Cummington, Royal Joy, Nov. 4, 1793 Cummington, Physician Easthampton, H. Bartholomew, Jr., Sept. 11, 1813 Montgomery, Merchant 1848 1849 Enfield, Alvin Smith, Goshen, Luther Stone, Granby, Charles S. Ferry, Greenwich, Laban Marcy, Mar. 7, 1780 Woodstock, Lawyer 1817 Hadley, Giles C. Kellogg, Aug. 12, 1781 Hadley, Lawyer 1809 Hatfield, OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1849. WHOLE NUMBER OF SENATORS, 40; REPRESENTATIVES, 263-TOTAL, 303. EARLY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND. [The following detached extracts, running through a series of years, will afford a tolerable idea of the character and importance of the business transacted by our Puritan forefathers at the Court of Assistants.] Sept. 7th, 1630.-Ordered, that John B shall be whipped, for shooting a fowl on the Sabbath day. Ordered, that all R. C―'s strong water shall presently be seized upon, for his selling great quantities thereof to several men-servants, which was the occasion of much disorder, drunkenness, and misdemeanor. Ordered, that no master carpenter, mason, joiner, or bricklayer, shall take above sixteen shillings a day for their work, if they have meat and drink; and the second sort, not above twelve shillings a day, under pain of ten pounds, &c. to giver and receiver. Ordered, that laborers shall not take above twelve pence a day for their work; and not above six pence and meat and drink, under pain of, &c. Nov. 9th, 1630.-Ordered, that Sir Richard Sis fined five pounds, for whipping two several persons without the presence of another Assistant, contrary to an act of the Court. |