Hennigs Statutes records that processioners are to be appointed by the
church wardens and be  "two intelligent, honest Freeholders."

A Freeholder would be an owner of land and hence of age.
Honest Freeholder is repeated in the wording of the statute and the reading
by me appears to put a burden of honesty and accuracy upon the
processioners.

Further in the section covering processing is regulation pertaining to land
owned by person under age, a woman, mentally deficient person, etc.
which extends the time of boundary lines as processioned for 6 years. This
is to protect the above persons.

Freddie Spradling has posted these statutes on line---Bless his soul---for
all of us to read.

Tree Mother

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Thelma Glover <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Instructions for processioning land laid out in Hennings Statutes At Large,
> Chapter XIII, Oct, 1710.
>  Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Processioning Minimum Age
>
>
>  What can we assume from the processioning records? Was the minimum age for
> processioning 21? Or did they welcome the efforts of younger gentlemen?
> Thanks for your thoughts! --Sally Phillips
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