At 08:27 AM 07/30/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>We're doing some geographic work, and it refers to something named "hundreds".
>
>For example:
>
>hundreds of Broadkill - Sussex County
>hundreds of Dagsboro - Sussex County
>
>Thanks is advance...
On October 25, 1682, William Penn directed that Delaware be divided into
hundreds for the purposes of taxation. A "hundred" is an old English 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 one
hundred families. The hundreds of Delaware originally served as judicial or
legislative districts, but now they remain only as a basis for property tax
assessment (1).
Originally, there were five hundreds in New Castle (NC) County, five in
Kent (KT) County and two in Sussex (SX) County. As the population grew,
several of the hundreds divided, creating new hundreds. By 1875, the total
number of hundreds had grown to thirty-three. Since then, there have been
no more changes.
Above quoted from http://delgensoc.org/delhund.html . The first link
returned from search engine http://www.google.com/ looking for key words
"hundreds delaware".
Steve Wallace
GIS & Market Information Manager
Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies
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