These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Analysis
Analysis: the 1653 deposition is the only record of John's own person
The 1653 Wilson v. Faxon deposition ('John Gurney of Brayntree aged 50 Yeares or thereabouts') is the only surviving record that attests a personal attribute of John Gurney himself; every other record fixes his property, credit, or a civic/probate office rather than his person. A man documented across four record classes over two decades is thus attested as a person, as opposed to as a landholder, creditor, or estate, by a single line in one court file. (The weight of the stated age and its birth inference are worked in the origin/age analysis, not here.)
Why this conclusion
- Depends on Evidence 1652/3 deposition: 'John Gurney of Brayntree'The sole-personal-record analysis rests on the 1653 deposition being the one record to state John's own attribute (his age).
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualifies Finding Record coverage: a continuous 1641-1663 civic/land/court/probate footprintThe broad footprint is property/office-heavy; the man himself is attested by a single line, qualifying how personal the coverage is.
Topic file location: Colonial record coverage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000040 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000040.json
This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.