{"id":6370,"date":"2018-02-27T21:17:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2018-02-27T21:17:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:17:18","slug":"mary-mary-thats-not-contrary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6370","title":{"rendered":"Mary, Mary&#8230;That&#8217;s not Contrary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6371\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/mary-brown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/mary-brown.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/mary-brown-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>This document comes from the guardianship of Mary Brown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The mother and daughter are requesting that the court appoint a local man as the daughter&#8217;s guardian.<\/p>\n<p>[begin transcription]<\/p>\n<p>[For it?] my Desier and my Daughter Mary Browns that Deacon Stephen Gipson Should be put in Garden for Mary Mary Brown<\/p>\n<p>[end transcription]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite certain about the [For it] part of the transcription, but it seems to make sense in this context. The spelling of guardian as &#8220;garden&#8221; is easy to understand, especially if the note was written by someone not overly familiar with legal terms.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Mary Mary&#8221; appears to be correct well. The first &#8220;Mary&#8221; refers to the daughter and the second to the mother.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that this document was written and signed by the same person. But I&#8217;ll have to compare this purported signature of Mary to other known signatures of hers in the probate records of Mary&#8217;s husbands Ephraim Puffer and Amos Brown. They may or may not be a match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This document comes from the guardianship of Mary Brown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The mother and daughter are requesting that the court appoint a local man as the daughter&#8217;s guardian. [begin transcription] [For it?] my Desier and my Daughter Mary Browns that Deacon Stephen Gipson Should be put in Garden for Mary Mary Brown [end [&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-6370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370","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=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}