This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Briggs, Roberts, Hosley, Horsely Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/488.2 Message Board Post: Hello A Roberts, Your Philinda BRIGGS, wife of Ozias ROBERTS is not mentioned, specifically, in the excerpt below, however, there is a difference in the spelling of Hosley, as the author Holland spells it, and Horsely, as you do- (son of Amaziah ROBERTS and Mary HORSELY of Gill, Franklin, Mass.), "Among the names of the first settlers were the following: ......, HOSLEY, ...and ROBERTS. The fact that many of these early settlers were soldiers of the Revolution, shows that no settlement of any consequence took place until nearly a century after the Falls fight. " found at the following link - hope you find some new information! 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