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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 8: Hampden County. (search)
ers of Agawam, on the 4th of May; at which it was voted to appropriate five hundred dollars to furnish arms, equipment and uniforms for volunteers in the military service of the county who may belong to that town. A committee was appointed to carry the vote into effect. August 3d, This committee reported that they had expended $153.01 for uniforms and for assistance to soldiers' families. The selectmen were directed to pay the family of George M. Scott twelve dollars, and the family of E. P. Smith ten dollars, a month, from July 8, 1861, and while they remained in the service. 1862. April 7th, Four hundred dollars were appropriated for aid to soldiers' families. April 21st, Two hundred dollars were added to this sum. August 1st, The selectmen were instructed to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each inhabitant of the town, to the number of seventeen, who shall volunteer for three years service, and be credited to the quota of the town; and to borrow seventeen hundred doll
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 10: Middlesex County. (search)
t, $9,876.11. The ladies of Pepperell were constant in their endeavors to do good for the soldiers at the front, and forwarded during the war to the Sanitary and Christian Commissions articles valued at thirty-two hundred and fifty dollars. The Rev. Charles Babbidge went out with the Sixth Regiment of three-months men in April 1861, as chaplain, and with the Twenty-Sixth three-years regiment. With the exception of two months he was on duty from the beginning to the end of the war. Rev. Edward P. Smith, of Pepperell, was a valued and active member of the Christian Commission. Reading Incorporated May 29, 1644. Population in 1860, 2,662; in 1865, 2,436. Valuation in 1860, $1,269,570; in 1865, $1,293,056. The selectmen in 1861 were James S. Campbell, J. Brooks Leathe, Milo Parker; in 1862, James S. Campbell, J. Brooks Leathe, Solon A. Parker; in 1863, 1864, and 1865, James S. Campbell, Joseph L. Pratt, Solon A. Parker. The town-clerk in 1861, and part of 1862, was Jonath