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Journal containing Biographical information on the Wheelock, Reed, and Hastings families by Everett Hastings(?). Wheelock entry contains lyrics of 19th century ballads and songs. A great many details given about 18th century farm life in Warwick, such as raising flax and wool for material for bedding and garments, common foods that were raised, as well as the diseases of the time.
Reed entry includes the gold rush. Hastings entry has much information on occupations of the family. And a page on the horses of the Hastings family.
Charles Morse notes that this journal is part of the Vorce collection.

A 23 page booklet written by Clara Adelia Chase of Orange, MA, Dec., 1919 in memory of her mother, contains prose and poetry of life in earlier days. This was sent to C. Morse from Ina Underwood, who explains that Clara's father was founder of Chase Turbine in Orange.

One item, the Half Century Discourse by Preserved Smith in 1864 is also in Room 2b, bookshelf. A letter written in 1955 by Fred Bicknell of Charlemont and the response by Charles Morse includes material from the History of Rowe where Rev. Smith served as Pastor. Morse has a sheet outlining the family of the 2 Preserved Smiths. Fayette Smith, son of Preserved and Tryphena, and husband of M.P. Wells Smith is mentioned in a letter to Morse (1972) from Elsie Scott of Northfield. Her mother taught district school in Warwick in 1878.

A 94 page book compiled by Ralph M. Stoughton in 1954 outlines the Stoughton Family History starting with English origins in the 1500s. The author, born in 1879 and other family members of the same era conclude the book. Charles Morse has noted that pgs 46 and 47 mention a Warwick connection, Anna Stevens and Nathaniel Gove Stevens. Thomas Stoughton of Dorchester,MA and Windsor, CT preceded Samuel Stoughton who settled in Gill, MA in 1763. One photograph shows the tomb in the old Dorchester burial grounds of Gov. William Stoughton (1631-1701) with am embellished Stoughton coat-of-arms. Known for conducting witchcraft trials and also generosity to Harvard College and giving money for gospelizing the Indians.

Book tracing the ancestors of George and Doris Haight back to early Warwick history. Compiled by Connie Anderson Corcoran, January, 2011.

Smith, Mary P. Wells; Boys of the Border, A Story of the Mohawk Trail; Greenfield; John W. Jaigis, Jr.; 1954.
Mary P. Wells married Judge Fayette Smith, son of Rev. Preserved Smith and Tryphena Goldsbury of Warwick.

Smith, Mary P. Wells; Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack; Boston; Little, Brown, and Company; 1920.
Hackmatack is, of course, Warwick, MA. Mary P. Wells Smith married Judge Fayette Smith, the son of Rev. Preserved Smith and Tryphena Goldsbury.
This book is available online as a download from this site.
Enclosed in the book is an article from The Greenfield Recorder 2/28/1985 titled Dynamic Woman of the 19th Century; Mary P. Wells Smith, left lasting mark through books, public service. Article includes picture of Mary P. Wells Smith by the door of the John Williams house in Old Deerfield.

Smith, Mary P. Wells; Jolly Good Times at School, Also Some Times Not Quite So Jolly; Boston; Little, Brown, and Company; 1931. With illustrations by Helen Mason Grose.
Enclosed in book is a newspaper article from the Town Crier 5/30/03 titled Mary P. Wells Smith's Childhood in Greenfield Revisited in Audio Book.
Mary P. Wells married Judge Fayette Smith, son of Rev. Preserved Smith and Tryphena Goldsbury of Warwick.

Smith, Mary P. Wells; Boys and Girls of Seventy-Seven; Boston; Little, Brown, and Company; 1909. Part of The Old Deerfield Series. Illustrated by Ch. Grunwald.
Mary P. Wells married Judge Fayette Smith, son of Rev. Preserved Smith and Tryphena Goldsbury of Warwick.

Smith, Mary P. Wells Smith; The Boy Captive in Canada; Boston; Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. With illustrations from drawings by Arthur B. Becher.
Mary P. Wells married Judge Fayette Smith, son of Rev. Preserved Smith and Tryphena Goldsbury of Warwick.