Just enter "fence viewer" into Google and there will be many answers.
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2/12/04

On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 10:17 AM, Lee Anne Center wrote:

> 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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