affixing dates & pagination

Anonymous Author:

sequential pagination

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Sermons.

Before writing a sermon entry in their vertical notepad, the preacher writes the page number in the top left box created by the margins. The preacher has been numbering each page and adhering to pagination in this direction by numbering the each side of the page. However, the preacher also found themselves writing in the opposite direction and had to restart pagination in the opposing direction in the notepad. They begin their sermon with the date of August 6th, 1709 - the preacher has remembered this time but doesn't always affix a date to their entries because the sermons are not regularly produced.

Joseph Thompson:

Retroactively Dated:

Baldwin Col. 2017

Joseph Thompson Sermon

Joseph Thompson wrote the first portion of his sermons sometime between 1792 and 1803 in the Faf. Church. Instead of paginating every page, he paginated the top right corner every second manuscript leaf. He was unconcerned with affixing a date to the specific entries since he wrote them in different years and at different times. He did however, make sure to write the date for the first sermon written in Faf. Church. When he relocated to the Lathan Church and started writing the second portion of sermons there in September 1803, he recorded the date of his last entry at his previous church. After filling the book's entirety with his sermons, he affixes a final date. While the first and last entries are dated, all other entries were not necessary to affix a date to.