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From: Harlow Chandler <>
Subject: Re: [PLY/MA] CopyHolders?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:03:24 -0400
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charles brack wrote:

>I was told that my ancestor was probably a copy holder at Marshfield in the late 1600s. I'm not familiar with that term.
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>Would that basically be the same as modern day tenant farmers? Working someone else's land or what?
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>thanks, Charles
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You're right. It is said that the term originated because the tenant
and the landowner each had a copy of the lease. As I understand,
though, it would not be like a modern tenant farmer in that it was a
straightforward lease and not a shares sort of agreement.

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• CopyHolders? by "charles brack" <>

  • Re: [PLY/MA] CopyHolders? by Harlow Chandler <>

  • RE: [PLY/MA] CopyHolders? by "Bill Churchill" <>