of pupils from out 
 of town as well as from within, employing a principal and one or 
 more assistants. This course of prosperity continued without 
 hindrance or molestation until 1831, when at the annual town meeting 
 held April -1th, adjourned from March '28th, of that year, it was voted 
 that a committee of three be appointed for investigating the subject 
 of the Hopkins Fund to report at the May meeting. 
 
 Voted that the Hon. Chas. P. Phelps, Giles C. Kellogg and Col. 
 Ephraim Smith be the committee. 
 
 At a meeting held May llth, the committee above named to ascer- 
 tain whether the Funds of the Hopkins School have been appropriated 
 by the Trustees of Hopkins Academy for the benefit of the Town of 
 Iladley, conformably to the intentions of the donors, reported that in 
 their judgment, after perusing the documents bearing on the question, 
 that the Town would be better satisfied with the opinion of men 
 learned in the law, than with their own. They, therefore, had con- 
 sulted Messrs. Hillings and Clark who, after examination of the 
 documents referred to, give their opinion of the interesting question 
 presented to them and the argument by which it is supported, which 
 the committee now present for the consideration of the town. This 
 report, was accepted and filed. 
 
 It was further voted at the same meeting that a committee of three 
 be appointed with full power to take all such measures as may be 
 necessary to obtain an adjudication or judicial decision of the question 
 "Have the Trustees of Hopkins Academy, in Hadley, applied the 
 income and proceeds of the Hopkins School Fund (so-called) and of 
 the funds and estates heretofore contributed thereunto by the Town of 
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Hadley or any of the inhabitants thereof and which have fallen under 
 the control and management of the said Trustees in all respects con- 
 formably to the intentions of the donors, in order solely that if by such 
 decision any misappropriation of said income and proceeds shall 
 appear to have been made by the said Trustees, they may hereafter 
 apply the same in conformity to such decision. 
 
 Voted that the committee appointed at the last meeting, to whom 
 the subject of the application of the Funds \vas then referred, be the 
 committee for procuring the decision. 
 
 At a meeting of the Trustees of Hopkins Academy, Aug. lf>, is;',l, 
 the following proposition was then made, seconded and adopted : 
 
 Whereas the Town of Hadley has directed a suit to be commenced 
 against the Trustees of Hopkins Academy. 
 
 Voted that the Prudential Committee be, and are hereby authorized 
 to procure good counsel and adopt all other suitable measures which 
 may be necessary for a defence in the case. 
 
 The case was heard in the Supreme Court, Sept. term, 1833, and 
 the report of the case and the decision reached are given below. 
 
 THE INHABITANTS OF HADLEY VERSUS THE TRUSTEES 
 OF HOPKINS ACADEMY. 
 
 In 1057, Edward Hopkins, of England devised estate, real and personal, to 
 certain individuals, in full assurance of their trust and faithfulness in dis- 
 posing of the same according to the true intent and purpose of the testator, 
 namely, "to give some encouragement to those foreign plantations (New 
 England) in breeding of hopeful youth in a way of learning both at the 
 Grammar School and College for the public service of the country in future 
 times.'' 
 
 In 16G4 the Trustees executed an instrument under seal, by which they order 
 that "the property be equally divided between the towns of New Haven and 
 Iladley to be in each of those towns respectively managed and improved 
 towards the erecting and maintaining of a grammar school in each of them 
 and the management thereof to be in the hands of our assigns, which are for 
 that at New Haven, &c., and for that at Hadley J. K. &c. These we 
 constitute to be our Trustees for the ordering of said estate and car- 
 rying on the work, wherein it is to be employed, in their town, hereby 
 committing to them and investing them with full power to act in the 
 same, in all respects as ourselves, both in managing the trust themselves 
 and in choosing successors from time to time &c. who shall have full 
 power to pursue and put in execution the pious end and intentions of the 
 worthy donor, yet reserving to ourselves while we live, the full power of a 
 negative vote, for the hindering anything that may cross that end." In H!f>4 
 another testator devised land "to the town of Hadley, for promoting and 
 
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 advancement of a school for learning." In the same year another testator 
 devised " to the town of lladley " certain real estate " to be improved towards 
 the maintaining of a school ever." In 1GG6 the town passed the following 
 vote " The town have granted to and for the use of a grammar school in this 
 town of lladley, and to be and remain perpetually to and for the use of said 
 school " certain lands specified in the vote. In 1GG9 one of the surviving 
 trustees made a proposal to the town of Hadley, that he should appoint three 
 persons, to be submitted to the town and to be approved of by them, and 
 that the town should appoint two and that these five with himself whilst he 
 lived, should have the sole disposal and management of the estate in all 
 respects, for the end to which it was bequeathed; and that the same live 
 persons with himself whilst he lived, should have the sole management of all 
 other estate given by any donor, or which might be given while they survived, 
 to the town of Hadley, for the promoting of literature or learning; that 
 these Trustees should have power to perpetuate the Board by tilling their 
 own vacancies ; and that the school should be called the Hopkins school. 
 The town approved of three persons named by the Trustees and appointed two 
 themselves, and voted that "the committee thus chosen should jointly and 
 together have the full ordering and disposal of the estate given by the Trus- 
 tees of Hopkins to the town of Hadley, or any other estate or .estates that 
 were or might be given, either by the town itself or by any other donor, for 
 the use, benefit and maintenance and promoting a grammar school to and for 
 the use and in the town of Hadley." In 1675 another testator devised land 
 to the town of Hadley, "committing it to the care, disposing and ordering of 
 S. S. &c. [naming the persons constituting the Hopkins school committee] 
 to be by them disposed of (in case they quietly keep and remain in their com- 
 mitteeship for Hopkins school) unto Hopkins School for Hadley ; but if they 
 be put out or disturbed in that committeeship, then to be disposed of as they 
 see meet, for the good of the town." It was held that the legal estate in the 
 property given by Hopkins, did not, by his will and the instrument made by 
 his Trustees in lGG4 rf vest in the town of Hadley; that the devise was not 
 made for the purpose of founding a common town school for the exclusive 
 benefit of the inhabitants of that town, but was designed for the encourage- 
 ment of all persons in that (then) newly settled part of the country, who 
 should desire to avail themselves of the benefit of a grammar school adapted 
 to instruct and qualify pupils for the university ; that a long continued usage 
 of admitting pupils from other towns than Hadley, to participate in the 
 benefits of the Hopkins school, was of Aveight in establishing such construc- 
 tion of the devise ; and that all the other donations above mentioned were to 
 be held upon the same trusts and be appropriated to the same purposes as 
 the principal one from Hopkins. 
 
 It is probable that in 1666 the county courts and the President and 
 Council of New England had jurisdiction over trusts of the kind above 
 described. 
 
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 BILL IN EQUITY. 
 
 The bill alleges, that in 1057, Edward Hopkins, Esquire, a resident 
 in the Kingdom of Great Britain, by his last will bequeathed and devised 
 as follows: "And the residue of my estate there (New England) I do 
 hereby give and bequeath to my Father Theophilus Eaton, Esquire, Mr. John 
 Davenport, Mr. John Cullick and Mr. William Goodwin, in full assurance of 
 their trust and faithfulness in disposing of it, according to the true intent 
 and purpose of me, the said Edward Hopkins, which is to give some encour- 
 agement in those foreign plantations for the breeding up of hopeful youth in 
 a way of learning, both at the grammar school and college, for the public 
 service of the country in future times. My further mind and will is, that 
 within six months after the decease of my wife, tive hundred pounds be 
 made over into New England, according to the advice of my loving friends 
 Major Robert Thompson and Mr. Francis Willoughby ; and conveyed into 
 the hands of the Trustees before mentioned, in further prosecution of the 
 aforesaid public ends, which in the simplicity of my heart are for the up- 
 holding and promoting of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ in those 
 parts of the earth :" That in 1064, Davenport and Goodwin being the only 
 surviving Trustees, by an instrument under their hands and seals, after 
 reciting the trusts and powers given to them in the; will, proceed to execute 
 the trust and dispose of the property confided to them in manner following : 
 " We therefore, the said John Davenport and William Goodwin, being the 
 only survivors of the said Trustees, for answering the trusts committed to 
 us by the last will and testament of our worthy honored friend, do order and 
 dispose of said estate as follows, &c. (disposing of a portion of the property 
 confided to them, and then proceeding:) we do further order and appoint, 
 that the rest of Mr. Hopkins his estate, both that which is in New England 
 and 500, which is to come from Old England when it shall become due to us 
 after Mrs. Hopkins her decease, be all of it equally divided between the towns 
 of New Haven and Hadley, to be in each of those towns respectively managed 
 and improved towards the erecting and maintaining of 41 Grammar School in 
 each of them." 
 
 That in 1064 John Barnard, in his last will, devised " unto the town of 
 Hadley for promoting and advancement of a school for learning, twelve 
 acres, one rood and nine poles of meadow land, perpetually to be and remain 
 to the use aforesaid, lying within the lands of the township of Hadley, six 
 acres two roods and twenty-nine poles lying in the meadow called llocka- 
 num ; another parcel in the meadow called the Great Meadow, containing live 
 acres, two roods, twenty poles;" and that in a codicil he devised as follows : 
 " To the use and towards the maintenance of a school, I give perpetually my 
 piece of land lying in the Forlorn; as also my piece of land that lies in Ilock- 
 anum ; and also that land I have given to a school ; if there be not a school in 
 Hadley at the decease of my wife, then the land to be improved by four of 
 the poorest men in town till there be a school set up." 
 
 That in 1004, Nathaniel Ward devised as follows : Item, to the town of 
 Hadley, I give, after the decease of my wife, my now dwelling house, with 
 about five roods or an acre and a half of land on which it standeth, and my 
 
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 lot of live acres, more or less, in north meadow, and my lot in Ilockanum 
 containing nine acres, more or less; to be improved towards the maintaining 
 of a school ever." 
 
 That in 1G(J(J the town of Iladley passed the following vote : " The town 
 have granted to and for the use of a grammar school in' this town of Iladley, 
 and to be and remain perpetually to and for the use of said school, the two 
 little meadows next beyond the brook commonly called the mill brook, and 
 as much land to be laid to the same as the committee, chosen by the town, 
 shall, in their discretion, see meet and needful, provided, withal, it be left to 
 the judgment of the said committee, that so much of the second meadow 
 shall be excepted from the said grant as that there may be a feasible and 
 convenient passage for cattle to their feed." 
 
 That in l(i(!i), by agreement between Goodwin and the town of Iladley, five 
 persons were chosen, partly by Goodwin and partly by the town, as a joint 
 committee, " who together with Goodwin while he lived, and after his 
 decease should jointly and together have the ordering and full dispose of the 
 estate or estates given by Mr. Davenport and Mr. Goodwin(as trustees as afore- 
 said to Mr. Hopkins) to this town of Hadley, or any other estate or estates 
 that ever may be given, either by the town itself, or any other donor or don- 
 ors for the use, benefit and maintenance and promoting a grammar school to 
 and for the use and in the town of Iladley." That it was also agreed that the 
 committee should have power to fill vacancies in their number occasioned by 
 death. 
 
 That in 1(575, Henry Clark devised as follows : " My nine acre lot in Hock- 
 anuin in the town of Hadley, and two acres and a half of my lot in the lower 
 end of Great Meadow in Hadley, on the other side of the lot, I give to the 
 town of Hadley, committing it to the care of Lieut. Samuel Smith, Ensign Cook, 
 Dea. Tilton and Mr. John Russell, junior, to be by them disposed of (in case 
 they quiety keep and remain in their committeeship for Hopkins School) unto 
 Hopkins school for Hadley; but if they be put out of or disturbed in that 
 committeeship, then to be otherwise disposed of as they or the survivors of 
 them see meet for the good of the town." 
 
 That the committee above described and their successors continued to have 
 the management of the property and to appropriate its annual income agree- 
 ably to the uses and for the purposes above mentioned, until 181(>, when the 
 committee, in concurrence with the town of Hadley, petitioned the legislature 
 for an act of incorporation ; and an act was accordingly passed, entitled, "an 
 Act to incorporate the trustees of Hopkins Academy." That the trustees of 
 the academy succeeded to and accepted of the trust above described ; and 
 that in and by the act of incorporation, all the lands and moneys, which had 
 been heretofore given or subscribed to the committee before mentioned, for 
 the use of the school, are confirmed to the trustees of the academy and their 
 successors forever, for the uses designated by the donors." 
 
 That the plaintiffs hoped the trustees would have managed the property 
 and appropriated the annual income, thereof, to and for the uses designated 
 by the donors, and according to the agreement between Goodwin and the 
 town of Iladley, for the use and benefit and maintenance and promoting a 
 
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 Grammar School, to ami for the use of the town and its inhabitants, but that 
 they refuse, and have for a long time refused to administer the trust, accord- 
 ing- to the directions of the donors, and to appropriate the annual avails of 
 the property to and for the exclusive use and benefit of the plaintiffs, and 
 have appropriated the same, as well to the use and benefit of others, as of the 
 plaintiffs, and sometimes to the exclusion of the plaintiffs. 
 
 The bill then prays for disclosure and relief. 
 
 The defendants in their answer, admit that Hopkins, Barnard, Ward and 
 Clark made the several devises, and that the town of llaclley made the grant 
 set forth in the bill. 
 
 They admit, that in 1<!(>4, Davenport and Goodwin, for the execution of the 
 trust created by the will of Hopkins, made an instrument, containing the 
 clause recited in the bill, but they allege that after that clause, the instru- 
 ment proceeded as follows, " And the management, thereof, be in the hands 
 of our assigns, which are for that at New Haven at present, (and so to con- 
 tinue, unless some other way be by us agreed on) the town court of New 
 Haven, consisting of the magistrates and deputies and the ollicers of the 
 church at New Haven, and for that at Had ley, John Russell, junior, pastor of 
 the church of Christ at Hadley, Lieut. Samuel Smith, Andrew Bacon and 
 Peter Tilton, these we, the said John Davenport and William Goodwin, do 
 appoint and constitute to be our trustees, for the ordering of the estate and 
 carrying on the work, wherein it is to be employed, each in their several 
 towns respectively ; hereby committing to them and investing them with full 
 power to act in the same, in their several towns respectively; in all respects, 
 as ourselves, both in managing the trust themselves ami in choosing succes- 
 sors from time to time, as they shall see meet, who, or the major part of 
 whom, (or in case at any time the rest of the trustees being taken away 
 before others be chosen, any of whom) may and shall have full power to 
 pursue and put in execution the pious end and intendment of the worthy 
 donor; yet reserving to ourselves while we live, the full power of :i negative 
 vote for the hindering anything that may cross that end." The defendants 
 further say, that the agreement made in 1(!(!1), between Goodwin and the 
 town, was as follows : " Mr. Goodwin proposeth as that wherein he is willing 
 to concur, viz. as to the ordering of the estate distributed and given by Mr. 
 Davenport and himself (as trustees of Mr. Hopkins) to the town of Hadley, 
 donors of the said estate, both for the present and the future, he, the said 
 Goodwin hath chosen three persons or will choose them, to have power in 
 the premises; he is willing also that the town should make choice of two 
 more able and pious men, which live persons, together with himself, shall 
 have the sole and full dispose and management of the estate above expressed, 
 in all respects, for the end to which it is bequeathed. 2. As also the said 
 five persons together with himself while he lives, to have the sole dispose 
 and management of all other estate or estates given by any donor, or that 
 may be while they survive, to the town of Hadley, for the promotion of liter- 
 ature or learning. 
 
 3. These five persons to continue, abide and remain in the work above 
 expressed, till death or other providence of God remove any of them, and 
 
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 the survivors to choose to themselves the full number aforesaid. 4. Mr. 
 Goodwin desires the name of the school may be called Hopkins school, which 
 communication being so made to the town of Iladley on March 20, IfidO, the 
 town, on the 20th of the same March voted, that Mr. Goodwin be sent to by 
 the town, to know the persons lie will make choice of as respects the prem- 
 ises. He returns, that he lias chosen Mr. John Russell, pastor of the church 
 at Iladley, Lieut. Samuel Smith and Aaron Cook; and the said tow T n voted 
 their approbation of Mr. Goodwin's choice. The town also voted Nathaniel 
 Dickinson and Peter Tilton to join with the persons before mentioned, as a 
 joint committee, who, together with Mr. Goodwin, while he lives, and after 
 his decease, shall jointly and together have the ordering and full dispose of 
 the estate or estates given by Mr. Davenport and Mr. Goodwin (as trustees 
 as aforesaid to Mr. Hopkins) to the town of Iladley, or any other estate or 
 estates that are or may be given, cither>by the town itself, or any other donor 
 or donors, for the use, benefit and maintenance and promoting a grammar 
 school to and for the use and in the town of Iladley; as also jointly and 
 together to do, act and conclude, iinish and execute, anything respecting the 
 premises, faithfully and according to their best discretion. Voted also by 
 the town, that as to the five persons, before expressed, if any decease or be 
 otherwise disabled by the providence of God, the rest surviving shall have 
 the sole choice of any other in the room and place of those surceasing, to the 
 full number of live persons, provided they be known discreet, pious, faithful 
 persons. And the town directed Mr. Clark and Peter Tilton to present the 
 premises to the court to be recorded." They further state, that in 1671, the 
 town granted a piece of land near the corn mill, for the erecting a dwelling 
 house upon the same for a miller, which grant had this provision viz., that 
 whatever land or estate with said house and mill etc. that hath been given by 
 the town of Iladley or any other, for the maintaining a grammar school there, 
 be ordered, managed and disposed by the present school committee in being, 
 and after them by their successors whom they shall choose, provided thev he 
 still pious, discreet, faithful men; otherwise the said grant to be void and 
 invalid to the end and purposes aforesaid." 
 
 They further state that at a county court held at Springfield, in September, 
 1082, an order was passed accepting and allowing a return from the commit- 
 tee of the Hopkins School, and taking notice that John Russell, Aaron Cook, 
 Philip Smith and Samuel Partridge constitute the committee and approving 
 of them all, and desiring their further management and carrying on of the 
 a Hairs of the school, from time to time, which the court would be always 
 ready to promote and encourage as need might require. 
 
 They further state, that while the care of the school was thus lawfully in 
 the hands and under the oversight of a committee with full powers to 
 manage the same without the intervention of the town, yet about August 23 
 li'.sc, the town voted, " to take into their own hands to manage, order and 
 dispose to the use of a school in the town of Iladley, all the estates of houses 
 and lands bequeathed and given by any donor or donors, in their last wills 
 and testaments, to the town of Iladley, or to a school in said town, as the 
 legacy of Nathaniel Ward. John Barnard and Henry Clark :" which interfer- 
 
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 ence on the part of the town, induced the committee of Hopkins school to 
 apply to the County Court held at Springfield, in September, 168G, being a 
 court having jurisdiction of the premises, whereupon the following order 
 was passed viz : " The declining estate of Hopkins School in Hadley being 
 presented to this court by the Rev. Mr. John Russell, Aaron Cook, Joseph 
 Kellogg and Samuel Porter, the committee of said school, for that some of 
 Iladley do disturb or obstruct the management of the estate of said school, 
 therefore this court do order and declare that the whole donations to a school 
 there, from the charitable donors, be all employed and improved for and 
 towards the maintenance of the Grammar school in Hadley; it appearing that 
 the intent of Mr. Henry Clark, in what he gave to a school, was, that it 
 should go and be employed to the said school called Hopkins school. Also 
 the like doth appear as to goodrnan Ward's gift. And goodman Barnard's 
 gift may as well be taken for that school as any other. Wherefore this 
 court order that all said gifts and others, with the land given by Hadley 
 town, be all accordingly improved by the aforesaid committee." They 
 further state that upon application duly made to the President and Council of 
 his (then) majesty's territory and dominion of New England in America, upon 
 the concerns of the Hopkins school and the friends thereof, it was, on 
 December 8, 1080, ordered by the President and Council, that the Committee 
 for the Hopkins school be and remain the " Feoffees of the grammar 
 school in said town, and that Mr. Partridge be and hereby is dismissed 
 from any further service in that matter, and that the said committee 
 make report of the present estate of Mr. Hopkins and other donations to s;iid 
 school, which, (having been orderly annexed to the grammar school and here- 
 by confirmed to that service) unto the next county court of Hampshire, who 
 are hereby empowered to supply the place of Mr. Partridge with some other 
 meet person in Hadley, and that the said court do liud out and order some 
 method for the payment of Boltwood's expenses upon the mill, that the mill, 
 farm and other lands given to the scoool, may return to that public use, the 
 president and council hereby declaring it to be beyond the power of the town 
 of Hadley, or any other to divert any of the lands or estate, or 1 1n- 
 said mill stream or privileges thereof (which are legally determined to this 
 said grammar school) to any other use whatsoever; the president and council 
 judging the particular gifts in that town a good foundation for a grammar 
 school, both for themselves and the whole county* ; and that the grammar 
 school can be no otherwise interpreted, but to be a school holden by a master 
 capable to instruct children and fit them for the university. Council House. 
 Boston, Dec. 0, 1080." 
 
 They further state that at a county court held at Northampton on June 8th, 
 1687, an order was made (which is set out at length in the answer) reciting 
 the proceedings of the President and Council, and of the county court held 
 at Springfield in September, 1080, and that the court held at Northampton 
 approves of the same, and concluding as follows: "It is there fore hereby 
 ordered, that those persons of Iladley who have any ways meddled or 
 intrenched upon the school estate thereof, which ought to be managed by 
 
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 John Russell, Aaron Cook, Joseph Kellogg and Samuel Porter, the feoffees 
 of said school (to whom this court of sessions, according to orders, have now 
 by consent and choice of the rest of the committee added Chiliab Smith of 
 Hadley, to make up the number of five feoffees) do deliver up all the estate 
 they have entered on, forthwith, into the hands and ordering of the feoffees, 
 on penalty of all damage that may come to themselves' by neglect thereof." 
 And the defendants therefore allege, that as, from their obvious nature, the 
 donations w r ere, and by the judgment of the President and Council, and of the 
 court held at Northampton, they were adjudged to be " a good foundation 
 for a grammar school, both for themselves and the whole county " [or country] 
 and as it was further adjudged, " that a grammar school can be no otherwise 
 interpreted but to be a school holclen by a master capable to instruct children and 
 tit them for the university," the plaintiffs should not now be allowed to claim 
 that the committee, or those who have succeeded them in the trust in question, 
 should apply the trust fund exclusively to the use of the inhabitants of Hadley. 
 
 The defendants admit that an act of the Legislature was passed on June 
 14, 1816 (St. 1815 C. 104) to incorporate the Trustees of Hopkins Academy, 
 by which it is provided, that there shall be established an academy in the 
 town of Hadley upon the foundation of Hopkins donation school, and that 
 the committee of the school be incorporated into a body politic by the name 
 of the Trustees of Hopkins Academy; and that all the lands and moneys 
 heretofore given or subscribed to the committee for the use of the school, or 
 which shall be hereafter given, granted and assigned to the Trustees for the 
 use of the academy shall be confirmed to the Trustees, and their successors 
 in that trust, forever, for the uses designated by the donors, and that they 
 shall be further capable of taking and holding estate, real or personal, pro- 
 vided the annual income of the same shall not exceed $5000 and that the rents 
 and profits thereof shall be applied in such a manner as that the designs of 
 the donors may be more effectually promoted. And the defendants advise 
 that this act was procured upon the petition of the committee of the donation 
 school acting in concurrence with the town, pursuant to a vote of January 1, 
 1816, " that the town will unite with the committee of the donation school 
 in petitioning the legislature for the establishment of an academy in this 
 town." And the defendants represent that the town, in thus uniting with the 
 committee, intended that all the funds in the hands of the committee should 
 be hereafter applied to maintaining an academy in the town, upon the footing 
 and system of other academies in New England ; and that in consequence of 
 the town,s concurrence with the committee in obtaining the act of incorpor- 
 ation, donations had been made by the legislature and by individuals, for the 
 general purposes of an academy, and it would be a fraud upon such donors, 
 if the town should now withdraw all the funds of the donation school and 
 appropriate them to the exclusive use of the inhabitants of Hadley. 
 
 They further allege, that the Trustees of Hopkins Academy established a 
 grammar school in Hadley, and have from time to time furnished the best 
 instruction their ability permitted, in Latin, Greek, Astronomy, Ancient and 
 Modern History, Logic, Ancient and Modern Geography, Natural, Moral and 
 Intellectual Philosophy, Rhetoric, Geometry, Chemistry, Arithmetic, Compo- 
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 sition, Reading, Declamation, and such other studies as are usually taught in 
 academies; that to this school every person iu Hartley of proper age and 
 qualifications to receive benefit from the school could be admitted and none 
 such have ever been refused ; that the Trustees have supposed it to be their 
 duty to have at all times, a master capable to instruct our children and fit 
 them for our university or some of our colleges ; that the expense of such 
 instruction has at all times more than exhausted the whole annual income of 
 the funds in the hands of the Trustees, and the balance of the expenses has 
 been assessed on the scholars as tuition fees* that it is true the school has 
 been resorted to by youth from other towns, but this has not only been in no 
 way detrimental, but, on the contrary has been highly beneficial, inasmuch as 
 the excess of expenses of instruction over the income of these funds, instead 
 of being assessed wholly upon the scholars who are inhabitants of Hadley, 
 has been apportioned among all the scholars, while the opportunities for 
 instruction have been in no degree lessened. 
 
 In an amended bill the plaintiffs allege that no record is to be found of any 
 such judgment of the President and Council of New England, as is stated in 
 the answer of the defendants, but that from writings which have been pre- 
 served, it appears that there w r as a controversy between the town of Hadley 
 and the committee above mentioned, upon the point whether the town had a 
 right to take into their hands and management the property mentioned in the 
 original bill, and appropriate the proceeds to the support of a common school 
 in Hadley, but then the point whether the committee were bound to administer 
 the funds and appropriate the avails for the support of a grammar school for 
 the exclusive use of the town, was not drawn in question, nor was the town 
 heard thereon ; that the declaration of the President and Council, that the 
 donations were a good foundation for a grammar school for the whole county ? 
 was extrajudicial and not authorized by the issue before them; that at the 
 time of the several donations mentioned in the original bill, the town of 
 Hadley embraced the territory which now constitutes, besides the present 
 town of Hadley, the towns of Amherst, South Hadley, Gran by, Hatfield, 
 Williamsburg and Whately, and that some individuals in these towns might 
 have claimed that the donations were to be appropriated for the common 
 benefit of all these towns, and that under such impressions students from 
 these towns might have occasionally attended the school ; that the town of 
 Hadley has by no act whatever recognized the right of the committee or 
 Trustees to admit into the school or academy students from any other place 
 than Hadley, and that as the plaintiffs believe, prior to the act of incorpora- 
 tion, no students, except from the towns above mentioned, ever attended the 
 school under the claim of right ; that the plaintiffs voted to concur with the 
 committee in an application to the legislature for an act of incorporation in 
 the belief that the funds could be better managed by a corporation than by a 
 committee, but without any intention of surrendering their right to the 
 exclusive use and benefit thereof and that the act was cautiously framed with 
 a view to secure the exclusive right of the town. 
 
 In their answer to the amended bill the defendants state that there cannot 
 be found at Boston any record of the judgment of the President and Council, 
 
and the reason is. because there is a loss of the public records of the General 
 Court, and also of the council records, during the period from May, 1686, to 
 1689, when the affairs of the province were managed by a President and 
 Council ; but that full transcripts of records of the proceedings stated in 
 their former answer, are found in an ancient book purporting to be records 
 of the county court of pleas and sessions holden at Northampton for Hamp- 
 shire, for June 1687, and also in an ancient book of records kept by the 
 donation committee, purporting to contain an account of the various dona- 
 tions for the school, and of the judgments of the President and Council, and 
 of the county courts of Hampshire respecting the same ; that they have no 
 knowledge that some of the inhabitants of the other towns formerly consti- 
 tuting a part of Hadley claimed a common right in those funds any further 
 than appears from their previons answer ; that in admitting students they 
 have not confined themselves to the limits of Hampshire, in its former extent 
 but have adopted as their guide the will-of Edward Hopkins, which expresses 
 the object of his donation, in the manner before stated ; and that the question 
 of the school being a public school for others than those residing in Hadley, 
 must have been in controversy between the tow T n and the committee before 
 the President and Council, at the time of making the adjudication declaring 
 it a public school, as set forth in the former answer. The plaintiffs filed a 
 general replication. 
 
 Sept. 23. At the hearing the defendants read several depositions and 
 introduced a book of records of the county court reciting the proceedings of 
 the President and Council, and containing the adjudication of the county 
 court thereon, as set forth in the pleadings; also a certificate of the Secre- 
 tary of the Commonwealth, that there are no records of the proceedings of 
 the Council from May, 1686 to 1689. 
 
 Billings & Forbes argued in support of the bill in regard to the jurisdiction 
 of the President and Council, they referred to the ancient charters, &c. 52, 
 90, 93 ; and to the point that the proceedings of the President and Council 
 were not conclusive against the plaintiffs, Smith v. Sherwood 4 Connect II. 
 277. 1. Stark Evid. (Metcalf s Edit.) 198: Foster v. Jackson Hob. 53, Bui. N. 
 P. 233. Spooner v. Davis, 7 Pick. 147 and authorities there cited. 
 
 Bates & Dewey for the defendants, cited in regard to the powers of the 
 Council and of the county courts, 1. Belknap. Hist. N. Hamp. 184 et seq. ; 
 1 Chalmers' annals 417 ; Ancient Charters &c. 52, 92, 93, 94 ; 4 I)ana,s Abr. 243 
 6 l)ana,s Abr. 400, 401, 402 ; and as to the effect of usage on interpretation of 
 ancient grants attorney General v. Parker 3. Att. 577. 
 
 The opinion of the court was afterwards drawn up by Shaw, C. J. 
 
 In order to understand the true grounds of controversy in the present case, 
 it may be useful, before coming to a direct consideration of the point in 
 controversy, to consider what the question is. and to distinguish it from 
 others which may be considered as connected with it. 
 
 In the first place, no question is made of the legal title of the defendants, 
 to the real and personal property held by them and it is very clear that no 
 such question could be made in a court of equity. Questions of legal title 
 are to be tried elsewhere. We are not called upon to consider an obvious 
 
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 difficulty, which might have presented itself, before the act of incorporation, 
 in establishing a legal seizure in the donation committee, not being a corpor- 
 ation, and having no capacity to take and hold real estate in succession. 
 Probably, however, they must have been considered at least as in actual 
 possession by taking the rents, and such possession would have been consid- 
 ered as sufficient against all the world except those who could have set up a 
 better title. 
 
 It is a rule in Equity that a gift of real or personal estate, either inter vivos 
 or by will, to promote 'education is a charity. It is also considered as a 
 settled rule that such a gift to a charitable use is to receive a most liberal 
 construction; and if the Trustees pervert the fund to other uses, or even if 
 they refuse to accept or execute the trusts, the charity itself shall not fail, 
 nor will the property revert to the donor. But it will be competent for a 
 court of Chancery to direct in the former case that, the Trusts shall be 
 executed, and in the latter that new Trustees shall be appointed, in w T hom 
 the legal estate shall vest, to be holden in trust for the purposes of the 
 charity. It is quite clear, therefore, that, even if the donation committee, 
 prior to the act of incorporation, had met with a technical difficulty in main- 
 taining their legal title, no forfeiture and no reversionary interest therein, 
 could have been claimed by the heirs of the donors, could they still have been 
 traced, and therefore, as the lands and estate must still have been holden for 
 the purposes of the trust, it would have been very immaterial, whether the 
 legal estate should be considered as vested in the particular individuals com- 
 posing the donation committee or not. That technical difficulty, however, 
 was removed by the act of incorporation, passed with the consent and indeed 
 upon the application of the committee, whereby they were made capable in 
 law of taking and holding the legal estate in succession. Another question 
 which has been alluded to may be considered, for the purpose of being laid 
 out of the case. It was stated in the argument for the plaintiffs, that the 
 defendants, by introducing the higher branches of science into the Academy, 
 have changed the character of the institution from that of a school, to that 
 of a college, whereby the inhabitants of Hadley are deprived of the benefits 
 intended to be conferred upon them by the establishment of a grammar school. 
 This complaint at first seemed plausible, but we think it has no place in the 
 present inquiry. It was not set forth in the bill as a breach of trust ; it was 
 advanced only in argument, and that argument was founded upon a statement 
 in the defendants, answer, of the studies pursued at the Academy. But as a 
 distinct complaint of a breach of trust, it has not been made in the bill, nor 
 have the defendants had opportunity to answer to it. The point might have 
 some influence as an argument upon the other question which is afterward to 
 be considered, if it could be shown that such a school as the present is, was 
 not the grammar school contemplated by the donor. For instance if it was 
 shown aliunde, that the school was intended exclusively for the inhabitants of 
 Hadley, it might perhaps be argued that the inhabitants had no need of an 
 institution of so high a character, and therefore, that such an institution was 
 not intended'. But till that question is settled, the argument bears with the 
 same force the other way. If the donors, 'by a grammar school, contem- 
 
plated an institution of higher chanicter than is ordinarily required for the 
 children of a single town, then it could not be intended by the donors, that 
 the benefits of such a school should be confined to the children of the inhab- 
 itants of Hadley. It can tlferefore have no weight, as an argument on that 
 question. 
 
 But the real question raised and discussed in the present case is whether 
 the funds placed under the control of the defendants, for the support of a 
 school, are to be so administered, as to confine the benefit of them exclusively 
 to the inhabitants of the town of Hadley. 
 
 By the terms of the act of incorporation St. 1815, 104, 12, all lands and 
 moneys given to the committee for the use of said school, shall be confirmed 
 to the Trustees of Hopkins Academy, and their successors in said trust for- 
 ever, for the uses designated by the donors. The same trusts therefore, under 
 which the committee held the funds, prior to the act of incorporation, are 
 those under which the defendants as Trustees of the academy are still to hold 
 them and appropriate them, so that the question in this respect is the same 
 as if there had been no act of incorporation. 
 
 Two sources of evidence are relied upon by the defendants, to show that 
 they have heretofore rightly administered these funds, as a trust for a public 
 school, not confining the benefits of them to the town of Hadley, but com- 
 municating them equally to the youth of other towns who may desire the 
 benefits of them. 
 
 1. The terms under which the grants were originally made, the will of 
 Edward Hopkins and the appointment made under it by his surviving execu- 
 tors Davenport and Goodwin. 
 
 2. Certain judicial proceedings, which are alleged to have taken place 
 before the county court for the county of Hampshire, and before the Presi- 
 dent and Council of New England, about the year 1686, in which this very 
 question was raised and determined against the claim and pretensions of the 
 town of Hadley. 
 
 And they insist that these grounds are strengthened by an immemorial 
 usage, acted upon by the Trustees of the school called the committee of the 
 donation school, and acquiesced in by the inhabitants of Hadley, not to 
 exclude but to admit pupils from other towns seeking the benefit of the school 
 in fitting for college. 
 
 These grounds are denied by the plaintiffs, who insist that the construction 
 of the original instruments by which the donation was made, will lead to a 
 contrary conclusion; that the judicial proceedings were not well proved, or 
 if they were, that the court had no jurisdiction; and that there has been no 
 usage to admit pupils from other towns so general or so notorious, as to 
 raise an implication that it was acquiesced in by the inhabitants of Hadley. 
 
 To trace the foundation of this school, we are carried back through an 
 interval of nearly two centuries. The clause in the will of Edward Hopkins 
 the liberal benefactor of New England, recited in the bill and admitted in the 
 answer is to this effect, " And the residue of my estate there," &c. (as before, 
 p. 241.) 
 
 This is a devise to the Trustees, by which the real and personal property 
 
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 became vested in them, on the trusts designated, indicating certain objects 
 to be accomplished and intrusting them with full power to specify those objects 
 and execute the purposes intended by the will, according to their discretion 
 and their views of his known wishes, and his true intent and purpose." In 
 1664, Davenport and Goodwin, the two surviving Trustees, proceeded to 
 execute the trust and power reposed in them by an appointment of the partic- 
 ular uses of this property by an instrument under their hands and seals (vid. 
 ante. p. 241, 244). 
 
 Had this instrument contained only that provision, which is extracted and 
 set forth in the bill, directing that the property shall be equally divided 
 between New Haven and Hadley, to be in each of those towns managed and 
 improved towards the erecting of a grammar school in each of those towns, 
 taking the views that we have derived from later experiences, by which we 
 consider towns, in all respects, as strict corporations, there would have been 
 ground for contending that the gift and appointment was to the town of 
 Hadley, in its corporate capacity. But in that case, it would have been open 
 to contend, that the legal estate was to Hadley, as a corporation capable of 
 taking and holding property for the use of a school. But the subsequent 
 provision, appointing Trustees and vesting the legal estate in them, expressly 
 negatives this hypothesis, and shows that the legal estate was not vested in 
 the town, nor does it appear that the town have claimed to be the holders of 
 the legal estate, since the attempt to take the management of it into their 
 own hands in 1686. Besides at the period of these conveyances, towns in 
 Massachusetts were not considered so fully corporations as they have since 
 been, but their corporate powers have been increased from time to time by 
 particular legislative enactments. But it is believed, that the name by which 
 a township or settlement was designated, was as often used to express the 
 idea of place, as to describe the body of inhabitants or settlers, in their 
 .municipal corporate capacity. When therefore the phraseology is, that the 
 money shall be equally divided between Hadley and New Haven, and then in 
 the same instrument Trustees are appointed to hold and manage it, it seems 
 to import nothing more than to direct that it shall be apportioned equally to 
 the institutions to be established at the two places respectively. We must 
 therefore resort to other considerations to determine the question in 
 controversy. 
 
 In doing this, it is necessary to look carefully at both instruments, the 
 devise to the Trustees, and the appointment and settlement by them, and to 
 consider both in reference to the state and condition of the colony at that 
 time. The purpose of the pious donor was, as he modestly expressed it "to 
 give some encouragement, in these foreign plantations, for the breeding up 
 of hopeful youth in a way of learning, both at the grammar school and 
 college, for the public service of the country in future times." This looks 
 not only to great and useful objects, but to public objects. The establish- 
 ment of the grammar school is coupled immediately with that of the college, 
 which although it must be established in some place, and so is local in its 
 existence, yet is necessarily public and general in its purposes. The end 
 contemplated was the public service of the country in future times. It was 
 
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 to breed up hopeful youth in a way of learning. These expressions seem 
 inconsistent with the purpose of establishing a local school for teaching (the 
 humblest rudiments of education to the children of both sexes, who usually 
 resort to such a school. If it be said that these expressions are adapted to 
 that part of the provision, which points to the encouragement to be given to 
 the college, the answer is obvious, that both are included in precisely the 
 same terms. It seems much more like having regard to a course of liberal 
 education and the fitting of men with that degree of learning which might 
 qualify them for public service as professional men especially for the service 
 of the church. In that view the two leading objects are perfectly consistent 
 and calculated to advance each other, supposing a grammar school designs 
 to fit young men for college, and the college to enable them to complete a 
 liberal education, preparatory to public or professional life. He afterwards 
 with much solemnity and earnestness^ speaks of the aforesaid public ends. 
 This looks like a design to found a local school, confined in its benefits to the 
 children of a single settlement. 
 
 And we are of opinion, that the original trustees of Mr. Hopkins, who were 
 specially charged with the execution of the liberal and beneficent designs of 
 the donor, understood it in the same way, by the instrument which they 
 executed. 
 
 After performing that duty which consisted in providing for the college, 
 they proceed to execute their powers in regard to the school. They direct 
 the property to be divided equally between the towns of New, Haven and 
 Hartley, to be in each of the towns managed and improved towards maintain- 
 ing a grammar school in each of them, and they direct in whose hands the 
 management thereof shall be, and as to Hadley this management is committed 
 to four trustees specially named, with power to appoint successors and fill 
 vacancies, and their powers are to extend both to " the ordering of said 
 estate, and carrying on the work wherein it is to be employed " with full 
 power to pursue and put in execution this pious end and intendment of the 
 worthy donor, that is, to be trustees of the estate, and directors or managers 
 for the establishment, maintenance and regulation of the school. This object 
 was further secured, as far as it was in their power to secure it, by reserving 
 to themselves, whilst they lived, the full power of a negative vote, for the 
 hindering of anything that might cross that end. In this appointment, the 
 trustees of Mr. Hopkins seem to have done little more in the execution of 
 their powers, than to apportion the amount of property to be appropriated 
 to this school, fix the place where it should be established, designate the 
 persons who should hold the property and manage the school, and provide 
 for perpetuating them. But as to the great object to be kept in vieAv, in 
 administering this trust, they referred to the objects expressed by the donor. 
 In considering those objects, we can perceive nothing which looks like a 
 restraint upon the permanent board of trustees, obliging them to consider 
 the trust as intended exclusively for the benefit of the inhabitants of Hadley. 
 It is incumbent on the plaintiffs to show that they are exclusively entitled to 
 the benefits of this trust, and if that is not shown, they must fail in estab- 
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 appointment under it, to indicate that such an exclusive right was intended ; 
 but on the contrary, we think it more consistent with the avowed intention 
 of the testator, to conclude that it was designed for the encouragement of all 
 those, in that newly settled part of the country, who were desirous of avail, 
 ing themselves of the benefit of a grammar school, to qualify them for the 
 university. The mere circumstance of being fixed in Hadley, has no tendency 
 to show, that any other exclusive or peculiar benefit was intended than that 
 which arises incidentally to any place, from having a public school in its 
 immediate vicinity. 
 
 Nor can we perceive that the trusts and purposes of this appointment are 
 varied by the proposal subsequently made to the town by Mr. Goodwin, one 
 of the surviving trustees, in 1669, to which the town acceded. 
 
 Whether the property had been actually placed in the possession or under 
 the control of the trustees named in the deed of appointment, does not dis- 
 tinctly appear ; nor does it appear what occasion there was for any new 
 arrangement. One purpose, perhaps, may be safely conjectured, that of 
 connecting two or three other donations, made for the support of a school, 
 and one by the town itself, with that of Mr. Hopkins, so as to place the 
 whole under one administration and appropriate the whole to one object. 
 The proposal made by Mr. Goodwin was substantially this : that he should 
 appoint three persons, to be submitted to the town and be approved by 
 them, that the town should appoint two, and that these five, with himself 
 while he lived, should have the sole disposal, and management of the estate 
 in all respects, for the end to which it was bequeathed; and the same five 
 persons, with himself whilst he lived, were to have the sole management of 
 all other estate given by any donor, or which might be given while they 
 survived, to the town of Hadley, for the promotion of literature or learning. 
 These trusnees were appointed for their lives, with power to perpetuate the 
 board by filling their own vacancies. And Mr. Goodwin modestly requested 
 that it might be called the Hopkins school. This proposal being submitted 
 to the to\vn, they voted to send to Mr. Goodwin to know the persons he 
 would make choice of, and he names three, two of whom appear to be the 
 same, who had been named in the deed of appointment. These are approved 
 by the town, who elect two on their part conformably to the proposal, one 
 of whom, Mr. Tilton, appears to be the same with one named in the deed of 
 appointment. These acts, done in pursuance of Mr. Goodwin's proposal 
 seem to be a distinct acquiescence and concurrence in that proposal. But 
 some reliance and indeed the principal reliance seems to be placed by the 
 plaintiffs, upon the terms of the vote passed on that occasion by the town. 
 It was in substance that the committee thus chosen should jointly and 
 together have the ordering and full disposal of the estate given by Mr. 
 Davenport and Mr. Goodwin as trustees of Mr. Hopkins, to the town of Hadley, 
 or any other estate or estates that were or might be given either by the town 
 itself, or any other donor or donors, for the use, benefit and maintenance and 
 promoting a grammar school, to and for the use and in the town of Hadley. 
 
 They also state, that the trustees shall supply vacancies, in their own body, 
 by the choice of other persons, so that they be known, discreet, pious, faith- 
 
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 ful persons, and they direct two persons named to present the premises to 
 the court to be recorded. 
 
 It appears to us, that these proceedings did not in any degree change the 
 nature of the trusts upon which the property was to be held ; it merely 
 changed, in a slight degree, the organization of the board of trustees, so as 
 to give the town an effectual agency in its constitution, by which they had 
 the exclusive nomination and appointment of two, and a negative upon Mr. 
 Goodwin's nomination of the other three. It substantially placed the control 
 of the whole under the agency of the appointees of the town. The town 
 might, therefore, well consent that their own and the other small donations 
 for the like object, should be under the same government. 
 
 They chose to speak of the property given by Mr. Goodwin and Mr. Daven- 
 port, under Mr. Hopkins's will, as property given to the town of Hadley. If 
 they meant given to the town in its corporate capacity, we have already 
 shown that it was not so given, but- to trustees to establish a school in 
 Hadley. And the other clause, to and for the use of the town, of Hadley, is so 
 introduced, as to leave it doubtful, whether it was intended to intimate their 
 views of the purpose, to which the funds were to be appropriated, or to be 
 descriptive of the other estate, which might be given by the town itself, or 
 by any other donor. But what renders it quite certain that it was not 
 intended to declare any other or different trust, from that already declared by 
 Goodwin and Davenport, is this ; that Mr. Goodwin's proposal was, that the 
 committee should hold the property, in all respects, for the end to which it 
 was bequeathed by Mr. Hopkins ; and that the town intended to accede to 
 this proposal, and not to change or qualify it, or make a new one, is manifest 
 from this, that they did not submit this vote of theirs to Mr. Goodwin, for his 
 concurrence, as they would, if they had proposed a change or modification of 
 his proposal ; but on the contrary, they directed the proceedings to be pre- 
 sented to the court, probably the county court, to be recorded, as a complete 
 and settled arrangement. Besides, when it is considered that how peculiarly 
 a grammar school, permanehtly fixed in any town, enures practically to the 
 use of such town, and when by this arrangement the school was permanently 
 established in Hadley, and was placed under the control and management of 
 a board of trustees, in the appointment of whom the town had a direct partic- 
 ipation, and who, by the mode of perpetuation, might generally be expected 
 to be inhabitants of that town, it was not very w T ide from the truth to 
 describe it as a school to be for the use of, as well as established in the town 
 of Hadley. But there are no words of exclusion or limitation and no intima- 
 tion that the benelicial use was to be confined exclusively to the inhabitants 
 of Hadley. We think, therefore, that there is nothing in these proceedings, 
 which was intended to vary, or, if so intended, which could legally vary the 
 trusts, upon which the property in question was conveyed to, and vested in 
 the committee thus appointed. 
 
 In regard to the other donations set forth in the bill, it appears to us that 
 they clearly follow the principal one derived from Hopkins. 
 
 The devises by Barnard and Ward were both made in 1(564, the same year 
 that the deed of appointment was made by the trustees of Hopkins and the 
 
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 object being the same, the establishment of a grammar school, the intent to 
 give it the same distinction might be presumed. But it does not stand on 
 this presumption. 
 
 By the vote of the town in 1669, it was decided by the town, that all the 
 estate which had been given, or might be given for the same purpose, should 
 be held and managed by the same committee ; which is in effect a declaration, 
 that they shall be held upon the same trusts, and appropriated to the same 
 purposes. And even if it were a question of legal title, it is to be recollected 
 that in transactions of this antiquity, a conveyance by vote, by a corporation, 
 is held sufficient to convey an estate, and pass the fee. A fortiori, is it good 
 as the manifestation of a trust. 
 
 That portion of this estate appropriated by the town itself, was thus done 
 in 1666, before the above agreement. It was not strictly a grant, because 
 there was no grantee. It was rather an appropriation, then made, and vested 
 in the committee by the subsequent vote of 1669, subject to the same trust. 
 So much are charities of this sort favored, that when the grantee in trust for 
 education, is not in esse, as in the case of a grant to a body not yet incor- 
 porated, but afterwards a corporation or board of trustees is created, chan- 
 cery will uphold the trust and carry the object into effect, by directing the 
 necessary conveyances, and settling the proper trusts. 
 
 Here the town did voluntarily and by its own act, all that was necessary to 
 give the grant effect, by designating the grantees and vesting the estate in 
 them by vote. 
 
 The grant of Henry Clark was after the vote of 1669, to wit, in 1675. But 
 it is to be observed that, although by the terms of Henry Clark, s will, he 
 gives the estate to the town of Hadley, yet it is under this limitation ; com- 
 mitting the same to the care, disposing and ordering of Lieut. Samuel Smith, 
 etc. (naming the Hopkins committee) to be by them disposed of, to Hopkins 
 school, for Hadley, with an express condition, that if they are disturbed in 
 their committeeship, it shall be otherwise disposed of, as they shall see meet 
 for the good of the town. 
 
 It might be difficult to put a legal construction upon this devise, so as to 
 determine whether the fee vested in the committee or the tow r n. But as 
 already shown, that question is not now before the Court. One thing is 
 perfectly clear, that is, that the trust of this devise was for Hopkins School, 
 whatever were the purposes of that school, the same were those of this gift. 
 It must clearly, therefore, follow the same trusts, which had been already 
 declared as those upon which this school was founded by Hopkins, and those 
 who were entrusted by him with the power of giving a specific form to his 
 declared purpose of promoting a public grammar school. 
 
 The second principal ground on which the respondents rely, to show that 
 these funds were not held exclusively for the benefit of the inhabitants of 
 Hadley, is, the acts and adjudication of the county court and of the president 
 and council of his Majesty, s territory and dominion of New England, which 
 are set out in the answer. 
 
 Two objections are taken to these proceedings, by the plaintiffs in this 
 case; one is. that thev are not dulv authenticated; and the other is, that 
 
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 neither the county court nor the president and council, had any jurisdiction 
 of the subject matter, and that their proceedings, therefore, ought not to be 
 considered as having any legal eft'ect. We have not thought it necessary to 
 examine either of these questions very strictly, for reasons which will be 
 sufficiently manifest. These transactions connect themselves with one of 
 the most remarkable periods in the history of Massachusetts. The proceed- 
 ings, so far as we have evidence of them, were before the president and council 
 of New England, in the autumn of 1686, very shortly before the arrival of 
 Governor Andros. We have a certiticate from the secretary, s office stating 
 that there are no records of the proceedings of the council from May, 1686 to 
 1689. It will not be difficult for those who are conversant with the history 
 of that disturbed period, to account for the entire absence of these records. 
 The commission of Governor Dudley as first president, was received on the 
 15th of May, 1686, and he was superseded by the arrival of Sir Edmund 
 Andros in December of the same year. By him and his council all the affairs 
 of the colony were managed until 1689, when he was arrested, and forcibly 
 put out of the government. It was the manifest policy of those who thus 
 forcibly superseded him, and who were in truth the champions of the char- 
 tered rights of the colonies, to leave as few traces as possible, of the arbi- 
 trary and, as they believed, tyrannical proceedings of this president and his 
 council. Still it was a government de facto, and as such, acts done within its 
 jurisdiction would probably be binding. From the imperfect view which 
 alone can now be obtained of those proceedings, it cannot be certainly deter- 
 mined how the case of this school was brought before the president and 
 council. The county court, under the colonial government, had an extensive 
 and, perhaps, not very strictly defined jurisdiction. Ancient charters, etc., 
 91, And it is expressly ordained that all persons " betrusted to receive or 
 improve " any gift or legacy " given and bequeathed to the college, schools 
 of learning or any other public use, shall be liable from time to time to give 
 account of their disposal and management thereof to the county court of that 
 shire where they dwell and where such estate shall be, and to appoint feoffees 
 of trust to settle and manage the same according to the wills of the donors.'' 
 Ancient charters etc., 52. 
 
 Under the charter, the general court was deemed and declared to be the 
 chief civil power in this commonwealth, with authority to act in all affairs 
 according to such power, both in matters of council, making of laws, and 
 matters of judicature. Ancient Charters, etc., 88. 
 
 By an ordinance in 1654, in consequence of the general court being so much 
 oppressed with the weight of business, it was ordered that causes properly 
 cognizable by the county court, should not be transferred to the general 
 court, but that difficult cases might be presented by inferior courts for its 
 opinion. Ancient Charters, etc., 92. 
 
 After the dissolution of the Colony Charter in 1685, and the establishment 
 of the royal government, it was provided in the King's commission, first to 
 Dudley and afterwards to Andros, which commissions, together with the 
 royal instructions constituted the basis of that government, that all former 
 ordinances should remain in force, and that the president and council should 
 
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 have and exercise the same powers which had formerly been exercised by 
 the government under the colony charter. From this general view, it would 
 seem that the jurisdiction both of the county court and of the president and 
 council, was amply sufficient to embrace a case like this. 
 
 It appears that the county court did in fact, exercise a superintending 
 authority over cases of this kind, because there is a record showing that as 
 early as 1682 the committee of the Hopkins school presented a report of their 
 proceedings to the county court, which was accepted and allowed. The court 
 also take notice who are trustees, and confirm and approve of them and desire 
 and expect their further management in carrying on the affairs of said school, 
 which the court will be always ready to promote and encourage as need may 
 require. 
 
 It is also to be recollected that upon the final adjustment of this trust, by 
 the proposal of Mr. Goodwin and the votes of the town in 10(59, the town 
 ordered the proceedings to pe presented to the county to be recorded, thereby 
 recognizing their jurisdiction of trusts of this kind and confirming the con- 
 clusion that it was a public trust. But the judicial proceedings relied upon, 
 commenced at a later period. It appears that in August 1(586, the town of Hadley 
 passed a vote to take into their own hands to manage, order and dispose to 
 the use of a school, etc., all estates bequeathed etc., as the legacies of Ward, 
 Barnard and Clark. It is to he remarked, that by this vote, they did not 
 seem to claim the property of Hopkins, except in general terms. In conse- 
 quence of this vote in September of the same year, proceedings were com- 
 menced in the county court at Springfield, by the committee, who presented 
 the declining state of the school in Hadley, for that some of Hadley do disturb 
 or obstruct the management of the estate of said school. Upon this the 
 court passed an order that all the gifts to that object should be improved by 
 that committee. 
 
 It does not appear how proceedings were instituted before the president 
 and council, whether by reference from the county court, or by an original 
 application. A decision, however, seems to have been made, December 6, 
 1686, which was afterwards laid before the county court and by that court 
 fully adopted and affirmed. But we do not think it necessary to refer to these. 
 proceedings at large. We have looked into them only so far as to see that 
 they do not militate against the opinions which we have formed upon the 
 effect of the original grants and the trusts upon which they were made. On 
 the contrary, the effect of the decisions, both of the county court and of the 
 president and council, was, that the committee be and remain feoffees of the 
 school, judging the particular gifts in that town a good foundation for a 
 grammar school, both for themselves and for the whole county, and that a 
 grammar school can be no otherwise interpreted, but to be a school holden 
 by a master capable to instruct children and fit them for the university. This, 
 adjudication was adopted and measures taken to carry it into effect by the 
 county court. We should not be surprised to find, if the early manuscript 
 could be obtained, that the word written county was country, it being more 
 consonant with the true nature of the trust, contemplated by Hopkins, and 
 because the term " country " was then generally adopted to express the public 
 
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 or the whole community. Hut in either form it negatives the claim of the town 
 of Hartley to the exclusive benefit of these funds. Had these adjudications 
 been the other way, or had the claim of the respondents rested solely upon them 
 it would have been necessary to examine with a more rigid scrutiny, both the 
 authority of the documents in which these proceedings are now found, and 
 the jurisdiction of the courts over the subject matter, and over the particular 
 question of the trusts, on which the donations were made, all these points 
 being controlled by the plaintiffs. But as we have already stated we have only 
 looked into them so far, as to see that they do not militate against the decis- 
 ion to which we have now come upon other grounds. As the case of the 
 defendants does not rest solely or principally upon those adjudications, as 
 their case is established independently of them, it would not vary the result 
 if the objections made to their authority and sufficiency by the plaintiffs should 
 be fully sustained. 
 
 3. Tbe last ground upon which the defendants rely, is the usage and prac- 
 tice of the trustees or donation committee from 1686 to the present time. 
 
 Usage in ancient transactions is a good contemporaneous construction of a 
 doubtful grant. 
 
 In looking at the evidence adduced upon this point, nothing is found in the 
 records of the trustees to show whether they did or did not confine the bene- 
 fits of this grammar school to children of the inhabitants of Haclley. The 
 evidence, therefore, must rest upon living memory, which extends back fifty 
 or sixty years ; and by this it appears most satisfactorily, that in point of 
 fact, although practically it has enured principally to the use of the inhab- 
 itants, yet it has not been confined to them, but many boys from other towns 
 have been fitted for college there ; and those who have been longest conver- 
 sant with the actual management of the school as trustees testify that they 
 have always considered it as a school the benefits of which have not been 
 confined, and of right were not to be confined, exclusively to children of the 
 inhabitants of Iladley. 
 
 Pereaps some of the minor questions in this case may have been passed 
 over without notice. We have endeavored to consider the general question 
 upon its merits, and upon the broadest principles; and upon the whole, are of 
 the opinion that the inhabitants of the town of Hadley are not exclusively 
 entitled to the benefits of these ancient donations, that the defendants in their 
 mode of administering them, and extending the benefit of them to children 
 of other towns, have not been guilty of the breach of trust charged in the 
 bill, and therefore, that the suit must be dismissed. 
 
 This decision was received with acquiescence. The good work of 
 the Academy went on for many years with great prosperity, Mean- 
 while changes were taking place and the Academy, as it had existed 
 here and elsewhere, was losing its importance in general estimation. 
 The larger towns were supporting High schools for themselves, and 
 large schools liberally endowed, like Williston Seminary at Easthamp- 
 ton, became the resort of young men fitting for college, so that the 
 patronage of Hopkins Academy was coming more and more to be 
 
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 derived from within the town. Fewer and fewer pupils came from 
 abroad, so that the question was becoming importunate whether the 
 Academy Fund could not be made more largely beneficial to the 
 people of the town. Mingled with this there was something of the 
 feeling which had shown itself in former years, that the town as such 
 had rights in the fund, not so fully enjoyed as they might and should 
 be. 
 
 Hence the question came up for consideration. Communications 
 were exchanged between the town and the trustees of the academy 
 extending over a period of more than ten years. The matter was 
 discussed in town meetings and meetings of the trustees, until, at 
 length, these negotiations issued in the existing arrangement which 
 has continued nearly twenty-five years with a good measure of satis- 
 faction to all concerned. 
 
 The account of these doings is given in the succeeding chapter. 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 DOINGS OF THE TOWN AND THE TRUSTEES IN CON- 
 FERENCE, WITH REFERENCE TO MAKING THE 
 SCHOOL FREE TO HADLEY. 
 
 As has been noted the decision of the Supreme Judicial Court was 
 received with acquiescence. Agitation ceased and all went on with 
 quiet prosperity, though with steadily decreasing numbers, until the year 
 1851. About this time a change began in the system of public school 
 instruction. Graded schools were coming to take the place of the 
 district school as it had been hitherto. The subject was brought 
 prominently to notice in the report of the Secretary of the State 
 Board of Education. The school committee of the town in their 
 annual report that year suggested as possible some change in the 
 schools of the town, looking to their partial gradation, and outlining 
 a plan for such a work. It was urged that it was a good time to 
 take the first steps in this direction. A committee of inquiry was 
 recommended to give thought to this matter and report at a future 
 meeting. A committee of three was chosen " to examine and print 
 the report of the School Committee if they think proper, and report at 
 some future meeting." Samuel Nash, Esq., Dr. F. Bonney and P. S. 
 Williams, Esq. were the committee chosen. 
 
 At this meeting adjourned to April 9, 1851, this committee report- 
 ed and was authorized to carry into effect the subject of their report, 
 viz. : "to confer with the gentlemen who have the care of the Hop- 
 kins School Fund, ascertain their views respecting it, whether in their 
 opinion anything could be done to make the advantages arising from 
 that fund free to all the inhabitants of the town, and such other in- 
 formation as they may be able to obtain, and report thereon." 
 
 This Committee in obeying their instructions conferred with the 
 trustees of Hopkins Academy, and made inquiry at such other 
 sources as were open to them concerning the fund in question, its 
 origin, the sources whence it was derived, the form under which it 
 
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 existed, its amount, principal and income, the uses to which it was 
 given, with something of its history from the beginning. 
 
 This committee thus instructed entered into correspondence with 
 the Trustees of Hopkins Academy as follows herewith. 
 
 At a special meeting of the Trustees of Hopkins Academy, Feb. 3, 
 1852, the following paper having been received by the Secretary was 
 submitted for consideration. 
 
 HAD LEY, Jan. 23, 1852. 
 Rev. John Woodbridge, D. D., Dea. Jacob Smith, Rev. Dan Huntington, 
 
 Rev. Joseph W. Curtis, Moses Porter, Esq., Mr. James B. Porter, Mr. 
 
 Dudley Smith, Dca. Simeon Dickinson, Rev. Warren H. Bcaman, Rev. Row- 
 land Ayres and Dea. C. P. Hitchcock, Trustees of Hopkins Academy. 
 GENTLEMEN : 
 
 By a vote of the inhabitants of our town of Hadley, passed at a legal 
 meeting held on the 9th day of April last, the undersigned were appointed :i 
 Committee to carry into effect some recommendations of a previous Commit- 
 tee in their report to the town on the aforesaid 9th of April. 
 
 That report recommended that a committee be appointed and instructed to 
 confer with the gentlemen who have the care of the Hopkins School Fund, 
 ascertain their views respecting it, whether in their opinion anything can be 
 done to make the advantages arising from the fund free to all the inhabitants 
 of the town, and such other information as they may be able to obtain and 
 report thereon." 
 
 In pursuance of the objects of our appointment, we would most respect- 
 fully request of the Trustees answers to the following questions, together 
 with such other information as you may think proper to communicate. 
 
 1st. Will the Trustees consent to the appropriation of the funds under 
 their care to the establishment and maintenance of one or more free High 
 Schools in Hadley, in connection with such aid from the town as may be neces- 
 sary? 
 
 2nd. In what do the funds under the care of the Board consist and what 
 is their present estimated value? 
 
 3rd. What is the present annual income of said fund? 
 
 4th. What part of the fund at the present time arises from the bequest 
 of Edward Hopkins of England? 
 
 5th. What are the rights and privileges of the inhabitants of the town 
 resulting from this fund? 
 
 The first inquiry is proposed in the belief that a majority of the legal voters 
 of the town desire to some extent the introduction of the sytem of gradation 
 of schools, so highly recommended by the friends of education, and so suc- 
 cessfully adopted in various places. Answers to the four remaining inquiries 
 would doubtless correct some erroneous opinions and furnish reliable infor- 
 mation upon a subject regarded by many as of much importance, and one in 
 which they are in some measure interested. 
 With respect, 
 
 SAMUEL NASH, ] 
 
 FRANKLIN BONNEY, I Committee. 
 
 P. S. WILLIAMS, I 
 
Ill 
 
 After some discussion in reference to the contents of the above 
 communication it was voted : 
 
 1st. That the Trustees cannot consistently apply the funds com- 
 mitted to their trust to the establishment and support of High Schools. 
 
 2d. For answer to the second, third, fourth and fifth questions in 
 the above communication, the committee of the town be referred to 
 the records of the corporation, including the Treasurer's accounts, 
 and requested themselves to convey the information thus obtained 
 to the town. 
 
 It was also voted : 
 
 That an answer to the communication from the town be prepared 
 by the President and Secretary, ^accordance with the above votes, 
 and upon its approval by the Prudential Committee be handed over 
 to the Committee of the town. 
 
 At a meeting of the trustees held March 9, 1852, to take into con- 
 sideration a second communication addressed to them by the Com- 
 mittee of the Town in reference to applying the funds of the Academy 
 to the promotion of a High School. 
 
 In reference to a proposed " arrangement " the following partic- 
 ulars were contained in the above named communication submitted 
 to the consideration of the Trustees : 
 
 "1st, Would you be willing to open the doors of the Academy to scholars 
 in the town who have attained to a certain point in education, provided the 
 town raise and appropriate some adequate sum to be added to the Hopkins 
 Fund, by the way of either general or individual tuition. 
 
 2nd. That the school be under the joint government of the Trustees and 
 a committee appointed by the town, which committee shall be so far inferior 
 in number to the board of Trustees, that the latter may control in all matters 
 of vital importance. 
 
 3rd. That the Trustees be not disturbed in the financial management of 
 the Fund, there being merely a union of the income derived from it with the 
 sum raised by the town. 
 
 4th. That if the Trustees feel that the school must be left open to the 
 public, they be allowed still to come in, as at present, by paying a specified 
 tuition. 
 
 Have not the Trustees a right to require a certain point of attainment in 
 scholars from abroad before they be admitted to the advantages of the school? 
 
 In reference to the above particulars, contained in the letter of the 
 Town Committee, the Trustees voted in reference to the query under 
 the head of No. 1, to give an affirmative answer provided, however, 
 that in place of the phraseology "to be added to the Hopkins Fund " 
 be substituted " be paid annually to the Treasurer of Hopkins Acad- 
 emy." 
 
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 Voted in reference to No. 2 that inasmuch as the Board of Trust of Hop- 
 kins Aclademy was incorporated with express reference to the establishment 
 and support of an academy and required by the very terms of their charter 
 to adopt and enforce proper regulations for the government of the same, the 
 Trustees feel in doubt us to the possibility, under our present charter, of 
 delegating the government of the school in whole or in part to other hands. 
 
 The third particular was passed over as not demanding a formal notice. 
 
 Voted in reference to No. 4, that notwithstanding whatever accommodation 
 might be afforded town scholars on account of an appropriation from the 
 Town to the income of the Academy, there would be no impropriety in 
 charging tuition for scholars from abroad. As for fixing upon a standard of 
 qualifications for admission to the Academy the Trustees are expressly 
 authorized to do this by the 2nd Section of their Charter. 
 
 The Secretary was instructed to transmit a copy of the above votes 
 after its approval by the Prudential Committee, to the Committee of 
 the Town. The Committee of the Town having then conferred with 
 the Trustees and made such further enquiry as they would, made ex- 
 tended report to the town at the annual meeting, March 29th, 1<S;V2. 
 This report gave some account of the fund, its origin, history, dis- 
 position, the controversies concerning it and their decision. It 
 labored to show that the town of Hadley as such had rights in the 
 fund, from whose full enjoyment it had been and still was kept. The 
 only action recommended for the town to take was to invite the 
 trustees to unite with the' town in a petition to the Legislature to 
 amend the charter incorporating the Trustees of Hopkins Academy. 
 The existing state of things was held to be an evil, whose remedy 
 might be secured in one of four ways. 
 
 1. Mutual agreement between the town and Trustees. 
 
 2. By both parties uniting in a petition to the Legislature for an 
 amendment to the Charter so that the Trustees should be required to 
 make report yearly of all their affairs to the town. 
 
 3. The town might make such petition ex-parte. 
 
 4. A possible remedy might be found in the Supreme Court as 
 having power in equity to hear and determine all suits and proceed- 
 ings for enforcing and regulating the execution of trusts. 
 
 By vote this report was accepted and ordered to be printed, and a 
 copy supplied to each family in the town. It was further voted that 
 whereas there are funds under the care of the Trustees of Hopkins 
 Academy worth some $15,000, the principal part, if not the whole, of 
 which was originally given either by the town itself or individuals in 
 it, for the promotion of learning here. And whereas no public report 
 is now made of the condition and improvement of the funds in which 
 
tlu town are believed to have lights and privileges; therefore voted 
 that the committee on the Academy fund be a committee to request 
 in behalf of the town the aforesaid Trustees, to make an annual re 
 port to the town, in town meeting, of the condition, receipts and dis- 
 bursements of the fund, together with any changes in the board of 
 Trustees. Also to invite the said Trustees to unite with the town in 
 a petition to the legislature, so to amend the charter of the Academy 
 as to require such report, together with such amendment of the char- 
 ter with reference to applying the funds to a free High School or 
 schools as such Committee and the Trustees may agree upon. Voted 
 that in case the Trustees assent, then the aforesaid committee is 
 authorized and instructed in behalf of the town, to make such petition 
 for such amendment or amendments of said charter. 
 
 Voted that the Committee on the Academy Fund take into consider- 
 ation the subject of establishing a free High School in Hadley and 
 report at a future meeting. 
 
 As the outcome of this action of the town there was further cor- 
 respondence between the Town Committee and the Trustees. 
 
 At a special meeting of the Trustees, held Jan. 25, 1853, the fol- 
 lowing communication was received and submitted for consideration : 
 
 To THE TRUSTEES OF HOPKINS ACADEMY, Gentlemen : 
 
 The accompanying preamble and votes were passed at our last annual town 
 meeting, and the undersigned were appointed the committee therein named. 
 (Votes just quoted). Should yon give an aillnnative answer to the proposi- 
 tion of the town, we shall most cheerfully cooperate with yon in any measure 
 authorixed by these votes of the town. An answer as early as convenient is 
 respectfully requested. 
 
 SAMUEL NASH, ] 
 P. S. WILLIAMS, 1- Committee. 
 F. BONNEY, j 
 
 Hadley, Jan. 3, 1853. 
 
 The subject was considered and further consideration deferred to 
 another meeting held Feb. 1, 1853, when it was voted that it is not 
 expedient for the trustees to comply with vote of the town to make 
 an annual report to the town of the condition of the funds of Hop- 
 kins Academy, etc., also that it is not expedient to petition the legis- 
 lature so to amend the charter of the Academy as to require such re- 
 port. 
 
 Voted, that the portion of the vote of the town in the words fol- 
 lowing, ''together with such other amendments of the charter with 
 reference to applying the funds to a free High School or schools, as 
 such Committee and the Trustees may agree upon," be referred to a 
 
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 committee to confer with the Committee of the Town and enquire 
 into the expediency of such a change and report at a future meeting. 
 Voted, that Rev. R. Ayrcs, Kev. W. II. Beunum and Rev. J. W. 
 Curtis be said committee. 
 
 March 9th, 1853. The Committee above named presented their 
 report which was accepted and the question of its adoption deferred 
 to the next meeting of the Trustees, to be held April 13, 18f>;>. 
 
 In consequence of a recent vote of the town in reference to the 
 Academy, (see town votes) it was deemed inexpedient to have any 
 further action on the report of the committee which was accepted at 
 the last meeting. 
 
 ORDER PRESENTED TO THE TOWN BY PARSONS WEST, ESQ. 
 
 At a town meeting, April 4, 1853, adjourned from March 28, the 
 town passed this vote following : 
 
 It is ordered by the town that the sum of six hundred dollars be raised, 
 for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a free High School ; pro- 
 vided the trustees of the Academy will appropriate the funds of the Academy 
 or a portion of them, for this object, and give the use of their Academy 
 building for the school. 
 
 That the General School Committee, together with the Trustees, be au- 
 thorized to procure teachers, decide upon qualifications of scholars for ad- 
 mission into the school, and adopt proper measures to establish said school 
 the present season. 
 
 Nothing in this vote shall be construed so as to authorize the committee 
 above named to draw- upon the treasury for more than six hundred dollars, 
 and if the whole of this sum is not wanted for the school : it shall remain in 
 said treasury. 
 
 COMMUNICATION FROM THE TRUSTEES OF HOPKINS ACADEMY 
 
 TO THE TOWN. 
 
 To Samuel Nash, P. S. Williams and F. Bonney, committee of the town of 
 Hadley. Gentlemen : 
 
 At an adjourned meeting of the Trustees of Hopkins Academy, holden the 
 13 instant, the Board took into consideration the vote passed at the last town 
 meeting, making an appropriation upon certain conditions, to aid the object 
 of constituting the Academy a free High School, and in reference to said vote 
 came to the following result, a copy of which is hereby transmitted to you 
 by direction of the Trustees. 
 
 The Trustees approve of the vote of the town and concur therein Avith the 
 following provisos : 
 
 1st. That the responsibility for employing teachers for the Academy 
 devolve upon the Trustees with the concurrence of the general school 
 committee. 
 
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 2nd. Thai the Trustees consider t heinselves pledged to the plan proposed 
 for no more than one year, and that the town by their vote are bound for no 
 longer period. 
 
 3rd. That there be equal opportunity with that which is now afforded for 
 advancement on the part of pupils in the superior departments of literature 
 and science and that it be the duty of the Trustees to furnish instruction to 
 those engaged in the higher branches of learning. 
 
 4th. That the doors of the Academy shall be opened as now to students 
 from abroad, paying the regular tuition fees demanded by the Trustees, and 
 possessing the same qualifications required of students from the town. 
 
 5th. That in deciding on questions of discipline, in relation to students 
 from the town, the general school committee shall have a concurrent voice 
 with the Trustees. 
 
 6th. That by the adoption of the town's vote no alteration is understood 
 to be effected or attempted in the organization of the Academy. The only 
 difference is the payment of six hundred dollars by the town, on account of 
 w^liich, qualified students from the town shall be entitled to the benefits of 
 the school without any charge for tuition and to the other privileges custom- 
 arily enjoyed in the seminary, and the general school committee be authorized 
 in connection Avith the Trustees, to decide on their qualifications, and take a 
 general supervision of their conduct as specified in proviso No. 5. 
 
 JOSEPH W. CURTIS, Sec. of Trustees of Hopkins Academy. 
 Hadley, April 14, 1853. 
 
 At a town meeting held May 2nd, 1853, the town having received 
 the above communication from the Trustees of Hopkins Academy 
 voted that the foregoing provisos of the Trustees of Hopkins Academy 
 be accepted with two conditions : 
 
 1st. That the General School committee include this among the other 
 public schools in their report to the town. 
 
 2nd. That the Trustees be requested either by themselves or through the 
 General School Committee to make an annual report to the town of the con- 
 dition, receipts and expenditures of the school- fund under their care. 
 
 Voted that the Town Clerk be authorized to transmit a copy of the fore- 
 going votes to the Trustees of Hopkins Academy. 
 
 At a town meeting held May 18, 1<S53, the town received the 
 following communication from the Trustees of Hopkins Academy : 
 
 The following vote was passed at a legal meeting of the Trustees of Hop- 
 kins Academy, May 9, 1853, in reference to a vote of the town passed at 
 their meeting May 2, 1853, making request of the Trustees of the Academy 
 that they annually report either by themselves or through the General School 
 Committee to the town, the condition, receipts and expenditures of the 
 school fund under their care. 
 
 Voted that the Trustees deem it inexpedient to make an annual report to 
 the town, but that their books are open now, as they ever have been, to the 
 inspection of any person in the town. A true copy of the votes of the Trustees. 
 J. -W. CURTIS, Sec. of the Trustees of Hopkins Academy. 
 
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 At the same meeting of the Trustees it was further voted that C. 
 P. Hitchcock, J. W. Curtis and Geo. Dickinson be a committee to 
 carry into effect on the part of the Trustees the plan for converting 
 the Academy into a free High School, as set forth in their provisos 
 adopted April 13, 1853, provided the way is opened for this plan to 
 be carried out. 
 
 At the town mooting before mentioned it was voted by the town, that in 
 passing the resolve requesting the Trustees to make an annual report, the 
 town did not expect that any action of the Trustees upon that resolve would 
 affect the general plan of the High School. 
 
 Voted that the town in their votes of May 2d, did not intend to insist on 
 compliance with their request for an annual report from the Trustees, as a 
 condition essential to the consummation of the plan of union. 
 
 It is easy to read in this vote the feeling that the vital question for 
 the town was the enjoyment of the school privileges thus brought 
 within reach and that it would not be wise to risk their loss by 
 insisting o.n a point of so much less consequence. It is the expression 
 of the desire to % cultivate good feeling and good understanding between 
 the town and the Trustees. 
 
 Under the plan thus agreed upon the school was conducted for the 
 year. It was proposed as an experiment and might hist longer or not 
 according as the working of the plan pleased the parties to it. 
 
 The committee appointed by the Trustees and the school committee 
 of the town worked together in harmony in examining pupils for 
 membership in the school, which they enjoyed free'of tuition. The 
 experiment was in a good degree a success, and the prospect fair that 
 some such arrangement might be permanent. But inasmuch as it was 
 limited by its terms to one year, further negotiation must ensue. Its 
 progress and result are now to be noted. 
 
 At the annual town meeting March 27, 1854, it was voted to raise 
 the sum of nine hundred and one dollars, for a high school, six hundred 
 of which are to be expended in connection with the school at the 
 Academy, and three hundred and one dollars to be expended at the 
 north part of the town, all of which shall be expended under the 
 direction of the general school committee. 
 
 At the same meeting adjourned to April 7, it was voted that a com- 
 mittee of three be chosen to confer with the Trustees of the Academy 
 and if after consultation they are of the opinion that it is illegal or 
 inexpedient to continue the High School on the present plan, then the 
 committee are instructed to request the Trustees to unite with the 
 town in petitioning the next Legislature to pass an act authorizing 
 
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 the town and the Trustees to unite in sustaining a free High School, 
 niid if the Trustees will unite in such petition the committee of the 
 town request them to join in the adoption of some plan for sustaining 
 a free Higli School which plan shall be submitted to the town at the 
 annual meeting in November next. 
 
 Voted that the superintending school committee be the above 
 committee. 
 
 Franklin Bonney, P. Smith Williams, and Samuel Nash were chosen 
 school committee at the annual meeting March 27, 1854. This was 
 the committee named above. 
 
 May 2, 1854. The Trustees received the following communication 
 from the committee of the town : 
 
 HADLEY, April 21, 1854. 
 GENTLEMEN OF THE TRUSTEES : 
 
 At the animal March meeting the town passed the following vote : Voted 
 to raise the sum of nine hundred and one dollars for a High School, six hun- 
 dred of which are to be expended in connection with the school at the 
 Academy and three hundred and one dollars to be expended at the north part 
 of the town, all of which shall be expended under the direction of the general 
 school committee. In order to carry out the wishes of the town in this 
 respect we wish to propose the following questions : 
 
 Are yon willing to appropriate the necessary portion of the income of the 
 Hopkins fund to carry on the free High School, for the ensuing year in con- 
 nection with the town, upon a plan similar to the one acted upon during- the 
 past year? 
 
 If so will you please to take the necessary preliminary steps as soon as 
 may suit your convenience. Respectfully yours, &c., 
 
 FRANKLIN BONNEY, ^ 
 
 P. S. WILLIAMS, I Gen. School Committee. 
 SAMUEL NASH, J 
 
 In reference to the above communication the following vote was 
 passed by the Trustees and ordered to be presented to the committee 
 of the town by the Secretary : 
 
 Voted that the Trustees are willing to unite with the town school 
 committee in carrying on a High School on the same plan as last year 
 the provisos of the Trustees passed last year to remain still in force. 
 The following named persons were chosen as committee to unite with 
 the town in carrying into effect the plan of the free High School : 
 Rev. B. Ay res, 
 Dea. C. P. Hitchcock, 
 Dea. Geo. Dickinson. 
 
 May 16, 1854. Information was communicated to the Trustees 
 that the committee of the town decline executing on their part the 
 
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 plan of the High School, in consequence of the supposed illegality of 
 such a measure, legal authority having been consulted. 
 
 At a meeting of the trustees held Oct. 6, 1854, the following com- 
 munication from the school committee of the town was read for 
 consideration. 
 
 Hartley, Sept. 23d, 1854. 
 To THE TRUSTEES OF HOPKINS ACADEMY, Gentlemen : 
 
 At a meeting held March 27, 1854, the town passed the following votes : 
 Voted that a committee of three be chosen to confer with the trustees of the 
 Academy, and if after consultation they are of the opinion that it is illegal or 
 inexpedient to continue the High School on the present plan, then the com- 
 mittee are instructed to request the trustees to unite with the town in peti- 
 tioning the next legislature to pass an act authorizing the town and the 
 trustees to unite in sustaining a high school, and if the trustees will unite in 
 such petition, the committee of the town request them to join in the adoption 
 of some plan for sustaining a Free High School, which plan shall be submitted 
 to the town at the annual meeting in November next. 
 
 Voted that the superintending school committee be the above committee. 
 
 In accordance with the provisions of the above Votes, we would respect- 
 fully address you upon the subject therein considered. The question having 
 early come up in committee upon the legality of pursuing the same plan of 
 operations as was carried on last year, it was deemed advisable to consult 
 counsel upon the matter. The answer obtained was that the plan was illegal. 
 It was consequently not entered upon. This being the fact, it seems desira- 
 ble to come at once to the action predicated on the above fact being ascertained. 
 
 1st. We would, therefore, respectfully request you to unite with the town 
 in petitioning the next legislature to legalize some plan, which may be agreed 
 upon between the parties, for the joint maintenance of a Free High School, 
 by the trustees and the town. 
 
 2d. If you should not deem it proper to accede to the above request, would 
 you be willing that the town should make such petition for the attainment of 
 the same object? 
 
 Should either proposition meet with your approval, will you be good 
 enough to appoint a committee of conference, whose duty it shall be to meet 
 the town's committee, that they together may discuss the merits of some 
 plan which shall form the basis upon which action can be taken. Your earli- 
 est convenient action upon the above is desirable on account of the limited 
 time. Very respectfully yours &c. 
 
 FRANKLIN BONNEY, ) Committee 
 P. S. WILLIAMS, V of the 
 SAMUEL NASH, ) Town. 
 
 A true copy, F. Bouncy. 
 
 After sometime spent in conferring together on the subject of the 
 above communication, the Trustees voted to defer the consideration 
 of it to another meeting. 
 
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 Oct. 10, 1854. The consideration of the matter was still further 
 postponed until Oct. 16th, when the following letter in the form of 
 an answer to the communication from the committee of the town was 
 adopted : 
 
 Hadley, Oct. 10, 1854. 
 
 To MESSRS. FRANKLIN BONNKY, P. S. WILLIAMS AND SAMUEL NASH, 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 Your communication dated the 2<Ui ult., to the trustees of Hopkins Acade- 
 my has been received by the trustees and the proposals it contains have been 
 fully and amply considered. We quote your own words. See the questions 
 1 and 2, as contained in the copy of the letter of the committee. 
 
 With respect to the second of these questions we regard it as a virtual 
 repetition in another form of the first, inasmuch as consent requested in the 
 last instance would involve the same obligations on our part with the appoint- 
 ment of a special committee by us to cooperate with the town for the pur- 
 pose expressed. 
 
 Our answer, therefore, is general, meeting at once both the questions. 
 
 We feel constrained to say, gentlemen, that we do not deem it expedient to 
 accede to your proposals and must, therefore, w.ith a due sense of our 
 responsibilities decline the cooperation which you solicit. Our principle 
 reasons for this decision may be expressed in a few words. 
 
 1. We are well satisfied with the charter as it is, being the result of com- 
 bined legislative and judicial wisdom and a vast improvement on any plan of 
 a free school before existing on the basis of the Hopkins fund. For nearly 
 forty years the Academy has been, upon the whole, a great blessing to the 
 town, and it has been, moreover, a source of rich instruction to not a few 7 , 
 whose influence is now felt in all parts of our land, and in the remote regions 
 of the earth. We are not willing to hazard the abrogation or material modi- 
 fication of a charter, the effects of which have been so widely beneficial, nor 
 do we think that the alleged advantages of a single year's experiment under 
 peculiar circumstances, have been sufficient to justify such an attempt. 
 
 2. We believe that the objects contemplated in your communication, can 
 be better secured by such a corporation as the charter has established, than 
 by the concurrent authoritative agency of the trustees and a school committee 
 of the town, chosen annually for the purpose. Committees and towns may 
 fluctuate. But a charter remains the same in its principles and provisions. 
 
 3. The design of many of the donors to the Academy will be defeated if 
 its management in whote or in part be taken from the hands of the trustees. 
 
 4. The slightest invasion, by legislative enactments or in an}' other way, of 
 chartered rights and obligations, is dangerous as a precedent and in its 
 natural consequences, to the entire interests for which a charter is given and 
 the justification of it involves a principle which if extensively carried out. 
 would destroy all confidence in the most sacred legal securities. 
 
 f>. The town has no more exclusive' right to the funds of Hopkins Acad- 
 emy than to those of any other literary institution, and can. therefore, claim 
 no just authority to appropriate them for its own exclusive benefit. This 
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 point lias been long; since settled in law. and by the decisions of the highest 
 judicial tribunals. 
 
 (!. It will probabl.v be admitted that the trustees, as individuals, are as 
 well qualified as any school committee appointed by the town could be, to 
 manage the funds of the institution for the public benefit and to determine 
 their appropriation. Will it be contended that the trustees are not as much 
 the friends of the town and the cause of education as the generality of their 
 townsmen and neighbors? They cannot then see any reason that their good 
 will and fidelity should be distrusted merely on account of their peculiar 
 relation to the Academy as the constituted guardians of its interests. If 
 unreasonable prejudices do exist they cannot with propriety be quieted by 
 concessions to unreasonable demands. 
 
 7. The price of tuition here is extremely low, compared with that of most 
 institutions of a similar character and in proportion to the increase of our 
 income there may be expected a diminution of charges for the benefits of 
 instruction in all the higher branches of learning. What more can be asked? 
 If the town, as such, cannot vote, money for the common good of the Acad- 
 emy, individuals can easily bind themselves to secure such a result, by their 
 personal subscriptions and contributions. Nor is it absolutely certain that 
 the town may not obtain leave of the legislature to raise money for the pay" 
 ment of the tuition of children here under the present organization. At all 
 events, the trustees believe, whatever may have been done in other places, 
 that it is best, on the whole for all concerned, that the charter of our Acad- 
 emy should remain unmolested, and that one important departure from the 
 original principles of the incorporation might hereafter be pleaded as an apol- 
 ogy for other and more essential deviations, subversive of the entire object for 
 which the Seminary was founded. The first step in a wrong direction is most 
 scrupulously to be avoided and naturally leads as by a kind of necessity to 
 wider and wider aberrations from the course of wisdom and duty. 
 
 For these among other reasons the trustees decline any action favorable to 
 the wishes of the committee on the subject propounded in their letter for 
 consideration. If the trustees have in any instance transcended their consti- 
 tutional powers, they would not on this account repeat the offence, much less 
 ask a repeal or essential alteration of their charter. 
 
 It was voted to adopt the above letter as the answer of the board 
 to the communication from the committee of the town, and the secre- 
 tary was instructed to forward accordingly, and copy of the same. 
 
 The vote of Rev. Rowland Ayres is here recorded by his request as 
 having been in opposition to the vote of a majority of the trustees, 
 to give a negative answer to the communication from the general 
 school committee. 
 
 At this date all attempts at negotiation censed between the town 
 and the trustees until March, 1860. 
 
 It is clear from this record that the vote of the trustees to return 
 such answer to the committee of the town was not unanimous. There 
 
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 other dissentients than the one whose dissent was by request 
 made matter of record. There was a feeling in the minority, that the 
 answer hardly did full justice to the other party, and that rather than 
 dispose of the question so summarily and finally, it was better to keep 
 it open for further conference, in the hope that some result in which 
 all could concur and rest content, might be reached. But that this 
 might be, there was need of time. With it came change such as 
 is now to be recorded. 
 
 The school still went on with its good work. The matter was no 
 longer agitated until, in course of Providence, occasion which none 
 had looked for arose. 
 
 On the morning of Feb. 18, 1860,J;he Academy building and all its 
 contents were destroyed by fire. No insurance. The school, how- 
 ever, was not discontinued. Two rooms in the house of Lucius Grain 
 were engaged, where the school was kept, until a room for the purpose 
 was made ready under the First church building, the next autumn. 
 
 Feb. 18, 1860, the Trustees voted to instruct the Prudential Com- 
 mittee to make such an arrangement for the continuance of the school 
 in consideration of the burning of the Academy Building on the 
 morning of this day, as they may deem advisable. 
 
 At a meeting of the Trustees March 26, 1860, Mr. S. C. Wilder, 
 chairman of a committee appointed by the town for that purpose, 
 presented the following proposition : 
 
 " At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Hadley, held in the 
 Town Hall in said Hadley, the 26th day of March, 1860. Voted, whereas, in 
 the Providence of God, the Academy building has been destroyed by fire and 
 thereby a favorable opportunity presented to the town for an eftbrt to make 
 available to all the inhabitants of the town the benefits of the school fund. 
 which was given by the town and by benevolent individuals, for the promo- 
 tion and advancement of learning; therefore voted: that the town will erect 
 a building suitable for the accommodation of a Free High School, provided 
 the trustees will enter into an arrangement and agreement with the town, 
 that they will appropriate the annual income of the Fund to aid in support of 
 such school." 
 
 At this meeting a committee of ten, one from each school district, 
 was appointed to confer with the trustees of Hopkins Academy in 
 relation to the use of the income of their fund to support a High 
 school or schools and to form some plan both of schools and build- 
 ings to be submitted to the town for their action at an adjourned 
 
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 This committee was : 
 
 From Dist. No. 1, 8. C. Wilder, Dist. No. (5, R. M. Montague, 
 
 44 *2, O. K. Bonney, u 7, Stephen Johnson, 
 
 " " 3, Rodney Smith, " <S, Benjamin Adams, 
 
 44 ' " 4, Win. S. Shipman, 44 i), Edmund Smith, 
 
 4 ' 5, Chas. Lamson, 44 10, Parsons West. 
 
 On receiving from the town an official communication informing 
 the trustees of this action it was voted 44 that the trustees of Hopkins 
 Academy look with favor upon the vote of the town passed this day, 
 March *26, indicating their wish to secure more fully the benefits of 
 the Hopkins Fund and they -will respectfully consider any definite 
 proposition presented by the committee of the town for the attain- 
 ment of that object." 
 
 Voted that the trustees meet the committee of the town on Friday 
 evening, March 30th, at 6 o'clock at the house of Lucius Crain. 
 
 At this meeting on invitation the . town's committee, through 
 S. C. Wilder, their chairman, laid before the trustees two separate 
 proposititions either of which it was considered would be satisfactory 
 to the town, provided they should meet the approval of the trustees. 
 
 The prudential committee was appointed a committee to consider 
 the propositions of the town, and to prepare a statement of the views 
 of the trustees to be presented to their board on Monday afternoon 
 immediately after the close of the school. At this meeting it way 
 voted not to seek legal advice at present. 
 
 At the meeting of the trustees April 2, 1860, the prudential com- 
 mittee made report on the subject committed to their consideration at 
 the previous meeting. The proposition drawn up by them to be 
 presented to the committee of the town consisted of ten articles, and 
 after discussion and some slight modifications by the board, was acted 
 upon and accepted. The vote on Article 1st, was as follows : 
 
 AYES. NAYS. 
 
 Dea. C. P. Hitchcock, Capt. E. Smith, 
 
 Rev. R. Ay res, Rev. Tuxbury, 
 
 J. R. Davenport, J. B. Porter, Esq. 
 
 Rev. W. H. Beaman, 
 F. Bonney. 
 
 The succeeding articles were adopted unanimously. Voted to. pre- 
 sent this document as a proposition of the trustees to the town, to the 
 committee of the town. 
 
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 This proposition had reference to a communication of the committee 
 of the town here given, as follows : 
 
 April 6, the trustees met the committee of the town in conference 
 and after full discussion this plan submitted by the trustees was, with 
 some slight modifications, adopted as the joint action of the two to 
 be submitted to the town on Tuesday next (April 10) at the adjourned 
 town meeting. 
 
 This proposition had reference to a communication of the committee 
 of the town here given, as follows : 
 
 TO TIIK TlJl'STEES OF THE HOPKINS FUND, MESSRS: 
 
 In accordance with the vote of the town passed at its annual town meeting, 
 March 2(!, 1860, and to secure the privileges therein referred to, we would 
 respectfully present to your honorable^ body the following propositions as a 
 plan of union or agreement between the trustees of the Hopkins Fund and the 
 town of Hadley, whereby the wishes of said town, as expressed in their vote, 
 may be successfully carried out. 
 
 1. The town shall furnish a building with its necessary appendages, con- 
 veniences and furniture suitable for a high school. 
 
 2. The town shall appropriate two hundred dollars, at the outset, or from 
 time to time as need may require, for the purchase of maps, charts, globes, 
 philosophical and chemical apparatus etc. for the use of the school, provided 
 the trustees of the Hopkins Fund shall appropriate from the income of said 
 fund a like sum for the same purpose. 
 
 3. The trustees of the Hopkins Fund shall maintain a High school in this 
 building, which school shall be free to the whole town. 
 
 4. The High school shall comprise the higher English and classical 
 departments which shall be of a grade equal to the best academies. 
 
 5. The terms of admission to said school shall be uniform, and shall be 
 prescribed by the trustees of the Hopkins Fund and yet made acceptable to 
 the school committee of the town as now constituted. 
 
 (!. Scholars admitted to this school from 6ther towns shall pay in advance, 
 such rates of tuition as those having the supervision of it may demand ; but 
 in no case shall such tuition be less than that charged by the trustees of 
 Hopkins Academy at the present time. 
 
 7. There shall be such a prescribed course of studies in said High School 
 as shall usually require three years to complete and these studies shall be 
 determined by the trustees of the Hopkins Fund. 
 
 8. Every pupil who shall have completed the full course of study pre- 
 scribed and whose general deportment, during his or her connection with the 
 school, shall have been worthy of commendation, shall receive a diploma 
 certifying to that effect, which diploma shall be signed by the principal of the 
 school and by the President of the board of trustees. 
 
 9. Under the above requirements and limitations the trustees of the Hop- 
 kins Fund shall have the sole supervision of the said High school. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted, 
 
 S. C. WILDER, Chairman Town Committee. 
 
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 Hadley, March 29, 180. 
 
 Just what action was had on this paper in the board of trustees is 
 not clear. This plan of union, however, in its essential features was 
 accepted by the trustees, embodied in the report of the committee to 
 the town and by the town accepted and adopted. 
 
 The proposition of the trustees in answer to the foregoing from the 
 town committee is as follows : 
 
 To S. C. WILDER, ESQ., CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE OF THE TOWN OF HADI.KY. 
 Sir: The trustees of Hopkins Acaclmy recognizing the Providence 
 of God in the loss by fire of the Academy building regard the present as a 
 very important and critical time in the history of their affairs. They wish to 
 understand and meet the demands of the town in the best possible manner, 
 and so that the fund may be more widely useful than it has been heretofore, 
 especially to the town. We wish, if possible, to enter into such arrangement 
 with the town as shall make the Academy a permanent blessing to all future 
 generations, the ornament and pride of the town. 
 
 If their fund can be relieved of expense for other purposes, the trustees 
 believe its income adequate to the support of a school of a high order free to 
 all the children of Hadley, of suitable age and qualifications, and are willing 
 that the whole of said income be devoted to this use on certain conditions 
 accepted by both parties. To this end the trustees do not deem it necessary 
 to surrender their charter, nor at present at least, seek its modification. 
 They prefer still to be known as the trustees of Hopkins Academy and use 
 their rights and powers as such, and to have the school, which their fund 
 supports, known as Hopkins Academy and under their own oversight and 
 control. But though such be the legal technical designation and character 
 of the school, they wish it to be to all practical intents and purpose, a high 
 school of no common order. Holding these views it is obvious that the plan 
 No. 2, submitted by your committee is without objection to the trustees of 
 Hopkins Academy, and they are ready to adopt it with certain modifications, 
 which they hope and believe will be approved by the committee and the town. 
 The trustees would, therefore, submit for consideration the following 
 
 PLAN OF UNION. 
 
 1. The town shall build and furnish and keep in repair a neat and commo- 
 dious house for the proposed school, after apian and upon a site to be agreed 
 upon by the trustees and a committee chosen by the town. In case a site 
 near that lately destroyed be chosen, the trustees will give so much of the 
 material of the old building as may be useful in the construction of the new 
 one. 
 
 2. The town shall support an intermediate school in said building, to be 
 wholly under its own control for scholars of attainments insufficient to enter 
 the Academy, but pupils duly qualified elsewhere 'may enter the Academy 
 without passing through said intermediate school. 
 
 3. The town shall appropriate one hundred dollars, at the outset, for the 
 purchase of maps, charts, globes, philosophical and chemical apparatus etc.. 
 
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 for tlir use of the Academy. The trustees of the Hopkins fund engaging to 
 appropriate a like sum for the same purpose. 
 
 4. The trustees of Hopkins Academy shall maintain in this building a 
 school embracing the higher English and classical departments of a rank 
 corresponding to that of the best academies, and free to all the children duly 
 qualified in the town, said school to be the best that the net income of the 
 fund will afford. 
 
 ">. The terms of admission to said school shall be uniform and be pre- 
 scribed by the trustees of Hopkins Academy, but made acceptable to the 
 school committee of the town, as at present constituted, provided, however, 
 that scholars of proper age may enter the classical department without exam- 
 ination and provided also that scholars 15 years of age and upwards may be 
 admitted without examination on petition of the school committee of the 
 town, at the discretion of the trustees. 
 
 <;. Scholars not of this town shall pay in advance on their admission, such 
 rates of tuition as the trustees may fix, but in no case shall they be admitted 
 at lower rates than those now charged. 
 
 7. There shall be a prescribed course of study in said school, such as 
 ordinarily to require three years to complete it, to be regulated by the 
 trustees so as to meet the approbation of the present school committee of 
 the town. 
 
 8. Every pupil who shall have completed the full course of study pre- 
 scribed and whose general deportment during his or her connection with the 
 school shall have been worthy of commendation, shall receive a diploma 
 certifying to that effect, which diploma shall be signed by the principal of 
 the school and by the President of the board of trustees. 
 
 9. Under the conditions and limitations above specified, the trustees of 
 Hopkins Academy will pay the whole expense of instruction, and that only , 
 in said school and have its entire oversight and control. * 
 
 10. Either party shall be at liberty to withdraw from the above arrange- 
 ments when its own interests shall seem so to require and either party violat- 
 ing the terms of the engagement the other may consider it to have expired 
 by its own limitations. 
 
 The trustees at a meeting held April 2, accepted this plan of union 
 and on the sixth of the same month, in a meeting of the trustees and 
 the committee of the town, after full discussion, it was adopted, with 
 some slight modifications, as the joint action of the two, to be sub- 
 mitted to the town at the adjourned meeting April 10. This meeting 
 of the town voted to accept and adopt the report of this committee, 
 and appoint a committee of ten, one from each school district, with 
 power to act under the first article of the general plan for establishing 
 a high school. In case said committee cannot agree with the trustees 
 in locating said building, then said committee shall be empowered to 
 refer the question for final adjustment to a disinterested reference, 
 
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 chosen from out of town and report their action to the town at some 
 future meeting. The names of the committee are these that follow : 
 Dist. No. 1, Eleazar Porter; 2, Oliver E. Bonney ; 3, Rodney Smith ; 
 4, Wm. S. Shipman; 5, L. N. Granger; 6, Levi Stockbridge ; .7, 
 Stephen Johnson; 8, Benjamin Adams; 9, Edmund Smith; 10, 
 Parsons West. Voted that the above committee also submit a plan 
 for a building and a site for a High school at North Hadley. 
 
 April 10, 1860. In presenting this plan to the town the committee 
 use these words by way of preface : 
 
 " In all their deliberations among themselves and in their various meetings 
 with the Trustees, an earnest desire to secure to thetoAvn the amplest literary 
 privileges within their power has been abundantly manifested and as much 
 harmony of feeling and action has prevailed as was consistent with a full 
 discussion of the propositions coming under their consideration, and in all 
 their consultations with one another and with the Trustees unanimous results 
 have usually been achieved."* See report on file with Town Clerk. 
 
 April 13, 1860. At a meeting of the Trustees a communication 
 was received from the committee of the town empowered to consult 
 with the Trustees with reference to a site for the school building, 
 stating that a sub-committee consisting of Eleazer Porter, Esq.. Levi 
 Stockbridge, Esq., and Gen. Parsons West, was ready to meet the 
 Trustees for the purpose indicated. It was voted that the Prudential 
 Committee be appointed a sub-committee to meet them in behalf of 
 the Trustees. 
 
 Voted that the Trustees have a strong preference for a site contiguous to 
 that occupied by the old building. 
 
 April 19th, 1860. The Prudential Committee made a verbal report 
 with regard to their interview with the committee of the town having 
 in charge the selection of a site for the contemplated Academy building. 
 A proposition was received from the committee of the town asking the 
 Trustees to accept for a site the land now occupied by Mr. John 
 Pierce, on Middle street. 
 
 After a discussion of this communication the following action was 
 taken : 
 
 Voted that the Trustees do not deem it advisable to accede to the proposi- 
 tion of the committee of the town for a site, but that all things considered, 
 they believe it for the best interests of all concerned, that the house to be 
 
 *NOTE. In the proposition presented to the town occurs this addition to Art. 2, as found 
 above : "The town shall also provide a suitable building and therein support a high school 
 in the north part of the town for at least two terms of eleven weeks each, every year, and 
 all the money appropriated to the ten district schools shall be divided hereafter equally 
 among said schools." 
 
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 built should be located upon a site which can be procured, upon the land of 
 Mr. fJeorgc (Jaylord, near the site of the old building. And the Trustees 
 sincerely hope that the town will see fit to accept of the location proposed. 
 
 April 26, 1860. The following communication was presented by 
 the committee of the town : 
 
 "To THE TRUSTEES OF HOPKINS ACADEMY: 
 
 At a meeting of the committee of the town in regard to a site for a High 
 School house, held at the Town Hall in Hartley, April 23, 18(50. 
 
 Voted not to accept the proposition of the Trustees of Hopkins Academy 
 for a site for a High School house. 
 
 'Voted, that owing to a difference of opinion between the committee of the 
 town and the Trustees of Hopkins Academy , we in compliance with the vote 
 of the town respectfully ask said Trustees to submit the question of the 
 location of the High School house to disinterested arbitrators from out of 
 town, to be agreed upon by the Trustees and the town committee. 
 
 WM. S. SHIPMAN, Secretary." 
 
 After a full discussion of the proposition of the committee of the 
 town it was moved and seconded that the proposition of the town to* 
 decide the question of a locality for a High School building by a 
 reference of the question to disinterested arbitrators from out of town 
 be accepted. A vote upon the above motion was taken by yeas and 
 nays, with the following result : 
 
 YEAS. NAYS. 
 
 Rev. W. H. Beaman, Capt. Elijah Smith, 
 
 Rev. R. Ayres, Dea. C. P. Hitchcock, 
 
 Dea. Simeon Dickinson, James B. Porter, Esq., 
 
 Mr. J. R. Davenport, Dea. George Dickinson, 
 
 F. Bonney. Rev. F. Tuxbury. 
 
 The committee of the town in their report presented May 7, 1860, 
 close with these words : k ' At this point all further action was stayed. 
 Your committee, feeling that they had no power to proceed in the 
 premises, concluded to refer the whole subject to the town for their 
 consideration, hoping that they in their wisdom will devise some plan 
 whereby this difference between them and the Trustees may be com- 
 promised in a way that shall give the town the ud vantage of this great 
 boon which lias come almost within their grasp." It was voted that 
 the report of the committee of the town in regard to a site for a High 
 School house was read and voted to be accepted and placed on file 
 and the committee was discharged from all further duties." 
 
 At this point attempt at futher negotiation ended. 
 
 Aug. 3, I860. The Trustees voted to instruct the Prudential Com- 
 mittee to inquire into the expediency of fitting up the room in the 
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 rear of the First church or some other room for the use of the school. 
 Aug. 6, voted to instruct the Prudential Committee to fit up the room 
 back of the vestry of the First church for a school-room. The Parish 
 Committee propose that if the Trustees do this and insure the church 
 against fire for the year they will charge nothing for the use of the 
 building. It is understood that the committee are to purchase desks 
 and chairs, which shall answer for a part of the furniture of the ne\v 
 building which may be hereafter erected. In the school-room thus 
 fitted up the school was kept, reduced to such numbers as the capacity 
 of the room would accommodate. The number of classes was reduced 
 to ten so that one teacher might do the work of instruction without 
 assistance. All scholars were to enter some of these classes, their 
 fitness to be ascertained by an examination by the Trustees. 
 
 At this period, between Feb. 18, 1860, and Jan. 18, 1801, several 
 votes were passed at different meetings with reference to obtaining :> 
 site and plan for a new building and securing funds for its erection, 
 with no result. 
 
 July 30, 1861. It was voted that it is expedient to secure another 
 room in connection with the present one and employ an additional 
 teacher. Voted that the Prudential Committee be instructed to pro- 
 vide two rooms for the accommodation of two teachers the coming 
 year. 
 
 In Sept., 1861, an agreement was signed by the Prudential Com- 
 mittee and the Parish Committee of the First Religious Society con- 
 cerning the use of the school-rooms provided as aforesaid, for a term 
 of years not exceeding four, at an annual rent of $125.00. 
 
 At the annual meeting of the Trustees, Nov. 17, 1862, Rev. R. 
 Ayres, Levi Stockbridge, Theodore G. Hunting-ton, were chosen :i 
 committee to enquire if the benefits of the Hopkins Fund cannot l>e 
 more widely diffused in Its relation to the town. 
 
 This committee presented their report in writing to the board at a 
 meeting held March 30, 1863, as follows : 
 
 The committee for enqniryig into the expediency of extending the benefits 
 of the Academy more widely would report that it is, in their view, meet and 
 desirable to make to the town of lladley at its annual meeting held this day, 
 the overture following : 
 
 HADLEY, March 30, 1803. 
 
 The Trustees of Hopkins Academy moved by the desire to elevate the 
 character of the school under their care, and extend its benefits to a large.i 
 number than at present, hereby make to the town of lladley the following 
 proposition, namely, in consideration of a sum of money not to exceed three 
 
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 hundred dollars, to be paid by the town to said Trustees to aid in paying the 
 expense of necessary instruction, and a further sum not to exceed one hundred 
 dollars for the purpose of seating the north school-room, now occupied by 
 said Trustees, uniformly with the south room, the seats to remain the property 
 of the town. They will open the school with all its advantages, free of 
 charge for tuition, to such scholars from the town of Hadley as shall sustain 
 examination according to the standard of admission hereinafter named. 
 The number to be admitted must be limited by the present accommodations 
 of the school-rooms, &c. 
 
 It is proposed to otter such qualified scholars the advantages of a thorough 
 course of English instruction to be completed ordinarily in three years. Such 
 pupils will be entitled likewise to a course of classical study and instruction 
 sufficient to qualify young men for admission to college. 
 
 Students from abroad are to be admitted to the same privileges by the 
 payment of tuition. 
 
 The standard of admission for the present, subject to such modifications 
 as experience may dictate, shall be the following : 
 
 Some knowledge of the English language in its elementary sounds and 
 characters; ability to read with tolerable facility in Sargent's Fourth Reader 
 and to spell the words in Sargent's Speller ; mental Arithmetic and written 
 Arithmetic to percentage, in Robinson's or an equivalent; Colton and Fitch's 
 School Geography. 
 
 The Trustees make this offer for a single year and yet they make it in good 
 faith, hoping that some such arrangement may be permanent and mutually 
 satisfactory. The understanding in making this proposal is that the school 
 shall be under the care of the present principal, and the Trustees engage to 
 secure for the year or part of it, as may be found necessary, such assistance 
 as shall be acceptable to the General School Committee of the town. They 
 will likewise encourage in said committee the most watchful scrutiny of the 
 school, receive from them hints for its improvement, and study to make it in 
 all respects worthy of their approbation and that of the citizenship of the 
 town. R. AYRES, Vice-Pres. of the Board of Trustees. 
 
 F. BONNEY, Secretary. 
 
 At the town meeting of this date, March 30, 1863, under 
 article eleventh of the warrant to see what action, if any, the town 
 will take with reference to a proposition of the Trustees of Hopkins 
 Academy inviting the town to unite with them in maintaining a free 
 High School for the year ensuing. Voted to accept the proposition 
 made by the Trustees of Hopkins Academy to the town. 
 
 March 31st, 1863. The Trustees voted to choose a committee of three 
 to make arrangements with the general school committee of the town 
 for the examination of persons applying for admission to the High 
 School and other matters appertaining thereto. The town having 
 accepted the proposition made by the Trustees,!. R. Davenport, Levi 
 Stockbridge and F. Boimey were chosen. 
 
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 April 8, 1864. It was voted that the Trustees accept the proposi- 
 tion of the town to continue the same arrangements respecting the 
 High School as was in action last year. The committee of last year 
 was reappointed to co-operate with the General Committee of the town 
 in carrying out the agreement. 
 
 Nov. 20, 1864. A committee of the Trustees was appointed to 
 consider the necessities of the school the coming season with reference 
 to furnishing a room for the increasing number of scholars. This 
 committee reported verbally, Nov. 30, and a vote was taken that an 
 examination be held at the opening of the winter term, for such as 
 present themselves, those attaining the highest rank to be admitted 
 first and so on by rank as vacancies occur according to the accommo- 
 dations of the school-rooms. 
 
 Voted that no person shall be considered to have passed t xaiuina- 
 tions who has not answered correctly fifty per cent, of the questions 
 given him. 
 
 Feb. 24, 1865. It was voted that the Trustees propose to the town 
 that if the town will provide and furnish a suitable building, and keep 
 it in repair, they will sustain a High School free of expense to the 
 town for such scholars as may be able to pass successfully such an 
 examination as is usually required for admission to similar schools in 
 other towns. 
 
 March 6, 1865. The Trustees voted to assume the expenses of the 
 Higll School under the expectation that a building would be in readi- 
 ness for occupation by the commencement of the winter term. 
 
 At the annual meeting held March 6, 1865, under the article 14th 
 of the warrant " To see if the town will accept of a proposition made 
 by the Trustees of Hopkins Academy* by which they propose and 
 agree to sustain a High School, free of expense to the inhabitants of 
 the town of Hadley, provided that the town will build, furnish and 
 keep in repair a suitable building, and act anything thereon." 
 
 Art. 15. To see if the town will continue the existing arrange- 
 ment with the Trustees of Hopkins Academy for maintaining a free 
 High School. 
 
 Voted to accept the following proposition of the Trustees of Hopkins 
 Academy. [See above.] 
 
 Voted to build a building for a High School the ensuing year. 
 
 Voted that the town appropriate the sum of twelve thousand dollars to 
 build a building for a High School. 
 
 *This vote of the Trustees passed Feb. 24, 1865. See record. 
 
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 " At this meeting a committee of five was appointed to procure a plan for 
 and superintend the erection of the building for a High School, and likewise 
 procure a site, and empowered to purchase, grade, and otherwise prepare and 
 properly lit up a site for the High School building, at an expense not exceeding 
 two thousand dollars. 
 
 This committee nominated by a committee of five appointed for the 
 purpose by the moderator, P. S. Williams, consisted of P. S. Williams, 
 John A. Morton, L. N. Granger, Dr. F. Bonney and F. Edson. 
 
 The committee found difficulty in the choice of a site acceptable to 
 all. But they carefully estimated the number of families and the 
 number of scholars in each of the several districts to be more particu- 
 larly accommodated by the building and the amount of travel to be 
 performed by those scholars. They were unanimous in the conclusion 
 that the most central location would be some place on or near the four 
 corners, near the town hall. Of several lots examined, the committee 
 chose the homestead of William Blake and made a verbal contract 
 for the same. But before the deed could be executed, a town meeting 
 was called for May 4th, u to see if the town will reconsider the vote 
 whereby they authorized their committee to locate the High School 
 building and act anything thereon." It was voted that this meeting 
 instruct the committee to locate the High School building on Kellogg's 
 corner, with one acre of land, provided a sum above two thousand 
 dollars sufficient to furnish the site be raised by subscription, within 
 ten days, if a sufficient sum be not raised within the specified time to 
 secure the location on Kellogg's corner, then to locate the High School 
 building on the east end of the lot of Geo. H. Gaylord's home-lot, one 
 acre to be presented to the town for that purpose free of all cost. 
 
 At a town meeting held May 19th, voted to rescind the vote whereby 
 the town voted at a town meeting held May the 4th, 1865, to locate 
 the High School building on Kellogg's corner or on the land of George 
 Gaylord. 
 
 Voted that the committee be instructed to locate the High School building 
 on the corner of Win. Blake's home-lot. 
 
 At a town meeting held June 2nd, 1865. 
 
 Voted not to change the location of the High School building from the 
 corner of Wm. Blake's home lot to the east end of Geo. Gaylord's home lot. 
 
 As a result of the action of the town, individuals offered to buy the 
 homestead of Edward Stebbins and give a part of the land to the 
 town to enlarge and beautify the lot and make it more convenient- 
 March 5, I860. Voted that the High School committee purchase the 
 remainder of the Stebbins homestead and dispose of the buildings and so 
 much of the land as is not necessary for the High School house lot. 
 
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 At this date negotiations between the Town and trustees were 
 suspended. The vexed question of site being in such wise solved, 
 the building committee before named proceeded to contract for the 
 erection of a school building upon the spot chosen. 
 
 The plan of the building was drawn by Architect Win. F. Pratt of 
 Northampton, who superintended the work of erection. The con- 
 tractor was Lauriston Ware, whose bid was $11,750. In dimensions 
 the main building was 76 by 36 feet with two transverse wings, 30 by 
 12 feet. Height of the lower story 13 feet, of the upper story 15 feet. 
 The lower story was divided into two rooms, separated by a hall, for 
 the use of the town, one for a Grammar and one for an Intermediate 
 school. The upper story was used by the Trustees for their school. 
 The main school-room is the full size of the second floor. In the 
 west wing is a recitation-room, and a room for apparatus, etc. 
 
 This building, thus provided and furnished, was ready for occu- 
 pancy early in December, 1865. In these quarters the school has 
 since then found a home and done its work. The cost to the town of 
 the building and its furnishing and appointments, as shown by the 
 report of the building committee at the town meeting March 5, 1860, 
 was $15,882.30. A large sum, they say, and of necessity, since the 
 building itself is large and erected at a time of greatly enhanced cost 
 of material and labor, by reason of an inflated currancy, an evil inci- 
 dent to a long and costly civil war. 
 
 Under the plan indicated by the foregoing action of the town of 
 Hadley and the Trustees respectively, Hopkins Academy began its 
 career as a school with all its advantages free, for the first time in its 
 history, to all scholars in the town, who on examination should be 
 able to gain admission. Since that date a new class has been admitted 
 each succeeding year, of varying numbers, with a three year's course 
 of study open to them, extended later to four years, with the still 
 further advantage of post-graduate study when desired. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 TIIF PERIOD OF THE SCHOOL'S GREATEST PROSPERITY. 
 
 During the decade from 1830 to" 1840 Hopkins Academy attained 
 its greatest growth. At this time numbers were larger than before or 
 since. Probably the corps of instruction was never better. Enthu- 
 siasm in study was the reigning spirit, inspired by earnest teachers 
 and furthered by the attrition of bright minds brought together from 
 many places. 
 
 Rev. E. Russell, D.D., writing of the school as it was in 1831, 
 says. " The scholars to me w r ere always very pleasant and agreeable. 
 Their industry was untiring and with scarcely an exception successful 
 and satisfactory." Of one pupil he writes, u He was always modest, 
 prompt, accurate, thorough. It made and left its impression on the 
 whole school." 
 
 The religious influence of the school at this period was decided and 
 strong. Many young people began the Christian life in connection 
 with the school who have since done eminent service in the line of the 
 designs and wishes of Gov. Hopkins. All pupils were required to 
 attend church regularly every Sunday. A weekly Bible lesson was a 
 general exercise in which all had part. This was sometimes conducted 
 so as to be of inestimable worth. Teachers and pupils met together 
 at the Academy for prayer and religions conference. All who would 
 took part in these exercises, and some of the older pupils did so. In 
 seasons of more than usual interest there was sometimes preaching in 
 the Academy. 
 
 Many young people who came to this school from other towns 
 received inspiration and impulse towards all that is best in living, 
 which was never lost. An influence went out through these and 
 ivjiched other young people, who never enjoyed these advantages, 
 kindling hope and stimulating high ondenvor. 
 
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 In the year 1835, the price of board, including room-rent and 
 washing was $1.50 a week. Price of tuition $3.00 to $3.50 a quarter. 
 Although this is a low rate of tuition it was in many cases nearly or 
 quite prohibitory. Not a few of the young people of Hadley, though 
 the desire was strong, could not enter the Academy, and more entered 
 for only a short time, perhaps one quarter or even a half. The cost 
 of tuition for a family of average size for a series of years was felt as 
 no light burden. When this barrier was removed later and the school 
 was open to all alike, there was occasion for joy, that abides to this 
 day. 
 
 The school was inexpensive as compared with the present. Rates 
 of tuition were low. The same is true of board and incidental 
 expenses. 
 
 The question has interest, whence the Academy derived its patron- 
 age ? Something in the way of answer may be learned from catalogues 
 of the institution published at different times. The first of these 
 bearing date Feb., 1818, has the names of 99 students. Of these 
 five were from other states than Massachusetts. One from N. Y., 
 one from Conn., one from N. H., two from Vt., seventeen from 
 Hampshire Co. out of Hadley, eight from Mass, out of Hampshire 
 Co., the remainder, 65 from Hadley. 
 
 On the catalogue of Aug., 1818, are found the names of 141 pupils. 
 Of this number, thirteen were from out of Massachusetts, nine from 
 Vt., one from Conn., two from N. Y., one from Georgia, sixty from 
 other towns in Massachusetts,- 73 in all ; sixty-eight, or less than half 
 that number from Hadley. 
 
 On the catalogue of Feb., 1819, are 118 names, thirteen from out 
 of Mass., five from Vt., two from N. H., four from Conn., two from 
 N. Y., eighteen out of Hampshire Co. in Mass., sixty-one out of 
 Hadley, the rest, fifty-eight, from Hadley. 
 
 The catalogue for the year ending Nov. 17, 1835, shows the whole 
 number of pupils to have been 271, gentlemen 150, ladies 121. Of 
 these twenty-one were from out of Massachusetts, from nine different 
 states, one from Canada and one from the island of Ceylon, 51 from 
 Mass, out of Hampshire Co., 76 from Hampshire Co. out of Hadley, 
 123 from Hadley, 148 from out of Hadley. These 148 all paid tuition 
 and board as well, and it seems hard to see how their coming hither 
 to enjoy these advantages should not enhance their value to the 
 dwellers in the town and be in other respects promotive of their well- 
 being. It was not far from this time, however, that a different 
 
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 feeling prevailed, finding expression in a suit at law in the supreme 
 court. 
 
 For the year ending Nov. 21, 1837, whole number of pupils 286, 
 gentlemen 154, ladies 132 ; winter term 111, spring 131, summer 84, 
 fall 109 ; in the languages 57. From out of Mass. 27, N. H. four, 
 Vt. one, Conn, nine, N. Y. six, Del. one, Ohio one, Ga. one, Va. one, 
 Fla. one, Ala. two, ten different states. Fifty-one from Mass, out 
 of Hampshire Co., 54 from Hampshire Co. out of Hadley, 154 from 
 Hadley. From this lime on numbers gradually grew less so that at 
 the beginning of the fall term in 1842 there were but twenty-seven 
 pupils. There was soon rapid increase, however, though the decline 
 in numbers was permanent from this time on. 
 
 During this period a definite coitrse of study was prescribed only 
 for students who proposed to enter college. These must of course 
 take the studies required in order for admission to the higher institutions. 
 
 For other pupils the range of elective studies was wide. The 
 attempt to teach so many branches must have had in some instances, 
 the result of superficial mental discipline and attainment. So much 
 was attempted that too little was done to best purpose. Too few sought 
 to teach too many pupils, too many things to be sure of the best work 
 from teacher or pupil. Both did what they could under such limita- 
 tions. The spirit that reigned in both was excellent. The best 
 results were fruits of character whose worth is beyond estimation. 
 These teachers had noble ideals with which they failed not to inspire 
 appreciative, sympathetic, responsive pupils, such as many of them 
 were, as is plain from the record they have made. 
 
 The same spirit in good degree has prevailed since this period and 
 there is assured hope that it will continue and grow, as it should. But 
 the pupils of the time under notice were man} 7 of them mature in 
 years, gaining such education as they could, with difficulty and costly 
 sacrifice, and hence they were stimulated to make the most of their 
 .opportunities and of themselves. 
 
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CHAPTER XITL 
 
 TRUSTEES OF HOPKINS ACADEMY. ROLL OF TEACHERS. 
 ROLL OF HONOR, 
 
 TRUSTEES OF HOPKINS ACADEMY FROM ITS INCORPORATION TO 
 THE PRESENT TIME. 
 
 Original members who applied to the General Court for an act of 
 incorporation, and are named in the charter. 
 
 Seth Smith, 1796, died June 30, 1828. 
 William Porter, 1796, died Nov. 6, 1847. 
 Jacob Smith, 1804, died Apr. 5, 1852. 
 William Dickinson, 1812, died March 15, 1849. 
 Moses Porter, 1815, died May 22, 1854. 
 
 ELECTED. RETIRED. 
 
 Rev. Dan Huntington, June 4, 1817 died 1864. 
 
 Rev. John Woodbridge, D.D., " " Feb. 22, 1831 
 
 Rev. Joseph Lyman, D.D., June 6, 1818 died 1826 
 
 of Hatfield, President. 
 Hon. Isaac C. Bates June 6, 1817 Nov. 20, 1828 
 
 of Northampton, 
 Rev. Vinson Gould, Sept. 6, 1821 Feb. 23, 1836 
 
 of Southampton, 
 Rev. Nathan Perkins, Sept. 6, 1821 Nov. 17, 1835 
 
 of Amherst, President. 
 Hon. Jonathan H. Lyman, retirement not recorded. 
 
 of Northampton, 
 Hon. Joseph Strong, Esq., Nov. 20, 1828 
 
 of South Hadley, 
 Rev. Henry Lord, May 17, 1825 May 21, 1834 
 
 of Williamsburg, 
 
 Dea. Nathaniel Coolidge, Jr., May 17, 1825 died 1835 
 
 Rev. JaredB.Waterbury,D.D. Feb. 19, 1828 Aug. 16, 1831 
 
 of Hatfield, 
 
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 ELECTED. RETIRED. 
 
 Rev. Horace B. Chapiu, Nov. 20, 1828 retirement not recorded 
 
 of South Amherst, 
 Rev. IchabodS. Spencer, D.D. Nov. 20, 1828 Aug. 19, 1834 
 
 of Northampton, 
 
 Muj. Sylvester Smith, Nov. 20, 1828 declined service. 
 
 Rev. Levi Pratt, Hatfield, Aug. 17, 1830 May 21, 1834 
 
 Dea. Elisha Dickinson, Aug. 17, 1830 declined service. 
 
 Rev. John Brown, D. D., Nov. 23, 1831 died in 1839 
 
 President, from Nov. 17, 1835 to March,' 1839. 
 
 Capt. Elijah Smith, May 21, 1834 June, 1861 
 
 Mr. James B. Porter, May 21, 1834 
 
 Elected again May 19, 1835. 
 Rev. Joseph Penney, D. D., Aug/19, 1834 Feb. 23, 1836 
 
 of Northampton, 
 Rev. John Todd, D. D., Aug. 19, 1834 retirement not recorded. 
 
 of Northampton, 
 Mr. James B. Porter, May 19, 1835 Nov. 16, 1868 
 
 Treasurer from 1835-1862. 
 
 Mr. Dudley Smith, May 29, 1835 May 27, 1858 
 
 Rev. Joseph D. Condit, Nov. 17, 1835 died Sept. 13, 1847. 
 
 of South Hartley, 
 Rev. Win. Tyler, Nov. 22, 1836 Nov. 21, 1842 
 
 of South Hartley Canal, 
 
 Rev. John Ferguson, Whately, Nov. 20,1838 retirement not recorded. 
 Rev. David L. Hunn Aug. 20, 1839 retirement not recorded. 
 
 of North Hadley, President from Nov., '39-'41. 
 
 Rev. Joseph W. Curtis, Nov. 19, 1839 died 1857 
 
 Rev. Francis Danforth, Feb. 18, 1840 retirement not recorded. 
 
 Den. Chas. P. Hitchcock, Nov. 16, 1841 declined service. 
 
 Dea. Simeon Dickinson, Nov. 16, 1841 Dec. 14, 1864 
 
 Rev. John Woodbridge, Feb. 18, 1842 Nov. 22, 1859 
 
 President Nov. 20, 1842 to Nov. 22, 1859. 
 Rev. Warren H. Beaman, Aug. 12, 1845 Nov. 20, 1873 
 
 of North Hadley, Pres. Nov. 22, '59 to Dec. 1, '65. 
 Capt. Oliver Warner, Nov. 18, 1845 died June 6, 1850 
 
 Rev. Rowland Ayres, Feb. 15, 1848 
 
 President since Dec. 1, 1865. 
 
 Dea. Chas. P. Hitchcock, Feb. 20, 1849 died 1867 
 
 Mr. William P. Dickinson, Aug. 17, 1852 March 7, 1863 
 
 Dea. George Dickinson, Aug. 17, 1882 died Aug., 1889 
 
 Rev. Franklin Tuxbury, Nov. 19, 1857 March 7, 1863 
 
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 ELECTED. RETIRE 1). 
 
 Mr. Jesse R. Davenport, Nov. 19, 1857 Nov. 16, 1868 
 
 Franklin Bonney, M. 1)., Nov. 19, 1857 
 
 Hon. Levi Stockbridge, April 1, 1862 
 
 Mr. Theodore G. Himtington, April 1, 1862 Dec. 16, 1877 
 
 Eleazar Porter, Esq., April 1, 1862 died April, 1<S86 
 
 Treasurer from 1862-1878. 
 Mr. Horace Cook, April 1, 1862 
 
 Rev. E. S. Dwigkt, D. D., Nov. 22, 1864 
 
 P. S. Williams, Esq., Nov. 22, 1864 April 15, 1870 
 
 L. N. Granger, Prior to 1865 1876 
 
 Record of election failed to be made, 
 John C. Hammond, Esq., Nov. 15, 1870 
 
 S. C. Wilder, Esq., Nov. 15, 1870 died 1S7;; 
 
 Charles E. Lamson, - Nov. 15, 1870 died March 17, 1879 
 
 John A. Morton, Nov. 15, 1870 Nov. 27, 1878 
 
 Rev. James M. Bell, Nov. 20, 1873 retirement not recorded. 
 
 Oliver E. Smith, Nov. 20, 1873 May 5, 1883 
 
 Mr. Win. P. Porter, Nov. 17, 1876 
 
 Treasurer since Nov. 22, 1878. 
 Mr. John N. Pierce, Nov. 17, 1877 
 
 Mr. Charles Cook, Nov. 17, 1877 
 
 Dea. Rodney Smith. Nov. 17, 1877 died Feb. 2, 1890. 
 
 Rev. John W. Lane, Sept. 2, 1878 
 
 Dea. Baxter E. Bardwell, Nov. 20, 1885 
 Rev. John S. Bayne, Nov. 23, 1888 
 
 Of the sixty-three names in this list, sixteen only have been chosen 
 from out of town. Since the election of Rev. John Ferguson, Nov. 
 20, 1838, no one has been chosen out of Hadley. 
 
 PRESENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 Rev. Rowland Ayres, D.D., 1848 
 
 Franklin Bonney, M. D., 1857 
 
 Horace Cook, Esq., 1862 ( 
 
 Rev. F:. S. Dwight, D. D., 1864 
 
 John C. Hammond, F^sq., 1870 
 
 William P. Porter, Esq., 1876 
 Dea. John N. Pierce, ' 1877 
 
 Charles Cook, Esq., 1877 
 
 Rev. John W. Lane, 1878 
 
 Dea. Baxter E. Bardwell, 1885 
 
 Rev. John S. Bayne, 1888 
 
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 OFKICERS OF THE BOARD. 
 
 Rev. Rowland Ayres, D. D., President. 
 Rev. E. 8. Dwight, D. D., Vice- President. 
 Franklin Boniicy, M. D., Secretary. 
 William P. Porter, Esq., Treasurer. 
 Charles Cook, Flsq., Auditor. 
 
 Rev. R. Ayres, D. D., F. Bonney, M. D., J. C. Ham- 
 iiiuiid, Esq., Prudential Committee. 
 
 ROLL OF TEACHERS IN HOPKINS ACADEMY. 
 
 The history of the school is made up largely of the names, work, 
 and record of its teachers. This list of honored names is here given. 
 
 PRINCIPALS. 
 
 Rev. Dan Huntington, Y.C. 171)4, 
 Rev. Worthington Smith, D. D., W. C. 
 
 1816, Pres. U. Vt. and Trustee. 
 Oliver S. Taylor,M.D., died March, '85, 
 
 aged 100. 
 
 Rev. John A. Nash, A.C., 1824 
 
 George Nichols, Y. C., 1824, Rector of 
 Hopkins Grammar Sch., New Haven, 
 taught, Springfield, d. '41 , salary $600. 
 
 Timothy Dwight, A.C. 1827, tutor, 
 
 Rev. Ezekiel Russell, D.I)., A.C. '29, tutor, 
 minister N. Adams, Springfield Olivet 
 church, and Holbrook, Mass. 
 
 Rev. Lewis Sabin, D.D. A.C. '31, Trus- 
 tee, minister, Templeton, died 1873. 
 
 Rev. Amos S. Cheesebrough,D.D., Y.C., 
 member Corporation Y. C., minister, 
 Chester and Glastonbury, Conn., and 
 elsewhere. 
 
 Rev. Jesse G .D. Stearns, A.C. '36, tutor, 
 minister, Billerica, and elsewhere, 
 died 1882. 
 
 Rev. Mortimer Blake, D.D.,A.C.1835, 
 
 died 1884. 
 
 John P. Sanderson, A.C. 1839, 
 Cyrus Holmes, could not have been em- 
 ployed more than a few weeks. Paid 
 to Jan. 20, $48.50. 
 
 CAME. 
 
 Dec. 17, 1817 
 Dec., 1820 
 
 WENT. 
 
 1820 
 Feb., 1822 
 
 Feb. 22, 1822 May, 1826 
 
 May, 1826 
 1827 
 
 1829 
 March, 1830 
 
 1831 
 1835 
 
 1836 
 
 1837 
 
 1839 
 1840 
 
 Nov., 1827 
 1829 
 
 1830 
 Sept., 1831 
 
 Aug., 1835 
 1836 
 
 1837 
 
 1839 
 Jan., 1840 
 
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 Rev. Horace Hutchinson, A.C. '39. From 
 the Treasurer's account it is inferred 
 that Mr. H. was in charge of the school 
 one quarter, ending May 19. 
 
 Miss Almira Henshavv, in charge one 
 quarter, ending Aug. 18, inferred from 
 books of Treasurer. 
 
 O. Fisher, Y.C. 1836, 
 
 Isaac Witherell, 3 quarters, 
 
 Miss Mindwell Woodbridge had charge 
 one quarter, ending in August, with 
 very few pupils. 
 
 Rev. Addison Ballard, D.D., W.C. 1842, 
 tutor ; Morris Prof. Rhetoric, Latin 
 and Math., Ohio Univ. ; Prof. Latin 
 and Astron., Marietta; Prof. Chris- 
 tian Greek and Latin, and Prof. Mor. 
 Phil, and Rhet., LaFayette Coll. 
 
 Rev. Henry B. Hosford, W. C., tutor, 
 minister, Sunderland, Prof. Int. Mor. 
 Phil, and Rhet., Western Reserve Coll. 
 
 Rev. Henry K. Edson, A.C. '44, Princi- 
 pal Denmark Academy, Prof, in Iowa 
 College. 
 
 Rev. Henry Lobdell, M.D., A. C. 1849, 
 missionary to Mosul, Turkey. 
 
 Marshall Henshaw, D.D., LL.D., A. C. 
 '45, tutor, principal Pinkerton Acad., 
 Derry,N.H., Dummer Acad., Byfield, 
 and Williston Sem., Prof. Math. Rut- 
 gers Coll., lecturer, Nat. Phil., A. C. 
 
 Rev. Lucius D. Chapin, A.C. '51, Prof. 
 Mor. and Intell. Phil., Univ. Mich., 
 Chanc. and Prof. Ment. Philosophy, 
 Ingh. Univ. One quarter. 
 
 Rev. Wm. F. Avery, A.C. '50, minister 
 Huntington and Lanesboro, one quarter 
 
 Rev. C. V. Spear, A. C. '46, minister at 
 Sudbury, Prin. Maplewood Institute, 
 Founder of Spear Library, Prof, at 
 Obeiiin, College, O. 
 
 Augustus H. Buck, A.C. '49, Prof. Greek 
 and German, Boston Univ. 
 
 Reuben M. Benjamin, LL.D., A.C. '53, 
 tutor, Judge county court, 111., Prof. 
 Law and Real property, 111. Wesl. U. 
 
 CAME. 
 
 1840 
 
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 May 19, 1840 
 
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 .Jesse R. Davenport, A. C. '51, Prin. 1854 
 
 Am. Aciul., Prin. High Schools, Ox- 
 ford and Woonsocket, R. I. 
 
 Cluiiies A. Chandler, A. C. '66, Editor 1867 
 
 Boston Herald. 
 
 Rev. Herbert J. Cook, A.C. '69, minister 1869 
 
 Coldwater, Mich., and Dayton, O. 
 
 Geo.H. White, A.C. '70, instructor A.C., 1870 
 
 Prof. Preparatory Department O. C. 
 
 Walter G.' Mitchell, W.C. '70, principal 1873 
 
 High School, Winstcd, Conn. 
 
 W. W. Mitchell, W. C. '39, Prin. High 1874 
 
 Schools Northampton and Chicopee, 
 Mass. House Rep. 1882. 
 
 Edward Ayres, A. C. '78, teacher Lake 1878 
 
 Forest Acad., 111., instructor in Latin 
 A.C., principal High School, Orange, 
 principal High School and Supt. of 
 schools, Warren, Mass., Supt. of 
 schools, La Fayette, Ind. 
 
 George Sherman, A. C. '79, Prin. High 1880 
 
 School, Winchester, N. H. 
 
 Edmund P. Barker, A.C. '76, Prin. Acad. 1881 
 
 Dudley, Prin. High Sell., Swampscott. . 
 
 AVilliam Orr, Jr., A. C. '83, Prin. Smith 1883 
 
 Acad., Hatfield, teacher of Science 
 Springfield High School. ' 
 
 Edward A. Baker, A.C. '84, 
 
 Francis J. Heavens, A.C. '84, principal 
 High School Enfield, Ct., Brookfield, 
 Mass., principal High Sell, and Supt. 
 of schools, Wallingford, Conn. 
 
 Francis L. Palmer, A. C. '85, Theol. 1885 
 
 student, 
 
 Nathaniel F. Wilcox, W. C. 1886 
 
 Daniel W. Rogers, A. C. '87, 1887 
 
 Elmer Case, B. U. '84, 1888 
 
 ASSISTANT TE ACHEIIS . 
 
 Giles C. Kellogg, Esq., Y. C. 1800, 1817 
 
 taught at intervals afterwards, as late 
 as 1831. 
 
 Miss Sally Williston, preceptress, 1817 
 
 Miss Sophia Mosely, preceptress, 1818 
 
 WENT. 
 
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 Miss Sarah Whitney, preceptress, 1820 1821 
 
 m. Henry Marsh. 
 
 Miss Mary W. Fiske, preceptress, 1821 1822 
 
 Mise Elizabeth P. Huntington, taught 1821 
 
 smaller children, 
 
 Miss Mary Ann Little, taught smaller 1821 
 
 children, m. Rev. Worthington Smith, I). D. 
 
 Miss Eliza Merrill, 1822 1822 
 
 Miss Strong, 182;) 1823 
 
 Miss Dolly Blair, m. Geo. Nichols, 1824 1829 
 
 Charles L. Strong, A. C. '26, 1827 1827 
 
 Miss Emily H. Williams, preceptress, 1829 1830 
 
 Rev. Win. F. Nelson, A. C. '29, Prof. 1829 1829 
 
 Theol. Richmond Coll., Prof. Bibl. Lit. 
 
 West. Bapt. Theol. lust., Covington, 
 
 Pres. Minn. Central Univ. 
 
 Miss Mary Dwight, preceptress, 1829 18:50 
 
 Miss Louisa S. Billings, preceptress, 1830 1835 
 
 m. Rev. Ezekiel Russell, D.I). 
 
 Aaron B. Hall, A. B., 1830 1831 
 
 Miss Louisa Packard, 'l 831 1 8:5 1 
 
 Arnold Hannum, 1831 1831 
 
 Wm. Zephaniah Stewart, LL.D., A. C. 1832 1832 
 
 '33, Judge Supreme Court, Ind. 
 
 Rev. E. W. Bullard, minister Royalston, 1832 1833 
 
 Rev. Adiel Harvey, A. C. '32, " 1832 is;};', 
 
 Miss Mary W. Billings, m. Rev. Rob't l<s:52 18:52 
 
 O. Dwight, missionary to India. 
 
 Miss Abigail Clark, 1832 1832 
 
 Miss Lucy Ann Brown, ls:>:> 1833 
 
 Rev. Amos Bullard, A. C. '33, tutor, 1833 1833 
 
 minister, Barre, Mass. 
 
 Miss Lucretia Porter, 1834 1834 
 
 Miss Proctor, . 1834 1834 
 
 Miss Thankful Murdock, preceptress, 1S35 1838 
 
 Chauncey Howard, A. C. '35, lawyer, 1834 1835 
 
 Rev. S. W. Banister, A. C. '35, 1835 1835 
 
 Rev. Mortimer Blake, D.D., later Prin., 1835 1835 
 
 Rev. David Caldwell, A. C. '37, 1835 1835 
 
 Rev. Roswell D. Hitchcock, D.D.,LL.D., 1835 1835 
 
 A. C. '30, tutor, Trustee, Prof. Nat. 
 
 and Rev. Religion, Bowdoin College, 
 
 Pres. and Prof. Eccl. Hist., Union 
 
 Theol. Sem. 
 
143 
 
 CAMK. WENT. 
 
 Rev. Clms. C. Corss, A. C. '30, ls;M 1834 
 Rev. Samuel Hopkins Emery, A. C. '34, 
 
 minister Taunton, 1834 1834 
 
 Miss Mary D. Smith, 1835 1835 
 
 Miss Abigail Clark, assistant pupil, 1835 1835 
 
 KYv. Austin Isham, Y. C. '36, !*:'><; 1836 
 
 Lycortas L. Bruer, M. 1),, A. C. '36, is:',r, 1836 
 
 KYv. Jesse K. Bragg, A. C. '38, 1836 1836 
 
 Horace T. Blake, A. C. '38, ls:5C, 1836 
 
 Rev. David Andrews, A. C. '36, 1*36 1836 
 
 Miss Mary Hooker, 1836 1837 
 
 Miss Sarah P. Coolidge, preceptress, 1S;>7 1837 
 
 Rev. Samuel A. Taylor, A. C. '37, v 1837 1837 
 
 Rev. Asa Mann, A. C. '38, minister, is;', 7 
 
 Hardwick and Exeter, N. H. 
 
 James O. Pratt, 1837 1837 
 
 Rev. Clms. Lord, A. C. '38, minister at 1837 1837 
 
 Whately and Buckland. 
 
 Miss Sarah A. Smith, 1837 1837 
 
 Miss Lucy B. Gay lord, assistant pupil, 1839 
 
 Miss Mary A. Crossett, " " 1839 
 
 Watson Loud, M.D. , teacher Chirography, 1837 1839 
 
 Miss Hannah B. Church, preceptress, 1838 1839 
 
 Rev. Henry Seymour, A.C. '38, minister 1838 1838 
 
 Deer field, Hawley. 
 
 Jonathan B. Marshall, A. C. '38, 1838 1838 
 
 Clms. E.Washburn,M.D., A.C. '38, tutor, 1838 1838 
 
 Miss Mary A. Reed, 1838 1838 
 
 Miss Mary Clark, preceptress, 183!) 
 
 Rev. Horace Hutchinson, A. C. '39, 1839 1840 
 
 John P. Sanderson, A. C. '39, 183!) 1839 
 
 Rev. Alden B. Bobbins, D.I)., A.C. '39, ls:W 1839 
 
 minister, one of the " Iowa Hand." 
 
 James A. Taylor, A. C. '39, 1S;',D 1839 
 
 Miss Jane A. Cook, assistant pupil, is, ,!) 1839 
 
 Miss Emily Pomeroy, assistant pupil, 1839 1839 
 
 m. Rev. David Eastman. 
 
 Rev. Elijah H. Bonney, A.C. '39, minis- 1840 1840 
 
 terPawlet, Yt., ; Vernon Centre, N.Y. ; 
 
 Lenox, N. Y., and Clarkson, N. Y. 
 
 Miss Almira Henshaw, 1840 1841 
 19 
 
144 
 
 CAME. 
 
 Miss Mind well Woodbridge, 1841 
 
 Rev. Henry B. Hosford, W.C. '43, 1842 
 
 Miss Train, sister of Hon. Cbas R. Train, 1 SI :} 
 
 Attorney General of Mass. 
 Rev. Theron H. Hawks, D.D., W.C., 1S4: 1 , 
 
 '44, minister West Springfield, Tnst. 
 
 Un. Theol. Seminary, trustee West- 
 ern Reserve, Trustee Marietta. 
 Miss Louisa A. Hosford, 1S4:> 
 
 Miss Harriet A. Hinsdale, preceptress, 1844 
 
 m. Rev. Henry L. Hubbell, D.D. 
 Rev. Chas. V. Spear, A.C. '46, 1844 
 
 Jos. P. Dowse, A. C. '46, 1845 
 
 Rev. Chas. N. Williams, W. C., 184(5 
 
 Miss Rebecca M. Woodbridge, m. Judge 1846 
 
 E. S. Willliams. 
 Miss Joanna Stan wood, m. Rev. Francis 1846 
 
 V. Tenney. 
 
 Hanson L. Read, A.C. '48, . 1S4-S 
 
 Miss Susan A. Woodbridge, 1848 
 
 Rev. John A. Seymour, A.C. '49, 1840 
 
 Rev. Henry Lobdell, M.D., missionary, 1849 
 
 A. B. C. F. M., to Mosul, Turkey, 
 
 acting principal. 
 
 Mrs. Francis J. Henshaw preceptress, 1849 
 
 Miss Miranda Smith, 1850 
 
 Mr. Augustus Whitaker, 1850 
 
 Horace M. Smith, 1850 
 
 J. Edwin Whitaker, B. U., 1849 
 
 L. M. Morton, teacher of penmanship, 1850 
 
 Hon. John E. Sanford, A. C. '51, tutor, 
 
 Trustee, Speaker Mass. House Rep. 
 L. C. Chapin, M.D., Y.C. '52, tutor, 
 John Smith, A. C. '49, 
 Anton Ruppaner, M. D., teacher French 
 
 and Music. 
 Miss Abby C. Mayhew, m. Rev. David 
 
 Temple Packard, 
 George E. Dudley, A. C. '52, 
 John F. Buerger, teacher Music, French 
 
 and German, 
 Mrs. C. L. Buck, 1852 
 
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 1852 1858 
 
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145 
 
 Miss Abby P. Smith, 
 
 Rev. Geo. N. Webber, D.I)., A. C. '52, 
 
 tutor, Prof. Int. and Mor. Phil., Mid- 
 
 dlebury, Coll. 
 Miss Perry, 
 
 Miss Sarah W. Powers, 
 Rev. Daniel Phillips, A. C. '56, 
 Miss Elizabeth F. Tobey, 
 Miss Felicia H. Emerson, 
 Miss Cynthia M. Pierce, 
 Miss Juliette Clark, 
 Miss Cornelia C. Barrows, m. Rev. 
 
 Lyman Bartlett, missionary, A. B. C. 
 
 F. M., to Turkey, 
 Miss Clarissa Smith, 
 Miss Charlotte C. Haskell, teacher Vas- 
 
 sar College, m. J. Edwards Porter, 
 Miss Eliza C. Haskell, m. Edward P. 
 
 Frisbee, D. D., Pres. Wells College, 
 
 Aurora, N. Y. 
 Miss Hill, 
 
 Miss Laura R. Johnson, 
 Miss Lucy A. Cook, 
 Miss Maria L. Pasco, 
 Miss Martha R. Gay lord, 
 Miss Isabella S. Nash, 
 Mrs. Martha L. Bell, 
 Miss Abby P. Smith, 
 Miss Augusta A. Porter, 
 Miss Emma W. Beam an, 
 Miss Emma C. Bardwell, 
 Miss Mary Reed, 
 Miss Gene vie ve Cooley, 
 Miss Edith J. Ayres, Smith Coll. '82, 
 Miss Clara W. Clark, " " '88, 
 Miss Alice C. Dickinson, Westlield 
 
 State Normal School. 
 
 CAME. WENT. 
 
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 1852 one term, 1852 
 
 1853 
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 1872, '73, '78 
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 1887 
 
 one term, 1 ss.s 
 one term, lss,s 
 
 1890 
 
 1890. 
 
 COUPS OF INSTRUCTION, SUMMER TERM, 
 
 Elmer Case, Principal. 
 Miss Mary Reed, ) A . 
 
 - r A ! ~i^ T"\* i f ^Aoolk> Lclll Lo 
 
 Miss Alice E. Dickinson, 
 
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 THE ROLL OF HONOR. 
 
 These pages have taken note of the desire of Gov. Hopkiusth at the 
 money given by him might be for the encouragement of hopeful youth 
 in the way of learning for the service of the country in future times. 
 The following roll of honor contains the names of such pupils of 
 Hopkins Academy as have been in various ways conspicuous in ren- 
 dering such service. 
 
 NAMES OF PUPILS OF HOPKINS ACADEMY WHO BECAME MINISTERS 
 OF THE GOSPEL. 
 
 Noah Cook. 
 
 Parsons Cook, D. I)., W. C. '22, minister at Ware and Lynn, Mass. ; 
 
 editor Puritan Recorder. 
 
 Jeremiah Porter, W.C. '22, home missionary ; army chaplain. 
 Tertius Clark, D.D., Y. C. '24. 
 Bela B. Edwards, A. C. '24, D. D., tutor, trustee, Prof. Sac. Lit. 
 
 Andover Seminary. 
 Sylvester Cook, A. C. '25. 
 William P. Huntington, 
 
 John A. Nash, A. C. '25, principal Hopkins Academy, etc. 
 Samuel Hopkins Riddle, 1818, Y. C. '23. 
 Horace Smith. 
 
 Elijah C. Bridgman, D.D., A. C. '26, missionary to China. 
 Dyer Ball, M.D., missionary to Singapore and China, Canton. 
 Mason Ball. 
 Sylvester Woodbridge. 
 Jahlael Woodbridge. 
 Lucien Farmham, A. C. '27. 
 Preserved Smith, A. C. '28. 
 Fordyce M. Hubbard, W. C. '2.S, D. I)., tutor at W. C. ; Episcopal 
 
 minister ; Prof. Latin, Language and Literature, Univ. N. Carolina. 
 Columbus Shumway, minister Townsend, Mass. 
 Martin Cushman. 
 Charles C. Corss, A. C. '30. 
 Lewis Sabin, D.I)., A. C. '31, trustee, principal Hopkins Academy ; 
 
 minister at Templeton, Mass. 
 
 John Dunbar, W. C. '32, missionary to Pawnee Indians. 
 William Mason Richards, W. C. '32. 
 Amos Bullard, A. C. '33, tutor, minister at Barre, Mass. 
 George C. Partridge, A. C. '33, tutor, minister at Greenfield and 
 
 elsewhere. 
 
147 
 
 Clinton Clark, A. C. '35, tutor, minister tit Pompey, N. Y., and 
 
 Ridgeiield, Conn. 
 Justus L. James, A. C. 'of). 
 
 Sylvester Judd, Jr., Y. C. '36, writer of distinction. 
 Pascal P. P. Kidder, Y. C. '36. 
 Isaac A. Basset. 
 
 Solomon Clark, W. C. '37, minister at Plainfield and'Goshen, Me. 
 George Lyman, A. C. '37, minister at Sutton and So. Amherst, Mass. 
 Daniel W. Poor, A.C. '37, D.D., minister Newark, N. J., Prof. Eccl. 
 
 Hist., and Ch. Gov't, San Francisco Theol. Seminary. 
 Rufus Taylor, A. C. '37, D.D. 
 Abraham Jenkins, A. C. '38. 
 
 Charles Lord, A. C. '38, minister a-t Whately and Buckland, Mass. 
 Henry Seymour, A. C. '38, minister Deerfield and Hawley, Mass. 
 Edward F. Brooks, minister, W. Va. 
 Leonard Adams. 
 Elijah H. Bonney, A. C. '39, minister, Pawlet, Vt., Vernon Centre, 
 
 N. Y., Lenox, N. Y., Clarkson, N. Y. 
 Dexter Clapp, A. C. '39. 
 Frederic Dan Himtington, A. C. '39, D. D., minister Boston and 
 
 preacher at Harvard University, Epis. Bishop, Central N. Y. 
 Jonathan S. Judd, W. C. '39, minister at Whately. 
 William Porter, W. C. '39, D.D., Prof. Latin Lang., Beloit. 
 William B. Stone, A. C. '39. 
 
 Simeon Miller, A. C. '40, minister Ireland Parish and So. Deerfield. 
 Thomas S. Norton, A. C. '40, minister at Dover and Prescqtt, Mass. 
 Thomas Spencer, home missionary. 
 Luther Clapp, W. C. '41, home missionary, Wisconsin. 
 Loren B. Marsh, minister Chester, Mass. 
 D wight W. Marsh, W. C. '42, D.D., missionary to Turkey. 
 Zephauiah M. Humphrey, A. C. '43, D.D., Prof. Ch. Hist, and Pol. 
 
 Lane Theol. Seminary. 
 
 James G. Bridgmau, A. C. '43, missionary to China. 
 Timothy Lyman, A. C. '44. 
 Henry K. Edson, A. C. '44, principal Hopkins Acad. and Denmark 
 
 Acad., Iowa, Prof. Iowa College. 
 Rodney Gage, Post Chaplain, Alexandria, Va., 1864. 
 Stephen B. Adams. 
 John M. Greene, A.C. '53, tutor, D. D., trustee Mt. Holyoke Sem., 
 
 and Smith Coll., minister llatiield, So. Hadley and Lowell, Mass. 
 William E. Dickinson, A. C. '55, minister Chicopee, Mass. 
 
Lyrnan Bartlett, A. C. '56, missionary to Turkey. 
 
 Henry Powers, minister Manchester, N. H., and elsewhere. 
 
 Henry M. Bridgman, A. C. '57, missionary to So. Africa. 
 
 Richard H. Mather, A. C. '57, D.D., Prof. Greek and German, lec- 
 turer in Sculpture, etc. 
 
 Laurens Clark Seelye, W. C., Prof. Rhet. Amherst, Pres. Smith Coll. 
 
 Edward Clark Porter, Y. C. '58, minister, Racine, Wis. 
 
 Henry Porter, M.D., missionary to China. 
 
 J. Edwin Tower, A. C. '58, minister at N. Brookfield, not ordained. 
 
 Francis L. Nash, minister Sacramento, Cal., and elsewhere. 
 
 Myron A. Johnson, Episcopal. 
 
 Charles M. Lamson, A. C. '64, 13. D., Walker Instructor in Latin, 
 Amherst; minister Brockton and Worcester, Mass., and St. 
 Johnsbury, Vt. 
 
 Martin K. Pasco, A. C. '65, minister in Marysville, O., Belpre, ()., 
 and elsewhere. 
 
 Herbert Jonathan Cook, A. C. '69, principal Hopkins Acad., minister 
 Coldwater, Mich., and Dayton, O. 
 
 Arthur Smith, A. C. '77, minister at Scarboro and So. Freeport, Me. 
 
 Albert Foote. 
 
 PUPILS OF HOPKINS ACADEMY WHO ENTERED THE MEDICAL 
 PROFESSION. 
 
 Edward Dickinson. 
 
 William Workman. 
 
 Chester Johnson. 
 
 Moses Porter. 
 
 Austin Church, M. D., Y. C. '23. 
 
 Orson Osborn, M. D., Y. C. '24. 
 
 Lewis Hopkins. 
 
 William W. Dwight, Y. C. '26. 
 
 Watson Loud. 
 
 Marshall D. Perry. 
 
 Alonzo Clark, W. C. '28, LL. D., Prof, in sundry medical institutions 
 in N. Y., and elsewhere. 
 
 Ephraim Cook, member of Canadian Parliament ; sentenced to death 
 for ministering to wounded insurrectionists, but reprieved and 
 banished to the states, and afterwards returned. 
 
 Silas Cook. 
 
 George H. Batchelder. 
 
 Joseph Bates. 
 
 Sidney Brooks, A. C. '38. 
 
Levi Dwight Seymour, surgeon at Hampton, Va., during the civil war. 
 
 (icorgo A. Bates. 
 
 William II. Willis (named changed from Orrick.) 
 
 Jnbez Baldwin Lyman, A.C. '41, instructor French and German, A. C. 
 
 George C. Fleming, surgeon in Mexican war. 
 
 Franklin Bonney, A. M., A. C. '69. 
 
 Charles Robinson, Governor Kansas Territory. 
 
 Lucius Lyon, B. U. 'G9. 
 
 George F. Thompson, army surgeon during the civil war. 
 
 Edward H. Beaman. 
 
 John E. Dwight. 
 
 John Chester Lyman. 
 
 H. Frederic M. Smith. 
 
 George A. Tuttle, A. C. '83. 
 
 PUPILS OF HOPKINS ACADEMY WHO ENTERED THE PROFESSION OF LAW. 
 
 Henry Chapman. 
 
 Aholiab Johnson, entered W. C., class of '23. 
 
 George Ashmun, Y. C. 23, M. C. 
 
 Edward Kirkland. 
 
 Thomas H. Bond, Y. C. '25. 
 
 Lincoln Clark, A. C. '25, M. C., Judge, etc. 
 
 James A. Shed. 
 
 Simeon Nash, Jr., A. C. '29, Judge Court Com. Pleas, Ohio. 
 
 John A. Taft, Y. C. '25. 
 
 Charles P. Huntington, H. C. '22, Judge C. P. 
 
 Edward Bates Gillett, A. C. '39, Dist. Attorney. 
 
 Samuel H. Austin, lawyer in Philadelphia. 
 
 Erastus Smith Williams, Judge. 
 
 Elbridge G. Bowdoin, A. C. '40. 
 
 Ithamar F. Conkey, Dist. Attorney. 
 
 Joseph S. Curtis, W. C. '52, Judge, Green Bay, Wis. 
 
 Henry S. Stockbridge, A. C. '45, State Dist. Attorney, Md. 
 
 Louis I. Fleming, A. C. '47. 
 
 Maj. James M. Hosford, entered W. C. '47. 
 
 John Woodbridge, Jr., A. C. '49. 
 
 Matthew McClung, A. C. '55. 
 
 John Woodbridge Smith, A. C. '56. 
 
 Sylvester Stockbridge. 
 
 John Chester Hammond, A.C. T>5, trustee of Hopkins Academy and 
 
 Williston Seminary. 
 Frederic E. Smith. 
 
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 YOUNG MEN PUPILS OF HOPKINS ACADEMY WHO ENGAGKD IN TKACIirNO- 
 AND BECAME EDUCATORS. 
 
 Joseph Lyman Partridge, W. V. '2<S, tutor. 
 Francis Phelps, H. U. '37, teacher, Boston. 
 Joshua F. Pearl, Y. C. '30, founder of Quaboag Seminary, Supt. of 
 
 schools, Nashville, Term. 
 Merrick Lyon, B. U. '41,LL.D., preceptor Greek Lang., trustee and 
 
 socius B. U., teacher in Providence, R. I. 
 Henry K. Edson, A. C. '44, principal Hopkins Academy, principal 
 
 Denmark Academy, Prof. Iowa College. 
 Henry Eastman, teacher of music. 
 
 William Martin Pierce, A. C. '53, teacher in Virginia and Missouri. 
 William D. Whitney, W. C. '45, Prof. Sanscrit Lang., Lit., and 
 
 comparative philology, Y. C., etc., etc. 
 Newell Wedge, A. C. '48, teacher. 
 
 Hon. Levi Stockbridge, Prof, and Pres. Mass. Agr'l College. 
 William L. Montague, A. C. '55, Prof. Modern Lang., etc., 'A. C. 
 Rev. Richard H. Mather, A. C. '57, D.D., Prof. Greek and German 
 
 Amherst College. 
 
 Leicester Porter Hodge, A. C. '50, teacher. 
 
 Rev. L. Clarke Seelye, U. C., Prof. Rhet. A. C., Pres. Smith Coll. 
 Henry Parks Smith, A. C. '60, teacher. 
 
 Charles D. Marsh, A. C. '77, Prof. Nat. Science, Ripon Coll., AYi*. 
 Edward Ayres, A. C '78, principal Hopkins Acad., instructor A. C., 
 
 principal High Sch. and Supt. Schools, Warren and Lafayette, Ind. 
 Charles A. Tuttle, A. C. '83, instructor Hist, and Polit. Econ., A. C. 
 Franklin E. Tuttle, A. C. '89, teacher. 
 
 PATRONS OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Miss Sophia Smith may have been a pupil of Hopkins Academy, but 
 this is not ascertained beyond doubt. If not herself a member 
 of the school a younger sister was, it is believed, and she herself 
 was likely to have caught the spirit that drew hither the young 
 women of her class. 
 
 Dea. Eleazar Porter, founder of two prizes at Amherst College. 
 
 Dea. George Dickinson, founder of a fund for the increase of the 
 library of the Young Men's Lib. Ass'n, and, in a possible contin- 
 gency, the library of Hopkins Academy. 
 
 PUPILS OF HOPKINS ACADEMY, COLLEGE GRADUATES, WHO ENTERED 
 NEITHER OF THE LEARNED PROFESSIONS. 
 
 Loomis Cook, W. C. '2s. 
 Nehemiah Porter, '21. 
 
151 
 
 Pandias T. Ralli, Greek, Y. C. '30. 
 
 Theophilus P. Phelps, A. C. '41. 
 
 William E. Tyler, A. C. '44. 
 
 John S. May, W. C. '51. 
 
 Lewis W. West, A. C. '60. 
 
 Frederic D. Kellogg, A.'C. '79. 
 
 George E. Howe, Grad. Mass. Agr'l Coll. 
 
 Fred H. Fowler, " " " 
 
 John R. Callahan, A. C. '89, law student. 
 
 Frank B. Doane, A. C. '90. 
 
 Edwin A. Richardson, A. C. '90. 
 
 PUPILS OF HOPKINS ACADEMY WHO WQN DISTINCTION IN CIVIL LIFE, ETC. 
 
 George Ashmun, Y. C. '23, M. C., Pres. Rep. Nat. convention that 
 
 nominated Abraham Lincoln. 
 Lincoln Clark, A. C. '25, Attorney Gen., Ala., Judge Circuit Court, 
 
 Ala., M. C. 
 
 Roger Hooker Leavitt, state senator. 
 William Hyde, state senator. 
 Levi Stockbridge, Pres. and Prof. Mass. Agr'l Coll., representative 
 
 and senator. 
 George W. Hubbard, state senator, trustee Smith Charities and 
 
 Smith Coll. 
 
 Francis Edson, representative and senator. 
 Hinsdale Smith, state senator. 
 Hart Leavitt, county commissioner, Franklin Co. 
 Elisha H. Brewster, county commissioner, Hampshire Co. 
 William P. Dickinson, county commissioner, Hampshire Co. 
 P. Smith Williams, county commissioner Hampshire Co. , representative 
 Daniel B. Gillett, special county commissioner, Hampshire Co. 
 John S. Bell, representative general court. 
 
 Parsons West, " 
 
 Leicester W. Porter, 
 Theodore Clark, 
 
 Horace Cook, " " " two terms. 
 
 Horace S. Dickinson, " " 
 
 Franklin Bonney, M.I)., " ' 
 Alexander Hyde, 
 
 Charles Cook, " 
 
 Henry L. James, " " " 
 
 John N. Tierce, 
 
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152 
 
 Edward B. Gillett, A. C. '39, district attorney. 
 
 Ithamar F. Conkey, district attorney. 
 
 Samuel D. Ward, controller city Chicago. 
 
 Charles Robinson, M.D., governor territory of Kansas. 
 
 E. Monroe Wright, W. C. '39, Sec'y Com. of Mass. 
 
 Samuel Goode Jones. W. C. '37, Eng. Pres. R.R., trustee University 
 
 of the South. 
 
 Simeon Nash, Jr., Judge Court Com. Pleas, Ohio. 
 William P. Rawlings, high sheriff. 
 George W. Bonney, amateur artist. 
 Capt. Ephraim O. Smith, shipmaster. 
 Samuel S. Eastman, editor. 
 
 John Howard Jewett, editor Worcester Evening Gazette, and poet. 
 William P. Porter, trustee and treasurer Hopkins Academy. 
 Elbridge H. Kingsley, distinguished artist in wood engraving. 
 Henry W^orthington Smith, A. C, '59, distinguished life insurance 
 
 actuary. 
 
 William F. Walker, A. C. '86, County Supt. Schools, Vt. 
 Edward H. I) wight, artist. 
 Henry M. Seymour, editor. 
 Clifton C. Johnson, artist. 
 
 There is reason to think that the Hopkins School, prior to the charter 
 making it an Academy, was chiefly for boys. From that time onward 
 more young women than young men have enjoyed the advantages of the 
 school. "For forty years Hopkins Academy was a famous fitting 
 school." Dr. Humphrey is quoted as saying that " it educated the 
 girls so as to raise them above their brothers and their brothers' mates 
 so that they went forth as teachers, and then married up." These 
 young women, many of them, became teachers and some subsequently 
 married men in professional life, or otherwise distinguished. 
 
 NAMES OF YOUNG LADY PUPILS OF THIS CLASS. 
 
 Amy Porter, m. Rev. Joseph D. Wickham, D.D., Y.C. 1815, tutor 
 Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vt., oldest living graduate of Yale. 
 Lois E. Porter (Coolitlge), m. l Rev. Joseph W. Curtis. 
 Julia Smith, m. Hon. Lincoln Clark, M. C. 
 Catharine A. Smith, m. Dr. Jones. 
 Mary I). Ward, m. Rev. Horace Smith. 
 Lucretia S. Ward, m. Judge Oviatt. 
 Krissa Kingsley, m. Rev. Eli Moody. 
 
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 Nancy Dwight, in. Austin Church, M. I). 
 
 Elizabeth Dickinson, m. Horace Goodrich, M. D. 
 
 Maria P. Dickinson, m. Rev. Lewis Sabin, D. D., principal Hopkins 
 
 Academy, etc. 
 
 Harriet Dickinson, m. Rev. Ebenezer Bullard, 2d wife. 
 Elizabeth H. Smith, m. Rev. William Harvey, missionary to India, 
 
 Mahrattas. 
 
 Esther Smith, m. Rev. John Dunbar, missionary to Pawnee Indians. 
 Martha Smith, m. Rev. O. G. Hubbard. 
 Miranda Smith, m. Rev. Pomeroy Belden. 
 Margaret Smith, m. Rev. P^benezer Bullard. 
 Julia Smith, m. John L. Blodgett, M. D., and afterwards Chas. Howe, 
 
 Collector, Port Key West, Fla. v 
 Susan Porter, m. Rev. Lucian Farnham. 
 Sarah Hooker, m. Rev. M. L. R. Thompson, D.D. 
 Tirzah M. White, m. Judge Williamson of Bangor, Me. 
 Francis M. White, m. John Kimball, Esq., lawyer. 
 Abby L. White, m. Rev. William Williams. 
 Clarissa J. Lyman, in. Rev. John H. Bisbee. 
 Mary Ann Woodbridge (Hawley), m. Rev. Parsons Cook, D.D. 
 Rebecca M. Woodbridge, m. Judge Erastus Smith Williams. 
 E. Octavia Woodbridge, in. Rev. R. H. Richardson, D. D. 
 Abigail D. Gay lord, m. Win. Kirkwood, M.D., Nassau, N. Prov. 
 Lucy Humphrey, m. Rev. Henry Neill, D.D. 
 Susan C. Belcher, m. Chas. S. Thomson, M. D. 
 Lucy Stone, m. Henry B. Black well. 
 Eunice W. Bullard, m. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. 
 Caroline Daugherty, m. Rev. Wm. M. Richards. 
 Caroline Phelps, m. Rev. S. G. Bullfinch. 
 Charlotte Phelps, m. Rev. Mason P. Bartlett. 
 Adaline A. Spaulding, m. Rev. Moses K. Cross. 
 Hannah M. Hodge, m. Rev. James Wilcox. 
 
 Almira Edson, m. Rev. Mr. Hall, afterward Geo. Atwood, M. D. 
 Harriet M. Hodge, graduate and teacher at Maplewood, authoress, 
 
 etc., m. Hon. Thomas F. Plunkett. 
 Emily Pomeroy, m. Rev. David Eastman. 
 Lucy Ann Clark, m. Levi Dwight Seymour, M. D. 
 Lydia Smith, m. Henry PJ. Ide, merchant, Brooklyn. 
 Susan H. Smith, m. Edward P. Richardson, M. D. 
 Maria D. Smith, in. Capt. Joseph Richardson, shipmaster. 
 Susan S. Seymour, in. Maj. Jas. M. Hosford, lawyer. 
 
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 Mary Smith, m. - - Phelps, teacher, California. 
 Sarah W. Powers, graduate Maplewood, m. Rev. Beuj. Parsons, mis- 
 sionary to Turkey. 
 
 Lucy P. Beaman, m. - - Dayton, M. D. 
 Sarah S. Wailis, graduate and teacher at Maplewood, m. Rev. F. P. 
 
 Chapin. 
 
 Maria W. Nash, teacher and authoress, m. James H.Hackletou, teacher. 
 Mary B. Dickinson, m. Rev. James P. Kimball. 
 Martha G. Hubbard, m. Rev. Francis L. Nash. 
 Lepha N. ("lark, graduate and teacher at Maplewood, teacher at Vas- 
 
 sar College and at Bergen, N. Y. 
 Phebe Whipple, m. Benjamin F. Ayer, Esq., counsel for Illinois 
 
 Central R. R. 
 
 Delia Whipple, m. Gen. Joseph C. Abbott, U. S. Senator, N. C. 
 Celia Whipple, teacher South and Chicago. 
 Emma I. Porter, m. Rev. Sereno D. Gammell. 
 Charlotte W. Porter, graduate Miss Porter's school, Farmington, Ct., 
 
 principal of "The Elms," Hadley and Springfield. 
 Mary L. Jewett, graduate State Normal School, Westfield, teacher 
 
 State Normal School, R, I., m. Chas. F. Taylor, B. U. '63. 
 Mary E. Beaman, Grad. Mt. Holyoke, m. Sylvester Stockbridge, Esq. 
 Emma W. Beaman, graduate Mt. Holyoke, teacher Hopkins Academy 
 
 and elsewhere. 
 
 Mina D. Beaman, m. Rev. John D. Willard. 
 Mattie Metcalf, m. Rev. Herbert J. Cook. 
 Alice J. Ayres, graduate Maplewood, teacher Tilestou Normal School 
 
 Wilmington, N. C., m. G. W. Baily. 
 Mary Scott, graduate Mt. Holyoke, teacher A. M. A., Chattanooga, 
 
 Term., and Howard Seminary, Missouri. 
 Emma C. Bardwell, graduate Mt. Holyoke, teacher Hopkins Academy 
 
 and Wallingford, Conn., m. Francis J. Heavens, teacher Hopkins 
 
 Acad., Enfield, Conn., Brookfiekl, "Mass., and Wallingford, Conn. 
 Helen M. Smith, graduate Mt. Holyoke, m. Henry S. Stockbridge, 
 
 Jr., Esq., lawyer, M. C. 
 Mary H. Bonney, graduate Smith Coll., m. Fred E. Smith, Esq., 
 
 lawyer. 
 
 Lizzie Hillman, m. M. Ferguson, M. D. 
 Louisa H. Smith, graduate State Normal School, Westfield, teacher 
 
 Hadley and Lawrence, m. Edwin H. Baxter, M. D. 
 Sarah M. Marsh, graduate Westfield Normal School, teacher Hadley 
 
 and Michigan. 
 
 Alice E. Dickinson, State Normal School, Westfield, teacher Green- 
 field, Hmsdale and Hopkins Academy. 
 
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 Edith J. Ayivs, graduate Smith Coll., teacher Chicago, No. Brook- 
 
 lield, Hopkins Academy, Brooklyn, Clinton, Northampton. 
 Emily R. Marsh, graduate Mt. Holyoke, teacher Bertier, Canada. 
 Alice T. Smith, graduate Mt. Holyoke, teacher No. Hadley. 
 Lucy McCloud, graduate Smith Coll., teacher Tilden Seminary. 
 Marion McGregor Dwight, graduate Smith Coll. 
 Caroline 1. Doaue, graduate Smith Coll., teacher Ashfield Acad. 
 Theodora W. Reed, graduate Smith Coll. 
 
 L'UPILS OF HOPKINS WHO HAVE RENDERED SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY 
 IN THE RANKS OF HER ARMY. 
 
 Joseph Hooker, West Point, Maj. Gen. U.S.A., Commander of the 
 
 Army of the Potomac. 
 
 Edwin II . Seymour, served in the Mexican war. 
 Joseph B. Plummer, West Point, Gen. U. S. A., died in Missouri 
 
 during the civil war. 
 Col. John E. Cook, 76th Regt. N. Y. Vol., commanded at Gettysburg 
 
 after his superior officers were slain. 
 
 Maj. James M. Hosford, 112th Regt. 111. Vol. Infantry. 
 Capt. Phinehas White, Ind. Cavalry. 
 Henry K. White, Regt. Mich. Cavalry. 
 
 Ezra W. Matthews, Maj. of Battery, Brig. Gen. Gov. Hawley's staff . 
 Capt. Edwin S. Nash, th Regt. Kansas Vol. 
 Lieut. James W. Porter, Battery. 
 Lieut. James W. Smith, 31st Regt. Mass. Vol. 
 Rev. Jeremiah Porter, chaplain before, during and since the war, for 
 
 a long time the oldest chaplain. 
 Rev. Rodney Gage, post chaplain, Alexandria, Va. 
 David C. Ayres, hospital steward, Nashville, Tenn. 
 John W. Beaman. ) rt T ,,- 
 Kufus P. Scott, f 2ml Mass ' Batter y- 
 Edward Johnson, 14th Kansas Cavalry. 
 John Sullivan, 1st Mass. Cavalry. 
 Aaron Scott, 96th Regt. 111. Vol. 
 George Dickinson, th Regt. Me. Vol. 
 Myron Newton, 104th Regt. 111. Vol., killed at the battle of Harts- 
 
 ville, Tenn., Dec. 6, 1862. 
 Frederick Brown, 56th Regt. Mass. Vol. 
 Asa Clark, Jr., 46th Regt. Mass. Vol. 
 William N. Shipman, 50th Regt. Mass. Vol. 
 Corp. John A. Morton, Jr., 15th Regt. 111. Vol. 
 
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 Lieut. John Howard Jewett, 10th Regt. Mass. Vol. 
 
 Corp. John C. Clark, mortally wounded " " 
 
 at Spottsylvania, 
 
 Corp. Henry Alonzo Dunakin, " " 
 
 Franklin Hubbard, " 44 
 
 Wallace A. Hubbard, " 44 
 
 Alfred Vanhorn, " tt 
 
 Corp. Rufus A. Cook, died in Hospital 27th Regt. Mass. Vol. 
 
 at Newbern, N. C. 
 
 Henry Dunakin, killed June 18, 1864, " 
 
 before Petersburg, Va. 
 
 Herbert F. Johnson, " u 
 
 Chas. F. Lyman, 44 
 
 Lucius D. Smith, 44 u 
 
 Corp. Lewis W. West, " 44 
 
 Maj. George N. Jones, 37th Regt. Mass. Vol. 
 
 Corp. Levi H. Bartlett, " " 
 
 Edwin Dwight Beaman, < k 44 
 
 Hosp. Steward Wm. A. Champney, " " 
 
 Levi P. Dickinson, " 44 
 
 George F. Enderton, " " 
 
 Charles D. Hodge, " 44 
 
 Corp. Samuel Hodge, " 44 
 
 George W. Nash, " 44 
 
 Samuel D. Smith, " 44 
 
 Corp. Sylvester B. Stockbridge, ^ " 
 
 Francis P. Wheeler, " 44 
 
 Daniel H. Bartlett, 52nd Regt. Mass. Vol. 
 Charles W. Clark, died in hospi- 
 tal at Baton Rouge, " " 
 Henry C. Comins, " " 
 Alfred L. Cook, 4 ' " 
 Eleazar Cook, " " 
 S. Parsons Cook, u " 
 Charles F. Dickinson, " " 
 Luther W. Dickinson, ' " 
 John B. Dunbar, " ^ 
 Corp. Charles S. Enderton, " " 
 
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 Edwin C. Gray, 52nd Regt. Mass. Vols. 
 
 William H. Hay ward, 
 
 William H. Hodge, " 
 
 Sergt. Lewis B. Hooker, " " 
 
 Oscar R. Hubbard, " " 
 
 Benjamin Lombard, 
 
 George M. Smith, " " 
 
 Many whose names do not appear in this roll of honor have done 
 good service to their country and their kind and made a worthy 
 record in various lines of useful activity. 
 
 Possibly some names that should appear are omitted for the reason 
 that no record could be found and that they could not otherwise be 
 traced. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 COURSE OF STUDY IN HOPKINS ACADEMY. 
 
 NAMES OF GRADUATES WHO HAVE RECEIVED ITS DIPLOMA. 
 PRESENT MEMBERSHIP OF THE SCHOOL. 
 
 In the school, as now administered, two courses of study are pro- 
 vided, each to be completed in four years. On completing either 
 course, or its equivalent, the graduate receives the diploma of the 
 institution testifying to this effect. 
 
 Instruction is given in the following Departments : 
 I. English Language and Literature. 
 II. History and Government. 
 
 III. Mathematics. 
 
 IV. Natural Sciences. 
 V. Latin. 
 
 VI. Greek. 
 VII. French. 
 
 I. English Language and Literature. 
 
 Reed and Kellogg's Higher Lessons in English. (3 credits.) 
 Kellogg's Rhetoric. (2.) 
 Swinton's English Literature, and Brooke's Primer, with memorizing 
 
 of selections. (4.) 
 General Exercises, consisting of : 
 
 a. Spelling, daily, through the course. 
 
 b. Reading, on alternate days, during first half of the course, and as 
 
 much longer as required to attain a satisfactory degree of 
 proficiency. 
 
 c. Rhetorical Exercises : One declamation, one essay, and two 
 
 impromptu compositions, each term. 
 
 II. History and Government. 
 History of England. ( 2 . ) 
 Primer of Roman History. (1.) 
 Primer of Grecian History. (1.) 
 Anderson's Universal History. (2.) 
 
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 III. Mathematics. 
 
 Wentworth's Algebra, to Progressions. (3.) 
 \\ iMitworth's Geometry, Four Books. (2.) 
 Alnyliew's Hook-keeping. (1.) 
 Natural Philosophy. (2.) 
 Astronomy. (1.) 
 Arithmetic reviewed. (1.) 
 
 IV. Natural Sciences. 
 Houston's Physical Geography. (2.) 
 Morse's First Book in Zoology. (1.) 
 Dalton's Physiology. (2.) 
 
 Gray's School and Field Book of Botany, with study of Composite. (2.) 
 Chemistry, with laboratory work. (2.) 
 Geology and Mineralogy. (1.) 
 
 V. Latin. 
 
 First Latin Lessons. (3.) 
 Cn'sar, four books, with Jones's Latin Prose Composition, twenty 
 
 lessons. (3.) 
 Cicero, seven orations, including Pro Lege Manilla, with Jones's Latin 
 
 Prose Composition finished. (3.) 
 Virgil's TEneid, six books, Georgics and Bucolics, with Latin 
 
 Prosody. (3.) 
 
 VI. Greek. 
 Greek Lessons. (4.) 
 
 Xenophon's Anabasis, four books, and Jones's Greek Prose Compo- 
 sition, twenty lessons. (3.) 
 Homer's Iliad, three, books. (2.) 
 
 VII. French. 
 
 Sauveur's Petites Causeries. (2.) 
 Keetel's Elementary French Grammar. (2.) 
 Les Doigts de Fee. (*.) 
 Racine's Athalie. (-.) 
 La Fontaine's Fables. (1.) 
 
 Unclassified. 
 
 Gow's Morals and Mnnners. (1.) 
 Mrntnl Science. (1 .) 
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 Each student, in addition to the General Exercises, should pursue, at least, 
 three studies. A permanent record is kept of each student's scholarship. 
 Upon the successful completion of any study, credits are recorded in accor- 
 dance with the foregoing schedule. The recipient of thirty-six credits is 
 entitled to graduation and a diploma. Each branch must be pursued until 
 satisfactory attainment be made, whether the time required be longer or 
 shorter. Faithful students, of average ability, will be able to attain three 
 credits each term, and thus graduate in four years. Those who can attain 
 thirty-six credits in less time, w r ill be permitted to do so, and to graduate 
 when qualified. 
 
 Students who arc absent a part of the time because of sickness, or for other 
 reason, or w^ho absent themselves from examination, must not expect to 
 receive credit for work until they have done the work. 
 
 Students who can attend only two terms each year, or even one, may, 
 nevertheless, graduate, when they shall have satisfactorily accomplished the 
 required amount of work. Credit will be given for studies pursued out of 
 school, provided a satisfactory examination be passed upon them. Renl 
 equivalents will be accepted in place of authors and text-books named in the 
 course. 
 
 The English course consists of all the English Language and Literature, 
 History and Government, Mathematics and Natural Sciences. 
 
 The Classical course consists of all the Latin, Greek, French, Algebra and 
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 After the new school building was opened in 1865 no class com- 
 pleted the course of study prescribed and received the diploma until 
 1873, when the first class of three was graduated. The names of 
 those receiving the diploma are these : 
 
 Class of 1873. 
 Charles D. Marsh, Mary N. Shipman, Augusta Hawley. 
 
 Class of 1874. , 
 
 Edward Ayres, Mary II. Bonney. 
 
 Class of 1875. 
 
 SEMPER AD ALTIOKA. 
 
 Helen M. Smith, Emma C. Bardwell, Louisa 11. Smith. 
 
 Class of 1876. 
 
 TO MERIT SUCCESS IS THE IIKJIIKST SUCCESS. 
 
 Edith J. Ayres, 
 Mary Pelletrier, 
 
 Mary Bell, 
 Helen Hooker, 
 Jennie Pelletrier, 
 
 Sarah O. Barstow, 
 Jennie E. Parker, 
 
 Aiice E. Dickinson, Emma S. Dickinson, 
 
 George A. Tuttle. 
 Class of 1877. 
 Caroline Shaw. 
 Class of 1878. None. 
 Class of 1879. 
 
 CONSTATE NOUIS. 
 
 Annie Cook, 
 Lucy McCloud, 
 Jessie Reynolds, 
 Charles A. Tuttle. 
 Class of 1880. None. 
 Class of 1881. 
 
 FINIS NOUDUM EST. 
 
 Prudence C. Richardson, Caroline M. Bell, 
 Florence M. Stebbins, Caroline B. Wright. 
 Class of 1882. 
 
 THERE REMAINETH MUCH LAND To UK POSSESSED. 
 
 Fanny A. Cook, 
 Caroline S. Marsh, 
 Lettie Smith, 
 
 Lydia A. Cook, 
 
 Emily R. Marsh, 
 
 Agnes Ayres, 
 
 Marion Mc.G. G. D wight, 
 Jennie A. Richardson. 
 Class of 1883. 
 
 PERSEVERENTIA ONM1A VINCIT 
 
 Fred H. Fowler, 
 Hattie E. White. 
 
 Class of 1884. 
 John R. Callahan, Mary E. Pellissier. 
 
 Lizzie J. Spear, 
 
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 Frank B. Doane, 
 
 Class of 18*5. 
 
 VESTIGIA NULLA RETRORSUM. 
 
 Caroline I. Doane, Theodora W. Reed, 
 
 Etta L. Sawtelle. 
 Class of 1886. 
 
 SrilOLAE SED VITAE DIDICIMLS. 
 
 Louise .1. Hell, 
 Jennie S. llaimum, 
 
 Catherine Callahan, 
 
 Mary A. Cook, 
 Ilattie E. Knderton, 
 Annie 8. Lyons, 
 
 Howard II. Bayne, 
 Cotton A. Smith, 
 Bertha H. Gates, 
 Ellen M. Ryan, 
 
 Nellie G. Burke, 
 Thera F. West, 
 Class of 1887. 
 
 AD ASTRA PER AS PER A 
 
 Martha L. Johnson, 
 Lucy F. Webber. 
 Class of 1838. 
 
 DROIT EN AVANT. 
 
 Sarah D. Doane, 
 Hattie L. Freeman, 
 Gertrude L. Shaw, 
 Class of 1889. 
 
 STRIVE FOR THE BEST 
 
 John E. Lane, 
 Mary L. Cook, 
 Annie Halpine, 
 Minnie A. Ryan, 
 Class of 1890. 
 
 SILENCE IS GOLDEN. 
 
 Alice Martha Beldeu, 
 Grace Beaman Howe, 
 Eva Lulu Richardson, 
 Catherine Maria Shea, 
 Edward Charles Pellissier. 
 
 Nellie L. Gray, 
 Edwin A. Richardson. 
 
 Julia I). Seymour, 
 
 Julia S. L. Dwight, 
 Ilattie E. Haskins, 
 Frank L. Smith. 
 
 Eugene Pelletrier, 
 Mary D. Emond, 
 Maria A. Pellissier, 
 Catharine A. Walsh. 
 
 Sarah Theodosia Allen, 
 Elizabeth Catherine Collins, 
 Nettie Louise Johnson, 
 Mary Isabella Sanderson, 
 Jennie Haynes West, 
 
 Of these graduates, eighty-five in all, we number fourteen young 
 men, seventy-one young women, or more than five to one. This is a 
 fact to challange notice and inquiry as to its meaning. Previous to 
 the incorporation of the Academy the school had been for boys 
 almost, if not quite, exclusively. Since that time, and notably in 
 recent years, girls, beyond their brothers, have been ready to enter 
 and remain within these doors that have been set open to all alike. 
 For what good reason should such a fact be a permanent feature of 
 the history of this school ? 
 
PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL. 
 
 The membership of the school for the winter term 188D-UO is found 
 in the catalogue, that follows : 
 
 Seniors. 
 
 Alice M. Belden, 
 Nellie J. Fitzgerald, 
 Edward C. Pellissier, 
 Kate M. Shea, 
 Juniors. 
 
 Margaret A. Conolly, 
 John E. Daltou, 
 George E. Johnson, 
 Mary R. Kingsley, 
 Bridget A. Ryan, 
 Kate L. Whalen. 
 Sophomores. 
 Edward H. Cooke, 
 Fannie J. Gaylord, 
 Anna T. McQueston, 
 Helen R. Reynolds, 
 Nellie E. Whalen, 
 
 Freshmen. 
 Earl W. Bryant, 
 Floyd S. Crafts, 
 Mary Halpine, 
 Jennie A. Johnson, 
 Wallace R. Lane, 
 May L. Morton, 
 
 Sadie T. Allen, 
 'Lizzie C. Collins, 
 Nettie F. Johnson, 
 Mary J. Sanderson, 
 
 Nellie S. Bissell, 
 Lima M. Culver, 
 Bertha D. Haines, 
 Emma B. Kingsley, 
 S. Etta McQueston, 
 
 Annie E. Cahill, 
 Mary J. Davis, 
 Amy S. Lane, 
 Julia A. Powers, 
 
 Lawrence A. Belden, 
 Margaret B. Collins, 
 Alexander T. Ford, 
 Arthur C. Howe, 
 Edward L. Keefe, 
 Edward McGrath, 
 
 Lina M. Cooke, 
 Grace B. Howe, 
 Eva L. Richardson, 
 Jennie H. West. 
 
 Jay C. Cooke, 
 Mary F. Gates, 
 Kate L. Keefe, 
 Annie L. Lasalle, 
 Peiiia Stevens, 
 
 Inez E. Crafts, 
 Charles C. Hunter, 
 Anna E. Pellissier. 
 Mabel L. Shipinan, 
 
 William J. Pellissier, Fordyce T. Reynolds, 
 Lucy W. Sanderson, Fred C. Webber, 
 
 Boys for Winter Term. 
 Robert J. Ford, William P. Fowler, 
 
 Charles W. Greene, Edward J. Halpine, 
 William H. Morgan, John E. Shea, 
 Robert S. Smith, John H. Temple, 
 
 Jesse S. Wilson. 
 
 Julia B. Clarke, 
 Theodora Emond, 
 Lucy A. Hickey, 
 Julia E. Johnson, 
 Kdwurd S. Marsh, 
 Michael O'Neill, 
 Susie M. Russell, 
 Martha L. Whalen. 
 
 James Gates, 
 John L. Keefe, 
 Kdward C. Smith, 
 Kdward P. West, 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 ('MANGES IN THE FORM AND VALUE OF SCHOOL FUND. 
 PRESENT FORM, CONDITION AND PROSPECTS. 
 
 The portion of the Hopkins legacy assigned to Hadley was small, 
 in round numbers only 308. But as we follow the story we are led 
 to exclaim how great a matter a little fire kindleth. The heat of con- 
 troversy concerning it inspires the exclamation. The feeling rises, 
 likewise, in view of the beneficent work wrought by this means, 
 through two centuries and a quarter. The Fund that had such origin 
 has suffered no serious loss since the burning of the corn mill in 1677. 
 Under wise and careful management it has grown to many times the 
 original sum, and, while furthering the end to which it was devoted, 
 with due allowance for the uncertainty of all material things, its future 
 growth and usefulness seem to be assured. 
 
 This, growth of value is due in part to the fact that the school land 
 esteemed worth but little when granted at first, by the town, in 1668, 
 appreciated with other property in its neighborhood. This meadow 
 tract, containing sixty acres more or less, with considerable upland 
 adjoining, was bounded by the Connecticut river, and so situated in 
 relation to it that it grew by accretion from Hatfield side and the 
 stream wore for itself a new channel, leaving part of the land an 
 island. This wearing process began as early as 1805 or 1806. In 
 1825 the new channel had become permanently established. The 
 old bed of the river gradually filled to the opposite bank. The 
 right to the land thus formed was in dispute. The question was 
 submitted by the Trustees to the Supreme Court. At the Sep- 
 tember term held in Northampton in 1852 the Court laid down 
 the legal principles that should govern in the premises and direct- 
 ed that one or more commissioners should examine the facts, come 
 to a decision and report their doings to the Court. This com- 
 mission consisted of Joseph Cummings, C. B. Rising and Myron 
 Lawrence, whose award was in substantial accord with the demands 
 of the Trustees. Gushing Rep. 9, 544-553. 
 
166 
 
 Owing to such causes the tract of land which in 1666 was said to 
 contain sixty acres more or less, was by a survey made in 1844 found 
 to contain one hundred and fifty-eight acres and one hundred and eight 
 rods. These lands were for a long series of years rented to people 
 living near them. On some portions buildings were erected. But 
 these tenants did not like to pay rent, grew restive under its burden 
 and longed and sought for ownership. After long delay, in the year 
 1865, the Supreme Court in answer to a petition for this object in 
 which the Trustees and the town of Hartley united, granted the 
 Trustees leave to sell, at public auction or private sale, any or all the 
 land held by them in trust, the proceeds to be invested in securities 
 of the United States, of tlie state of Massachusetts, the state of New- 
 York or the city of New York or the city of Boston, or upon the 
 security of ample real estate by bond and mortgage. 
 
 Sales of most of the lands at North Hadley followed, resulting in a 
 feeling of relief and independence in the minds of those who had been 
 paying rent. The productive value of the fund increased at once. 
 Those of the Trustees who questioned the wisdom of making the sale 
 came to see and acknowledge that it was well that the change took 
 place. The proceeds of the sale were most of them for a time in bonds 
 of U. S. Later these were sold and the proceeds placed in loan and 
 mortgage on real estate in Chicago. After a time, a shrinking of 
 nominal values came, and as an incident, default of interest. 
 
 The Trustees took the mortgaged property into their own hands and 
 still hold it and from it receive rent. On one lot they built a house 
 for rental, which has proved a happy disposition of the property, 
 whose value has grown and is likely to be still further enhanced. 
 
 The mill privilege at North Hadley the dam and stream, which 
 had been leased for ninety-nine years, in 1812, at an annual rental of 
 twenty dollars in silver money, was sold and conveyed by deed of 
 quitclaim to L. N. Granger for $300, " it being all the property owned 
 by the Trustees on or near the mill stream at No. Hadley." The 
 estate of Mr. Granger paid for the same Dec. 22, 1877. 
 
 GRANT OF A HALF TOWNSHIP OF LAND IN MAINE. 
 
 On the foregoing page, 31, the impression is given that no gift was 
 made to the Fund later than the grant of the town in 1678. Exact 
 truth demands notice of the fact that the Trustees were granted a 
 half township of land in Maine by the legislature of Massachusetts on 
 their petition to this end. 
 
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 Nov. 29, 1817. The Trustees of Hopkins Academy voted to peti- 
 tion the General Court of Massachusetts for a grant of a half town- 
 ship of land, to further the purposes of the institution. Isaac C. 
 Bates, Esq., was to prepare the petition and the prudential committee 
 were required to take all proper means to secure the success of the 
 same. 
 
 June 12, 1820, the General Court passed this resolve : 
 
 " That there be, and hereby is, granted to the Trustees of Hopkins Acad- 
 emy, their successors in said office or assigns, for the sole use and benefit of 
 said Academy, one-half township, of six miles square, from and of the unap- 
 propriated lands in the state of Maine, which on the division of said lands, 
 shall fall to the share of this commonwealth ; .and to be subject to all the 
 reservations usual in grants of this kind^ the same half town-ship to be vested 
 in said Trustees, their successors in said office, and assigns forever, for the 
 sole use and benefit of said Academy, reserving four hundred acres, one-half 
 for the use of schools and the other half for the use of the ministry therein ; 
 the said half township to be laid out under the direction of the Commissioners 
 for the Sale and Settlement of Eastern Lands, at the expense of said Trus- 
 tees. Provided the said Trustees, within five years from and after the laying 
 out and location of said half township, cause ten families to be settled 
 thereon, and provided, also, that said Trustees give bond to the Treasurer of 
 tin 1 Commonwealth, faithfully to apply the proceeds and avails of said half 
 township to the sole use and benefit of said Academy. 
 
 And be it further resolved that the said half township of land shall be 
 located agreeably to the foregoing provision, within ten years from the first 
 day of January next, otherwise this grant shall be void." 
 
 Resolves of the State of Massachusetts, May session, 1820. 
 
 Aug. 28, 1820. The Trustees voted to request the President and 
 Secretary to obtain and report such information as may be useful to 
 the Board concerning the half township of land granted by the Gen- 
 eral Court. 
 
 Feb. 27th, 1821. The Trustees appointed a committee, consisting 
 of Isaac C. Bates, Jonathan IT. Lyman, William Dickinson, William 
 Porter, and Moses Porter, to contract for the sale of the half town- 
 ship granted by the General Court. 
 
 Feb. 20, 1822. The Trustees took the following action : 
 
 Whereas, at a meeting of said Board of Trustees held on the 27th day of 
 February, 1H21, I. C. Bates, Jona. II. Lyman, William Dickinson ahd Moses 
 Porter were appointed a committee to contract for the sale of the half town- 
 ship of land granted by the General Court to Hopkins Academy, and, whereas 
 in pursuance of their said commission and authority, a contract has been 
 in:ide with Joseph Whitney, Es<|., of Calais, in the county of Washington and 
 state of Maine, which contract has been entered into by Samuel Hubbard, 
 Esq.. of IJoston, as agent a.nd attorney of said committee, and in the name 
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 and behalf of the Trustees of said Academy, which contract is dated the 18th 
 of February, inst., and which the said Trustees are now at liberty to aftirm 
 or reject at their pleasure, and said contract being before the Trustees and 
 duly examined and well understood by them, Therefore, voted, We do 
 approve of the doings of our said committee and of the said Samuel Hubbard, 
 Esq., as their agent and attorney, in the name and behalf of the said Trustees ; 
 and that we do hereby ratify and confirm said contract, and make it our own, 
 and do hereby direct our Treasurer or Secretary whenever, it shall be neces- 
 sary and proper to convey said half township, according to our contract and 
 agreement aforesaid, and our covenants therein, and that the Secretary of the 
 Board be directed to transmit to said Samuel Hubbard, Esq., a copy of this 
 vote as his sufficient authority and justification for his doings in the premises. 
 Tliis land, according to the foregoing contract, was probably con- 
 veyed to Joseph Whitney, before named. 
 The Treasurer's accounts show that he received for Whit- 
 ney's note, Feb. 28, 1827, $325.00 
 Received for J. Whitney's note, due the 18th of February, 
 
 March 1, 1830, 280.00 
 
 Received for Whitney's last note, due Feb. 1 8, March 1 6, 1 83 1 , 265.00 
 
 8870.00 
 
 , March 25th, 1822, the treasurer credits S. Hubbard $250 for land. 
 The treasurer's accounts afford only such light as this concerning the 
 proceeds of the sale of the Maine land. 
 
 The General Court passed a resolve, Feb. 14. 1825, on petition of 
 Joseph Whitney, directing the agent of the land office to survey and 
 locate the half township of land for the Academy. May 26, 1826, the 
 deed was made to the Trustees of Hopkins Academy, in the town of 
 Hadley, and by them probably conveyed to Joseph Whitney. The 
 condition for the settlement of ten families in the township must have 
 been waived. The land has been held for the timber. It is not 
 settled nor will be for years to come. The impression has obtained 
 without good ground, that the money received from the sale of this 
 land, was used to pay for erecting the Academy building. More 
 probably it was turned into the treasury and employed for the general 
 uses of the institution. The Treasurer's accounts give this impression. 
 The General Court about the same time made a similar grant to the 
 Trustees of Amherst Academy. They sold it to Joseph Whitney for 
 $2,500, date of conveyance Feb. 22, 1821. 
 
 Dea. George Dickinson, who died Aug., 1889, left in his will the 
 sum of $200 to the Trustees of Hopkins Academy, to be by them held 
 in trust for the benefit of the Young Men's Library Association, with 
 
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 the condition that, if this Association should cease to exist, the yearly 
 income of this bequest, when it should amount to $500, should be 
 used by the Trustees of Hopkins Academy for the benefit of its library. 
 It was a condition of the bequest that its income should not be used 
 until the principal had grown so as to reach the sum just named. 
 
 FORM, CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE HOPKINS 
 ACADEMY FUND AT THE PRESENT TIME. 
 
 The inventory, as it appears from the books of the Treasurer, Nov. 
 27th, 1889, is as follows : 
 
 Ten acres of land on Mount Holyoke, $ 75.00 
 
 Five^U acres of land, Hockanum INleadow, upper, 900.00 
 
 Six " " " lower, 400.00 
 
 Four J " " Aqua Vitae, 350.00 
 
 Five ,$& " ' k Great Landing, upper, 200.00 
 
 Two iij " " " lower, 75.00 
 
 Michigan Avenue property, Chicago, 111., 40,000.00 
 
 Langley 6,500.00 
 
 Rose Park, seven lots, $75 each, 525.00 
 
 Harrison Street, Chicago, 111. 4,000.00 
 
 Equal, -$53,025.00 
 
 Mortgage loan to Joseph Pellissier, 500.00 
 
 Benjamin K. Prukey, 700.00 
 
 John B. Mead, - 600.00 
 
 Edward Stuber, 900.00 
 
 Fred Mixon, 800.00 
 
 Ten shares Rock Island and Peoria R. R. stock, 800.00 
 
 $4,300.00 
 
 Estimated value Nov., 1889, $57,325.00 
 
 " Nov., 1878, 33,231.25 
 
 Increase in eleven years, $24,093.25 
 
 It is likely that this property may still grow in value. How soon, 
 or to what extent, it were hardly safe to predict. Definite forecast 
 of the future, contingent on such growth could hardly be wise. It is 
 easy to see that with ample means at command, much might be done 
 to supply the school with facilities which it now lacks and needs, and 
 
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 to render its work broader, deeper tuid more efficient. Such hope and 
 desire were worthy of any board of trust. Less than this could hardly 
 be asked of them. Such is the spirit of the Board as it now exists. 
 It is looking to a future better than the past has been, to the realizing 
 of the best hopes which its best friends have ever conceived or cher- 
 ished in its behalf. Among the things possible in this outlook is a 
 new building for the exclusive use of the school, beautiful for situation, 
 plain but ornamental architecturally, itself an inspiring object lesson, 
 all its appointments such as to make the school itself more valuable, 
 and more beneficent as a factor in the system of schools of which it 
 is a part. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 This history makes the impression that the guardians of this trust 
 through all these years have been careful to cherish the memory of 
 him whose beneficence gave it being, breathe his spirit and further the 
 ends which he proposed to himself. This spirit is alive to-day and in 
 command. One in whom it is not alive might well be sensible that it 
 ill becomes him to have part in the administration of a trust so high 
 and sacred and charged with such power for good. The like spirit 
 has ruled in the young men and women, a goodly company, who have 
 done the teacher's work. The same thing is true very largely of the 
 hundreds of young men and women who have received here in part their 
 training for the work of life. Happy were it for every youth, who 
 leaves these halls in time to come, to feel that he has gained what he 
 has and become what he is in the way of learning, discipline and cul- 
 ture, in order that the meaning of life shall be to render service in 
 highest kind and largest measure to all within reach, since it is ever- 
 more true all along the ages as they come and go, that no man liveth 
 to himself. 
 
 In this history we trace the tokens of an agency higher than human, 
 " the divinity that shapes our ends." It is not of man that walketh 
 to direct his steps, as he crosses the sea and traverses an untrodden 
 wilderness to make beginnings and lay foundations in this goodly 
 valley. It was not human foresight that brought Wm. Goodwin to 
 Hadley and with him a part of the estate of Edward Hopkins, small 
 according to the reckoning of to-day, to encourage hopeful youth in the 
 way of learning, that on this spot such a good work should begin and 
 continue until now, that so many should share the benefits of this 
 school, to communicate as well as enjoy, that it should be such a boon 
 as it has been to the town of Hadley and its young people and none 
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 through this period of two and one-third centuries the fund should 
 suffer no other serious loss than that which almost at the first was due 
 to the fortunes of war with the Indians, that from this loss recovery 
 in good degree should come after so long delay ; that this stream 
 diffusing good so steadily and so long should still swell as it flows and 
 give promise of growth and doing still better the beneficent work 
 which it has sought to do from the beginning. 
 
 Now it has come to pass, in the course of events whose shaping is 
 not of man, that the school is free to the people of Hadley and her 
 children, and its advantages for them to enjoy almost exclusively, a 
 result in some of its aspects to be deplored. This signal privilege 
 should be recognized, and this recognition properly carries with it a 
 sense of responsibility and obligation to prize these blessings, make the 
 most of them and enhance their value for all the years that are to come*. 
 
 The coming hither of one of the Trustees of Gov. Hopkins and the 
 planting here of the school that ever since has borne his name and 
 done the work for which he studied and planned, were a beginning. 
 Who shall tell what fruit has grown from this planting. What has 
 grown and is still growing on this soil is known and read of all men. 
 Hampshire County is memorable for the institutions of the higher 
 order that cluster here within ten miles of each other and all within 
 sight from the summit of Mt. Holyoke. The eldest of this sisterhood 
 is Hopkins Academy herself, dating from 1816, with a history as 
 Hopkins Donation school reaching still further back one hundred and 
 forty years. 
 
 Here are Amherst College and in the same town the Massachusetts 
 Agricultural College. Mt. Holyoke Seminary and College, Smith 
 Academy in Hatfield, Smith College in Northampton and Williston 
 Seminary in Easthampton. The men and women who founded these 
 schools were of like mind with Edward Hopkins and Win. Goodwin. 
 Out of like regard for God and man, and like desire to set in motion 
 streams of blessing to flow down the centuries, they called these insti- 
 tutions into being and started them on their grand career. These 
 later friends of good learning had the larger wealth and the power 
 that belongs to it. But the spirit that was in them was in these earlier 
 benefactors. Their foresight was clear and far-reaching. They laid 
 their foundations when such examples were rare as compared with 
 what is true to-day. Example they had none in this part of this then 
 new country. They became an example whose inspiration may well 
 be conceived as reaching down to the present hour, and revealing 
 
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 itself in these halls of learning which now gladden our eyes. These 
 later benefactors could but tread in the steps of those who had gone 
 before. Possibly their works had never appeared on this scene had 
 not the like of them been seen here before. 
 
 The institutions just named, with the exception of Smith College 
 tuid Willistoii Seminary, are within the boundary of the original town 
 of Hartley. Within these limits Miss Sophia Smith had her birth and 
 life-long residence. She was a descendant, in the sixth generation, 
 of Lieut. Samuel Smith, one of the first Trustees of that portion of 
 the Hopkins legacy that was assigned to Hadley by Davenport and 
 ( Joodwin in their division of the estate, in 1664. It has been thought 
 and said that she was herself among the pupils of Hopkins Academy 
 at its opening. Though this is in question a sister of hers is remem- 
 bered to have been a pupil. If it came too late for herself to enjoy, 
 there is reason to think she was glad of the opening of the school for 
 her sex to enjoy and that she received an impulse from this source 
 which at length found expression, with the opportunity, linked with 
 duty as she saw it and the desire, in the establishment for the education 
 of the youth of her town and country, of the College and Academy 
 that perpetuate her name. 
 
 Hopkins Academy did not open its doors soon enough for Samuel 
 AVilliston to enter. But he may have felt its influence in the direction 
 of what he became and what he did in gaining and bestowing wealth 
 to found and foster seats of learning, that others might enjoy advan- 
 tages of this kind that were denied to himself. But his father, the 
 honored pastor of the church at Easthampton, was in intimate sym- 
 pathy with the first Trustees of the Academy. His sister, Miss Sally 
 Willistoii, was the first preceptress. In this wise he was within the 
 circle of influence that had its centre here, and may have derived from 
 this source, even if unconsciously, something of the spirit that turned 
 the vision of Krtward Hopkins down to future times with the weal of 
 the country and the honor of God, the burden on his heart. 
 
 The friends of the school look with hope for a future better than 
 the past and will study to make it sure, supplying as they may be able 
 aids and facilities in the work of instruction, such as a library better 
 furnished than now, illustrative apparatus and the like, and a perma- 
 nent corps of instruction whose quality may challenge severe scrutiny 
 and comparison. All such endeavor can be only an onward move- 
 ment in the line of the wishes and prayers and gifts and labors of the 
 school's early benefactors and friends. 
 
APPENDIX A. 
 
 THE HOPKINS FUND AT NEW HAVEN. 
 
 In the division of the Hopkins legacy by the surviving trustees, 
 Davenport and Goodwin, in 1664, the sum of 400 was assigned to 
 Hartford on certain conditions, that the remainder of the estate "both 
 that which is in New England and the 500 which is to come from Old 
 England ivhen it shall become due to us after Mrs. Hopkins her decease 
 be all of it equally divided between the towns of New Haven and 
 Hadley to be, in each of those towns respectively, managed and im- 
 proved towards the erecting and maintaining of a Grammar school in 
 each of them." Out of the part which Hadley hath it was stipulated 
 that 100 should be paid to Harvard College. New Haven's share 
 in this division was 412. Hartley's share 408 less the 100, or 
 308. The 500 which was to come from the estate to New Haven 
 and Hadley on the decease of Mrs. Hopkins, never came. Her death 
 took place Dec. 10, 1608, more than forty years after that of her 
 husband. At that time the original trustees were long since de:ul. 
 Their successors in office, whose duty it was to secure this bequest 
 when it became due, failed to do so, hindered possibly by the thong] it 
 of the difficulty, delay and expense of securing a favorable decree in 
 the English Court of Chancery. After the decree in this court 
 assigning this bequest to Harvard College and the Grammar School 
 at Cambridge, some effort was made to secure New Haven's chiiin 
 in the premises. But this endeavor was feeble and fruitless. It came 
 too late, and has never been renewed nor apparently has any such 
 purpose or thought been entertained.* 
 
 On the gift of 412 before mentioned from the Trustees of Gov. 
 Hopkins, the school still known as the Hopkins Grammar School at 
 New Haven was founded. It has continued in being, from the time 
 the income of the fund became available in 1664 until this day. 
 [Judd's Hist. Hadley, p. 56.] 
 
 *See Review of President Quincy's History of Harvard University, in American Biblical 
 Repository for Jan., 1842, pp. 175-185. 
 
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 During this long career ofc usefulness it has been chiefly a school 
 for fitting young men for college. The main object of the school is 
 to prepare boys for college, particularly for the Academical Depart- 
 ment and Shi'Hield Scientific School of Yale University, for which it has 
 litled more boys than any other preparatory school. From it likewise 
 many graduate, who enter into business as their life work. 
 
 A long list of young men, mostly recent graduates from college, 
 Imve been rectors of this school, many of whom have become eminent 
 in other walks of life. On the roll of its alumni many distinguished 
 names are found. The catalogue of 1887-8 gives a list of 97 pupils. 
 The corps of instruction consists of the rector and four other teachers. 
 The cost of tuition is $80 per year, the whole yearly expense ranging 
 from $280 to $430. 
 
 The amount of funds held by the Trustees at the present time is 
 $8,000 of productive property, yielding an annual income of $400. 
 A brick school-house capable of accommodating 200 pupils likewise 
 belongs to the school, with ample play-ground attached. Recently 
 something has been thought and said about merging this school in the 
 public school system of New Haven. But the Trustees of the 
 ( inmun.'ir School seem not inclined to such a measure but to favor the 
 continuing of their own institution and its good work. 
 
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APPENDIX B- 
 
 THE HOPKINS FUND AT HARTFORD. 
 
 The Trustees of Gov. Hopkins, Davenport and Goodwin, in the 
 final division of his legacy in 1664 assigned 400 to Hartford to be 
 managed by Dea. Edward Stebbing, and Lieut. Thomas Bull and their 
 assigns, in accord with the ends of the donor. 
 
 A school-house was built in Hartford in 1665, after Hartford had 
 gained 400 from the Hopkins Fund. The date of the beginning of 
 Hopkins school must be set down at 1665. But the name of no 
 teacher appears until 1674 when Mr. Caleb Watson (H. C. 1661) who 
 had been teacher at Iladley, undertook the school and continued to 
 teach it until 1705, when a vote was passed that he be no longer 
 schoolmaster to this town. For the first century of its existence, the 
 school was scarcely more than a primary school for " the children and 
 servants " of the town. It seems to have been the only public school 
 of any sort in Hartford during that period. 
 
 The town in 1753 passed a vote providing that the incomes 
 "belonging to the free school (so called) in this town, shall be 
 applied to the use and support of a Grammar School to be kept in the 
 town of Hartford for the future." One who has written a histor} 7 of 
 the school says, u It sounds very oddly that an institution which for 
 full two-thirds of a century had been on the foundation of a fund 
 for the encouragement of hopeful youth at the Grammar School and 
 College should be changed by a vote of the town of Hartford into a 
 Grammar School." The vote, on its very face, seems to be a confession 
 of past delinquency." L. W. Bacon's discourse at New Haven, 
 Appendix pp. 64, 65. 
 
 In 1797 the town, at the request of the committee, appointed agents 
 to apply for a charter of incorporation. Such charter was granted in 
 1798, empowering the Trustees to hold productive funds to an amount 
 not exceeding $20,000, to manage them and the school and appoint 
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 and a school been maintained whose fame for thorough classical 
 instruction has been surpassed by that of no other school in the 
 country. 
 
 A school was in existence in Hartford as early as 1638, supported 
 for the first thirty years in part by appropriations made from time to 
 time by the town and in part by tuition fees of pupils. The first 
 bequest in its favor was made by Win. Gibbons in 1655, who gave to 
 the town of Hartford thirty acres of land in the town of Wethersfield 
 for the support of a Latin School. In 1659 it received a small dona- 
 tion from John Talcott. 
 
 In 1664 the Trustees under the will of Gov. Hopkins gave to the 
 town of Hartford the sum of 400 for the support of the school. It 
 was further endowed in 1673 by a grant from the Connecticut Colony 
 of 600 acres of land in what is now the town of Stafford. In 1680 it 
 received a donation of 50 from James Richards. 
 
 The town of Hartford, through committees chosen for the purpose, 
 for more than a century managed the school and the funds accruing 
 from the sources named, until, upon petition of the town, the State 
 Legislature, in May, 1798, incorporated the school under the name of 
 "'The Hartford Grammar School,"' and appointed Trustees with 
 power to fill all vacancies caused by death or otherwise, so that the 
 obligation of the town to maintain a "Latin School" as stipulated 
 in the will of William Gibbons, to provide for the building up of hope- 
 ful youths at the Grammar School as stipulated by E. Hopkins, and a 
 Free School " for the schooling of all who should come, in the Latin 
 and English languages," according to the conditions of the colonial 
 grant was performed from 1798 to 1847 by the Grammar School. 
 
 Up to the year 1847 the privileges of this school had been confined 
 to boys. During that year the public High School was established by 
 the town of Hartford, for the " free instruction in the higher branches 
 of an English and the Elementary branches of a classical education, 
 for all the male and female children of suitable age and requirements 
 who may wish to avail themselves of its advantages." 
 
 This school is now maintained in a building costing, with its 
 furnishings, $285,000. The cost of maintenance for the year ending 
 Sept. 30, 1887, was $27,747. Teachers' salaries $20,015.78. The 
 number of teachers in the corps of instruction is eighteen, nine men 
 and nine women. Whole number of different scholars registered 
 during the year 548. 
 
 In this school the salary of the classical teacher is paid from the 
 
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 income of the Grammar School fund which has grown from the 
 beginnings already mentioned, (Gov. Hopkins' legacy chief among 
 them), until its investments amount to $44,04*2.00 ; yearly income, 
 $2,337.50. Biennial Catalogue of the Hartford Public High School 
 for 1886-1887. 
 
APPENDIX C. 
 
 THE HOPKINS FUND AT CAMBRIDGE GRAMMAR SCHOOL 
 AND HARVARD COLLEGE. 
 
 In the will of Gov. Hopkins the sum of 500 was devised to be paid 
 from his estate in England on the decease of his wife, to his Trustees 
 to further the ends which they were already in trust to promote. Mrs. 
 Hopkins died Dec. 10, 1698* surviving her husband more than forty 
 years. The Trustees under the will were dead. The executor, Henry 
 Dalley, likewise was long since deceased. It has been seen that in 
 the distribution of the estate by Davenport and Goodwin it was 
 agreed that the 500 to come from the estate in England on the decease 
 of Mrs. Hopkins should be divided equally between New Haven and 
 Hadley. Mr. Davenport caused this agreement to be entered in the 
 town record of New Haven. ^ 
 
 Everard Extern, Esq., the executor of the executor and his heirs at 
 law, claimed that there were not assets enough to pay the 500. 
 Nothing was done to oblige him to pay over the money or account for 
 its expenditure until 1708. Then proceedings were begun in the 
 Court of Chancery, by the Queen's Attorney General " at the relation 
 of the Corporation for the propagation of the Gospel in New Eng- 
 land and parts adjacent in America." The scope of the bill was that 
 the pious design of the donor might be carried out and Trustees 
 appointed for the purpose expressed in the will of Gov. Hopkins. In 
 1709 Harvard College began like proceedings through its agent in 
 London, Mr. Henry Newman, to whom a remittance of 40 was sent 
 to be used in gaining his end. 
 
 The case came to a hearing on the 9th of July, 1709, and reference 
 was made to a master in Chancery to take account of the assets of 
 the Hopkins estate liable to the said 500 ; and in case the said 500 
 
 *There is confusion concerning this date. The year is given 1698 and 1699, and the day of 
 the month the 10th, 16th, and 17th in the same paper. 
 
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 should be received it was ordered that the same should be paid and 
 applied to the school and college in New England for the building up 
 of scholars then in the school and college, according to the will of the 
 said Edward Hopkins. In order thereto the master was to examine 
 witnesses or write to New England to learn if there was any such a 
 school or college there, and, if not, then what school or college was 
 there and on what purpose founded and report the result of his inquiry 
 to the Court. 
 
 Feb. 10, 1710-11. The master reported sufficient assets to pay the 
 legacy, also that sixty or seventy years ago there was and is now a 
 school and college at Cambridge in New England and called Harvard 
 College and near by a small building called Stoughtou College. 
 
 On the 7th of March, 1710, following, the Right Honorable Sir 
 Symon Harcourt, Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of (Jivtit 
 Britain, decreed that within three months the 500 with interest for 
 the same at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum from six 
 months after the death of the said Anna Hopkins, should be brought 
 before the master and by his approval paid out in a purchase of lands 
 in New England, in the name of the Corporation for the propagation 
 of the Gospel, but the trust is to be declared in the deeds to be for the 
 benefit of the College and Grammar School at Cambridge in New 
 England, according to the several portions they shall be entitled unto. 
 
 A final decree, however, was made March 19, 1712-13, confirming 
 what was done Dec. 18th preceding, in which it was ordered that the 
 money should be invested in lands in the name of twenty-one Trus- 
 tees, of whom Joseph Dudley was the first mentioned. In accordance 
 with this decree the 500, with interest added from January, 
 1700, was sent to Samuel Sewall, one of the Trustees who by the 
 decree was appointed treasurer. He records in his diary July 15, 1715, 
 the receipt of a letter from Sir William Ashurst, bringing the remit- 
 tance of Mr. Hopkins's legacy. He charges himself with 1104- 
 8s-2d, which was the legacy sent over, and with 147-5s more for 
 difference between 15d and 17d weight, making 1251-13s-2d in all*. 
 
 These Trustees purchased from the Natick Indians, in 1715, 9266 
 acres of land and the General Court added by gift 8000 acres more. 
 These lands the Trustees leased for a time, but trouble came. Rents 
 were unpaid and disputes arose concerning terms of lease, so that in 
 1832, by resolve of the General Court, they were paid $8000 from the 
 State Treasury. The tenants of Hopkinton and Upton in considera- 
 tion of the release of all claims upon them by the Trustees also paid 
 
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 them $2000 more. This tract of land was incorporated in 1715 as the 
 town of Hopkinton in honor of Edward Hopkins. 
 
 The Trustees received from the Legislature in the year 1827 an act 
 of incorporation as the Trustees of the Hopkins Fund. Acts and 
 Resolves of that year. 
 
 In the distribution of the Hopkins Bequest by Davenport and 
 Goodwin out of " that 400 that Hadley hath" 100 was to be paid 
 Harvard College. In the gift book of the College, Treasurer Dan forth 
 in his account from 1063 to 1008 acknowledges the receipt of 100 in 
 corn and meal and charges for the transportation of the same from 
 Hartford to Boston 7-6d. 
 
 Report of School Committee of the city of Cambridge for the year 
 1885. 
 
 The Court of Chancery in the decree before named gave judgment 
 that one-fourth of the income arising from this fund should be paid to 
 the Grammar School in Cambridge, to be given entirely to the master 
 in consideration of his instruction in Grammar learning, of five boys 
 in preparation for Harvard College. The other three-fourths was to 
 be paid in aid of students in divinity in Harvard College under certain 
 limitations. 
 
 In 1839 the Trustees by act of the Legislature were authorized to 
 establish the "Hopkins Classical School" from which time payment 
 to the Grammar School ceased. The school thus chartered was opened 
 in 1840. Terms of admission fixed by the visitors, the President and 
 Fellows of the College and the minister of the First church in Cam- 
 bridge, were the same as those required for admission to the Boston 
 Latin School. Act of 1*39. 
 
 This school was discontinued in 1854, when an agreement author- 
 ized by the act of 1839 was entered into by the Trustees and the city 
 of Cambridge. The Trustees paying annually to the city of Cam- 
 bridge the one-fourth of the income of their funds on condition that 
 the money so paid over shall be subject to the order of the school 
 committee of said city, to be by them appropriated exclusively to the 
 improvement of the means of classical instruction in the High School 
 under their charge. This agreement is still in force but may be termi- 
 nated by the will of the Trustees whenever they re-open the Hopkins 
 Classical School. Under this arrangement the treasurer of the city 
 of Cambridge received from the Trustees of the Hopkins Charity Fund 
 from 1855 to 18S5 each year, a sum varying from 8300 to $958.93, or 
 an overage of about $720 yearly. In virtue of such payment, any 
 
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 boys not more than nine approved by the visitors, preparing for the 
 university are to enjoy all the privileges of the High School free of 
 charge. See report of the school committee of the city of Cambridge 
 for the year 1885. From this source chiefly the foregoing statements 
 concerning the Harvard Fund are derived. Here, too, is found a copy 
 of the decree of the Court of Chancery. 
 
 Thus the 500 which by the agreement of the Trustees in 1 (>('> 1 
 should be divided equally between New Haven and Hartley to aid in 
 establishing in each of the towns a Grammar School, was never so 
 divided but found its way to Cambridge to establish the fund whose 
 income has been and still is used in aid of young men, students at the 
 Grammar School or University in that town. 
 
 In the year 1840 President Quincey of Harvard University 
 published a history of that institution. In this history the author 
 makes mention of Edward Hopkins as among "the principal bene- 
 factors of Harvard College. His noble benHiccnce stands in bold 
 relief, exceeded by that of none of his contemporaries in original 
 value, Sir Matthew Holworthy and William Stoughton alone excepted, 
 and at the present day greatly surpassing those of both, in amount 
 and efficiency." No copy of the will nor extract from it, nor any 
 allusion to the doings of the Trustees under it, is found in these pages. 
 He speaks of the will as showing the qualities that make a man 
 beloved. He then gives this abstract of its contents : " To numerous 
 friends and domestics he bequeathed legacies amounting to four 
 thousand pounds sterling ; to institutions in Connecticut, for the pro- 
 motion of religion, science or charity, one thousand pounds sterling. 
 For the advancement of the sanie noble objects in Massachusetts, the 
 bequest of five hundred pounds, vested in Trustees was destined to 
 find its sphere of usefulness in Harvard College or its vicinity. After 
 an unceasing flow of annual benefits for more than a century, his 
 bounty now exists on a foundation of productive and well-secured 
 capital amounting to nearly thirty thousand dollars." This legacy 
 was not readily paid, but was obtained by the decree in Chancery, of 
 which note has been taken. 
 
 "In June, 1709, the corporation took measures to secure the legacy 
 of Edward Hopkins. More than fifty years had elapsed since the 
 death of this benefactor and his heirs interposed obstacles which ren- 
 dered the pursuit of the claims of the College troublesome and expensive 
 and final success dubious. Not deterred by these difficulties, the 
 corporation appointed Henry Newman of London their agent, and 
 
183 
 
 remitted forty pounds sterling for the promotion of their rights. The 
 object was pursued with perseverance and a favorable decree in 
 Chancery obtained in March, 1712-13 by which eight hundred pounds 
 sterling, the amount of the principal legacy with the accumulated 
 interest was vested in aboard of Trustees and by them laid out in the 
 purchase of a tract of land to which the name of Hopkinton was given 
 in honor of the donor." 
 
 History of Harvard University, Vol. 1, pp. 204-5. 
 
 In this history repeated mention has been made of the 500 that, 
 by agreement of the Trustees of Gov. Hopkins, Davenport and Good- 
 win, should come to New Haven and Hadley on the death of Mrs. 
 Hopkins. This event was long delayed and prospect of anything to 
 come from the estate grew uncertain. When it came, little or no note 
 was taken of it. The New Haven Trustees moved in the matter too 
 feebly and too late to accomplish anything. Evidence is wanting 
 that the Hadley committee were in anywise advised of the situation 
 or made any movement in the matter. There was none to contest the 
 payment of the claim to the only party making it. 
 
 The equity of the decision, though acquiesced in by those interested, 
 is not universally conceded. *In his letter written Jan. 1, 1759, Col. 
 Israel Williams of Hatfield gives expression to a sense of the inequity 
 of this disposition of this 500 and raises the question whether after 
 so long a time it is too late to have the decree overruled and so have 
 the right prevail. Thus far nothing has come of the suggestion. 
 
 See Review' of Pres. Quincy's History of Harvard University in 
 American Biblical Repository for Jan., 1842, pp. 175-185. Address 
 of L. W. Bacon at the 200th anniversary of the founding of the 
 Hopkins Grammar School at New Haven, pp. 28-29. 
 
 *Col. Israel Williams of Hatlield is the man whose name appears pp. 7(5-77. He was 
 graduated at Harvard College in 1727. He commanded one of the Hampshire regiments 
 in the French war. He was member ot the Council and Judge of the Court of Common 
 Picas. lie was first cousin of Ephraim Williams founder of Williams College. He was a 
 loyalist during the Revolution. He was called the monarch of Hampshire County. 
 Among his papers in possession of Mass. Hist. Society is a draft of a charter by the Gov- 
 ernor incorporating himself and eleven others as President and Fellows of Queens College. 
 The charter was never granted. The College had a being only on paper. Col. Williams 
 died in 1788, aged 79. Proceedings of Mass Hist. Soc., Vol. XX., p. 47. 
 
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INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Allen, Rev. Dr. William ..... .85 
 
 Allen, John ........ 10 
 
 Allis, Lieut. John, heard the case of Robt. Boltwood and school committee, 
 
 40, 41, 42, (51 
 
 Allyn, Mr. Matthew . 20, 24 
 
 Adams, Rev. Leonard .... . 147 
 
 Adams, Rev. Stephen B. ... 147 
 
 Andrews, Rev. David ... . 143 
 
 Ashmun, Hon. Goo., M. C., . 140. 151 
 
 Austin, Samuel H. . 149 
 
 A very, Rev. William F. . . 140 
 
 Ayres, Rev. Rowland, D. 1)., ... 
 
 3, 110, 114, 117, 120, 122, 127, 128, 129, 137, 188, 139 
 Ayres, Alice J. . . . 154 
 
 Ayres, Edward . . . . . 141, 150 
 
 Ayres, Edith J. . 145, 155 
 
 Ayres, David C. . . 155 
 
 Bacon, Andrew . . . . . . . 27, 39, 92 
 
 Bacon, Rev. L. W., D. D., Address at New Haven, quoted or referred to 
 
 7, 18, 23, 20, 09, 170, 183 
 
 Baker, Edward A. 141 
 
 Ball, Rev. Dyer, M. D., . 140 
 
 Ball, Rev. Mason 140 
 
 Ball, II em an, ..... 74 
 
 Ballard, Rev. Addison, D. D., 4, 140 
 
 Banister, Rev. S. W. 142 
 
 Bardwell, Dea. Baxter E. 138 
 
 Bardwell, Miss Emma C. 145, 154 
 
 Barker, Edmund P. ...... 143 
 
 Barnard, John, Bequest for a school, 
 
 28, 29, 30, 31, 43, 49, 50, 53, 55, 90, 93, 94, 103, 104 
 Barnard, Widow .... .39, 53, 54, 55 
 
 Barnard, Francis ..... 28 
 
 Barnard, Henry, Esq., writings referred to, . 18. 19 
 
 Barnard, Henry, one of town committee to demand rents, etc., . 43 
 
 Barrows, Miss Cornelia C. 145 
 
185 
 
 Bartlett, Rev. Lymau . 148 
 
 Bnssett, Rev. Isaac A. . 147 
 
 Batchelcler, George II., M. D., . 108 
 
 Bates, Hon. Isaac C., Trustee, 80; chosen to frame by-laws, 80; to negotiate 
 sale of lands, 107; counsel for Hopkins Academy before supreme court, 1)7 
 Bates, Joseph, M. D., . 148 
 
 Bates, George A., M. D., 14!) 
 
 Bay ne, Rev. John S. . ... 138 
 
 Beaman, Rev. W. H. 110, 114, 122, 127, 137 
 
 Beaman, Miss Emma W. . . 145 
 
 Beaman, John W. . ...... 155 
 
 Beaman, Miss Mina D., Mrs. Rev. John I). Willard, . . 154 
 
 Beaman, Edward H., M. D., . 149 
 
 Belcher, Susan C., Mrs. Chas. S. Thomson, M. 1)., . . 153 
 
 Bell, Rev. James M. . . 138 
 
 Bell, Mrs. Martha L. . 145 
 
 Benjamin, Prof. Reuben M. 140 
 
 Bentley, Mr. Jasper . . .74 
 
 Berry, Thomas, M. 1)., ... 71 
 
 Billings, Miss Louisa S., Mrs. Rev. Ezekiel Russell, I). D., . 142 
 
 Billings, Miss Mary W. . . 142 
 
 Blair, Miss Dolly 142 
 
 Blake, Rev. Mortimer, D. D., . 131), 142 
 
 Blake, Horace T. 143 
 
 Boltwood, Robert, miller, rebuilds the corn-mill, 30,37, 38; negotiations con- 
 cerning the mill, his death, . . . . . 41, 59 
 
 Boltwood, Samuel, 30; ditt'erences with school committee concerning mill 
 
 adjusted, . 41, 42, GO, 01 
 
 Boardman, Rev. Daniel ... 70 
 
 Bond. Thomas II. . 149 
 
 Bonney, Franklin, M. D., committee to confer with trustees of Hopkins 
 
 Academy, 109, 120, 127, 129, 131, 138, 139, 149; building committee, 131 
 
 Bonney, George. W. ..... 152 
 
 Bonney, Rev. Elijah H. . 143, 147 
 
 Bowdoin, Elbridge G. . . . . 149 
 
 Brewster, E. H. . . 151 
 
 Bridgman, Rev. Elijah C., D. I)., . . . 140 
 
 Bridgman, Rev. James G. 147 
 
 Bridgman, Rev. Henry M. . . 149 
 
 Brooks, Sidney, M. D., . 148 
 
 Brooks, Rev. Edward F. . 147 
 
 Brown, Frederick . . . lf>r> 
 
 Bragg, Rev. Jesse K. . . . 142 
 
 Brown, Rev. John, D. D., 137 
 
 Brown, Miss Lucy Ann . 142 
 
 Bruer, Lycortas L. . . 142 
 
 Buck, Augustus H. 140 
 
186 
 
 Buck, Mrs. C. L. . . 144 
 
 Buerger, John F. . . . . . .144 
 
 Bull, Lieut. John, return to order of court, 19 ; appointed to iiianaiii- Gov. 
 
 Hopkins' estate, . . 20, 20, 176 
 
 Bullard, Rev. Amos . . . 142, 14G 
 
 Bullarcl, Eunice W., Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, 153 
 
 Bullard, Rev. Ebenezer W. . 142 
 
 Case, Elmer . ... 141 
 
 Caldwell, Rev. David 142 
 
 Chandler, Charles H. . 141 
 
 Champney, Hosp. Steward, Win. A. . 150 
 
 Chapin, Rev. Sewel 74 
 
 Chapin, Rev. Horace B. . 137 
 
 Chapin, Rev. Lucius D. . 140 
 
 Chapin, L. C., M. D., . 144 
 
 Chapman, Henry, Esq., . 149 
 
 Chauncey, Rev. Nathaniel . . .70 
 
 Chauncey, " Mr. Chauncey's son," ... .71 
 
 Chauncey, Israel ..... 71 
 
 Chesebrough, Rev. Amos S., D. D., . 139 
 
 Chester, Rev. John, D. D., 75 
 
 Church, Austin, M. D., . 14s 
 
 Church, Miss Hannah B. 143 
 
 Clapp, Rev. Dexter 147 
 
 Clapp, Rev. Luther 147 
 Clarke, Henry,2G, 27 ; legacy, 29, 30, 31, 37, 44, 49, 53, 91, 92, 93, 94. 104, 100 
 
 Clark, William . . . . . 42, 45 
 
 Clark, Rev. Tertius, D. D., 140 
 
 Clark, Alonzo, M. D., . 1 4,s 
 
 Clark, Lincoln, M. C., . 149 
 
 Clark, Theodore 151 
 
 Clark, Rev. Clinton 147 
 
 Clark, Rev. Solomon . . . 147 
 
 Clark, Miss Abigal 142 
 Clark, Lucy Ann, Mrs. L. 1). Seymour, M. I)., 
 
 Clark, Miss Mary 143 
 
 Clark, Miss Lepha N. 154 
 
 Clark, Miss Juliette . 145 
 
 Clark, Asa, Jr., . 155 
 
 Clark, Corp. John C. 150 
 
 Clark, Charles W. 150 
 
 Clark, Miss Clara W. 145 
 
 Condit, Rev. Joseph D. . . . . . . .137 
 
 Conkey, Hon. Ithamar F. . 149 
 Cooley, Miss Genevieve ....... 145 
 
 Coolidge, Dea. Nathaniel . 130 
 
 Coolidge, Miss Sarah P. . 143 
 
1ST 
 
 Cooke, Ensign and Capt. Aaron 
 
 33, 34, 30, 3!), 40, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 61, 02, GO, 91,93, 94, 'Jo 
 Cooke, Westwood, ....... 08 
 
 Cooke, Capt. Moses . 68 
 
 Cooke, Mr. Euos ... . . 74 
 
 Cooke, Rev. Parsons, D. D., . . 14G 
 
 Cooke, Rev. Noah. . . . . . 14(5 
 
 Cooke, Rev. Sylvester . . 14G 
 
 Cooke, Ephraim, M. D., . 148 
 
 Cooke, Silas, M. D., 148 
 
 Cooke, Horace . 138, 151 
 
 Cooke, Charles . . . 138, 151 
 
 Cooke, Rev. Herbert Jonathan . 141, 148 
 
 Cooke, Miss Jane A. . . . 143 
 
 Cooke, Miss Lucy A. 145 
 
 Cooke, Col. John E. . 155 
 
 Cooke, Corp. Rufus A. . 156 
 
 Cooke, Alfred L. . 150 
 
 Cooke, Eleazer . . 156 
 
 Cooke, S. Parsons . . .156 
 
 Corss, Rev. Charles C. . 143, 146 
 
 Crossett, Miss Mary A. .... 143 
 
 Cullick, Mr. and Capt. John, trustee under Edward Hopkins' will, . 
 
 10, 12, 13, 10, 11), 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 20, 28, 38, 90 
 
 Curtis, Rev. Joseph W. . . 110, 114, 115, 110, 137 
 
 Curtis, Judge Joseph S. . . . . . . 149 
 
 Cushman, Rev. Martin ....... 14(; 
 
 Dalley, Henry, executor of Edward Hopkins' will, . 11, 20, 24, 28, 179 
 
 Danforth, treasurer Harvard College receives 100, . . 181 
 
 Danforth, Rev. Franicis ..... .137 
 
 Daugherty, Caroline, Mrs. Rev. William M. Richards, . . 153 
 
 Davenport, Rev. John, vicar in London, etc., 0; life and character, 13, 14; 
 
 emigrates to America, 13; settles at New Haven pastor of the church, 13; 
 
 friend of Gov. Hopkins and trustee under his will, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24; 
 
 agreement concerning the estate, 25, 27, 28, 29, 33, 38, 39, 07, 90, 91, 92, 
 
 93, 100, 103, 173, 174, 170, 179, 183 
 
 Davenport, Jesse R. . . 122, 127, 129, 138, 141 
 
 Dickinson, Dea. Nathaniel, 30, 31 ; chosen by the town 1009 one of committee 
 of five, 33 ; signs Davenport and Goodwin's agreement, 27 
 
 Dickinson, Nehemiah, one of a committee of town to procure a school-mas- 
 ter, etc., .... ... 43 
 
 Dickinson, Capt. Elisha . . .... 68 
 
 Dickinson, Rev. Benjamin . .... 71 
 
 Dickinson, Mr. John . . . 74 
 
 Dickinson, Dea. William . . 68, 136 
 
 Dickinson, Dea. Elisha . 137 
 
 Dickinson, Dea. Simeon . 137 
 
188 
 
 Dickinson, Elizabeth, Mrs. Horace Goodrich, . 152 
 
 Dickinson, Maria P., Mrs. Rev. L. Sabin, D. 1)., 158 
 
 Dickinson, Harriet, Mrs. Rev. E. W. Bullard, . 153 
 
 Dickinson, Mary B., Mrs. J. P. Kimball, 154 
 
 Dickinson, Dea. George . 35, 11G, 137, 150 
 
 Dickinson, Mr. William P. 137 
 
 Dickinson, Rev. William E. 147 
 
 Dickinson, Edward, M. D., 148 
 
 Dickinson, Miss Alice E. 154 
 
 Dickinson, George 155 
 
 Dickinson, Levi P. 15(5 
 
 Dickinson, Charles F. . 15(5 
 
 Dickinson, Luther W. . 15(5 
 
 Dowse, Joseph Perry . 144 
 
 Dudley, Pres. Joseph, 46; letter to Mr. Russell, . 57, 58 
 
 Dudley, George . 141 
 
 Dunakin, Corp. Henry Alonzo 15(5 
 
 Dunakin, Henry . 15(5 
 
 Dunbar, Rev. John 146 
 
 Dunbar, John B. . 156 
 
 Dwight, Rev. Daniel . . 71 
 
 D wight, Nancy, Mrs. Austin Church, M. D., 153 
 
 Dwight, Mr. Timothy . 13!> 
 
 Dwight, Rev. E. S., D. D., 3, !3,s 
 
 Dwight, Miss Mary 142 
 
 Dwight, Wm. W., M. D., 148 
 
 Dwight, John E., M. D., 11'.' 
 
 Eastman, Dea. Joseph 68 
 
 Eastman, Henry . 150 
 
 Eaton, Gov. Theophilus, called father by Gov. Hopkins in His will, 10; 
 
 trustee under the will, 10, 90; sole governor of New Haven colony, 12; 
 
 character, . . 12, 10 
 
 Edson, Rev. H. K. 140, 147 
 
 Edson, Almira, Mrs. Rev. Hall and Mrs. Geo. Atwood, M. D., 153 
 
 Edson, Hon. Francis 151, 171 
 
 Edwards, Rev. Bela B., D. D., . 14C. 
 Emery, Rev. S. H. 
 Emerson, Miss Felicia 
 
 Enderton, Corp. Charles S. 156 
 Farmington, 
 Farnham, Rev. Lucian 
 Ferguson, Rev. John 
 
 Fisher, O. 14 
 Fiske, Miss Mary W. 
 Fleming, Geo. C., M. D., 
 
 Fleming, Louis I. 149 
 
 Gage, Rev. Rodney 147, 155 
 
189 
 
 (i;iy. Krv. Kbenezer . . .71 
 
 (J:iylord, Mr. Samuel G8 
 
 Gnvlord, Miss Lucy B. . 148 
 
 Gay lord, Miss Martha R. . 145 
 
 Gillett, Hon. Edward B. . 149, 152 
 
 Goodwin, Elder William, arrives in Boston, settles at Cambridge, 14; free- 
 man ruling elder, etc., 14, 15; removes to Hartford, 14; character, 14, 34; 
 trustee under Gov. Hopkins' will, 10; removes to Hadlcy, 10, 17; dies in 
 Farming-ton, 34; doings at Hartford concerning the Hopkins estate, 18 
 27: at Hadley, 3235, 28, 37, 38, 39, 40, 51, 54, 90, 91, 92, 93, 100, 101, 
 
 102, 103, 104, 10G, 173, 174, 17(i, 179 
 Gould, Rev. Vinson . . . . . . 136 
 
 Granger, L. N. . . . . . 126, 131,138, 160 
 
 Gray, Rev. Mr. . .74 
 
 Gray, Edwin C. ' . . ... . . 156 
 
 Greene, Rev. John M., D. D., . . . . 147 
 
 Grimes, Mr. Samuel ...... 74 
 
 Gurley, Rev. John ....... 74 
 
 Hadley, town of, grants meadow lands for a school, 30, 31 ; accepts Mr. 
 Goodwin's proposal, 32, 34 ; votes to take estates, etc., out of committees' 
 hands, etc., 43; votes to let fall this former vote, 61 ; selectmen censured 
 and warned by court of sessions, 61, 62; appoints committee to carry out 
 its votes, procure a school-master etc., 43; sundry votes pertaining to 
 the school, ........ 6466 
 
 Hadley, town of j vs. trustees of Hopkins Academy, 87 107; in conference 
 
 with trustees of Hopkins Academy with reference to making the school 
 
 free to 'the town Chap, xi, ... 109132 
 
 Harcourt, Sir Symon, Knight, Lord keeper of the Great Seal of England, 180 
 
 Hall, Aaron B. . . .142 
 
 ITannum, Arnold . . . . . . .142 
 
 Harvard College, 100 to be paid from the Hopkins estate, 27, 38, 181; 
 
 claiming and gaining 500 in court of Chancery, 17, 180, 182, 183 
 
 181, 182, 183 
 
 Harvard University, Pres. Quincey's History of . . .182 
 
 Harvey, Rev. Adiel ...... 142 
 
 Haskell, Miss Charlotte C. 145 
 
 Haskell, Miss Eliza C., Mrs. Rev. Edward S. Frisbec, D. D., 145 
 
 Hawkes, Rev. Theron H., D. D., . . . 144 
 
 Hawley, Joseph . . 42 
 
 Hayward, William H. . . . . . .157 
 
 Hammond, John C. Esq. ..... 138 
 
 II annum, J. Arnold .... 142 
 
 Heavens, Francis J. . . 141 
 
 Henshaw, Marshall, LL. P., . 140 
 
 Hcnshaw, Mrs. Francis J. ... . 144 
 
 Henshaw, Miss Almira ..... .143 
 
 Hill, Miss 145 
 
1 ( JO 
 
 Hinsdale, Miss Harriet A., Mrs. Rev. H. L. IIubbeH, D. 1)., 144 
 
 Hitchcock, Dea. C. P. . 137 
 
 Hitchcock, Rev. Roswell, D. D., 142 
 
 Hodge, Hannah M., Mrs. Rev. James Wilcox, 153 
 
 Hodge, Harriet M., Mrs. Hon. Thos. F. Plunkctt, 153 
 
 Hodge, Charles D. 150 
 
 Hodge, Corp. Samuel . 150 
 
 Hodge, William H. 157 
 
 Holmes, Cyrus . . 139 
 
 Hooker, Rev. Thomas, pastor of the church at Newtown and Hartford, 143 
 
 7, 8, 14, 15 
 
 Hooker, Gen. Joseph . 155 
 
 Hooker, Sarah, Mrs. Rev. M. L. R. Thompson, D. D., 153 
 
 Hooker, Miss Mary .... . 143 
 
 Hooker, Sergt. Lewis B. ..... 157 
 
 Hopkins, Gov. Edward, birth and education, 0; emigration to America, 0; 
 settles at Boston and Hartford, 6; charcter, 0, 7, 9,182; Gov. of Connec- 
 ticut, successful merchant, 7; returns to England, death, 8; his will, 10, 
 11 ; his trustees, their disposal of his estate, 18 27 
 
 Hopkins, Mrs. Anna, 8, 9; provision for her in her husband's will, 11; her 
 death, .... . 17!) 
 
 Hopkins Fund, sequestered by Gen. Court of Connecticut IS 25; linal settle- 
 ment and distribution by Davenport and Goodwin, . . 24 27 
 Hopkins Fund and School at Hartford, 170178; New Haven, 174, 175 
 Hopkins Fund at Harvard College and Cambridge Grammar school, 179 is.", 
 Hopkins Fund at Hadlcy, agreement of Mr. Goodwin and town concerning. 
 32 34; early troubles concerning it in court and otherwise, . 35 03 
 Hopkins Grammar School at Hadley, names of school committee, 07, 08 ; roll 
 of teachers, ........ 0975 
 
 Hopkins Academy, charter asked by committee and town and granted, 78 ; 
 
 incorporation, charter and by-laws, . 78 83 
 
 Hopkins Academy, building erected, 84-86; dedicated and school opened in it. 
 
 86 : burned, .... . 121 
 
 Hopkins Academy, trustees . 130-139 
 
 Hopkins Academy, principal teachers, 139-141 ; assistants, . 141-145 
 
 Hokkins Academy, pupils, roll of honor, 140-157; roll of graduates receiving 
 diplomas, 102-163; present membership, Jan. 1, 1890, . . 104 
 
 Hopkins Academy in the supreme court, town of Hadley vs. trustees of Hop- 
 kins Academy, report of the case, . . . 87-107 
 Hopkins Academy, in conference with the town with reference to making the 
 school free to the town Chap, xi, . 109-132 
 Hopkins Academy, changes in the fund, etc., 105 et seq ; present and former 
 condition, estimated value of property, . . . 109-170 
 Hopkins, Rev. Samuel, D. D., . 77 
 Hopkins, Lewis, M. D., . 148 
 Hosforcl, Rev. Henry B. . 140, 144 
 
11)1 
 
 Ilosfonl, Miss .Louisa . ..... 144 
 
 Hosford, Maj. James M. . . . .145 
 
 Hovcy, Lieut. Thomas ....... 68 
 
 Howard, Clianncey . ..... 142 
 
 Ilubbard, Mr. Edmund ....... 08 
 
 Ilubbard, Rev. John . .... 70 
 
 Hubbard, Moses . . . . . . . 74 
 
 Hubbard, Dea. George W., .... 4, 151 
 
 Hnbbard, Fordyce M., D.D., . ... 146 
 
 Ilubbard, Wallace A. . . . . . .156 
 
 Hubbard, Franklin .... 156 
 
 Ilubbard, Oscar 11. ....... 156 
 
 Humphrey, Rev. Zephaniah M., D.D., . . 147 
 
 Humphrey, Miss Lucy, Mrs. Rev. Henry Neill, D.D., . . 153 
 
 Hunn, Rev. David L. . . v . . . . . 137 
 
 Huntington, Rev. Dan ...... 136, 139 
 
 Hnntington, Judge C. P. . . 149 
 
 Hnntington, Rev. William P. 146 
 
 Hniitiiigton, Theodore G. ..... 128, 138 
 
 ITuntingtoii, lit. Rev. Frederic D., D.D., . . .147 
 
 riuntington, Miss Elizabeth P. . .... 142 
 
 Hutchinson, Rev. Horace, ..... 140, 142 
 
 Isliam, Rev. Austin ....... 143 
 
 James, Rev. John ....... 71 
 
 Janes. Rev. Justus L. .... 147 
 
 Jenkins, Rev. Abraham . . 147 
 
 Jewett, Lieut. John Howard . . . . . 152, 156 
 
 Jones, Major George . .... 156 
 
 Johnson, Aholiab, Esq.. . . . . 149 
 
 Johnson, Chester, M. D., . . . . 148 
 
 Johnson, Miss Laura R. . ... 145 
 
 Johnson, Rev. Myron A. .... 148 
 
 Johnson, Edward ....... 156 
 
 Johnson, Herbert F. . . 156 
 
 Johnson, Clifton C. . .... 152 
 
 Judd, Rev. Sylvester, Jr., . 147 
 
 Judd, Rev. Jonathan 8. . . 147 
 
 Kellogg, Joseph . . 67 
 
 Kellogg, Giles C., Esq., . . . 75,141 
 
 Kellogg, Rev. Gardiner . .... 74 
 
 Kellogg, Rev. Bela . ... 75 
 
 Kidder, Rev. Pascal, P.P., . . 147 
 
 Kilburn, Mr. He/ekiah . . . . . . 71 
 
 Kingsley, Krissa, Mrs. Eli Moody, . . .153 
 
 Kingsley, Elbridge . . . .152 
 
 Lamsou, Charles E. ..... 138 
 
 Lainson, Charles M., D.D., .... .148 
 
 25 
 
192 
 
 Lane, Rev. John W. .... 133 
 
 Little, Miss Mary Ann .... 142 
 
 Lobdell, Rev. Henry, M. D., . . . . J40 
 
 Lord. Rev. Henry .... 130 
 
 Lord, Rev. Charles .... 143 [47 
 
 Loud, Watson, M. D., ' 143 
 Lyman. Rev. Joseph, P. D., . . 80 13G 
 Ly man, Hon. Jonathan H. . . . ];>><;, 11:7 
 
 Lyman, Clarissa J., Mrs. Rev. John II. Bisbre. 153 
 
 Lyman. Rev. George ..... 147 
 
 Lyman, Jabez B., M. D., . . . j^ 
 
 Lyman, John Chester, M. D., . . II;, 
 
 Lyman, Rev. Timothy ... 147 
 
 Lyman, Charles F. .... 15(] 
 
 Lyon. Merrick, LL. P., . . . 15 
 
 Lyon, Lucius, M. P., 149 
 
 McClung, Matthew .... I O 
 
 Mann, Rev. Asa .... 14;>, 
 
 Marsh, Ensine Moses .... <;s 
 
 Marsh, Job . . . <- (S 
 
 Marsh, Rev. Jonathan ...... 70 
 
 Marsh, Rev. I). W., D.D., . 147 
 
 Marsh, Rev. Loren B. 147 
 
 Marsh, Prof. Charles D. . . . ir,0 
 
 Marshall, Jonathan B. 143 
 Mather, Rev. Cotton. His Magnalia quoted concerning Gov. Hop- 
 kins, 7,8, 0; concerning Mrs. Hopkins, s : 
 concerning Gov. Eaton, 12. 
 Mather, Judge Warham ..... .70 
 
 Mather, Rev. Nathaniel ... 71 
 
 Mather, Rev. Richard IL, D.I)., . 150 
 
 May hew, Miss Abby C. . 144 
 
 Melyen, Rev. Samuel . . ... 70 
 
 Merrill, Miss Eliza . 142 
 
 Mighill, Samuel ... 70 
 
 Miller, Rev. Simeon ... 14" 
 
 Mitchell, Walter G. . 141 
 
 Mitchell, W. W. . 141 
 
 Montague, Prof. William L. ir.o 
 
 Morse, Rev. John ... 70 
 
 Morton, John A. . . . . j;> ( s 
 
 Morton, John A., Jr., .... 155 
 
 Morton, L. M. . . . 144 
 
 Mosely, Miss Sophia . 141 
 
 Murdock, Miss Thankful . . 142 
 
 Nash, Lieut. Enos .... 08 
 
 Nash, Dea. Enos .... 68 
 
 Nash, Rev. John A. . . . . . . 139, 146 
 
198 
 
 Nash, Samuel. Ks|., committee of the Town to confer with the Trus- 
 tees of Hopkins Academy, . . 109,120 
 Nash, Judge Simeon, Jr., . .... 14!) 
 
 Nash. Miss Maria W., Mrs. James H. Hackletou, . . . 154 
 
 Nash, Capt. Edwin S. ..... 155 
 
 Nash. Rev. Francis L. . . Ms 
 
 Nash, Miss Isabella S. . . 145 
 
 Nelson, Rev. William F. 142 
 
 Nichols, George . . . . . . . . 131) 
 
 Newman, Henry, agent of Harvard College to secure legacy of 500, 171), 182 
 
 Norton, Rev. Thomas S. . . . . . 147 
 
 Orr, William, Jr., . 143 
 
 Osborn, Orson, M. 1)., ..... 14s 
 
 Packard, Miss Louisa . . 142 
 
 I'tUnier, Francis L. . . . . 143 
 
 Partrigg, Samuel, Colonel, Representative, Judge of Probate, etc., 
 taught Hopkins School, 70; favored an English 
 School, 45 ; reasons given, 52-57, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 
 47; dissmissed from school committee, 50. 
 
 I'artrigg, John . . . . . 70 
 
 Partridge, Joseph L. . . . . . . 150 
 
 Partridge, Rev. George C. . 14C 
 
 Pasco, Miss Maria L. ..... . 145 
 
 Fasco, Rev. Martin K. . 14s 
 
 Pearl, Prof. Joshua F. . . 150 
 
 Penney, Rev. Joseph, !).!).,. . . . 137 
 
 Perkins, Rev. Nathan . . . . ... 136 
 
 Perry, Marshall 1)., M. 1).. 14s 
 
 Perry, Miss . . 145 
 
 Phelps, Caroline, Mrs. Rev. S. G. Bullfinch, . 15;; 
 
 Phelps, Charlotte, Mrs. Rev. Mason P. Bartlett. 153 
 
 Phelps, Mr. Charles . . . . . (is 
 
 Phelps, Francis ..... 150 
 
 Phelps, Theophilus .... . 151 
 
 Phillips, Rev. Daniel ..... 145 
 
 Pierce, Master Josiah, teacher, preacher, town clerk, etc., . . 71, 72 
 
 Taught Hopkins Grammer School, covenant with school committee,. 72, 7:'. 
 
 Taught in Amherst, Northampton and South Hadley, . . 73, 74 
 
 Pierce, William Martin ....... 150 
 
 Pierce, Dea. John N. ..... .138 
 
 Pierce, Miss Cynthia M. . . . . . .145 
 
 Pomeroy, Miss Emily, Mrs. Rev. David Eastman, . . 143, 153 
 
 Poor, Rev. Daniel W., D.I)., . . 147 
 
 Porter, Samuel, Esq., .... 67 
 
 Porter, Hon. Eleazer ....... 68 
 
 Porter, Mr. Eleazer ....... ~ 68 
 
 Porter, William, M. D., . . 68, 136 
 
11)4 
 
 Porter, Col. Moses . - 0,s. KiO 
 
 Porter, Mr. Elisha 08 
 
 Porter, Rev. Aaron . . 70 
 
 Porter, Miss Amy, Mrs. Rev. Jos. D. Wickhuiu, 50 
 
 Porter, Dea. Eleazer, .... 138 
 
 Porter, James B., Esq., . . . I-''"' 
 
 Porter, Rev. Jeremiah . 1 40, 157 
 
 Porter, Lois E., Mrs. Dea. Coolidge and Mrs. Rev. J. W. Curtis, . 152 
 
 Porter, Susan, Mrs. Rev. Lucian Farnham, . . 153 
 
 Porter, Miss Lucretia ... 142 
 
 Porter, Miss Augusta A. ... 145 
 
 Porter, Rev. William, D.D., . . 147 
 
 Porter, Moses, M. D., . 148 
 
 Porter, Henry, M. D., 148 
 
 Porter, Rev. Edward C. . 14-8 
 
 Porter, Miss Charlotte W. 154 
 
 Porter, William P. , Esq. , 1 :J* 
 
 Porter, Miss Emma T., Mrs. Rev. Sereno D. Gammell, 154 
 
 Pratt, Rev. Levi, . . UJ7 
 
 Pratt, James O. . . 144 
 
 Proctor, Miss . 142 
 
 Powers, Rev. Henry . 148 
 
 Powers, Miss Sarah W., Mrs. Rev. Benj. Parsons, . 145, 154 
 Pynchon, Major John, heard the case of Sam'l Boltwood, 41 ; letter 
 
 to Mr. Russell, 45 ; return to President and 
 Council, 40, 47, 58, 59, 01, 02. 
 
 Quincy, President Josiah, History of Harvard University, 174, 182, 183 
 
 Read, Hanson L. . . 144 
 
 Reed, Miss Mary A. . . 143 
 
 Reed, Miss Mary, . 145 
 
 Richards, Rev. William M. 140 
 
 Riddle, Rev. Samuel Hopkins . 140 
 
 Robbins, Rev. Alden B., D. D., 143 
 
 Robinson, Gov. Charles, M. D., 149, 152 
 
 Rogers, Daniel W. . 141 
 Ruggles, Rev. Samuel 
 Ruppaner, Anton, M. D., 
 
 Russell, Rev. John, first minister of Hartley, 02, 03; school commit- 
 tee, 27, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 30, 31), 40; reasons to 
 Pres't and Council, 48 et seq., 43, 44, 45, 92, 1)3, 
 94, 95. 
 
 Russell, Rev. Samuel . 01) 
 
 Russell, Rev. Ezekiel, D.D., 4, 133, 139 
 
 Scott, Aaron 155 
 
 Scott, Rufus P. 155 
 
 Sabin, Rev. Lewis, D.D., 139 
 
 Sanderson, John P. 19, 1,43 
 
195 
 
 San ford, lion. John E. . 144 
 
 Si-t-ly u, Kev. L. Clark, D.I)., . 148 
 
 Seymour, Hf.v. Henry . . .4, 148, 147 
 
 Seymour, Susan S., Mrs. Maj. James M. llosi'ord, . . . 153 
 Seymour, Edwin ........ 155 
 
 Seymour, Uev. John A. . . . . . . . 144 
 
 Seymour Henry M. , . 152 
 
 Seymour, Levi J)., M. 1)., 149 
 
 Shed, James A., Esq., ... ... 149 
 
 Sherman, George .. . . . . . . 141 
 
 Slmmway, Rev. Columbus . ... 145 
 
 Shipmau, William S. . 122, 126, 127 
 
 Shipman, William N. .155 
 Smith, Lieut. Samuel, school committee, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 92, 93, 173 
 
 Smith, Dea. Philip ... .39, 67, 93 
 
 Smith, Chileab, 03 ; appointed by Court, . . 60, 67, 95 
 
 Smith, Sargeant Joseph ... 68 
 
 Smith, Dea. John . ..... 68 
 
 Smith, Dea. David . 68 
 
 Smith, Dea. Oliver . . 68 
 
 Smith, Dea. Seth . 68 
 
 Smith, Windsor, Esq., ..... .85 
 
 Smith, Dea. Jacob . . 68, 136 
 
 Smith, Rev. Joseph . . 70 
 
 Smith, Mr. John ....... 74 
 
 Smith, Rev. Worthington, D.D., . . 139 
 
 Smith, Dea. Sylvester ... .137 
 
 Smith, Dudley, Esq., . 137 
 
 Smith, Capt. Elijah 137 
 
 Smith, Dea. Rodney, . . 138 
 
 Smith, Catharine A., Mrs. Dr. Jones, . 152 
 
 Smith, Oliver E. . 138 
 
 Smith, Hon. Hinsdale, . . 151 
 
 Smith, Rev. Henry B., D.D., . .85 
 
 Smith, Miss Sophia . 150, 173 
 
 Smith, Miss Mary D, . 143 
 
 Smith, Miss Sarah A. . . 143 
 
 Smith, Miss Miranda . . .144 
 
 Smith, Julia, Mrs. Lincoln Clark, . 152 
 
 Smith, Elizabeth PL, Mrs. Rev. William Harvey, . 152 
 
 Smith, Esther, Mrs. Rev. John Dunbar, . . 153 
 
 Smith, Martha, Mrs. Rev. O. G. Hubbard, 153 
 
 Smith, Miranda, Mrs. Rev. Pomeroy Beldeii, . . .153 
 
 Smith, Margaret, Mrs. Rev. E. W. Bullard, . . 153 
 
 Smith, Julia, Mrs. John W. Blodgett, M. D., . . 153 
 
 Smith, Lydia, Mrs. Henry E. Ide, ..... 153 
 
 Smith, Susan H., Mrs. E. P. Richardson, 152 
 
196 
 
 Smith, Maria P., Mrs. Capt. J. Richardson, 
 
 Smith, Mary, Mrs. Phelps, 
 
 Smith, Helen M., Mrs. Henry S. Stockbridge, Jr., . . 154 
 
 Smith, Alice T., Mrs. Gerry, ... 155 
 
 Smith, Louisa A., Mrs. Edwin 11. Baxter, M. 1)., 154 
 
 Smith, Horace M. .... 144 
 
 Smith, John Woodbridge, Esq., . . . 14!) 
 
 Smith, John ... . 144 
 
 Smith, Miss Abby P. . 145 
 
 Smith, Miss Clarissa 145 
 
 Smith, Rev. Horace lit; 
 
 Smith, Rev. Preserved . 140 
 
 Smith, Henry Parks 150 
 
 Smith, Rev. Arthur 148 
 
 Smith, Lieut. James W. 155 
 
 Smith, H. Fred, M. M. I)., 141) 
 
 Smith, Frederic E., Esq., I It) 
 
 Smith, Lucius 1). . 150 
 
 Smith, Samuel D. . . 150 
 
 Smith, George M. . . 157 
 
 Spaulding, Adaline, Mrs. Rev. M. K. Cross, . . 153 
 
 Spear, Rev. C. V. . 140, 141 
 
 Spencer, Rev. Ichabod S. 137 
 
 Spencer, Rev. Thomas . . . . . . .147 
 
 Stanwood, Miss Joanna . . . 144 
 
 Stearns, Rev. J. G. D. . 130 
 
 Stebbins, Dea. Edward . 11), 20, 26, 170 
 
 Stebbins, Edward . 131 
 
 Steele, Rev. Stephen . 71 
 
 Stockbridge, Hon. Levi . . 151 
 
 Stockbridge, Henry S., Esq., . 14!) 
 
 Stockbridge, Henry S., Jr., M.C., . . . 154 
 Stockbridge, Sylvester ....... 140 
 
 Stone, Rev. Samuel, teacher of the church at Newtown and Hartford 
 
 he and Mr. Goodwin do not agree, . 14, 15, 10 
 
 Stone, Rev. William B. . . . . . . .147 
 
 Stone, Lucy, Mrs. Henry B. Blackwell, . . 153 
 
 Strong, Gov. Caleb . . 70 
 
 Strong, Mr. . . 74 
 
 Strong, Hon. Joseph 130 
 
 Strong, Miss ..... 142 
 
 Strong, Charles L. . . 142 
 
 Stuart, Judge William Zephaniah ..... 142 
 
 Taft, John A. ... 140 
 
 Taylor, Mr. . . 73 
 
 Taylor, Oliver S., M. D., 130 
 Taylor, Rev. Samuel A. ..... 143 
 
197 
 
 Taylor, James A. . ... 143 
 
 Taylor, Rev. Ruf us, I). D., . 147 
 
 Thomson, George F., M. D., . . . . . 149 
 
 Tilton, Dea. and Hon. Peter. A first Trustee under Gov. Hopkins' 
 will. 27, 30; choice of the town at the instance of Mr. 
 Goodwin, 32, 34 ; defendant in Court vs. William Good- 
 win. 34. 35. 3f>, 39, 44, 45, 40, 47, 91, 92, 93. 
 Tobey, Miss Elizabeth ... . 145 
 
 Todd, Rev. John, D.P., . 137 
 
 Tower, Rev. J. Edwin . . . 148 
 
 Tracy, Mr. Fanning, ....... 74 
 
 Train, Miss . . . 144 
 
 Treat, Rev. Salmon . . . 70 
 
 Tnttle, George A., M. D., . 149 
 
 Tnttle, Prof. Charles A. ... 150 
 
 Tnttle, Franklin Elliot .... 150 
 
 Tuxbnry, Rev. Franklin . .... 122, 127, 137 
 
 Yanhorn, Alfred .... . 157 
 
 Walker, Rev. G. L., D.D., History first church Hartford referred to, 15-17 
 
 Ward, Nathaniel, Engagers meet at his house, ... 29 
 
 His legacy, . . . 29, 39, 50, 53, 94, 103 
 
 Ward, Lucretia S-, Mrs. Judge Oviatt, .... 152 
 
 Ward, Mary D., Mrs. Rev. Horace Smith, . . . 152 
 
 Ware, Lauriston, Builder, ... . 132 
 
 Warner, Dea. Andrew . . . . . 14, 30, 31 
 
 Warner, Capt. Oliver . .... 137 
 
 Washburn, Charles E., M. D., . . .143 
 
 Waterbnry, Rev. J. B., D.D., . . 136 
 
 Watson, Caleb, first school master, . . . . 53, 54, 50, 09 
 
 Webber, Rev. George N., D.D., ... 145 
 
 Wedge, Newel ........ 150 
 
 West, Parsons, Esq., . 114, 122, 120 
 
 West, Lewis W. . 151, 156 
 
 Whitakcr, Mr. Augustus . . ... 144 
 
 Whitaker, J. Edwin . 144 
 
 White, Mr. Ebenozer ... . .74 
 
 White, Tirzah M., Mrs. Judge Williamson, .... 153 
 
 White, Frances M., Mrs. John Kimball, Esq., . 153 
 
 White, Abby L., Mrs. Rev. William Williams, 153 
 
 White, Prof. George H. 141 
 
 Whitney, Joseph, Esq., . 107, 108 
 
 Whitney, Miss Sarah 142 
 
 Whitney, Prof. William 1). . . 150 
 
 Wilcox, Nathaniel F. ....... 141 
 
 Wilder. Samuel C., committee of town to confer with Trustees, 
 
 121, 122, 123, 124, 138 
 Willis, William H., M.D., (name changed from Orrick) . 149 
 
IDS 
 
 Williston, Miss Sally . . . 141,178 
 
 Williston, Hon. Samuel . . 141, 17:'. 
 
 Williston Seminary, . . 17-'! 
 
 Williams, Col. Israel, letters concerning Hopkins School. . 77 
 
 Concerning Hopkins Fund. . 188 
 
 Williams, Rev. Elisha . . 71 
 
 Williams, Rev. Stephen . 71 
 
 Williams, Rev. Solomon . .71 
 
 Williams, Miss Emily H. ." . 142 
 
 Williams, Judge Erastus Smith . 140 
 
 Williams, Rev. Charles N. 144 
 
 Williams, Hon. P. Smith, committee of Town to confer with Trus- 
 tees of Hopkins Academy, 109-120; Building Com- 
 mittee, 131, 148; School Committee, 117. 
 
 Winthrop, History quoted, . 0, 8, 0. 14 
 
 Winthrop, Gov. John, Jr., corresponds with Davenport and Goodwin 
 
 concerning the estate, 22-24; Mr. Dalley deals with him, 24-25 
 Witherell, Rev. Isaac . 140 
 
 Woodbridge, Mr. Ephraim or Samuel . . 70 
 
 Woodbridgc, Rev. John, D.D., , 86, 110, lie. 187 
 
 Woodbridge, Miss Mindwell . 144 
 
 Woodbridge, Mary Ann, Mrs. Hawley and Mrs. Rev. Parsons Cook, D.P, 153 
 Woodbridge, Miss Susan A. . 144 
 
 Woodbridge, Rebecca M., Mrs. Judge E. S. Williams, 144, 15:', 
 
 Woodbridge, John, Jr.. Esq., . . 140 
 
 Woodbridge, E. Octavia, Mrs. Rev. R, H. Richardson. B.I)., ir>8 
 
 Woodbridge, Rev. Sylvester 14<5 
 
 Woodbridge, Rev. Jahled 14(1 
 
 Workman, William, M. D., . 148 
 
 Yonnglove, Rev. John . . r >^>- fiO 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 Page 4, seventh line from the bottom, after members, insert, or teachers. 
 Page 17, line 11, for opposed read approved. 
 Page 51, last line but one, for Hopkin,s read Hopkins.s. 
 Page 6.3, note, for ater, read after. 
 Page 142, for Stewart read Stuart. 
 
 Page 145, for Alice C. Dickinson read Alice E. Dickinson. 
 Page 160, after Henry Parks Smith, &c.,read John B. Dunbar, Prof. Latin 
 and Greek, Washburn College. 
 
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