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/SRB.2ACE/11852.2 Message Board Post: Brigham Road lies in the north end of the Town of Pomfret. See http://www.townofpomfret.com for tax assessment records by owner from 1811. Photocopies of early nineteenth century assessment records are in the Barker Library, Fredonia, NY. Birth, marriage, and death records were not required in New York State until 1881.