Providence in colonial times . incoherent state in which they arepreserved. Such parts of the records as were entirelylost were supplied, so far as might be, from the exact date of an event was uncertain, an ap-proximate date was filled in, as the best substituteavailable. The town-records were, at the best, keptvery much as the individual idiosyncracies of theacting town-clerk might dictate. Town-meetingswere entered at one end of a book, and deeds of landconveyances at the other. Sometimes both sides ofa page were used, frequently they were not. In thelatter case, the two subjects
Providence in colonial times . incoherent state in which they arepreserved. Such parts of the records as were entirelylost were supplied, so far as might be, from the exact date of an event was uncertain, an ap-proximate date was filled in, as the best substituteavailable. The town-records were, at the best, keptvery much as the individual idiosyncracies of theacting town-clerk might dictate. Town-meetingswere entered at one end of a book, and deeds of landconveyances at the other. Sometimes both sides ofa page were used, frequently they were not. In thelatter case, the two subjects slid by one another, —so to speak, — and as a result of this novel system ofdouble-entry we may read on page 105 (numberingfrom the beginning of the volume) the first part ofthe record of certain transactions in land, which arefinished on page 11 because the reverse side of the Mark of King Philip Affixed to a deed of 1659. From original in RhodeIsland Historical Society. « >. V ^^ ^ K^ /V^i s^i ?j% m \v-^rr^ ^ H 111 ?. ^ V«\! ^
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