In a message dated 06/28/2001 2:51:27 PM Central Daylight Time, murphy@tiaer.tarleton.edu writes: > If a road order was given "in the room of" > First of all I want to add my Thanks for all this transcribing and sending to the list. I have enjoyed it very much, even though my ancestors were out of Franklin County, by 1818, or before. Of all the questions that you asked, the above is the only one I can answer, "In the room of", simply means in place of. If someone couldn't do their duty on the road, someone did it in place of him. As for the double records, it is possible if it were an agreement between two people, both had it recorded. Julia