A rolling house was a tobacco warehouse... where they rolled cigars, an early currency. Really... -----Original Message----- From: Ms2001@aol.com [mailto:Ms2001@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:13 PM To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Rolling Houses Derrell - Here's a guess - I think it's some kind of metal ore mill - perhaps gold since they seem to be authorized by law. Or of course you may have bumped into Virginia's first trailer park .... sorry - just couldn't resist that one. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: [VAROOTS] Rolling Houses Date: 8/20/2003 10:54:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:margaret.teat2@verizon.net">margaret.teat2@verizon.net</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com</A> Sent from the Internet (Details) Essex Co Order Book 1716-1723 III Essex Co Court 18th of JULY 1721 p 582: Its ordered that the ROLLING HOUSE at HANNAH GRAVES's & FRANCS PAGET's be put down and RICHARD COVINGTON's is continued it being according to Law It's ordered that the WARE HOUSES at ye CHURCH of St. Annes Parish in possision of JOHN HINES be ROLLING HOUSES, they being according to Law. It's ordered that CORNELIUS SALE's ROLLING HOUSE be put down and that one be built at INGRAM'S LANDING accordign to Law It's ordered that JOHN ANDREW's ROLLING HOUSE be put down and ye ROLLING HOUSE at ROBT. PARKER's is continued it being according to Law It's ordered that ye ROLLING HOUSES at SAMUEL STALLORD and JOB SPEARMAN's be put down & that one be built at JOHN VAWTER's according to Law Its ordered that the ROLLING HOUSE at CORNELIUS RENNOLD's be put down & that one built at ELIZABETH HODSON's on BLACKBARN's CREEK according to Law This is a small sample I copied while looking for Spearman info. Now What is ROLLING HOUSES?? Thanks, Derrell Oakley Teat ============================== 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