This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Frost, Barton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/44.1 Message Board Post: Hello Joan, there is a reference to Leonard FROST - ".....The Methodist church in Gill was formed in 1823, and the following is the list of the preachers who have supplied it: Revs. Messrs. .......Leonard FROST," (among others) no ref. to Barton seen, and the history was written in 1855, so, the "Leonardius FROST, a minister at Montague in the 1870s" that you seek is not listed in the Montague history, in fact, there is no mention of a Methodist church in 1855. found at the following link - hope you find something! History of GILL by Josiah Holland, 1855 http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin&m=893 or, the shorter link - http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/893 GILL. - Names found in this transcription: Andrews, Arms, Baker, Ballard, Bannister, Barnes, Bascom, Bates, Bennett, Bontecou, Bosworth, Brooks, Burrows, Canning, Childs, Church, Clapp, Clarke, Combs, Cushman, Deane, Edson, Field, Frost, Gains, Gill, Gordon, Hawks, Hayward, Heath, Hitchcock, Hosley, Howland, Hulin, Husted, Jackson, Janes, Jordan, Kimball, Latham, Marcy, Marsh, Miller, Moulton, Munn, Munsell, Newton, Niles, Nixon, Ricketts, Roberts, Root, Sage, Sandford, Severance, Sizer, Smith, Sprague, Stevens, Stoddard, Stoughton, Swift, Tate, Thornton, Todd, Ward, Warner, Webster, Whiting, Wilcutt, Wilson, Wing, Winslow, Wrisley