Many people interested in genealogy in New England discover many discrepancies in town lines. In trying to locate dwelling of one of my ancestors, I found that the changes in town lines in that vicinity took up two and a half pages. The house in question is now at Sturbridge Village.

Quite a while ago I made a post about English town fathers' custom of taking boys along each spring, and literally beating the bounds, which were typically stone markers, and beating the kids' butts painfully at each boundary, to be sure they would remember it when they were grown up.