This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XNB.2ACI/728.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I hope this will help. According to, A DIRECTORY OF TOWNS, VILLAGES, AND HAMLETS PAST AND PRESENT OF CALDWELL COUNTY, MISSOURI, posted on the website: thelibrary.springfield.org/lochist/moser/caldwellco.html In May, 1832, the Ray County Court created a new township out of Richmond and named it Marion...Marion Township, Ray County, comprised among other territory what is now the west four miles of Lincoln and New York, and all of Grant and Kingston Township, Caldwell County. This website also gives detailed information about the other Caldwell County Townships including Twp and Range #s. Jeanne