DEFINITIONS OF SOME WORDS USED IN EARLY DOCUMENTS Von Mings Stachon has been transcribing and contributing court records, deeds and wills for several counties in Virginia. So far, she has completed 562 documents and is still going. In the process, she has collected a list of words that appear in these documents whose meanings may not be known by the average reader. These words and their definitions may be seen at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/special/earlywords.txt Feel free to pass this list on in your mail lists, or place them in your archived records.

Hi there, I did something similar, though on a much smaller scale, when I was transcribing some wills a few years ago: <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mdtaffet/MOSES/wills_glossary.html> -- Mary Taffet On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 [email protected] wrote: > > DEFINITIONS OF SOME WORDS USED IN EARLY DOCUMENTS > > Von Mings Stachon has been transcribing and contributing court records, > deeds and wills for several counties in Virginia. So far, she has > completed 562 documents and is still going. In the process, she has > collected a list of words that appear in these documents whose meanings may > not be known by the average reader. These words and their definitions may > be seen at: > > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/special/earlywords.txt > > Feel free to pass this list on in your mail lists, or place them in your > archived records.