The mark of John P*rdue is shown as he made it on 24 March 1768 less than a year before he died in 1769. The will was presumably dictated by him to someone who spelled the name as Perdue throughout, while John, himself, signed with his mark, a mark which could also be viewed possibly as the abbreviation for the prefix of his surname when compared with the various renderings of the abbreviations for the prefix, "par","per", "pro", and "pre", etc. featured in the above picture.
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