Taña Dalglish Aug 13, 2007:

Swiss Tell: This is what I have found. HTH!
http://books.google.com/books?id=USoSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA88&lpg=PA...
Acquisition of the rights of a denizen or freeman. 2. The act of residing in a place, invested with the rights of a denizen.
Definitions of denizen on the Web:
• A foreigner admitted to residence and certain rights in a country. In Jacobean England the king's Scottish courtiers were obliged to be admitted by royal letters patent before they could enjoy the rights of citizenship in England.
www.mindmagi.demon.co.uk/Bacon/reference/glossary.htm
• a foreigner permitted certain rights of citizenship. In England, they could purchase and own land, but it could not be inherited without a grant from the crown. A denizen also could hold no public or civil office, or be in the military. This policy was carried over into colonial America.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~randyj2222/gendictd.html
• a person who has been admitted to residence in a foreign country
www.duprel.com/abration.html
• inhabitant: a person who inhabits a particular place
Definitions of freeman on the Web:
• a person who is not a serf or a slave
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
• Freeman The term "freeman" was generally an English or American Colonial expression in Puritan times, which referred to those persons who were not under legal restraint – usually for the payment of an outstanding debt, because of their continual drunkeness, because they had recently relocated, or because they were idle and had no way in which they could continue the justification of their stay within the colony.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_(Colonial)
• one who held the full rights of citizenship, such as voting and engaging in business (as opposed to an indentured servant). In medieval times, a freeman, in the sense of a franklin, was a man, not of noble birth, who held his land in free socage as compared to one who held in base or villein socage.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~randyj2222/gendictf.html
• francus homo, socmannus Class of peasant, substantial in number in Domesday, particularly in areas of Danelaw, and possessing relatively strong economic position. Francus homo refers to a French, particularly Norman settler, equivalent in status to a freeman.
www.domesdaybook.co.uk/glossary.html
avecindamiento.
1. m. Acción y efecto de avecindarse; 2. m. Lugar en que alguien está avecindado.
Diccionario de la lengua española © 2005 Espasa-Calpe S.A., Madrid:
avecindarse
1. prnl. Establecerse en una población como vecino: se avecindó en Málaga al aprobar la oposición.