Don Nickell wrote: > Any idea what Processioned means? I've seen it in the Chalkley Chronicles and other ca1750 records: > > "Page 445.--1767-68: Processioned by Henry Stoon and Henry Pickle, Sr., viz: For Honnical Simmons, for Hannah Hawse, for Posley Hover, for Mark Swadley, for Henry Pickle, ..." It's sometimes amazing what you can find in a search engine such as Google: http://www.google.com/ http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/terms.htm "Processioned - Processioning is the surveying and inspection of boundaries formerly performed by the local authorities in some American colonies, and was replaced by the introduction of the practice of accurate surveying and recording. The term is only rarely see on old Tennessee surveys." Bob