The Duke-Symes Family
The Duke-Symes Family

Author: Jane Sims Davison Morris

Publisher:

Published: 1940

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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William Duke married Hannah Grendon prior to 1672 in Charles City County, Colony of Virginia. She was the widow of William Bird. Their descendant Fanny Duke, daughter of Burwell and Frances Duke, Sr., married Briggs Sims in Warren County, North Carolina in 1796. Another ot their daughters, Holly Duke, married Benjamin L. Sims, brother of Briggs Sims, on 9 March 1805 also in Warren County. Briggs Sims died in Bedford County, Tennessee in 1832. "Sometime in 1832 Fanny (Duke) Sims removed with her family to from Bedford County to Green County, Missouri ..."--Page 214. Benjamin L. Sims died 9 March 1835. Holly Sims married Rev. Harris G. Joplin on 23 January 1834 in Green County, Missouri. She died in about 1842. Descendants lived and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and elsewhere

Anne Orthwood's Bastard
Anne Orthwood's Bastard

Author: John Ruston Pagan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002-11-28

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0199881774

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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 Virginia colonists 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 systems are created are revealed, namely, the maintenance of social order, the protection of property interests, the protection of personal reputation, and personal liberty. Through Jasper Orthwood's life, the treatment of the poor in small communities is set in sharp relief. Anne Orthwood's Bastard was the winner of the 2003 Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association.

Colonial America
Colonial America

Author: Stanley Nider Katz

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13:

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This volume of essays is designed as supplementary reading for the colonial history survey course, although I hope instructors may find it useful in social history courses and graduate proseminars in colonial history. The essays are distributed over the full time period covered in the colonial course, but no essays on the Revolutionary era are included, since the Revolution is generally given a semester to itself and requires a more intensive selection than could be included in this volume. The essays are mostly concerned with colonial socio-political development. The essays are, in addition, mostly by younger scholars. The book is intended to do no more than to make a series of provocative and enlightening essays accessible to undergraduates and to provide a selection of readings out of which the instructor can choose those that suit his own lectures and reading list. The field of early American history remains one of the most active and rapidly changing sub- specialties in the discipline. Those changes are reflected in the selections for this edition. - Preface.

Our Coker Kin
Our Coker Kin

Author: June Beverly Barekman

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13:

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Information on various Coker families throughout the U.S. and Canada.