{"id":6797,"date":"2017-06-16T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2017-06-16T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T15:12:41","slug":"that-mark-in-the-will-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/16\/that-mark-in-the-will-book\/","title":{"rendered":"That Mark In the Will Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone who &#8220;made their mark&#8221; on a document&#8221; may or may not have been illiterate. There was a time where &#8220;making your mark&#8221; was equivalent to signing (as long as there were witnesses) and others may have been in a physical state where they could not actually sign. In older record books the &#8220;signature&#8221; (mark or not) is actually the clerk&#8217;s handwritten transcription of that signature or mark. Sometimes if the mark was not an &#8220;x&#8221; the clerk would try to replicate it as best he could.<br \/>\nIn the illustration, it appears that the clerk is trying to reproduce an &#8220;R&#8221; made by Peter Rucker of Orange County, Virginia. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6798\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rucker-signs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rucker-signs.jpg 700w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rucker-signs-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rucker-signs-624x281.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone who &#8220;made their mark&#8221; on a document&#8221; may or may not have been illiterate. There was a time where &#8220;making your mark&#8221; was equivalent to signing (as long as there were witnesses) and others may have been in a physical state where they could not actually sign. In older record books the &#8220;signature&#8221; (mark [&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-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","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=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}