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From: "Judy Needham" <>
Subject: [MFLR] An Unfamiliar Term - Drift Road
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:12:33 -0700


I have recently transcribed the will of Joseph Reed, a Fifth Generation
descendant of Francis Cooke, and I came upon a term with which I was
unfamiliar. I wonder if anyone on the List might help...................

"Item. I give and bequeath ......to him and his Heirs he leaving a drift
road one Rail wide to the West end of the Beach for the convenience of my
son Benjamin & his Heirs to go on to the wind Mill Point so
called...................."

The term is "drift road". I don't believe it takes its meaning from
shifting sands of the beach, but that it has another meaning. I have
found - by doing a Google search- it in description of property in Britain,
but alas, not enough to make me understand what a "drift road" really is.

Judy Chace Needham


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