Latest update on that 300 year old document of mine

For anyone who hasn't been following, I posted a note a few days ago about this seemingly old document I bought in New Orleans, and was wondering if anybody could help figure out what it was, what it says, etc. Well, I got hundreds of responses, including from a librarian in Scotland, a number of folks in England, some government folks in Canada, and lots and lots of smart Americans. Who knew so many people were up on 300 year old English deeds?



Anyway, this is an update to let folks know I've compiled all the suggestions that folks have made as to what the document says and have marked up a new version of the document that shows what we think it says so far. I've basically transcribed the document into "normal" American handwriting so we can at least see what it says in Latin first, then we can worry about translating it to English.

Having said that, a number of folks have already offered partial translations. It is in fact a land transcaction, we think.

You can see my marked-up version here, and to see the clean versions of the document, and the hundreds of comments folks left, go here.

And, feel free to use your crypto skills at using what's already been translated to help figure out what other letters we can identify on the document - I've been doing it for hours, it's actually kind of fun!