{"id":462,"date":"2023-04-30T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/?page_id=462"},"modified":"2023-05-12T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T17:26:16","slug":"helpful-people-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/enslavement-in-south-hadley\/helpful-people-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Enslavement in South Hadley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Helpful People &amp; Resources<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/enslavement-in-south-hadley\/\">Enslavement in South Hadley Homepage<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/enslavement-in-south-hadley\/task-force\/\">Task Force<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/enslavement-in-south-hadley\/monument-and-inspiration\/\">Monument &amp; Inspiration<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/enslavement-in-south-hadley\/important-historical-people\/\">Important Historical People <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/enslavement-in-south-hadley\/important-geographical-places\/\">Important Geographical Places <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/enslavement-in-south-hadley\/helpful-people-resources\/\">Helpful People &amp; Resources <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Researchers &amp; Organizations<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leo P. Labonte<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greyhawk Associates&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historical &amp; Genealogical Research Services<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:Greypet@comcast.net\">Greypet@comcast.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facebook &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/234628798215490\/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&amp;multi_permalinks=773060711038960\">South Hadley &amp; Granby Community Historical Tidbits<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mark Auslander<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:markauslander@icloud.com\">markauslander@icloud.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:mauslander@mtholyoke.edu\">mauslander@mtholyoke.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Professor Marla Miller (UMass Amherst)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor of History at Umass Amherst<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:mmiller@history.umass.edu\">mmiller@history.umass.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cliff McCarthy<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Archivist at Springfield Museums<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contributor to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.umass.edu\/pvhn-blackhistory\/project-database\/\">Early History of Black Lives, UMass Dataset<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:cmccarthy@springfieldmuseums.org\">cmccarthy@springfieldmuseums.org<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Zoe Cheek<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Archivist at Springfield Museums&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contributor to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.umass.edu\/pvhn-blackhistory\/project-database\/\">Early History of Black Lives, UMass Dataset<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:zcheek@springfieldmuseums.org\">zcheek@springfieldmuseums.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Barbara Mathews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public Historian and Director of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:bmathews@historic-deerfield.org\">bmathews@historic-deerfield.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Karen Sanchez-Eppler<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President of the Board of Directors, Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:kjsanchezepp@amherst.edu\">kjsanchezepp@amherst.edu<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Morrell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Center Church Historian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:dmorell@mtholyoke.edu\">dmorell@mtholyoke.edu<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Websites<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">South Hadley:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/markauslander.com\/2023\/02\/19\/in-search-of-caeser-cambridge-a-former-enslaved-man-in-south-haldley-massachusetts\/\">In Search of Caesar Cambridge, a former enslaved man in South Hadley, Massachusetts<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/family-tree\/tree\/189259510\/recent?o_xid=86684&amp;o_lid=86684&amp;o_sch=Email+Programs#\">Ancestry.com Caesar Cambridge Family Tree<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/lostnewengland.com\/2020\/11\/old-meeting-house-south-hadley-mass\/\">Old Meeting House, South Hadley, Mass &#8211; Lost New England<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/centerchurchsouthhadley.org\/about\/history\/\">History | Center Church \u2013 South Hadley, Massachusetts<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Connecticut River Valley: Slavery and Race:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.umass.edu\/pvhn-blackhistory\/project-database\/\">Documenting the Early History of Black Lives in the Connecticut River Valley, UMass Dataset<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dar.org\/library\/research-guides\/forgotten-patriots\">Forgotten Patriots; African American and Native American Patriots in the Revolutionary War<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/credo.library.umass.edu\/search?q=collection:%22Hampshire%20Council%20of%20Governments%20Records%22\">Hampshire Council of Governments Records<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/rhromer.people.amherst.edu\/MISC\/JBHE-final-Slavery.pdf\">Higher Education and Slavery in Western Massachusetts<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pphmuseum.org\/slavery-and-servitude-at-forty-acres\">Slavery and Servitude at Forty Acres<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/search.hampdendeeds.com\/ALIS\/WW400R.HTM?WSIQTP=LR03D&amp;WSKYCD=N\">Hampden Deeds<\/a><ul><li>How to navigate this website:<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click on the link above.&nbsp;<\/li><li>On this page enter name and date range then click Search Records<\/li><li>Click on the little book<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/47eb8fdd-ceaa-4f25-ad6e-09f0d9d9fdc9\" width=\"34\" height=\"23\"> that corresponds to the name of the person you are interested in.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Click on the view image online link on the next page<\/li><li>Locate the name of the person you are interested<ol><li>If either of the next two columns after the first name is a letter, you will not be able to view the deed online<\/li><li>If the next two columns after the first name are both numbers you will input the names into the previous page.<\/li><\/ol><\/li><li>The next two columns after the first name indicate the book and page of the deed. Navigate back to the previous page and input them.  (Look at figure a to see what the input page should look like)<\/li><li>Click search<\/li><li>On the new pop-up page, click the little book image <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/8296d840-2d38-456a-9eab-5a89d9bbcf62\" width=\"34\" height=\"23\"><\/li><li>On the new pop-up page, click on the view image online link on the next page<\/li><li>The deed you are looking for should then be viewable in a new tab<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"372\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/864\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-26-at-6.19.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/864\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-26-at-6.19.04-PM.png 372w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/864\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-26-at-6.19.04-PM-300x133.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><figcaption>figure a. The input screen should look like this.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Race and Remembrance in New England:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/witnessstonesproject.org\/\">https:\/\/witnessstonesproject.org\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">National Race and Remembrance Projects:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/25\/us\/lynching-memorial-alabama.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/25\/us\/lynching-memorial-alabama.html<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/about\/public-art\/martin-puryear-slavery-memorial\">https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/about\/public-art\/martin-puryear-slavery-memorial<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Books and Documents<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1lTXpBNzDH6_fsYBPAyk7DTrj7JDwkWjs\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=111798954335178880436&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\">Finding slaves in South Hadley.docx<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Made by Mark Auslander to help students in this topic&#8217;s research process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.umass.edu\/c.php?g=1150390&amp;p=8523566\">Researching the Early History of Black Lives in the Connecticut River Valley, Valley Probate Records<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Look into: The probate records for Hampshire County, 1660-1820. Call Number: Microfilm 1555 (12 reels).<\/em><\/li><li><em>Holbrook collection, South Hadley 1730 &#8211; 1890 Microfiche 82<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1e5XW-oabnBLmj-wvXxPB_cD14Rn7GHXc?usp=share_link\">Collection of documents about the free Black community in Hadley<\/a>, compiled by Erika Slocumb and the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museums.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Available at the Mount Holyoke College Library:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A history of South Hadley\u2019s old homes built before 1850<\/em>. (1976). The Committee and The Society.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boltwood, L.M. (1979). <em>Genealogies of Hadley Families<\/em>. Genealogical Publishing Company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cronin, I. (1998). <em>South Hadley<\/em>. Arcadia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eastman, S.E. (1912). <em>In Old South Hadley<\/em>. Blakely Printing Company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johnson, C. (1932). <em>Historic Hampshire in the Connecticut Valley\u202f; happenings in a charming old New England county from the time of the dinosaur down to about 1900<\/em>. Milton Bradley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judd, S. (1976). <em>The History of Hadley. <\/em>New Hampshire Publishing Company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muus, J. (1985). <em>A corner of South Hadley: 25 Woodbridge Street and the people who lived there<\/em>. South Hadley Historical Society.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Available at the Skinner Museum:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>First Congregational Church of South Hadley.\u202f: Confession of faith, covenant, ecclesiastical principles and regulations, and catalog of members, to January 1861<\/em>. (1861). Trumbull &amp; Gere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignwide is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/enslavement-in-south-hadley\/important-geographical-places\/\">&lt; important geographical places<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/enslavement-in-south-hadley\/\">return home &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helpful People &amp; Resources Researchers &amp; Organizations Leo P. Labonte&nbsp; Greyhawk Associates&nbsp; Historical &amp; Genealogical Research Services Greypet@comcast.net Facebook &#8211; South Hadley &amp; Granby Community Historical Tidbits Mark Auslander&nbsp; Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College markauslander@icloud.com mauslander@mtholyoke.edu Professor Marla Miller (UMass Amherst) Professor of History at Umass Amherst mmiller@history.umass.edu Cliff McCarthy&nbsp; Archivist at Springfield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1592,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-462","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/462\/revisions\/857"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/decolonizingmuseums23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}