Katherine Benbow <benbow.family@gmail.com> wrote: >I am going back and looking at some documents, and one of them is a Quaker >will, which disproves the "rule" about "In the name of God, amen." The >will starts with that phrase and then goes on to say "The 20th day of the >2nd month in the year of Christian _____ 1713..." The will was by a >wealthy merchant who was a member of a Quaker family in early Philadelphia. > >I am trying to figure out what the word after "Christian" is. It looks >like "atoinpt" but could be "atompt". The "t" doesn't look like an >old-fashioned court "s," but it's a little unlike the other "s" and "t" >letters in the rest of the document, perhaps because it's under the >beginning phrase written in capital letters, and it may be compacted a bit >because of that. It is hard to tell without looking at the actual record, but my guess would be "acompt" (an old version of the word "account"). Stewart Baldwin