Subject: Re: QUESTION
Resent-Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 07:23:53 -0700 (PDT)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 10:18:50 -0400
From: "Steven J. Coker" 
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Louis, Vicky, or Susan LaRiccia wrote:
> Can anybody tell me what Twp. means?  I have it used as  Oley Twp, Berks

Abbreviation for Township.

TOWN. This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In
Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or a
city. In some of the northeastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county,
called in other places a township.

Source: LAW DICTIONARY by John Bouvier, 1856

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