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From: "Tom Jones" <>
Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Francis Plummer & widow Ann Palmer
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:02:13 -0800


This is good to know! I thought that T.C. meant "Town Copy" as per notes on
abbreviations for the VRs of Salem on Jane Devlin's website. Are there Town
Copies?? or are they all torn corners?
Barbara


>
>All in all, a good response, except that the entry "[T. C.]" stands for
>"torn corner", and is used throughout many of the books of published vital
>records, as is the expression [Worn] - meaning no longer legible.
>
>'Gene Hubbard
>
><SNIP>
>
>>
>> The interpolated "9" from a second source ["T.C."] corresponds to the
>>year if it had been written "New Style" (i.e. in the Gregorian
>>calendar).
>>
>> If the date had been written in the generally accepted "double-
>> dated style, it would have been "March 21, 1648/9" (to indicate that
>> the year was 1648 "old style," but 1649 "new style").
>>
><SNIP>
>

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