Welcome to Bidwell Lore number 163! This week continue to look at some of the Stockbridge Selectboard records from the early 19th century. If you love history as much as we do and have not yet visited the Bidwell House Museum, there is still time to book your tour! We offer guided tours by appointment until the end of the...
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Bidwell Lore – Dispossession of Stockbridge Mohican Land by the Ball Family, Part IX
Welcome to Bidwell Lore number 123! This week we continue with the story of Isaac Ball and the dispossession of Mohican land around Stockbridge, written by Rick Wilcox Dispossession of Stockbridge Mohican Land by the Ball Family 1772-1781, Part IXIsaac Ball (1744-1784)Rick Wilcox 2022 This week we will continue to look at documents related to the...
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Bidwell Lore – Widow Bingham’s Tavern, Part II
Welcome to week 91 of Bidwell Lore! Last week, we introduced you to Anna Bingham and began the story of how she, and her husband Silas, ended up owning land in Stockbridge. Some of this land later became the location of the famous Red Lion Inn. We continue the story this week, with a diversion into...
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Bidwell Lore – Dr. Oliver Partridge and The Indian Burial Ground
Welcome to week 49 of Bidwell Lore! This week we introduce you to Dr. Oliver Partridge, a Bidwell relation through marriage who was also a friend to the Mohicans of Stockbridge. As you may remember from our Bidwell Lore installments last summer, Rev. Adonijah Bidwell and his second wife Jemima had four children. Their third child, Jemima (1765-1842),...
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Bidwell Lore – A Second Meeting House, a Mohican Burial Ground, an Arboretum, Part I
Welcome to week 47 of Bidwell Lore! This week we start a new story about the history of the meeting houses in Stockbridge; below is Part I. “Let no one say the past is dead.The past is all about us and within.”Oodgeroo, Aboriginal poet, Australia The first meeting house in Stockbridge, constructed in 1739, was paid for by...
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Bidwell Lore – Serendipity, General George Washington, an 1100-pound Ox, Stockbridge Mohican Sachem Solomon Uhhaunnuhwaunnuhmut, and Seeking a Needle in a Haystack
Welcome to week 43 of Bidwell Lore! This week Rick Wilcox shares an article he has written about the search for the site of a 1783 Ox Roast in Stockbridge believed to have been held on the land of “King” Solomon Uhhaunauwaunmut, one of the subjects of last week’s Bidwell Lore. Town of Stockbridge Facilities Manager Chris Marsden, Stockbridge-Munsee Band...