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HAM/1/4/7/11

Note by Charles Hamilton

Diplomatic Text


[1]

My Father
Dyed at ½ an
Hour after 9 a
Clock
in the mor
ning
ye 5th April
1754 Age'd 81


Written by Charles Hamilton.[2]

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Notes


 1. This note is written on a scrap of paper torn from an almanac or account book. Printed type is visible in the left margin.
 2. This annotation is written vertically in the right margin.

Normalised Text



My Father
died at ½ an
Hour after 9 o'Clock
in the morning
the 5th April
1754 Aged 81


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 1. This note is written on a scrap of paper torn from an almanac or account book. Printed type is visible in the left margin.
 2. This annotation is written vertically in the right margin.

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note by Charles Hamilton

Shelfmark: HAM/1/4/7/11

Document Details

Author: Charles Hamilton

Date: not before 5 April 1754

Summary: Note by Charles Hamilton stating that his father died that morning aged 81.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 19 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' (Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2019-2023).

All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. Words split across two lines may have a hyphen on the first, the second or both fragments (reco-|ver, imperfect|-ly, satisfacti-|-on); or a double hyphen (pur=|port, dan|=ger, qua=|=litys); or none (respect|ing). Any point in abbreviations with superscripted letter(s) is placed last, regardless of relative left-right orientation in the original. Thus, Mrs. or Mrs may occur, but M.rs or Mr.s do not.

Acknowledgements: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.

Transliterator: Cassandra Ulph, editorial team (completed 5 August 2020)

Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library

Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors

Revision date: 2 November 2021

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