Bibliography of Research

Works Available at Porter-Phelps-Huntington House

Andrews, Henry P. & P. Porter-Wiggins, compliers. The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. Saratoga Springs: George W. Ball, 1882.

Bassett, Lynne Zacek. The Sober People of Hadley: A History of Clothing in the Probate Inventories of Hadley, Massachusetts, 1663-1731. MA Thesis, Univ. of Conn, 1991.

Beckerdite, Luke and William N. Hosley. American Furniture. Hanover, NH: Chipstone Foundation, University Press of New England. 1995.

Carlisle, Elizabeth, “How Amiable Are Thy Dwellings”: Elizabeth Porter Phelps, Earthbound and Heavenbent.

Carlisle, Elizabeth. Earthbound and Heavenbent: Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres. New York: Scribner. 2004.

Carr, Meghan Ann. The Life of Elizabeth Porter Phelps: A Woman’s Experience in Eighteenth-Century Hadley, Massachusetts. BA Thesis, Amherst College, April 9, 1993.

Carson, Jenny and Sandy Christofordis. Guide Handbook. October, 1992

Carson, Jenny Mayfield and Sarah Low Leonard. Busy With My Needles: The Lives and Clothing of the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Women, 1742-1927. 1991

Clark, Christopher. The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1790-1860. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.

_____. “The Household Economy, Market Exchange, and the Rise of Capitalism in the Connecticut Valley, 1800-1860.”

_____. “Report for the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation: Forty Acres Reinterpretation Initiative.” Sept., 1992

“Cottage Burned on the Huntington Homestead” Jan. 17th, 1929

Cutter, Mary Lou Brockett. Life Beside the Connecticut River: A Children’s History of Hadley, Massachusetts. Hatfield, MA: Hatfield Printing and Publishing, 1990.

Daniels, Bruce Colin. Connecticut’s First Family: William Pitkin and His Connections. Chester, CT: Pequot Press, 1975.

Dwyer, Margaret Clifford. Hopkins Academy & The Hopkins Fund 1664-1964. Hadley, MA: Trustees of Hopkins Academy, 1964.

Evans, Cerinda W. Collis Porter Huntington Volumes I and II. Newport News, Virginia: The Mariner’s Museum, 1954.

Fellows, Carrie A. “Revised First Person Tour - In Her Own Words: Bringing Elizabeth to Life.”

Finding Aid, Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers. 1987-88.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret Mary. Forty Acres: A New England Homestead and Its Owners, 1752-1814. MA Thesis, Univ. of Delaware, June 1976.

Forty Acres Chronology

“Forty Acres: A Reinterpretation Initiative” Sept. 1992

Freedman, Katherine K. “I am My Mother’s Daughter.” Division Three Thesis, Hampshire College. December 2004.

Gleason, Tara Louise. “The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family: The Social Position and Material Wealth of an Elite Family in Eighteenth Century Hadley, MA” 1994

Graffagnino, J. Kevin, “’Vermonters unmasked’: Charles Phelps and the patterns of dissent in revolutionary Vermont,” Vermont History, 57 (Summer 1989), 133-161.

The Great River: Art & Society of the Connecticut Valley, 1635-1820. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum. 1985.

Hamlin, Carol E. Forty Acres. Paper for an English course, Dec. 18, 1969

Henchey, J. Oil Paintings and Crayon Drawings in the Porter-Phelps-Huntington, House Collection, Aug., 1977

Historic Structures Report. Porter-Phelps-Huntington House, Hadley Massachusetts. Portsmouth: Adam & Ray Consultants, Inc.

Horowitz, Dan. “Creation and Recreation: Dr. James Lincoln Huntington’s Forty Acres: The Story of the Bishop Huntington House (1949) 1992

Hosley Jr., William N. and Philip Zea. “Decorated Board Chests of the Connecticut River Valley.” Article Published in Antiques Magazine, May 1981.

Hughes, W. Dudley F., “Agreement of fundamentals: correspondence between Dr. Huntington and Dr. Manning on the Crapsey case, 1906,” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 25 (1956), 263-276.

Huntington, Arria S. Memoir and Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.

_____. Under a Colonial Roof-Tree: Fireside Chronicles of Early New England. Syracuse: Woolcott’s Bookshop, 1905.

Huntington, Dan. Memories, Counsels, and Reflections by an Octogenrary. Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, 1857.

The Huntington Family in America: A Genealogical Memoir of the Known Descendants of Simon Huntington from 1633 to 1915 Including Those Who Have Retained the Family Name, and Many Bearing Other Surnames. Hartfort, Ct: Huntington Family Association, 1915.

The Huntington Family in America: A Supplement to the Genealogical Memoir Published in 1915 (and including those known descendants whose records have been obtainable since that time). Norwich, CT: Huntington Family Associations, 1962.

The Huntington Family in America: Second Supplement to the Genealogical Memoir of 1915. Marcelin, MO: Walsworth Press Co., 1987.

Huntington, Rev. Prof. Frederick Dan. Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Hadley, Massachusetts, at Hadley, June 8th, 1859.

Huntington, James Lincoln. The Phelps-Huntington Barn, 1782-1931.

_____. Captain Epes Sargent: Yankee Skipper (based on Epes letters to his grandson Epes Sargent II)

_____. Dr. James Lincoln Huntington’s Tour Through the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum. June 1971.

_____. Forty Acres: The Story of the Bishop Huntington House. Photographs by Samuel Chamberlain. New York: Hastings House, 1949.

_____. “The Honorable Charles Phelps,” Transactions, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 32 (1937), 441-55, with a comment by George P. Anderson, 455-60.

_____. Houses outside the Stockade. 1959.

_____. How and Why the Families of the Porter, Phelps, and Huntington Came to Hadley and Built the House at Forty Acres. 1966

_____. The Phelps-Huntington Barn, 1782-1931.

_____. The Work of Prayer. Holy Cross Press, 1923, 1956.

_____. What is Meant by “Hell”? Holy Cross Press, 1920.

Huntington, John. A Bean from Boston: Memoirs of an American in London, 1946-1987. London: Bacon, Weightman and Pickens. 1981.

Huntington, Theodore G. “Sketches by Theodore G. Huntington of the Family and Life in Hadley, written in letters to H.F. Quincy.”

Huntington, William P. and others. Huntington Letters 1838-1885.

Judd, Sylvester, 1789-1860. History of Hadley, including the early history of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts. Northampton, Printed by Metcalf & company, 1863.

Kelly, Catherine E. In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women’s Lives in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cornell University Press. 1999.

Larkin, David, June Sprigg, and James Johnson. Colonial Design in the New World. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc. 1988.

Leonard, Regina S. “The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Property, 1659-1955: History of the Vernacular Landscape in Context.” University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Landscape Architecture Master’s Thesis. May 2000.

Lifton, Betty Jean. “Remembering Catherine Huntington,” Provincetown Arts. Volume VI, Annual Issue. Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Arts, Inc., 1990.

Lincoln, Benjamin. The Benjamin Lincoln Letters at Forty Acres. Hadley, Massachusetts. Transcribed copy given to Dr. James Lincoln Huntington by John Caroll Cavanaugh, August, 1962.

Lincoln, Eleanor Terry and John Abel Pinto. “Sessions House”. http:/mytown.koz.com/servlet/community …

Linscott, Elisabeth, “The River Gods: their story in western Massachusetts,” New-England Galaxy, 8 (1967), 20-25.

Lolomari, Ine. “Sessions Complex”. Smith’s home page – Residence Life - www.smith.edu/sao/sessions.h…, 1999.

McNichols, Ruth. “Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum: Restoration of Historic Grounds,” UMASS Masters thesis, 1985.

Miller, Marla. “…and others of our own people: “ Needlework and Women of the Rural Gentry” in Lynne Bassett, ed. What’s New England about New England Quilts? (Sturbridge: Old Sturbridge Village, 1999)

Miller, Marla. “Crossing the Threshold: Interpreting Women, Work, and Community in the Phelps Household, 1770-1816”. For Through Women’s Eyes: A Colloquium on Women at Forty Acres.

_____, “Eggs on the Sand: Domestic Servants and their Children in Federal New England”.

_____, “Labor and Liberty in the Age of Refinement.”

_____, “My Daily Bread Depends Upon My Labor: Craftswomen, Community and the Marketplace in Rural New England, 1740-1820” (PhD Dissertation, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, 1997)

_____, “The Accounts of Tryphena Newton Cooke: Work, Family, and Community in Hadley, Massachusetts, 1780-1805” in Peter Benes, ed., Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. 1999 (Boston: Boston University, 2001)

_____. The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (forthcoming, University of Massachusetts Press).

Mitchell, Leonel L., “The Episcopal church and the Christian social movement in the 19th century.” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 30 (1961), 173-182.

The Name and Family of Huntington. Washington, D.C.: The Media Research Bureau.

Nickerson, Jennifer. Innovations in Education and Religious Revolutions, 1820-1830: The Huntington Sisters of Hadley, Massachusetts. Honors Thesis, History Dept., University of Massachusetts, May 2003.

Nobles, Gregory H.; Brown, Richard D. Divisions Throughout the Whole: Politics and Society in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 1740-1775. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Noon, Rozanne E., “The bishop’s children,” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 43 (1974), 5-20.

Nylander, Jane C. Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1993.

150th Wedding Anniversary of Dan Huntington and Elizabeth Whiting Phelps (brochures)

“Obituary of Arria S. Huntington” from the Provincetown Journal. Sunday, June 9th, 1996.

Osborne, Caitlin. For the Women in Historic Preservation Conference – March 13-15 1977. “Stories to Tell: From Scholarship to Exhibit to House Tour – A Trialogue”

Parsons, Karen. “’We owe something more than prayers’: Elizabeth Porter Phelps’s Gift of Church Silver and Her Quest for Christian Fellowship.” Pp. 91-112 in New England Silver & Silversmithing, 1620-1815. Jeannine Falino & Gerald W.R. Ward, eds. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, University Press of Virginia, 2001.

Paynter, Robert, ed., Ecological Anthropology of the Middle Connecticut River Valley. Research Reports 18, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1979. Includes Karl S. Finison, “Energy flow on a nineteenth-century farm” pp. 90-101.

Paz, D. G., “Monasticism and social reform in late nineteenth-century America: the case of Father Huntington,” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 48 (1979), 45-66.

Phelps, Elizabeth Porter. “Births and Deaths in Hadley from 1794 to 1816,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 123 (January 1969), 16-32.

_____. The Diary of Elizabeth (Porter) Phelps, edited by Thomas Eliot Andrews with an introduction by James Lincoln Huntington in The New England Historical Genealogical Register. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan. 1964

Phelps, Judge Oliver Seymour Phelps. The Phelps Family of America, and their English Ancestors, with Copies of Wills, Deeds, Letters, and Other Interesting Papers, Coats of Arms and Valuable Records. Volume I Pittsfield, MA: Eagle Publishing Company, 1899.

_____. The Phelps Family of America, and their English Ancestors, with Copies of Wills, Deeds, Letters, and Other Interesting Papers, Coats of Arms and Valuable Records. Volume II Pittsfield, MA: Eagle Publishing Company, 1899.

Porter, Arthur Amasa. John Porter and His Descendants. Portage, Washington, 1933.

Porter-Phelps-Huntington family tree (through the 1960’s).

Porter-Phelps-Huntington Annual Reports, 1949-1969.

Porter-Phelps-Huntington Annual Reports, 1970-1979.

Porter-Phelps-Huntington Annual Report, 1980.

Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum Color Photos

Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum color slides of clothing exhibit

Poubeau, Anne. “’You did not mention whether you had a cow…’ Cheese making at the Porter-Phelps farm, Hadley, MA 1170-1815. Paper presented at Women and Work at Forty Acres Colloquium, September 23, 2001.

Raymond, Andrew P. A Colonial New England Family: Four Generations of Porters in Hadley, Massachusetts. Bernhard’ History 761 course, August 21, 1973.

Sargent, Captain Epes. Transcript of Letters 1 & 2 by Epes Sargent (Captain) to his grandson, Epes Sargent, II. DAC ‘71

Sargent, Emma Worcester. Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants. Boston and New York: The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1923.

“Sessions Halloween Celebraters To Search For Legendary Staircase”, Current. 27, Oct. 1949.

“Sessions House: Secret Passage in Sessions House; Smith Girls Observe Halloween by Exploring House Built in 1742.” Hampshire Gazette, 30 October 1928.

Sessions, Ruth Huntington. “Loyalty” The Century, vol. 55, issue 6 (April 1898)

_____. Sixty Odd: A Personal History. Brattleboro: Steven Daye Press, 1936.

_____. “The Doctor’s Front Yard. A Story.” The New England Magazine; Vol. 24, issue 3 (May 1898)

_____. The Sawtoothers: For Kids Whose Parents Know They Can Read or Color and Are Fed Up With Farm or Jungle Animals. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1975.

_____. Illustrated by Peter Larkin. The Ups and Downs of Emily. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1940.

Strange, Douglas C., “The conversion of Frederic Dan Huntington (1859): a failure of liberalism?” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 37 (1968), 287-298.

St. George, Robert Blaire. “Artifacts of Regional Consciousness in the Connecticut River Valley, 1700-1780” in Material Life in America, 1600-1860. Northeastern University Press, Boston.

Suter, John Wallace. Life and Letters of William Reed Huntington A Champion of Unity. New York and London: The Century Co. 1925.

Sweeney, Kevin. “Mansion People: Kinship, Class, and Architecture in Western Massachusetts in the Mid Eighteenth Century.” The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. 1984.

_____. “Report on Utilizing the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House & Its Furnishings Resources for Research and Interpretation”.

Tatlock, David. Life and Letters of Richard T. Fisher (1876-1934). Petersham, MA: Prospect Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 1993.

Terhune, Elizabeth. “A Study of Porter-Phelps-Huntington Land and Structures in Hadley, Massachusetts, 1652-1830. History 697C, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. December 13, 1995.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. “Report: Porter-Phelps-Huntington Project”

_____. “Housewife and gadder: Themes of self-sufficiency and community in eighteenth-century New England,” pp. 21-34 in ‘To Toil the Livelong Day:’ America’s Women at Work, 1780-1980. Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

_____. “Of pens and needles: Sources in early American women’s history.” The Journal of American History, 77, (June 1990), 200-208.

_____. The Age of Homespun. 2001.

Walker, Alice Morehouse. Historic Hadley: A Story of the Making of a Famous Massachusetts Town. New York: The Grafton Press, 1906.

Weir, Robert E. ed. Benjamin Lincoln at 40 Acres: An Exhibit to Commemorate the Bicentennial of the Shay’s Rebellion.

White, Rich. Porter to Phelps to Huntington: The Story of 40 Acres.

Wilson, Louis E. 40 Acres: The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum.

Woolverton, John F., “Stirring the religious pot at Harvard College on the eve of the Civil War: two Huntingtons and a Cooke,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 58 (1989), 37-49.