------=_NextPart_000_0435_01BD3349.DC5F3C60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 = HTML//EN"> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><B>-----Original = Message-----</B><BR><B>From:=20 </B>Saundra Brown <<A=20 href=3D"mailto:saundrab@email.msn.com">saundrab@email.msn.com</A>><BR>= <B>To:=20 </B><A href=3D"mailto:afrigeneas@msstate.edu">afrigeneas@msstate.edu</A> = <<A=20 href=3D"mailto:afrigeneas@msstate.edu">afrigeneas@msstate.edu</A>><BR>= <B>Date:=20 </B>Monday, 26 January, 1998 6:04 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>A MUST READ!! = Bastards=20 in Colonial Virginia<BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><BR>X-Message: #1<BR>Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 15:45:44 -0800<BR>From: = Sharon=20 Pike <<A=20 href=3D"mailto:spike00@lex.infi.net">spike00@lex.infi.net</A>><BR><STR= ONG><FONT=20 size=3D4>Subject: Bastards in Colonial Virginia</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3D4></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV>I found a book on Caroline Co Virginia which = says:<BR>"Bastards were=20 commonplace in colonial Caroline, although<BR>the punishment for a white = woman,=20 free or indentured, who<BR>bore an illegitimate child was 5 lashes at = the=20 whipping <BR>post, or a 50 shilling or 500 lb. of tobacco fine. =20 Few<BR>women had the money or tobacco to pay the fine and most<BR>of = them were=20 whipped. A list of the white women who had<BR>bastards = follows. All=20 of them were whipped unless<BR>specifically stated otherwise.<BR>1733 = Elizabeth=20 Sanders, fine paid by Thomas Lantor, <BR> = Charity Burns,=20 child a mulatto<BR> Mary Close, child a=20 mulatto<BR> Jane Ross, child a mullatto<BR>1737=20 Elizabeth Sanders, child a mulatto but Thomas = Lantor<BR> =20 paid the fine" </DIV> <DIV>Was this common in all of Virginia? When was this practice=20 <BR>stopped? What was the fate of a mulatto child born to a = <BR>white=20 woman? Was that child listed as a free person of = color? </DIV> <DIV>Sharon <A=20 href=3D"mailto:spike00@llex.infi.net">spike00@llex.infi.net</A></DIV> <DIV>------------------------------</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0435_01BD3349.DC5F3C60-- ------------------------------