My guess would be six acres. Acreage was often put on English deeds and censuses in the 19th century. Valerie Stern <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Barbara Stock <<a href="mailto:bsstock@comcast.net">bsstock@comcast.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="white" link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> <div> I am working on an 1811 document from an Elbert County, GA deed book in which a man transferred property to a son. No will or intestate records have been found, so I believe this deed transferred all that was left of his estate at that time. “To all people to whom these presents shall come, I Gideon Holmes Senior do send greeting. Know ye that I the said Gideon Holmes of the state of Georgia in the county of Elbert husband man for six [?] in consideration of the love good will and affection which I have and do bare toward my loving son James Holmes……all and singular my goods and chattels now being in my present premises, together with the tract of land….”. It goes on to mention that he had presented an inventory to James Holmes listing all his possessions. I have seen wills in deed books but I have never seen anything quite like this. First, the verbage is very strange for Georgia deeds. I googled husbandman and found that was a term used in England during the 1400’s through the early modern period meaning a small farmer, a free tenant farmer, a yeoman, a tenant who cultivated leased ground. I am very puzzled by the word “six”. It looks like it could be six or sin, but sin makes no sense in context. Could this mean he had 6 in his household? Any other thoughts? If anyone would like to take a look at this, I would be glad to send a copy of the page as an attachment to a personal email. Barbara Smallwood Stock, CG Marietta, GA </div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div>