Footnote # 1

George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, 2 vols. (Greenfield, MA: Press of E.A. Hall & Co., 1896), II:318.

Footnote # 2

Ibid.

Footnote # 3

Richard I. Melvoin, New England Outpost (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988), p. 125.

Footnote # 4

Ibid.

Footnote # 5

G.S. I:182

Footnote # 6

Ralph Stebbins Greenlee and Robert Lemuel Greenlee, The Stebbins Genealogy, 3 volumes, (Chicago: privately printed, 1904), I:111.

Footnote # 7

Ibid.

Footnote # 8

The Proprietors determined that every man could have one share for every eighteen pounds (English money) worth of real and personal estate that he owned. The shares were called "cow commons" and these shares carried with them equivalent grazing rights on the actual cow commons. Explained in Melvoin, p.60.

Footnote # 9

G.S. I:202; Town Meeting records, October 30, 1694

Footnote # 10

The records of the town reveal that Mr. Catlin bought of Benoni Stebbins "the leantoo and part of ye dwelling house." Susan McGowan and Amelia F. Miller,Family and Landscape, (Deerfield, Massachusetts:PVMA, 1996), p.119. The moving of timber-framed houses and outbuildings was not at all unusual in the 18th century.

Footnote # 11

Sheldon I:304; Benoni Stebbins's property loss was printed as "houses" in the plural. This cannot be explained.

Further Reading

Calloway, Colin, ed. After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.

Haefeli, Evan and Sweeney, Kevin. Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.

Leach, Douglas Edward. Northern Colonial Frontier 1607-1763. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966.

Melvoin, Richard. New England Outpost: War and Society in Colonial Deerfield. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989.