This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Erving, Goddard, Gould, Hale, Hayward, Stone, Trask, Tucker, Washburn, White Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/456.1 Message Board Post: Hi Vicki, this new posting may shed some light on Harriet's ancestors, excert here, see the whole history on the link... History of ERVING by Josiah Holland, 1855 http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/892 (or, the long one-) http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin&m=892 Surnames Listed in the history include: Erving, Goddard, Gould, Hale, Hayward, Stone, Trask, Tucker, Washburn, White Excerpt: The territory now covered by Erving was settled about 1801, by Col. Asaph WHITE, of Heath, who built a log house in the wilderness. Mr. WHITE was the constructor of the 5th Massachusetts Turnpike, kept a public house and erected a dam across Miller's River, and built a saw mill in 1803.