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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Orthwood, Anne, 1639-1664 -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Kendall, John, active 1663 -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Kendall, John, active 1663 fast |
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Orthwood, Anne, 1639-1664 fast |
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Sex and law -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century
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Illegitimacy -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century
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Illegitimacy
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Sex and law
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Virginia
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Genre/Form |
History
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780198033066 |
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0198033060 |
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