________________________________ From: Sarah New <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 8:32 AM To: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. Subject: Re: Location of Hock's Settlement in New York Sorry, Kathy, no luck here! I checked our 1860 Gazetteer of the State of New York and then the 1910 Ford's Travelers' and Shippers' Guide Book of New York State. Maybe it was just the name of a prominent local family? There are an awful lot of Houcks buried in Albany County (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Houck&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=36&GScnty=1978&GScntry=4&GSob=b&GSsr=1&df=all&) [https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photoThumbnails/photos/2010/169/53845074_127696420164.jpg]<http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Houck&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=36&GScnty=1978&GScntry=4&GSob=b&GSsr=1&df=all&> Find A Grave Search Form - Millions of Cemetery Records<http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Houck&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=36&GScnty=1978&GScntry=4&GSob=b&GSsr=1&df=all&> www.findagrave.com You must enter at least two characters in the surname field. Find A Grave Search Form: Name: First: Middle: Last (required) Include maiden name(s) in my search Sarah New <[log in to unmask]> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:00 AM, MAPS-L automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: There are 5 messages totaling 949 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Location of Hock's Settlement in New York 2. Recommendations for map scanner (3) 3. Duplicate maps free to US libraries ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:04:23 +0000 From: Edward Sullivan <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Re: Location of Hock's Settlement in New York A Google Books search found the imaged 1938 book by James Ramond Simmons; on page 18, there's a reference to "the Houck Settlement in the Helderburg region of New York" as the site of Simmons' receiving station. https://books.google.com/books?id=VmeHJ7LtfysC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=settlement From a few more quick searches it appears there's a Houck Farmhouse located in Guilderland that is on the National Registry, and that a James A. Houck was one of the regions first hoteliers in Knox. Hope these help. Ed Sullivan Economic and Planning Systems Sent from my Galaxy TabŪ S2 -------- Original message -------- From: Valerie Krejcie <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: 12/11/16 14:52 (GMT-08:00) To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Location of Hock's Settlement in New York Try Ren Vasiliev's toponyms book On Dec 9, 2016, at 1:08 PM, Kathy P Stroud <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]><mailto:[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>> wrote: 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<http://geonames.org><http://geonames.org>. 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. Thanks, Kathy ------------------------------ -- Sarah New Web Services Librarian Albin O. Kuhn Library UMBC 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 Phone: 410.455.1551