May 4, 1743- A daughter, Sarah, is born to Thomas Sherman & Anne Sisson in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.
(Sarah Sherman is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah F. Lawton and Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.)
Ancestry & Genealogy of Alfred Leslie Worland, Rosella Johnston and Allied Colonial Families.
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Saturday, August 2, 2014
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
December 1742, Rhode Island
Taylor knew how a woman who had been raped should act, and she comported herself accordingly: she screamed for help in order to demonstrate that she had resisted her attacker; she quickly reported the attack; and she had bruises to show from her ordeal.
In Rhode Island (but not elsewhere in New England) courts could rely on circumstantial evidence if there were no eyewitnesses. A second example concerns Rhode Island's laws about rape. Colonies did not have laws about attempted rape, so Taylor's accusation of Cuff fell into a grey area. But in the midst of her legal struggles to get redress in any forum, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a law in August 1743 that pertained to attempted rape by a black man. The law made attempted rape by a black man punishable by branding, whipping, and transportation. This law, and others like it in colonial America, racialized laws about attempted rape by assuming that any advance by a black man toward a white woman would be unwanted, and thus the man was automatically guilty of rape
December 22, 1742- A son, Barthrum, is born to James Round & Susannah Seamans in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island.
Joseph Brownell marries Rebecca Tripp, daughter of Abiel Tripp & Elinor Waite, and George Sisson, son of James Sisson & Deborah Cook, marries Abigail Cook in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.
(George Sisson is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah F. Lawton.
Barthrum Round is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Seamans & Susannah Salisbury and William Wood & Susannah Beckwith.
Rebecca Tripp is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Hall & Mary Thomas.)
Sunday, November 10, 2013
June 1742, Connecticut
June 17, 1742- A daughter, Hannah, is born to William Sisson & Hannah Mullins in Stonington,New London,Connecticut. Hannah does not reach adulthood, dying in her eighth year.
(Abel Doolittle is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Abraham Doolittle & Abigail Moss.
Hannah Sisson is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah F. Lawton.)
"In 1742, Sarah Grosvenor of Pomfret, Connecticut, died, apparently from the effects of a combined medicinal-surgical abortion that had produced a miscarriage. Four years later, Grosvenor's sexual partner, Amasa Davis, and the abortion provider, Dr. John Hallowell of Killingley, were indicted for her murder.
It was quite common for couples like Grosvenor and Davis to conceive a child before marrying. Indeed, in the mid-1700s historians have counted 30% of New England couples' first children being born within seven months of their marriage.
In eighteenth-century New England, if a young unmarried woman became pregnant, the father-to-be was expected to marry her. Then they'd have as many more children as they could, with little said about the circumstances of the first pregnancy. In some cases, such as Ebenezer Richardson, the father-to-be couldn't marry the mother-to-be because he already had a wife. Amasa Davis was unusual in being free to marry Sarah Grosvenor, but refusing."
-Taken from the blog Boston 1775.
Friday, November 8, 2013
May 1742, Rhode Island
Source: "Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth" page 319.
May 19, 1742- William, son of William Munro & Mary Lindsey, marries Elizabeth Cory, daughter of William Cory & Isabel Lawton.
(Barnett Sisson is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah F. Lawton. Elizabeth Cory is his second cousin.
Elizabeth Cory is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.)
The Providence Plantations government... required each town to do such things as appoint two surveyors of highways and designate times for mending rounds, organize archery practice for men and boys, record earmarks of livestock, and choose a town council.
Source:"The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island: A Study of Institutions in Change."
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