"Quaker Meeting Records". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 12 September 2017. The date in the original record is the 19th day of Eighth Month 1720. Modern readers often take this to mean August, but before the British Empire's adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752, "Eighth Month" was Quaker parlance for October. See
https://www.swarthmore.edu/friends-historical-library/quaker-calendar
for more information.
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"Quaker Meeting Records". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 12 September 2017. The date in the original record is the 19th day of Eighth Month 1720. Modern readers often take this to mean August, but before the British Empire's adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752, "Eighth Month" was Quaker parlance for October. See
https://www.swarthmore.edu/friends-historical-library/quaker-calendar
for more information.
