{"id":312,"date":"2015-06-24T21:51:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2015-06-24T21:51:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:51:26","slug":"stephen-gibson-middlesex-county-mass-1807-inventory-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Gibson-Middlesex County, Mass., 1807 Inventory III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third\u00a0in a series of image from the 1807 estate sale list from Stephen Gibson of Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. We\u2019ll be posting the entire accounting (which is relatively short) and then a transcription of each image.<\/p>\n<p>Inventories and accountings of this type can be a great way to garner insight into an ancestor\u2019s life. Just learning what each item listed was used for can be an educational experience in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Stephen\u2019s son who is my probable ancestor didn\u2019t purchase anything at the sale. It didn&#8217;t help that he was probably living in Vermont at the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/stephen-gibson3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-313\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/stephen-gibson3-1024x500.jpg\" alt=\"stephen-gibson3\" width=\"509\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/stephen-gibson3-1024x500.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/stephen-gibson3-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/stephen-gibson3.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third\u00a0in a series of image from the 1807 estate sale list from Stephen Gibson of Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. We\u2019ll be posting the entire accounting (which is relatively short) and then a transcription of each image. Inventories and accountings of this type can be a great way to garner insight into an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stephen-gibson-of-stow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}