Excerpt from A History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 Years: With an Account of the Prior Occupation of the Territory by the Squakheags; And With Family Genealogies The field of these researches is to a great extent new ground. NO full and connected account has been published of the events which transpired in this part of the Connecticut valley during King Philip's war, nor of the subsequent struggles with the savages up to the close of the war of 1722-26. The histories of the two succeed ing French and Indian wars are more full, but are defective in dates, and in details of local skirmishes. Almost nothing has been known of the antecedent Indian occupa tion, or of the first attempts made by the whites to gain a foothold here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.