Old Tyme abbreviations

I wonder if anyone could help me "translate" this bit of text from the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. I've bolded the parts I'm not sure of:

Samuel, carpenter, innholder, Wells, had town gr. 1699, m. 30 Jan. 1700-1 Dorcas Baston(7); j. 1701.

So, my ancestor Sammy ran an inn and did carpentry in Wells, but he had the town wha? Then his lovely wife Dorcas (giggle) did some j thing in 1701.

Help?

The book doesn't contain any key to the abbreviations??

Unfortunately I don't own the book. I'm reading snippets of it online.

Eleven LTers list the book, so I hope one will help you out! Perhaps you might start a new topic with the name of the book as the title, to attract their attention?

Oh, I didn't even think about the fact that someone who owns the book might be able help out! I guess then I should mention this this excerpt is from p. 661 under the heading "Stewart, Stuart, Steward".

According to the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, "gr." is grant and "j." is jury

oooh! Thank you!

No problem.

> 6

So, women could serve on juries in those parts in 1701?

> 1 What's so funny about "Dorcas"?

Dorcas...dork.

It's funny sounding in my head whenever I read it.

#9

I think the "j" for jury is another in the list of references to Max in the old records.

He had a town grant, he married Dorcas, he served on a jury, . . .

> 11

That makes sense. (Though I know there were some rare instances of women on coroner's juries, and, of course, there were juries of matrons when someone plead their belly.)