Maybe it means AKA in your case.  "Also Known As"

Meaning he is known as Hudson Leverrett or John Leverrett.  One could be his middle name which he uses in everyday and one his legal name.  As an abstractor I still see this kind of thing in legal documents.  None of the people are criminals, they just have to account for all the names the person is known by.  Sometimes even nicknames are added if the person commonly uses it instead of his legal name.


Honor Conklin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>   Thank you to those trying to help.  The obvious meaning in our culture is a criminal taking on other identities but I think there must be other instances for it's use in the past.  In the case of Hudson allias Leverett, I think they might have been brothers-in-law.  They latter involved in law and the government.
>
>Honor
>
>>>> [log in to unmask] 01/02/03 09:46PM >>>
>The authority on old word usage is the Oxford English Dictionary, available
>in most major libraries. My 1979 Compact Edition gives these examples for
>the first meaning:
>1535  Stewart, <ital>Cron Scot<unital> II 354 Calit Gillelmus alias Gilmour
>1605 Camden, <ital>Rem<unital> (1614) 147 An <ital>Alias<unital> or double
>name cannot prejudice the honest
>1607 Shaks, <ital>Coriel<unital> II i 48 Violent teste Magistrates (alias
>Fooles)  [Act II, scene 1 line 48?]
>
>The second meaning may be of help:
><ital>Law.<unital> A second or further writ issued after a first had failed
>of its effect, so called from the words [Latin] (as we on another occasion
>command) which occurred in it. <ital>Obs.<unital>
>
>The first following example is meaningless to me but the book is open and
>the magnifying glass at hand, so here it is:
>1672 Manley, <ital>Interpr., Alias<unital> Vide <ital>Capias alias.<unital>
>1714 Sir W. Scroggs <ital>Pract. Courts<unital> (ed 3) 173 Then the
>Plaintiff may have an alias.
>
>Apologies for my inability to provide italicized text properly.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Honor Conklin" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 AM
>Subject: Alias, meaning of
>
>
>>    Please excuse the cross posting.
>>
>>     I would like to find out the various situations that the use of
>"alias" might be applied in the 1600s.  Does anyone know of a good reference
>source on this or perhaps be able to give examples?  I have seen it in
>English parish registers and in the Lloyd papers.  I am wondering if the
>example below meant that Leverett represented and or signed for Hudson, as I
>believe they were two distinct people:
>>
>> ...Lloyd Papers... p. 15. of a document of 1665 is witnessed:
>>
>> "Jno: Hudson allias John Leverrett"
>>
>> Honor
>


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