What happened to the Glass family in Hubbardston?

In March 1838, Hiram Brown discovered the burned ruins of a cabin belonging to Ansel D. Glass in what would become North Plains Township. Inside the ashes were the remains of three people — Glass's wife and two children. Ansel Glass himself was never found. The cause of the fire and Glass's fate remain a mystery nearly two centuries later. Whether the blaze was accidental, the result of an attack, or something else entirely has never been determined. The Glass Tragedy is one of the earliest and most dramatic events in the township's recorded history.