Hi Debbie, I have posted on Cliff Lamere's website and article on where to find records at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/Misc/MI-ColCo-Recs.htm Mt. Washington was Taconic [sic] in 1752 and was west of Sheffield and ran into Livingston Manor in New York. I have a 1752 map I will send to you off list as an attachment. I have a few names of the Dutch settlers in that area from the book "The History of Great Barrington 1676-1922" by George Edwin MacLean. What names in particular are you looking for? Regards, Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debra Winchell" <dldove@earthlink.net> To: <MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 12:06 AM Subject: Town of Washington > I just looked at the records for the Town of Washington on the Berkshire > County usgenweb page. They seem to start late in the 1700s. Weren't > there people living here before then? I know it was part of the land > disputed by New York State at the behest of Robert Livingston and > Massachusetts and the border wars included people living on the land in > dispute. If there were people living here before the earliest dates > officially recorded, where would I look for the vital records? Also, > does anyone know who the Dutch families were who were supposed to have > been living there when the first English people came? > > Thank you very much. > > Debbie Winchell > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >