[Field, David D., et al.]:

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A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE, MASSACHUSETTS; IN TWO PARTS. THE FIRST BEING A GENERAL VIEW OF THE COUNTY; THE SECOND, AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL ... An overview of the county, followed by a town-by-town history, with information on the American Revolution and Shay's Rebellion, largely written by various Williams College luminaries, including minister-historian David Dudley Field and Chester Dewey, a Williams professor and principal of the Berkshire Gymnasium. Four wood-engraved plates depict the Berkshire Courthouse; the Berkshire Gymnasium in Pittsfield (folding); the "Congregational Church, Town-House, Medical Institution, and Boarding-House" in Pittsfield; and a portrait of the Reverend Stephen West, minister to the church in Stockbridge. An engraved plate features a profile portrait of Massachusetts Supreme Court Judge Theodore Sedgwick.Significantly, the present copy includes the two folding maps, both handcolored. The first, A Map of Berkshire County, Mass., depicts town, county, and state boundaries; rivers and hills; turnpikes and roads; factories and mills; and churches and schools. Of particular interest is a note indicating the site of a "Skirmish Feb. 27, 1787" in Sheffield, Massachusetts, a reference to an episode in the history of Shay's Rebellion. Also included is A Geological Map of the County of Berkshire, Mass..., engraved by Amos Doolittle and which first appeared in an 1824 issue of Yale Professor Benjamin Silliman's American Journal of Science. A ve

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