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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., A New ship, a New colony, and a New church. (search)
and now called Hartford. That he did so, going over the Indian trail, later known as the Bay path, shows his pioneering spirit, and furthermore that he was of the earliest settlers of Northampton and one of the honored committee to begin at Northfield gives additional interest. In the fifth generation of Holtons we find that grandfather Nathan Holton was born in Northfield in 1753. He was the youngest of his father's family of six daughters and three sons, whose home was on the slope of Grass hill, where is now the Mount Hermon school. There, also, King Philip made his last stand against the settlers, a century before. The genealogy in History of Northfield mentions Nathan, but tells of his removal in 1800 to Vermont. How much we wished for the missing pages of that letter! But we took up another clue, that of the colonists it mentioned. After a long search we found, in the Massachusetts State Library, reports of the American Colonization Society. That society was organize