In many of the 19th century and earlier English documents you encounter in your research, you will find a letter that looks like a very odd shaped letter "p". In this time period a double "s" was written in such a way that it resembles a odd shaped modern "p". If you find a word that does not look right with a "p" in this location try an "ss" and see if that helps.
Thanks to my daughter Lynne Jones for enlightening me to this oddity in early American documents. I have run across this many time when indexing records for FamilySearch.
Click on the picture below to see a larger image of some of the examples that are in FamilySearch's Indexing Help.
Happy ancestor hunting.
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