New England Gazetteer

Historical gazetteers are important reference works for genealogists because they provide information about place names associated with our ancestors that are frequently not in common use today. Once we know, for example, that "a runaway pond" could be found in Glover, Vermont, we can begin to look for census or other source records belonging to that jurisdiction. Hayward's "New England Gazetteer" is one of the more ambitious works of this genre, for herein the reader will find descriptions...