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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.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Metes Jackie 03/21/02 01:43 PM Re: Metes wwh 03/21/02 02:03 PM Re: Mete it out WhitmanO'Neill 03/21/02 02:17 PM Re: Mete it out Jackie 03/21/02 02:23 PM Re: mete Keiva 03/21/02 09:49 PM Re: mete wwh 03/21/02 10:12 PM Re: mete Flatlander 03/22/02 12:17 PM Re: metes and bounds wow 03/22/02 01:57 PM Re: metes and bounds wwh 03/22/02 02:37 PM Re: mete Keiva 03/22/02 06:31 PM Re: cadastral wwh 03/22/02 07:56 PM Metes and Bounds Keiva 03/21/02 09:38 PM Re: Metes and Bounds Keiva 03/21/02 10:08 PM Re: Metes Capital Kiwi 03/21/02 09:45 PM
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