This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jUB.2ACI/1173.1 Message Board Post: On 3/26/06 (10:51:09 AM MST), in a posting to the Suffolk County Ancestry Board that was 'gatewayed' to NYSUFFOL-L@rootsweb.com, John Murphy (jmmurphy@washingtonnc.com) asked, "It appears that some kind of change was made to the boundaries of the Town of Riverhead not too long after its establishment in 1792. I have some ancestors who were living on the edge of the Town of Brookhaven near Manorville that all of a sudden start showing up in some of the Riverhead Town records around 1796. There was a notation in one of the Poor Books that mentioned the lines being redrawn. I'm trying to find out when this happened and what the extent of the changes were. Some maps would be nice but probably too much to hope for." The area that is now the Town of Riverhead was part of the Town of Southold until it seceded and became the Town of Riverhead on March 13, 1792. To research if there were any changes to the border of the Town of Riverhead after that date, you might want to contact the Riverhead Free Library: Riverhead Free Library 330 Court Street Riverhead, NY 11901 Tel: 631/727-3228 Fax: 631/727-4762 eMail: rflref@suffolk.lib.ny.us http://river.suffolk.lib.ny.us/ For a good town-by-town map showing all the villages and hamlets in each of LI's 13 towns, I suggest you download a copy of the 2005 edition of the LI Population Survey by going to: http://www.lipower.org/company/pubs/popsurvey.html I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Regards, Walter Greenspan Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY