Just enter "fence viewer" into Google and there will be many answers. GOOGLE http://www.google.com/ pjd 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." > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the > instructions at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html