----- Original Message ----- From: "Marge & Carl Hommel" <hommel@sundial.net> To: <CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [CRV] what is a "hog reef" > Another important position was the "Fence Viewer", who had to make > sure the fences were in working order. Also the "Drum Beater, > sometimes a young boy, who called people to the Meeting House on the > Sabbath, for which attendance was mandatory. No excuses. The "tythingman" also made sure folks didn't spend the Sabbath in taverns or otherwise break the Sabbath. Yrs aye, Warren Wetmore > > From: Warren Wetmore <WebMerlin@MegsINet.net> > To: <CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 12:05 AM > Subject: Re: [CRV] what is a "hog reef" > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "linda spear" <lspear@rochester.rr.com> > > To: <CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 3:25 PM > > Subject: Re: [CRV] what is a "hog reef" > > > > > > > Folks, you have been wonderful. Thanks for the many responses to > my query > > > about our ancestor's election to office. Someone had to round up > those > > > loose hogs. > > > > > > Linda Spear > > > > That's a very good one-sentence summation. > > > > One of the important features of this is that hogs and cattle were > pastured not on private property but on the commons that belonged to > the village. > > > > "Hog pen"? What's that? Hogs typically were put out in the woods > to forage for acorns and roots. But being intelligent animals they > sometimes figured out that pickings were easier in private vegetable > gardens and orchards. So the hog reeve got on their case. > > > > Sort of a pig policeman, you might say. > > > > Yrs aye, > > > > Warren Wetmore > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > http://www.quadrangle.org [CRV musuem and genealogy library] > > > List owner: NewEnglander1620@mail.ccsinet.net > > > > > > ============================== > > > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > > > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > > > > > > > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ...type in > Ct-River Valley or other mailing list > > http://www.acpl.lib.in.us [large genealogy library in Indiana] > > > > http://www.quadrangle.org (genealogical lib for Conn River area) > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > http://www.quadrangle.org [CRV musuem and genealogy library] > List owner: NewEnglander1620@mail.ccsinet.net > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >