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Evidence
1652/3 'aged 50' deposition
In a Suffolk County deposition in Wilson v. Faxon, entered under Suffolk Court Files no. 188 and dated 17 (1st month) 1652/3 — 17 March 1652/3 old style — 'John Gurney of Brayntree' declared himself 'aged 50 Yeares or thereabouts'. It is his only surviving first-person statement of his own age.
Date: 17-1-[16]52-3 (17 March 1652/3)
Why this conclusion
- Analyzed by Analysis Reconciling the deposition age and the baptism readingThe analysis reasons over the deposition age datum, reading its rounded 'or thereabouts' character before deriving a birth window.
- Analyzed by Analysis The deposition age is decade-rounded (age heaping)The age-heaping analysis reads the deposition's rounded 'or thereabouts 50' before any birth year is derived from it.
- Supports Finding Born c.1602-1610 (probably c.1603-08)The 1652/3 deposition age is the primary same-person anchor for the birth window and fixes its older end at c.1602/3.
Sources
- "Notes: Braintree, Mass., Items." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 62 (January 1908), p. 94., NEHGR vol. 62 (Jan. 1908), p. 94; Suffolk Court Files no. 188 ('22d paper')
John Gurney of Brayntree aged 50 Yeares or therea-abouts. Dated 17-1-[16]52-3.
Topic file location: Origin — age and baptism
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000069 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.