Dana Hayden

An historical American footnote:

Before this Great Nation was formed, the Hayden family lived in Blandford Massachusetts on Hayden Road. The homestead they lived in is still standing today. One of Dana's ancestors, Joel Hayden, fought in the American Revolutionary War.

It is locally known that Henry Knox, the great artillery General, traveled though Blandford on his way back from Fort Ticonderoga in November 1775. It was in the dead of winter where he recovered 60 cannons that...