{"id":217,"date":"2009-06-03T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:29:11","slug":"avery-family-artifact-dating-from-1689","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/avery-family-artifact-dating-from-1689.html","title":{"rendered":"Possible Avery Family Artifact dating from 1689-1702 Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

313-year-old English silver sixpence, likely once owned by Rev. John Avery (1685\/6-1754) found in Truro,<\/strong> Massachusetts. The coin dates from 1689-1702 <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/strong><\/span><\/a>The Boston Globe<\/em> is reporting this unusual find of an early British coin found by Truro resident Peter Burgess while working in his garden. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“At first, I wasn’t sure what it was,” said Burgess. “It didn’t look so much like a coin, but like a brown wafer.”<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The coin was minted during the reign of King William III – 1689-1702 who assumed the throne jointly with his wife Mary II – following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 which overthrew her father, King James II. “William and Mary” were the only joint monarchs – both serving with equal authority. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is what the original coin looked like<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\"Photo:<\/a><\/p>\n

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313-year-old English silver sixpence, likely once owned by Rev. John Avery (1685\/6-1754) found in Truro, Massachusetts. The coin dates from 1689-1702 The Boston Globe is reporting this unusual find of an early British coin found by Truro resident Peter Burgess while working in his garden. “At first, I wasn’t sure what it was,” said Burgess. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[3697,1059,673,5282,3722,2771,5304,1129,1762,674,1674,681,1829,5351,675,5352,1067,1874,26,676,3494,5441,442,680,5457],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-bishop","tag-boston","tag-boston-globe","tag-british","tag-brown","tag-dates","tag-english","tag-family","tag-father","tag-glorious-revolution","tag-id","tag-immigration-services","tag-in","tag-james","tag-john-avery","tag-king","tag-massachusetts","tag-ms","tag-national-archives","tag-peter-burgess","tag-silver","tag-stewart","tag-united-states","tag-wednesday-signing-ceremony","tag-wife"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99952,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/99952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}