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This Will required six pictures to capture all of the
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This is a Will we found in one of the probate files. This is one sheet--no tape and full of beautiful cursive. This particular set of probate files in Hillsborough County has been so interesting because we find things like huge documents, documents taped together that reach across the room, paper that is never straight and so many ink stains. Another interesting thing we have noticed is that the ink is gritty. When you rub your hand across a document a fine black residue comes lose from the paper. We are half way through the first set of documents which is from 1790 through 1855 and are in alphabetical order. By December we will probably begin working in the 1850's through 1900 and I am curious to see what we will discover in them. Every day is an adventure at the archives!
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