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Excerpt from Historical Address at the Sheffield Centennial Commenoration: June 18th, 1876
Though the Indian settlement in lower Housatonic was very small, it did not comprise all the natives within the territory granted. The tribe, however, was very much reduced in numbers, and Konkapot, the chief, of whom the land was bought, with eight or ten families, lived in that part of the territory of upper Housatonic, now covered by Stock bridge. The minority lived on the reservation in the lower township already alluded to, called by them Skatehook.' 7' (holland's History of Western Massachusetts.) Such is the history of the settlement of the town, and of Southern Berkshire, on the Housatonic. We find that, of the two townships authorized by the General Court, in 1722, the lower one was incorporated in J annary, 1733, with the name of the more famous English town of Sheffield. Doubtless among the early settlers there must have been some for whom the name had suggestions other than those so familiar of penknives and table cutlery. To some of our progenitors it must have had those of a home, or at least have been associated with tender mem cries of the fatherland.
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