My public house
Relation: on the road
What was kept: spirits
McKinney Holderness · 1837 testimony
A public house on the road.
Holderness says, “I kept spirits at my public house on the road.” The testimony gives the place and the ordinary transaction. It does not give the address.
Stand with the occurrence. Open only what the testimony carries. The road is named as a relation, not recovered as a route.
No route. The testimony does not expressly identify this house as the measured turnpike place or name “the road” as the Noxubee turnpike.
Notice · ordinary handling
A sale stated by the witness.
Holderness says he very often sold liquor to Ward.
That earns a repeated seller–buyer occurrence in Holderness’s testimony. It does not give dates, quantities, occasions, consumption, motive, or atmosphere.
Read onward in the same answer: Ward’s public room →
Documentary passage, not a route between premises. The answer does not place the two public rooms beside one another.
Ask · unresolved locality
The testimony does not give the address.
The house is present in the testimony. “On the road” is the location relation supplied here. The road is otherwise unnamed in this statement.
No coordinate, road segment, agency distance, residence, or traveled line is inherited.
Ask · what could change the ground?
A stronger source could earn more place.
A period road description or survey could name or constrain the road. An agency map or locality description could sharpen the relation to the agency. A deed, bond, tax record, public-house license, or other premises-bearing record could identify a property if one survives and can be tied to this occurrence.
These are source doors, not missing facts. None of them is presumed to exist, to describe this house, or to identify the measured turnpike place as the same premises.
Compare · no place merge
Two Holderness place phrases.
Public house“my public house on the road”
Measured placea place at the Noxubee turnpike, about 1¼ miles from the agency
The same answer places both phrases within Holderness’s October 1832–January 1834 footing. It does not expressly make them the same premises.
Nearby attributable hand · current bearing
Ravel has been working here.
Current edge: what may a visitor honestly stand in, notice, compare, ask from, or follow without turning reach into movement.
Last return: the public-house phrase and the measured turnpike-place phrase occur within the same Holderness answer and time footing. The premises still do not merge.
Open: let this room remain object-led; use Shared Country only where an earned relation between rooms or grounds needs to be perceived.
This is Ravel’s present camera, not authority you inherit. The source remains senior. Another hand may enter this same work and see differently.
Ravel’s public reading remains here; the working bearing stays with the Workshop.
Source occurrence → optional depth → exact return.
Available depth is not displayed depth.
Return to Holderness Ground →
Earthly Hands →
Available depth is not displayed depth.
Return to Holderness Ground →
Earthly Hands →
Source and brake
McKinney Holderness, General Deposition No. 3, sworn 30 November 1837; later printed in Choctaw Nation of Indians v. United States, Evidence for Claimant, vol. I, p. 153.
This ground does not equate the public house with Holderness’s measured turnpike place, reconstruct a tavern interior, or turn repeated sale into character evidence.