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- Gazetteer of Berkshire County, Massachusetts
1725-1885
Town of Hinsdale
David Brown, from Killingley, Connecticut, located here on road 14, about 1799, upon the farm now owned by S.B. French, and reared a family of seven children. His second son, Obadiah, born in 1786, married Polly, daughter of Isaac and Azuba Bassett, of Hinsdale, and reared six children, Lewis D., Lucian, Henry, Edward, Marion and William. Obadiah died in 187?. William settled on the homestead, but now resides on road 30. He has been assessor for twenty years, and held other offices of trust.
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