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From: "betty darnell" <>
Subject: Re: Land case file words
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:05:26 -0400
References: <p05210601bd15bf6dfa0b@[172.16.1.34]>


A "pen" is the basic unit of log dwellings, a room either square or
rectangular.

A "pale" is a narrow, upright, pointed stake used in fences.

They may have dug a trench around the garden for drainage, if this was in
the flatland part of Arkansas. (That one's just a guess!)

19 acres cleared, fenced and in cultivation; 1 acre, fenced, not cleared.

Betty Darnell, native of southeast Missouri, now a resident of Kentucky


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