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/lRB.2ACE/527.1 Message Board Post: On 3/12/03 (9:57:57 AM MST), in a posting to the Nassau County board that was 'gatewayed' to [email protected], Mary Mild ([email protected]) asked, "I NEED TO DO RESEARCH ON BENJAMIN SAXTON AND WIFE RUMY, WHO ARE LISTED AS OWNING PROPERTY IN THE 1850 CENSUS IN OYSTER BAY. WHERE AM I MOST LIKELY TO FIND DEEDS FOR OYSTER BAY AND WILLS? THANKS. THE DEED WOULD BE BEFORE 1850 AND THE WILL WOULD BE AFTER 1850, IF THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE." The office of the Town Clerk for the Town of Oyster Bay might be of some help in telling you where these records might be: Office of the Town Clerk Town of Oyster Bay 54 Audrey Avenue Oyster Bay, NY 11771 Tel: 516/624-6332 http://www.oysterbaytown.com/ However, you may have to search in Queens County. Circa 1850, the Town of Oyster Bay (including all the villages and hamlets within its borders) was then part of Queens County. Also, on June 15, 1886, the Lloyd's Neck peninsula, otherwise called Horse's Head peninsula, in the extreme northeast part of the then Hamlet of Oyster Bay, Town of Oyster Bay, Queens County was transferred by an Act of the NYS Legislature to the Town of Huntington, Suffolk County. On January 1, 1899, the Town of Oyster Bay (including all the villages and hamlets within its borders), along with the Towns of North Hempstead and Hempstead (excluding the Rockaway peninsula) seceded and became independent of Queens County and formed Nassau County.