I have had to deal with the Quaker issue. The oldest Quaker settlement in
the US is right here in Georgia (Wrightsborough). The Quakers of
Wrightsborough left behind excellent records. They followed the old month
system well after 1752.
michele
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From: "Gene Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] "Old Style" MONTHS???
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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