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=== Town Records  ===
=== Town Records  ===


After proprietors sold their land or a town was incorporated, town clerks recorded deeds and mortgages. These records are at the town halls; and the Family History Library has copies of most of them. After a county was created, the land records were and still are kept by the county registry of deeds office (see the County Records section below).  
After proprietors sold their land or a town was incorporated, town clerks recorded deeds and mortgages. These records are at the town halls; and the FamilySearch Library has copies of most of them. After a county was created, the land records were and still are kept by the county registry of deeds office (see the County Records section below).  


=== Colony Records  ===
=== Colony Records  ===
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[http://www.masslandrecords.com/ Indexes] to the land records are online by district/county though mostly post 1948.  
[http://www.masslandrecords.com/ Indexes] to the land records are online by district/county though mostly post 1948.  


The Family History Library has most county land records and indexes from the county's creation to the early 1900s. For example:  
The FamilySearch Library has most county land records and indexes from the county's creation to the early 1900s. For example:  


*Suffolk County (Massachusetts). ''Register of Deeds: Records of Deeds, 1639–1885; Indexes to Deeds, 1639–1920.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969. ({{FSC|190554|item|disp=on 1128 FS Library films}}.)
*Suffolk County (Massachusetts). ''Register of Deeds: Records of Deeds, 1639–1885; Indexes to Deeds, 1639–1920.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969. ({{FSC|190554|item|disp=on 1128 FS Library films}}.)