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  • Image
  • Title
  • Date
  • Type
  • About
  • Sermon by Jonathan Ashley
  • Sermon by Jonathan Ashley
  • 1755
  • manuscript
  • Jonathan Ashley of Deerfield delivered this sermon to soldiers about to march to Crown Point , New York, during the French and Indian War.
  • Bear trap
  • Bear trap
  • 1822
  • object
  • Early New England settlers trapped black bears to prevent attacks on livestock and damage to crops as well as for bear meat and fur.
  • Great coat
  • Great coat
  • 1700
  • object
  • Colonial men wore woolen great coats in the winter.
  • 18th-century chocolate
  • 18th-century chocolate
  • 1787
  • object
  • A cake of chocolate could be purchased at a store and was used for making a hot beverage.
  • Bill of sale for Kate
  • Bill of sale for Kate
  • 1734
  • manuscript
  • This 1734 bill of sale records the purchase by Israel Williams of Hatfield, Massachusetts, of a child named Kate.
  • Basket
  • Basket
  • 1800
  • object
  • Baskets like this one from the collections of Historic New England were household items throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • Hoop toy
  • Hoop toy
  • 1750
  • picture
  • Colonial children, male and female. enjoyed rolling hoops.
  • Portrait of Two Boys
  • Portrait of Two Boys
  • 1745
  • picture
  • This painting from 1745 features clothing tyocially worn by boys in the colonial era.
  • Colonial girl's clothing
  • Colonial girl's clothing
  • 1740
  • picture
  • This girl wears a reproduction of clothing typcially worn by young girls in the colonial period.
  • Jonathan Ashley's account book
  • Jonathan Ashley's account book
  • 1752
  • manuscript
  • This entry in Jonathan Ashley's account book recorded the dates he hired Cato out to work, including "To Catos driving a plow a day" for Samuel Dickinson.
  • Plane
  • Plane
  • 1779
  • object
  • This woodworking plane was made and used by Cesar Chelor, an enslaved man who lived in Wrentham, Massachusetts.
  • Bath Races
  • Bath Races
  • 1798
  • picture
  • In the 18th and early 19th centuries, a crutch was simply a pole with a padded cross piece at the top to go under the arm of a disabled person.
  • Plow
  • Plow
  • 1790
  • object
  • New England farmers prepared the soil in their fields for planting in the spring using a wooden moldboard plow reinforced with cast iron strips.
  • Chocolate pot
  • Chocolate pot
  • 1730
  • object
  • In Deerfield as elsewhere in early New England, chocolate was consumed as a beverage, often for breakfast or as a healthful medicinal drink for elderly or ill people.
  • Deerfield town plan
  • Deerfield town plan
  • 1794
  • manuscript
  • Arthur W. Hoyt’s map carefully marks the boundaries of Deerfield, Massachusetts, shows the network of roads, names the ferries across the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers, and shows the location of mills.
  • Honestman's farm
  • Honestman's farm
  • 1910
  • printed
  • A 2-volume history of Ashfield, Massachusetts, published in 1910 includes information about the founders of the town including Heber Honestman, a free African American man who was among the earliest settlers.
  • Prisoner halter
  • Prisoner halter
  • 1746
  • object
  • This Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) prisoner halter was found after the 1746 Bars Fight in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
  • Daybook of Joseph Barnard
  • Daybook of Joseph Barnard
  • 1740
  • manuscript
  • Joseph Barnard kept this record of work Pompey performed for him during the bitter winter of 1740-41.
  • Shirt fragments
  • Shirt fragments
  • 1746
  • object
  • Samuel Allen's family saved fragments of the shirt he was wearing when he was killed while trying to protect his children in the last Native American raid on Deerfield in 1746.