{"id":14573,"date":"2022-01-04T07:09:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T13:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14573"},"modified":"2022-01-05T07:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T13:36:22","slug":"old-tenor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/old-tenor\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Tenor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;ve encountered &#8220;old tenor&#8221; in a 18th century deed from Massachusetts, it is a reference to a form of paper money. <a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1511\">There&#8217;s a longer post about it on our sister website<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/oldtenor.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Early_American_currency\">Wikipedia article on American Colonial currency that discusses colonial money in general<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Help support&nbsp;<em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em>&nbsp;by visiting any of the following sites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Try a&nbsp;<em>GenealogyBank&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\">Genealogy Search<\/a>&nbsp;to see what you find.<\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-100334863-13671424\">Newspapers.com<\/a><\/em><\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/K98DNOx\">AncestryDNA&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/K98DNOx\">offers.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/books-on-my-shelf\/\">Books on Michael\u2019s Genealogy Shelf<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/3mAdp2L\">My 1950 Census webinar<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve encountered &#8220;old tenor&#8221; in a 18th century deed from Massachusetts, it is a reference to a form of paper money. There&#8217;s a longer post about it on our sister website. There&#8217;s a Wikipedia article on American Colonial currency that discusses colonial money in general. Help support&nbsp;Genealogy Tip of the Day&nbsp;by visiting any of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}