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NAILER

1. Made iron nails by hand. The workers who forged the nails on the anvil were known as Nailors or Naylors. Each could make as many as four nails a minute - thats up to 3,000 a day. 2. Maintained the teeth (nails) on the carding machine used on wool & cotton before weaving.

NATURALIZATION RECORDS

Naturalization records document the process by which an immigrant becomes a citizen. An individual has to live in the United States, for example, for a specific period of time and file a series of forms with a court before he or she can become naturalized. Naturalization records provide the following information: place and date of birth, date of arrival into the United States, place of residence at the time of naturalization, a personal description, and sometimes the name of the ship that the individual arrived on and the individual's occupation.

NOMINE POENAE

Literally - in respect of penalty. A fine imposed by the landlord for the late payment of rent.

NOTARY

A person officially authorized to draw up or attest to contracts, wills, deeds, or similar documents

NOW WIFE

Exclusively found in wills, this term implied that there was a former (or ex-) wife

NUNCUPATIVE WILL

An oral will declared or dictated by the testator in his last sickness before a sufficient number of witnesses and afterwards put in writing.

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