At 07:20 PM 9/14/2011, Carol Botteron wrote: >I checked the FHL catalog but didn't find anything. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=190554&disp=Records+of+deeds%2C+1639-1885%3B+index%20%20&columns=*,0,0 (watch out for line wrap) >Is there any way to check on land grants from the king of England to >people in Mass.? I am skeptical of that story. I am too. Note that I am at a loss to find any 17th-century Hixsons in eastern MA. The only Hixson marriages shown by Torrey are in western MA, and the earliest Dorchester vital record appears to be the birth of Walter, son of Richard and Hannah, in 1705. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net