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Author Pagan, John Ruston

Title Anne Orthwood's Bastard : Sex and Law in Early Virginia
Published Cary : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (170 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Maps; Introduction; 1 Anne Orthwood, Indentured Servant; 2 William Kendall, Parvenu; 3 William Waters, Gentleman; 4 John Stringer, Presiding Justice; 5 Robert Hutchinson, Clerk of Court; 6 Eleanor Gething, Midwife; 7 John Waterson, Trial Jury Foreman; 8 John Kendall, Putative Father; 9 John Stockley, Grand Jury Foreman; 10 Jasper Orthwood, Free Man; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary In 1663, an indentured servant, Anne Orthwood, was impregnated with twins in a tavern in Northampton County, Virginia. Orthwood died soon after giving birth; one of the twins, Jasper, survived. Orthwood's illegitimate pregnancy sparked four related cases that came before the Northampton magistrates -- who coincidentally held court in the same tavern -- between 1664 and 1686. These interrelated cases and the decisions rendered in them are notable for the ways in which the Virginia colonists modified English common law traditions and began to create their own, as well as what they reveal about c
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Subject Orthwood, Anne, 1639-1664 -- Trials, litigation, etc
Kendall, John, active 1663 -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Kendall, John, active 1663 fast
Orthwood, Anne, 1639-1664 fast
Subject Sex and law -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century
Illegitimacy -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century
Illegitimacy
Sex and law
Virginia
Genre/Form History
Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198033066
0198033060