Hello List members, This is excerpts form the book titled "Life as Revealed Through Early American Court Records" by E.T. Crowson. I hope that you'll find it useful. Still hoping that someone out there will be able to tell me where to find this book. ROB Of the pages sent to me, on page 50..."At a court held January 24, 1654, Mrs. Ann Littleton (the Col. was dead) petitions against her servant Thos. Bullock for very opprobious speech and scandalous manners. He was orders 30 lashes. His wife Christie was to have a gag put in her mouth to restrain her from her railing language, which is to be put in as often as occasion shall require, until her words and actions shall express good behavior towards her said Mistress Littleton." Without having the whole book, I can't figure out who the Ann's husband was. (the Col.) PG. 57...."The will of Mrs. Ann Littleton is recorded Novr 1656. Edward Littleton, the eldest son, had the plantation in Magotta Bay, and Southy Littleton the plantation at Nandue. To Hester she gives a large personal Estate, she being then 8 years old. She left her in the hands of Mrs. Eyre till she should be ten years old, then under the care of Mrs. Col. Douglas, in case of a failure of male heirs in Virginia, she leaves it to James Littleton, Esq. of Shropshire,near London, her wearing apparel, her furniture, .......She left her son Edward her executor, with Col. Ewd Douglas, Rev. Francis Doughty and Capt. Francis Potts her overseer. Her son Edward married Sarah, eldest daughter of Col. Ewd. Douglas. She left a legacy to Littleton Scarburgh, who was her Grandson." PG 59...."At a court held Sept. 1657, ....... At the request of Col. Robins and Douglas and Capt. Pott, Edward Littleton, John Robins and Wm. Mellinge were added to the commission." PG 66...."Edward Littleton marries Sarah, the daughter of Col. Edw. Douglas, Esq., 1657." PG 70...."From the 25th March 1661 to 25th March 1662, there is recorded 43 children baptized;....There were 35 marriages and 14 burials. Teste Jno. Laurence, Clerk of Hungars parish. .....Grace Littleton, daughter of Edward and Frances Littleton, born 4 DEC 1661;..." PG 71..."The will of Edward Littleton recorded 1663. He was from Barmbrough, County of York, England. he left one son, Jno. Roberts, to whom he gave his plantation on the seaside, 550 acres. The will of Edward Littleton recorded 1663. To his daughter Grace he left a tract of land called Mannaheridans Neck. To his wife Frances a large estate, and if her child a son it was to have all his houses and lands. He left the Court his overseers." This is a little strange. Was this a misprint? Was the first son Jno. Roberts Littleton? PG 79..." Edward Littleton married in 1661 Frances the daughter of Col. Obedience Robins." PG 87..." At a court held in February 1670/1 Mr. Southy Littleton is on the bench from Accomack." on the bench...does this mean a Judge??? PG 103..." Francis Pigott married Frances, the widow of Nathl Littleton (2d) and daughter of Obedience Robins." No date listed here exactly. Citing above is will of Alice Curtis 1663. Citing below is sale of land in 1679. PG 94..."Southy Litttleon died in Albany, New York, where his will as recorded Novr. 12, 1679. John Willett and John Eyre are witnesses and must have been with him. Robt Livingston is also a witness. It was recorded in Northampton Court in 1861. He left seven children, vix.: Nathl, Bowman, Southey, Esther, Sarah, Elizabeth and Gertrude. His overseers were Mr. Teackle, Col. Kendall, Edward Bowman, Jno. Robins, Danl Jenifer and Richard Bayly. There were entailed to his son Natl 4050 acres of land in Maggotha Bay, to his son Bowman lands at Chincoteague and in Somerset, Maryland, to his son Southey 2270 acres of Land at Nandue, to his daughter Esther a neck of land called Kings Neck on Swanscott Creek and Gingoteague, to Sarah 400 acres at Pocomoke in Accomack. He left to Nathl Tunnell all his land at Ochocomson in Accomack, also his wearing apparel, except his rapier and cloak. His son Bowman was to live with Richd Bayly, Ester with his Sister Robins, Sarah with Bridget Foxcroft, Elizabeth with Mrs. Jenifer and Gertrude with Major Bowman, and Southey to be kept four years with his nurse, Nicholas Taylors's wife. He married (name not shown in mss.-Jem): she was probably dead at the time." PG. 108...."At July Court, 1699, the laws of the last session of Assembly were read and published in the hearing of the inhabitants of the county then present. Capt. Nathl Littleton sworn sheriff and Southey Littleton sub sheriff." PG. 111...."In 1703 Nathl Littleton (2d) died. He left a son Southey and two daughters, Sarah Curtis and Ester. He gave Sarah his land on Pitts Creek in Accomack. Made Col. Curtis, Major Waters, Southey Littleton and Robt Andrews overseers of his will and 20 shillings to buy a ring for each. His widow was Susanna." PG 119..." Immediately after 1640 a brisk trade had been developed with the Dutch. This had accounted for the number of Dutch on the Eastern Shores by 1650. Many of the immigrants, although Englishmen, had settled in Holland, because of the conditions at home, before coming to Virginia. Such was the case of John and William Custis who came to Virginia before 1640......Out of all this immigration and settlement there grew an isolated aristocracy in the early Seventeenth Century which perpetuated itself for years with no appreciable admixture of outside blood. Such prominent families as the Scarburgh, Yeardley, Upshur, Littleton, Wise and Custis families intermarried and kept a firm hold on the government. Thus, the aristocratic character of the Virginia society here, as elsewhere in the colony was the result of development within the colony and it preceded from economical, political, and social causes."