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/jUB.2ACI/750.1 Message Board Post: You can check with the Suffolk County Historical Society at Riverhead, or with the Town Historian for the Town of Southampton. During the colonial period, you seldom find records, listings and other information lower than the town level. I would think that an early listing identified as the Town of Southampton would be exactly that - covering the entire town and not just part of it.