Excerpt from Indian Deeds of Hampden County: Being Copies of All Land Transfers From the Indians Recorded in the County of Hampden, Massachusetts, and Some Deeds From Other Sources, Together With Notes and Translations of Indian Place Names From these small beginnings has come our modern system of registration. It was not copied from the laws of the mother country as such a system was unknown in Eng land, but was originated to meet a new need. On the seventh day of the third month, 1662 O. S., the towns of Springfield, Northampton and Hadley were con stituted a county, called Hampshire. This was not a part set off from any other civil division, but was erected out of territory never before placed under county organization. Although containing within its limits but three towns, yet it included all the western half of the state, or what is now Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden, and the west ern part of Worcester County. 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.