Franklin County, Massachusetts, Miscellaneous Records: Some Bartons in Greenfield Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sharon Hamilton ==================================================================== Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ==================================================================== Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts Vol. 3: History of Greenfield, 1900-1929, by Lucy Cutler Kellogg... Published by the town of Greenfield, committee: Francis Nims Thompson and Frank Gerrett. Page 664 Lot 55 in the division of the common lands was drawn by Samuel Barnard. Samuel Barnard, Jr., conveyed this to Jeremiah Newton in 1791, and Newton sold to Thomas Johnson in 1803; Thomas Johnson to Amos Parsons in 1809, and Amos Parsons to Isaac Barton in 1836. Mr. Barton started the tanning business, and his son, Lyman G. Barton, succeeded to the farm and business. He sold to Manley D. Carpenter, the present owner, in the 1891. The John S. Allen place was deeded by John Strickland to David Strickland in 1797. David Strickland conveyed to Daniel, Seth and Asaph Smead in 1814, and the Smeads to Isaac Barton in 1827, Isaac to his brother David in 1840, and it finally came into the hands of John S. Allen in 1858, and was owned by Mr. Allen at his decease and by his sons ever since. ...ancient Atherton place...conveyed to Joab Scott in 1829...he sold to Isaac Barton, Sr., a portion of the farm, which was purchased from his executor by Leonard Barton and sold in 1852.. Page 777 The constitution of Massachusetts (adopted 1780) provided for town representation in the legislature... Isaac Barton, Jr., elected 1838. Page 778 The twenty-first amendment (May, 1857) provided for representative districts instead of town representation. The districts of which Green fiel was at various times a part elected the following:...Leonard Baarton, 1870-1880. Pages 781-782 County Comissioners residing in Greenfield: ...Lyman G. Barton, 1876 to 1885... Page 784 Greenfield Lawyers George L. Barton, Admitted to the Bar in 1871. Pages 792, 794, 795 1852 Town Officers Selectmen: Wendell T. Davis, George W. Potter, Isaac Barton 1856 Town Officers Assessors: Lyman G. Barton, Sylvester Maxwell, Jr., Major H. Tyler. 1867 Town Officers Assessors: Major H. Tyler, Lyman G. Barton, William Keith. 1870 Town Officers Selectmen: William Keith, George W. Potter, Lyman G. Barton 1871 Town Officers Selectmen: William Keith, George W. Potter, Lyman G. Barton 1872 Town Officers Selectmen: William Keith, George W. Potter, Lyman G. Barton 1873 Town Officers Selectmen: William Keith, Lyman G. Barton, Edwin J. Jones. 1874 Town Officers Selectmen: William Keith, Lyman G. Barton, Charles R. Field. 1875 Town Officers Selectmen: William Keith, Lyman G. Barton, Charles R. Field. Page 824 George L. Barton was born at the old Barton homestead in Gill, November 6, 1845. He was a pupil at Powers Institute and at Exetor, New Hampshire, and graduated with honors at Harvard. He studied law at Madison, Wis., for two years, and was principal of the high school at Greenfield for two years, during which time his leisure hours were spent in the office of W. S. B. Hopkins. He was admitted to the bar in 1871, and began his practice at Turners Falls. He was appointed trial justice in 1872, and was fast taking rank as a sound lawyer, when his promising career was cut short by his early death, February 19, 1879.