-------- Original Message -------- From: Glenda <[email protected]> Subject: {not a subscriber} Processioning To: Hanover Va list <[email protected]> This may help you in regards to the meaning of processioning. Processioner: a type of a surveyor in England and the US, especially in Va. and Ky. His job was to decide upon property boundaries to mark, and describe them in the processioner's book. Occasionally, the total acres and property boundaries determined by the processioner will be found in old minutes of a church in whose parish boundaries the land in question was located. Processioning, land: each four years, all landowners in a community would ride or walk along the boundaries of all their plantations. Surveyors who accompanied this procession would redraw any disputed lines. This custom came from England to Va. as a means of avoiding disputes arising from poor surveys or loss of boundary markers such as trees. The above is from "A TO ZAX a Comprehensive Dictionary for Genealogists and Historians" ; Barbara Jean Evans. This book is an asset to anyone doing genealogy. Glenda Trogdon Allen