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  • Category: Derivative
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  • Author: Hamilton Child
  • Publisher: 1885
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Page: 111
  • Text: BUSINESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASS 1884-85

    Page 111:
    Town of Great Barrington--Outside of Fire District.
    Humphrey, Mark, r 26 farmer 50, 20 village lots, and in Sandisfield 350.

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    Town of Sheffield
    Humphrey, Hannah, r 14 cor 26, widow of David, owns 8 acres.
Page: 155
  • Text: David Humphrey, born in 1720, was one of the early settlers of Great Barrington, locating on the farm now owned by Hiram Comstock. His son Hugh, who was born December 8, 1749, married Desiah Pixley in 1776, and in 1794, purchased the farm now owned by Mark Humphrey, which farm has ever since been in the possession of the Humphrey family. David, son of Hugh, who was eight years old when his father moved upon the homestead, married Sophronia Hamlin, of Canton, Conn., and reared a family of seven chirdren, five of whom, Mark, of this town, Isaac, of Springfield, Mass., Electa Nicholson, and David, of Nashville, Tenn., and Francis Hollister, of Kansas, are still living. In 1867, Mark Humphrey, in company with George R. Ives, purchased the Woodruff property of seventy nine acres, and opened Bridge street. In 1872, he purchased the right of way from the Berkshire House to the bridge of Mr. Ives, at an expense of $1,500.00, and built the first bridge across the stream at this point, at the cost of $2,408.00, proceeding at once to grade the street at the additional expense of $2,000.00, making the total expense $6,000.00. In 1880 the town voted to accept the bridge and roads, and pay Mr. Humphrey $500.00.
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David HumphreyNameDavid Humphrey [S2046:908] [S2052:155] [S2059:20] [S2060] [S2062:234] [S2065:4] [S2065:19] [N125]
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Mary Desire PixleyNameDesiah Pixley [S2052:155]
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Hugh HumphreyNameHugh Humphrey [S1585] [S2038:74] [S2039:194] [S2042] [S2045] [S2046:908] [S2047:48] [S2052:155] [S2061:51] [N125]
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PersonClaimDetailEvidence
Hugh HumphreyFatherDavid Humphrey (1720-1801) [S2046:908] [S2052:155] [N125]
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