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Subject:
what is a fence-viewer?
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Lee Anne Center <[log in to unmask]>
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Lee Anne Center <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:17:05 -0500
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In the Huguenot Historial Society web site, I see references to
fence-viewers. What is a fence-viewer?

See a couple of the references below:

1) "April, 1766. - "For Fence-Viewers for the New Settlement on Hudson’s
River, N. Paltz, Peleg Ransom, James Tuttle, Eleazor Cole."

2) "Cornelis' son Jacob VerNooy 2F4 was baptized on September 11, 1709 at
the Reformed Dutch Church in Kingston. On May 21, 1728 he married Annatje
DuBois (b. 1703), daughter of David DuBois and Cornelia VerNooy, by whom he
had seven children: Zara, Jacob, Cornelia, Zanuel, Josaphat, Maria, and
Wessel. Jacob is listed as a fence-viewer of the town of Rochester in 1740 ,
and churchmaster of the Reformed Dutch Church of Wawarsing in 1746. Jacob
VerNooy died ca. 1780."

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