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From: Sharon Sheldon <>
Subject: Re: freemen
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 22:22:06 -0500

Hi All,

Please see the exchanges as listed below. Does anyone know if there are
records that would have recorded the details on these votes? The who/when?
I didn't know anything about his procedure.

Sorry to take so long in responding to this: where did OCTOBER go????

Sharon in No. VA

At 09:51 AM 10/1/98 -0500, RGESS wrote:
>Bill,
>>From "A to Zax", by Barbara Jean Evans:
>In Colonial days this term referred to any male over the age of
>twenty-one years old who owned personal property or real estate
>valued at a prescribed amount. He also was obliged to be a peaceful
>man, endorsed by a majority of the town's Freemen. Only after this
>vote at a semi-annual meeting of the selectmen, could the man take
>the Freeman's Oath. His duties were to elect deputies to the General
>Assembly of the colony and to elect new Freemen. He was a member of a
>local church and had the right to vote and pay taxes.
>
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>> From:
>> To:
>> Subject: freemen
>> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 10:35 PM
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>> In recent postings of early Chester Co. tax lists there is
>reference to
>> "freemen". What does this term mean in this context?
>> Bill
>>
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