52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2015 WEEK 32: CALEB COBURN PT2

One of the brick walls on my family mtree is the identity of Caleb coburn's wife. I can find no record
of the marriage in any of the towns near Dracut nor Dunstable. Was it possible Caleb's wife came
from New Hampshire, across the Merrimack River that his property bordered?

Last week after I finished the posts about his father Moses I decided to take another shot at finding the name of Caleb's wife, this time using a different set of records. I went to the Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986 Collection over at FamilySearch and searched the records for Middlesex County. In many land transactions, the name of the grantor(seller)'s wife is sometimes mentioned.  I found only two transactions involving Caleb Coburn in the Middlesex Deed index (grantor) 1800-1835 A-G file. Both of them took place around the time of his death:

"Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-36097-14158-22?cc=2106411&wc=MCBY-PWL:361613501,363562301 : accessed 3 September 2015), Middlesex > Deed index (grantor) 1800-1835 A-G > image 313 of 655; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.

The first sale was to a "R.Coburn" on 20Nov 1810, the second to M.B. Coburn on  3Apr 1811.
Caleb had died on 17Dec 1810.

"Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-36097-14158-22?cc=2106411&wc=MCBY-PWL:361613501,363562301 : accessed 3 September 2015), Middlesex > Deed index (grantor) 1800-1835 A-G > image 313 of 655; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.

Luckily both land sales were in the same book, Deeds 1810-1811 vol 188-190 and I found them
both. after a fifteen minute search This is the first:

Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-36164-11837-73?cc=2106411&wc=MC1M-PT5:361613501,364639201 : accessed 4 September 2015), Middlesex > Deeds 1810-1811 vol 188-190 > image 494 of 821; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.

I noticed that the sale had taken place in Tyngsborough on 1Nov but was received by the
court in Cambridge on 20Nov. Down near the end of the document Caleb's wife Patty is named.

Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-36164-11837-73?cc=2106411&wc=MC1M-PT5:361613501,364639201 : accessed 4 September 2015), Middlesex > Deeds 1810-1811 vol 188-190 > image 494 of 821; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.

So, My 5x great grandmother's name was Patty, probably short for Patricia.

Or was it?

I now examined the later, second land sale.I'll discuss what I found in the next post in the series.