Good info, Kitty. Thanks. I did not know it was ever done these days. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kitty Manscill To: paul drake ; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Re: Bouncing and Processioning. Some Episcopal Churches process around their property on Rogation Day. In some parishes this is done after church and is followed by a picnic. ----- Original Message ----- From: "paul drake" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Re: Bouncing and Processioning. > For centuries when a tract of land was to be sold or otherwise transferred the scarcity of those who could read and write dictated that boundaries be remembered by the parties. Thus, children were taken along as the boundaries were walked from beginning back to beginning. They were often whipped at the time in order that they remember for years precisely where those boundaries were. Processioning on a regular basis without the whippings took place throughout the English Colonial South, were the responsibility of the parishes, and were entered in the parish registers. Those prevented MUCH litigation and were very effective in solving problems of boundaries. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Valerie J. Adams > To: paul drake > Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 11:49 AM > Subject: RE: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Re: Bouncing and Processioning. > > > Paul, > Please explain the practice of whipping kids to me. What did they do and > why? Sounds awful! > Valerie Adams > > -----Original Message----- > From: paul drake [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 11:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Re: Bouncing and Processioning. > > The practice of whipping kids while processioning land in order that they > remember the boundaries was largely abandoned because more and more people > could write and set forth property boundaries by a writing such as a deed > and deed description, etc. > > Processioning continued here until the last years of the 18th century. > "Lease and release" transfers also were common here till the early years of > the 18th-C. And "turf and twig" memorializations of transfers of land here > were not yet completely abandoned till the last years of the 17th-C. In my > dictionary you will find definitions of those. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Charlotte > To: paul drake > Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:52 AM > Subject: "Bouncing and Processioning". > > > I thought I had read a discussion of yours on Processioning. So, I > understand then, that the practice had been abandoned before this country > was settled. I wonder if there are other traditions of simalar ritualistic > nature still found in the country communities of the U.S. > > > > ==== VA-SOUTHSIDE Mailing List ==== > VAGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vagenweb > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== VA-SOUTHSIDE Mailing List ==== > VAGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~vagenweb > Please contact List Administrator if you experience problems > getting unsubscribed from this list. [email protected] > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >