TIP# 132 - OLD DEFINITIONS CONTINUED - N THROUGH P Remember to check out the URL in my signature line for the past 131 tips that have been posted! Nabob: A very wealthy man. Narrow bed: Grave Nasci: To be born Natty Lads: Pickpockets (young) Natural Child: One related by blood instead of by adoption. Natural father: One not always legally married to the mother. Natural Life: Widowhood Necessary House: Ye olde privie. Nee: Born, maiden name. Ne Exeat: An order issued forbidding leave the jurisdiction of a court. Nephew: Could also refer to grandsons and cousins, etc. Nephritis: Kidney inflammation. Nepos: Grandson Nepos ex filio: Brother or sister's child. Neptis: Granddaughter Nervine: Disorder of the nerves. Nester: Squatter New bear: A cow who has just calved. New Lights: Non-conservative religious party. New Mother: Step-mother. Next day: Day after tomorrow. Next friend: An individual who was not the legal guardian but one who filed suit for an infant or one incapable of doing it themselves. Usually a relative. Nigger consumption: Black person's TB. Night riders: Men on horseback who rode together after dark to subdue the recently freed blacks and also attacked tobacco growers in KY Re forming an association. Also known as the Ku Klux Klan or Silent Brigade. Ningimmer: Surgeon NMI No middle initial. NMN: No middle name. Nolle prosequi:No further prosecution. Nola contendere: I will not contest it. Non assumpsit: He did not rpomise Non compos mentis: Of unsound mind. Non culpabilis: Not guilty. Non ficet: He did not make it. Non-resident: Lived outside the area cited. Non vivus:Still born or not alive. Note of hand: IOU. Old Lights: Orthodox Colonial clergymen. Old milk: Skimmed milk. Old Style Calendar: Before 1752. Onset: a house or out building. Onus: Burden. Opiate: Sedative or narcotic to induce sleep. Opine: State your opinion. Opium: Drug made from the dried juice of poppies. Oral will: Spoken, often death-bed will. Oratrix: Female plaintiff in a case. Ordinary: Tavern or inn. Orphan: Minor child, lost one or both parents. Sometimes called this When only the father has died. O. S. Old Style calender. Ostery: Inn. Out-crier: Auctioneer. Outhorne: Outlaw. Outlay: Costs/expenditures. Outlot: Land outside the city limits. Outpartners: Thieves. Outriders:Baliff hired by the sheriff to issue summons. Outsettler: One who lives in a distant area. Over live: Outlive. Oyer: To hear. Oyer & Terminal Court: Occurred when a circuit rider judge appeared in the county. Pace: 2 ½ feet on an average. Pack Monday: First Monday after the 10th of October. Pantalets:Long bloomers on a lady which showed under the dress. Pantaloons: Close-fitting trousers with straps down to under the soles of the feet. Parcel: Land with specific boundaries. Passage: Ferry. Passing bell: A bell (normally church) which announced a death. Patent entry books: Kept by many county clerks, recorded original land patents for county. Patent land: The 1st deed to land from the government. Pennyroyal: A plant of the mint family found in many parts of KY - now rather rare. Per diem: Per day or by the day. Piet court: Small claims court. Photograph types-positive: Daguerreotypes - 1839-1860 Ambrotypes 1850's and 1860's Tintypes 1850-1930's Salted paper prints 1839-1860's Albumem prints 1850's - 1860's Silver gelatin prints 1880's to present. Same - negatives: Collodion wet & dry plates 1850's - 1880's Gelatin dry plates 1880's - 1920's. Phrennitis: An inflammation of the brain, causes deliriums Phthiriasis: Lice infested. Phthisis: TB of the lungs, coal miner's black lung. Phthisic: Asthma Pigeon pair: Twins, one of each sex. P.J.P.: Probate Judge of the Peace. Plaintiff: One who starts a lawsuit against another. Plank road: Made of wood which didn't last but a few yrs. It was normally only on the right side of the road into town, with the left side left dirt for the farmers. Plantation: Large house or homestead. Plantation house: Main dwelling on a farm. Planter: A farmer with normally more than 100 acres. Plot: Small piece of land, similar to a garden size plot. Ploughman: Farmer or laborer. Plow tree: Handle of a plow to be pushed or pulled by man or horse. Pointing horse: A farmer's tool. Poke day: An appointed day when a farmer paid an allowance of corn to his laborers. Pole: 16 ½ feet. Poleman: Assistant to surveyor. Poll: Person was free to vote if he had paid his tax and was 21 yrs old. At age 50, many were exempted from paying his toll. Poor accounts: Records of the distribution of money to the poor. Poor school: Public school. Postage currency: when money was short after the end of the Civil War, postage stamps were used as legal tender. This failed because the stamps sold out, they got wet and stuck to the men's purses. Posthumous child: Born after the death of the father. Post rider: Mail person who rode a horse. Post road:The mail route. Post town: The town with the main post office. Potagre: out. Potter's field: Cemetery for paupers, suicides, executions - could be part of the main cemetery. Prairie breaker: One who received free land from the government and lived there while improving it. Pre-exemption: The legal right to obtain land when the government requirements had been fulfilled. Presents: The statement of the grand jury in a court case. Pretermitted child: Child was born after the father's will had been executed thus the child was not mentioned in the will. Prima facie: At first view. Probate:The process of selling an estate. Processioner: A surveyor who determined property boundaries to make. Public domain land: Belonging to the US, reserved for special purposes such as parks or reservations. Puerperal: Refers to childbirth. Putative father: Alleged father of an illegitimate child. 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