Eric, Flake & Others Thanks for your help. Tobacco was used as a currency, so that makes sense, but why: Why were they ordered by law? If a government warehouse why at individual farms? How did the govenment "pay" for the tobacco from individual farms? Hope my questions makes sense, Derrell A Rolling House was a tobacco warehouse. I think that the name derived from the fact that the huge hogsheads (barrels) of tobacco were literally rolled into the warehouses. 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

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/refserv/html/tobacco.html -----Original Message----- From: Derrell Oakley Teat [mailto:margaret.teat2@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 4:46 AM To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [VAROOTS] Rolling Houses Eric, Flake & Others Thanks for your help. Tobacco was used as a currency, so that makes sense, but why: Why were they ordered by law? If a government warehouse why at individual farms? How did the govenment "pay" for the tobacco from individual farms? Hope my questions makes sense, Derrell A Rolling House was a tobacco warehouse. I think that the name derived from the fact that the huge hogsheads (barrels) of tobacco were literally rolled into the warehouses. 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 ============================== 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

At 07:46 AM 8/21/03 -0400, you wrote: >Eric, Flake & Others >Thanks for your help. >Tobacco was used as a currency, so that makes sense, but why: >Why were they ordered by law? >If a government warehouse why at individual farms? >How did the govenment "pay" for the tobacco from individual farms? Apparently some tobacco growers put sub-standard and trash tobacco in the hogsheads. The establishment of the "rolling houses" was a quality control effort by the various colonial governments. A quote from a history of Maryland: "Tobacco was the lifeblood of the new community, and in 1745, a "Rolling House" for the inspection and trade of the crop was called for by the Maryland legislature. Completed in 1747, the Rolling House stimulated the growth of the settlement." I would assume that these rolling houses operated in a fashion similar to present day "bonded warehouses", in that the "title" to the tobacco remained with the tobacco grower until such time as it was sold. Wm. Flake Joiner 311 East Church Street P. O. Box 406 Troy, AL 36081-0406 <wfjoiner@p-c-net.net> DESK 334-566-9968; CELL 334-372-1160 "Progress was fine for a while; it just went on too long!" - Annette Shackelford Parks

Derrell, I found this in a site about Georgetown, DC. A Rolling House was for the inspection and trading of tobacco. There was a large one built in Georgetown in 1724. In those days there were canals that eventually went to the Potomac River. --- Derrell Oakley Teat <margaret.teat2@verizon.net> wrote: > Eric, Flake & Others > Thanks for your help. > Tobacco was used as a currency, so that makes > sense, but why: > Why were they ordered by law? > If a government warehouse why at individual > farms? > How did the govenment "pay" for the tobacco > from individual farms? > Hope my questions makes sense, > Derrell > > > A Rolling House was a tobacco warehouse. I > think that the name derived > from the fact that the huge hogsheads (barrels) > of tobacco were literally > rolled into the warehouses. > > 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 > > > ============================== > 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 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com