Talk:Caesar Tarrant

Birth year
Hey, hope you're doing well. Thank you for adding a category. I have a question about one part of your changes. Do you have a reason to suspect that Tarrant's birth year is approximate? American National Biography gives it as a straight 1740. It commonly uses question marks to indicate uncertainty, and none is present for Tarrant. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:54, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Very few enslaved people knew their actual birth year. Beyond this, in 1740 in the American colonies what we should be counting as that year is messy. Do we count the year from Jan. 1- Dec. 31, as we do now, or from March 25 - Mar 24 as they normally did then, and do we count the Gregorian or Julian calendar, which have about an 8 day discrepancy? With all these factors, I am hesitant to say that anyone really knows what year he was born in for sure.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:57, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm reluctant to use my own judgment to introduce uncertainty where the best source available has none. It's possible that ANB knows of credible records of Tarrant's birth and probable that they're aware of the calendar change. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 17:27, 18 July 2024 (UTC)