Dear List, I saw the two postings yesterday morning concerning the whereabouts of the early Exeter, N.H., Land Grants. As luck would have it, I just recently finished inventorying those very records as part of my research for an upcoming article on early Exeter settlement and surviving records for The Great Migration Newsletter [Jan.-Mar., 1999, issue]. The Exeter land grants, as those of any other early New England town that I have ever dealt with, were Proprietors' Grants, and as such were recorded in the Proprietors' Books. Sometimes the Proprietors' books survive and can be easily found, and sometimes not. Sometimes they turn up in the strangest places, nowhere near the place whose records they contain. They are not in any county registry (even if there was such a thing at the time), and in the case of Exeter are definitely not in Salem or Plymouth, Massachusetts, as was suggested. The grant records, from 1639-1739, are to be found on pp. 1-287 of Volume 2 of Exeter records [GSU microfilm #15783]. This is a refilming, in much better order, of another GSU microfilm which I will not bother to tell you about since its arrangement was chaotic and contains nothing, as far as town grants are concerned, not found here in a much easier-to-read order. I hope that everyone on the list is aware that the WPA index to names found in New Hampshire Town Records, on cards at the New Hampshire State Library, and on microfilm elsewhere, does NOT contain any reference to Exeter. For some unfortunate reason, when the WPA prepared that wonderful index, they forgot to include Exeter. So, the only way to find anything in Exeter records is to search page by page through them, which I have just finished doing. I hope this is of help to the list. Regards, George Sanborn