At 07:33 AM 03/24/1999 -0500, you wrote: >Hello! > >Does anybody know anything about husbandry, husbandryware, and what kind >of "shop" would this require? > >Carole Carole: A husbandman is a farmer; husbandry is farming. I have seen it used in that sense many, many times in various documents of the 17th to the early 19th Centuries. The Oxford English Dictionary defines husbandry as, "The business or occupation of a husbandman or farmer; tillage or cultivation of the soil including also the rearing of live stock and poultry, and sometimes extended to that of bees, silkworms, etc.; agriculture, farming." It was sometimes formerly used in a concrete form (now obsolete) to mean, "Household goods, agricultural produce, cultivated crops, land under cultivation, an agricultural holding, the body of husbandmen on an estate, the farm tenantry." Other meanings are related or would not be likely to appear in a genealogical context. Husbandryware does not appear in the OED, which means it flat out wasn't ever a "real" word. It is easy enough to deduce that it was used to mean, "implements related to husbandry" such as plows, hoes, rakes, or whatever. Darrell Darrell A. Martin formerly of the Dutton District, Springfield, Vermont currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com