I have been having the pleasure of reviewing entries in an online transcribed bible where the oldest date is 1613 from England. Many of the month entries were written using strange descriptions such as VIIber, VIIber, IXber, & Xber. I was so curious about these strange entries that I "googled" one of these examples and found website http://www.jaydax.co.uk/genlinks/palaeography-numdate.html titled Paleography - Numbers and Dates. Many of you may already be educated with this type of date entry but I wasn't. Oh! VIIber = September VIIIber = October IXber = November Xber = December So why doesn't IXber = September and Xber = October, check out the website to learn more. Don (Davenport) Crawford Donald C. (Davenport) Crawford, b. 1936 TX; > Clifton Ellison Davenport, 1893 TX - 1982 TX; > James Richard Devenport, 1864 AR - 1900 TX; > Henry Devenport, 1838 MS - 1904 TX; > John Devenport, Jr., 1795 NC - 1869 AR; > John Devenport, Sr., 1758 NC - 1796 NC; > Dorrel Devenport, 1733 VA - 1785 NC; > Elias Davenport, 1712 VA - 1767 NC; Davis Davenport, c1660 VA - c1735 VA.