Oops, sorry. Meant to send my query about Fauquier to Linda Rowe - didn't
mean to trouble others.
Jon Kukla
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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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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