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Subject: [LDR] BAUGHs on the Eastern Shore
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 14:50:06 EDT

I am wondering if any of you might have easy access to any of the several
court record/deed/land books for Accomac and Northampton in the 1600s that I
have noticed on the Nabb Center's catalog, and possibly tell me whether
BAUGHS are mentioned as owning land, involved in court cases, and what other
names are associated. At this point I don't really care about the gory
details. I have access to Stratton Nothingham's headrights/Accomac
Tithables lists, the books with Northampton/Accomac Wills and Administrations
(Marshall/Nottingham). Ye Olde Kingdom of Accomac, Joanne Riley McKay's Court
abstracts,and of course Pioneers and Cavaliers. And I have found mention
here and there of William Baugh, Rowland Baugh, Joyce Baugh, and based on the
very spotty records William Baugh at least appears to be in Accomack from
about 1660 to 1680s. I found no Baugh VA land patents on the Eastern
Shorefor the 1600s, but haven't found a deed book close by. Also nothing of
use in the Maryland State Archives. Basically, there are only two Baugh
families in the U.S. Mine from Gloucestershire England with origins in
Henrico,Charles City Cos, whose first representative came over on the Supply;
and a German Bach family, that came through VA in the 1700s and settled in KY
before moving on.

I wouldn't ask but I will be taking a vacation for about 18 days beginning
early July. A researcher has been hired to sort out our Baugh families, and
determine specific ancestry, and over in Henrico, Charles Co it is something
of a questionmark that no one has ever really researched in depth. The names
on the Eastern Shore match those for the ancestors in England, plus we have
the traditional "four brothers/cousins" came story, though most researchers
seem to pin all the ancestry on one fellow as the progenitor, when I think
his father was there. (But...someone wrote a family history ca 1870s...and
you all know how that goes.)

Anyway, I'd like some Eastern Shore evidence of land ownership/domicile,
beyond being mentioned in an ancillary way in cases, or as a witness to a
will, or owning servants that eventually found their way, as William Baugh's
did, to Anne Tofts house, via a gift from Edmund Scarborough (sigh) etc. I
am not interested in anything after about 1690.

Any suggestions are much appreciated. The hiring of the researcher by a
cousin in Missouri happened rather quickly, and I guess I'd like some
information to encourage her to look at Accomac and Northampton records to
get the whole picture of early Baughs and their interrelationships. In fact
both Rowland Baugh and William Baugh over there COMPLICATE the picture :-).

Best Regards and thanks in advance.

Janet (Baugh) Hunter

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