Southwick, Hampden County, Massachusetts Genealogy
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Town Clerk[edit | edit source]
454 College Highway
Southwick, MA 01077
Phone: 413-569-5504
Fax: 413-569-0667
Email: treasurer@southwickma.net
Website
Brief History[edit | edit source]
Historical Data[edit | edit source]
Town Histories[edit | edit source]
Vital Records[edit | edit source]
City Directories[edit | edit source]
Maps[edit | edit source]
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
Churches[edit | edit source]
Town Records[edit | edit source]
Migration[edit | edit source]
Migration routes for early European settlers to and from Southwick, Hampden County, Massachusetts Genealogy included:[1]
- Connecticut River a navigable river stretching from the border of Quebec, New Hampshire, and Vermont flowing south to through Connecticut into Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean at Old Saybrook, Connecticut
- Alford and Egremont (MA) Turnpike[2] 1812
- Ancram (NY) Turnpike[3] 1805, also sometimes called the Catskill Road, from Salisbury, Connecticut to Catskill, New York
- Catskill Road 1750s from Springfield, Massachusetts to Catskill, New York[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
- Catskill Turnpike (aka Susquehannah Turnpike ) from Catskill, NY to Unadilla, NY; route travelled by Europeans by 1792; toll booths opened by 1804.[9] [6] [10] [11]
- Columbia (NY) Turnpike 1799
- Great Barrington and Aford (MA) Turnpike[12] 1812
- Greenwood Road[13] 1799 from Hartford, Connecticut to Albany, New York
- Hampden and Berkshire (MA) Turnpike[14] 1826
- Hillsdale and Chatham Turnpike 1805 from Alford, Massachusetts to Albany, New York
- Housatonic River (MA) Turnpike[15] 1809
- King's Highway, also known as the upper fork of the Boston Post Road, from Boston, Massachusetts to Charleston, South Carolina 1650s
- Massachusetts 10th Turnpike[16] 1800
- Massachusetts 12th Turnpike[17] 1812
- Old Connecticut Path[18] [19] [20] 1630 from Boston, Massachusetts to Hartford, Connecticut
- Rensselaer and Columbia (NY) Turnpike 1799
- Salisbury and Canaan (CT) Turnpike[21] 1801-1829
- Ulster and Delaware Turnpike 1802 from Salisbury, Connecticut to Bainbridge, New York
Newspapers[edit | edit source]
Libraries and Historical Societies[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 847-61. WorldCat entry; FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ Frederic J. Wood, The Turnpikes of New England and the Evolution of the Same Through England, Virginia, and Maryland (Boston: Marshall Jones, 1919), map between 56 and 57, and 168. Internet Archive version online.
- ↑ Isaac Huntting, History of the Little Nine Partners of North East Precinct and Pine Plains, New York, Dutchess County (Amenia, NY: Chas. Walsh, 1897), 99-101. Google Book edition.
- ↑ List of turnpikes in New York in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia (accessed 6 November 2014).
- ↑ Ancram Turnpike in Routes in the Northeastern United States: Historic Trails, Roads and Migration Routes (accessed 6 November 2014). The Ancram Turnpike went from Springield, MA to Catskill, NY; and was called the Catskill Road.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Almira E Morgan, The Catskill Turnpike: A Wilderness Path (Ithaca, N.Y.: DeWitt Historical Society of Thompkins County, 1971), 5. Online digital copy.
- ↑ Catskill Turnpike in Routes in the Northeastern United States: Historic Trails, Roads and Migration Routes (accessed 6 November 2014). The Catskill Turnpike went west from Catskill, NY to Bath, NY; the east part was called the Susquehanna Turnpike.
- ↑ Huntting, 97-99.
- ↑ List of turnpikes in New York in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia (accessed 1 November 2014).
- ↑ Anastassia Zinke, The Susquehanna Turnpike and America's Frontier History in Catskill Mountain Foundation (accessed 1 November 2014).
- ↑ Joan Odess, The Susquehanna Turnpike (pdf accessed 1 November 2014).
- ↑ Wood, map between 56 and 57, and 186-88.
- ↑ Wood, map between 330 and 331, and 348-49.
- ↑ Wood, map between 56 and 57, and 203-205.
- ↑ Wood, map between 56 and 57, and 166-67.
- ↑ Wood, map between 56 and 57, and 76-78.
- ↑ Wood, map between 56 and 57, and 79-80.
- ↑ Old Connecticut Path in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia (accessed 28 October 2014).
- ↑ Wood, 25.
- ↑ Boston Post Road in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia (accessed 28 October 2014).
- ↑ Wood, map between 330 and 331, and 363-64.
Adjacent towns: Hampden Co.: Agawam | Granville | Westfield | Connecticut: Hartford Co.: Granby | Suffield
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