> > 11 head of hogs
> > 2 cows and cafries
> > 1 Horse
>
> I would hope that this person lived on at least 100 acres in the
> countryside
> rather than 1½ to 2 acres in town if merely for the sake of his neighbors.


Interestingly enough, Lynchburg enacted an ordinance in the early 19th
century
(a few years after this inventory) that banned hogs from being raised within
the town limits. John Lynch's other town, Madison, on the north bank of the
James, did not have this ordinance, and so Madison (now Madison Heights)
earned
the nickname of "Hogtown"

Scott

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