Rebecca Truman

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• Name	Rebecca Truman  [1]
  Birth	Unknown
  Gender	Female
  Death	Unknown
  Person ID	I1933	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	23 May 2015

  
  

  Family	Daniel Cooley,   b. 23 Mar 1683/84, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts d. Abt 1773, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	8 Aug 1745	Westfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts   [1]
  	The Westfield area was originally inhabited by the Woronoakes who named the valley and river Woronoco meaning "the winding land". A trading post was built in Woronoco by Dutch traders in 1640. Originally they called their post Streamfield but it was soon named Westfield. During the trading post's first few months the traders lived in caves dug into the side of the hills near present-day Pochassic. Eventually wooden homes were built by the settlers. Westfieldans still refer to the cave hill as the "cellar side" of town. - The Westfield Story written by volunteers in public schools Kay Delli Bovi and barbara Trant After a boundary survey ordered by the Massachusetts General Court in 1647 jurisdiction was asserted and Woronoco became the westermost part of Springfield Plantation. As the land was incrementally acquired from the Native Americans the Towne of Springfield granted land to English settlers who began to settle there beginning in 1658.
  Family ID	F718	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 May 2015

  
  

• Sources

  [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p457-63 (Reliability: 3).