Sandi's Puzzles

This week's puzzle...

In older times prisoners - non-clergy - used a neck verse. What was that and what did it gain them?

Where would one have found a knitting cup?

Answer: A knitting cup was a cup of wine passed around immediately after a wedding ceremony to those who assisted in the ceremony.

What was the age difference between an infant and an infant of tender years?

Answer: An infant was a child between the age of 0-14. An infant of tender years was from age 14-through age 20.

A man's name appears on the tax records in 1821 and no more. You've proven that he was still alive and living in the same county. There are five possible reasons what he doesn't show up in the tax records, give me two.

Answer: There are many reasons why an individual might not show up on the tax records when you know he was there: (1) Taxes waived due to age; (2) waived for doing something for the county; (3); didn't pay taxes that year under protest of being over-taxed; (4) name misspelled; (5) someone else paid for him and listed under their name; (6) paid in an adjoining county and more.

What title was, and still is, given to Justices of the Peace when in County Court session?

Answer: Squire or esquire.