Thanks to Sherry for posting the deeds. Note the interesting "absentee landlord" effect: the land purshased in Dunstable is described as > . first a piece of land Laying & > being in Dunstable in the county of Middlesex & Province aforesaid Although the land was in Middlesex County when Bartlet acquired it, the new Province line of 1741 had sliced right across Dunstable and given the northern part to New Hampshire. Bartlet (the seller) possibly had never seen the land in question and apparently didn't know exactly where it was and so guessed that it was in the part of Dunstable still in Massachusetts. However, the fact that the second deed finds Benjamin Blanchard residing in Dunstable, New Hampshire, shows that the land was indeed in the northern part. I presume that the deed was registered in New Hampshire (right, Sherry?). I wonder if there was ever a problem with title to that land because of that mistake in the deed ... John