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From: Joe Price <price@athena.physics.isu.edu>
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Subject: [ROOTS-L] Citing a location before it was a state?

How should one specify the location for an event when the event occurred 
before the location was a state?

I have that Josiah Root was born in 1756 in Toland, Toland County, CT.  
According to Everton's Handybook Toland County was formed in 1785 and CT
was not formed as a state until 1788.

Is there a Tolland Township as well as city and county by that name?

Joe in Idaho, the Gem State.