History of LEYDEN (estab.1784 from Bernardston) by Josiah Holland, 1855 http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northa m.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin&m=876 (may have to copy & paste URL) Holland, Josiah Gilbert History of Western Massachusetts. The Counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin & Berkshire Springfield, MA: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1855. Vol. I, 520 pp; Vol. II 619 pp, three parts. Call number 974.4, H71 Vol. II, Part III. page 389 LEYDEN. Surnames mentioned: Holland, Gilbert, Smead, Bartlett, Guild, Wells, Packer, Shattuck, Adams, Eason, Green, Hebard, Bromley, Fairbanks, Ware, Barnes, Ruth, Latham. Winslow, Tate, Hawks, Gordon, Todd, Marcy, Clarke, Buffington, Mowry, Mitchell, De Wolf, Hale, Smith, Dorrel, Packard, Foster