Here are the descriptions I have of where Asa Raymond, and his son Eli/ Elijah W., lived. Some years after his marriage he moved to Westminster and spent much of his life there. Owned successivley Jonathan Sawyer and Smyrna Whitney farms in north part of town and afterward the Abraham Wood house and lot on the common. After his first wife died, he m 2 Widow Hannah A (How) Peabody and resided in te former Dr. White House (History of Westminster, MA, 840-2.) Anyone know where these places would be, or how to find out? Place of birth, which is also said to be Westminster, is confirmed from Ashby Town Records to 1850. Westminster is right next to Ashby. Now, Asa was evidently a wealthy man, and held property worth $5000 in 1850 and $10,000 in 1860. In 1850, this big plot of land with long legs capable of great mobility, was in Fitchburg, and his son Eli W lived with him, was not married and had no children. Eli's future wife also lived in Fitchburg, but owned no property. She lived with her widowed mother or orphaned older sister, and three grown male laborers. In 1860, this big plot of land had sped back to Westminster. Eli W was enumerated immediately before Asa, suggesting that his land was adjacent and his father had given him a sizeable piece of his land worth $2000, and his own land had doubled in value. He was married, and had three children, including a child who was not born until 1864 and always thenafter was the right age to have been born in 1864. A map shows that the three places are adjacent, unless Ashburnham is also a town, because Ashby is apparently between the three of them. Only South Ashburnham and the Ashburnham state forest show on the Google map, and I could have sworn Ashby was a town with its own books of vital records. Otherwise, the border between Westminster, Ashby and Fitchburg is awfully elongaged and angular and seemingly must pass through the state forest. If Asa's land bordered all three, where would it have been, given the above descriptions of where it was at any point ni time? Most of the places listed don't sound like large farms, so probably one or two of them was his actual big farm, and the rest were places where he lived in retirement. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com