Springfield 1636-1886, History of Town and City, by Mason A. Green ...

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were Stebbins & Russell. Their store was enlarged so as to in-
clude drugs, hollow ware, and West India goods.
The Great Ferry had another paper in 1788, the " Herald" having
been discontinued. It was the " Hampshire Chronicle," published by
John Russell, then Russell & Webster, and then Weld & Thomas, the
latter removing the establishment opposite the court-house. E. W.
Weld, of this firm, bought the " Chronicle" in 1790, and soon changed
the name to '
' The Hampshire and Berkshire Chronicle. " '
' The Federal
Spy" was started in 1793 by James R. Hutchins, and was bought by
Francis Stebbins in 1796, and so passed to Timothy Ashley in 1799.
Joseph Williams, who was military store-keeper at the arsenal,
lived on the Colton place. State street, which Dr. Charles Pynchon
secured in 1781 after a lawsuit with Colton. Williams married
Pynchon's daughter, and thus secured the property, which was sub-
sequently bought b}" Jonathan Dwight, Jr. Mrs. Williams's sister,
Mrs. Lyman, wife of Congressman Lyman, owned much of the
property on both sides of North Main street. Samuel Lyman was a
Yale graduate, a member of the Legislature in 1786, State senator in
1790, and sat in the fourth, fifth, and sixth congresses, but finally
resigned on account of failing health. Captain Emery married Mrs.
Williams's daughter, and built on the west side a house, which formed
a part of the old American House, and later the Russell House. Dea-
con Williston made cocked hats in Ferry lane, and our friend Zebina
Stebbins enlarged his business by weaving duck and linen checks.
Edward Boylston, wheelwright, also lived on the lane. Nathaniel
Brewer, son of Rev. Daniel Brewer, who lived on Ferry lane, was a
stone-cutter. He died in 1796, at the advanced age of eighty-five.
His son. Dr. Chauncey Brewer, studied with Dr. Charles Pynchon
after graduating at Yale, and succeeded to Pynchon's practice after
his death. The latter was one of the incorporators of the Massachu-
setts Medical Society, of which Dr. Brewer was admitted a fellow in
1785. Nathaniel Brewer's mother (wife of Rev. Daniel Brewer) Avas
a daughter of Nathaniel Chauncey, son of Charles Chauncey, the