This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Atwood, Erving, Goddard, Gould, Hale, Hayward, Stone, Trask, Tucker, Washburn, White Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/82.251 Message Board Post: Hello R. Bradley Potts, although there are no ATWOOD folks listed in the town history at the links below, it may shed some light on others in your "very large database of New England ATWOODs" of whom you say you'd share information. Hope you find this small history helpful, it was written in 1855. 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