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From: Hank< >
Subject: Re: Bastards in Colonial Virginia
Date: 19 Feb 1998 21:58:37 -0800

What was the name and author of the book in question.

HM

On 31 Jan 1998 05:53:47 -0800, Sharon Pike <>
wrote:

>I found a book on Caroline Co Virginia which says:
>"Bastards were commonplace in colonial Caroline, although
>the punishment for a white woman, free or indentured, who
>bore an illegitimate child was 5 lashes at the whipping
>post, or a 50 shilling or 500 lb. of tobacco fine. Few
>women had the money or tobacco to pay the fine and most
>of them were whipped. A list of the white women who had
>bastards follows. All of them were whipped unless
>specifically stated otherwise.
>1733 Elizabeth Sanders, fine paid by Thomas Lantor,
> Charity Burns, child a mulatto
> Mary Close, child a mulatto
> Jane Ross, child a mulatto
>1737 Elizabeth Sanders, child a mulatto but Thomas Lantor
> paid the fine"
>Was this common in all of Virginia? When was this practice
>stopped? What was the fate of a mulatto child born to a
>white woman? Was that child listed as a free person of color?
>Sharon

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