Hello Susan, Maybe someone from the town hall where the actual books are could help with that. A few years ago when I was there I found some maps of all the plots. I copied the ones for the towns my family was in, but Stamford wasn't one of them. When you looked in the deeds books I'm assuming you searched by the name. Sometimes the deeds and mortgages weren't recorded for many, many years after the sale took place. So, just because it was a deed book covering a certain time period, it may have deeds from earlier years because the date is when it was recorded, not when it was sold. I'm not sure why. Maybe someone on the list might know the answer to that. I have some deeds that weren't recorded for sometimes 30 years after it was purchased. Here is a page with one of the portions of the Davenport map. This is how I tracked my Gaddis' and who their neighbors were. http://www.dcnyhistory.org/map1869dav1.html I'm sure there are maps for Stamford. Good luck. Patty At 08:55 AM 10/16/2006, you wrote: >Thanks for responding, Patty. I have looked at all pertinent deedbooks and >mortgages but Alexander's acquisition of the property is not in them. Is >there some way of tracing the lineage of the lots? Lot 235 must have been >created from an earlier lot. Alexander lived in the northern half. > >Susan