The following notes taken from Biographical Sketches (1888) of Richard Ellis, First Settler of Ashfield, Massachusetts. Quoted in Parker in America, Niagara Frontier Publishing, Buffalo, NY, 1911, page 299, section CXXIX.
"Another settler about the time of the Revolution was Elisha Parker, grf. of Marcus, and a Revolutionary soldier. He settled on the hill, about 50 rods south of the school-house. As he and others came from Yarmouth on the Cape, the locality they settled in was given the name of Cape Street, and is in the south part of the town. Mr. Marcus Parker says that the settlers of Cape Street came up one year, cleared the land and built their log houses, and the next year brought up their families. While here the first season they boarded a portion of that time at Aaron Fuller's tavern."
Marcus Parker, grandson of Elisha Parker, is also quoted in History Of The Town Of Ashfield, Frederick G. Howes, Ashfield, Ma, 1910, Page 304, regarding the early settlement of Ashfield.
"Of course, the early settlers had to contend with wild beasts in addition to their other trials. Mr. Marcus Parker said his father used to tell how after they had cleared up a little piece of land in Cape Street back of the log house, they had to go up and drive the wolves off every day."