Daily Ancestorrec'd
Rec'd is short for received, as in a receipt in an estate file: rec'd of the administrator ten dollars, my share.
Rec'd is a contraction of received. It begins countless receipts in probate files, where each heir signed a note saying what he or she had received from the estate.
Those small receipts matter. Signed by a daughter and her husband, they can prove her married name and that she was alive at that date.
As seen in a recordHeir's receipt in a probate packet
Rec'd of Jas. Hill, Exr., $40 in full of my legacy
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Daily Ancestor. "rec'd." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/abbreviations/recd. Last checked 2026-10-01.