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Bob's caption: Packard Road connects Cummington to Plainfield over steep hills. It is mostly a gravel road with lots of ferns, rocks, and trees, but nothing else but a few random farmhouses. Only Plainfield has a few restored old homes - the area is rather poverty-stricken. Photo taken by Bob Mills in Jul. 1980. Originally shared on this blog in Nov. 2022.

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From Samuel to Cyrus: A fresh look at the History of the Packard Family [part 2]

Note: Since it wold only let me add 30 photos in the last post, I am putting together a second post. See part 1 for the origin of this post and its photos.

Packard Rd, via Google Streetview

Part of a family genealogy held by the Plainfield Historical Society

Part 1 of a family genealogical story from which my grandfather likely cribbed for his Packard family history

Part 2 of a family genealogical story from which my grandfather likely cribbed for his Packard family history

Town of Bridgewater noting the birth of one of the Barnabas Packards.

A Packard story in family history held by Plainfield Historical Society.

A Packard story in family history held by Plainfield Historical Society. Note that they called it "West Hill Farm." It was Tom Packard's farm.

From a family bible, within the genealogy held by the Plainfield Historical Society. Do not use this to prove dates and places of these generations however, as the person who wrote this was NOT alive when the events in the 1600s or 1700s happened. Still, its a guide to other records.

From a family bible, within the genealogy held by the Plainfield Historical Society. This shows that the person who wrote this died sometime in the 20th century.

Final page of a family bible, within the genealogy held by the Plainfield Historical Society. I had other pictures but they were blurry and didn't turn out well unfortunately.

Letter by genealogist, within Packard family history held by Plainfield Historical Society.

Tom Packard's barn. I believe this comes from an image on the Plainfield Historical Society's website

Ruth Snow and Charles Packard

West Hill Cemetery. Photo now up on Find A Grave since they approved this as one of the cemetery's photos.

Thomas T. and Harold C. Packard gravestone at West Hill Cemetery. Photo by me.

Olive Martha Packard gravestone at West Hill Cemetery. Photo by me.

Barnabas Packard gravestone at West Hill Cemetery. Photo by me.

Rachel May Packard gravestone at West Hill Cemetery. Photo by me.

Barnabas Packard gravestone (another photo) at West Hill Cemetery. Photo by me.

Mary Packard gravestone at West Hill Cemetery. Photo by me.

Polly N Packard gravestone at West Hill Cemetery. Photo by me.

William Packard and Lucy Stetson Packard.

Also, here are documents from Richard Packard, who is on Find A Grave. I would say that you need to contact him first before using these (bio of Samuel Packard and Noah Packard). However, that last time I tried to email him, the emails bounced back. As a result, please just use these as a guide to find more sources. After all, they are heavily reliant on family genealogies and are hence skewed as a result. Other than that, I don't have anything else to share here since they are either pictures of pages in books or photos of myself and my immediate family (which went with me in this family history hunt across Western MA).

I look forward to your comments as always.