On another matter entirely - have Fauquier's records of
weather/temperatures been published?  I don't find them in George Reese's
volumes ....
Many thanks?
Jon

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On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Rowe, Linda <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Although I don't have the total number, the colonial/early national
> register for Bruton Parish (1739--1797) shows 15 or 20 baptisms of infants
> born to unmarried _free_ women, usually with notations such as "bastard,
> bastard child, bastard child son" and the like. Usually, these entries show
> just the mother's name, but sometimes the father's name is recorded as well.
>
> Keep in mind that slave marriages did not have legal standing in colonial
> Virginia, so legally speaking, enslaved children were born out-of-wedlock
> by definition. For Bruton Parish (included Williamsburg and parts of James
> City and York counties), there were nearly 1000 slaves (mostly infants but
> including several adults) baptized in the period 1739--1797.
>
> Perhaps of interest: Recall that Virginia law encouraged baptism of
> slaves. In 1667, the Virginia General Assembly passed "An act declaring
> that baptisme of slaves doth not exempt them from bondage" which assured
> masters that Christian baptism would not free their slaves saying "that
> conferring of baptisme doth not alter the condition of the person as to his
> bondage or ffreedome; that diverse masters, ffreed from this doubt, may
> more carefully endeavor the propagation of Christianity by permitting
> children, though slaves, or those of greater growth if capable to be
> admitted to that sacrament." See Hening, Statutes at Large, 2:270.
>
> Linda Rowe
> Colonial Williamsburg
> Training and Historical Research
>
>
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> Subject: [VA-HIST] Baptism of bastard children in the Colonial Church
>
> Hello all,
>
> I seem to have been suffering under the illusion ever since reading *Tess
> of the Turbervilles* in sophomore English class that the Anglican church
> did not allow for the baptism of bastard children.* But in going through
> the Christ Church, Middlesex County parish register for the late 1600s and
> early 1700s, I see that there are hundreds of bastard child baptisms. These
> usually only name the mother. Also of interest are a considerable number of
> slave children being baptized, which I also found unusual. So, gentle
> readers, where did I go astray regarding canon law in colonial Virginia?
>
> Craig Kilby
>
> *Those of you who were forced to read this drivel may recall that Tess
> found herself in a family way without benefit of matrimony, and then the
> baby died. She then has a nightmare that the devil was tossing the infant
> boy around in the flames of hell on his pitchfork. Our teacher, dear Mrs.
> Timmons, asked the class what this meant. One wag in class quickly
> answered her with, "Burn, Baby, Burn!" She was not amused, but the rest of
> the class went into an uproar!
>
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