Stockbridge, past and present, or, Records of an old mission station

By Miss Electa F. Jones and Electa F Jones

A small Berkshire town holds the fault-lines of a continent. Stockbridge, past and present gathers the voices behind Stockbridge Massachusetts history, where New England memory meets Native resilience. History lives in place-names here. Miss Electa F. Jones frames records of an old mission station with a steady narrative hand, creating local history chronicles of change and continuity and a patient historical records collection shaped for real readers, not just archives. Part town portrait, part missionary station narrative, the book follows native american mission history among the Mohican Stockbridge Indians and the wider currents of early American church history. It maps how faith, schooling, land, and governance intertwined in the 18th century Berkshires, and how colonial New England settlements negotiated identity at their edges. Jones writes with lucid nineteenth-century restraint, preserving remembered lives and institutional traces without romantic gloss. For those drawn to Puritan missionary accounts, it offers grounded detail and moral complexity; for researchers, it stands as a dependable genealogy reference book and a New England historians resource, useful for tracing families, places, and shifting boundaries. As a record of community-making, it illuminates the pressures and possibilities that shaped later American society. Casual readers will relish its sense of place; classic-literature collectors will value its rare perspective on Berkshire life and mission-era memory in sober prose. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353700779
• ISBN13: 9789353700775
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"