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historic wishful thinking



Second sending. Please excuse the typo in the first. Its Friday after all.

Colleagues:
        Since this is the first Friday in the new year, I though to cheer
all of you up with an extract from the 1703 will of Joseph Arden of Berkeley
County, SC:

His burial instructions directed that he be "decently interred in a plain
cedar coffin, and it is my desire that my pall be held up by six maidens who
shall have the customary perquisites given them and also that a general
invitation be sent thro the parish, and that [free] gloves be given to such
... as shall attend my funeral".

Russell P. Baker, CA
Arkansas History Commission and State Archives
One Capitol Mall
Little Rock, AR 72201
501-682-6900
russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us <mailto:russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us>

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