You might try Bristol Co. Mass I think Taunton MA. At one time both Little Compton and Tiverton were part of Bristol Co. Mass and I believe Taunton was the county seat. I could be wrong about the county seat not about L.C. and Tiverton On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 18:20:07 -0400 Dave Springer <dbspring@earthlink.net> writes: > Hi, > > Trying to trace very early land transactions starting around 1660 in > Little > Compton & Tiverton, Mass (Now Rhode Island). > > Does anyone have suggestions. I have been to the Little Compton Town > Hall > and the FIRST transaction I can find with the name of JONATHAN > (SPRINGER) > selling some of his land to HENRY HEAD in 1708. > > I have read that most of the land in Tiverton and Little Compton > FIRST > belonged to Benjamin CHURCH in the Pocasset land purchase from the > Plymouth > Bay Colony. > > Trying to locate when Lawrence Springer who died in 1703/4 FIRST > purchased > his land. Sometime between 1660-1708. > > Can anyone provide any information on where I may look? > > > \\\|/// > \\ ~ ~ // > ( @ @ ) > +-------------------------------oOOo (_) oOOo---------------------+ > | Bailey, Borden, Brayton, Coggeshall, Cook, Easton | > | Franklin, FOSTER, Freelove, Goff, Griffin, Howard | > | Ingraham, Kay, Lake, Lewis, Perry, Smith, Stone, | > | SPRINGER,Tennis,West,Winslow,Wordell,Vickery | > +-------------------------------------------------Oooo. > -----------------+ > I'm Searchin' ( ) > Dave Springer .oooO ) / > 73 Hall Street ( ) (_/ > Fall River, MA 02724 \ ( > \_) > dbspring@earthlink.net > > Web Site: <http://davespringer.homestead.com/index.html> > > > > > > ==== RINEWPOR Mailing List ==== > American History and Genealogy Project http://www.ahgp.org > To unsubscribe: write unsubscribe and > mailto:RINEWPOR-L-request@rootsweb.com > Advertisements are added below against the wishes of this list > manager > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > Bob Searchin' for a past Ô¿Ô ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.