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Excerpt from History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Vol. 3: 1890 1898
Prayer was now offered by Rev. John Alden of Providence, R. 1. He was the first principal of Franklin Academy at Shelburne Falls and a direct descendant of John Alden, the Puritan.
After an adjournment for dinner Dr. William S. Severance of Green field was called to the platform and gave the genealogy of the Severance family, from John, who came over in the ship Elizabeth in 1634 and settled in Salisbury, through John his son, then Joseph and Martin, who was the first settler at Shelburne Falls. Martin was born in 1718, was a soldier at Fort Dummer, and was captured at Sabbath Day Point, June 25, 1758. He died April 8, 1810. He built his log cabin near where Samuel D. Bardwell's house now stands. The Shelburne, Green field and Leyden Severances came from the same branch of the family, and they scattered all over the United States. The town of Severance, Doniphan county, Kansas, was named in honor of the family, and had the distinction of casting an almost solid Republican vote in the Greeley campaign, only one vote being given to Horace Greeley.
Prof. Frederic Allison Tupper, principal of Arms Academy, read a. Poem.
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