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Re: Location of Hock's Settlement in New York
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Valerie Krejcie <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc.
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Try Ren Vasiliev's toponyms book

> On Dec 9, 2016, at 1:08 PM, Kathy P Stroud <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I have a patron who is looking for the location of Hock's Settlement in New York State.  Supposedly it's somewhere near Albany and James Raymond Simmons, author of "Feathers and furs on the turnpike" had a field station there in the 1920s/1930s.  It's not in the GNIS or geonames.org.
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> Does anyone have access to historic gazetteers of NY who can look it up for me?  I haven't been able to locate any info based on what the patron provided.
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> Thanks,
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> Kathy

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