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In 1663, an indentured servant, Anne Orthwood, was impregnated in a tavern in Northampton County, Virginia, an illegitimate pregnancy that sparked four related cases that came before the Northampton magistrates between 1664 and 1686. These cases illuminate the ways in which the Virginia colonists modified English common law traditions and began to create their own, and they also shed light on cultural and economic values in this 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.
Présentation de l'éditeur : "In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E. Nelson will show how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies, which were initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives, slowly converged until it became possible by the 1770s to imagine that all thirteen participated in a common American legal order, which diverged in its details but differed far more substantially from English common law. Volume three, The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750, reveals how Virginia, which was founded to earn profit, and Massachusetts, which was founded for Puritan religious ends, had both adopted the common law by the mid-eighteenth century and begun to converge toward a common American legal model. The law in the other New England colonies, Nelson argues, although it was distinctive in some respects, gravitated toward the Massachusetts model, while Maryland's law gravitated toward that of Virginia."
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"Lois Blanche Scurlock was born in Mt. Pleasant, Texas on 20 Nov 1900 to Claude Leslie Scurlock and his wife Lois Blanche Rose. Lois married Christopher C. Corley on 11 Jan 1921 in Mt. Pleasant, Texas and died on 17 Jan 1970 at Clarksdale, Mississippi. Her Scurlock antecedants have been traced to immigrant Michael Scurlock [ca. 1645-1699] who lived in the Northern Neck of Virginia in the latter part of the 17th century. According to family tradition, Michael was from Wales, though he has not yet been found in records of that country"--Page [3].