ewoaf
City-dweller
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Post by ewoaf on Jun 19, 2020 11:38:49 GMT -7
Anytime! I started reading it myself. Thanks Lenapej!! It’s interesting how small details to the folk of the period that are mentioned in passing turn out to become topics of discussion to us now. Mr Kenny mentions losing his “seals and key of his watch while carrying the chain” surveying a piece of property. I’m not sure if he was a wealthy man but did he carry time piece and lost the key to wind it with? Seals? For wax sealing documents? I wonder if some items were more common and just not mentioned because they were considered inconsequential to them... A common thought I suppose Watches were usually kept in the breeches fob pocket (appendix area on waistband) where it could be pulled out with the watch string. On the watch string other items like wax seals or watch keys could be kept on auxiliary links or rings. Think of it as a dude chatelaine or like janitor keys. So when I read your quote, I'm thinking his watch string broke and dropped his whatevers.
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Post by spence on Jun 19, 2020 13:19:15 GMT -7
Thanks. I can find that journal using that name as a title for my search? The link Sicilianhunter provided seems to be only the first part of an article with the journal, to be continued. I found the second part as a downloadable PDF at this link: journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/2710Spence
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Post by brokennock on Jun 20, 2020 6:54:56 GMT -7
Thanks. I can find that journal using that name as a title for my search? The link Sicilianhunter provided seems to be only the first part of an article with the journal, to be continued. I found the second part as a downloadable PDF at this link: journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/2710Spence I keep getting a "404 not found" message with that link. ?
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Post by brokennock on Jun 20, 2020 7:03:05 GMT -7
Reading this, I come upon several things I'm not sure about. Some of them I can reason out. Some of them, like this one, I think would be obvious if I knew more about the author. Anyone know what this means, "...This day ye Commissioner begins my year. This morning we went to run out my third year Place..." The commissioner begins the author's year? He has already surveyed, or run out, his and his brother's places, as well as what I take to be another of his own tracts of land. But he now will run out his, "third year place." I'm confused by the use of "year" in this instance.
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Post by spence on Jun 20, 2020 8:06:50 GMT -7
nock said: "I keep getting a "404 not found" message with that link. ?" Sorry 'bout that, it's correct except the https:// is missing. journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/27103Well, I edited it to add the missing bit but it still doesn't show in my reply. But, the link works for me. If it still doesn't for you, try adding that. This software is a bit quirky. Spence
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Post by brokennock on Jun 20, 2020 10:27:53 GMT -7
nock said: "I keep getting a "404 not found" message with that link. ?" Sorry 'bout that, it's correct except the https:// is missing. journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/27103Well, I edited it to add the missing bit but it still doesn't show in my reply. But, the link works for me. If it still doesn't for you, try adding that. This software is a bit quirky. Spence The new link works great. If I understand you correctly the original link provided by S.H. ended the journal short, this link you have generously provided is the whole thing from start to finish. Correct?
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Post by spence on Jun 20, 2020 10:41:11 GMT -7
Close, but not quite. The journal is presented in the Magazine it two parts. The link I provided is to the second part. I haven't found the whole journal at one site.
Spence
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Post by spence on Jun 20, 2020 12:41:50 GMT -7
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Post by lenapej on Jun 20, 2020 13:32:39 GMT -7
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Post by spence on Jun 20, 2020 19:03:10 GMT -7
Thank you, Lanape, I'm very glad to have that.
Spence
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Post by lenapej on Jun 21, 2020 6:19:30 GMT -7
Thank you, Lanape, I'm very glad to have that. Spence No problem, thanks for your links as well!
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Post by scottc60 on Jun 22, 2020 17:38:02 GMT -7
Another thing to consider regarding a compass-
People who become lost, will at some point imagine that their compass is off direction. For whatever reason, they will decide this is the direction they need to go regardless of what their compass says. You will hear people give the instruction of trust the compass, no matter what it says.
If you're in familiar area, you may never need a compass, and there are some people born with a great sense of direction.
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Post by Sicilianhunter on Jun 23, 2020 4:34:41 GMT -7
Thanks. I can find that journal using that name as a title for my search? The link Sicilianhunter provided seems to be only the first part of an article with the journal, to be continued. I found the second part as a downloadable PDF at this link: journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/2710Spence Thanks Spence!!
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Post by Sicilianhunter on Jun 23, 2020 4:36:56 GMT -7
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Post by Sicilianhunter on Jul 1, 2020 4:35:56 GMT -7
Kinda late, but I just got through reading the journal of James Kenny in 1761 he said, "I took the courses of the river as we went, by a good pocket compass" thought of this post when I read it. LenapeJ, Interesting!! I have been pecking at Kenny's journal slowly between other stuff and noticed something, Page 15 on the 26th, he had been out gathering Ginsang. I am wondering if this was for profit or for personal use...
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