{"id":8431,"date":"2019-02-14T03:41:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T03:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8431"},"modified":"2019-02-17T03:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T03:43:03","slug":"one-gill-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8431","title":{"rendered":"One Gill Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;1 Broken Mug one Gill Cup One bowl&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8432\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ann_gibson_gill_cup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ann_gibson_gill_cup.jpg 640w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ann_gibson_gill_cup-300x30.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Some readers might wonder what type of cup a &#8220;gill cup&#8221; is. The gill is referring to the size of the cup, not some special design or anything else. A gill is a unit of measure equal to one half cup.<\/p>\n<p>This image comes from Harford County, Maryland, Estate Inventories 1777-1804, page 270&#8211;the estate inventory of Ann Gibson.<\/p>\n<p>The inventory of Ann&#8217;s chattel estate is interesting. Often googling items will help with interpretations.<\/p>\n<p>Estate inventories are great fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;1 Broken Mug one Gill Cup One bowl&#8221; Some readers might wonder what type of cup a &#8220;gill cup&#8221; is. The gill is referring to the size of the cup, not some special design or anything else. A gill is a unit of measure equal to one half cup. This image comes from Harford County, [&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-8431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431","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=8431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}