This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Holiday, Holliday, Ensign Woolworth, Holmes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VFB.2ACI/4194.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks Carol, I gather because all of these towns were orig in Hampshire I should be checking that county also...perhaps I'll find something there.

Yes all the WESTERN Massachusetts towns were Hampshire Co. and separated according to dates below: (am including several mailing list that would have interest) -- PLEASE MAKE COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS.........as you will need these dates to do research in this area ) Hampshire Co.........May 1662 ( Mass Bay Rec. ,Vol.4, part 2,page 52) Hampden Co..........Feb. 1812 ( Same as Franklin, Chapter 137, Acts pf 1811) Franklin Co............June 1811 ( Mass.Bay Records, Chapter 61, Acts of 1811) Berkshire Co.........April 1761 ( Prov. Laws, Vol.4, page 432) ----- Other counties in Massachusetts: Bristol Co......June 1685.....(Ply. Colony Rec., Vol.6, page 169) Dukes Co.(Cape Cod area).....(June 1695......Prov. Laws,Vol.1,page 216) Essex Co......May 1643....(Mass Bay Rec., Vol. 2, page 38) Middlesex Co..........May 1643 ( Mass Bay Rec., Vol.2, page 38 ) Nantucket Co.....June 1695...( Prov. Laws, Vol.1,page215) Norfolk (this was the OLD Norfolk...EXTINCT......May 1643 ( Mass Bay Rec., Vol 2, page 38) Norfolk Co......March 1793....(Mass Bay Rec., Chapter 72, Acts of 1792) Plymouth Co.....June 1685...( Ply. Col. Rec., Vol. 4, page 169) Suffolk Co......May 1643 ....( Mass. Bay Rec., Vol. 2, page 38) Worcester Co.......April 1731....( Prov. Laws, Vol. 2, page 584) -- All this can be found in the State Archives located in Boston. - Source: HISTORICAL DATA RELATING TO COUNTIES, TOWNS, AND CITIES IN MASSACHUSETTS; William F. Galvin (Sec.of State), N.E.H.G.S., 1997 (FYI: you can buy this book...worth the $10) -- Cynthia List administrator for: Ma-Bay-Colony-L@rootsweb.com Can-Deerfield-Attack-1704-L@rootsweb.com CtHartfo-L@rootsweb.com MaHampde-L@rootsweb.com http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/Ma-Bay-Colony ----- Original Message ----- From: <LoanneL@comcast.net> To: <MAHAMPDE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 4:53 PM Subject: [MAHAMPDEN] Re: Holliday, Holiday > > Thanks Carol, I gather because all of these towns were orig in Hampshire I should be checking that county also...perhaps I'll find something there. > >