Peter Haughton wrote:
Sounds Good Dave, BUT when the Julian Calendar was
established, the start of the year was 1 January and all
those months that are (and were) based on the Latin
name for the number were two out, as they had been for
several centuries before that.
Taken from the Quaker website:
http://www.quaker.org.uk/templates/internal.asp?nodeid=90037&int1stparentnodeid=93929&int2ndparentnodeid=89813&int3rdparentnodeid=89813&strareacolor=aqua
"Quaker usage
Quakers followed the national practice, with one exception. They objected to using those names of
days (Sunday to Saturday) and months (January to August) which derived from heathen gods or
goddesses, employing instead numbers: thus Sunday was for them First Day. They had no difficulty
(until 1752 - see below) with the months September to December, which derived from numbers; but for
the other months, they substituted numbers, writing them out as First Month, Second Month, and so
on. They sometimes used Roman numerals (i-xii) for these, and sometimes Arabic (1-12).
The problem for the modern reader is remembering that the year did not begin on 1 January until
1752, so that until 1752 February was Twelfth Month and March First Month for Quakers. Furthermore
the months September to December were literally (in translation from the Latin) Seventh Month to
Tenth Month, and therefore those names could truthfully be used. But once the year began in January,
this was no longer the case, and so from 1752 all months were referred to by Quakers by their
number. September became Ninth Month, which it now was, and so on.
It is often helpful, in making notes from Quaker manuscripts, printed works, and digest registers of
births, marriages and burials, to write down the old style numbers as in the original text, but add
the new style names after in square brackets, such as:
29 ii [April] 1731 or 29 2 mo. [April] 1731
12 x [December] 1740 or 12 10 mo. [December] 1740"
That should settle this OT subject.
--
Gene Y.
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