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From: "Dale H. Cook" <>
Subject: Re: [MAFRANKL] Franklin County out of Hampshire when?
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:33:21 -0400


At 04:53 PM 10/7/2007, Daniel David Lewis Frommherz wrote:

>Folks what is the date that Franklin County was formed from
>Hampshire County on its north side?

Franklin Co. was incorporated from Hampshire Co. on June 24, 1811.
See Elias Nason, "A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts" (Boston:
B. B. Russell, 1874)., p. 218.

>Were any other counties made of this area and/or were other counties
>area used in forming it?

As far as I have been able to find, no to both.

Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/index.shtml

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