Hart Family - Ourfolk

West street is located on the old Tyringham road. Most of the citizens now, and nearly all the first settlers, were good, substantial farmers. This precinct formerly embraced Chestnut Hill, which was set off to Monterey a few years since. The Fargos, Jabez, Samuel, Moses and Ezekiel, settled in that section; also Aaron Heath.

Samuel Fargo, sen. came from New London, Conn., was a shoemaker, then farmer. He had seven children. Samuel Fargo, jr., born September 1st, 1779, was married January 30th, 1822, to Eliza Buel. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, first in Monterey, next in Tyringham, and in 1855 moved to Dixon, Ill., and is still living. Two of his sons, Edward and James B., are in Dixon, Ill. Charles H. and Samuel W. are in Chicago. All of them are manufacturers and dealers in boots and shoes, and do a business exceeding $1,000,000 annually. All of these families are of unquestionable reputation and highly responsable.

(In Beers, History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . . ., Volume II, New York: 1885, p. 524 )