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/728.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Since the information was given from the Caldwell County, MO standpoint, I was thinking that 'other territory' would be in Ray County. Just in case, I do have the following taken from, THE HISTORY OF RAY COUNTY, 1881, page 240. The county court, May 7, 1832, ordered that a new township be erected out of Richmond township, and named Marion township, with the following boundaries, viz: Beginning at the corner of sections twenty-three and twenty-six and of twenty-seven and twenty-eight, in congressional township fifty-three, range twenty-seven; thence due north to line between townships fifty-six and fifty-seven; thence west with said line to range line between ranges twenty-eight and twenty-nine; thence south with said range line to corner of sections nineteen and thirty, and of twenty-four and twenty-five, in congressional township fifty-three; thence east to beginning. It will be observed that Marion township included four congressional townships in what is now Caldwll county. It contained one hundred and five taxable inhabitants. At the May term, 1832, of he county court, a new township was established and named Grand River. It was the same width, and lay northeast of Marion township, just described, extending to the state line, and embaced an area no part of which is within the present Ray county. Shoal Creek township was established in June, 1825, by the Ray county court. It lay due north of Marion township, and no part of it is in the Ray county of today. As has been stated, the territory embraced by the original limits was reduced from time to time till, in the year 1836, by the formation of Caldwell county, it was left with its present area. Jeanne