Peter Warren, and a Massachusetts Birth in New Hampshire birth records
"New Hampshire, Birth Records, Early to 1900," index and images, FamilySearch.org, GSU Film #1001056: accessed 5 June 2012. Daniel Warren 1780-1866 My 4 th great grandfather Daniel Warren was an early settler of the town of Warrenville (DuPage county), Illinois near Chicago. In fact, the town was named for the Warren family. Daniel was born in Massachusetts, but I discovered a birth record for him in the New Hampshire Birth Records collection at FamilySearch.org . Oddly enough, the New Hampshire birth record gave his birthplace as Townsend, Massachusetts. Why would a New Hampshire birth record list a Massachusetts town as a place of birth? I read what I could about the database, then read more about New Hampshire and Massachusetts state boundaries, and still couldn’t come up with a reasonable explanation. Then I discovered the Town Records of Hancock, New Hampshire in a small collection of free records at Fold3.com (which used to be...