Editing Mount Greylock (section)

==Name==
"Mount Greylock" as the mountain's present name "probably originated with [[Williams College]] Professor Albert Hopkins" (1807–1872) or another local professor of the same era, according to one 1988 source.<ref>see chapter one, "Most Excellent Majesty: A History of Mount Greylock," Berkshire County Land Trust and Conservation Fund, 1988. [https://archive.org/details/mostexcellentmaj0000burn/page/n13/mode/2up?q=extent&view=theater]</ref> The peak's namesake, [[Gray Lock]]<ref name="B"/>(c. 1670–1750) was an [[Abenaki]] tribal figure from near Westfield, Massachusetts,  known for raiding English outposts near the [[Connecticut River]]<ref>{{cite book|title=The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800: War, Migration, and the survival of an Indian people|url=https://archive.org/details/westernabenakiso0000call|url-access=registration|first=Colin G.|last=Calloway|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|year=1990|isbn=9780806122748}}</ref> and not historically associated with the mountain.

The 18th century English may have called the peak "Grand Hoosuc," although [[Timothy Dwight IV]] referred to it as "Saddle Mountain" in his travel memoir concerning the late 18th century.<ref>"Travels in New York and New England" Timothy Dwight 1821"</ref>

In the early 19th century it was called "Saddleback Mountain" because of its appearance seen from the south.<ref name="B">{{cite web|url=http://www.berkshireweb.com/mohawktrail/mtgreylock.html|title=Mount Greylock State Reservation|publisher=The BerkshireWeb|access-date=March 6, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104012813/http://www.berkshireweb.com/mohawktrail/mtgreylock.html|archive-date=January 4, 2015}}</ref>
According to a 1838 journal entry (posthumously published 1868), [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] overheard a local resident calling it  "Graylock." Hawthorne added that Saddleback "is a more usual name for it." Yet elsewhere Hawthorne simply called it Graylock, attributing this name to the mountain's frequent appearance in winter frost.<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8088/8088-h/8088-h.htm see July 27 entry, "American Notebooks, Vol I" Hawthorne]</ref>

Nonetheless, as of 1841, [[Edward Hitchcock]]'s authoritative "Final Report" on state geology called the entire massif "Saddle Mountain" and "the highest point of the summit" according to Hitchcock was called "Graylock." .<ref>page 247, "Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts>" 1841 Edward Hitchcock [https://archive.org/details/60741140R.nlm.nih.gov/page/n247/mode/2up?q=Graylock]</ref>