John.... Very interesting and thank you very much for your input ....makes perfect sense to me now. Michelle ...... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [LDR] HOGG Quarters..listings. > There were also HOG YARDs, HOG RANGEs, HOG PENs, etc., not to mention > COW QUARTERs, COW PASTUREs, and so on. These names may have had > purpose for the original grantee involving where their animals grazed > or foraged or whatever, but as time went on, the land partitioned and > sold, later owners did whatever they did with their land. The original > naming of the property became just a fossil curiosity. There were a > lot of pigs, raised for only one reason, which is why a lot of tracts > ended up with porcine names. There were even a gaggle of tracts with > names like BACON QUARTER. Very few tract names involving sheep, though. > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, Jul 7, 2010 7:44 pm > Subject: Re: [LDR] HOGG Quarters..listings. > > > Possibly that was the area in which pigs were kept. And, since many > people had pigs, there would naturally be a lot of places called that. > At any > rate, it sounds logical. > > Elizabeth > > > In a message dated 7/7/2010 7:40:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > John, > I assumed that once someone named their property, such as HOGG > Quarters, that it was more or less consider like a patent. Now I see > that > I > was wrong. Now, one does wonder how the early settlers ever came up > with > such a name. ;) > Michelle > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 5:40 PM > Subject: Re: [LDR] HOGG Quarters..listings. > > >> There was no gatekeeper preventing tract names being used again and >> again. There were over 60 different patents titled HOG QUARTER > (often >> spelled then as HOGG ...) spread across Somerset, Worcester and >> Wicomico, and a few now in Sussex. As I said in my earlier post, > over >> a third of these were in what's now Worcester. The most common > tract >> name, though, was just plain CHANCE, which seems to have been used > 155 >> times ... This is the sort of thing which can confuse things mightily >> for researchers. One of the characteristic problems in Ruth Dryden's >> published volumes is her assignment of deeds in title histories to > the >> wrong tract of the same name. Using that data carelessly has led > many >> people to barking up the wrong HOG QUARTER, or CHANCE, or whatever. >> >> Black cattle were among the Somerset 1783 collected stats, too. >> Googling a bit, one finds that black Angus also became prized, but it >> seems that was a little later breeding development. One wonders if >> "black cattle" was somehow a more general term of agricultural art, >> applied to "the best", whatever their breed, but this is beyond my > pay >> grade. I've always wondered about these assessment categories, with >> questions like "What about sheep and hogs and oxen?" There was > surely >> method behind the particular madness of the chosen assets, and only >> those. >> >> John >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Michelle Burris Kenerly <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Wed, Jul 7, 2010 4:55 pm >> Subject: [LDR] HOGG Quarters..listings. >> >> >> Members: >> I have read with great interest your postings of property listed >> as HOG >> Quarters and HOGG Quarters. It appears that this may have been > several >> acres and >> or passed down to a lot of different folks. >> My ancestral records show that my GGGGG Grandfather Sothey KING >> bought land >> listed as HOGG Quarters on March 18, 1776. The deed showed that he > was >> living >> in Worcester Co., MD at the time. He may have even lost the land > later. >> Actually, I'm not trying to get into the mix of things, just >> thought it >> interesting that so many people had ownership of this named > property. >> Regards, >> Michelle >> >> >> >> >> *************************************** >> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the >> body of >> the message >> >> *************************************** >> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the > body of > the message > > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message