{"id":5419,"date":"2017-09-19T17:32:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T17:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2017-09-19T17:32:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T17:32:28","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-connections-john-demoss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5419","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Connections: John DeMoss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John DeMoss was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, in the 1710s and died in Harford County, Maryland, around 1806. Things I&#8217;ve learned from researching John DeMoss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>some families are small&#8211;<\/em>there is no evidence thus far that John DeMoss had any children other than his son, John DeMoss.<\/li>\n<li><em>marks can be unique<\/em>&#8211;John signed his &#8220;mark&#8221; on several documents. He never made a simple &#8220;x.&#8221; It was always a symbol looking something like an uppercase &#8220;I&#8221; with a circle in the middle of the stem.<\/li>\n<li><em>some landowners avoid probate<\/em>&#8211;John has no estate settlement and extant land records suggest that he deeded his real property to his son before his death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John DeMoss was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, in the 1710s and died in Harford County, Maryland, around 1806. Things I&#8217;ve learned from researching John DeMoss: some families are small&#8211;there is no evidence thus far that John DeMoss had any children other than his son, John DeMoss. marks can be unique&#8211;John signed his &#8220;mark&#8221; on [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","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=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}