{"id":9258,"date":"2019-09-26T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9258"},"modified":"2019-09-26T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:17:09","slug":"the-will-of-joseph-daby-of-stow-massachusetts-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9258","title":{"rendered":"The Will of Joseph Daby of Stow, Massachusetts: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are going to feature a transcription of the 1763 will of\nJoseph Daby of Stow, Massachusetts, in a series of posts. Daby\u2019s will contains\nsome interesting sections and we\u2019re hoping that the transcription of it is\ninformative. As the series originally runs we\u2019ll leave the sections blank did\nnot immediately come to me and discuss any corrections and the like in future\nposts\u2014along with a discussion of how those were made and arrived at. It\u2019s hoped\nthat the discussion of that analysis will be helpful to readers instead of just\nincluding a \u201cfinished\u201d transcription. Sometimes it is the process that matters\nas much as the final result, especially for those who are learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"906\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/joseph-daby-will-middlesex-page1-906x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/joseph-daby-will-middlesex-page1-906x1024.jpg 906w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/joseph-daby-will-middlesex-page1-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/joseph-daby-will-middlesex-page1-768x868.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/joseph-daby-will-middlesex-page1.jpg 1091w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve decided in this post to <em>not<\/em> use superscript for those items that use it in the text of the\ndocument simply to facilitate display and editing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[begin transcription]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Name of God Amen this fourth day of April Anne Dom. One\nThousand Seven Hundred and Sixty and three I Joseph Daby of Stow In ye County\nof Midx. In ye Province of the Massachussets&nbsp;\nBay in New=England Gentm. Being [&#8212;] of my Mortality and the State of\nmy Family Requiring a Settlement I Constitute and appoint this to be my Last\nWill and Testament Principally I Recommend my Soul to God In hope of mercy\nthro. ye Merits of Jesus Christ and my Body to ye Earth to be buried In Decent\nChristian Burial at the Expense and Disposition of my Exer here after appointed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imprimis I give to Eunice my beloved Wife one third part of\nmy personal unmovable Estate forever and ye use of one third part of my Real\nEstate for life unless She Chuses the provision which I have herein here after\nmade for her Viz. a constant &amp; Decent maintainance at bed and board\nSuitable to her [age?] and quality[&#8212;&#8211;] Washing &amp; Lodging Nursing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[end of transcription\u2026for now]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are going to feature a transcription of the 1763 will of Joseph Daby of Stow, Massachusetts, in a series of posts. Daby\u2019s will contains some interesting sections and we\u2019re hoping that the transcription of it is informative. As the series originally runs we\u2019ll leave the sections blank did not immediately come to me and [&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-9258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258","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=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}