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A Note on Spelling and Dates
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A Note on Spelling and Dates 1 In general, spelling and dates are rendered here as written in the original documents, although superscriptions and abbreviations have been brought down and spelled out, and the Old English thorn and Latin spelling characteristics (I for J, U for V) have been changed to modern forms. In addition, I have standardized the spelling of proper names, using the spelling that occurs most frequently in the documents. Names do not necessarily conform to modern spelling, but each person’s name is spelled the same throughout the book. I have also used double-dating for the period between January 1 and March 25, when the new year began under the Gregorian calendar in use in the seventeenth-century English colonies. ...