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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 | 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 | 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}}.) | ||
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