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1. Location of Hock's Settlement in New York
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:04:23 +0000
From: Edward Sullivan <[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
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From: Valerie Krejcie <000006271864e361-dmarc-[log in to unmask] >
Date: 12/11/16 14:52 (GMT-08:00)
To: [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:ks[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 >.
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
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