Listers,

Several years ago I had occasion to read the Chesterfield Co. Order Books
page by page, looking for some data on several of my families there. In
the process I made notes on all of the court orders for support of
illegitimate children from the period 1804-1834. This is the list. Keep in
mind that these were only the ones who made it to Court, usually because
the mother was unable to support the child without help or because the
father was about to be married to another woman. If these children appeared
in later court records, their surname would have been that of their mother.
Unfortunately, except for two, the original orders did not give the child's
age, sex, or first name.


Chesterfield Co. OB 15, p. 179  1804  William H. Vaden charged with being
the father of the bastard child of Martha Wilson

Chesterfield Co. OB 15, p. 184; 1804  Ludovick Willson charged with being
the father of a bastard child by Phebe Mann

Chesterfield Co. OB 15, p. 440;  March, 1807  Shadrach Perdue, father of a
bastard child by Appy Ferguson

Chesterfield Co. OB 17, p. 387;  1809  William Mann, father of a bastard
child by Elizabeth Moore

Chesterfield Co. OB 18, p. 24; Feb. 1810  Nelson Baber, bastard child of
Judith Williams, formerly Judith Baber, bound out as an apprentice [Nelson
would have been 14 or older]

Chesterfield Co. OB 18, p. 150; June, 1810  Francis Mann, father of a
bastard child by Nancy Traylor

Chesterfield Co. OB 19, p. 337; Nov. 1812  Mackness Blankenship, father of
a bastard child by Peggy Morris

Chesterfield Co. OB 21, p. 537; 1818  Daniel Nunnally, father of a bastard
child of Cynthia Nunnally

Chesterfield Co. OB 23, p. 190; Nov. 1820  Josiah W. Hatcher charged with
being the father of a bastard child on the body of Mazy F. Chalkley

Chesterfield Co. OB 23, p. 614; 1822  Daniel Ferguson charged with being
the father of a bastard child on the body of Frances Bowman

Chesterfield Co. OB 24, p. 108; Aug., 1822  Rowlett Jackson charged with
being the father of a bastard child on the body of Ellenora W. Archer

Chesterfield Co. OB 27, p. 472; 1831  Joseph J. Gates, father of a bastard
child of Matilda Blankenship

Chesterfield Co. OB 27, p. 488; Feb. 1832  Jane Moles charged James Kelly
with being the father of her bastard child [child named in a later order as
John Moles]

Chesterfield Co. OB 28, p. 305; Nov. 1834  William Clayton charged with
being the father of the bastard child of Lucy Eanes



Ann Avery Hunter
Richmond, Virginia
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