Ok. I'm talking about the town that is directly south of the Town of Egremont. I believe that would then be the Town of Mount Washington. I guess I'm still getting the two mixed up. Debbie Formel wrote: > The town of Washington is near Lee, Ma., north of Becket; the town of Mt. > Washington is in south county near the New York state border. It was the > latter town that was part of the land dispute. > > Debra Winchell wrote: > > > I just looked at the records for the Town of Washington on the Berkshire > > County usgenweb page. They seem to start late in the 1700s. Weren't > > there people living here before then? I know it was part of the land > > disputed by New York State at the behest of Robert Livingston and > > Massachusetts and the border wars included people living on the land in > > dispute. If there were people living here before the earliest dates > > officially recorded, where would I look for the vital records? Also, > > does anyone know who the Dutch families were who were supposed to have > > been living there when the first English people came? > > > > Thank you very much. > > > > Debbie Winchell > > > > ============================== > > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp