Thank you for your explanation on plotting these deeds. For me, the reminder in your comments was that I needed to start with "todays" assessor plat maps. Can you tell me where these maps can be located in CT? I have done this before, in California. My husband & I had the maps and the property description and actually went to the sites. We were rewarded in one case by finding the actual house his grandfather built--it had been moved to a different location on the property. However, tracing back 100 years in CA is a lot easier than 300 years in CT. Again, thank you. It is a project that can be rewarding. Janece Carter Streig streig3@aol.com _http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jcstreig/_ (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jcstreig/) "Genealogy is life in the past lane."