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If you have a copy of the original document you've most likely already
tried to find another word that you are certain contains a 'g' for
comparison. If it is a 'g' it could also be pronounced as in the word
'cargo'. If there are a number of odd spellings present the word might
have been meant as 'keg'.
Then again, it could be cage as we know it. I guess some animals would
need one for transportation to market, etc.
Have you tried one of the online deciphering sites?
Janice
On Dec 26, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Madaline Preston
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In Frederick Co., VA John Chambers' will was administered by John
> Frost - 8
> Jun 1748. I find no other documents re: John until 1762 when an
> appraisal
> is recorded in the Fred. Co. court records for John Chambers.
>
> In the experience of the VA-List what possibility is there that it
> took 14
> years to settle his estate in this wilderness area?
>
> Question two: His minimal possessions included the usual plow,
> mare, chest,
> jacket, breeches....a tomhawk (that's how it is spelled in the
> docoument)
> and the one thing that I am curious about .....a cage. Would cage be
> synonymous with trap? Surely they trapped animals for their fur but
> why
> would be the use of a cage and why would it be identified outside
> the....
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