Roy - Per MSA, Worcester land records, Libers AF, AG, AH, AI covering 1816-17, were destroyed in a fire in 1834. Also Liber J (1789). See http://guide.mdsa.net/series.cfm?action=viewSeries&ID=C2019 John Polk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy C. Pollitt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 23:02 Subject: [LDR] Land Books >I am compiling a list, in chronological order, of the > Land Books for Somerset and Worcester Counties. > > Can anyone help me on this: > > I have - > WORC Co Liber AE 1814-1815 > Liber AJ 1818-1819 > > What Libers cover the period 1816-1817 ??? > AF, AG, AH ???? > > Or did these exist, once upon a time, but have > been lost (perhaps in the 19th Century Fire at > the Worc Co CH --- btw, what year was that fire)? > > Roy C. Pollitt > > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Roy: Given that John's response points to the MSA's already-accessible chronological list, I'm wondering what your objective is beyond what's already there. I can add, though, that date span covered in specific deed volumes is more complicated than MSA represents, or even realizes, for early Somerset deeds (up to about 1722). In that time, the deeds were often jointly bound in various ways with other materials: court records, cattle marks, vitals and other odds and ends. There are many instances in which the sets of material co-bound are not from the same span of years, and many in which two or more deed volumes overlap in dates, though not recognized in the MSA guide. In some volumes there are additional deeds appended, from some years downstream from the main set of deeds in the book. All this affects some 17 volumes in one way or another. There is even one small deed volume which altogether escaped the attention of the clerks who created the master county index.... Another issue is that some of the deeds are "hidden" within the court records sections of the jointly bound volumes and not identified in the finding aid. Another volume is referred to in the master index in a couple of different ways, though pointing to the same book. And there are internal gaps of missing pages here and there which are only disclosed when one does close-order title work or a careful look at pagination. (Occasional pages are also missing from later volumes, too.) And maybe some other variations I didn't mention... In any event, having been through every page of every volume, I do know where all the bodies are buried (and what seems to be forever lost) in order to construct a title chaining through all the deeds up to the Revolution and beyond. I have here a long set of notes on what's where in each volume, down to the page level, and dates and types of subject matter covered, etc., which was about the only way I could keep traceability for the whole "solution". It' was a very, very messy business, unraveling all this. Some 17,000 pages just up to the Revolution, across Somerset and Worcester. John -----Original Message----- From: John Polk <[email protected]> Per MSA, Worcester land records, Libers AF, AG, AH, AI covering 1816-17, were destroyed in a fire in 1834. Also Liber J (1789). See http://guide.mdsa.net/series.cfm?action=viewSeries&ID=C2019 From: "Roy C. Pollitt" <[email protected]> >I am compiling a list, in chronological order, of the > Land Books for Somerset and Worcester Counties.