When transcribing a document keep in mind that there are some letters that are made in different ways depending up on their placement within a word, what the preceding letter is, etc. In the image that accompanies this post, the letter "s" is made one way when it is the first letter in a word and another way when it is the last letter in the word.
Interesting observation. I have noticed in a lot of old documents a final "d" typically looks like a backwards 6.
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military service of the
18th 1850
James Kile
Notice also the terminal 's' in James. Signatures often have differences in letter forms when compared with the standard cursive text.
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