Relying, as he said, on memories passed down to him from his father and other elders, Elihu Hoyt (1771-1833) made an effort to capture the drama of the early settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts. He believed that the recounting of the town’s history would be a source of satisfaction to the descendants who would learn what “privations and sufferings their ancestors endured.”
Hoyt, Elihu. A Brief Sketch of the First Settlement of Deerfield, Mass. James P. Fogg, 1833. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l98-026/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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