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Re: Modest Creek
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Michael Nicholls <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:08:26 -0700
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I can assure the list that I made no such suggestion about naming  
creeks in a offensive manner in Lunenburg in order to keep government  
and civil folk at some remove.... That they would do so probably says  
more about the state of civil society in early Lunenburg and probably  
arose as a form of joke between the person taking up land and the  
surveyor laying out the plot for a land patent. Maybe even something  
so prosaic as that is the F...king creek my cow got stuck in....  
Interestingly,  the clerk in Williamsburg  while recording one of the  
patents along F...king Creek was struck by the name and copied the  
creek name in large bold letters--Mick Nicholls
On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Lyle E. Browning wrote:

> Effing Creek and Tickle C**t Creek were supposedly named by the  
> local inhabitants who were devoutly predisposed to the idea that  
> government was totally intrusive and so thought that by using  
> offensive names, they would keep government and civil folk at some  
> remove from their general locations. But, where I read that I  
> cannot remember. I'd check in Nicholls, Michael Lee, 1972 Origins  
> of the Virginia Southside, 1703-1753: A Social and Economic Study.   
> Ph.D. Dissertation, College of William & Mary, or in Kulikoff, Allan
> 1986 Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in  
> the Chesapeake, 1680-1800.  University of North Carolina Press.
>
> But as their influence waned, Modest Creek was the 180° counterpart.
>
> Lyle Browning
>
> On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Clara Callahan wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know know how F--king Creek in colonial Lunenburg  
>> County got its name, and does this mean that in Colonial Virginia  
>> circa 1732 it was not a worty dird?
>>
>>   http://www.mindspring.com/~baumbach/ppoole/ppoole5.htm
>>
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