Sunday, October 10, 2010  Answers to Yesterday's Skill Challenge
Here are the answers to yesterday's questions:     The house
which Ichabod Seaver sold to Tisdale Puffer in 1795           1.
I got 100% but the handwriting was not too bad to decipher in
this document. I've seen worse, and that really hampers picking
out the important details.    2. I couldn't make out "Tisdale".
I was ok with everything else. I have a question... is there
some odd shorthand being used to write out "aforesaid"?    3.
The aforesaid appears like this "aforesd". I can't replicate it
exactly. The "d" is a raised d with a line under it. During the
18th century it was very common to abbreviate names and words.
This is an example of that abbreviation. You see this sort of
thing on gravestones of the times. For more examples that will
be clearer to see visit      The name Tisdale is very sloppy.
Sometimes you need to view a few examples of the same word to
decipher it. Here's an old handwriting chart that shows the "T"
written the s