Anne Orthwood's Bastard Sex and Law in Early Virginia

Name: Anne Orthwood's Bastard Sex and Law in Early Virginia
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ISBN: 9780195144796

ISBN-10: 0195144791

ISBN-13: 9780195144796

Edition: 2002

Authors: John Ruston Pagan

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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 Virginiacolonists modified English common law traditions and began to create their own, as well as what they reveal about cultural and economic values in an Eastern shore community. Through these cases, the very reasons legal…

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List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/28/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 8.11" wide x 5.39" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Introduction



Anne Orthwood, Indentured Servant



William Kendall, Parvenu



William Waters, Gentleman



John Stringer, Presiding Justice



Robert Hutchinson, Clerk of Court



Eleanor Gething, Midwife



John Waterson, Trial Jury Foreman



John Kendall, Putative Father



John Stockley, Grand Jury Foreman



Jasper Orthwood, Free Man


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index