This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UFB.2ACI/3717.2 Message Board Post: There was no city of North Adams in 1851. It didn't separate from Adams until about 25 years later. The material for which you're looking therefore would have appeared in the Adams "Freeman," of which the Adams Library on Park St. has extensive back files