Excerpt from Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Hadley, Massachusetts: At Hadley, June 8, 1859 At a Town Meeting held March 30th, 1857, it was voted, in response to an article in the warrant calling the meeting, having reference to that subject, that a committee be appointed to carry the subject of the tenth article into effect, by employing some one of its emigrant sons to give a public address, and to take and adopt such measures as the case may require for a public celebration. Voted, That the town choose a committee of thirteen to carry the above vote into effect. The following persons were chosen to act upon that committee: - Giles C. Kellogg, Sylvester Smith, Theodore G. Huntington, Eleazer Porter, George Dickinson, Jeriah S. Smith, F. Bonney, Thaddeus Smith, Royal W. Montague, E. H. Bartlett, Levi Adams, Edmund Smith, John A. Morton. At a town meeting held March 28th, 1859, it was voted that the town appropriate the sum of seven hundred dollars to defray the contingent expenses of the celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the settlement of the town; and that the money be placed in the hands of the Treasurer of the town's committee of thirteen, to be used by them in furtherance of the objects of said appropriation. The committee of thirteen, appointed by the town, met June 1st, 1857, and organized by the choice of Giles C.Kellogg as Chairman, and F. Bonney as Secretary. At a subsequent meeting the following officers and committees were chosen to assist the general committee in carrying out the objects of their appointment: - President of the Day - Erastus Hopkins, Esq., of Northampton. Vice Presidents - Rev. Dan Huntington, Giles C. Kellogg, Esq., Dea. Jason Stockbridge, Dea. Sylvester Smith, Rev. John Woodbridge, D. D., Dea. Ashley Williams, Mr. Chester Gaylord, and Mr. Cotton Smith. Treasurer - Eleazer Porter. Chief Marshal - Wm. P. Dickinson. 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.