Sylvester Judd, History of Hadley, with family genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood (Springfield, 1905)

Read in the archive.org full text for the Hatten research (Patricia Hatten's Browne–Chapin side: the pedigree, notable ancestors and famous kin, October 2026). Compiled genealogies at the back of the town history.

• "PORTER, Samuel, s. of John of Windsor, Ct., was among the first settlers of Had., where he d. Sept. 6, 1689. He m. Hannah, dau. of Thomas Stanley of Hartford, Ct. She d. Dec. 18, 1708. Children — Samuel, b. April 6, 1660; ... Hezekiah, b. Jan. 7, 1665; John, b. Dec. 12, 1666; Hannah, b. 1670 ...; Mehitable, b. Sept. 15, 1673 ...; Experience, b. Aug. 5, 1676; Ichabod, b. June 17, 1678; Nathaniel, b. Nov. 15, 1680; Thomas, b. abt. 1683" (pp. 111-112).
• "Experience, s. of Samuel, rem. abt. 1725 to Mansfield, Ct., where he d. Aug. 28, 1750, ae. 74. He m. May 26, 1698, Abigail, dau. of Samuel Williams of Roxbury. She was b. July 12, 1674, and d. April 20, 1765, ae. 90. Children — Theoda, b. Aug. 15, 1699, m. 1719, Walbridge; Hannah, b. March 25, 1701 ...; Experience, b. Dec. 15, 1702 ...; John, b. Dec. 27, 1704 ...; Abigail, b. March 19, 1707 ...; Nathaniel, b. Aug. 26, 1709 ...; Eunice, b. Dec. 30, 1712 ...; Mehitable, b. July 30, 1715 ...; Martha, b. Nov. 21, 1717" (p. 112).
• In the history proper: "Samuel Porter owned Thomas Stanley's lot, and his son Samuel lived on it in 1686." When the province lent bills of credit to the towns in 1721, "Hadley chose Westwood Cooke, Experience Porter and John Nash, trustees to let out the money" (p. 304).
• "Hadley Townsmen or Selectmen" (appendix, pp. 447-448): Experience Porter in 1709, 1712, 1714, 1717, 1719 and 1721.

For King Philip's War (research/king-philips-war/), pp. 160-171, 185:

• The Falls Fight, 19 May 1676: Mather and Hubbard quoted, "our soldiers came and put their guns into their wigwams ... and did make a great and notable slaughter among them" (p. 163); "Thirty-eight of the English were slain, and all but one after they left the falls" (p. 164); on the Native side, Bardwell counted "above an hundred," Judd thought 130 to 180 "old and young" perished, Menowniet testified that "40 Norwottucks ... and Quabaugs, and 10 Narragansets" fighting men were slain (pp. 166-167), and the camp "contained men, women and children ... the slaughter was indiscriminate" (p. 167). The Hadley letters were addressed "for the Worshipful John Allyn, Esq. Secretary" (pp. 162, 166). James Munn was one of four Hampshire veterans still living in 1736 (p. 165).
• "A general visitation by sickness," Russell to Allyn, 15 May 1676 (p. 161).
• Hadley, 12 June 1676: Talcott's Connecticut army with "near upon two hundred Indians," and the attack on the north end of the town driven off by a "great gun" (pp. 170-171).
• Samuel Porter's care of the wounded soldiers at Hadley (p. 185).