From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue May 2 08:10:33 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k42EAXjb015538; Tue, 2 May 2006 08:10:33 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k42EAXRo017164 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 08:10:33 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k42Bb9FI009331 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 07:37:09 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k42Bb9bv009330 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 2 May 2006 07:37:09 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k422dTFI007860 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 22:39:29 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k425CgOn021645 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 1 May 2006 23:12:42 -0600 X-Envelope-From: dormarbil@yahoo.com Mon May 1 23:12:42 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k425Cgjb021634 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 23:12:42 -0600 Received: from web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.73]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k425Cbl1004145 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 23:12:38 -0600 Received: (qmail 67344 invoked by uid 60001); 2 May 2006 05:12:32 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=jUKrS/SJUkTIXIT/CRZTASQD5kFKTi3UyDgRg/Cehnim6FVL7RfJVDLvlnTkH8jyrFUTrp7mOdsu++EBkF6UXqtpmX8Tu6VRLtX55jFMA+HPVZHnA6lnimOvV2t2isRnDlk6sf9w5g1wenUFUPciTbOrVG1Eb7L8khAd2k4FXUA= ; Message-ID: <20060502051232.67342.qmail@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.238.198.251] by web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 01 May 2006 22:12:32 PDT Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 22:12:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doris Smith Reply-To: dormarbil@yahoo.com Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] the word "Gang" in 1739 Virginia To: Kith-n-Kin , ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <001101c6640a$9050e8f0$6601a8c0@TOWER> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 2.71 (**) BAYES_00,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thank you to all who answered my question... boy, I feel dumb sometimes. Doris A. Smith dormarbil@yahoo.com Kith-n-Kin wrote: Each landowner was responsible for keeping up the public works, including roads. One person would be named as the leader/surveyor, but each landowner contributed muscle for building/repairing roads. I take this usage to mean that the mentioned people were assigned to one group, and are being re-assigned. So, John Glenn and Jacob King both had road crews (gangs/companies) and this was a "reallocation of resources". Pat (in Tucson) |-----Original Message----- |From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com |[mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Doris Smith |Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 15:03 |To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com |Subject: [ROOTS-L] the word "Gang" in 1739 Virginia | | |I have before me a copy of a page in the "Vestry Book of St. |Paul's Parish in Hanover County, Virginia, 1706-1786" and have |a question about word usage. The passage reads: "Ordered, that |Edw:d England and Robert Wade's people, & Timothy Williams be |taken out of JOHN GLENN'S GANG, and added to Jacob Kings |Company, on the Road he is Surveyor of." | | Can anyone shed any light on just what the part in all caps means? | | Thank you, | D.A. Smith | dormarbil@yahoo.com | |