Bonnie, Thanks for the info. Where in Springfield? Martha On Sep 29, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Bonnie Weber wrote: > Hi > I had relations in West Leyden MA, and had to go to Springfield, to > find > that they had the records for Barnardston , Deeds. My Baker family, > Benjamin > and Elijah purchased land there in 1784 and 1788, both from R.I. > Most of the earliest records are still in Springfield. > Bonnie > .----- Original Message ----- > From: <gle1@comcast.net> > To: <MAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:35 AM > Subject: Re: [MAFRANKL] Cary in Colraine > > >> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >> >> Surnames: CARY >> Classification: Query >> >> Message Board URL: >> >> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EB.2ACE/1057.1 >> >> Message Board Post: >> >> Hi Martha, >> >> Rowe and Charlemont are towns in Franklin County. ALL Franklin County >> Land (i.e. Deed) and Probate records are housed in the Franklin County >> Courthouse on Main Street in Greenfield. Franklin County records >> begin >> with 1812. Any records of this nature (i.e. deed and probate) prior >> to >> 1812 are housed in the Hampshire County Hall of Records on King >> Street in >> Northampton. This is because Franklin County was part of Hampshire >> County >> prior to 1812. As you might have gathered, deed and probate records >> are >> housed at the county level. Specific vital records for a particular >> town >> are housed in that town, usually in the town clerk's ofice. >> >> Please refer to a corrollary posting of mine (Franklin-Hampshire >> County) >> on August 25, 2006 that provides more details about this chronology. >> >> Good luck. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >