First remember that in 1661 the New Year started with April as the first month. the second thing is 4 10 1661 could mean either the 4th day of the day of the 10th month (Jan by the calender in use in 1661) or in some cases the 10th day of the 4th month (July by the 1661 calender) You need to read up on the calender conversion from Grgorian to Julian in the US. Unfortunitly dates are an d were not always written month day as is common to today but also written day month. You almost need to see the record to tell which way the days were recorder and hopeto see an entry like 15 4 1661 or 4 15 1661 to be sure which number that person was using as the day and which for month On 11/07/12, Charlie King<king133j@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi all; I am working on understanding dates for my Philbrick family in Hampton. I see dates like 4 10 1661. Would this be 4 October 1661? Then I see dates like 2 11 1665., Woulld thiis be equivalent to 2 November 1665/6? Thanks for the help, Charlie King _______________________________________________ RootsWeb NHROCKIN Mailing List [1]http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/NH/rockingham.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [2]NHROCKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/NH/rockingham.html 2. mailto:NHROCKIN-request@rootsweb.com