Moving vertieces by the first one selected?

how do you move a group of vertices with the first one selected? instead of the center of all the ones selected…

I don’t really know what your question means so ignore this if needed.
If you are talking about the pivot point (the position of the transform widget), you can change this to ‘Active Element’ for blender 2.55 or ‘Active Vert/Edge/Face’ for blender 2.49bon the 3d-view header.
This moves it to the active vertex which is the last vertex selected. If you want to move that to your first vertex you either select that vertex last or deselect and then reselect that vertex

it sounds like what im wanting. but i cant figure it out in blender. the axis cursor still jumps to the middlt of all i selected. can u post pictures? thnx