This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ballou, Barber, Bishop, Caneday, French, Gifford, Gore, Hix, Monroe Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2AC.2ACI/1580.1 Message Board Post: Hi Karen, the BALLOU surname is well known in Windham Co. you should get some good responses! I have a small offering for you, I posted a message on the Franklin Co., MA board you may be interested in, (these folks went back and forth across the MA-VT boarder towns) there is a David BALLOU - earlier date, mentioned in- http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.franklin&m=900 http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/900 History of MONROE by Josiah Holland, 1855 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 MONROE. Vol. II, Part III. page 393 Names found in this transcription: Ballou, Barber, Bishop, Caneday, French, Gifford, Gore, Hix, Monroe