GREENFIELD  , a township and the

county-seat of Franklin county, in N.E . Massachusetts, U.S.A., including an area of 20 sq. m. of meadow and hill country, watered by the Green and Deerfield rivers and various small tributaries . Pop . (1890) 5252, (1900) 7927, of whom 1431 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 10,427 . The principal village, of the same name as the township, is situated on the N. bank of the Deerfield river, and on the Boston & Maine railway and the Connecticut Valley street railway (electric) . Among Greenfield's manufactures are cutlery, machinery, and taps and dies . Creenfield, originally part of Deerfield, was settled about 1682, was established as a " district " in 1753, and on the 23rd of August 1775 was, by a general Act, separated from Deerfield and incorporated as a separate township, although it had assumed full township rights in 1774 by sending delegates to the Provincial Congress . In 1793 part of it was taken to form the township of Gill; in 1838 part of it was annexed to Bernardston; and in 1896 it annexed a part of Deerfield . It was much disaffected at the time of Shays's Rebellion . See F . M . Thompson, History of Greenfield (2 vols., Greenfield, 1904) .