Salem Recorder Profile
| Isaac Addington |
Contributed by Peikola |
| Court Secretary to the Massachusetts General Court. |
| Source |
Image |
| M03 |
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| M04 |
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| Overview |
Editor |
| A professional roundhand. |
Peikola |
| Orthography |
Sample |
Editor |
| "dyat" for diet |
|
Peikola |
| "accompt" for account |
|
Peikola |
| Letter Forms |
Sample |
Editor |
| paragraph-initial A has a long approaching stroke with a loop (eg M03 ms line 3 "At"; M04 ms line 1 "An") |
 |
Peikola |
| two capital forms of A and P |
|
Peikola |
| minuscule e invariably of the italic (ie modern) variety |
|
Peikola |
| a large wavy macron to indicate suspension |
|
Peikola |
| the finishing stroke of W tends to extend above the rest of the letter |
|
Peikola |
| the finishing stroke of word-final r tends to extend above the rest of the letter |
|
Peikola |
| t occasionally has an unusually long horizontal crossbar (eg M03 ms line 6 "the") |
 |
Peikola |
| Abbreviations |
Sample |
Editor |
| "sd" for said |
|
Peikola |
| "sum$" for summe |
|
Peikola |
| "Sum$ers" for Summers |
|
Peikola |
| "ye" for the |
|
Peikola |
| "bushlls" for bushells |
|
Peikola |
| "p¥" for per |
|
Peikola |
| a superlinear "#" in the abbreviation for the word secretary (transcr. "sec$ry") |
|
Peikola |
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| 2 Manuscripts With This Hand: |
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| ID |
Title |
Hand |
Amount |
Editor |
| No. 873 | Response of the General Court to the Account Submitted by Timothy Phillips | 1* |
### | Peikola |
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| (?) in the ID column indicates some uncertainty that this actually is this scribe. |
| * in the Hand column indicates signature on manuscript |
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