8,713
edits
Delaware Hundreds: Difference between revisions
m
→History Of Delaware’s Hundreds
| Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
==History Of Delaware’s Hundreds== | ==History Of Delaware’s Hundreds== | ||
"A "hundred" is an old Saxon land division which is smaller than a county or shire and larger than a tithing. It comprised ten tithings of ten freeholder families each, or 100 families." <ref> [http:// | "A "hundred" is an old Saxon land division which is smaller than a county or shire and larger than a tithing. It comprised ten tithings of ten freeholder families each, or 100 families." <ref> [http://www.nt.gov.au/placenames/origins/hundred.shtml Origin of the Hundred's System] </ref> | ||
*[http://mchhistory.blogspot.com/2010/08/scharfs-history-of-delaware-1609-1888.html The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog] | *[http://mchhistory.blogspot.com/2010/08/scharfs-history-of-delaware-1609-1888.html The Mill Creek Hundred History Blog] | ||