This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Webster, Root Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/32.472 Message Board Post: Hello Doug, there is an Ariel list in the Gill town history- "The sympathies of many of the people of Gill were strongly on the side of the insurgents in the time of the Shay's Rebellion. Two of the three men shot at Spring- field, at the time of the attack upon the Arsenal, were from Gill, viz: Ezekiel ROOT and Ariel WEBSTER." 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