Author: James William McIlvain
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Category : Presbyterian Church in Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Early Presbyterianism in Maryland
Author: James William McIlvain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church in Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church in Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland
Author: Raphael Semmes
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
"The subject of this book pertains to events, often unpleasant, in the domestic lives of the 17th-century Maryland colonists."—publisher's catalog description, 1938 Marylander Edward Erbery called members of the colony's proprietary assembly "rogues and puppies"; he was tied to an apple tree and received thirty-nine lashes. Jacob Lumbrozo, a Maryland Jew who suggested Christ's miracles were done by "magic," was imprisoned indefinitely, escaping execution only by the governor's pardon. Rebecca Fowler was accused of using witchcraft to cause her Calvert County neighbors to feel "very much the worse;" she was hanged on October 9, 1685. Mrs. Thomas Ward whipped a runaway maidservant with a peachtree rod, then rubbed salt into the girl's wounds; the girl died, and Mrs. Ward was fined three hundred pounds of tobacco. Now available in a new paperback edition, Raphael Semmes's classic Crime and Punishment in Colonial Maryland contains a wealth of colorful—though often disturbing—details about the law and lawbreakers in 17th-century Maryland. Semmes explains, for instance, that theft was rare among early Marylanders—if only because the colonists had little worth stealing. But what the colonists valued, they endeavored to protect: A 1662 law punished a person twice-convicted of hog-stealing by branding an "H" on his shoulder. (Widely perceived as being too lenient, the law was amended four years later: first offense, "H" on the forehead.) Men caught in adultery were often fined; women were often whipped. And knowing how to swim was so rare among 17th-century women that suggesting one could do so was tantamount to accusing her of witchcraft: a minister's son who claimed as much was sued by the woman for defamation of character. Crime and Punishment in Colonial Maryland offers fascinating and detailed case histories on such crimes as theft, libel, assault and homicide, as well as on adultery, profanity, drunkenness, and witchcraft. It also explores long-forgotten aspects of old English law, such as theftbote (an early form of "victim compensation"), deodand (an animal or article which, having caused the death of a human being, was forfeited to the Crown for "pious uses"), and the blood test for murderers.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
"The subject of this book pertains to events, often unpleasant, in the domestic lives of the 17th-century Maryland colonists."—publisher's catalog description, 1938 Marylander Edward Erbery called members of the colony's proprietary assembly "rogues and puppies"; he was tied to an apple tree and received thirty-nine lashes. Jacob Lumbrozo, a Maryland Jew who suggested Christ's miracles were done by "magic," was imprisoned indefinitely, escaping execution only by the governor's pardon. Rebecca Fowler was accused of using witchcraft to cause her Calvert County neighbors to feel "very much the worse;" she was hanged on October 9, 1685. Mrs. Thomas Ward whipped a runaway maidservant with a peachtree rod, then rubbed salt into the girl's wounds; the girl died, and Mrs. Ward was fined three hundred pounds of tobacco. Now available in a new paperback edition, Raphael Semmes's classic Crime and Punishment in Colonial Maryland contains a wealth of colorful—though often disturbing—details about the law and lawbreakers in 17th-century Maryland. Semmes explains, for instance, that theft was rare among early Marylanders—if only because the colonists had little worth stealing. But what the colonists valued, they endeavored to protect: A 1662 law punished a person twice-convicted of hog-stealing by branding an "H" on his shoulder. (Widely perceived as being too lenient, the law was amended four years later: first offense, "H" on the forehead.) Men caught in adultery were often fined; women were often whipped. And knowing how to swim was so rare among 17th-century women that suggesting one could do so was tantamount to accusing her of witchcraft: a minister's son who claimed as much was sued by the woman for defamation of character. Crime and Punishment in Colonial Maryland offers fascinating and detailed case histories on such crimes as theft, libel, assault and homicide, as well as on adultery, profanity, drunkenness, and witchcraft. It also explores long-forgotten aspects of old English law, such as theftbote (an early form of "victim compensation"), deodand (an animal or article which, having caused the death of a human being, was forfeited to the Crown for "pious uses"), and the blood test for murderers.
A History of the Presbyterian Churches in the United States
Author: Robert E. Thompson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725208962
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725208962
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Letters on the early history of the Presbyterian church in America
Author: Irving Spence
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Publisher:
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Fugitive Blacksmith; Or, Events in the History of James W.C. Pennington
Author: James W. C. Pennington
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Memoir of Rev. Robert Irvine, D. D., M. D., Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Georgia. Prepared for the Committee on Necrology of the Medical Assosiation of Georgia
Author: Henry Fraser Campbell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385391008
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385391008
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
A Popular History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Author: Jacob Harris Patton
Publisher:
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
1600-1765
Author: John Thomas Scharf
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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An Index of the Source Records of Maryland
Author: Eleanor Phillips Passano
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806302713
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806302713
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.
History of Western Maryland
Author: John Thomas Scharf
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806345659
Category : Allegany County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
Book Description
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806345659
Category : Allegany County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
Book Description