This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Childs, Wells Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/816.1.3 Message Board Post: Hi Gary, thanks for all your helpful replies regarding Franklin County! Regarding "Cheapside" here is a quote from 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 page 368.......The report goes on to state: "We further judge it reasonable that ye lands lying in a certain meadow or interval which lies North of Deerfield river, which is known by the name of Cheapside, which belong to Timothy CHILDS, Jr., and David WELLS, who dwell in said proposed district, shall pay taxes to said district when set off. * * * * * We further judge it reasonable the same proportion of county tax laid on the town of Deerfield hereafter be paid by the said district when set off as was levied upon the inhabitants and rata- ble estate in the limits of the district for the last tax, and that the said district, have the improvement of one half of the sequestered lands in the said town of Deerfield, being North of Deerfield river." At a town meeting in Deer- field, December, 1753, a committee was appointed to divide the sequestered land or the income of it, North of Deer- field river, with the minister and people of Greenfield. ....The charter of Greenfield, granted June 9, 1753, after bounding the town according to the report of the commit- tee, and investing it "with all the Privileges, Powers and Immunities that towns in this Province do or may enjoy, that of sending a representative to the General Court only excepted," enacts "that the lands in a certain interval or meadow called Cheapside, which do now belong to Timothy CHILDS, Jun., and David WELLS shall pay their taxes to said district of Greenfield so long as they are owned by any persons living within said district; and again; "Provided also that the said District shall have the improvement of one half of the Sequestered Lands on the North side of Deerfield river, until there shall be another district or parish made out of the said town of Deerfield." The char- page 369 ter, as will be seen, in those provisions did not follow the report and award of the committee, the committee having fixed no limitation of time, when Greenfield should cease to have the taxes from Cheapside, or the improvement of one half of the sequestered lands. In 1767, the district of Conway was made out of Deerfield. Names listed in the posting are - 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.