-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Genealogy" <[email protected]> > Adams keeps its own town records once the two towns split. I don't know the > year though. > North Adams was established in 1878, from part of Adams.Adams was establidhed in 1778, from a plantation called East Hoosuck (not a misspellimg!). Ref, Massachusetts Genealogical Research, by Schweitzer. Carl Hommel