It has been so named since her ducking 3+ years ago ----- Original Message ----- From: Sue Jones Overton To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [NCBERTIE] Fw: Sherwood I always wondered why that road was named Witch Duck Rd. I am from that area. Thank you, I will read that article. D. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Drake" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 2:20 PM Subject: [NCBERTIE] Fw: Sherwood > > In response to a discussion last evening on the Drake website having to do with differences in the conduct proper now, yet quite different in the centuries past. As a result, several have asked me this morning about the "ducking" of Grace Sherwood resulting from the finding that she was a witch. > > Here is a fine and interesting read and URL. Some of the beliefs of that day are astonishing to us, yet that was their view and belief, and I should make NO judgments. > http://richmondthenandnow.com/Newspaper-Articles/Witch-Grace-Sherwood.html > > Notice too that the dirt road mentioned as the path down which she was taken to Lynhaven Bay yet today is called "Witch Duck Road" and is in mid-"VA Beach"(very near the intersection of VA190 (VA44)and VA225. One of her judges was a son of Adam Thorogood, whose magnificent brick 17th Century home is on the Natl. Register and is open to the public. That fine structure is immediately south of Lynhaven Bay. Though the Thorogoods were very rich, the mass of their contemporaries surely were not. That house is a must for anyone who knows of VA ancestors from the 17th and 18th Centuries. > > Paul > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message