Concerning slave baptisms

Abbreviations and symbols used in these transcriptions.

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[text] - indicates text that was deleted.

[...] - indicates unreadable text.

[xxx] - indicates unreadable text that was deleted,
[...]  - idem.

[text] - indicates difficult to read text and what the transcribed thinks it may be.

ver - text in bold and italics indicates the text that is represented by a shorthand symbol. Could also represent a standard abbereviation expanded by the transciber.

: - a colon represents an abbreviation not interpreted by the transcriber. It is up to the reader to interperate and expand it.

7b:r = September

8b:r = October

9b:r = November

Xb:r = December  (X in this case is the roman numeral for 10 - decem)