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Subject: [MAFRANKL] Paul's Resource & Reference List (Part 1 of 2)
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 07:06:44 EDT

A number of readers of the list have asked how our family links to Franklin
County since my posting appear from all over the county. Listed below are
the surnames for which we have links with in Franklin County. My interest is
to compile a computerized database of the early settlers within Franklin
County (> 1850). This database is "COMPILED" from the records listed below.
In addition to the books listed numerous readers of the list have shared
parts of their family genealogy to help fill in many of the blanks and link
extended family lines. I'm currently computerizing the History of Hawley
(1953 edition) and have completed "A" through "G".

Our Franklin County, Massachusetts - Extended Family Surnames:
Stewart Genealogy: Webster*; Thornton*; Morgan; Hale
Webster Genealogy: Stewart*; Mills*; Guellow; Mattoon; Pettee; Goldthwaite;
Mayhew; Colledge; Parents
* Direct lineage

Our Orange & Windham County, Vermont - Extended Family Surnames:
Flint Genealogy: Stewart*; Flint*; Hall*; Martin*; Turner*; Leathers;
Soloman; Holman; Dudley & Bartlett.
* Direct lineage

Web Pages with Partial Postings of Computerized Genealogy

· Some of this genealogy has been posted by Deane Merrill on the following
WebPage: http://merrill.olm.net/shs/allred/index.html

There are links to this web page from:

http://merrill.olm.net/shs/index.html - Shelburne Historical Society
http://www.bearhaven.com/family - Deane Merrill's Genealogy Page

· The Franklin County, Mass., MAGenWeb Project - Genealogies of Franklin
County Families - Maintained by Robert V. Bremer:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mafrankl/gen/index.html

Sources for information computerized in my database - >130,000 names:

BOOKS - (Computerized):

· A Genealogy of the Descendants of Philip Mattoon of Deerfield,
Massachusetts. Compiled by Lillian G. Mattoon & Donald P. Mattoon.
Published by Courier Print Co., Littleton, N. H. 1965. Pages 1 - 50, This
includes the 1st through 5th Generations.

· Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Thomas Flint of Salem,
Massachusetts. Complied by John Flint and John H. Stone. Printed by Warren
F. Draper, Andover, Mass., 1860.

· John Marsh of Hartford, CT; Marsh Genealogy 1636 - 1895; Compiled by Dwight
Whitney Marsh of Amherst, Mass. Published by Press of Carpenter & Marebouse,
Amherst, Mass, 1895. Pages 251 - 304 (In-progress - covers the Montague
Mass., & Bethel, Vermont family lines).

· Descendants of Michael McClellan and Jane Henry of Colrain, Mass. By Lois
McClellan Patrie, Private Printing, 1970

· History & Genealogies of Gov. John Webster Families of Connecticut, by
William Holcomb Webster & Rev. Reuben Webster, D.D., 1st Edition, Published
by Endless genealogies, St. Paul, MN, 1915. For the Descendants of Robert
Webster son of Gov. John Webster.

· A History of Colrain, Massachusetts with Genealogies of Early Families, by
Lois McClellan Patrie.

· History of Conway, Massachusetts, 1767 - 1917, by The People of Conway,
Rev. Charles Stanley Pease, A.M. Editor. Published by Springfield Printing
and Binding Company, Springfield, Mass. 1917.

· A Brief Sketch of the First Settlement of Deerfield, Mass., Together with a
few of the event which took place there in early times. By one of the
Descendants of the First Settlers of the Town, by Elihu Hoyt, published by
John P. Fogg, Printer, Greenfield, Mass., 1833.

· History of the Town of Gill, Massachusetts, Genealogies A - Z, by Ralph M.
Stoughton, 1960. LDS FHC MicroFilm No. 0886882

· History of the Town of Whately, Mass., 1661 -1899, By James M. Crafts,
Printed for the Town, by D.L. Crandall, Mann's Block, Orange, Mass., 1899.


CEMETERY RECORDS - (Computerized):

· Beaver Meadow Cemetery, Leyden, Franklin County, Massachusetts. Listing of
Persons buried there or to be buried there. Information taken from
gravestones. Complied by Janet Cowan Boutwell, 5 Poplar Street, Turners
Falls, MA 01376-2513.

· Montague Franklin County, Massachusetts, Cemetery Records. Complied by the
National Society, D.A.R. - LDS FHC MicroFiche #6105188 - Dated: December 2,
1941.

· BURNHAM CEMETERY - Montague: Pages 1 - 2; This cemetery is located about
200 feet east of Walnut Street in the village of Montague City. It is in a
pasture and is not fenced. Many of the stones are down or are leaning badly.
Apparently it receives no care whatever. Surnames include: Burnham; Clark;
Cushman; Dewey; Fuller; Graves; Mack; Potter and Stevens.

· EAST MINERAL ROAD CEMETERY - Montague, Mass.: Pages 3 - 9; This cemetery
is located on East Mineral Road about 400 east of the main highway (State
Route 2A) between Turners Falls and Millers Falls. It was probably privately
owned and is now in rather poor condition with one or two exceptions there
have been no burials in it for many years. Surnames include: Ball; Billings;
Briggs; Britt; Brown; Caswell; Creagh; Dexter; Durkee; Drury; Fairbrother;
Goodard; Gunn; Hoye; Newell; Pratt; Stevens; Stowell; Terry; Upham; Webster;
White.

· OLD SOUTH CEMETERY - Montague, Mass.: Pages 10 - 40; This cemetery is
about one-half mile south of the Village of Montague Center and about
one-quarter mile west of State Highway No. 63. It is the oldest cemetery in
the town and contains the graves of many of the earliest settlers. It is
keep in fairly good condition by the Town. Several of the lots are endowed
with perpetual care funds. The layout is very irregular, and it is
practically impossible to tell where the lot lines (if there were such) were
located.

Vital Records (computerized):

· Early Vital Records of Colrain, Mass. - listed in The New England
Historical & Genealogical Register. Volume 73 - 1919 (pgs 246 - 260; Edward
Adams to Rominer Smith) & Volume 74 - 1920 (pgs 7 - 13; Oren Smith to Daniel
Workman). The plantation of Colrain, Mass., was incorporated as a town in
1761, being then in Hampshire County. In 1811, with twenty-three other
towns, it was set off from Hampshire County to form Franklin County. The
records were copied in 1888 from the town records by William O. Taylor of
Shelburne, Mass., and were presented by him to the New England Historic
Genealogical Society in 1896.

· Births, Marriages, Deaths, Cemetery Records - Colrain, Mass., abt 1741 -
1859. Compiled by Frank E. Caldwell and Retyped by the Genealogical Society,
1955. Book Source: LDS, Family History Library, SLC. US/CAN 974.422/C3.V28c

· Marriage Intentions at Buckland, Mass. 1793 - 1820. Published in the New
England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume 75, pp. 302 - 308, 1921.
Boston, Mass. The entries have been abridged from the original record of
intentions of marriage kept by the town clerk of Buckland, Mass., from 11 [?]
August [1793] to 11 January 1820, inclusive. Each intention is dated
"Buckland," and ends with the words "Samuel. Taylor Town Clerk." In a few
entries the date of the marriage also is given.

· Vital Records of Charlemont, Massachusetts To The Year 1850, Published by
the New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. 1917

· Vital Records of Gill, Massachusetts To The Year 1850, Published by the New
England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. 1904

· Vital Records of Heath, Massachusetts To The Year 1850, Published by the
New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. 1915

· Vital Records of Montague, Massachusetts to the Year 1849, Published by the
Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts. 1934

· Marriage Intentions at Wendell, Mass. 1793 - 1890, Certificates of
marriages published from under the hands of Town Clerk of Wendell, MA, 25 Apr
1787 to 15 September 1890. This information is unpublished and was
copied from original records by Eunice Mackie and Carolyn Chinouard. Posted
to Roots-L for Franklin County, Mass. by Betty-Sue Pratt.

· Birth Records of Wendell, Mass. 1764 - 1850, Recorded birth of Wendell,
MA. This information is unpublished and was posted to Roots-L for Franklin
County, Mass by Betty-Sue Pratt.

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