Bibliography of Research
The following works are available at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House:
Books:
Andrews, Henry Porter. The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. Saratoga Springs: George W. Ball, 1882.
Angel, Maria. An Animated Alphabet. David R. Godine, Publisher, 1996.
Beckerdite, Luke and William N. Hosley. American Furniture 1995. Hanover, NH: Chipstone Foundation, University Press of New England, 1995.
Belt, Edward S. Emma Willard & Her Namesake Descendants.
Brown, Richard D., and Jack Tager. Massachusetts: A Concise History. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
Carlisle, Elizabeth. Earthbound and Heavenbent: Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres. New York: Scribner, 2004.
Carson, Jenny Mayfield and Sarah Low Leonard. Busy With My Needles: The Lives and Clothing of the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Women, 1742-1927. Concord, MA: Sarah Chapin, 1992.
Chapin, Sarah Sessions. The Tin Box Collection: Letters of Roger Sessions and His Family and Friends. Concord, Massachusetts, 1991.
Clark, Christopher. The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1790-1860. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Cleary, Marie Sally. Myths For The Millions: Thomas Bulfinch, His America, and His Mythology Book. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang D., 2007.
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.
Ehrmann, Herbert B. The Untried Case: The Sacco-Vanzetti Case and the Morelli Gang. The Vanguard Press, 1960.
Evans, Cerinda W. Collis Potter Huntington, Volumes I and II. Newport News, Virginia: The Mariner’s Museum, 1954.
Falino, Jeannine J., and Ward, Gerald W.R. New England Silver & Silversmithing: 1620-1815. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001.
Feuerlicht, Roberta Strauss. Justice Crucified: The Story of Sacco and Vanzetti. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1977.
Forty Acres Chronology.
Freeman, Landa M., Louise V. North, and Janet M. Wedge. In the Words of Women: The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation 1765-1799. Lanhan, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.
Gilder, Cornelia Brooke. Edith Wharton's Lenox. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2017.
Hansen, Karen V. A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1996.
Hammer, Carl I. People, Politics, and Society in Colonial Western Massachusetts: Old Hampshire County and Massachusetts Bay to the Revolution. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021.
Heath, Douglas L. and Alison C. Simcox. The Lost Mill Village of Middlesex Fells. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2017.
Hogan, William Johnston. Huntington Silversmiths 1763-1885. Signed, limited edition. Durham, NC: Sir Walter Press, 1977.
Huntington, Arria S. Memoir and Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington, First Bishop of Central New York. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.
Huntington, Arria S. Under a Colonial Roof-Tree: Fireside Chronicles of Early New England. Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin and Company: The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1891.
Huntington, Dan. Memories, Counsels, and Reflections by an Octogenary. Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, 1857.
Huntington, David M.G. First Flight and Other Stories. Milwaukee: Past Press, 2013.
Huntington, Ellsworth and Martha Ragsdale. After Three Centuries: A Typical New England Family. William and Wilkins, 1935.
Huntington, Rev. E. B. A Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family in this Country: Embracing All the Known Descendants of Simon and Margaret Huntington, Who Have Retained the Family Name, and the First Generation of the Descendants of Other Names. Huntington Family Association, first edition, 1863.
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 Genealogical Memoir: 3rd Supplement 1987-2013. Huntington Family Association, 2013.
Huntington, Rev. George Putnam and Metcalf, Rev. Henry Aiken (compilers). The Treasury of the Psalter: An Aid. Preface by Bishop Frederic Dan Huntington. Fourth edition ‘with corrections and additions.’ New York: E and J.B. Young and Co., 1899.
Huntington, Rev. Prof. Frederic Dan. Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Hadley, Massachusetts. Hadley, June 8, 1859.
Huntington, Bishop Frederic Dan. The Days of Lent: Readings Selected From the Writings of BISHOP HUNTINGTON. Introduction by James O. S. Huntington. 1906.
Huntington, Frederic Dan. Home-Keeping: A Fine Art. Syracuse: Walcott and West, 1892.
Huntington, Frederic Dan. Forty Days With the Master. E.P. Dutton, 1891.
Huntington, Frederic Dan. Memoir and Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington. Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1906.
Huntington, James Lincoln. Forty Acres: The Story of the Bishop Huntington House. New York: Hastings House, 1949.
Huntington, James Lincoln. Houses outside the Stockade. 1959.
Huntington, James Lincoln. How and Why the Families of the Porter, Phelps, and Huntington Came to Hadley and Built the House at Forty Acres. Hadley, MA: Porter-Phelps Huntington Foundation, 1966.
Huntington, James Lincoln. The Phelps-Huntington Barn, 1782-1931.
Huntington, James Lincoln. The Work of Prayer. Holy Cross Press, 1923, 1956.
Huntington, James Lincoln. 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. 1882.
Huntington, Virginia. Green Autumn. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., 1959.
Huntington, W.E. Memorial of Frederick S. Huntington. Printed for friends, 1891.
Izard, Holly V. The Ward Families and Their "Helps": Domestic Work, Workers, and Relationships On A New England Farm, 1787-1866. Worcester, Mass: The Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 103, 1993.
Jobe, Brock and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1984.
Judd, Sylvester and Lucius M. Boltwood. History of Hadley, including the early history of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts. Northampton: Metcalf & Co., 1863.
Kelly, Catherine E. In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women’s Lives in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Kent, Arnold and Noel Spencer. The Old Churches of Norwich. Jarrold Publishing, March 1971.
Krieghbaum, Kay, Hillier Krieghbaum, and Katherine L. Krieghbaum, Jr. Some Things Remembered. Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books, 1982.
Larkin, David, June Sprigg, and James Johnson. Colonial : Design in the New World. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc., 1988.
Laurie, Bruce. Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Leen, Nina. Images of Sound. W. W. Norton and Co., Oct. 1977.
Leon, Warren, and Roy Rosenzweig. History Museums In the United States: A Critical Assessment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Lowell, Russell. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, household edition, illustrated. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1886.
Miller, Marla. Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
Miller, Marla. Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Miller, Marla. Rebecca Dickinson: Independence for a New England Woman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Aug. 2014.
Miller, Marla. The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
Mitchell, Mary and Albert Goodrich. The Remarkable Huntingtons: Chronicle of a Marriage. Budd Drive Press, 2004.
Munkittrick, Alain. Historic Houses of the Connecticut River Valley. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2023.
Nobles, Gregory H. Divisions Throughout the Whole: Politics and Society in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, 1740-1775. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
North, Louise V., Janet M. Wedge, and Landa M. Freeman. In the Words of Women: The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation, 1765-1799. Lexington Books, 2011.
Nylander, Jane C. Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1993.
Olmstead, Andrea. Roger Sessions: A Biography. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Phelps, Charles (Moses) Porter. Autobiography. Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers, Box 10 Folder 21, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections. 1857.
Phelps, Elizabeth Porter. Births and Deaths in Hadley from 1794 to 1816. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 123., Jan. 1969.
Phelps, Elizabeth Porter. The Diary of Elizabeth (Porter) Phelps. Thomas Eliot Andrews ed., introduction by James Lincoln Huntington in The New England Historical Genealogical Register. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan. 1964-1969. Links to searchable transcriptions: October 1765-December 1778. In The New England Genealogical Register, 1964, January 1779-December 1789. In The New England Genealogical Register, 1965-66, January 1790-December 1805, and list of Hadley deaths. In The New England Genealogical Register, 1967-69
Phelps, John. Phelps and Family Memoirs, 1886. Brattleboro: Selleck and Davis, Book and Job Printers, 1886.
Phelps, Oliver Seymour and Andrew Tinkey Servin. 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. Pittsfield, MA: Eagle Publishing Company, 1899.
Roslansky, Priscilla Fenn. Their Lives and Times: Wallace Osgood Fenn and Clara Bryce Comstock Fenn. Feb. 1994.
Russel, Frank. An Early History of Malden. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2018.
Sargent, Emma Worcester. Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.
Sargent, John Osborne. Horatian Echoes: Translations of the Odes of Horace. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1893.
Schad, Robert O. Henry Edwards Huntington: The Founder and the Library. 1987.
Scudder, Vida Dutton. Father Huntington. E.P Dutton and Co., 1940. First edition.
Sessions, Ruth Huntington. Sixty Odd: A Personal History. Brattleboro: Steven Daye Press, 1936.
Sessions, Ruth Huntington. 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.
Sessions, Ruth Huntington. The Ups and Downs of Emily. Illustrated by Peter Larkin. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1940.
Southey, Robert. The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson. First edition, 1813.
Spurgeon, Selena A. Henry Edwards Huntington: His Life and His Collections. Huntington Library Press, 2002.
Suter, John Wallace. Life and Letters of William Reed Huntington A Champion of Unity. New York and London: The Century Co. 1925.
Tatlock, David. Life and Letters of Richard T. Fisher (1876-1934). Petersham, MA: Prospect Hill Publishing Co., Inc., 1993.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Age of Homespun: Objects and stores in the creation of an American myth. New York: Vintage Books, 2002.
Walker, Alice Morehouse. Historic Hadley: A Story of the Making of a Famous Massachusetts Town. New York: The Grafton Press, 1906.
Wilkins, Sally. Elizabeth Porter Phelps: Diary Keeper. From Women of the Bay State: 25 Massachusetts Women You Should Know. Bedford, NH: Apprentice Shop Books, 2009.
Wing, Anne and Wing, Donald. The Case for Francis Purdew Or Granfurdeus Disputatus. Osgathorpe, England: David Stanley Auctions, 1998.
Wing, Anne and Wing, Donald. Early Planemakers of London: Recent Discoveries in the Tallow Chandlers and the Joiners Companies. Marion, MA: The Mechanick’s Workbench, 2005.
Papers, Articles, and Journals:
Abramson, Doris E. The Beloved House.
An Appreciation of Roger Sessions 1896-1985. Kent Quarterly, Vol. 5, no. 2, 1986.
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.
Baratta, Catherine R. Arria Sargent Huntington's curriculum vitae (created by Dr. Baratta as a class handout). 1999.
Baratta, Catherine R. Social Welfare Policy Timeline. 1997.
Barry, John. The Starrs, Huntingtons, and Alsops of Middletown, Connecticut: A Study in Family and Community, 1650 to 1830. History thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University, April, 1981.
Baum, Benjamin Sternfield. A Biography Based on the Letters of James Otis Sargent. 2001.
Boylan, James and Greg Farmer. Information Packet for Visiting Scholars in the PPH Reinterpretation Initiative. 1992.
Brown, Dona and Stephen Nissenbaum. Changing New England: 1865-1945. Yale University Press, 1999.
Byron-Curtiss, A. L. Bishop Frederic Dan Huntington As I Knew Him. Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Vol. 25, no. 4, December 1956.
Carlisle, Elizabeth. “How Amiable Are Thy Dwellings:” Elizabeth Porter Phelps, Earthbound and Heavenbent.
Carlisle, Elizabeth. Forty Acres: The Porter/Phelps/Huntington House. Hadley, Massachusetts: The Three Elizabeths. March 30, 1994.
Carlisle, Elizabeth and Judithe Speidel. Local History as a Stimulus for Writing. The English Journal, Vol 68, no. 5, 1979.
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.
Chrisman, Miriam. Mothers and Daughters: Different Codes of Behavior. 1997.
Clark, Christopher. The Household Economy, Market Exchange, and the Rise of Capitalism in the Connecticut Valley, 1800 - 1860. Journal of Society History, Vol. 13 no. 2, 1967.
Clark, Christopher. Report for the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation: Forty Acres Reinterpretation Initiative. 1992.
Cottage Burned on the Huntington Homestead. Jan. 17th, 1929.
Cotton, Andre. “Doctor James Huntington and the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House: A Work of Memory and Love.” 1999.
Dow, Peter E., Bucking the tide : : Charles Phelps and the Vermont land grant controversies, 1750-1789/. 1990. Masters Theses 1911-February 2014.
Dunn, Richard S. Servants and Slaves: The Recruitment and Employment of Labor. Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Dye, Nancy Schrom and Daniel Blake Smith. Mother Love and Infant Death, 1750 - 1920. The Journal of American History, Vol. 73, no. 2, 1986.
Emmanuel Church’s First Rector: Frederic Dan Huntington. Boston: Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston, 2007.
Federer, Kari A. Analysis of the Probate Inventory of Moses Porter. 1987.
Federer, Kari A. Historic Structure Report: The Chaise House and Corn Barn, The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House, Hadley, Massachusetts. Boston University, July 1989.
Finding Aid. Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers. 1987-88.
Finison, Karl S. Energy Flow On a Nineteenth-Century Farm. Paynter, Robert, ed., Ecological Anthropology of the Middle Connecticut River Valley. Research Reports 18, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1979.
Fitzpatrick, Margaret Mary. Forty Acres: A New England Homestead and Its Owners, 1752-1814. MA Thesis, Univ. of Delaware, June 1976.
Freedman, Katherine K. I Am My Mother’s Daughter. Division Three Thesis, Hampshire College. December 2004.
Gilbert, Kevin L. A Quota of Patriotism: The Decline of Volunteerism in Northampton, Massachusetts, During the Civil War. University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of History, 1992.
Gleason, Tara Louise. The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family: The Social Position and Material Wealth of an Elite Family in Eighteenth Century Hadley, Massachusetts. Honors thesis, Amherst College, 1994.
Graffagnino, J. Kevin. “Vermonters unmasked”: Charles Phelps and the Patterns of Dissent in Revolutionary Vermont. Vermont History, 1989.
Griffen, Clyde. Christian Socialism Instructed by Gompers. Labor History, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2008.
Hall, Warren. The Barn at the Porter-Phelps Farm.
Halvenston, Sally, ed. Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 33. 2006.
Hamlin, Carol E. Forty Acres. Paper for an English course, Dec. 18, 1969.
Historic Structures Report. Porter-Phelps-Huntington House, Hadley Massachusetts. Portsmouth: Adam & Roy Consultants, Inc.
Horowitz, Daniel. Creation and Recreation: Dr. James Lincoln Huntington’s Forty Acres: The Story of the Bishop Huntington House (1949). September 1992.
Hosley, William N. and Philip Zea. Decorated Board Chests of the Connecticut River Valley. New York, NY: Antiques Magazine, Vol. 119, 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, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1956.
Huntington, Catharine S. Statement by Catharine S. Huntington, 66 Pickney Street, Boston, Mass. Charged with "sauntering and loitering" in front of State House on State Street. Boston. August 22, 1927.
Huntington, David M.G. Four Score Years: Dan Turns Eighty, and So Do I. April, 2007.
Huntington, David M.G. The Huntingtons: Simon and what he started. September, 2007.
Huntington, David M.G. War Stories. June, 2007.
Huntington, Rev. Prof. Frederic Dan. Ideals for a Country Town. December 22, 1894.
Huntington, James Lincoln. Captain Epes Sargent: Yankee Skipper (based on Epes letters to his grandson Epes Sargent II).
Huntington, James Lincoln. The Honorable Charles Phelps. Transactions, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 32, 1937.
Huntington, James Lincoln. “The Phelps-Huntington Barn 1782-1931.”
Huntington, James Lincoln. Sixth Reunion of the Huntington Family. Pub. 1938. Reunion on Sept. 3-4, 1937.
Huntington, James Lincoln. Seventh Reunion of the Huntington Family. Aug 22-23, 1947.
Huntington, William P. and others. Huntington Letters 1838-1885.
Kavanagh, Gaynor. Looking for Ourselves, Inside and Outside Museums. Gender & History, Vol. 6, no. 3, 1994.
Kelly, Catherine E. “The Consummation of Rural Prosperity and Happiness”: New England Agricultural Fairs and the Construction of Class and Gender, 1810-1860. Minneapolis: American Quarterly, Vol. 49, no. 3, 1997.
Kelly, Catherine E. “Well Bred Country People”: Sociability, Social Networks, and the Creation of a Provincial Middle Class, 1820-1860. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 19, no. 3, 1999.
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.
Levy, Barry. Girls and Boys: Poor Children and the Labor Market in Colonial Massachusetts. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 64, 1997.
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.
Linscott, Elisabeth. The River Gods: their story in western Massachusetts. New-England Galaxy, Vol. 8, 1967.
Main, Gloria L. Gender, Work, and Wages in Colonial New England. The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 51, No. 1, 1994.
McNicholas, Ruth Ann. Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum: Restoration of Historic Grounds. UMASS Masters thesis, 1985.
Miller, Alice Stewart. “The Huntington Clan.”
Miller, Marla and Whetstone, Brian, “Forty Acres and Its Skirts,” National Register of Historic Places Inventory Form, May 4, 2023.
Miller, Marla. “…and others of our own people:” Needlework and Women of the Rural Gentry. 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. Through Women’s Eyes: A Colloquium. September, 1994.
Miller, Marla. Eggs on the Sand: Domestic Servants and their Children in Federal New England.
Miller, Marla. Gender, Artisanry, and Craft Tradition in Early New England: The View through the Eye of a Needle. Williamsburg, VA: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 60, no. 4. 2003.
Miller, Marla. “Chronology of Slave Life at Forty Acres.”
Miller, Marla. Labor and Liberty in the Age of Refinement: Gender, Class and the Built Environment. Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 10. 2005.
Miller, Marla. 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.
Miller, Marla. "My Part Alone": The World of Rebecca Dickinson, 1787-1802. New England Quarterly. Sept. 1998.
Miller, Marla. The Accounts of Tryphena Newton Cooke: Work, Family, and Community in Hadley, Massachusetts, 1780-1805. Peter Benes, ed., Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. 1999.
Miller, Marla and Anne Digan Lanning. 1994. ‘Common Parlors’: Women and the Recreation of Community Identity in Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1870-1920. Gender & History, Vol. 6, no. 3. Nov. 1994.
Miller, Marla and Karen Sánchez-Eppler (2021) Joining Reinterpretation to Reparations, Museums & Social Issues, 15:1-2, 72-82
Mitchell, Leonel L. The Episcopal Church and the Christian Social Movement In the 19th Century. Austin, Texas. Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Vol. 30, Iss. 3. Sept. 1961.
The Name and Family of Huntington. Washington, D.C.: The Media Research Bureau.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. CXVIII Jan. 1964.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. CXVIII April 1964.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. CXVIII July 1964.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. CXVIII Oct. 1964.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. CXIX Jan. 1965.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. CXIX April 1965.
Nichols, Elisabeth B. 'Attached and Loving Sister,' 'Constant Unalterable Friend,' and 'Loving and Dutiful Daughter:' Elizabeth Phelps Huntington Conceptualizes Her Identity. Presented at "Through Women's Eyes: A Colloquim Presenting New Research on Women at 'Forty Acres,' 1750,-1850." Sept, 1994.
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.
Nies, Kristina M. Chore, Craft & Business: Cheesemaking in 18th Century Massachusetts. Thesis. Boston University, 2008.
Nobles, Gregory H. Commerce and Community: A Case Study of the Rural Broommaking Business in Antebellum Massachusetts. Indianapolis: Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 4, no. 3. 1984.
Noon, Rozanne E. The Bishop’s Children. Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Vol. 43, 1974.
150th Wedding Anniversary of Dan Huntington and Elizabeth Whiting Phelps. Brochures.
Obituary of Arria S. Huntington. From Provincetown Journal. Sunday, June 9th, 1996.
Old Houses, 1659-1959 Hadley Tercentenary Celebration. Pamphlet. Aug. 1, 1959.
Osborne, Caitlin. Stories to Tell: From Scholarship to Exhibit to House Tour – A Trialogue. Women in Historic Preservation Conference, March 13-15 1977.
Parsons, Karen. “We owe something more than prayers”: Elizabeth Porter Phelps’s Gift of Church Silver and Her Quest for Christian Fellowship. Jeannine Falino & Gerald W.R. Ward, eds., New England Silver & Silversmithing, 1620-1815. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, University Press of Virginia, 2001.
Paz, D. G. Monasticism and Social Reform In Late Nineteenth-Century America: The Case of Father Huntington. Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Vol. 48, no. 1. 1979.
Pongratz, Simon. “Hadley’s Struggle for Independence: The Small Farming Town and Its People in the Revolutionary War.”
Porter, Arthur Amasa, compiler. John Porter and His Descendants. Portage, Wis: Porter, 1933.
Poubeau, Anne. “You did not mention whether you had a cow…” Cheese making at the Porter-Phelps farm, Hadley, MA 1770-1815. 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 1971.
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. A Lady’s Reading Eighty Years Ago. The New England Magazine, Vol. 21, 1900.
Sessions, Ruth Huntington. Loyalty. The Century, vol. 55, issue 6, April 1898.
Sessions, Ruth Huntington. The Doctor’s Front Yard. A Story. The New England Magazine, Vol. 24, issue 3, May 1898.
Strange, Douglas C. The conversion of Frederic Dan Huntington (1859): a failure of liberalism? Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Vol. 37, no. 3, Sept. 1968.
St. George, Robert Blaire. Artifacts of Regional Consciousness in the Connecticut River Valley, 1700-1780. Material Life in America, 1600-1860. Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1955.
Sweeney, Kevin. Mansion People: Kinship, Class, and Architecture in Western Massachusetts in the Mid Eighteenth Century. The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. 1984.
Sweeney, Kevin M. Report on Utilizing the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House and Its Furnishings as Resources for Research and Interpretation. 1992.
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.
Thomas, John L. Romantic Reform in America, 1815-1865. American Quarterly, Vol. 17, no. 4. 1965.
Thorsen, Linda Jean. The Merchants' Manufacturer: The Barrett Family's Dyeing Businesses in Massachusetts and New York, 1790-1850. Thesis. Harvard University, May 2015.
Townsend, Bryan. Sunken Garden at Forty Acres, Hadley, Massachusetts. Cultural Landscape Report: Part I. Site History, Existing Conditions, Analysis & Evaluation. 2002.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Report: Porter-Phelps-Huntington Project. 1992.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Housewife and Gadder: Themes of Self-Sufficiency and Community in Eighteenth-Century New England. Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton, eds., ‘To Toil the Livelong Day:’ America’s Women at Work, 1780-1980. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Of Pens and Needles: Sources in Early American Women’s History. The Journal of American History, Vol. 77, no. 1, June 1990.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Wheels, Looms, and the Gender Division of Labor in Eighteenth-Century New England. William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 55, no. 1, 1998.
Wheeler, Elizabeth Hunting. A Hunting-McCoy-Wheeler Story, Circa 1920 to 1950. 2012.
White, Rich. Porter to Phelps to Huntington: The Story of 40 Acres.
Wilson, Louis E. 40 Acres: The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum. 1992.
Wood, Joseph S. The New England Village as an American Vernacular Form. Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 2, 1986.
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, Vol. 58, no. 1, March 1989.
PPH 1992 Reinterpretation Initiative
Boylan, James and Greg Farmer. Information Packet for Visiting Scholars in the PPH Reinterpretation Initiative. 1992.
Clark, Christopher. Report for the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation: Forty Acres Reinterpretation Initiative. 1992.
Gilbert, Kevin L. A Quota of Patriotism: The Decline of Volunteerism in Northampton, Massachusetts, During the Civil War. University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of History, 1992.
Horowitz, Daniel. Creation and Recreation: Dr. James Lincoln Huntington’s Forty Acres: The Story of the Bishop Huntington House (1949). September 1992.
Sweeney, Kevin M. Report on Utilizing the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House and Its Furnishings as Resources for Research and Interpretation. 1992.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Report: Porter-Phelps-Huntington Project. 1992.
Wilson, Louis E. 40 Acres: The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum. 1992.
Objects and Exhibits:
Callahan, Addison. Grounds Tour of Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum. 2008.
Carson, Jenny and Sandy Christofordis. Guide Handbook. October, 1992.
Fellows, Carrie A. Revised First Person Tour - In Her Own Words: Bringing Elizabeth to Life.
Generations of the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Genealogy
Henchey, J. Oil Paintings and Crayon Drawings in the Porter-Phelps-Huntington. House Collection, Aug. 1977.
Huntington, Catharine S. “North Garden Plan.”
Huntington, James Lincoln. Dr. James Lincoln Huntington’s Tour Through the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum. June 1971.
Kaynor, Faye. “Forty Acres North Garden Plan.” C. 1970.
Lolomari, Ine. Sessions Complex.
Porter, Moses. Estate Inventory 1755. Page 1 and Page 2 Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers, Box 172, folders 13-14 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections.
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.
Porter-Phelps-Huntington National Register Criteria Statement. 1999.
The Extraordinary Joined Oak and Pine Polychrome "Hadley" Chest-With-Drawers. Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver. New York: Christie's, 2016. Print.
Weir, Robert E., ed. Benjamin Lincoln at 40 Acres: An Exhibit to Commemorate the Bicentennial of the Shay’s Rebellion.
The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House recommends the following external resources for further reading:
Native American and Indigenous Peoples
Baron, Donna K, J. Edward Hood, and Holly V. Izard. “They Were Here All Along: The Native American Presence in Lower-Central New England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Indians and Others in Early America, 53, no. 3. 1996.
Bruchac, Margaret M. “Revisiting Pocumtuck History in Deerfield: George Sheldon's Vanishing Indian Act.” Historical Journal of Massachusetts 39(1/2):30-77, www.academia.edu/3513265/Revisiting_Pocumtuck_History_in_Deerfield_George_Sheldons_Vanishing_Indian_Act.
Bruchac, Margaret. “Native Presence in Nonotuck and Northampton.” ScholarlyCommons, repository.upenn.edu/anthro_papers/162/.
Nash, Alice. “Quanquan’s Mortgage of 1663.” In Cultivating the Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
Nash, Alice. “Selection of information on Hadley Indigenous history by Alice Nash.” (including Indian Deeds of Hampden County(1905); Native Peoples and Museums in the Connecticut River Valley; Ninth Edition of the Handy Book for Genealogists; Historical Records Survey).
Thomas, Peter A. “Contrastive Subsistence Strategies and Land Use as Factors for Understanding Indian-White Relations in New England.” Ethnohistory, Vol. 23, no. 1. 1976.
American Revolution
African American & Black People