Hello Everyone, I am trying to sort out some BAUGH information that I have come across in Accomac/Northampton Cos VA, more or less by accident. In brief, a John Baugh is a person for whom a headright is claimed by Richard Hill of Accomac in 1664 (and that John Baugh, could of course have ended up about anywhere, dead or alive). In 1663/4 a Rowland Baugh is a witness to the wills of Alice and Henry Armitrading (merchant) in Northampton Co. Then in 1671 or so William Baugh is mentioned in a court case as having sold two servants (actually married, but presenting selves as single as that was more lucrative..hence fornication case) first to Jacob Browne, then to "political incorrect" Edmund Scarborough, who gifted them to his mistress Ann Toft. So I figure that William Baugh has to be there at least for a couple of years. The only Tithe list he shows up for in Accomac is Captain Wallop's precinct in 1684, where he has no tithes (meaning he is OLD??). There is a court case a very few years later involving some property damage at his "fishing hole" in Accomac, but it is noted that he is dead. FYI, I confess to having found, but not gone through a tithe list book for Northampton Co, as it was unindexed and I ran out of time. I also do not have access to any land/deed information for Accomac Co., so I can't determine if he was a landowner. My question is, is it possible that William Baugh, who appears sporadically in court records from 1670 to 1684, could have owned land, therefore paid tax on it, but did not appear on tithe lists because he did not live there? Maybe he had a tenant. Maybe he is the William Baugh of Henrico Co, who does die in 1687? William had land in the Bermuda hundred and on the Appomatox near "Cobbs" and Point of Rocks. He and some of his local buddies could have easily had "hunting lodges" on the Eastern Shore (a pleasant days sail), to borrow a phrase for English lords and wealthy merchants vacation homes in the 1600s/1700s. Or of course maybe the tithe takers could have missed him. AND related to the transported John Baugh, is it possible that the probably elderly John Baugh of Henrico, bought himself a vacation retreat on the Eastern shore, and Richard Hill above "got credit" for it? Speaking of "hunting lodges", I am wondering if the tidewater marsh colonial equivalent was "fishing holes", as in a deed of sale by John Baugh 1773 to John Martin of his land "Cathole" just upstream of Point of Rocks, in Chesterfield Co, he carves out William Walthalls "fishing hole" from the boundary description. I'm trying to figure out if there was actually a separate Baugh family over there (a Joyce Baugh is also mentioned in court records), or just folks like those of us now who went over there. To the best of my knowledge no Rowland Baugh has shown up West of the Chesapeake, BUT this is a family name for these Baughs, and his presence as a witness to the will of a merchant suggests that perhaps he was there "on business", Because there is also no Joyce Baugh in any of the fairly extensive Baugh Henrico Co records, I still tend to think that a different branch was over there than William Baugh of Henrico, d. 1687...But, maybe William had a second family like Edmund Scarborough! Now wouldn't that be a fun skeleton to uncover:-) Sorry this is so long. Thanks in advance. Janet (Baugh) Hunter