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From: "Dale H. Cook" <>
Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] A question about a baptism rec. Needham 1759
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:50:44 -0500
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At 01:42 PM 3/10/2010, Joan Norstedt wrote:

>Just reading NEHGR pages for info and ran across this statement
>(listed in 57:255, Baptisims in First Church of Needham)
>Aug 10, 1759 Friday, Elisha, Son of Aaron Smith Jun', baptized,
>privately because it was fick. What does this "privately, because it
>was fick mean?

At that time (the article was published in 1903) the Register
frequently used "f" in place of the long (or medial) "s" (which looks
quite a bit like an "f") when transcribing colonial records. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net

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