In a message dated 12/1/2002 1:34:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I have often wondered why William Via did not show up in the processioning > records of St. Paul's Parish until 1731. Maybe the above info regarding > land > not being distributed until the youngest child came of age had some bearing > > on this issue. This would also account for the entries we often see in > things like personal property or land tax records that for years say > "estate > of". This would tend to indicate then that there were children not of age. > This is a new take I had never thought of. By this reckoning, Amer's youngest child would have been born about 1713. And the last known record of Amer being alive was 1716 when his land was processioned. But I think now, that this reckoning may not be accurate, because I think that between 1716 and 1732, that there were NO processionings at all. So there would not be any records for us to know whether they were around or not? I think that is true, isn't it? I don't think they were lost - or were they. I cannot remember. Perhaps they just were not done. <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/neddybarney/">Edna Barney</A>