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From: "Rob Roy" <>
Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Date conversion help please
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:14:38 -0500
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Actually, February was the 12th month, with March being the first month even
though the year started on the 25th. A good point is the last few months of
our current year. September (7th month); October (8th month); Novemeber
(9th month) and December (10th month)



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Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Date conversion help please

sooo. was I correct about the 11 mo being february?

On 1/22/07, <> wrote:
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> The Julian Calendar which was introduced in Rome in 46 B.C.
> established the
> 12 month year of 365 days with each fourth year having 366 days and
> each month had 30 or 31 days except February which had 28 or, every
> leap year, 29 days.
> The problem with this calendar was that after nearly 1600 years it
> was no longer synchronized with the seasons.
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> The Gregorian Calendar was introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII to
> correct a slight error in the Julian calendar, but the new calendar
> was not adopted by Great Britain or the American colonies until
> approximately 1752.
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> When reading about colonial times, one often comes across a date
> designated as Old Style or simply a date such as 1675/76. I always
> wondered what that double date meant. I found the answer to this
> question quite by accident as I was reading A History of Hatfield
> Massachusetts by D. W. Wells and R. F.
> Wells.
> These two chroniclers were writing about a will made by a gentleman on
> January 29, 1659-60 and explained it as follows. "In the old style
> reckoning [Julian calendar], March 25 was the beginning of the year.
> After the adoption of the new style, or Gregorian calendar, January 1
> was taken as the beginning of the year and double dates are often
> used to indicate the time between Jan. 1 and Mar. 25. (pp. 22-23)
>
> Therefore, Mary Rowlandson was captured on February 10, 1675 according
> to the OS (Julian) calendar which would have been the calendar she
> used. Once the Gregorian calendar replaced the Julian, the date would
> have fallen in that January 1 through March 25 range. So subsequent
> historians would designate the event as happening in 1675/76.
> Reference: Wells, D. W. and R. F. Wells. 1910. A History of Hatfield
> Massachusetts.
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> F.C.H. Gibbons, Springfield, Massachusetts.
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