This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell, Clapp Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/831.2 Message Board Post: Helllo Dolores, there is a ref. to cutlery in the History of GREENFIELD... page 373 ....Amongst the manufacturing establishments, the following are the most prominent: ....The Green River Works, for the manufacture of Cutlery, established in 1834, by John RUSSELL, its present head, on the Green River, at about a quarter of a mile North of its present situation. The buildings were destroyed by fire in 1836, and were rebuilt and enlarged the same year, where they now stand, a few rods below the dividing line page 374 between Greenfield and Deerfield. Within a few years, the business and the building have been much increased, and at the present, table cutlery, and butcher and shoe knives to the amount of $300,000 are annually manufac- tured by 300 men and boys; with an annual consumption of 100 tuns of cast steel, 180 tuns of Granadilla wool, 50 tuns of ebony, 50 tons on cattle horns, 16,500 lbs. of ivory, 150 tuns of hard coal, 15,000 bushels of charcoal, 175 tuns of grindstones, and other articles in the like proportion. Cutlery of their manufacture is found all over the United States. The present proprietors are John RUSSELL, Nathaniel E. RUSSELL, and Henry B. CLAPP. See the full history- History of GREENFIELD by Josiah Holland, 1855 http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/896 http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin&m=896 Alvord, Ames, Barnes, Bellows, Bigelow, Billings, Boylston, Brigham, Burr, Chapman, Childs, Clapp, Coleman, Collins, Davis, Deane, Dickman, Field, Fish, Fowler, Hamilton, Hastings, Henry, Hitchcock, Hunt, Huntington, Jenkins, Kellem, Langstroth, Leavitt, Leonard, Lincoln, Marcy, Marsh, Mather, Miller, Mills, Mudge, Nelson, Newcomb, Newton, Nickols, Olds, Partridge, Paulson, Potter, Ransom, Ripley, Russell, Seaver, Stone, Strong, Townshend, Washburn, Wells, Woodbridge, Woods.