INTERESTING DISCOVERIES

Searching garage sales, estate sales, auctions and flea markets is a lot of fun and I tend to discover some very interesting photos, documents or other items I bring home and digitally preserve. Some of these are true historical treasure and others, not so much but still worth the time and effort to save them for those folks that follow. Feel free to use what you find here but please give credit if you would to “Office of Image Archaeology”.

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1700s Massachusetts Ledger

I find this ledger interesting because many of the people named in its pages were alive during the birth of our country. It appears to be an index to a larger folio that contained the names of children born during the early to mid 1700s. Within the ledger are two watermarks belonging to King George III of Great Britain. Because one of the watermarks is his I believe the ledger was printed after 1760 as that is when he became King. The other is his family Coat of Arms. I researched some of the names and found that when in the pages the name is associated with a village or town that person was always born in that place and died in another making me believe it was part of a larger birth record.