In a message dated 12/6/99 12:51:53 PM, NHROCKIN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << I was trying to be funny >> I "got it." And appreciated the rrrreminder. But a new question: if Elijah Vickery of Exeter was sentenced to "goal" in 1765 by the court in Portsmouth, where would he have served and would there be a record--other than the court records, of course, which only indicate that he was sentenced as a debtor. Let's say he died there, where would they bury the body? Clearly an extension of my cemetery question of last week. George